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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"convergence culture"”.
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As the world turns in a convergence culture
… to the technological and social changes of a convergence culture to maintain and revitalize the genre's relevance for viewers and advertisers alike. CBS/Procter and Gamble Productions/TeleVest's As the World Turns will serve as a case study for these changes. This project examines how the …
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The Production and Consumption Practices of Online Journalism in Digital Taiwan.
… and consumption and how is online news culture shaped or constituted through these practices? Distinct from existing studies of online news, I argue that online journalism should be studied as an emerging cultural form, rather than a subordinate of any existing forms of news media. My …
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Brave new forms: Adaptation, remediation, and intertextuality in the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret
… and respond to texts. In our hyper-mediated culture, images and texts converge and disseminate across multiple media platforms, changing once-passive readers and spectators into active agents in the intellectual and creative process of interpretation. This thesis examines the multimodal world …
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Enchufad@s : representations of the internet and new technologies in queer Latin American literature
… for Cyborgs", Henry Jenkins' theory of convergence culture, and a heavy-handed dash of diva studies, this dissertation explores how Internet spaces as represented in the novels and poems serve to enhance as well as hinder human connection, while also making the readers more aware of …
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Narratologian uusi ulottuvuus : Kerronnallisuus The Sims 4 -pelissä ja Let’s Play -videoissa
… Jälkimmäisessä hyödynnetään Henry Jenkinsin convergence culture -käsitettä. Tutkielmassa sekä The Sims 4 -peli että Let’s Play -pelivideot sovitetaan kertomuksen moodeihin. Näin osoitetaan, että kognitiivisen narratologian käsitteistö soveltuu sekä pelien että pelin avulla tehtyjen teosten …
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Transmedia consumption experiences: consuming and co-creating interrelated stories across media
… socio-cultural, technologic, and economic convergence (Jenkins 2006, Dena 2004). Transmedia storytelling, aesthetic and product of this convergence culture, is the systematic dispersal of narrative elements across multitude of media for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated …
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Towards theatre remix : a net generational perspective on theatre making
… to cultural inheritance by making use of popular culture as a source for new creative works. It is acknowledged that we live in a convergence culture (as posited by Henry Jenkins 2006), where content moves between different forms of media. For example an image, song or narrative is transferable …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
… literary phenomenon that moves “beyond culture of origin” (Damrosch 199) and inhabits the “world literary space” (Pascale 281). Would his novels, therefore, stand as materialization of Goethe’s humanist cosmopolitan vision upon the coinage of the term world literature? Many cultural …
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From Baby Formula To Solid Food: How The Influence Of Media Has Nourished Children's Literature
… conjunction with Henry Jenkins ideas regarding Convergence Culture provide the framework for my ideas regarding media and their roles in children's literature.</p> <p>One way media influence children's literature is through the realm of nostalgia. Adults reflect on their childhoods and the …
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Young girls' lived experiences of 'going online': an exploration into the relationships between social media use and well-being for primary age girls
… their identities in different ways. This ‘convergence culture’ maps a new territory where consumers can manipulate this online media in offline and real-time spaces. There has never been a more recordable or observable ‘looking-glass’ than that of social media, whereby all utterances that …
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In the Midst of the Spectacular: Performance, Media, and Criticism in Frank O’Hara
… modernist formalism with a burgeoning multimedia convergence culture. The first of its kind to consider O’Hara’s relationship to a variety of performance contexts, this study uncovers a sense of O’Hara as a writer who sought to reimagine the relationship between these media forms. I begin by …
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Modeling participatory literacy (in your pants): An analysis of print and new media convergence in the Vlogbrothers' YouTube videos
Engaging with the spoken and performed content of more than 600 YouTube videos, this dissertation examines how networked digital media can be used to speak to a young adult audience about the value of books, reading, and writing. Using a thematic analysis, supplemented by discourse analysis and …
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The animated gaystream: how streaming services, social media, adult fandom, and the visibility of creators have influenced representations of gender and sexuality in twenty-first century U.S. children’s animation
Since the 1990s, creators of American children’s animation have used varied strategies to include diverse, inclusive queer content in their series and films as new technologies have been introduced and attitudes towards the LGBTQIA+ community in American media have changed. This thesis argues that …