scholarly journals Om mursten og minder, gråd og globalisering

1970 ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Kristine Munkgård Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Emotional Geography ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Broad Variety

Konferencen “Emotional Geography”, Aarhus Universitet, Århus 2. november 2006.Ten speakers from a range of academic fields were invited to discuss the concept of Emotional Geography and to debate how spaces change as a result of contemporary culture, globalisation and the experience economy.The conference touched upon a broad variety of empirical cases from within tourism, art, branding, urban studies and media studies. The theoretical framework was also broad, extending from phenomenology to Actor Network Theory and Heidegger’s concept of Dwelling. 

scholarly journals Techniques of Translating A Watchful Distance by Zhou Guoping in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 858
Author(s):  
Min Liu
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Contemporary Philosopher ◽  
The Relationship

Chinese philosophical literature is rarely introduced to foreign countries (Pohl, 1999, p. 303). Zhou Guoping, as a contemporary philosopher and essayist, has created essays with both depth and readability, and thus his works are deemed to be worthy of translation. This article aims to elaborate on the translator’s techniques for transferring Zhou Guoping’s famous collection of essays A Watchful Distance. Divided into four sections, this article uses actor-network theory as its theoretical framework and analyses the translator’s position in translation activities from sociocultural perspective, gives corresponding translating techniques to problems related to creativity, conventionalised expressions, utterances and Chinese cultural elements in this book, and draws a conclusion upon the relationship between cultural homogeneity and corresponding translating techniques underpinned by actor-network theory. By discussing specific translating techniques used for Zhou’s book, this article fills up the gap in the transfer techniques of A Watchful Distance to overseas cultures. However, the limitation lies in that the number of Zhou’s works studied are restricted.

The End of Media

2017 ◽  
pp. 20-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andréa Belliger ◽  
David John Krieger
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Media Production ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Actor Network

In the network society and the age of media convergence, media production can no longer be isolated into channels, formats, technologies, and organizations. Media Studies is facing the challenge to reconceptualize its foundations. It could therefore be claimed that new media are the last media. In the case of digital versus analog, there is no continuity between new media and old media. A new and promising proposal has come from German scholars who attempt the precarious balance between media theory and a general theory of mediation based on Actor-Network Theory. Under the title of Actor-Media Theory (Akteur-Medien-Theorie) these thinkers attempt to reformulate the program of Media Studies beyond assumptions of social or technical determinism. Replacing Actor-Network Theory with Actor-Media Theory raises the question of whether exchanging the concept of “network” for the concept of “media” is methodologically and theoretically advantageous.

scholarly journals Obraz jako aktor społeczny w sieci. Treści przekazywane w obrębie mikroblogów na przykładzie serwisu soup.io

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Magdalena Szubstarska
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Actor Network

Images: Actors in the Network examines the properties of an image floating around the Internet: the ability of connecting people without usage of words, bonding them because of the mutual feelings they have about the reality outside. Images that are reposted between the users of digital forms such as tumblelogs or microblogs (the article uses soup.io for the case study) cover the needs, fears and aspirations of not only ordinary web-users, but also the users of the contemporary culture and economic system. An image is no longer a passive, visual piece – it acts by joining, addressing and portraying the desires, thoughts of the users. This phenomenon can be connected with Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory, and with the ideas of W.J.T. Mitchell about the active images. The example of soup.io shows how easy it is to bond people through sharing particular images, but also how certain tools of popular culture can be used to create something new. Although it seems as soup.io users are not interested in connecting with anyone but themselves, their microblog is the message to the outside, it is their collage portrait that makes them visible to the others. Image is then not only the tool of connection, but also the tool of representation. What is important, most of the images that can be found on soup.io are anonymous – which means that they no longer belong to a certain person, but become independent and free to act.

Is There a Common Epistemological Ground of Actor-Network Theory and Media Aesthetics?

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-65
Author(s):  
Veronika Pöhnl
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Based on the increased interest in ANT in Media Studies, this paper discusses similarities and differences in the epistemological premises of ANT and German Media Studies, and in particular, Media Aesthetics. Proceeding from well received ANT investigations on the transformational processes of scientific research and the discussion of their importance and suitability for media aesthetic approaches, basic operations and metaphors of the ANT are identified and questioned. By juxtaposing the epistemological premises of ANT and those of techno-philosophically informed approaches of media theory, profound resemblances as well as fundamental differences are outlined.

Why It Is Difficult to Disengage From Facebook

2018 ◽  
pp. 7190-7199
Author(s):  
Sonda Bouattour Fakhfakh
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Do So

The huge popularity of social network sites like Facebook gave rise to numerous studies exploring the prerequisites and consequences of FB use. This article does not deviate from this direction. It offers a theoretic attempt to analyze the reasons of attachment to FB but through another perspective: the disengagement phenomenon. The theoretical framework is based on the Attachment Theory and the Actor Network Theory. Assuming that FB allows the satisfaction of the innate attachment need and that there is a social and technical interaction between users and the FB structure, the present analysis investigates the relations between user attachment style and FB use and between FB user and the FB platform (hardware and software). The aim here is not to reject (or not) some formulated hypothesis, but to develop a theoretical frame from the existing theories. The argument is that human/human and human/non-human attachment could explain why users find it very difficult to disengage even though they are willing to do so and suffering from being invaded by FB.

The Subject of Media Studies

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost van Loon
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Generalized Symmetry ◽  
The Subject

On the basis of the banal example of the rise of “the selfie”, this chapter critically considers the issue of the Subjects of (and in) Media Studies and argues that the reason why Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has thus far not been widely accepted within this field has been its adherence to the Principles of Generalized Symmetry and Free Association. That is to say: ANT categorically refuses subsuming properties of entities to abstractions such as nature, society or technology. On the contrary, Media Studies have doggedly adhered to privileging “the Human” as its subject of analysis. On the basis of a critique of transcendental phenomenology, which has been specified by a critical discussion of McLuhan's famous edict “media are extensions of man”, the chapter exposes the empirical fallacy of granting the human subject a status of exception and instead proposes an empirical metaphysics based on ‘prehension' as an alternative. This, it is argued, will enable forms of media analyses that can be both radically empirical and politically engaged.

Applications of Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Markus Spöhrer
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
International Research ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Production Studies ◽  
The One

The chapter offers an international research overview of the possibilities and problems of applying Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies and media related research. On the one hand the chapter provides a summary of the central aspects and terminologies of Bruno Latour's, Michel Callon's and John Law's corpus of texts. On the other hand, it summarizes both theoretical and methodological implications of the combination of Actor-Network Theory and strands of Media Studies research such as discourse analysis, Production Studies and media theory.

Contributions of science–technology studies and actor–network theory to urban studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Paulo A. Rheingantz ◽  
Rosa M. L. R. Pedro ◽  
Fabíola B. Angotti ◽  
Marcelo H. Sbarra ◽  
Juliana M. Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Science Technology
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