Convexity methods in variational calculus / by SMITH P.

• Record Nr.: UNINA990001304950403321
• Autore: Smith, Peter
• Locazione: MA1
• Collocazione: 114-D-9
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Fans, bloggers, and gamers [[electronic resource] ] : exploring participatory culture / / Henry Jenkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782024403321
• Autore: Jenkins Henry <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-8147-4369-2
• Descrizione fisica: 286p
• Classificazione: AP 17040
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetti: Mass media and culture; Mass media - Audiences; Mass media - Influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Excerpts from "Matt Hills interviews Harry Jenkins" -- Star trek rerun, reread, rewritten: fan writing as textual poaching -- "Normal female interest in men bonking": selections from the Terra nostra underground and Strange bedfellows / Shoshanna Green, Cynthia Jenkins -- "Out of the closet and into the universe": queers and Star trek / John Campbell -- "Do you enjoy making the rest of us feel stupid?": alt.tv.twinpeaks, the trickster author, and viewer mastery -- Interactive audiences? the "collective intelligence" of media fans -- Pop cosmopolitanism: ; mapping cultural flows in an age of media convergence -- Love online -- Blog this! -- A safety net -- Professor Jenkins goes to Washington -- Coming up next! ambushed on Donahue -- The war between effects and meanings: rethinking the video game violence debate -- The Chinese Columbine: how one tragedy ignited the Chinese government's simmering fears of youth culture and the internet -- "The monsters next door": a father-son dialogue about Buffy, moral panic, and generational differences / Henry G. Jenkins IV.
• Sommario/riassunto: Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Henry Jenkins“s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to the general public at the time, today, media producers and advertisers, not to mention researchers and fans, take for granted the idea that the success of a media franchise depends on fan investments and participation.Bringing together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumers, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers takes readers from Jenkins's progressive early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his more recent work, combating moral panic and defending Goths and gamers in the wake of the Columbine shootings. Starting with an interview on the current state of fan studies, this volume maps the core theoretical and methodological issues in Fan Studies. It goes on to chart the growth of participatory culture on the web, take up blogging as perhaps the most powerful illustration of how consumer participation impacts mainstream media, and debate the public policy implications surrounding participation and intellectual property.

Life after theory / / edited by Michael Payne and John Schad

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810379603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2003; ©2003
• ISBN: 1-4411-5863-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 pages)
• Disciplina: 190/.9/04
• Soggetti: Philosophy, Modern; Critical theory; Philosophers
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Is there life after theory? If the death of the Author has now been followed by the death of the Theorist, what's left? Indeed, who's left? To explore such riddles Life. After.Theory brings together new interviews with four theorists who are left, each a major figure in their own right: Jacques Derrida, Frank Kermode, Toril Moi, and Christopher Norris. Framed and introduced by Michael Payne and John Schad, the interviews pursue a whole range of topics, both familiar and unfamiliar. Among other things, Derrida, Kermode, Moi and Norris discuss being an outsider, taking responsibility, valuing books, getting angry, doing science, listening to music, remembering Empson, rereading de Beauvoir, being Jewish, asking forgiveness, smoking in libraries, befriending the dead, committing bigamy, forgetting to forget, thinking, not thinking, believing, and being mad. These four key thinkers explore why there is life after theory...but not as we know it. Jacques Derrida is Professor at the +cole des Hautes +tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of a range of extraordinarily influential works including Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Sir Frank Kermode is a former King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and author of, among many other books, The Sense of An Ending: Studies ; in the Theory of Fiction, Shakespeare's Language, and Not Entitled, his memoirs. Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Her books include Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman and What Is a Woman? And Other Essays. Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He has published some twenty books to date, including, most recently,; Deconstruction and the Unfinished Project of Modernity, Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Response-Dependence, and Hilary Putnam: Reason, Realism, and the Uses of Uncertainty.