"Mottonyms are both inscriptions, based on people’s experiences, on Ghanaian commercial vehicles and ‘names’ by which drivers of such vehicles are called. Prior research on mottonyms implicitly affirms how these inscriptions are embedded in human interpersonal relationships and on careful refl
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ection, in personal social experience. Guided by a phenomenological perspective, I explore, through interviews with vehicle owners, the specific life experiences that spurred them to coin these mottonyms. Overall, I analyze two major themes about drivers’ incentives for their inscriptions: innuendo mottonyms and philosophical mottonyms. Through this research, I respond to recent calls for a phenomenological approach to investigate media uses in everyday life (Moores 2009). This approach provides a grounded understanding into “embodied sets of activities that humans perform with varying degrees of regularity, competence and flair” (Postill 2010: 1). Thus, it helps us understand how cultural forms are not just “mental, meaningful circulation of ideas” (Zito 2008: 71) but concrete mediated practices. Furthermore, the paper responds to scholars’ advocacy for a broader understanding of ‘media’ that transcend narrowly defined traditional mass media formats (Downing 1996), and novel ways of examining such formats (Moores, 2009; Meyer, 2009)." (Abstract)
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"This introductory text examines television and cultural identities in the context of globalization. It offers a wide-ranging exploration of the central issues of media, globalization, language, gender, ethnicity, cultural politics and identity. At the core of the book are two essential arguments: t
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hat television is a proliferating resource for the construction of cultural identity, and that cultural identity is not a fixed 'thing' but a contingent social construction to which language is key." (Publisher description)
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El autor realiza un análisis riguroso de los medios de comunicación masiva en Venezuela, su situación legal y sus proyecciones culturales señalando, al mismo tiempo, los aspectos polémicos de su pésima utilización.
"Il s'agit d'une suite d'exposés présentés sur la manière dont les intellectuels de notre temps envisagent la culture des masses et sont disposés à' y contribuer — A cette occasion, les notions de culture, d'éducation populaire et de culture de masse sont analysées et comparées." (Jean-Ma
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rie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1267, topic code 00)
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"Etude de la « Culture des masses » qui domine notre époque — Ses caractéristiques, ses mérites, ses tares, ses dangers, ses perspectives." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1530, topic code 00)