Age Of New Media Research Articles

Essentializing Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath: Dmitry Krymov's Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It), Matías Piñeiro's Viola, and Annie Dorsen's Piece of Work: A Machine-Made Hamlet

This essay demonstrates that some of the more venturous reenactments of Shakespeare undertaken in the age of new media may productively range from the most basic, foundational forms of theatrical presentation to nonrepresentational forms of postdramatic, indeed, posthuman expression. These stagings exploit the multiplicity of approaches available in the Shakespeare aftermath—as much a state of consciousness or awareness as a temporal condition, in which all things Shakespearean are always already present and available for reenactments, adaptations, or appropriations reflectively grounded on avowed Shakespearean precedents. Dmitry Krymov’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (As You Like It) (2012) and Matias Pineiro’s Viola (2012), a filmic spin on Twelfth Night , radically displace Shakespeare’s playtexts and plots while generating vital lines of engagement with their core concerns. Krymov and Pineiro displace their “originals” in productions that are themselves arguably original. More projective than retrospective, constructive than reconstructive, they suggest that difference-making reproduction may offer a more promising road forward to sustaining the “essence” of long-established plays than do more expressly faithful but difference-deadening productions. Annie Dorsen’s algorithmically generated A Piece of Work: A Machine-Made Hamlet (2013) offers a more determinedly radical project of disassembly, disintegration, and serial (re)production. Dorsen’s deconstructive methodology largely consists of the projection and vocalization of verbal montages drawn from Hamlet that are so maddeningly methodized as to be rendered largely incomprehensible. Dorsen’s replacement of human agency, human presence, and dramatic interaction by posthuman agency, digital projection, and affectless vocalization in all but one corner of her Piece of Work may well be dismissed as an experiment that fails to merit replication. But the project’s capacity to generate an endless succession of new Hamlet texts after the one we thought we had always already known makes it a powerfully emergent model of Shakespearean stagings to come.

Gazetecilik Emeğinin Prekarizasyonu: Yeni Medya Çağında Habercilik Etiğini Tartışmak

Gazetecilik Emeğinin Prekarizasyonu: Yeni Medya Çağında Habercilik Etiğini Tartışmak

To the Statement of the Problem of Mortality in the Age of New Media

This article is devoted to the problem of mortality in the context of developing new media environment. Global digitalization of the world can be observed in all that is connected with the human, including death. In the changing technological conditions, the modern user of the Internet and gadgets regularly faces some new qualities and expressions of mortality, which often surprise, become the subject of wide public discussion and illustrate the lack of intellectual reflection. However, the transformation of this phenomenon still remains understood incompletely and requires a scientific understanding in terms of different humanitarian disciplines, one of which, undoubtedly, should be philosophy, that can be useful in the implementation of modern technological practices. The author outlines the problem field and defines several main vectors of the further study. Among the vectors, there are the transformation of mourning rituals under the influence of new media and the specifics of online memorialization, the legal practices and the necessity to revise them in the new reality, the ethical problems associated with the changes in the status of privacy and taboo of death, the psychological and other aspects, in the light of which the phenomenon of mortality should be considered in the digital era.

Digital Transcendentalism in David Mitchell’s <em>Cloud Atlas</em>

life of man is a self evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles (1841)1All the great books in the world are but the mutilated shadowings-forth of invisible and eternally unembodied images of the soul.-Herman Melville, Pierre (1852)2Near the end of The First Luisa Rey one of six largely separate stories that make up David Mitchell's 2004 novel Cloud Atlas, an antinuclear activist named Margo Roker awakens from a coma at the precise moment when Bill Smoke, the hired thug who beat her into that coma months before, is shot and killed in another part of the city. Punctuating the expected, and gratifying, poetic justice of the hit man Bill Smoke's death and the revival of his innocent victim is, less expectedly, a recitation of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1857 poem Brahma. time of these narrated events is marked twice in concurrent sections so readers understand that the figurative rebirth of Margo Roker and the death of Bill Smoke occur simultaneously during the reading of Brahma. As Margo lays in her hospital bed comatose, Hester Van Zandt, another antinuclear activist, reads the poem aloud to her. Hester is interrupted when Margo regains consciousness; nonetheless, the first three stanzas are completed at the bedside of the victim:If the red slayer think he slays,Or if the slain think he is slainThey know not well the subtle waysI keep, and pass, and turn again.Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanish'd gods to me appear;And one to me are shame or fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, lam the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.1Emerson's poem functions at this point in Cloud Atlas as an emblem of poetic justice, each stanza enlarging comprehension and perspective, moving beyond human figures (slayer and slain) and categories of perception (distance, shadow, and vision) to surpass even fundamental conceptual categories themselves. As will become clear in the argument to follow, dramatizes particularly well the novel's own ambition for innovative brands of narrative comprehensiveness. Of course, we might be tempted to circumscribe the kind of gimmicky, mystical, causality that has slayer and slain linked instantaneously in a kind of cosmic entanglement to the demands of Mitchell's imitated genre, the thriller a la Dan Brown or Tom Clancy.4 quick terse prose of the Mystery, written in a style suggesting such popular fiction, prioritizes kinetic movement and plot coincidence over deep characterization and formal experimentation. This might lead one to argue that Emerson's transcendent, comprehensive figure of Brahma merely lends high literary gloss to the vulgar poetic justice via surprising coincidence that is virtually de rigueur for this type of genre fiction (and indeed proves central to solving the Luisa Rey mystery). But the karmic entanglement and cosmic comprehension that Brahma names extend beyond the Luisa Rey chapters and can be seen to undergird the entire structure of Mitchell's novel, and this despite the fact that the other five stories are written in different settings and styles that do not, with respect to genre, necessitate such narrative shape or resolution.I will argue in what follows that David Mitchell's novels, particularly Cloud Atlas, express a notable brand of contemporary transcendentalism linked to new media forms that I will call digital transcendentalism. Mitchell's formally ambitious and innovative novels, this is to say, possess features relevant to accounts of recent shifts in contemporary literary production-for instance, as a means of understanding the place of the novel in the age of ubiquitous new media and of literature's role in the persistence of religion (both weak and fundamentalist) in the contemporary period, giving rise to descriptions of the present as a postsecular age. …

The Writing Exercise: An Autoethnographic Short Story

This paper is an autoethnography about writing as a form of communication in the age of new media.

The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media

The article offers a comparative overview of the diverging courses of the canon debate in Anglophone and Germanophone contexts. While the Anglophone canon debate has focused on the politics of canon composition, the Germanophone debate has been more concerned with the malleability and mediality of the canon. In a development that has largely gone unnoticed outside German-speaking countries, new approaches to discussing current and future processes of canonization have been developed in recent years. One pivotal element of this process has been a thorough reevaluation of new media as a touchstone for both defining literature in the digital age and inquiring into the mechanisms of contemporary canon formation. The article thus aims at introducing the Germanophone approach to canon developed in recent years and its results to a larger scholarly community.

Leaving work at work: a balanced, compassionate, separate home life.

We all know it's important to keep our work and home lives separate, but in an age of new media, of being constantly 'on', how can we do this in practice? These issues are even more acute for nurses, argues Aysha Mendes, since the emotional nature of their work makes 'switching off' all the harder.

Construction of autonomous-interactive mode about how to cultivate the values of medical students in the age of new media

Currently, the widespread use of new media challenges ideological and political education among the medical students. The study explores the effects on medical students' values by new media on the basis of analyzing its characteristics, including communication space, information, subject and route. In addition, the study analyzes the mode's theoretical construction and practical operation from these aspects: the mode's connotation, operation mechanism, the characteristics and practical application. Key words: New media; Medical students; Values; Autonomous-interactive

Communication and Audience in the Age of New Media: Exploring Psychosocial Interfaces for Effectiveness

In all communication situations, the audience remains the cardinal component of the communicating process. For efficiency, the communicator must seek to embrace the psychological and sociological embodiments of the audience. This is to engender completeness of the communication process, leading to an intended feedback. Fortunately and conversely, the emergence and intrusion of new media, has ultimately altered structures of the conventional media audiences. In the new media age, there are changing faces of communication audiences. This research was investigated to access, the size, location, exposure, perception of print media contents as well as their feedbacks within the psychological and sociological frames of these changing audiences in this emerging new media age. Based on the above realism, this research uses explanatory mixed method to study the reading audiences of Nigerian print media in Enugu State, which was researched as the population of study. Following the specific articulated research objectives, hypothetical statement was framed as a way of testing statistical significance of collected research data, and tested with chi-square statistical tool. Evidence from research data indicates that with the intrusion of communication technology that is advancing, the number of reading audiences in the age of the new media is increasing geometrically. This is premised on the fact that most readers do not buy newspapers, but read the online editions. The researchers concluded that mass communication audiences have been altered in terms of their sizes, location, access and exposure patterns as well as perception, as communication contents are being migrated to the new media environment. Accordingly, the researchers recommended, among other things that as the new media have created an immediate feedback mechanism for the changing media audience, all conventionally mass media structures are strongly enjoined to migrate fully into the new media environment, so as to take care of emerging and diversifying audiences. Keywords: Communication, Audience, Age, New Media, Psychosocial, Effectiveness

The Passion of the Digital: the Ontology of the Photographic Image in the Age of New Media

Using Mel Gibson’s 2004 film and cultural phenomenonThe Passion of the Christas a launching pad, this essay meditates on some questions about the twentieth century legacy of competing realisms, the graphic imperative of contemporary digital image cultures, and the ontological conundrums involving technology and mass media.Passionis an onto-theological filmic ‘event’ that derives equally from an almighty religiosity as well as a cultish process of being enraptured by certain ritual values of a new-age technologism of sound and image. This endographic writing out of the Gospel narrative at the level of the tissue and nerve of the committed viewer affirms a transcendental truth already there in an internal cosmos of belief instead of working in terms of an externally navigable ‘realist’ representation of the world that seeks to ‘bear away our faith’. This is rendered possible when unquestioning belief in Christ and in his momentous sacrifice is met by an embracing of technologywithout the skepticism of a scientific temper.

Digital Facsimiles and the Modern Viewer: Medieval Manuscripts and Archival Practice in the Age of New Media

AbstractThrough an engagement with theory from the fields of art history, anthropology, and sociology, this article examines the archival existence of medieval manuscripts and facilitates an understanding of archival practice and its effects on user experience from the perspective of the researcher, rather than from that of the archivist or information professional. In an exploration of notions of materiality and virtuality, the author addresses the material and institutional existence of medieval manuscripts and traces the evolution of the facsimile as a solution to problems of access. Within this framework, the various altered engagements with manuscripts in physical and digital form are assessed in order to establish the costs and benefits of virtuality. The roles of new technologies that produce high-quality facsimiles are investigated through theories of (re)presentation with respect to visual materials, including images and historical text.

Het einde van de literatuur?

Abstract Rejecting internal analyses of the end of literature like the one by William Marx, the article argues that in order to assess the current position of literature an external scope is paramount. The book market seems to be the proper context to analyze the phenomenon literature. On the basis of recent research on literary institutions and using the latest data concerning trends in the book market, it is shown that the selling of books in the Netherlands has decreased significantly, and, moreover, that the function and use of literature in the age of new media has changed considerably. Yet, allegations vis-à-vis the market having marginalized literature and the predominance of a media-driven mass culture can easily lead to unfounded presentism. It is argued that the perspective might be reversed by looking at the literary past from the 19th century onwards as a period in which market, commercial drives and media culture came to the fore as well. This approach may result in a more encompassing attention to the societal embeddedness of literary culture, past and present.

Book review: Christian R Hoffman (ed.), Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of New Media

Book review: Christian R Hoffman (ed.), <i>Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of New Media</i>

Leveraging new media applications in response to public opinions: the Chinese county governments' performance

The age of new media brings new challenges and opportunities to governments in their responses to public opinions. This study aims at exploring the relationship between Chinese county governments' handling of public opinions and the governments' use of new media platforms, so as to understand the Chinese county governments' handling of public opinions and public sentiments in the wake of emergencies or crises. This study performed text mining on data collected from online sources of news websites and Weibo, the Chinese microblogging services. We also attempted to explore the county governments' usage of the popular mobile social network platform WeChat. Correlation analysis and cluster analysis were conducted on the governments' handling of public opinions in emergency events and the governments' usage of new media platforms. Relationships among the number of microblog postings regarding the counties of interest, the handling of public opinions by the county governments and the governments' information disclosure performance were identified. The relationship with information disclosure was especially enlightening.

Visual Victorians: Response

as i undertook my assigned task of acting as a kind of scholarly sleuth or scout at the most recent meeting of the north american victorian studies association, i found myself reflecting on the sensual experiences of conferences: a swirl of words and ideas, tastes, sounds, sights, and spectacles. in short, academic meetings like those that occurred in Pasadena, california in october 2013 function simultaneously as opportunities for exchange and debate and feasts for the senses, spaces in which we rely not just on our intellectual capacities and auditory capabilities but also, for those of us who possess it, the ability to see. two developments in recent years have, in fact, furthered this notion that conferences are increasingly visual experiences: the growing use of PowerPoint presentations and the proliferation of studies of visual culture, not only by art historians but also by those who identify professionally, first and foremost, as historians or literary critics. as i contemplated the program in anticipation of the task set before me, i found myself thinking not only about the theme of the conference—“evidence”—but also about the different ways in which scholars now communicate their ideas and showcase their most compelling sources. the turn toward the visual that now characterizes many academic disciplines is transforming various aspects of humanistic inquiry in ways that mimic, at least in part, the transformations experienced by victorian subjects as they began to engage more fully with the emerging visual culture of the nineteenth century. one need not probe very deeply to find interesting areas of overlap. Just as the nineteenth century, with its reliance on new technologies of reproduction and projection, was defined (to borrow from Walter Benjamin) as an age of mechanical reproduction, the past twenty years have come to be known as an age of new media in which the computer literate have at their fingertips a virtually limitless supply of internet-based visual material. similarly, the transformations of

Changes in the pattern of programmes in contemporary Chinese radio: Helping each other in Beijing: A case study

Abstract Since the 1980s big changes have been taking place in the character of China’s radio programmes. Radio’s role has changed, from a propaganda tool of the government to a medium seeking to meet the multifarious needs of its listeners. Under the ‘socialist market economy’ which was introduced in 1992, radio in China has become unashamedly market oriented. Its funding has moved from a complete dependency on the public purse to the independent pursuit of profit. With the aid of digital technology, the traditional forms of programming, which were dominated by a culture of writing and reading, have also been transformed into ones which involve audience interaction. This article is a case study of Helping Each Other in Beijing, a programme for the elderly which is broadcast on the public service frequency of Radio Beijing. It analyses the concept of the programme, its content, its interaction with the audience and the style of its presentation. In this fiercely competitive age of new media and globalization, it illustrates how Chinese broadcasters are developing a new programming philosophy, how they are developing a new relationship with the audience and how they are fashioning a new media image.

뉴 미디어 시대의 매체예술적 공간 상호작용 특성 연구

뉴 미디어 시대의 매체예술적 공간 상호작용 특성 연구

Virtual stewardship in the age of new media: have nonprofit organizations' moved beyond Web 1.0 strategies?

Stewardship has been identified as an important relationship cultivation strategy. The four dimensions of stewardship—reciprocity, responsibility, reporting, and relationship nurturing—consist of one‐way and two‐way messaging strategies that can be carried out in a variety of manners on the Internet using both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 technologies. Through a content analysis of the Nonprofit Times 100 organizations, this study found that nonprofit organizations overwhelmingly prefer to use their website to cultivate relationships with their stakeholders with stewardship strategies. Despite the hype of social media technologies, including Facebook, there remain many significant questions and obstacles to seeing nonprofits truly embrace social media communication.Copyright © 2013 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Book review: Christian R Hoffmann (ed.), Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of New Media

Book review: Christian R Hoffmann (ed.), <i>Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of New Media</i>

Culturing Food: Bioart and In Vitro Meat

In a 1961 essay, Roland Barthes argues that a central feature of modernity is the proliferation of ‘social situations’ in which food serves not just to nourish bodies but to communicate identities ...