scholarly journals The FEMENist Connection: Ruptures and Agency in FEMEN France

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1,2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Gheno
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Girl Power ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Representations Of Women

FEMEN embodies many ambiguities as a feminist group using its members' bare breasts to inscribe messages and attract media attention. Now settled in France, a context wherein the women’s movement has a long history of activism and theory, these ambiguities are particularly visible through strong criticism from feminist figures. In this article, I argue that FEMEN actions are both beneficial and detrimental to feminism as they present the media with eroticized militant women while empowering such representations of women. In the vein of popfeminism and girl power media culture, FEMEN contributes to a transformation of contemporary feminist activism in continuity with feminist claims to agency, and in rupture with feminist criticisms of neoliberal commodification of women. 

scholarly journals Fredrik Svanberg. Människosamlarna. Anatomiska museer och rasvetenskap i Sverige ca 1850–1950

1970 ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Eva Åhrén
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Swedish History

The publication of Fredrik Svanberg’s Människosamlarna. Anatomiska museer och rasvetenskap i Sverige ca 1850–1950 [The Collectors of Human Beings. Anatomical Museums and Racial Science in Sweden c. 1850–1950] is very timely. The topic of human remains in museum collections has recently been under debate in Swedish media Early in 2015, the debate was triggered by the efforts of Karolinska Institutet’s Unit for Medical History and Heritage to research its neglected historic collections of human remains, and start repatriating racialized skulls to indigenous source communities. (Disclosure: I am the director of that unit, and my own research on the history of medical museums is referenced in this book.) Svanberg, who is head of research at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, wrote an important contribution to the media debate. The old skull collections that still exist in Lund, Uppsala and Stockholm, he pointed out, have been “rediscovered” by the media at intervals of 5–7 years since the 1980s (cf. pp. 20–26). Media attention tends to cause a brief uproar, until the crania are quickly forgotten again – until the next time. Swedes don’t seem to retain past understandings and constructions of race, or how these conceptions contributed to the creation of our modern, neutral and ostensibly non-racist welfare state.

scholarly journals Media aesthetic component of communication and its manifestation in infographic content

Lumina ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Svetlana Simakova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Image ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The goal of the present study is to demonstrate the media-aesthetic potential of infographic messages on particular cases. This can be done due to an integrated approach to the analysis of the visual content of media content. That indicates the case study method implementation as well as description and generalization. The theoretical basis of the research is represented by scientific studies of various directions. That includes the history of media and visual media culture; features of the concepts of media culture and media language, media aesthetics; infographics as a tool of media language. The empirical basis of the study is journalistic materials containing infographic content of such publications as by RIA Novosti (ria.ru), TASS (tass.ru). The examples of visual image implementation in the transmission of information — media content containing infographics — are given and analyzed. Considering media aesthetics as the formation of a sensory perception of the proposed media content, the author turns to the philosophical and aesthetic foundations of visual practices in the media and post-humanistic trends in journalism. As a result of the analysis of the theoretical and practical basis of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that today the role of the media aesthetic component of messages is most relevant. And infographics, as the connecting link of language and consciousness, is its most striking tool.

Warmth and Unity with all Women?

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Murdolo
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
Aboriginal Women ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
History Of

In this paper I discuss the four Women and Labour conferences which were held in Australian capital cities over the seven years between 1978 and 1984. I explore the ways in which the history of Australian feminist activism during this period could be written, questioning in particular the claim that the Women and Labour conferences have been central to the history of Australian feminism. I discuss the ways in which a historical sense could be established, using writings about the conferences as historical ‘evidence’, that race and ethnic divisions between women had not been important to the ‘women's movement’ until 1984. In other words, I challenge the construction of this conference as a turning point – not only in the feminist politicization of immigrant and Aboriginal women, but also in the politicization of all feminists about race and ethnic divisions. More broadly, I am interested in how a history would be written if it aimed to get to the ‘truth’ about racism and about the feminist activism of immigrant women. How would the apparent lack of written ‘evidence’ – at least until 1984 – of immigrant women's feminist activism, and of the awareness of Australian feminists about issues of racism, be written into this history? In addition, I suggest that it is important to the writing of feminist history in Australia that published documentation has been mostly produced by anglo women, and is thus partial and mediated by the lived, embodied experiences of anglo women. Finally, my intention is to interrogate commonly understood narratives about Australian feminist history, to challenge their seamlessness, and to suggest the importance of recognizing the tension within feminist discourses between difference as benign diversity and difference as disruption.

scholarly journals THE ISSUE OF FORMING MEDIA LITERACY OF FUTURE TRANSLATORS

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-126
Author(s):  
Victoriia Dоmina
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Information

The globalization of the modern information world has led to the adoption of media culture in virtually all areas of human life – manufacturing, the public sphere, education, communication, and the arts. Media connections are formed between all social structures, countries, different communities. It is through mass communication that the process of rooting values and behaviors that dominate society at a certain time takes place. In the proposed article, the author argues that at the present stage particular importance is gained by the involvement of an individual in the media culture in the context of preparing young people to interact with the complex information world. It is determined that these processes are important for the professional training of translators, because very often they are representatives of contemporary Ukrainian culture in the world. It is proved that the training of modern specialists requires from them mastering of a whole range of competences - from traditional language to modern information ones. This is justified by the fact that future translation specialists must have up-to-date information technologies in order to ensure high-level translation activities. The modern standards of higher professional pedagogical education mark that the graduating students of pedagogical educational establishments must be aware of the methods of search, treatment and use of information; be able her to interpret and adapt addressees in accordance with queries. The marked intercommunications of mediaeducation and professional preparation of future translator are examined as important constituents of his/her professional competence. Analytical activity of a future translator in relation to mediatext provides for : finding out of conformities to law of construction of mediatext on the whole; immersion in logic of the authorial thinking; reconstruction of conception to the author of a mediatext; determination of the own point of view in relation to a concrete work of mediaculture. Theoretical preparation of future translators in the context of tasks of mediaeducation necessarily includes different questions in relation to co-operation of medias of the world in the society, theory and history of mediaculture. An informative supply in industry of theory and history of mediaeducation will form the ground not only for successful communicative practice in industry of medias, but also for creation of the own programs of educational orientation medias in the future process of independent pedagogical work at school. The specificity of professional training of future translators in pedagogical institutions of higher learning predetermines the special attention to the development of professional knowledge and abilities that teachers need for perfecting their own pedagogical culture. Such professional knowledge and abilities can be marked by such indexes: motivational (reasons of mediaeducational activity; aspiring to perfecting one’s own knowledge of media); informative (a level of being informed; pedagogical knowledge of the media industry); methodical (methodical abilities in the sphere of mediaeducation); activity (quality of medias of educational activity); creativity (a level of the creative elements in media educational activity). Translator that received media education in an institution of higher learning will be able: to encourage students, develop a desire to formulate the problem questions concerning media; use in teaching the research methodology aimed at the organization of independent search of information in media by students for substantiating certain questions; help students to develop skills in relation to the use of various sources of mediainformation; organize discussions in the process of students’ learning to listentolerantlyand tactfully to othersand to express their own opinion. Development of pedagogical terms of application of mediaeducation in the process of professional training of future translators at the initial stage requires the study of the real practice of intercommunication of modern student youth and mediaculture.

scholarly journals ‘If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1069-1076
Author(s):  
Melanie Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Young Female ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Visibility ◽  
Short Essay

During the global lockdowns brought about by the Coronavirus crisis, TikTok saw a phenomenal rise in users and cultural visibility. This short essay argues that the media attention paid to TikTok during this time can be read as a celebration of girlhood in the face of the pandemic, and can be seen to contribute to the transformation of girls’ ‘bedroom culture’ (McRobbie and Garber, 2006) from a space previously conceptualised as private and safe from judgement, to one of public visibility, surveillance and evaluation. Focusing on Charli D’Amelio, this essay argues that the increasing visibility of TikTok and rising celebrity of D’Amelio during the Coronavirus crisis continues and intensifies the longer history of young female celebrity culture, and obscures the dangers and impacts faced by girls around the world who are situated outside of the ideals embodied in TikTok stars like D’Amelio.

scholarly journals The translation of biblion and biblos in the light of oral and scribal practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus A. Naudé ◽  
Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Media History ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Performance Criticism ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Scribal Tradition

The Bible was composed both by way of oral tradition and by scribal activity. Various descriptions exist of the development and relationship of the dominant forms of orality and scribal tradition throughout the history of media culture. Utilising the insights of, and debate on, the field of Biblical Performance Criticism, this article argues for an articulated description of the interrelationship of oral and written. The article argues that these two aspects cannot be absolutely separated, either chronologically or in terms of importance, neither can they be ignored as part of a coherent model to depict the media history of the Bible. In the light of this model the article discusses the interpretation and translation of the words βιβλίον and βίβλος, which are sometimes misunderstood and mistranslated, because of a failure to understand the process of committing the oral biblical tradition to a preferred writing medium.

Filicide in Australian Media and Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Little ◽  
Danielle Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Female Crime ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Audience ◽  
Considerable Body

Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing a child. Despite its low occurrence, filicide is one of the most emotive offenses for a public audience. The murder of a child by their own parent challenges many of our fundamental expectations about the role of parenthood, prompting a sense of horror, outrage, and deep distress: It violates the idea of parental instincts as a protection for children. While maternal and paternal filicide is committed in roughly equal numbers, historically, filicide has been regarded as a female crime. However, media coverage of mothers who commit filicide differs from coverage of fathers who commit the same crime. Infanticidal mothers in particular have a long history of being demonized by the media and in popular culture. Research shows that this is partly because such events shatter expected feminine and maternal norms. Despite the considerable body of scholarly work conducted in this area of crime and media culture, there were few studies of filicide in Australia until recently. As a consequence, the media’s portrayal of these tragic cases is to treat them as “inexplicable” while also attempting to find an explanation, most often through stereotyping, simplification, or rationalization.

The ‘girls’: women press photographers and the representation of women in Australian newspapers

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Darian-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Media Industry ◽  
National Library ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Representations Of Women

In 1975, Fairfax News commemorated International Women’s Year by appointing Lorrie Graham as its first female cadet photographer. Women only joined the photographic staff of newspapers in significant numbers from the 1980s and were more likely to be employed on regional newspapers than the metropolitan dailies. This article draws on interviews with male and female press photographers collected for the National Library of Australia’s oral history programme. It provides an overview of the history of women press photographers in Australia, situating their working lives within an overtly masculine newspaper culture where gender inequity was entrenched. It also examines the gendered and evolving photographic representations of women in the Australian press, including those of women in positions of social and political leadership. Although women press photographers have achieved greater recognition in the 2000s, the transformation of the media industry has impacted the working practices and employment of press photographers.

MEDIA SOCIALIZATION OF PERSONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF INMUTATION IN THE MASS MEDIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-109
Author(s):  
Chernysh O.O.
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Active Growth ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual

The urgency of the researched problem is connected with the growing role of mass media in modern conditions leads to change of values and transformation of identity of the person. The active growth of the role of the media, their influence on the formation and development of personality leads to the concept of “media socialization” and immutation in the media. The aim of the study is to outline the possibilities of the process of media socialization in the context of immutation in the media. The methods of our research are: analysis of pedagogical, psychological, literature, synthesis, comparison, generalization. The article analyzes the views of domestic and foreign scientists on the problem of immutation in the media and the transformation of the information space. In the context of the mass nature of the immutation of society, the concept of “media socialization” becomes relevant, which is the basis for reducing the negative impact of the media on the individual.The author identifies the lack of a thorough study of the concept of “media socialization” in modern scientific thought. Thus, media socialization is associated with the transformation of traditional means of socialization, and is to assimilate and reproduce the social experience of mankind with the help of new media.The article analyzes the essence of the concepts “media space”, “mass media” and “immutation”. The influence of mass media on the formation and development of the modern personality is described in detail.The study concluded that it is necessary to form a media culture of the individual, to establish safe and effective interaction of young people with the modern media system, the formation of media awareness, media literacy and media competence in accordance with age and individual characteristics for successful media socialization. The role of state bodies in solving the problem of media socialization of the individual was also determined. It is determined that the process of formation of media culture in youth should take place at the level of traditional institutions of socialization of the individual.The author sees the prospect of further research in a detailed analysis and study of the potential of educational institutions as an institution and a means of counteracting the mass nature of the immutation of society.Key words: immutation, media socialization, mass media, media space, information.

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