{"title":"Transient Feelings","authors":"Donnalyn Xu","doi":"10.31165/NK.2021.141.637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/NK.2021.141.637","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the shifts of communication following the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, this research investigates the disorienting experience of navigating loneliness and intimacy in the digital space. Creative writing is a relatively unexplored but recently emerging field of academic inquiry (Skains 2018, 84). Poetry in particular involves research into the language and textures of the world—it is a critical way of thinking that incorporates not just the signified meaning of words, but also the phonaesthetics, placement, space, and textual structure. This practice-based creative work is presented in the form of a 9-part autoethnographic prose poem that echoes the fragmented and asynchronous nature of digital communication (Bonner 2016, 11). Through stream-of-consciousness vignettes that could be read in any order, I emulate the experience of scrolling through a feed. I explore ideas of limitlessness in the face of apocalyptic endings, where our desire for more is troubled by having too much. This experimental and experiential paper is ultimately an interrogation of the tension between affective relations and isolation, where mediated bodies are troubled by longing, loneliness, and looking.","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122362385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The Paradox of Presence’: Creative Response","authors":"Katherina Radeva","doi":"10.31165/NK.2021.141.650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/NK.2021.141.650","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-award winning artist Katherina Radeva responds to 'The Paradox of Presence'","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115512967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ever-Lockdown: Waiting through Times of Playbour and Pandemic in Animal Crossing","authors":"M. Seller","doi":"10.31165/NK.2021.141.635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/NK.2021.141.635","url":null,"abstract":"Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ (Nintendo 2020) huge popularity has previously been attributed to escapism prompted by the singularity of lockdown life (Frushtick 2020; Zhu 2020), resonating with analyses which have been quick to frame lockdown as a radical historical caesura in experiences of work and leisure (Harari 2020; Krastev 2020). However, Adam Chmielewski and Fernanda Bruno argue that lockdown can be seen in relation to continuities in neoliberalism’s alienation, isolation and hyperconnected domestic digital labour (2020; 2020) - a condition of prolonged and displaced anxiety I term ‘ever-lockdown’ - necessitating a more nuanced account of Animal Crossing’s ambivalent mix of busywork and relaxation. Rather than escapist utopia, consumerist dystopia (Chang 2019), or softened capitalism (Bogost 2020), I will consider Animal-Crossing as providing absorbing boredom in which intense interactivity can be interpassively (Pfaller, 2017) withheld in a time of demanding and destabilising crises, facilitating a subtle, affective sense of place amidst the ‘ever-lockdown.’","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121042561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Transient Feelings': Creative Response","authors":"Morven Gow","doi":"10.31165/NK.2021.141.652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/NK.2021.141.652","url":null,"abstract":"A creative response to 'Transient Feelings: Autoethnographic vignettes on digital intimacy and interiority'.","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128640417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Temporality of (Serialized) Romantic Comedy","authors":"C. Amaral","doi":"10.31165/nk.2020.132.581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2020.132.581","url":null,"abstract":"Romantic comedies have a temporal structure based on suspense that I call temporality of the almost: the micro-narrative structure that repeatedly makes erotic resolution almost happen at several points in the story. This article analyzes how this temporality of constant and continual deferral functions as a retardatory structure posing obstacles apparently in order to keep characters apart, but, in fact, increasing the desire between them, and also between narrative and spectators.","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116961628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collapsed Temporalities in Social Media","authors":"Beatriz Polivanov, Deborah Rodríguez Santos","doi":"10.31165/nk.2020.132.592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2020.132.592","url":null,"abstract":"Social network sites (SNSs) raise complex questions regarding the perception of time. They can also produce a feeling of “co-presence” (Miller, 2011), mixing temporalities of “past, present and future”. Within their affordances, SNSs generate “collapsed contexts” (Marwick and boyd, 2010). When it comes to migrants that leave their home countries, such tools are frequently used in order to maintain a connection with family, friends and land that were left behind. This paper aims at proposing the notion of “collapsed temporalities” to reflect upon Cuban migrants who (voluntarily and legally) moved to Brazil. Apart from the theoretical discussion, we analyze self-narratives on Facebook of two Cuban immigrants, who had agreed to participate in the research and also conceded us online interviews. We argue that, once displaced, they have to deal with multiple layers of temporalities that affect their own self-narratives in terms of language and content.","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122266579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication, Education and the Social Acceleration of Time in Brazilian Schools","authors":"R. P. Andrade, Douglas de Oliveira Calixto","doi":"10.31165/nk.2020.132.583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2020.132.583","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon of the social acceleration of time goes beyond the limits of societal macrostructures and starts to resonate in different spheres of daily life. Based on empirical research applied to 3,700 students and more than 500 Brazilian teachers, this article aims to demonstrate how new temporal perspectives, generated by the dissemination of digital technologies, affect the daily lives of teachers and students. With the results of the study, we will seek to demonstrate how educators are subjected to stressful working hours and how they live intensely with acceleration mechanisms. Among students, the data reveal that, through their smartphones used, even in the classroom they rearrange the experience with time and the very sense of education.","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133765767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anachronic Sonorities of Technoculture in Digital Games","authors":"Eduardo H Luersen, Suzana Kilpp","doi":"10.31165/nk.2020.132.562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2020.132.562","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a preliminary questioning of the extant research on the sound of digital games and situates these extensively disseminated contemporary artefacts in a wider technocultural frame of reference, in order to develop an approach capable of articulating communication, memory, and culture.. To achieve this goal, we propose a partial revision of prominent works dealing with the sonorities of digital games, contrasting them through the theoretical-methodological contributions of Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history and media archaeology. Through the conceptual approach developed in this article, we are able to reformulate questions being asked about the sounds of digital games, taking them instead as compelling objects for inquiry regarding our contemporary technoculture and a memory of media that surpasses them. Having reconceptualized our research object, we suggest a method for an empirical research still under development.","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"12 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116787821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elane Pereira da Silva Oliveira, Jocélio De Oliveira, Alfredo Eurico Vizeu Pereira Júnior
{"title":"The Decisive Instants in News-making: Individual and Collective Temporalities in Broadcast Journalism","authors":"Elane Pereira da Silva Oliveira, Jocélio De Oliveira, Alfredo Eurico Vizeu Pereira Júnior","doi":"10.31165/nk.2020.132.565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2020.132.565","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores \"temporalities in broadcast journalism\" and how they affect the process of television production. We understand temporalities as discontinuous flows of time. They can be experienced collectively and individually in the newsroom: from production and investigation, to decision making by the editor with the news programme on air. Thus, time functions as productive operator, and temporality as a value for the realization of broadcast journalism. We undertook a participant observation in the newsroom of TV Cabo Branco, Globo affiliate in João Pessoa, Brazil, and interviewed the journalists who make JPB 1st Edition.","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125910790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Theory and Media Theory: Contributions of Schutz to the Understanding of New Social Realities","authors":"A. Martins, Victor Piaia","doi":"10.31165/nk.2020.132.580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2020.132.580","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to contribute to the debate about time and the new social realities resulting from recent changes in the media field bringing social theory and media theory together. For this, we propose a rereading of a well-known author in social theory: Alfred Schutz. Schutz was one of the most productive authors of social theory and designed a broad theoretical framework involving many aspects of social life. He also emphasized the importance of media and brought significant contributions to the debate through the discussion of the concept of time. The author did not think time only descriptively, but opened a deep and conceptual dialogue that, we believe, is useful for understanding new social realities brought by the internet, both for media theories and social theories. The article has two sections, each corresponding to an approach to time made in Schutz, and in media theories and recent social theories. The first one focuses on a possible acceleration of time and the second one discusses the relation of time to memory. We bring Schutz's contributions to these phenomena, fostering the debate between social theory and media theory, as well as contributing conceptually to recent reflections.","PeriodicalId":299414,"journal":{"name":"Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114145940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}