The Performance of Cultural Citizenship: Audiences and the Politics of Multicultural Television Drama

Müller, Floris; Hermes, Joke

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“…'Self-perceived knowledge may lead individuals to believe that they are immune to message effects, whereas others are more vulnerable' (Perloff, 1999: 366). Voiced as concern and criticism, self-perceived media literacy boosts the ego (Hermes, in press;Mueller and Hermes, 2010).Without a fuller understanding of literacy as part of media use, the concept will dissolve into general, dismissive cynicism which does not do justice to what might be of value in a text that deserves to be criticized in other respects, or it will dissolve into acceptance of the world as by and large outside of one's control. Whereas literacy should be a tool that affords the reader and the television viewer real added pleasure, it is currently in use as a shield for the possible contempt of others for being uncritical or dim-witted when it comes to the media.…”

Section: Cynicism and Sarcasm Rather Than Affect Or Enjoyment Define mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sleeping with the enemy: Audience studies and critical literacy

Hermes

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2013

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Audience studies is not the vibrant field it was in its 1980s and early 1990s heyday. Cultural studies today has a more balanced interest in production, audiences and texts. A renewed focus in audience studies on everyday meaning production, identity and relations of power could benefit from recent developments. Theorization of power especially has benefited from recent work on governmentality. In accord with recent work on ‘affect’, there is an opportunity for renewed vitality and urgency. Was audience studies damaged beyond repair by the charge that it is a populist field that celebrates rather than interrogates everyday media culture? Could a concept such as cultural literacy provide a bridge to help re-establish the critical credibility of audience studies or would it burden this field with its implied notions of standards, distinction and cultural exclusion? The article discusses recent work with youth audiences to inquire into the possibilities of ‘critical literacy’. It proposes taking up questions and insights raised by affect theory, to merge appreciation, criticism and understanding of the forces that drive (the possibility of) change, and to embed critical literacy in cultural studies’ ongoing interest in the construction of (cultural) citizenship.

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Section: Cynicism and Sarcasm Rather Than Affect Or Enjoyment Define mentioning

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Sleeping with the enemy: Audience studies and critical literacy

Hermes

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2013

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…In their study of audiences of multicultural television drama, Müller and Hermes (2010) advise audience researchers to remain careful of mistaking active viewers for active citizens.…”

Section: Cultural Citizenship and Television Crime Seriesmentioning

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“…However, audiences also repeatedly articulated more optimistic sentiments, for example talking about 'light coming out of the (Müller and Hermes 2010). To study the democratic potential of popular culture empirically, Joke Hermes (2005), drawing on the work of Hartley (1996), proposes the notion of cultural citizenship as identity construction.…”

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Engaging with The Bridge: Cultural citizenship, cross-border identities and audiences as ‘regionauts’

Askanius

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article explores civic engagement with the Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge (Danmarks Radio/Sveriges Television 2011–) based on qualitative interviews with 113 audience members, and drawing on the notion of cultural citizenship. The perspective of cultural citizenship, as understood and operationalized mainly by Hermes, is married with critical perspectives on the crime drama genre and its audiences, along with cultural analysis of the construction of and engagement with the cross-border region in which the drama is set. The analysis shows that civic engagement with the crime series is prompted through the construction of community and allegiances through which audiences feel connected. This argument unfolds in three main analytical sections, detailing how audiences’ articulations of community are focused around distinct yet overlapping dimensions of community as (1) a national social ritual, (2) a sense of Nordic community, and finally (3) community as regional identity and sense of belonging to a borderless Öresund utopia – the integrated region between Denmark and Sweden. In so doing, the article offers rich insights into how audiences shape civic identities as members of nation states, of historical and cultural regions and as border-crossers between these geo-cultural entities - in dialogue with popular culture and around the boundary-work of the different communities offered by such texts.

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“…Takođe, kažu da su neopravdane kritike na račun zabave zbog njenog preteranog prmovisanja u medijima i stvaranja loših efekata na publiku (Henson, 2006;Müller i Hermes, 2010). Smatraju da se u žanrovima niskog kulturnog potencijala, zabavnim, pojavljuju sve češće oni elementi sadržaja koji ih od "društveno nekorisnih" počinju svrstavati u "društveno korisne" medijske programe.…”

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“…Smatraju da se u žanrovima niskog kulturnog potencijala, zabavnim, pojavljuju sve češće oni elementi sadržaja koji ih od "društveno nekorisnih" počinju svrstavati u "društveno korisne" medijske programe. Nije nepoznato da se baš sapunice proizvode kao medij za socijalizaciju imigrantskog stanovništva u pojedinim zemljama (Müller i Hermes, 2010). Neki autori smatraju da mediji imaju mogućnost prezentovanja važnih društvenih pitanja putem stereotipa putem čega se stvara predstava o određenim grupama posebno marginalizovanim koje su u političkom, društvenom i kulturnom smislu suprotne od onoga što se naziva mainstream (Lippmann 1965;Lester ed., 1996;Shoemaker i Reese 1996;Gorham 1999).…”

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Adults relationship vis-a-vis educational an ethical role of television

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The Performance of Cultural Citizenship: Audiences and the Politics of Multicultural Television Drama

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Sleeping with the enemy: Audience studies and critical literacy

Sleeping with the enemy: Audience studies and critical literacy

Engaging with The Bridge: Cultural citizenship, cross-border identities and audiences as ‘regionauts’

Adults relationship vis-a-vis educational an ethical role of television

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