scholarly journals Introduction to M/C

M/C Journal ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. David Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Media ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Working Through ◽  
The Gift ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Power ◽  
The University

This is a magazine that plays with the push/pull characteristics of the Web. We're writing, investigating, analysing, critiquing the meeting of media and culture. These are large concepts: we're working through the various refractive powers that media forms have on culture. Perceiving through a particular medium mediates the way in which we conceptualise the world; the approach we take to the transnational, nation, state, city, suburb, neighbourhood, etc. We are, of course, aware that any particular medium does not overdetermine actions in some transparent McLuhanesque way; rather we're working through the cultural power of media forms to conceptualise and to organise (or disorganise) our world-views. Naturally, we're operating from a place and space within these debates about the organisation of culture. This journal is arising from an institution within an institution, and thus is informed by certain approaches. It is an initiative of the Media and Cultural Studies Centre, a research unit in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, Australia. Although who writes for the journal may change, it is starting from a history of cultural studies, a postgraduate subject entitled "New Media Culture", and students and staff who are genuinely interested in embarking upon critical analyses of media and culture. You'll notice patterns in the writing, then, that indicate these origins to the cognoscenti. Each issue is organised around a theme. The first issue's theme is particularly appropriate for a birthing process, and the move from the apparent simplicity of beginnings to the complexity of sustaining life. We're looking at the concept of "New", and we're approaching it from a variety of angles and avenues. Most of the essays are short interventions. One essay for each issue will engage with the concept for a little bit longer. A couple of warning notes may be necessary for your first read. The journal has a slash in the title, which may be just another graphic pirouette, or it may be some awkward bow to the Internet aesthetic of cursors and schizophrenia. Without grounding its meaning (the dance of meaning is important to us) the slash "/" is to highlight that this is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic. It is attempting to engage with the 'popular', and integrate the work of 'scholarship' in media and cultural studies into our critical work. We take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Also, in the interests of pulling, we want response and replies. Each issue will be followed in some way by a responding issue that integrates the variety of interventions received. Jump in. Yes, we have provided a pattern, but feel free to respond to our pattern. You can even respond by submitting for future issues. Of course, you can decide not to respond to us; but if you find something useful acknowledge us and provide links to our work -- we'll provide the same courtesy for what intrigues us. It is the courtesy of the gift of information, which through a slash becomes a form of knowledge. It's tempting to conclude with something that derives from the pure pop of television: "Engage" -- but we wouldn't do that. You make the links. Citation reference for this article MLA style: P. David Marshall. "Introduction to M/C." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 1.1 (1998). [your date of access] <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/9807/intro.php>. Chicago style: P. David Marshall, "Introduction to M/C," M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 1, no. 1 (1998), <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/9807/intro.php> ([your date of access]). APA style: P. David Marshall. (1998) Introduction to M/C. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 1(1). <http://www.uq.edu.au/mc/9807/intro.php> ([your date of access]).

Filthy Material

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Forster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Radclyffe Hall ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of such figures as James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts of twentieth-century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and the Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. The emergence of film, photography, and new printing technologies shaped how “literary value” was understood, altering how obscenity was defined and which texts were considered obscene. Filthy Material rereads the history of modernist obscenity to discover the role played by technological media in debates about obscenity. The shift from the intense censorship of the early twentieth century to the effective “end of obscenity” for literature at the middle of the century was not simply a product of cultural liberalization but also of a changing media ecology. Filthy Material brings together media theory and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity with novel readings of works of modernist literature. It sheds new light on figures at the center of modernism’s obscenity trials (such as Joyce and Lawrence), demonstrates the relevance of the discourse of obscenity to understanding figures not typically associated with obscenity debates (such as T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), and introduces new figures to our account of modernism (such as Norah James and Jack Kahane). It reveals how modernist obscenity reflected a contest over the literary in the face of new media technologies.

scholarly journals The Peculiar Position of Germanic Runes in the History of Script

Linguaculture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Adrian Poruciuc
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Media ◽  
Present Article ◽  
European History ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Keynote Presentation ◽  
Digital Books ◽  
History Of

The present article is based on the material of a keynote presentation that was delivered at the International Conference From Runes to the New Media and Digital Books, which took place at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi on 30-31 May, 2019. In order to make that material more coherent, the author of that presentation will add supplementary clues and comments, all meant to sustain the idea that the Old Germanic runes – although commonly considered to be just alphabetic signs – have peculiar features that resemble the ones of much earlier historical scripts, and even of prehistoric ones, such as the now much discussed Danube Script. The issues and illustrations of this paper may be of interest not only for linguistic and cultural studies, but also for the domain of European history.

scholarly journals Beyond The Historiography: Film Dokumenter Sejarah Sebagai Alternatif Historiografi di Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
Aan Ratmanto
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Quality Of Research

The Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, the University of Gadjah Mada in 2015 made a milestone in the development of historiography in Indonesia. They made a bold move to produce a scholar with a documentary film work instead of a thesis. In the future, it is not impossible that this step will soon be followed by other universities in Indonesia. This paper was written in response to these developments. In this digital era-and in the midst of still low interest in reading in Indonesia-emerged the discourse to seek new media for historiography in Indonesia. The film, especially documentary films are seen as new media that match the characteristics of history because of they both present real-life reality. Moreover, Indonesia with the diversity of tribes and culture and history, of course, save a variety of themes that will not run out to be appointed a documentary. Based on that, this paper will discuss the types, forms, and format of the documentary that is suitable and possible to be produced by history students as a substitute for thesis-considering the cost of film production tends to be higher than thesis research. Thus, the film of a documentary a college student, especially a history produces the quality of research and aestheticsKata 

I International Retina Colloquium

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Nesteriuk
Keyword(s):  
Research Centers ◽  
Main Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The University

The event, in 2019, featured two actions: a colloquium at the Anhembi-Morumbi University and another colloquium at the University of Brasília, with guests exclusively, who participate as speakers, and in communications at round tables. The participation of listeners is free and seeks to bring researches closer to the institutions involved in Brazil together with Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, with which we have established effective partnerships for over ten years. The products of these meetings are published in annals, in books and in periodicals. The general objective of the events is to promote, disseminate and compare research in progress in the main research centers in the country and abroad inserted in the media, galleries and museums to contribute to the reflection, the formulation of theories and the history of the current culture.The event, in 2019, presented two actions: a colloquium at the Anhembi-Morumbi University and another colloquium at the University of Brasília, with guests exclusively, who participate as speakers, and in communications at round tables. The participation of listeners is free and seeks to bring researches closer to the institutions involved in Brazil together with Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, with which we have established effective partnerships for over ten years. The products of these meetings are published in annals, in books and in periodicals. The general objective of the events is to promote, disseminate and compare research in progress in the main research centers in the country and abroad inserted in the media, galleries and museums to contribute to the reflection, the formulation of theories and the history of the current culture.

scholarly journals Inside Out: A Diasporic Narrative

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Lewis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Diasporic Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Structural Marxism

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Stuart Hall’s writing began to take a biographical turn. For readers such as myself, then a mature undergraduate pursuing an American Studies degree in New Zealand, this was somewhat of a revelation. The surprise was not so much Hall’s shift from the somewhat dry prose of structural Marxism to the rather more vital style of a postcolonially inflected poststructuralism, but the fact of Hall’s Caribbean background when I, along with no doubt many other geographically distant readers, had assumed him to be exworking class, British and white. Some seven years later, while wrestling with a PhD on the history of cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, I found myself writing an essay for Arena using the question of Hall’s diasporic identity to explore ‘the relations between knowledge production and cultural identity/location.

News, Biography, and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
News Writing ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Key Aspects

Celebrity was not invented in the eighteenth century, but it was transformed by the new publics, and the new media that emerged to cultivate and maintain these publics, from the mid-seventeenth until the later eighteenth centuries. Celebrity is therefore best understood as a certain kind of fame rather than a phase in the history of fame. Contemporaneity, publicity, and personality are key aspects of the kind of fame one may identify as celebrity. This chapter argues that attention to genre in the process of celebrity formation makes it possible to distinguish between regimes of fame as constituted by the media available and the ways in which public personalities were variously constructed. Two genres were particularly influential in shaping the development of the new celebrity of the long eighteenth century: news writing and life writing. The contributions of news and biography to eighteenth-century conceptions of celebrity are explored in detail.

Who’s That Girl?

2020 ◽  
pp. 176-214
Author(s):  
Landon Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Culture Wars ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Star Image ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Power ◽  
Film Cycles ◽  
Studio Era ◽  
Star Images ◽  
Classical Hollywood

Chapter 5 examines Madonna’s film career from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Inspired by the star images of Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, and Mae West, Madonna performed an interpretation of “Classical Hollywood” female glamour, attitude, and sexuality throughout the rise and peak of her music career. She sought to extend this image into distinct commercial film cycles of the 1980s and 1990s, including the downtown indie, the synergistic blockbuster, the sex thriller, and the prestige Oscar film. Madonna offers an illustrative case for the history of cinematic rock stardom at the end of the twentieth century. She pursued a screen career within arguably the final period in which stardom served as a central driving force in Hollywood’s economic logic, and this pursuit was manifested via her cinephilic interpretation of Hollywood’s legacy of platinum blonde sex symbols. At the same time, Madonna aspired to a cinematic star image during the apex of the music video’s economic and cultural power, seeking to translate her anti-censorship and pro-sex efforts established within the media realm into Hollywood filmmaking in the midst of the 1980s–1990s culture wars. Madonna’s film career epitomizes the issues driving this book, as it speaks to the discordance between older (studio-era Hollywood) and newer (the era of MTV and beyond) models of stardom.

Digital Art and Experimental Color Systems at Bell Laboratories, 1965–1984: Restoring Interdisciplinary Innovations to Media History

Leonardo ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn L. Kane
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media History ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Computing Technology ◽  
Media Arts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Experimental Art ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

AT&T's Bell Laboratories produced a prolific number of innovative digital art and experimental color systems between 1965 and 1984. However, due to repressive regulation, this work was hidden from the public. Almost two decades later, when Bell lifted its restrictions on creative work not related to telephone technologies, the atmosphere had changed so dramatically that despite a relaxation of regulation, cutting-edge projects were abandoned. This paper discusses the struggles encountered in interdisciplinary collaborations and the challenge to use new media computing technology to make experimental art at Bell Labs during this unique time period, now largely lost to the history of the media arts.

scholarly journals One World, One Ocean, One Mission

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Types ◽  
Global Initiative

MacGillivray Freeman Films was founded over forty years ago by Greg MacGillivray and the late Jim Freeman. In 2011, the company launched “the world’s largest ocean media campaign, a 10-year global initiative called One World One Ocean” (MacGillivray Freeman Films, 2010, Our History, para. 10), an awareness and change campaign focusing on saving the world’s oceans. The mission of One World One Ocean (OWOO) is to use “the power of film, television, new media and education initiatives… to change the way people see and value the ocean — and motivate action to restore it” (OWOO, 2012, Mission, para. 4). One World One Ocean’s science advisors, including principal advisor Dr. Sylvia Earle, believe that “the ocean is at a tipping point…. our actions over the next 10 years will determine the state of the ocean for the next 10,000 years” (OWOO, 2013, Why the Ocean?, para. 3). The media types used in the organization’s campaign were chosen because MacGillivray Freeman Films wants to develop and expand on its film-industry successes. This article outlines the history of One World One Ocean and explores its mission, its history, its scientific basis, its current projects and initiatives, its successes to date, and its future goals. It explains why these media platforms were chosen to support the organization’s mission and explores the vital questions of why it is important for all of us that we save the world’s oceans and how this mammoth task can be tackled before it is too late. The purposes of this article are to inform readers about One World One Ocean and to inspire them to consider ways they can work to achieve the organization’s crucial goals.

scholarly journals Interview with Pr Bruno Poucet, Professor of sciences of education, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
Ismail Ferhat
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Fifth Republic ◽  
Teachers Union ◽  
Jules Verne ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Born in 1952, Professor of sciences of education at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France), Bruno Poucet is a French renowned historian of education in France. He has conducted and realized various researches on education (and their interactions with politics) in contemporary France. He worked on the history of education policies of the French ‘Fifth Republic’ (founded in 1958 by Charles de Gaulle) at the national level and in the Picardie region - where he lives and works. He is interested in the history of secondary and higher education, private sector of education, school secularism (called in France «laïcité») and the teaching and curriculum of philosophy. Eclectic in his areas of interest, he has also been deeply committed in the functioning of the French education system. He has been a long-time teachers’ union deputy leader at the CFDT (currently the major trade union in France). In 2011, he has created the CAREF research unit (Centre Aménois de Recherche en Éducation et en Formation, specialized in educational studies), at the University of Picardie Jules Verne.He has kindly accepted to be interviewed by Ismail Ferhat, Associate professor at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (CAREF research Unit/Teachers training school of Amiens), for the review Espacio, Tiempo y Educación, in spite of the difficult sanitary situation in France, in April 2020. 

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