basic slides
Module number: TH6741 & 7741title: Engaging Culture
Session 5
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What we're looking at next ... Beginning to identify some
Christian approaches to cultureAnd some theological angles ...
Could be a bit 'bitty': various things to get you started but
not necessarily all joined up at this point.
... shared ways of conceptualizing something within a culture
therefore involves (usually by connotative meaning) ....
'Our' concept:negotiated (better:negotiating) between sign
usersPower and resistanceSolidarity and group identityPlay,
pleasure,entertainmentLook (again) at Vanhoozer's 10 principles
...
Therefore issues of power, influence, resistance etc come into
negotiations (fashion's 20% of trend leaders ..., )
Eg's of this in sociolinguistics ... pronouns of solidarity and
power ..
Tu / Vous tu/vosotros/usted(es) du /ihr /Siehistorically Thou in
English. (Quakers, also 'would his majesty core to ..r' etc)
Hegemony. /hmni/ or /hdmni/ n ....
...the predominance of one social class over others ...
political and economic control,... the ability of the dominant
class to project its own way of seeing the world so that those who
are subordinated by it accept it as 'common sense' and
'natural'.
May be a new term to some (?)
Ask for any comments or questions.
Note Marxist origins esp Gramsci. Note the importance of the
'velvet glove' version of exercise of power.
Cf pronouns of solidarity etc; some cultural analysis is
attempting to trace the contours of power relations in the use and
meanings of cultural texts and artefacts.
ideology. /adildi/ n ....
... a system of ideas and beliefs. ... closely tied to the
concept of power ... "shared ideas or beliefs which serve to
justify the interests of dominant groups" ... it legitimises the
differential power that groups hold and as such it distorts the
real situation that people find themselves in.
I think that this definition shows its origins in Marxist
discourse. I think that ideologies can operate among the
marginalisde and dispossessed in countering that of a dominant
group....
It could be seen in relation to justifications for states of
affairs.
Relates to Marxist ideas of 'false consciousness'
'ideology''myth''hegemony'
How do you see these things playing out in this image?
Buzz > plenary
Find bit in the handout to look over.
What analysis does Barthes give of this imge?What forces does he
identify at work and how?Do we agree or disagree, a bit of both?How
do we respond as Christians?
Fiske and the shopping mall ... (Reading the Popular) etc
What do we make of shopping malls?
What are the main observations? What kind of analytical tools
does Fiske use? What do we find helpful? Is there anything we
struggle with? Is there anything we find particularly persuasive or
unpersuasive.
Not just seeing ordinary people as victims and dupes of mass
media etc.
Semiotic guerilla warfare
bricolage (making do)
significance of the idea...
Connect with Marxian analysis. Economic determinism and a
prediliction for the social tended to give analysis of mass media
and culture in 'top-down' terms. (Adorno etc).
What people like Fiske, Bourdieu, Hebdige etc start to do is to
show that there is also a bottom-up resistance or subverting for
own ends: asserting own meanings for own purposes. But this is
dialogical with the 'inherited' meanings that are more widely used
and may have hegemonic dimensions. The evasion of hegmonic meanings
is pleasurable (gives a frisson, often).
Can we come up with examples of
Semiotic guerilla warfare
bricolage (making do)
significance of the idea...
From our own lives, communities, experiences, observations or
reading?
Connect with Marxian analysis. Economic determinism and a
prediliction for the social tended to give analysis of mass media
and culture in 'top-down' terms. (Adorno etc).
What people like Fiske, Bourdieu, Hebdige etc start to do is to
show that there is also a bottom-up resistance or subverting for
own ends: asserting own meanings for own purposes. But this is
dialogical with the 'inherited' meanings that are more widely used
and may have hegemonic dimensions. The evasion of hegmonic meanings
is pleasurable (gives a frisson, often).
Another tool
-of cultural analysis ...
AttemptsTo control...Identificationplace inSign
systemsReceived&re-usedWhat is producedAnd how?
Exercise:'Txtese'
http://craigbarkdull.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/is-electronic-media-ruining-literacy/
In the light of the previous session's discussion, what do we
make of this issue?
Question here: what do you understand by the term. How do people
you know react? How does the press react? And you?
'Txtese' what's it about culturally?
http://craigbarkdull.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/is-electronic-media-ruining-literacy/
(Next two slides have further respones)
Question here: what do you understand by the term. How do people
you know react? How does the press react? And you?
'Response type A'
The English language has developed an illness that's seeping
into schools ... The symptoms are loss of punctuation, lack of
capitalization and fragmented sentences.
It's called text speak and it's becoming an epidemic. Some
students don't even know it's wrong.
http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/Text_Speak--Sunday_At_10_133699383.htm
Just briefly read out and relate to answers from previous
slide.
'Response type B
Dan Clayton and Professor Dick Hudson of University College
London ... suggest that teachers should be less worried about
pupils' use of ... text English, because these can be studied to
help them appreciate standard English.
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6062318
Invite them to consider how this differs. DON'T EXPLORE MORE at
this point go onto next slide quickly
