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La persistenza di Sherlock Holmes nell'immaginario tardomoderno = The persistence of Sherlock Holmes in the late modern imagination 夏洛克·福尔摩斯(Sherlock Holmes)在晚期现代想象中的持续存在

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P155

Alessio Ceccherelli

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Intersezioni di immaginari in un iper-immaginario postmoderno e postmediale: il caso della serie Once Upon a Time = Intersections of imaginaries in a postmodern and postmedial hyper-imaginary: the case of the series Once Upon a Time 后现代和后媒体超想象中的图像交集:从前的一个系列=后现代和后媒体超想象中的图像交集:前一个系列的例子

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P115

Luca Bertoloni

{"title":"Intersezioni di immaginari in un iper-immaginario postmoderno e postmediale: il caso della serie Once Upon a Time = Intersections of imaginaries in a postmodern and postmedial hyper-imaginary: the case of the series Once Upon a Time","authors":"Luca Bertoloni","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N19P115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N19P115","url":null,"abstract":"Within the contemporary mediascape, Once Upon a Time (ABC, seven seasons, 2011-2018) represents a rather original serial experiment: starting from the shared westerly (and not only) fairy-tale imagery, fueled and sometimes created by Disney, the series, thanks to its ecosystem structure, is configured in its essence by intersections with other imaginaries. The result is the creation of a contaminated hyper-imaginary novel that rethinks, re-semantizes and reformulates characters and stories already imprinted in the collective imaginary. The architecture of the series resorts to the starting imaginaries as architraves and foundations; the semantic construction, instead, weaves a constant dialogue with the spectators, questioning stories, characters, musical moments, costumes, iconographies, even entire sequences of other films - all materials well impressed in the collective imaginaries of viewers, whose memory is solicited. It is only thanks to the links generated in the audiovisual memory of the spectators – in turn, well evoked by the narrative and metanarrative strategies applied by the authors – it the series manages to carve out its own originality. Therefore, the series under discussion creates, from scratch, a reflective imaginary of imaginaries in a constant evolution. So, the traditional fairy-tale imagery is not forgotten, but reshaped and re-semantized in favor of the new perspectives that dominate in the contemporary mediascape (gender perspectives, villains back history, transmedia storytelling, replicability), combined with an original metanarrative: therefore Once Upon a Time, referring to the paradigm of complexity, proposes itself as a new point of reference that can be useful on several levels, and could be seen as a new postmodern and postmedial myth valid from childhood to adulthood.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2021 1","pages":"115-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46623778","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}

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The Queen's Gambit. Un perfect match tra immaginario ludico e calcoli algebrici = The Queen's Gambit. A perfect matching between game imagery and algebraic strategies 女王的Gambit。不完全匹配，想像力，演算代数=女王的Gambit。博弈意象与代数策略的完美匹配

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P93

Paolo Marocco

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Unicorno-mania: dalla mitologia greca all'immaginario contemporaneo = Unicorn-mania: from Greek mythology to contemporary imagery 独角兽狂热:从希腊神话到当代意象

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P105

Jessica Camargo Molano

{"title":"Unicorno-mania: dalla mitologia greca all'immaginario contemporaneo = Unicorn-mania: from Greek mythology to contemporary imagery","authors":"Jessica Camargo Molano","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N19P105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N19P105","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2016 the unicorn has become one of the trendiest subjects in several sectors: from fashion to accessories, to food, as is proved by the launch of drinks such as \"unicorn's milk\". Yet, what does the unicorn represent in contemporary imagery? In order to answer such a question, this research traces the history of the symbolism of the unicorn, so as to understand how its representation and meaning have changed. Ever since ancient times the Greeks had attributed thaumaturgical powers to the unicorn; in particular, its horn was considered a universal antidote to any poison, whereas the unicorn itself became a symbol of purity. The presence of the figure of the unicorn in Psalm 91 brings the animal close to Christianity. In the Middle Ages the unicorn was often depicted in the illuminated Bibles and was also used in the decorations of the main buildings of the time, usually next to a virgin as an allegory of chastity. For this reason, it became a symbol of chaste love and marital fidelity. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the powder of the unicorn horn was still considered an antidote to poison and even an aphrodisiac. Only in the Victorian Age did the unicorn begin to people children's stories, losing the sexual meaning and being associated with the rainbow for the first time. The connection between the unicorn and the rainbow has led to the present use of the animal as an emblem of LGBT+ community. Nowadays the unicorn embodies the concepts of rarity and magic. It is even worth noting how the term \"unicorn\" has also become part of the economic language. The instagrammability of the unicorn has made the animal even more popular, making it, in the social media era, the symbol of uniqueness and differentiation from the mass.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2021 1","pages":"105-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44149800","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}

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La costruzione dell'immaginario M5S attraverso i social media: qual è stato il ruolo del Direttorio? = The construction of M5S imaginary through social media: what has the role of the Directorate been? 通过社交媒体构建虚拟M5S:董事会的角色是什么?通过社交媒体想象m5的结构:该委员会的作用是什么?

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P207

Federico Pilati, Flavio Piccoli

{"title":"La costruzione dell'immaginario M5S attraverso i social media: qual è stato il ruolo del Direttorio? = The construction of M5S imaginary through social media: what has the role of the Directorate been?","authors":"Federico Pilati, Flavio Piccoli","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N19P207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N19P207","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade, the term populism has become increasingly popular. However, due to the mutability of populist movements and the diversity of the contexts in which they have developed, it has been difficult to place the different manifestations of the populist phenomenon within a single ideology. In fact, a populist narrative seems to resort to the cultural toolkit at its disposal, drawing from time to time on different components of the social and cultural environment in which it is immersed, without being crystallized in a coherent and static ideology. From this perspective, populism can therefore be traced back to the type of discourse used to frame a political event, in which the narrative component of the discourse is used strategically – or adaptively – to constitute a multifaceted and contradictory political identity to which everyone can refer even if not all the instances are shared. To investigate the hypotheses regarding the role of online communication in the construction of such populist narratives, we will analyse all the tweets produced by the three best known representatives of the Five Star Movement (Alessandro Di Battista, Luigi Di Maio and Raffaele Fico) from 2013 to 2019 by means of computational techniques. Starting from the works that have already defined the communicative style of the founder Beppe Grillo, our goal is to shift the attention to the Directorate, the plural leadership of the Five Star Movement innovative organizational structure and understand its role in the construction of the social imaginary connected to the party.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2021 1","pages":"207-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42124028","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}

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Diffusion of the utopias. The academy and the media in times of pandemic 乌托邦的扩散。疫情期间的学院和媒体

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P263

María A. Ribón, A. Pérez-González, Carmen Vázquez

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The algorithmic imaginary of cultural producers. Towards platform-optimized music? 文化生产者的算法想象。走向平台优化音乐?

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P293

M. Raffa, Riccardo Pronzato

{"title":"The algorithmic imaginary of cultural producers. Towards platform-optimized music?","authors":"M. Raffa, Riccardo Pronzato","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N19P293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N19P293","url":null,"abstract":"The prominent role played by algorithmic platforms in people’s everyday lives has in recent years triggered a growing interest towards algorithmic imaginaries, intended as worlds of experience users make of the algorithmic media, thereby building up their own awareness of the platform and in turn moulding the algorithm itself through their performativity. Today, part of the construction of individual cultures takes place on streaming platforms, media environments where subjects access cultural materials and cultural exchanges occur. Platforms, such as Netflix or Spotify, have become privileged sites for studying the platformization of cultural production and the construction of algorithmic imaginaries by users and developers. Despite this, to date little has been discussed about cultural creators’ algorithmic imaginaries. This paper intends to discuss how to include algorithmic imaginaries in research regarding platforms and cultural production, by focusing on the case of music platforms. Specifically, the main goal of this contribution is to address the following issues in the light of existing literature: i) The role of algorithms as cultural gatekeepers and how they may affect the creative disposition of music producers, as well as their strategies to relate with the broader environment of cultural production and consumption. ii) The optimization of culture, i.e., how cultural producers may attempt to create platform-optimized products adapting their creative efforts to platforms’ affordances, thus fostering processes of product homogenization. Finally, suggestions will be made for future investigations regarding how all the actors in the music industry relate to streaming platforms","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2021 1","pages":"293-321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44207339","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}

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Estudos de imaginário do jornalismo no Brasil = Imaginary studies of journalism in Brazil Estudos de imaginário do jornalismo no Brasil =巴西新闻业的想象研究

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P233

Otávio Daros

{"title":"Estudos de imaginário do jornalismo no Brasil = Imaginary studies of journalism in Brazil","authors":"Otávio Daros","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N19P233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N19P233","url":null,"abstract":"This article intends to examine, in a documented and systematized way, the main contributions of scholars of the imaginary to research in journalism in Brazil, since the mid-1990s. It begins by presenting the idea of Juremir Machado da Silva (\"journalism as an operation of information and mythologization\"), followed by Vera Franca (\"journalism as a form of sociability\"), both postgraduates under Michel Maffesoli's guidance, in France. Then, the theses of Gislene Silva (\"journalism as a mythic-symbolic manifestation\") and Ana Tais Barros (\"journalism as a potential generator of myths\") are discussed, authors also affiliated with the French tradition initiated by Gilbert Durand, in the 1960s. The investigation seeks to examine the specific findings of each research, while promoting comparison between them, in order to highlight both the similarities and the differences in the way of viewing the news media. The strongest conclusion is that, despite the theoretical repertoire shared by Brazilian academics in the area — notably around the anthropological theory of the imaginary and the sociology of everyday life — their journalistic analyzes show conflicting results on the phenomenon in contemporary times.","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2021 1","pages":"233-246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44183597","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}

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Una dinamica degli sguardi dall'immaginario creepypasta all'horror videoludico = A dynamics of gazes from the creepypasta imaginary to horror videogames 从令人毛骨悚然的意大利面到恐怖游戏游戏的动态凝视

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P71

F. Cavaletti, F. Toniolo

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Immaginario Tintoretto o della visione eversiva = Imaginary Tintoretto or subversive vision 想象的Tintoretto或颠覆性视觉

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H-ermes-Journal of Communication Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1285/I22840753N19P55

A. Amendola, A. Trotta

{"title":"Immaginario Tintoretto o della visione eversiva = Imaginary Tintoretto or subversive vision","authors":"A. Amendola, A. Trotta","doi":"10.1285/I22840753N19P55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22840753N19P55","url":null,"abstract":"Reconstructing the expressive \"hazard\" and the visionary innovative matrix of Jacopo Rubusti aka Tintoretto (Venice 1518-1594) in creative processes. This is the goal of our essay which reconstructs the centrality of Tintoretto's imagination in some chapters of the twentieth century. In particular, we find Tintoretto's work in the realist / symbolist writing of Henry James, in the philosophical-literary analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre, in the painting of Emilio Vedova, in the gaze of Peter Greenaway, in the acting of David Bowie. But what is the attraction of Tintoretto? Probably: the fury of style, the dimension of tonal painting, the idea of a new luminosity, the energetic tension, the attention to new trends (rejected or denied by his teacher Tiziano), the sense of the dramatic, the scenic construction , teamwork, the great variety of genres (the altarpiece, the profane fable, allegorical painting), the overcoming of mannerism and the announcement of the Baroque. And it is precisely this imaginative stratification that first provoked our curiosity and then the desire for a more in-depth methodical study that prompted us to perceive comparisons, continuity and research directions to be deepened (in a very dense and interdisciplinary mosaic) between different authors but united by the \"subversive vision\" of Tintoretto. With this essay we want to reconstruct the anxiety of innovation put in place by Tintoretto (who in the beginning \"disturbed\" Roberto Longhi) and analyze it both as an extraordinary imaginary to be reconstructed and as a masterly \"device\" to recompose a chapter of the imagination of our contemporaneity (up to the docu-film Tintoretto. A rebel in Venice directed in 2019 by the writer Melania Mazzucco who shows us the subversion and modernity of the \"kidnapped of Venice\").","PeriodicalId":40441,"journal":{"name":"H-ermes-Journal of Communication","volume":"2021 1","pages":"55-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47299567","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}

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