Shock Jocks and their Legacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Elizabeth Hayes ◽  
Sharon Zechowski
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Mainstream Culture

This is an introduction to a symposium of four articles on shock radio and its legacies for US media culture in the 21st century. It provides historical and global context for the rise of shock radio, and introduces four articles. These articles argue that while the shock radio format seems to have declined since its peak in the 1990s, it continues to flourish in a new ‘‘political shock’’ format and in the broader sexualization or ‘‘Sternification’’ of mainstream culture. Articles by Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Dana Gravesen, and Sharon Zechowski focus on shock jock Howard Stern, while articles by Zack Stiegler and Michael R. Kramer examine the cases of Michael Savage and Don Imus respectively.

scholarly journals Agama & Media Massa Tradisional dan Industrial

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Nurdien Harry Kistanto
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
21St Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Symbolic Communication ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Primary Means

It is increasingly clear that to understand religion in the 21st Century we must also understand media and the ways that religions are being remade through their interaction with modern media. Culture… is that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. Mass media means technology that is intended to reach a mass audience. It is the primary means of communication used to reach the vast majority of the general public…. mass media of communication: the techniques and institutions through which centralized providers broadcast or distribute information and other forms of symbolic communication to large, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed audiences

Gladness and sympathetic joy: Gospel witness and the four noble truths in dialogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-250
Author(s):  
Amos Yong
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
Monastic Community ◽  
Christian Witness ◽  
Desmond Tutu

Several years ago, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu published together, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (2016). If the famed Lama was calling on notions of joy developed in and through his own Tibetan Buddhist tradition to suggest a way forward for a fraught 21st-century world, the almost equally famous South African social activist and Anglican bishop was drawing from even more ancient Christian sources regarding rapturous and jubilational delight in order to propose engaging with the complexities of a globalizing third millennium. This article seeks to dig deeper into the scriptural tributaries feeding these contemporary proposals, focusing first on the 5th-century CE Indian Buddhist thinker Buddhaghosa, in particular his teachings regarding the role of joyful equanimity for the salvation of the monastic community found in the classic text Visuddhimagga, and on the appropriation of these ideas by contemporary Buddhist practitioners, and second on the apostolic writings of St. Luke, for whom joyful prayer and worship were central expressions of a Spirit-empowered proclamation of the gospel by the earliest followers of Jesus in their sojourn to the ends of the earth that has galvanized Christian mission historically. We will find that both traditions can learn something important in this dialogical process which can, in turn, also nurture in the present age a more humble and also, paradoxically, more potent Christian witness in Buddhist environments in the present 21st-century global context.

The lasting charm of Media Events

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Sonnevend
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Media Events

This essay analyzes the power, charm and limitations of Daniel Dayan’s and Elihu Katz’s Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (Harvard, 1992). It argues that the book presented a uniquely compelling and alluring concept, but has three limitations: Media Events has a present-centric view of events, a constrained understanding of conflicting narratives in the global context, and it is inattentive to how media events travel across multiple platforms. But overall, this essay concludes that ceremonial media events as described by the canonic book of Dayan and Katz are still important in the 21st century, and will survive the passing of time and media.

scholarly journals Motherhood in crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy

2015 ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Fiona Clancy
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Female Voice ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Autonomous Identity

This article concerns the complex negotiation of ageing and femininity in Amy Heckerling’s two most recent films: I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007) and Vamps (2012). These films are positioned as part of the contemporary postfeminist media culture, (Gill, 2007) noting the scrutiny received by the ageing female body, and its changing status under the prevailing cultural norms of femininity. However, Heckerling’s films also demonstrate a sense of play with these gender norms, and so calls to be read also in terms of Judith Butler’s theorisation of performativity (1990; 1993; 2004). This article contends that Heckerling’s representation of liminality and indeterminacy—in her teen movies, and later work alike—provides a way for women to carve out an autonomous identity that humorously demonstrates the absurdity of mediatised constructions of femininity. Her work, then, is more complex than has hitherto been acknowledged, and the piece concludes by calling for the director and screenwriter to be repositioned as a significant female voice in 21st century screen media.

scholarly journals Toposkartta, kliseekokoelma ja moderni panoraama

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Kari Kallioniemi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Media History ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Film Form

Artikkelissa tarkastellaan suomalaisista musiikkitähdistä viime vuosina tehtyjä elämäkertaelokuvia ja niiden luonnetta mediahistorian kontekstissa. Millainen yhteys 1800-luvun mediakulttuurin todellisuudella ja sen topoksilla on musiikkitähdistä kertoviin melodramaattisiin elämäkertaelokuviin? Historiallisen ja vertailevan musiikkielokuvien lähiluvun kautta artikkeli pohtii kysymystä siitä, millä tavoin nämä elokuvat ovat kuvanneet musiikkitähtien elämää ja taidetta valkokankaalla. Käsittelemissäni suomalaiselokuvissa topokset, kliseet ja muut banaalin kansallisuuden merkit ovat osa digitaalisen kulttuurin kierrätystä, niiden avulla voidaan rakentaa emotionaalinen silta digitaalisen maailman ulkopuolella olevaan kansalliseen materiaaliseen todellisuuteen.Varhaisen eurooppalaisen kulttuuriperinnön topokset löysivät paikkansa 1800-luvun media- ja massakulttuurin panoraamoissa ja varhaisessa elokuvassa. Erityisesti Timo Koivusalon kansallisista musiikkitähdistä kertovat elokuvat ovat tietynlainen reaktionäärinen osa digitaalisen aikakauden mediakulttuurista murrosta. Elokuvien edustamat kliseet, topokset ja panoraamakerrontaan viittaava rakenne eivät niinkään pyri olemaan osa elokuvataidetta, vaan viittaavat elokuvan muodon avulla enemmän nykypäivän kulttuuriseen nationalismiin, joka hakee elinvoimansa kansallisista myyteistä, suurmiehistä, kansallisen historian käännekohdista, traditioista ja rituaaleista, maisemista, esineistä ja musiikkiesityksistä.Topos map, cliché collection, and modern panorama: The national music star biopic in media culture continuumThe article examines recent Finnish music star biopics and their characteristics in the context of media history. I apply historical and comparative close reading in analyzing the ways in which earlier films have represented the lives and art of great music stars. Melodramatic biographical films were in many ways successors to 19th century media culture as carriers of European cultural heritage in depicting the lives and art of musical heroes. The Finnish films discussed in this article use topoi and clichés which represent banal nationalism.The 21st century Finnish national musical hero biopics, and especially the films by Timo Koivusalo, can be seen as a kind of reactionary response to the digital disruption of media culture. The films’ clichés, topoi, and panoramic style of narration are not used to create film art as such. Instead, film form is applied to flag today’s cultural nationalism, which uses national myths, great men, national historical turning points, traditions and rituals, landscapes, artifacts, and music to gain vitality. The films construct an emotional bridge to a nationalistic, materialistic past which exists outside the digital world.

scholarly journals The Location of the Philippines within Spanish Official Frameworks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Miguel Díaz Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Shared History ◽  
Hispanic Studies ◽  
A Priority

This article explores several notions of location in relation to the Philippines. Contrasting Filipino studies which problematise conceptions of the Philippines as Asian, this essay focuses on Spanish perceptions of the archipelago in official political and economic plans regarding Spain’s presence in Asia in the 21st century. The Philippines plays an important role in these plans, as it is listed as a priority country for Spanish actions in this region, mostly due to the shared colonial links. Despite this shared history, there are several Spanish ambivalent perceptions that locate the Philippines as a country connected to Spain and, at the same time, in the periphery of countries with a Hispanic heritage, which is evident in the location of Fil-Hispanic studies within Hispanic scholarship. Furthermore, Spanish official perceptions are often politically motivated, in relation to the practical uses that the location of the Philippines can have for Spain as a gateway to Asia, in particular, the neoliberal focus of certain Spanish policies, which re-establish a centre-periphery dynamics in a neo-colonial global context.

Elite Schools and 21st-Century Class-Making

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Kenway ◽  
Diana Langmead
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
National State ◽  
Elite Schools ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
State Context

Whatever else it involves, elite schools’ core work is to help to make and remake class through education. Here, we provide an overview of their everyday practices of class-making and present ways of categorizing them: the spatialization of their social imaginations, their mobilization of feelings, and their class-based disavowals. These practices are well established in the local (national/state) context, and we devote the first part of the article to these. In the second part, we shift the angle of scrutiny and outline such schools’ class-making practices in the contemporary global context.

An Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Verna Knight ◽  
Sandra P.A. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Empowering Teachers ◽  
Education Today

Teachers are an indispensable part of the debate on the development of critical thinking skills. Much research has centered on examining teachers' critical thinking skills, and on empowering teachers for more effective delivery of critical thinking in instruction (Perkins, 2014; Gardener, 2011; Duron et al, 2006; Abrami et al, 2008, Choy & Cheah, 2009). This chapter examines one of the key forces impacting the global context for critical thinking, teachers and teacher education today: an international mandate for critical thinking as a vital 21st century skill for the effective preparation of citizens and workers for life and work in today's society. The chapter begins with an exploration of the meaning and conceptualization of critical thinking. It then deliberates on how the international mandate for schools and teachers engenders a context for critical thinking in teacher education and considers the need for increased pedagogical support for educators. As a final point, the chapter points to some implications for classroom practitioners and teacher educators of delivering on the demands for critical and reflective workers in 21st century society.

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