{"title":"Enshrining Terror for the Nation: Affect and Nationalism at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum","authors":"T. Gruenewald","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab052","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The National September 11 Memorial and Museum (9/11 MM) employs affective rhetoric to enshrine the trauma of September 11 in support of U.S. nationalism. Applying Brian Massumi's understanding of affect as intensity, I examine how the site's rhetoric amplifies affect. The memorial pools and many signifiers of destruction magnify affective intensity through scale and repetition. The 9/11 MM continues its affective onslaught through an excessive number of shocking visuals and narrative details in its historical exhibition. The site’s affective intensity culminates in a non-linear and non-narrative memorial space of seemingly infinite individualized mourning. The article discusses the site's political and social impact by considering Nigel Thrift's idea of affect in the built environment as imbedded thought and Georg Böhme's theory of atmosphere, understood as the reciprocal relationship between affective urban space and its impact on people.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123633996","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":"Prying the Doors Open: Women of Color Mentoring in the Field of Communication","authors":"M. Celeste, Ralina L. Joseph","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab054","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 For the past few decades mentoring has moved from being a buzzword in a few select programs into a major institutional goal. From large corporations to small universities, leaders recognize the importance of those with more experience guiding junior employees and students. Colleges and universities have taken the lead nationwide in mentoring efforts, with many having exemplary peer mentoring programs for undergraduates, and some institutions deploying mentoring to support faculty and students. The discipline of Communication has also begun to place more emphasis on mentoring. Yet, some populations, specifically women of color and other minoritized people, do not always have access to networks or programs and are left on their own to navigate institutions and processes. That few women of color faculty inhabit academic spaces in Communication departments, as in other departments across campuses, creates additional challenges for students and faculty, who often lack mentors and yet carry the additional burden of mentoring. This introduction to the special forum in CCC brings sets up the critical insights on mentoring our senior and emerging contributors offer.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130428409","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":"Assessing Programmatic Mentoring: Requiem for Carmen","authors":"R. M. Coleman, Jennifer Reyes","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This essay is not about getting good mentoring. Rather, it is about the ways in which institutions must invest in providing resources for professional success and wellness, with a particular understanding of the needs of women of color. To ensure faculty retention and success, institutions must not only provide resources but also engage in exacting assessment practices to ensure programmatic efficacy.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127831431","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":"Composing an Oppositional Discourse in Coke Studio Pakistan","authors":"Ryan A. D’Souza","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab048","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Coke Studio Pakistan (CSP) is a television show aired in Pakistan and available worldwide on digital platforms. The show features well-known and up-and-coming music artists alongside a studio band who cover contemporary and familiar songs. Some of the popular songs are fusions of traditional compositions and Western instrumentation. The Sufi renditions on the show are popular as well. The music produced on CSP is not necessarily unique to the nation state’s mediascape. Notwithstanding, the music is a novel presentation of Pakistani culture to a transnational audience. The following article positions the show in the dominant Western discourses that construct the nation as an intolerant and orthodox Islamic state harboring terrorists. The author argues that CSP composes an oppositional discourse by showcasing transgressively gendered performances and a mystical and subversive Islam.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129925313","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":"Chronicles of a Meme Foretold: Political Memes as Folk Memory in India","authors":"Anirban K. Baishya","doi":"10.1093/CCC/TCAB039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/CCC/TCAB039","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While memes evoke the idea of image (and text) based digital artifacts, memes are not merely visual or textual. Focusing on the demonetization drive undertaken by the BJP-led government in India in 2016, this forum piece makes the case for memes as a kind of memory culture. By this, I mean not only the representation of historical events in memes, but also memes themselves as memorial objects. Memes made in 2016 resurface even now as a form of humorous political critique and demonetization memes are further folded into critiques of current events such as the ongoing farmers' protests. Through an examination of such processes of recontextualization, repurposing and resurfacing, I demonstrate how the seemingly fragmented form of the meme impacts the way we remember through digital media. In effect, meme-culture in India accrues a “sticky” temporality that makes them powerful forms of digital “folk” archiving.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134404744","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":"Hyper-Local Digital News Platforms in Eastern India: A Dynamic Space for Regional Language Media Culture","authors":"Mrinal Chatterjee, Sambit Pal","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab043","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 “Jumbos are on the road! Before you go out, follow our updates!” No mainstream media outlet would carry such news pertaining to a remote town in Eastern India. However, a hyperlocal news website did. This essay maps the growth of such digital media platforms, whether in the form of websites, YouTube channels or Facebook pages that cater to smalltowns and districts in eastern India. We show how both local journalists and citizens are changing the hyperlocal news culture across Eastern India.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126934416","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":"Prison Tech: Imagining the Prison as Lagging Behind and as a Test Bed for Technology Advancement","authors":"Anne Kaun, Fredrik Stiernstedt","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab032","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the ways in which prisons are imagined as sites of technology development. By attending to expos that showcase prison technologies and constitute “live theatres of technology” (L. Cornfeld, 2018), we carve out ambivalent sociotechnical imaginaries of technological backwardness that are combined with the idea of radical technological innovation to reform the justice system. In doing so, we highlight the prison as one site of technology development and actors at technology trade shows catering to the prison and security sector as platforms for technological mediators that range from corporate prison tech companies to educators as well as representatives of the criminal justice system. The expos emerge as sites where technological development is negotiated through performative sociotechnical imaginaries of prison tech.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122892027","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":"Vernacular Discourses of Disruption in Alternative Digital Space","authors":"Purba Das","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab038","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the discursive strategies employed by Dalits and other marginalized groups to highlight inspirational stories of bottom-up change across rural India. These agential narratives are featured in the community-run alternative digital media portal, Video Volunteer’s series, “Videos that Created Change.” I contend that marginalized groups’ articulation of structural change against systemic oppression takes the form of vernacular discursive practices, which foreground place-based identities and regional languages. Such newly emerging digital media practices have the potential to disrupt the hegemonic mainstream template of marginalized citizens’ abject victimhood.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116125270","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":"Introduction to the Special Issue Forum “Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Informatization, Infrastructures”","authors":"Kalyani Chadha, Sangeet Kumar, Radhika Parameswaran","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab042","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This short introductory essay first lays out the broader map of the digital media ecosystem in South Asia and then establishes the importance of this region in the global south--with its growing networked population--for understanding the future trajectories of global digital culture. Just as any other part of the world that is gradually getting on board the digital bandwagon, the South Asian digital landscape shows signs of both ingenuity, innovation and progressive potential as well as unchecked power, surveillance and exploitation. Our introduction uses the framework of digital culture's promises and its challenges to organize the collection of essays in this special forum.","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125309044","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":"Book Interview for The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web","authors":"D. S. Mini","doi":"10.1093/ccc/tcab040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":300302,"journal":{"name":"Communication, Culture and Critique","volume":"312 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122313764","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}