The Media and Popular Culture

2004 ◽  
pp. 121-137
Author(s):  
Ken Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Media

Entertainment publics in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2098596
Author(s):  
Anna Cristina Pertierra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Media ◽  
Entertainment Television

Since the late 1980s, Filipino entertainment television has assumed and maintained a dominance in national popular culture, which expanded in the digital era. The media landscape into which digital technologies were launched in the Philippines was largely set in the wake of the 1986 popular movement and change of government referred to as the EDSA revolution: television stations that had been sequestered under martial law were turned over to family-dominated commercial enterprises, and entertainment media proliferated. Building upon the long development of entertainment industries in the Philippines, new social media encounters with entertainment content generate expanded and engaged publics whose formation continues to operate upon a foundation of televisual media. This article considers the particular role that entertainment media plays in the formation of publics in which comedic, melodramatic and celebrity-led content generates networks of followers, users and viewers whose loyalty produces various forms of capital, including in notable cases political capital.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF ALIENATION OF PEASANTS FROM THE LAND IN THE PERIOD FROM THE MID-1960s TO THE MID-1980s THROUGH THE PRISM OF “VILLAGE PROSE” WRITERS’ JOURNALISTIC WORKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-822
Author(s):  
D. V. Ivanchuk
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Agrarian Policy ◽  
Inferiority Complex ◽  
Centralized Planning ◽  
The Media

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of alienation of peasants from the land in the period from the mid-1960s to mid-1980s in the context of the agrarian policy carried out during these years. The analysis of the complex nature of this problem is given on the basis of the extensive material of journalistic works by “village prose” writers, on the basis of archival and other historical sources. The author identifies and studies reasons for the alienation of the peasantry from the land in those years, such as: further stateization, centralization and concentration of agricultural production; its centralized planning; introduction of guaranteed wages; negative impact from the media and popular culture; rural inferiority complex; lack of brides in the countryside; the policy of eliminating unpromising villages.

Celebrity Worship as Parareligion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pete Ward
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Supernatural Power ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Religious Elements

This chapter presents a study of celebrity worship in an attempt to clarify how popular culture can be like religion, although both remain categorically different. Most approaches to religion involve at least one of the following ideas: a belief in a supernatural power, the significance of religion to generate community life or some kind of church, or a divine power's influence on people's lives. Celebrity culture in almost all of these respects falls significantly short of what is required of a formal religion. Yet rather than dismissing celebrity worship as not religiously significant, it might be possible to cast new light on how, through the action of the media, and through the agency of audiences and fans, something like (and not like) religion is starting to emerge. The term for this is “parareligion.” Parareligion is based on the premise that celebrity worship is not a religion but has religious parallels. Parareligion suggests that religious elements are present but that they are presented ambiguously. These religious elements are often contradictory and open to a variety of different understandings.

Tourism, Popular Culture and the Media

2012 ◽  
pp. 98-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Long ◽  
Mike Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Media

Representations of Law, Rights, and Criminal Justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Machura
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media

Criminal justice and its institutions are key objects of popular culture and attract extensive media attention. The portrayal of the justice system, its rules, professions, and institutions has been invigorated with the invention of new media technology. The authorities’ reaction to wrong doing has proven not less exciting to the audience than the criminal acts themselves. French sociologist Emile Durkheim emphasized that every member of society has an interest in social cohesion and wishes to see perpetrators appropriately punished. The media plays to this basic inclination. From the reactions of the justice system to crime people take clues not only for its effectiveness but the public also wants to see its basic values represented in the work of officials and their decisions. Therefore, aspects of procedural and distributive justice are picked up by popular imagination and exploited to the full by media producers. Beyond recognition that media depictions of criminal justice will follow media conventions and will therefore be distorted in systematic ways, it has to be acknowledged that those representations and the expectations they formed have become a major force in society. Political repercussions and influences on how crime is dealt with are a consequence.

Imaging the Panthers: Representing Black Power and Masculinity, 1960s–1990s

Prospects ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 483-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Doss
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Sickle Cell ◽  
Sickle Cell Anemia ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Black Power Movement ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Generation

When the moviePantherpremiered in American theaters in May 1995, it introduced a whole new generation to the rhetoric and radical politics of the Black Panther Party of a quarter-century earlier. It also sparked fierce debate about Panther fact, Panther fiction, and the power of images. Former leftie David Horowitz, now the head of the neoconservative Center for Popular Culture in Los Angeles, took out an ad inDaily VarietycallingPanthera “two-hour lie.” Damning director Mario Van Peebles for glorifying the positive aspects of the black power movement — the children's breakfasts and sickle cell anemia tests the Panthers sponsored, for example — Horowitz warned that people “will die because of this film” and faxed a seven-page press release to the media condemning the Panthers as “cocaine-addicted gangsters who … committed hundreds of felonies.”

Media futures: Premediation and the politics of performative prototypes

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörgen Skågeby
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
Analytical Dimension ◽  
Problem Representations

For centuries our interest in the future has spurred more and less spectacular ideas of potential relationships between bodies, minds and media. Today, we are, perhaps more than ever, surrounded by imaginary media technologies. Through advertising and popular culture our desires for — and fears of — the media of the future are enticed. This paper explores how imaginary media technologies are used to conceive of a relationship between failure and solution and how this relation can be interpreted critically. Theoretically, the paper calls on the notion of performative prototypes and premediation to stress how imagined designs may influence actual technology development, use and imagined interaction. Further, based on the notion that technologies can be interpreted as policies frozen in silicon the paper applies a form of policy analysis which analyses the performative prototypes as so-called problem representations (i.e., as the relations between envisioned problems and imagined resolutions). Three specific cases of fictitious media futures are then used to propose an analytical dimension of speculative solutions. As a general conclusion, the paper points to how imagined technologies calls for a more rigorous discussion of the intentionality and morality of (designed and imagined) machinery; the emergence of cyborg subjectivity; and the normativity perpetuated by designs that potentially limit our imaginable future.

Power play: sport, the media and popular culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-605
Author(s):  
Amitava Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Power Play
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