Cultural Production Research Articles

“Hello, It’s Me, Auntie Netta! I am Calling from Abroad”: Aunties and Digital Diasporas in Nimmi Harasgama’s Online Performances

The structure of diaspora in the twenty-first century cannot be fully understood without due attention to how diasporic relations to home are mediated by digital technologies. I suggest we must look in the direction of diasporic cultural production that utilizes such technologies to better understand how postcolonial spatiality is unmistakably commensurate with digital diasporas, or advancements in communication technologies that foster new cartographies. This study posits that the campy embodiment of the auntie figure by the Sri Lankan actress Nimmi Harasgama on YouTube (2009–2015) re-imagines diasporic affiliations to home/s by locating and encapsulating diaspora within circuits of digital connectivity. Harasgama’s YouTube alter-ego “Auntie Netta,” is an asylum-seeking diasporic character whose itinerary is makeshift. However, her communication with her friend “Gladys” via Skype calls remains constant. Both beyond and through the jest abundant in these clips, the calls remain an anchor to Netta’s historical sense of self and signify an embodied mapping of the transnational subjecthood occupied by both Netta and her creator, Harasgama. Through a close analysis of Harasgama’s performance and complication of the familiar figure of the auntie, I suggest that the digital diaspora is necessarily configured and co-constructed by the diasporic body, nostalgic memory, and digital connectivity.

On listening to a Holocaust survivor (or not): a case study of Vera Karoly

ABSTRACT This article explores power relations in gathering Holocaust survivor life stories. Through the case study of Slovakian Jewish survivor, Vera Karoly, it asks whether her testimony was given or taken. Using Hank Greenspan’s work as its inspiration, it contemplates the various forms of testimony and cultural production that were produced relating to Vera. The author himself is part of that process and it includes a reflexive approach to how he confronted the Holocaust. The ethical issues raised when a Holocaust survivor is reluctant to give testimony are to the fore, analyzing in this case how it led to a form of counter-memorial to the (im)possibility of speaking about the Shoah.

Streaming Feminism: Women-centered Net Dramas, Global Television Culture, and Feminist Textual Possibilities

In this study, we investigate the influence of streaming platforms, with their relatively new industrial arrangements and relations with the media regulatory structure, on the cultural production of dramas in China. We focus on women-centered net dramas to demonstrate how feminist discourses found a place on streaming platforms, thereby opening up creative yet vulnerable textual possibilities for reflection on gender politics. We situate the production of these net dramas within the political economy and technological conditions of the streaming industry and further consider the implications of such mediated feminism for the pursuit of gender equality in China. Our examination of feminist discourses in streaming culture also resonates with the ongoing global transformation of cultural productions in the television industry.

Satisfaction with cultural attractions: interaction effect of tourists’ regulatory focus and cultural attractions’ interpretation tools

ABSTRACT Cultural attractions such as enjoying local performing arts or local cuisines are important components of cultural tourism. This study shows the influence of tourists’ regulatory focus on the satisfaction of cultural attractions. In addition, the study examines the interaction effect of tourists’ regulatory focus and cultural attractions’ interpretation tools on satisfaction. The result shows that promotion-focused people experience higher satisfaction from cultural attractions without interpretation aids than with interpretation aids. Additionally, we find that promotion-focused people experience surprise in cultural attractions without interpretation aids, leading to satisfaction. The findings show that tourist characteristics and cultural product characteristics have an interaction effect on cultural tourism satisfaction. The practical and theoretical implications of our findings are discussed.

Rural idyll in a global creative city: gentrification, cultural governance and creative placemaking

ABSTRACT This paper examines the on-the-ground process of creative city making in the Global South. It highlights the role of the state in the development of creative cities in the Chinese context, with a specific focus on how the state has instrumentalized arts and culture in remaking old villages into creative space. Through a case study of a state-led development project of an artist village in Shenzhen, it is revealed that the local government has devised a myriad of localized practices and strategies to realize the project of creating a print art cluster in a rambling peri-urban environment. State-led rural gentrification is co-opted to generate an idyllic rural landscape replete with heritage houses to attract artists to settle, while cultural governance is implemented to redefine rural aesthetics and discipline creative production and artist practices in the village. Our study unravels that cultural production and placemaking are significantly shaped by a dominant state in highly contingent ways and may lead to contingent outcomes. While state-led culture-oriented gentrification is often deployed to attract investment and develop real estate, it also functions as a creative placemaking strategy to develop public cultural projects, civilize the public, and rebrand the city as a global creative hub.

1980 SONRASI ÇAĞDAŞ TÜRK SANATINDA DİSİPLİNLERARASILIK VE DİSİPLİNLERAŞIRILIK

The coup of 1980 in Turkey was considered a negative impact of effective and long-term changes. Everything, including the historical process, political, economic, social and cultural phenomena, as well as street and art concepts, has been shaped before and after the 80s. The first half of the 80s became a period for Turkish art when works were published and bought and sold as commodities. After 1980, there was a major break in the field of visual arts, both in reviewing the subjects discussed and in the forms of creation. Artists who worked on the distribution of arbitrary border lines between political, economic, social or cultural products until the 80s gained a freer understanding of art in the 80s. With these understandings, after the 1990s, Turkish artists have signed practices that are open to diversity in art and are increasingly appreciated as interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. This diversity has been provided with opportunities in the interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary period in which the art environment has been cultivated along social and cultural mobility such as global production, freedom, technological developments and international markets. Expanding the interdisciplinary and extreme expressions of disciplines within the scope of the research and examining the selected examples in a more comprehensive manner, revealing the results that Bitcoin has created in the last period and afterwards. Keywords: Turkish Art, Interdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary

A Call for Integration: Innovative Application of Traditional Styles in the Design of Contemporary Cultural and Creative Products

A Call for Integration: Innovative Application of Traditional Styles in the Design of Contemporary Cultural and Creative Products

The Influence of AR on Purchase Intentions of Cultural Heritage Products: The TAM and Flow-Based Study

The Influence of AR on Purchase Intentions of Cultural Heritage Products: The TAM and Flow-Based Study

Using Of Artificial Intelligence In The Cultural And Creative Industries: A Public Administration Perspective

The purpose of this article is to explore the specific aspects of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in the cultural and creative industries from a public administration perspective. The article analyses the main opportunities and directions for incorporating AI into public management for the development of these sectors in Ukraine. It highlights that digital transformation, facilitated by AI technologies, requires adherence to structural-functional, informational-communicative, and organizational-technological approaches. These approaches ensure decentralization, modernization of information infrastructure, and optimization of management processes. The article outlines the prospects and directions for AI integration into public administration in the cultural and creative sectors in Ukraine. It identifies the main benefits of AI, such as the ability to analyse large volumes of data, predict trends, automate routine processes, and support informed decision-making. These benefits can enhance the quality and accessibility of cultural products and create new channels and consumption models. This includes applications like the digitization of cultural heritage, management of cultural institutions, and the creation of personalized experiences for visitors. The article also identifies potential risks associated with implementing AI in public administration for the cultural and creative industries in Ukraine. These risks include issues related to copyright protection, ethics, and transparency in decision-making. Despite the significant potential, the integration of AI in public administration is still in its early stages. It faces numerous challenges, such as a lack of clear methodological approaches and practical tools, as well as risks related to privacy, algorithm transparency, and employment impacts. The article emphasizes that using AI in creating creative products raises important considerations regarding the value-based foundations of the cultural and creative sectors. It transforms creativity from an individual to a collective endeavor, where the role of machine systems becomes comparable to that of humans. Additionally, the article proposes a refined definition of «creative industries» in Ukrainian legislation, considering the specificities of creating creative products with AI.

Race and Ethnicity in the Sociology of Cultural Production and Consumption

This review examines cultural production and consumption through the lens of race and ethnicity. Although the sociological study of race, ethnicity, and cultural production and consumption (RECPC) is growing, it is scattered across various subfields. This review aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how race and ethnicity intersect with cultural production and consumption by bringing this scholarship together. I discuss five dominant themes in the scholarship: classification, valuation and evaluation, representations, market outcomes, and cultural capital. The article concludes with implications for future sociological research on RECPC.

The Impact of Cultural and Creative Products Arising from Intangible Cultural Heritage on Economic Development: A Case Study of Ebian County, China

The Impact of Cultural and Creative Products Arising from Intangible Cultural Heritage on Economic Development: A Case Study of Ebian County, China

Strategies for the Development of Museum Creative and Cultural Industries through Industry-Education Integration

With the deepening of digital transformation and the upgrading of cultural consumption, the museum creative and cultural industry, as an important carrier for disseminating culture, is facing new opportunities and challenges. Today's public demand for cultural products is more diversified. To promote the sustainable development of the creative and cultural industry, museums and educational institutions should strengthen cooperation, making industry-education integration an inevitable trend for future development. In the specific development process, by meeting actual needs, cultivating professional talents, innovating products, and promoting the integration of industry, academia, research, and application, we can enhance cultural inheritance and innovation. The implementation of this strategy can effectively improve the core competitiveness of creative and cultural products, inherit and promote China's excellent traditional culture, and inject new vitality into the prosperity and development of the cultural industry. This paper first analyzes the role of industry-education integration in promoting the development of the museum creative and cultural industry, discusses the types of museum creative and cultural products, and then proposes feasible measures to achieve deep integration between the two, opening a new chapter of cultural innovation and inheritance.

The Historicization and Theorization of Spatial Ruin in Wounded Baghdad

Be it a consideration of the ruptured spatialities and urban forms of Baghdad in the present or reaching back into a volatile past, the city lives out arresting contradictions that beckon a different kind of understanding. Spatial woundedness carries within it many implications for how that pain is rendered. This is most visible in forms of cultural production that have settled the hurt exacted into a place of innovation. It is a full mutuality between architecture and the destruction that has violently defaced it so much so that a new image of urbanity begins to emerge. Beyond the agony felt by the capital, intellectualizing the spatial wound that has manifested and been given life as it were suggests a pressing need to comprehend this phenomenology. Historicizing and then theorizing what is a poetics of destruction assists in coming to comprehend not simply the features of an urban character necessarily born out of ruin but doing so against an orientalist narrative that seeks to entrench the Baghdadi space in perpetual liminality. The city fights back so that it may have a chance to survive but also creates lasting meaning between the real and unreal.

Three decades on the Chinese internet: Attention, authority, and cultural production

Three decades on the Chinese internet: Attention, authority, and cultural production

Research on the Application of Qufu Cultural and Creative Products Under Design Psychology

Research on the Application of Qufu Cultural and Creative Products Under Design Psychology

Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil

Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil

Methyl Jasmonate Elicitation Enhanced Biomass, Phenolic, and Flavonoid Production of Adventitious Root Culture of Gynura procumbens in Balloon Type Bubble Bioreactor

Methyl Jasmonate Elicitation Enhanced Biomass, Phenolic, and Flavonoid Production of Adventitious Root Culture of Gynura procumbens in Balloon Type Bubble Bioreactor

Between Understanding and Control: Science as a Cultural Product

AbstractSince the early days of humankind, people have been asking questions about Nature of two kinds: why did that happen? And how can that be used? In a broad sense, science was born that day. We show indeed that science has two complementary and interdependent souls that aim, respectively, to how to understand and how to control Nature. Through a broad historical analysis, this essay aims to (1) give an account of the development of science as an oscillation and an interplay between its two intrinsic natures, (2) demonstrate that this happened already in ancient times starting from the 6th century BC, and (3) the fact that in different periods one of the two natures was largely favored over the other is a consequence of science being a cultural product of the different social-historical contexts.

NEW CINEPHILIA TASTE: A STUDY ON ACADEMICS’ TASTE IN THE CASE OF NETFLIX TÜRKİYE AND MUBI TÜRKİYE

This study examines the views of cinema academics, which can be called ‘new cinephiles’ and ‘masters of symbolic taste,’ on MUBI and Netflix streaming platforms. In the theoretical part of the study, the boundaries of taste are first emphasized in cultural consumption. Then, the views on the formation of boundaries formed by the consumption of cultural products were emphasized. Categorical boundaries play an important role in cultural consumption, dividing art as popular or elite and individuals as high or low culture. Bourdieu’s cultural capital theory emphasizes how individuals with high cultural capital create class distinctions. Previous studies have shown that upper-middle-class individuals or ‘cultural omnivores’ tend to appreciate high and popular culture. With the emergence of digital platforms, these boundaries are being reconsidered. Research suggests that algorithmic recommendation systems on these platforms shape users’ tastes and potentially reinforce existing social and cultural divisions. This study used qualitative research methods and a phenomenological design to investigate the impact of viewing preferences and digital platforms on class divisions. The findings reveal that while these platforms increase access to a wide range of content, they reinforce class-based viewing practices. Characteristics of new cinephiles: Participants show a deep attachment to films and use various digital devices to watch them, suggesting a nuanced interplay between technology, cultural consumption, and social stratification.

Retraction: Spatio-Temporal analysis of exports of cultural products and their affecting factors for spatial distribution.

Retraction: Spatio-Temporal analysis of exports of cultural products and their affecting factors for spatial distribution.