{"title":"‘Schatzi’: Making Meaning of Diaspora","authors":"Dafina Paca","doi":"10.18573/J.2015.10005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2015.10005","url":null,"abstract":"Diasporas have been widely studied since the late 1980s, especially focusing on identity, reception and integration in host societies. However, research exploring the relationship of diasporas with their homelands and, in particular, how homelands view and think about their diasporas is still developing. This article explores the discursive construction and representation of the Kosovo Albanian Diaspora by homeland Kosovo Albanians by critically engaging with responses to thirteen semi-structured interviews with Kosovan Albanians in Kosovo. The discourse of the ‘Schatzi’ is examined as a stereotype employed in narratives about diasporic Kosovo Albanian identity in relation to the homeland. The article demonstrates that dominant discourses of ‘othering’ surrounding migration, identity, cultural difference and national narratives of belonging and exclusion are not exclusive to host country contexts – suggesting that we must explore outside the normative paradigms of studying diaspora within host societies.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67513920","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":"Transnational identities and digital media: the digitalisation of Italian Diaspora in London","authors":"S. Marino","doi":"10.18573/J.2015.10007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2015.10007","url":null,"abstract":"Digital media and mobile technologies have allowed migrants to keep in touch with family and friends across the world. On the one hand, the fact that communication is no longer limited to the individual’s offline networks means that moving to another country is no longer associated with isolation. On the other hand, new developments in information and communication technologies are transforming the experience of migration with implications for sociality, identity, and political and cultural involvement. In this article I will explore how new transnational cultures are being initiated through the consumption of digital media, and how media consumption is specifically shaping Italian diaspora in London. Based on ethnographic data and participant observation, I intend to address two key points: first, to what extent media improve immigrants’ transnational experience by affecting their quality of life; second, and more widely, whether or not media can affect the process of integration between diasporic communities and host countries. An investigation of the concept of Transnational Virtual Communities of Immigrants (VTCI) will also help to define new directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67513481","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":"Moving Feelings, Intimate Moods and Migrant Protest in Cardiff","authors":"Alida Payson","doi":"10.18573/j.2015.10002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/j.2015.10002","url":null,"abstract":"In a public mood of marked hostility around asylum, emotion overflows protest media produced as part of recent migrant mobilisations. Protest media seeks to touch audiences, to stir public feeling for migrants, to build a sense of collectivity, and to move the collective to action, but the emotional modes used also work sideways to produce uneasy and unpredictable affects. This article examines the ‘cultural politics of emotion’(Ahmed 2004) in three pieces of media produced as part of recent refugee protests in Cardiff, Wales: a book of asylum-seeking women’s testimonies, a series of antideportation blog posts and videos, and a ‘Refugee House’ museum installation. Feelings declared outright, such as love, rage and despair, work to move publics outright, but also relegate participants into confined genres of action and subjectivity. Uneasy effects generated through the media’s aesthetics and materiality stir up other, more ambivalent and mobile emotional modes. This article explores the qualities of these uneasy affects, and how they might alter moods around asylum for political effect.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67513170","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":"Seeing the Other: the Depiction of China in British Documentary Films","authors":"Gina Plana Espinet","doi":"10.18573/J.2014.10282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2014.10282","url":null,"abstract":"The Western world has been contemplating China since the early times of Marco Polo. Recent and former researchers have approached East-West relationships and much attention has been paid to the Western portrayal of the country. However, little has been said about how Chinese culture has traditionally been depicted in audiovisual media and analysis of the images of China in documentary films is particularly scarce. From the first Attack on a China Mission (1900) to The dying rooms (1995), British filmmakers have portrayed China in many different ways. The aim of this paper is to outline general patterns of representation in documentary films on China produced in the UK, looking at some of the most outstanding films of the century. We find that positive and negative images of the country and the people have successively been on the screens and that the balance between them has traditionally depended more on international relationships between China and the UK, than on China’s reality itself. Access to information and changes in the documentary production sector have proved to be determining too. More than ever before, our understanding of China is of crucial importance today, and the results of this paper show how media practices can either hinder or smooth the path to mutual comprehension.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67512118","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":"Maps of the South-Pacific: How Britain invented Australia","authors":"Alessandro Bucci","doi":"10.18573/J.2014.10287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2014.10287","url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to investigate an alternative view of land and of its cartographic representations. Such view sees land not as a priori given, but as available to be interpreted in relation to the subjective gaze of those who look at it and determine it as a social space. In particular, this study looks at the South-Pacific. The ‘discovery’ of the landmasses in that area is to be read in a typically European context, for it completes the vision of the world of those that had earlier ignored its existence. From this point of view, I have analyzed representations of Australia that show the evolution of how the rest of the world learnt to think about it. In particular, I have taken into account cartographic representations that show how the unknown lands of the South were turned into the fetished British possession of Australia. Looking at them is a useful way to develop considerations about the processes of appropriation of land by the British Empire.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67513005","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":"Floating Borders within a Text – Hong Kong Literature in English","authors":"Rebecca Ehrenwirth","doi":"10.18573/J.2014.10281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2014.10281","url":null,"abstract":"Hong Kong is an ambivalent city. Coined by its postcolonial past, it tried to develop independently after the handover to the People’s Republic of China in 1997. National classification for Hong Kong seems to be difficult – people see themselves usually neither as British nor as Chinese. They developed their own identity; they are Hong Kongers. This essay grasps this unique feeling of ‘Hong Kong’ identity by analysing literary works by different authors who ‘decided’ to write in English about Hong Kong. However, these authors are not only writing about Hong Kong, in fact they are reflecting and recreating the city in their fiction, capturing it in one of the city’s predominant languages.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67511222","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":"South Korean Film Festivals for Mobile Cinema: Sites for Cultural Translation or Vehicles for Segyehwa?","authors":"G. Wilson","doi":"10.18573/J.2014.10283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2014.10283","url":null,"abstract":"The growing international and trans-national practice of making films with mobile, nonprofessional cameras find new means of exhibition and novel routes to distribution in online screening venues, but primarily at dedicated or supportive film festivals. This paper investigates how such film festivals function as sites of cultural translation of moving images in South Korea. This dynamic has evolved from a somewhat passive reacting to external cultural influences, to become a vehicle for expressing the official South Korean government’s policy strategy of segyehwa (Shin, 2005; Kim, 2005): of turning outwards to the world to express contemporary notions of South Korean national identity. I draw on case studies from two film festivals in South Korea during 2011: Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) and Seoul international Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival (SESIFF). As venues for innovative cinematic practice, they foreground contemporary South Korean society’s influence in the use of mobile phone and Digital SLR cameras as filmic apparatus, indicating the take-up of new methods of film production and exhibition that negotiates a complex dynamic of socio-cultural translation of moving images.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67513023","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":"Cultural Translation and East Asia: Film, Literature and Religion","authors":"K. Taylor-Jones, Yan Ying","doi":"10.18573/J.2014.10279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2014.10279","url":null,"abstract":"This introduction offers a discussion of the aims and objectives of this JOMEC Journal special issue, which is devoted to Cultural Translation and East Asia: Creativity, Film, Literature and Religion. We debate why this topic is timely given the ever increasing visibility of East Asian Cultures in the West and focus on how the act of translation is important in any cultural interaction.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67511147","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 revolution that never took place: episodic framing of political repression and unrest in Egypt","authors":"L. Phillips","doi":"10.18573/J.2014.10288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2014.10288","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of both the mass media and the social media in supporting the protesters in Tahrir Square in spring 2011, and to challenge the claim that the new social media created an alternative public sphere (Castells 1997) that empowered the Egyptian protesters by portraying them in a positive light, thereby precipitating ‘the end of a 30-year autocratic regime’ (Harlow and Johnson 2011).The distinction between episodic frames and thematic frames is crucial in this investigation: episodic frames being defined as those that depict public issues ‘in terms of concrete instances’ and thematic frames as those that place ‘public issues in some more general or abstract context’ and that present these issues in terms of ‘general outcomes and conditions’ (Iyengar 1991: 14). This episodic-thematic distinction suggests that episodic coverage of the Tahrir protests provided limited insight into the limited success of these protests, and that thematic interpretations did not provide sufficient insight into the endemic nature of repression in Egyptian society.","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67513099","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":"Of Intellectual Hospitality: Buddhism and Deconstruction","authors":"E. Ng","doi":"10.18573/J.2014.10286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/J.2014.10286","url":null,"abstract":"This paper makes a plea of a stronger ethos of intellectual hospitality in dialogical exchanges between the Western philosophical and non-Western wisdom traditions, focusing in particular on the relationship between (Mahayana) Buddhist teachings and Derridean deconstruction. The main point of reference for this discussion is Zen lineage holder and philosopher, David Loy’s writings that explores the reciprocity between Buddhist and deconstructive understandings to pursue the goal of ‘mutual healing’. Loy’s discourse is in principle a laudable attempt at encouraging a stronger ethos of intellectual hospitality in comparative scholarship. However, I will show that his criticism of deconstruction’s ‘textual idolatry’ betrays an inaccurate, myopic reading of Derrida’s writings. Loy’s discourse thus lapses back into the habit of ontotheological closure, which he claims the Buddhist approach is better at overcoming than deconstruction; and in enacting, if only unwittingly, one-upmanship, it falls short of the proposed goal of ‘mutual healing’. To develop this argument, I first identify intellectual hospitality as a guiding ethos of an emergent discourse called Buddhist critical-constructive reflection, which crossfertilises Buddhist teachings with the knowledge-practices of the secular academy to address current issues. I then outline the key points of consonance between Buddhist and Derridean thinking before problematising Loy’s criticism of deconstruction. After showing how Loy’s proposed objective of ‘mutual healing’ functions instead to stymie dialogue, I chart a way forward towards renewed intellectual hospitality between the two sets of knowledge-practices by submitting for consideration, the ways in which the bodhisattva ideal of the Mahayana and the Derridean = passion for the impossible share a commitment of utter response-ability towards incalculable alterity – a praxis-ideal that may be described as unconditional unconditionality unconditionally","PeriodicalId":87289,"journal":{"name":"JOMEC journal : journalism, media and cultural studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"79-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67513234","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}