791 resultados para cultural studies
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The removal of trade impediments is expected to cause companies to integrate more of their operations among countries; however, experience shows that behavioral factors often impede the requisite cooperation and commitment among managers from different countries. This paper discusses these behavioral problems from a national perspective and examines an approach to integration, value networks, which is not bounded by nation-states and their differences or similarities.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-07
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This article offers an overview of various approaches, which have been used to examine video game characters. In its first part I am introducing several methodological directions, focusing on: characters as functions, characters as drivers of agency, representational gendered icons, and as players re-embodied realisations. In the second part I am focusing on the first holistic research method for player character in offline computer role-playing games (cRPGs). The proposed Pivot Player Character Model provides a method replicable across the cRPG genre and illustrates the experience of gameplay as perceived through the PCs eyes. It has been largely inspired by Anne Ubersfelds semiological dramatic character research.
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To demonstrate how the growing influence of alternative media in civil society correlates with the rise of social movements and their influence on contemporary manifestations of resistance, this research uses critical ethnographic methodologies to document the narratives of alternative media producers in the pro-Indigenous and anti-Chief campaigns at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the 2006-2007 school year. These narratives demonstrate not only the ways alternative media help transmit dissent by distributing information to diverse populations, but also the manner they facilitate contexts that influence identity formations and strengthen counter-cultural communal practices. Particular lineages of critical social theory are used to situate knowledge construction and social relationships within specific socio-historic contexts to approach issues of subjectivity, human agency, and resistance. These include the Frankfurt School for Social Research, the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, and the Brazilian education philosopher Paulo Freire, who emphasize criticality based on the engagement of ideological analysis, as well as developing capacities to critique and resist oppressive social and political relationships. Thus, this study argues for expanding traditional notions of literacy to include the ability to decode and produce media as a critical element of meaningful democratic participation.
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Advances in digital photography and distribution technologies enable many people to produce and distribute images of their sex acts. When teenagers do this, the photos and videos they create can be legally classified as child pornography since the law makes no exception for youth who create sexually explicit images of themselves. The dominant discussions about teenage girls producing sexually explicit media (including sexting) are profoundly unproductive: (1) they blame teenage girls for creating private images that another person later maliciously distributed and (2) they fail to respector even discussteenagers rights to freedom of expression. Cell phones and the internet make producing and distributing images extremely easy, which provide widely accessible venues for both consensual sexual expression between partners and for sexual harassment. Dominant understandings view sexting as a troubling teenage trend created through the combination of camera phones and adolescent hormones and impulsivity, but this view often conflates consensual sexting between partners with the malicious distribution of a persons private image as essentially equivalent behaviors. In this project, I ask: What is the role of assumptions about teen girls sexual agency in these problematic understandings of sexting that blame victims and deny teenagers rights? In contrast to the popular media panic about online predators and the familiar accusation that youth are wasting their leisure time by using digital media, some people champion the internet as a democratic space that offers young people the opportunity to explore identities and develop social and communication skills. Yet, when teen girls sexuality enters this conversation, all this debate and discussion narrows to a problematic consensus. The optimists about adolescents and technology fall silent, and the argument that media production is inherently empowering for girls does not seem to apply to a girl who produces a sexually explicit image of herself. Instead, feminist, popular, and legal commentaries assert that she is necessarily a victim: of a sexualized mass media, pressure from her male peers, digital technology, her brain structures or hormones, or her own low self-esteem and misplaced desire for attention. Why and how are teenage girls sexual choices produced as evidence of their failure or success in achieving Western liberal ideals of self-esteem, resistance, and agency? Since mass media and policy reactions to sexting have so far been overwhelmingly sexist and counter-productive, it is crucial to interrogate the concepts and assumptions that characterize mainstream understandings of sexting. I argue that the common sense that is co-produced by law and mass media underlies the problematic legal and policy responses to sexting. Analyzing a range of nonfiction texts including newspaper articles, talk shows, press releases, public service announcements, websites, legislative debates, and legal documents, I investigate gendered, racialized, age-based, and technologically determinist common sense assumptions about teenage girls sexual agency. I examine the consensus and continuities that exist between news, nonfiction mass media, policy, institutions, and law, and describe the limits of their debates. I find that this early 21st century post-feminist girl-power moment not only demands that girls live up to gendered sexual ideals but also insists that actively choosing to follow these norms is the only way to exercise sexual agency. This is the first study to date examining the relationship of conventional wisdom about digital media and teenage girls sexuality to both policy and mass media.
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Wydzia Nauk Spoecznych: Instytut Kulturoznawstwa
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In this article, we will try to demonstrate that there are strong analogies between literature and new media, as they were both born to satisfy a human need. We will try to show that the inglorious world of media and the prestigious literary universe are walking without knowing in the same direction. Therefore, it would be easier to confute the recent theory that declares the death of literature after the rise of new media. Only an honest and interdisciplinary dialogue can reveal all sorts of hidden structural homologies, uncovering new creative horizons.
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O objetivo deste artigo oferecer uma definio do relativamente recente gnero literrio que exemplificado pela escrita de autoras como Margarida Rebelo Pinto, Ftima Lopes e Rita Ferro. Trata-se de literatura cujo possvel ''par'' anglo-saxnico encontramos na chick lit uma fico escrita geralmente por mulheres e para mulheres, que se foca na sua vida quotidiana. Pretende-se chegar a esta definio, por um lado, via anlise do discurso meditico e acadmico volta das obras mais populares e atravs de inquritos com leitores e leitoras, por outro lado. Assim, pomos em relevo o jogo que se desenvolve entre a crtica literria, que ocorre publicamente (revistas, programas televisivos, blogues), e a leitura, que se exerce num mbito privado e individual. Consideramos tambm como a crtica determina a leitura e em que medida a leitura e interpretao so atos isolados e pessoais. A pesquisa da qual resulta este artigo levou-nos s consideraes literrias de ndole mais geral, como, por exemplo, quem tem o poder de dizer o que a literatura? A quem cabe o privilgio de designar o valor duma obra literria?
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na busca por compreender a insero e participao de mulheres na poltica partidria na contemporaneidade que esta dissertao, situada na linha de pesquisa Culturas, Linguagens e Utopias, tem como objetivo analisar as narrativas de vereadoras de municpios que esto localizados na regio sul do Rio Grande do Sul no perodo de 2009-2012. O corpus de anlise constitui-se de entrevistas individuais semiestruturadas com as onze vereadoras participantes a partir da metodologia de investigao narrativa. Partindo das contribuies dos Estudos Culturais e de Gnero em suas vertentes ps-estruturalistas procurou-se problematizar alguns discursos e prticas que emergiram nas narrativas com base nas contribuies da anlise do discurso de Michel Foucault. Assim, verificou-se que a representao cultural das mulheres neste campo poltico est fundamentada em concepes essencialistas do gnero feminino como a sensibilidade. Isso vem provocando discusses na cincia poltica e nos estudos de gnero a partir de termos como poltica de ideias, poltica de desvelo que discutem a presena das mulheres em decorrncia ou no desses atributos. O fato que esses discursos vm instituindo diferenas na participao de homens e mulheres na poltica e constituindo formas de ser mulher na poltica partidria e de fazer poltica diferenciada das dos homens de forma menos dura, rgida. Ao debruar-se na insero das mulheres nessa esfera pblica constatou-se uma trajetria marcada pelas noes de pblico e privado que impediu ao longo de nossa histria a participao das mulheres no campo poltico e o desenvolvimento de sua cidadania. Alm disso, nas narrativas das vereadoras fica evidente que as mulheres no foram constitudas para participarem do que hoje um direito seu: a esfera pblica de deciso da poltica. Isso foi constatado a partir do convite que foi feito para a candidatura pelos partidos que a partir das cotas partidrias procuraram mais significativamente por mulheres para concorrer. Tambm se observou neste estudo o capital poltico de ingresso das mulheres nessa esfera: o capital familiar, capital dos movimentos sociais e capital de ocupao em cargos pblicos. Quanto a participao das mulheres no cotidiano de seus mandatos identificamos a dificuldade de ser mulher e poltica na atualidade. As negociaes com os partidos e os colegas, a conciliao entre a famlia e a vida pblica; os focos de atuao dedicados as reas sociais e nesse destacamos mais significativamente a educao. Por fim, o que pretendemos foi desconfiar da mxima lugar de mulher no na poltica e conhecer as trajetrias e histrias de mulheres que cotidianamente entre conflitos e disputas lutam pelo seu lugar na esfera pblica, pelo exerccio de sua cidadania.
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Using a postcolonial methodology within a German Cultural Studies framework, this thesis applies a close reading to Uwe Timms 1978 novel Morenga and Gerhard Seyfrieds 2003 novel Herero. Both novels narrate the colonial experience in German Southwest Africa during the 1904-1907 Herero and Nama uprising through the eyes of a German male protagonist. I investigate how notions of the other become ingrained in the collective cultural imaginary of a nation and manifest themselves as inherent truths used to justify methods of subjugation. I also examine the conflicts that arise due to the clash between these drastically different cultures in the contact zone, a term I borrow from Mary Louise Pratt. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the ways in which the natives use of mimicry allows for the creation of a cultural hybridity in which power relations are constantly negotiated and re-evaluated. I also problematize the difficulty both protagonists demonstrate in their quest to abandon the colonial gaze in favor of adopting a postcolonial perspective, an attempt that often appears ambivalent at best.
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Muitos so os estudos e ativismos que chamam a ateno para a necessidade de ampliar as investigaes e visibilidades de lsbicas na academia brasileira. Com vista a ampliar o conhecimento sobre essa populao, propomos com a dissertao O que sei, o que eu acho e o que me disseram: dilogos com jovens sobre lesbianidade, desenvolvida no Programa de Ps-graduao em Histria da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande/RS, interrogar, problematizar e compreender as representaes sobre a(s) lesbianidade(s) produzidas por cinco jovens de uma escola agrcola da regio sul do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A pesquisa, orientada pelos Estudos Culturais Lesbofeministas, produziu seus dados a partir da Etnografia ps-crtica, subsidiada pelas abordagens metodolgicas proporcionadas pelas rodas de conversas e anotaes no dirio de campo. Partindo das anlises dos dados, podemos apontar que as estudantes possuem vises e entendimentos conceituais a respeito da(s) lesbianidade(s) e que esses j possuem um posicionamento crtico frente forma como a mulher retratada na sociedade. Entretanto, podemos verificar que a temtica lesbianidade(s) no diferente da forma como as demais mulheres so retratadas na escola, que atravessada pela invisibilidade histrico-escolar ancora-se em representaes mediadas pela violncia, limitadas s relaes afetivo-sexuais e/ou dimenses domsticas e ntimas da sexualidade.
