Postmodern media studies: Analysis or symptom?

Harms, John; Dickens, David R.

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“…Within media and cultural studies, ethnography was seen by some as an important antidote to growing concerns that theoretical and political discussions regarding the effects of media on the lives of their audiences lacked substantive foundation in empirical evidence (e.g. Ang 1985;Gillespie 1989;Gray 1987;Harms and Dickens 1996;Morley 1986). However, lacking a 'village' of media audience members that they might easily arrive in and depart from, researchers sought to reconfigure ethnographic methods in order to apply them to the specific questions they were investigating.…”

Section: Shifting Foundations Of Ethnographic Practicementioning

confidence: 98%

Transnational Ethnographies and Anthropological Imaginings of Migrancy

Wilding¹

2007

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Section: Shifting Foundations Of Ethnographic Practicementioning

confidence: 98%

Transnational Ethnographies and Anthropological Imaginings of Migrancy

Wilding¹

2007

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…In this sense, we apply Lévi-Strauss’ (1962) understanding of totemism to investigate Brazilian women’s magazines with the purpose to explore this theoretical framework as a path for investigating the meanings of their narratives and their relation to consumption. Specifically, the relevance of this work is in demonstrating the existence of certain “islands” of permanency despite the dominant ideology of change and acceleration of time that media productions exhibit and diverse authors discuss as an important feature of contemporary culture, largely associated with global networks of consumption, mass communication, and information technologies (Harms and Dickens, 1996; Jameson, 1998; Lipovetsky, 2009; Tomlinson, 2007).…”

Section: Brazilian Culture and The Image Of Womenmentioning

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Classified beauty: Goods and bodies in Brazilian women’s magazines

Rocha

Frid

2016

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This article analyzes women's images in Brazilian magazines aiming to understand the logic behind the construction of notions of female beauty, health, and wellbeing. More precisely, it investigates how magazines associate an extensive array of goods to women's bodies, sustaining a permanent logic of consumption. At the explicit level of images, magazines express novelty, promote innovations, and offer ever-new possibilities for readers to accomplish strong, slim, and forever young bodies. However, the analysis suggests the existence and operation of an underlying recurrent pattern that intends to classify products and services according to female body fragments in a process analogous to the system known as totemism. Finally, this work indicates that the ideological project of magazines is to create an unreachable woman model forever translated into consumer goods.

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“…A series of profound changes to the time and space of everyday life mark the postmodern era. Postmodern cultures are “characterized first and foremost by mass mediated experiences and new cultural forms of expression” (Harms and Dickens 1996, 211). More specifically, Jameson (1991, 18) described postmodern culture as a world of pastiche “transformed into sheer images of itself.” Everyday life is increasingly mediated via technology and tele-visuality dominated by what Baudrillard (1988) referred to as the hyperreality of simulated images.…”

Section: Postmodern Ethnography Of Everyday Life: Boundary-less Placementioning

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The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur and the Study of Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life

Soukup

2012

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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The saturation of mediated communication in contemporary cultural life demands that ethnographers develop alternative methods of social research. I argue that they should embrace the mobilized gaze of the flaneur to understand how postmodern, mediated experiences fit into everyday cultural practices. I also offer a number of recommendations that can guide ethnographers as they examine hyper-mediated cultural contexts. These recommendations include (1) embrace the emergent, fleeting moment; (2) think dialectically about culture; (3) represent the postmodern in “writing” culture; (4) conceptualize ethnography as partial, subjective, and self-reflexive; and (5) embrace the semiotic tradition. By adopting the methodological practices of flanerie, ethnographers can provide compelling and evocative analyses of postmodern culture that make sense of the complex cultural moment.

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Postmodern media studies: Analysis or symptom?

Cited by 32 publications

References 17 publications

Transnational Ethnographies and Anthropological Imaginings of Migrancy

Transnational Ethnographies and Anthropological Imaginings of Migrancy

Classified beauty: Goods and bodies in Brazilian women’s magazines

The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur and the Study of Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life

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