Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2064524
Wolfgang Suetzl
ABSTRACT While social media sharing has been of great interest to communication scholarship, understanding sharing theoretically has been complicated by its everyday nature and the consequent difficulty of representing it in objectifying terms. To overcome the difficulty of defaulting into a conceptual framework that represents sharing as exchange, I employ a critical phenomenological approach to sharing that emphasizes its everydayness and problematizes the subjectivity of sharers. Drawing on Heidegger, Lefebvre, Blanchot, and de Certeau, I discuss the problem of everydayness as it presents itself in the media’s straddling of the exceptional and the everyday.
{"title":"“Here is the exceptional:” social media sharing and unavailable everydayness","authors":"Wolfgang Suetzl","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2064524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2064524","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While social media sharing has been of great interest to communication scholarship, understanding sharing theoretically has been complicated by its everyday nature and the consequent difficulty of representing it in objectifying terms. To overcome the difficulty of defaulting into a conceptual framework that represents sharing as exchange, I employ a critical phenomenological approach to sharing that emphasizes its everydayness and problematizes the subjectivity of sharers. Drawing on Heidegger, Lefebvre, Blanchot, and de Certeau, I discuss the problem of everydayness as it presents itself in the media’s straddling of the exceptional and the everyday.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"180 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47659502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.2020859
Marina Levina
ABSTRACT This is the first part of a two-part forum series titled Cultural Chronicles of COVID-19 edited by Marina Levina. The first part of the forum focuses on the role of language in shaping cultural responses to the pandemic. The authors focus on discursive, linguistic, and affective dimensions of language during COVID-19.
{"title":"Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 1: language","authors":"Marina Levina","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2021.2020859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.2020859","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This is the first part of a two-part forum series titled Cultural Chronicles of COVID-19 edited by Marina Levina. The first part of the forum focuses on the role of language in shaping cultural responses to the pandemic. The authors focus on discursive, linguistic, and affective dimensions of language during COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"5 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41524167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.2020860
P. Treichler
ABSTRACT Arriving in the U.S. in early 2020, COVID-19 is called “the deadliest pandemic since the 1918 flu.” Mitigation measures include masks and vaccinations, but many resist and demonstrate against them. The unvaccinated continue to harbor the virus; they now form the largest group of COVID patients in hospitals, enabling the virus to continue to spread. Diverse conservative and far-right sources push conspiracy theories and other disinformation that fuel resistance to mitigation, claiming in some cases that the pandemic is a hoax. COVID metaphors themselves, however, suggest lines of counter-argument and ways to potentially shift their meanings and consequences.
{"title":"COVID: a pandemic of metaphor","authors":"P. Treichler","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2021.2020860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.2020860","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Arriving in the U.S. in early 2020, COVID-19 is called “the deadliest pandemic since the 1918 flu.” Mitigation measures include masks and vaccinations, but many resist and demonstrate against them. The unvaccinated continue to harbor the virus; they now form the largest group of COVID patients in hospitals, enabling the virus to continue to spread. Diverse conservative and far-right sources push conspiracy theories and other disinformation that fuel resistance to mitigation, claiming in some cases that the pandemic is a hoax. COVID metaphors themselves, however, suggest lines of counter-argument and ways to potentially shift their meanings and consequences.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"8 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45044112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2029513
M. Hardey, Simon J. James
ABSTRACT This paper explores the characteristics of storytelling in a digital medium through Season One of the podcast Serial. We analyse how Serial’s digital audience engages with and reacts to the narrative, and how it influences the success and the reach of the show. We draw attention to how the cross-media format of Serial enables listeners to participate in the narrative, to argue that storytelling to a digitally networked audience relies on both old and new aesthetic narrative forms.
{"title":"Digital seriality and narrative branching: the podcast Serial, Season One","authors":"M. Hardey, Simon J. James","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2029513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2029513","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the characteristics of storytelling in a digital medium through Season One of the podcast Serial. We analyse how Serial’s digital audience engages with and reacts to the narrative, and how it influences the success and the reach of the show. We draw attention to how the cross-media format of Serial enables listeners to participate in the narrative, to argue that storytelling to a digitally networked audience relies on both old and new aesthetic narrative forms.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"74 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46935711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2029514
Rebecca A. Costantini
ABSTRACT On Friday, May 18, 2018, the grounds of Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas were splashed with white acrylic paint and littered with flyers containing a brief, targeted manifesto: “It’s okay to be white.” Through interviews with Rothko Chapel staff members, I explore the various tensions that arise from a commemorative space that upholds a policy of radical tolerance—that is, an elevated human virtue that attempts to transcend the limitations of mere tolerance by requiring a deeper reflexivity toward acts of hate and violence—becoming the subject of an intolerant, violent act that challenged the central values of its mission.
{"title":"“Open to all people”: upholding radical tolerance in commemorative spaces","authors":"Rebecca A. Costantini","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2029514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2029514","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT On Friday, May 18, 2018, the grounds of Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas were splashed with white acrylic paint and littered with flyers containing a brief, targeted manifesto: “It’s okay to be white.” Through interviews with Rothko Chapel staff members, I explore the various tensions that arise from a commemorative space that upholds a policy of radical tolerance—that is, an elevated human virtue that attempts to transcend the limitations of mere tolerance by requiring a deeper reflexivity toward acts of hate and violence—becoming the subject of an intolerant, violent act that challenged the central values of its mission.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"37 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48893737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2030062
Joshua Reeves
ABSTRACT While critical scholars often focus on the ontological boundaries of rhetoric and violence, this article analyzes the rhetoric/violence relationship from the perspective of cultural governance. It builds upon earlier work in rhetoric and civility to analyze how authorities and institutions cultivate deliberative rhetorical norms as a means of regulating citizens’ political conduct. The rhetoric/violence opposition is used as a police logic to suppress radical political action. This police logic is used to suppress physical violence and to expand violence’s conceptual domain. As a result, certain subjects are marked as violent and are, therefore, singled out for suppression and criminalization.
{"title":"Rhetoric, violence, and the subject of civility","authors":"Joshua Reeves","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2030062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2030062","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While critical scholars often focus on the ontological boundaries of rhetoric and violence, this article analyzes the rhetoric/violence relationship from the perspective of cultural governance. It builds upon earlier work in rhetoric and civility to analyze how authorities and institutions cultivate deliberative rhetorical norms as a means of regulating citizens’ political conduct. The rhetoric/violence opposition is used as a police logic to suppress radical political action. This police logic is used to suppress physical violence and to expand violence’s conceptual domain. As a result, certain subjects are marked as violent and are, therefore, singled out for suppression and criminalization.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"91 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41442163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2035419
Robin M. Boylorn
ABSTRACT In this introduction to her first issue, incoming editor Robin M. Boylorn reflects on some of the challenges and rewards she experienced during her editor-elect year, and outlines her goals and intentions for volumes 20 and 21.
{"title":"How to be a (Black woman) journal editor during a pandemic: an introduction to an inaugural issue","authors":"Robin M. Boylorn","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2035419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2035419","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this introduction to her first issue, incoming editor Robin M. Boylorn reflects on some of the challenges and rewards she experienced during her editor-elect year, and outlines her goals and intentions for volumes 20 and 21.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49330458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.2020862
J. Bennett
ABSTRACT This short essay engages the efforts of artists, activists, and mourners to memorialize those who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. These commemorative sites provide needed correctives to the physical absences, political opportunism, and statistical abstractions that have tended to personify the pandemic. As with the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the tropes of individualism and tactility materialize frequently in conversations about these displays. Despite the generative impulses of these memorials, it is imperative that these creations move beyond performative gestures of sentimentality to ensure that the civic agony inflicted by anti-science and far-right movements is not repeated.
{"title":"Mourning and memorializing in the COVID-19 era","authors":"J. Bennett","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2021.2020862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.2020862","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This short essay engages the efforts of artists, activists, and mourners to memorialize those who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic. These commemorative sites provide needed correctives to the physical absences, political opportunism, and statistical abstractions that have tended to personify the pandemic. As with the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the tropes of individualism and tactility materialize frequently in conversations about these displays. Despite the generative impulses of these memorials, it is imperative that these creations move beyond performative gestures of sentimentality to ensure that the civic agony inflicted by anti-science and far-right movements is not repeated.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"30 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48711220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2021.2020863
Kyle D Christensen
ABSTRACT This essay explores how ageism and youth supremacy have informed the anti-masking attitudes and actions of toxic white masculinity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. I argue that because elderly populations have been particularly vulnerable throughout the pandemic and because face masks often connote this vulnerability, white masculinity has sought to maintain power by resisting masking, and therefore, avoiding being perceived as old. By analyzing Donald Trump’s anti-masking rhetoric from his 2020 U.S. Presidential campaign, I show how toxic white masculinity’s resistance to masking is an effort to present itself as youthful, with youth tied to notions of power, whiteness, and health.
{"title":"Unmasking the ageism of whiteness during COVID-19","authors":"Kyle D Christensen","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2021.2020863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2021.2020863","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay explores how ageism and youth supremacy have informed the anti-masking attitudes and actions of toxic white masculinity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. I argue that because elderly populations have been particularly vulnerable throughout the pandemic and because face masks often connote this vulnerability, white masculinity has sought to maintain power by resisting masking, and therefore, avoiding being perceived as old. By analyzing Donald Trump’s anti-masking rhetoric from his 2020 U.S. Presidential campaign, I show how toxic white masculinity’s resistance to masking is an effort to present itself as youthful, with youth tied to notions of power, whiteness, and health.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"15 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47416770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2028875
V. Chari
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the discursive construction of Facebook’s goal to build Internet connectivity in India through its “internet.org” project. I argue that the rhetoric of connectivity emergent in this project uses the language of empowerment and innovation to operationalize a mode of entrepreneurial philanthropy amenable to millennial development that in reality reflects notions of progress reminiscent of colonial modernization practices. I also contend that this case demonstrates the need to understand the particular technopolitics of everyday encounters with infrastructures that cannot be reduced to any single vision of connectivity or singular understanding of digital contexts.
{"title":"Internet.org and the rhetoric of connectivity","authors":"V. Chari","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2028875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2028875","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes the discursive construction of Facebook’s goal to build Internet connectivity in India through its “internet.org” project. I argue that the rhetoric of connectivity emergent in this project uses the language of empowerment and innovation to operationalize a mode of entrepreneurial philanthropy amenable to millennial development that in reality reflects notions of progress reminiscent of colonial modernization practices. I also contend that this case demonstrates the need to understand the particular technopolitics of everyday encounters with infrastructures that cannot be reduced to any single vision of connectivity or singular understanding of digital contexts.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"54 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43568398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：