scholarly journals ‘There Was Modernism. Then There Was Digital:’ Kenneth Goldsmith and the Updating of Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Nygård
Keyword(s):  
Media Culture ◽  
Network Culture ◽  
Medium Specificity ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Friedrich Kittler ◽  
Contemporary Media

The notion of literature as an obsolete form, out of sync with its own time, has been a familiar one ever since modern media displaced the literary from its previous centrality in culture. Expounding on poet Kenneth Goldsmith’s express ambitions of bringing literature up to date with contemporary media culture, this article engages the larger stakes of his work with a view to an ‘updated literature’ – a literature, as it is here considered, 'beyond textuality.' Informed by the theoretical perspectives of Friedrich Kittler and the broader field of media archeology, the article posits literature’s turn toward the generalized ‘informational milieu’ of contemporary network culture and its concomitant break with modernist notions of medium specificity. Although the provocations of both Goldsmith and Kittler have received much previous attention; in seeking here to bring them together in a committed way, this article also moves beyond the limits of their approaches to rethink the problem of literature’s dubious distinctness in our age of networks.

scholarly journals Symbolic Amateurs: On the Discourse of Amateurism in Contemporary Media Culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Work Role ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Network Economy ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Industrial Network ◽  
Post Industrial

The amateur is the person who engages in activities that for another constitute a professional work role. Despite the global drive for professional development, amateurs are increasingly valued in the digitised economy. This leads to a series of interesting and increasingly pressing questions with regard to the nature of ‘the amateur’ in modern society and culture. Are amateurs necessarily good? Is amateurism necessarily located with amateur practitioners? Do divisions between professional producers and amateurs hold relevance to a post-industrial, network economy?

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA IN THE TEACHING OF THE ART

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-553
Author(s):  
Vojislav Ilić ◽  
Tamara Stojanović-Đorđević ◽  
Andrijana Šikl-Erski
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Media

We are witnessing that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a huge impact on the functioning of the world. This explains why the tools they provide play such an important role in the educational process, their use opens up numerous opportunities and perspectives in education. Today, aware of the inevitability of digital technologies in the functioning of the world, and of the benefits they bring, we try to use them as meaningfully as possible in education.In the visual arts, ICT technologies provide various opportunities for exploring multicultural and multi-technological content. The social tendencies of the 21st century set new criteria for the modern man - creativity, flexibility and innovation, which also requires the development of educational systems in accordance with these new, changing conditions. In the context of contemporary teaching and the education process in the field of art, new technologies certainly deserve special attention as a medium and a means that enables students to apply them to innovative forms of communication, research, learning and creative expression in the field of visual arts. Today's media bring flexibility, speed, accessibility, interchangeability of digital data and this is what makes contemporary media essential in the teaching of fine arts. The basis of modern media used in the teaching of fine arts are personal computers supported by internet connection, with specific software and various input-output devices. With the use of contemporary media in a specialized classroom for the teaching of fine arts, one can speak of an increase in the choice of teaching, an increase in the choice of means of learning and expression, and finally, an increase in individualization in teaching.In the twenty-first century classroom, the teaching of fine arts is increasingly influenced by external influences, so that the classroom is a place for students to learn, explore, do and evaluate works of art. The wealth of information offered through the use of information technology is multiplied by many over the traditional media. The basis of modern media used in the specialized classroom for the teaching of fine arts are computers supported by internet connection, with specific software and various input-output devices.

scholarly journals Idols of Promotion: The Triumph of Self-Branding in an Age of Precarity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Erin Duffy ◽  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Popular Magazine ◽  
Contemporary Media

By analyzing the “mass idols” (Lowenthal, 1944) of contemporary media culture, this study contributes to our understanding of popular communication, branding, and social media self-presentation. Leo Lowenthal, in his well-known analysis of popular magazine biographies, identified a marked shift in mass-mediated exemplars of success: from self-made industrialists and politicians (idols of production) to screen stars and athletes (idols of consumption). Adapting his approach, we draw upon a qualitative analysis of magazine biographies (People and Time, n = 127) and social media bios (Instagram and Twitter, n = 200), supplemented by an inventory of television talk show guests (n = 462). Today's idols, we show, blend Lowenthal's predecessor types: they hail from the sphere of consumption, but get described –and describe themselves –in production terms. We term these new figures “idols of promotion,” and contend that their stories of self-made success –the celebrations of promotional pluck –are parables for making it in a precarious employment economy.

scholarly journals “Volumes!”

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (79) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Sara Tanderup Linkis
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Serial Novel

Departing from an analysis of Mark Z. Danielewski’s serial novel The Familiar, the article investigates how contemporary literature at once imitates and resists the serial logics of modern media culture. Thus, focusing especially on the aspects of transmediality and participatory culture, I point out how Danielewski’s work adapts the narrative structure as well as the modes of promotion and reception that characterize e.g. modern television series while also positioning itself in contrast to new media culture and emphasizing the ‘literariness’ of the literary series.

scholarly journals “Talk to Each Other Like It’s 1995”: Mapping Nostalgia for the 1990s in Contemporary Media Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 574-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Ewen
Keyword(s):  
Media Culture ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Contemporary Media

Twenty years on from Television & New Media’s first issue, we find ourselves in an era defined by fracture, anger, anxiety, and nervousness. This short article considers one notable response to this crisis: nostalgia for the 1990s manifesting across a number of cultural fields, including television, music, and celebrity.

The Televisualization of Ritual

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Kopytowska
Keyword(s):  
Sacred Space ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Underlying Assumption ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Cognitive Operations ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Spiritual Reality

This chapter demonstrates how contemporary ‘media culture’ has altered the way we experience and communicate religion and explains the role which language and other semiotic resources play in mediating religious experience and transforming the notion of sacred space, sacred time and a sense of communion based on collective emotion. The underlying assumption is that media together with religious institutions proximize the spiritual reality to believers and create a community of the faithful by reducing various dimensions of distance and providing the audience with a sense of participation and interaction. The chapter focuses on mediated rituals and demonstrates how both TV and radio, with their semiotic properties enabling liveness and immediacy, blur time-space boundaries, change the nature of individual and collective experience, and enhance the emotional and axiological potential of religious messages. It discusses the role of metaphor and metonymy as well as other cognitive operations within discourse space (involving both verbal and visual strategies) in these processes.

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