Close-Up-Ness: Masks, Screens, and Cells
The pandemic reshapes not only our habits, but also our environment. It does so by supporting the creation of existential bubbles –often in the form of restrained cells– in which we shrink our range of action, but also in which we can feel safe.
Francesco Casetti
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Fact-checkers and the news media: A Nordic perspective on propaganda
Combatting disinformation and propaganda has become an increasingly common task in Nordic newsrooms. The independent fact-checking organisations are currently joining forces with journalists in keeping the public informed. To better understand what these
Grönvall John
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Willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) is one of the key concepts in L2 communication and learning. Previously, research practice in this area has been more concerned with investigating the relationship between individual negative ...
Muhammad Umar Nadeem +2 more
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Developing The Brand of Batam City as A Sustainable (Green) Tourism Destination through Social Media [PDF]
Various studies have scientifically documented sustainable tourism development in several developing countries. Meanwhile, when social media influences tourist perceptions and their visiting decisions, tourism promoters have widely used social media to ...
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As Seen from the Camera Obscura: Haniya Yutaka’s Ontological Film Theory
Haniya Yutaka (1909–1997) was one of the leading figures in postwar Japanese literature and avant-garde art movements, chiefly remembered today for his unfinished metaphysical novel Dead Souls [Shirei, 1946–1997].
Naoki Yamamoto
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Complexidade narrativa na televisão americana contemporânea
Uma nova forma de entretenimento tem surgido nas últimas duas décadas conseguindo sucesso de público e crítica na televisão americana. Tal modelo se diferencia por usar a complexidade narrativa como uma alternativa às formas episódicas e seriadas.
Jason Mittell
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Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Media Industries Studies [PDF]
This thought piece contends that the aesthetic, humanistic, and cultural concerns that fueled the rise of film studies and cultural studies should remain central to the burgeoning field of media industries studies — alongside issues of ownership, commerce, and control.
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Not Yet the Post-TV Era: Network and MVPD Adaptation to Emergent Distribution Technologies
Television as a medium is in transition. From DVRs, to Netflix, to HBO Now, consumers have never before had such control over how they consume televisual content. The rapid changes to the medium have led to rhetoric heralding the impending “post-TV era.”
Mike Van Esler
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The politics of the NPC meme: Reactionary subcultural practice and vernacular theory
The acronym ‘NPC’ originates from videogame culture, where it refers to computer-controlled drones whose behaviour is dictated by their programming. By 2018 the term had gained traction within right-wing subcultural spaces as shorthand for individuals ...
Rob Gallagher, Robert Topinka
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The Impact of the form of Journalistic Photograph and its Content in Jordanian Daily Newspapers on Receiver (a Survey Study on the Academics at the Media and Arts colleges in Jordanian Universities) [PDF]
The press photo has always created a wide debate and discussion among the recipients about the role it plays in the extent of its impact on the thoughts and feelings of the recipients, and this controversy is due to the different reactions that those ...
Yahia Bani Amer +2 more
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