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The Anti-Cult Discourse of Print Media: Problematization of the Role of the Anti-Cult Movement

Социологический журнал, 2021
This article is devoted to analyzing the anti-cult discourse in the Republic of Belarus in 1996–2000. The print media and the anti-cult movement are selected as objects of research because of their significant role in this discourse.
Vladimir A. Martinovich
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"Cult media, fandom, and textiles," by Brigid Cherry

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018
Brigid Cherry, Cult media, fandom, and textiles: Handicrafting as fan art. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, paperback, $39.95 (216p) ISBN 9781350071339.
Samantha Anne Close
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Metonymy And The Cult Of Intensity In Media Discourse [PDF]

Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2018
In the present paper, we present a new perspective on the features of the current media message. The Romanian media, under pressure of the markets, rapid digitization, and a considerable effort to synchronize with Western markets, builds on peaks of ...
Xenia NEGREA, Dan Valeriu VOINEA
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The Lexicons of Cult Film: Rhetoric, Media, and The Big Lebowski

CINEJ Cinema Journal
In this paper, we explore how The Big Lebowski provides “equipment for living,” to explain the Lebowski phenomenon and answer the question: How do individuals use The Big Lebowski to communicate across cultures? In answer to this question, we argue that
Andrew C Jones, Sebastian Williams, Lonnie Martin   +2 more
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Examining Spiritual Cult on New Media in the Construction of Medans Hadith Enthusiasts

Medya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi
Between 2022 and 2024, Indonesia was stirred by a spiritual-cult phenomenon involving Gus Samsudin, Panji Gumilang, and Mama Gufran, who were able to generate public opinion reaching approximately five million viewers per video.
Dzulhajj Siregar, Syafruddin Pohan, Humaizi Humaizi   +2 more
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Weekdays and holidays of office plankton, or the cult of Friday as a fact of modern (media) culture / Будни и праздники офисного планктона, или культ пятницы как факт современной (медиа)культуры

Индустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследований
The article offers an interpretation of the new cultural practice of celebrating the end of the working week with mass real and media actions. Their mass character allows us to talk about the formation of the cult of Friday.
Tatyana Shmeleva / Шмелева Татьяна Викторовна
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Bazinga! Consumi nerd, identità generazionali e lutto del “fine serie” nelle audience di The Big Bang Theory [PDF]

Ocula, 2021
The paper investigates the TV series The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019) as a space of representation of the cultural and media consumption of the Post-Millennials.
Mario Tirino, Vincenzo Auriemma
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Serie tv di culto, ovvero il culto delle serie tv. Protagonisti seriali come cult icons nell’epoca della complex tv [PDF]

Ocula, 2020
Last generation TV series – the Tv series of the last two decades – seem to be a true obsession for their audiences, to the point these series can be defined as cult series. The main element which raises such veneration is the protagonist’s figure, or of
Andrea Bernardelli
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Introduzione. I mille volti delle icone culturali [PDF]

Ocula, 2020
Some cultural elements immediately recognizable and repeated in various contexts maintain a productive capability and repeatedly capture the audience's interest. These elements can be defined as cultural icons.
Eduardo Grillo
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Testi fatti a pezzi. Il culto mediale come ars excerpendi [PDF]

Ocula, 2020
The article identifies three properties of cultural icons: the recognizability, the ability to generate a community, the tendency of being “reworked”. The latter recalls Eco’s thought that, in order to become “iconic”, a text must be “dismembered” and ...
Eduardo Grillo
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