scholarly journals Videomeemit ja vernakulaari auktoriteetti

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
Tero Ahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
Vernacular Culture ◽  
The Way

Videomeemit yhtenä internetmeemien muotona ovat keino osallistua ajankohtaiseen yhteiskunnalliseen ja poliittiseen keskusteluun. Artikkelissani tarkastelen kahden tunnetun videomeemin, Hitler kuulee ja El Risitas, suomenkielisiä toisintoja. Aineistonani on 13 videota, joiden julkaisut ajoittuvat vuosille 2012–2020. Käytän internetmeemin käsitettä Limor Shifmanin määritelmän mukaisesti digitaalisen kulttuurin tarkasteluun sopivana analyyttisenä työkaluna. Monien käyttäjien jakamat ja omaehtoisesti muokkaamat meemit ovat vernakulaaria kulttuuria, ja meemeihin liitetään usein myös spontaanisuus ja reagointi ajankohtaisiin ja arkisiin tilanteisiin. Toisaalta meemien vernakulaarisuus on hybridistä, sillä sen lisäksi, että niiden pohjana käytetään usein tuotetun populaarikulttuurin materiaalia, myös monet viralliset toimijat ovat ottaneet meemit osaksi viestintäänsä. Meemien taitavalla käytöllä on vernakulaaria auktoriteettia, ja niiden vastaanottoon esimerkiksi osana internetissä käytäviä keskusteluja vaikuttaa muun muassa sisältöjen ja käyttökontekstien toimivat valinnat. Meemit mahdollistavat myös julkiseen keskusteluun verrattuna sopimattoman kielenkäytön esimerkiksi seksuaalissävytteisinä tai avoimen rasistisina ja seksistisinä sananvalintoina.   Video memes and vernacular authority: Hitler finds out and El Risitas memes as societal commentary   Video memes as a type of memes are a way to participate in contemporary societal and political discussion. In this article I study the Finnish versions of two well-known memes, Hitler Finds Out and El Risitas: my material consists of 13 videos that have been published between 2012 and 2020. I refer to the concept of meme as defined by Limor Shifman to be a useful tool to analyze digital culture. Shared by many different users, and freely modified, memes are an example of vernacular culture. Memes are also often associated with being spontaneous and a reaction to current and everyday affairs. The vernacularity of memes is also hybrid: memes often use officially produced material from popular culture as their basis but have also become an addition to official communication by different organizations. Skillful use of memes has vernacular authority, and the way memes are responded to as a part of discussion online relies on e.g. proper use of content and context. Videos also offer a chance to choose words that would be deemed improper in public discussion, including openly racist and sexist ones.

scholarly journals Introduction: Epistemic Approaches to Democracy

Episteme ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Estlund
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Political Discussion ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Epistemic Democracy ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Way

The papers published in this special issue can fairly be unified under the heading “Epistemic Democracy,” but there is more variety among them than this might indicate. They exhibit the broad range of ways in which epistemological considerations are figuring in contemporary philosophical discussions of democracy. The authors range from young and promising to established and distinguished. I'd like to introduce a few of the issues that run through the papers, sprinkling references to the actual papers along the way.From the beginning, democratic forms of government have included discussion and debate. In real life the value of democracy can hardly be separated from the value of free public discussion, prior to voting, about the issues and candidates. This is not to say that either the discussion or the vote have always been inspiring, but whatever value democracy is thought to have, it seems inseparable from public political discussion. One way of accounting for the value of the discussion is to suppose that voters exchange reasons (not always cooperatively) about what to do. Even a quick look at the content of political debate seems to confirm that it is mostly about which decision would be best for the country or city whose laws or leaders are in question.

Rediseñando las Organizaciones del Futuro. El impacto de la transformación digital en el mundo del trabajo

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-226
Author(s):  
Ricardo M. Piñeyro Prins ◽  
Guadalupe E. Estrada Narvaez
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
The Way

We are witnessing how new technologies are radically changing the design of organizations, the way in which they produce and manage both their objectives and their strategies, and -above all- how digital transformation impacts the people who are part of it. Even today in our country, many organizations think that digitalizing is having a presence on social networks, a web page or venturing into cases of success in corporate social intranet. Others begin to invest a large part of their budget in training their teams and adapting them to the digital age. But given this current scenario, do we know exactly what the digital transformation of organizations means? It is necessary? Implying? Is there a roadmap to follow that leads to the success of this process? How are organizations that have been born 100% digital from their business conception to the way of producing services through the use of platforms? What role does the organizational culture play in this scenario? The challenge of the digital transformation of businesses and organizations, which is part of the paradigm of the industrial revolution 4.0, is happening here and now in all types of organizations, whether are they private, public or third sector. The challenge to take into account in this process is to identify the digital competences that each worker must face in order to accompany these changes and not be left out of it. In this sense, the present work seeks to analyze the main characteristics of the current technological advances that make up the digital transformation of organizations and how they must be accompanied by a digital culture and skills that allow their successful development. In order to approach this project, we will carry out an exploratory research, collecting data from the sector of new actors in the world of work such as employment platforms in its various areas (gastronomy, delivery, transportation, recreation, domestic service, etc) and an analysis of the main technological changes that impact on the digital transformation of organizations in Argentina.

Unstoppable Decay and Relentless Hope: Study of Alterity in Popular Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Adrien Ordonneau
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Consequences of capitalism’s crises and their manifestations in arts have deeply modified the way we can approach mental health. As Mark Fisher pointed out in 2009 with his book Capitalist Realism, neoliberalism is using mental illness as a way to keep existing. The capacity to think a way out of alienation is deeply linked with arts and popular culture. The article proposes to study the uncanny dialogue between arts and politics in relationships to people, and mental health. The theoretical framework will show how arts are trying to build a way out of alienation, since 2009. The article will illustrate this research with the study of many artistic practices, including our own. The findings will show how the ambiguous and uncanny relationships with the world is used by artists as a way out of alienation, despite the difficulties occurring with mental health in time of crisis.

scholarly journals Mickey’s Trailer and Environmental Thought: Disney Cartoons and Countryside

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Joe Goddard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Automobile Ownership ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Environmental Cognition ◽  
Environmental Thought ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The influence of popular cartoons on environmental cognition is explored in this essay through readings of Mickey’s Trailer, a 1938 cartoon directed by Ben Sharpsteen for Walt Disney. Other materials considered include Ford Motor Company’s 1937-38 film coproduced by Wilder Pictures, Glacier International Park, which promotes motor-tourism and automobile ownership, and Ben Sharpsteen’s other work for Walt Disney. The article also examines the ideas of physical and “illusional” zoning in the city, especially the way that they were applied in the mid-twentieth century. Physical zoning involved separating incompatible land uses, whereas illusional zoning entailed seeing what you wanted to see. What does Mickey’s Trailer say about how people can live, and can it inform where people choose to live? The essay muses that appreciations of nature and the environment are influenced by popular culture.

‘Your memorials shall survive the grave’: elegy and remembrance

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-149
Author(s):  
Alison Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Central Feature ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vernacular Culture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Broadside Ballads ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

The sixteen ballads and songs within this section fall into two camps: elegy and remembrance. Whilst a central feature of elegiac poetry is the way in which it remembers or memorialises the dead, the dead a poem which is one of remembrance is not necessarily an elegy. Several of the songs herein use the date of Peterloo as a temporal marker – with an eye both on the contemporaneous reader or audience and the future reader. Included in this section are broadside ballads by Michael Wilson and elegies by Samuel Bamford and Peter Pindar. These songs display a self-awareness in their significance in marking the moment for posterity and in their attempts to reach an audience beyond Manchester and ensure that the public knew what had happened on 16th August as well as preserving the event in English vernacular culture. It is also a quest for ownership of the narrative of the day; the speed with which so many of these songs were written and published not only suggests the ferocity of emotions surrounding events but also the need to exert some control over the way in which they were represented.

10. The letterless canon

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Ilan Stavans
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Comedy Film ◽  
Film Scripts ◽  
The Way

“The letterless canon” argues that Jewish literature from the mid-twentieth century onward is not restricted to fiction, poetry, and theater. The book as a tool for the dissemination of knowledge has undergone a metamorphosis. Along the way, the border between high-brow and popular culture has been erased. Comic strips like Superman and graphic novels can be viewed as literary artifacts. Indeed we should consider the work of Will Eisner (A Contract with God), Art Spiegelman (Maus), and Alison Bechdel (Fun House), each of whom offers different contributions. There is also the matter of stand-up comedy, film scripts, and television shows which examine, from a Jewish perspective, gender, racial, and class issues.

Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom

Film Reboots ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Erin Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
First Century ◽  
Travel Narrative ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks to Star Trek, a reboot that employed a time travel narrative to simultaneously cast the Star Trek universe as a new continuity and strategically recast iconic characters in a parallel timeline. The chapter asserts that the reinvention of Star Trek property as a twenty-first-century blockbuster required an investment not only in its narrative strategies, but also in a discursively reimagined audience, one that included both pre-existing and future fans. It demonstrates the way in which Star Trek highlights the intersecting logics of the film reboot and the mainstreaming of fandom in popular culture, both of which grow out of serial strategies designed to exploit new and established markets.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-192
Author(s):  
Megan Woller
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Arthurian Legend ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Cultural Resonance ◽  
The Way ◽  
Traditional Stories

Traditional stories based on Arthurian legend continue to be told, and alongside these tales of romance and chivalry, a comedic tradition exists. This centuries-long tradition holds cultural resonance around the world, including having a strong presence in American popular culture. The musical as a genre has proven to be fertile ground for the insertion of American perspectives into the British legend. The use of song, in particular, can shape the way audiences understand familiar characters as well as the story itself. Given this context, the existence, popularity, and influence of Arthurian musicals represents an important contribution to the annals of myth.

Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society. Edited by Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen and Paul G. Pickowicz. [Lanham, NY: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 316 pp. Hardcover $75.00, ISBN 0-7425-1078-6; paperback $21.95, ISBN 0-7425-1079-4.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 1100-1102
Author(s):  
Thomas Moran
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
The People ◽  
Chinese Popular Culture ◽  
The Way

The dozen chapters in this book, based on papers for a 1999 conference, comprise an interdisciplinary glimpse into the increasingly diverse and contradictory world of Chinese popular culture. A theme of Popular China is representation: most of the chapters examine the way in which group and individual identity is represented (in newspapers, magazines, popular sayings, and advertisements, and in the stories people tell about their lives). Many of the authors draw on surveys and interviews – of young basketball fans, rural women, home owners in Shanghai, migrant workers, and entrepreneurs – allowing the people of China to speak for themselves. The book contains nothing that is revelatory (especially for anyone who visits China regularly and reads Chinese), but it provides a detailed, informed look at each of several phenomena often noted only in passing.

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