Mediating The Nation
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Mediating the Nation
Author | : Mirca Madianou |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136611056 |
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What does it mean to watch two-hour long news programmes every evening? Why are some people 'addicted' to the news while others prefer to switch off? Television is an indispensable part of the fabric of modern life and this book investigates a facet of this process: its impact on the ways that we experience the political entity of the nation and our national and transnational identities. Drawing on anthropological, social and media theory and grounded on a two-year original ethnography of television news viewing in Athens, the book offers a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective in understanding the media/identity relationship. Starting from a perspective that examines identities as lived and as performed, the book follows the circulation of discourses about the nation and belonging and contrasts the articulation of identities at a local level with the discourses about the nation in the national television channels. The book asks: whether, and in what ways does television influence identity discourses and practices? When do people contest the official discourses about the nation and when do they rely on them? Do the media play a role in relation to inclusion and exclusion from public life, particularly in the case of minorities? The book presents a compelling account of the contradictory and ambivalent nature of national and transnational identities while developing a nuanced approach to media power. It is argued that although the media do not shape identities in a causal way, they do contribute in creating common communicative spaces which often catalyse feelings of belonging or exclusion. The book claims a place in the emerging sub-field of media anthropology and represents the new generation of audience research that places media consumption in the wider social, economic and political context.
The Mediating Nation
Author | : Nathaniel Cadle |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781469618463 |
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By the early twentieth century, as Woodrow Wilson would later declare, the United States had become both the literal embodiment of all the earth's peoples and a nation representing all other nations and cultures through its ethnic and cultural diversity. This idea of connection with all peoples, Nathaniel Cadle argues, allowed American literary writers to circulate their work internationally, in turn promoting American literature and also the nation itself. Reexamining the relationship between Progressivism and literary realism, Cadle demonstrates that the narratives constructed by American writers asserted a more active role for the United States in world affairs and helped to shift global influence from Europe to North America. From the novels of Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Abraham Cahan to the political and social writings of Woodrow Wilson and W. E. B. Du Bois, Cadle identifies a common global engagement through which realists and Progressives articulated a stronger and more active cultural, political, and social role for the United States.
The Mediating Nation
Author | : Nathaniel Cadle |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469618456 |
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Mediating Nation: Late American Realism, Globalization, and the Progressive State
Nation Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television
Author | : Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781317526247 |
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Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralised government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethnonationalism in Russia, which harks back to "old-fashioned" values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media.
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
Author | : Leith Davis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781316510810 |
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The first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, politics and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain.
Mediating the National
Author | : Marcia Butzel,Ana Lopez |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Motion pictures |
ISBN | : 3718605708 |
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First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Mediating Spaces
Author | : James M. Robertson |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2024-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780228021889 |
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Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, they pursued political sovereignty, economic development, and cultural modernization at a scale between the national and the global – from regional strategies of Balkan federalism to continental visions of European integration to the internationalist ambitions of the Non-Aligned Movement. In Mediating Spaces James Robertson offers an intellectual history of the diverse supranational politics of Yugoslav socialism, beginning with its birth in the 1870s and concluding with its violent collapse in the 1990s. Showcasing the ways in which socialists in Southeast Europe confronted the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of globalization, the book frames the evolution of supranational politics as a response to the shifting dynamics of global economic and geopolitical competition. Arguing that literature was a crucial vehicle for imagining new communities beyond the nation, Robertson analyzes the manuscripts, journals, and personal correspondence of the literary left to excavate the cultural geographies that animated Yugoslav socialism and its supranational horizons. The book ultimately illuminates the innovative strategies of cultural development used by socialist writers to challenge global asymmetries of power and prestige. Mediating Spaces reveals the full significance of supranationalism in the history of socialist thought, recovering a key concern for an era of renewed geopolitical contestation in Eastern Europe.
Mediating Languages and Cultures
Author | : Dieter Buttjes,Michael Byram |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1853590703 |
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The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience