PDF Rather than taking us forward into a new future, contemporary populism suggests the media undertake a churning, by bringing buried layers of the past closer to the surface. Historical…
PDF This essay situates itself at a junction where university teaching and populism might meet. A compendious survey of populism is not my objective, but, rather, an encouragement to write…
PDF The vernacular expression Hulianwang de haiyang in Chinese can be translated literally into ‘Internet (as) Ocean’. The term captures a correlation between the vastness and unpredictability of both the…
My interest here is to examine the role of the machine aka the camera and how it represented these events and the effect it has on the bodies of those being filmed and those watching at home. Drawing on Gaines’s arguments, I focus on how the camera operated in the news magazine’s approach to narrative and the act of witnessing. It is the camera that produces the partisan effect.
This article focuses on the role of analogy, transgression, and contagion in the workings of the zombie as a cultural form. This study of the zombie-as-analogy also opens a way towards a different understanding of media populism, as more than a mirror of political populism, but as a problem unique to the representation, reproduction, and proliferation of sameness in mass media and culture.
Prevailing approaches to populist media in political theory remain narrowly focused on what populists say and do in the media, as if the media was merely a container of information or an ideology to be debunked. In contrast, this special issue aims to bring media studies into conversation with debates in social and political theory, among other fields, and to explore the centrality of media, meant in a broader sense than just neutral channels for direct and unmediated exchange between demagogues and receptive audiences, for apprehending populism.
PDF Abstract This article investigates the relation of thermal metaphors and thermal materiality in two distinct models of transformation: cooking and fermenting. Against the dominant – and often unreflected –…
PDF Abstract Cloud-based game streaming is an emerging trend within the digital games industry, with multiple companies attempting to replicate the successful implementation of streaming services that has already occured…
PDF Abstract The current migration of global cloud infrastructure towards the Northern hemisphere has social and environmental effects and triggers hopes and expectations. While IT infrastructure providers expect to reduce…
PDF Abstract We are used to assuming that media infrastructures are made to last. This essay argues for taking impermanence as a point of departure in order to understand data…