scholarly journals Corpo, oralidade e letramento na cidade contemporânea: materialidades e construções simbólicas

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
José Cardoso Ferrão Neto
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Processing Regimes

O artigo é uma reflexão sobre o corpo, como suporte material dos meios e modos de comunicação e sua inserção na paisagem urbana. A partir de um trabalho de campo baseado na observação participante da presença do homem e seus media, em uma das ruas mais movimentadas do centro do Rio de Janeiro contemporâneo, descortinam-se práticas sociais e representações ligadas aos diferentes regimes de processamento da informação, a oralidade e o letramento. As performances públicas, onde se dá o intercâmbio material e simbólico, ainda revelam a relação orgânica do corpo com as tecnologias, que estendem os sentidos e constroem ricas e variadas teias de remediação do tempo, do espaço e da memória. **************************************************** ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on body as a material support for the media and the modes of communication and its insertion into urban landscape. From a field work based on participant observation of the presence of man and their media in one of the most bustling streets of contemporary downtown Rio de Janeiro, social practices and representations are unveiled, related to different information processing regimes, orality and literacy. The public performances, where material and symbolic interchange takes place, still reveal the organic relation between the body and its technologies that extend the senses and build up rich and varied remediation webs of time, space and memory.

scholarly journals The Politics of Gendered Spatializations: A Study of Cityscapes in Manu Joseph’s Novels

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Parvathi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Image ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Burton Pike (1981) terms the cityscapes represented in literature as word-cities whose depiction captures the spatial significance evoked by the city-image and simultaneously, articulates the social psychology of its inhabitants (pp. 243). This intertwining of the social and the spatial animates the concept of spatiality, which informs the positionality of urban subjects, (be it the verticality of the city or the horizonality of the landscape) and determines their standpoint (Keith and Pile, 1993). The spatial politics underlying cityscapes, thus, determine the modes of social production of sexed corporeality. In turn, the body as a cultural product modifies and reinscribes the urban landscape according to its changing demographic needs. The dialectic relationship between the city and the bodies embedded in them orient familial, social, and sexual relations and inform the discursive practices underlying the division of urban spaces into public and private domains. The geographical and social positioning of the bodies within the paradigm of the public/private binary regulates the process of individuation of the bodies into subjects. The distinction between the public and the private is deeply rooted in spatial practices that isolate a private sphere of domestic, embodied activity from the putatively disembodied political, public sphere. Historically, women have been treated as private and embodied and the politics of the demarcated spaces are employed to control and limit women’s mobility. This gendered politics underlying the situating practices apropos public and private spaces inform the representations of space in literary texts. Manu Joseph’s novels, Serious Men (2010) and The Illicit Happiness of Other People (2012), are situated in the word-cities of Mumbai and Chennai respectively whose urban spaces are structured by such spatial practices underlying the politics of location. The paper attempts to problematize the nature of gendered spatializations informing the location of characters in Serious Men and The Illicit Happiness of Other People.

scholarly journals Sociology and Sport, the Analysis of Social Grounds Affecting the Tendency of Citizens Toward the Public Sport in Iran: Case Study: the City of Kerman in 2020

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
alireza sanatkhah
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
The Body ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
The Public ◽  
Path Diagram ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

The present study has been done using the Survey Research. The research sample scale equals 400 people, besides its statistical population is included the 15-year population and most of the city of Kerman in 2020. The method of multistage-cluster-stratified sampling was used in five districts of the city of Kerman, moreover the results have been analyzed by SPSS and AMOSS16 software, and only is one model fitted with reality among five models of designed path. The results of analysis of path diagram indicate that other coefficients of the path all of them are significant except the direct impact of one's image of the body on sport-based cultural capital and social class on the tendency toward the public sport. Other results of the study suggest that sport-based socio-economic capital leaves an indirect effect on sport-based cultural capital by which the tendency of citizens toward the sport grows up. At that showing athletic advertisements in the media are effective on the tendency of citizens to public sport.

scholarly journals Methodological Proposal to Study the Uses and Appropriations of Unfinished Estates: A View from Vizela, Portugal

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Rui Pereira ◽  
João Sarmento
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Private Domain ◽  
Social Uses

Contemporary urbanity is marked by the presence of abandonment, ruins, and voids. Over the last decades, the model of urban development in Portugal allowed a discontinuous city expansion that has left many plots and spaces empty. Due to interrupted urbanization processes, urban developments suspended in time and space have progressively degraded, constituting nowadays new forms of non-historical ruins and a significant part of the urban landscape. However, these semi constructed buildings, are not only structures made of brick and mortar, but commonly the object of several and distinct appropriations and social uses. In order to explore the socio-cultural meanings of these ruinous constructions, their social life and their material and symbolic transformation, this paper puts forward a methodology, based on systematic ethnographic observation and detailed field work. Furthermore, it applies this methodology to a case study—an unfinished project in the city of Vizela, Portugal, for which fieldwork was carried out during 2017 and 2018. The paper ends up highlighting a political challenge in planning the contemporary city, towards the need to overcome a conventional dichotomy between the usage rights of the public and private domain.

A Feminist Peep into Public Art in India’s Northeast

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
Samhita Barooah
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Based on participant observation, symbolic interactionism and feminist analysis of diverse art forms available in the public domain, the article focuses on the stereotyped notion of masculinity, which gets projected into the urban landscape of modern cities in Northeast India. It takes a critical stance on some of the prominent mascots, symbols and identities which are attached to products, services and ideologies predominantly rooted in patriarchy and gender-based discrimination. The observations shared in the article are drawn from the researcher’s field experiences and do not hold any offence to any particular agency, group, denomination or individual. It attempts to bring forth a subaltern narrative which is gradually getting erased from public memory from a queer feminist lens of locating oneself in a public space. It also questions the gender-normative imagination of modern India, which is rapidly engulfing all forms of diversity into its monoculture of development.

scholarly journals Persuazivnost medija i medijski efekti na pojedinca i publiku

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Samir Ljajić ◽  
◽  
Milan Dojčinović
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Spiral Of Silence ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
The Spiral Of Silence

The power of the media and the persuasive properties of the “seventh force” have always intrigued the public, as well as media theorists, sociologists, psycholo- gists and even physicians, who have investigated the influence of media content on hormone levels in the body or bodily deviations due to excessive use of media. In this paper, the effects of the media on individuals and the audience are sublimated through some of the most famous media theories, seeking support in the field of media psychology and social psychology. The persuasive impact of the media is described through the agenda setting theory and the theory of the spiral of silence, observing the effects of these theories, from printed to digital media. The paper also emphasizes the influence of the media through the decor and mise-en-scène in the TV studio, through advertising, market consumerism, and the importance of the information avalanche for the persuasive action of the media.

scholarly journals Leisure, Work and Memory in Parque do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-218
Author(s):  
Euler David de Siqueira ◽  
◽  
Joana da Silva Castro Santos ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
Body Techniques ◽  
Interpretative Approach

The main goal of this work is to understand the different uses and social practices expressed in Parque do Flamengo [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil], a World Heritage Site since 2012. Much more than just a leisure space, disputes and tensions are also manifested in Aterro do Flamengo. Sports, commercial, educational, recreational, spiritual and medicinal practices inscribe in this site different logics as well as different memories and body techniques. In the practices of work, sporting and commemorative that were observed in 2018, the body appears as a place of memory. In our analysis, we used a hermeneutic-interpretative approach and a relational anthropological look. The methodology used in this work, has a qualitative nature and makes use of bibliographic and fieldwork research and also photography.

scholarly journals Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana students' understanding of public relations profession: A phenomenology

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 650
Author(s):  
Nadia Parastiwi ◽  
Rini Darmastuti
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public Relation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S

There have been various definitions of the Public Relation profession related to its purposes since its birth in the 1960s. The current research investigated is the meaning of the Public Relations profession for Public Relations students at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana who, in the future, would work as Public Relations. This research was conducted using qualitative methods and a phenomenological approach. Three findings were presented in this article. First, the construction of the Public Relation profession depends on the body of knowledge, the ability to communicate and build relationships with the community, be creative, and have an attractive appearance. Second, the meaning of the Public Relation profession is constructed based on four references, namely the media and the surrounding community, materials and classes in higher education, from practitioners and developments in information technology. Third, the construction of the identity of the Public Relations profession through online shopping to improve self-image, obtain information on fashion developments, and the ability to select products selectively.

scholarly journals Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL): Essential Infrastructure and Edible Ornament

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
Andre Viljoen ◽  
Katrin Bohn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The Body ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
The Public ◽  
Coherent Integration

This paper defines Continuous Productive Urban Landscape (CPUL) as a strategy for the coherent integration of urban agriculture into urban space planning. The case is made for considering urban agriculture as an essential element of sustainable infrastructure. Recent and historic arguments are used to support the qualitative and quantifiable advantages of introducing urban agriculture into contemporary open urban space design. The body of the paper focuses on design issues related to the placing and perception of CPUL and urban agriculture. It draws on primary research undertaken in Cuba, considering Cuba as a laboratory for design research into urban agriculture. Design studies by the authors are used to demonstrate the viability and physical manifestation of urban agriculture within a Continuous Productive Urban Landscape. The paper proposes that, while an environmental and design case can be made for the integration of urban agriculture, planners and designers need to explore the public perception of productive landscape if its full potential is to be realized. The idea that urban agriculture can be read as “ornament” is discussed with reference to the writing of British artist Tom Phillips. Contemporary cultural/artistic practice is referred to as a means for exploring and communicating ideas related to productive urban landscapes. The paper concludes with new research findings related to the public perception of open urban space based on the Havana CPUL design research project “Finding Parque Lenin”.

scholarly journals Learning global journalism: A course on journalism on developing countries in Africa and the Finnish freelance journalism market

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Jaana Hujanen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Field Trip ◽  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Experience Based Learning ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
The Media ◽  
Journalism Students

A group of Finnish journalism students travelled to Zambia, Africa in November 2007. The field trip was a culmination for a course in journalism on developing  countries. The starting points reflected the practices and models of the research-based approach to learning. The role of the students was twofold: they were students as well as journalists. The aims were, to deepen the students’ understanding of current issues in developing countries, their visibility and treatment in the media and of actors in development cooperation and to produce journalism on developing countries for the domestic media. In this article, first, the students’ views on what they consider as good  journalism on developing countries, based on the observations they made during their trip, is analysed. Secondly, the students’  experiences on what they learned about journalism practices on developing countries during their writing processes are analysed, and also their observations on the ideals and practices of freelance journalism when selling their own stories. The data analysed includes participant-observation from the field trip in Zambia and qualitative research interviews conducted with the students after the trip. The article highlights the importance of students’ own role in directing their field work, involving goal setting, questioning and self-evaluation of the knowledge gained. It also sheds light on how research and experience-based learning in a developing country and an unfamiliar culture can contribute to a comprehensive way of learning. In this case alternative ideas how issues about developing countries could be evaluated and represented in western local and national media.

scholarly journals A Questão da Presença na Filosofia e nas Artes Cênicas

Ouvirouver ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Renato Ferracini ◽  
Charles Feitosa
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
The Body ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
General Audience ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moving Bodies

No espetáculo ao vivo o corpo do espectador parece se sintonizar com a distribuição de energia provocada por outros corpos em movimento. Pode-se dizer que o público dança com o performer, sente a vertigem dos movimentos, balança no mesmo ritmo, mesmo sem se movimentar na cadeira. Os recursos técnicos do vídeo, cinema ou computador, ao contrário, fazem com que o senso de esforço do ator ou performer seja distorcido, transmitindo frequentemente uma impressão de espontaneidade em cada gesto. A respiração ofegante, o suor, os erros e os riscos da performance ao vivo acabam por ser eliminados após a edição. A transformação do corpo fluido ao vivo para o corpo exposto na tela passa por uma série de mediações e distanciamentos, que implicam em uma redução das possibilidades de percepção do movimento. O objetivo da mesa é refletir sobre os limites e possibilidades do conceito de “presença cênica” na filosofia, no teatro e nas artes contemporâneas da performance, enfatizando as transformações mediáticas e tecnológicas das relações entre corpo, tempo e espaço, tanto do artista em cena, como dos objetos ao redor, como ainda do público em geral. ABSTRACT In the live performance the body of the viewer seems to tune into the energy distribution caused by other moving bodies. It can be said that the public dance with the performer, feel the vertigo of motion, balance at the same pace, even without moving the chair. The technical features of video, film or computer instead distort the sense of the actor's effort, often conveying a spontaneous impression in every gesture. The panting, sweat, errors and risks of live performance end up being eliminated after editing. The transformation of live body fluid to the body exposed on the screen passes through a series of mediations and differences that imply a reduction in perception of movement possibilities. The purpose of the round-table is to reflect on the limits and possibilities of the concept of "stage presence" in philosophy, theater and contemporary arts of performance, emphasizing the media and technological transformation of the relationship between body, space and time, both the artist on the scene as the objects around, but also the general audience. KEYWORDS Template, referencing, sources.

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