Rethinking Cultural Criticism
New Voices in the Digital Age
Editors: Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard, From, Unni, Haastrup, Helle Kannik (Eds.)
Free Preview- Explores cultural criticism across a range of cultural domains in an increasingly digital world
- Points to a variety of theoretical and methodological tools of importance to the study of digital cultural criticism
- Provides a comparative contribution by presenting studies of global as well as national cases
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- About this book
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This edited volume examines cultural criticism in the digital age. It provides new insights into how critical authority and expertise in a cultural context are being reconfigured in digital media and by means of digital media, as the boundaries of cultural criticism and who may perform as a cultural critic are redefined or even dissolved. The book applies cross-media and cross-disciplinary perspectives to advance cultural criticism as a wide-ranging and multi-facetted object of study in the 21st century. Presenting a broad collection of case studies, including global cases such as the Golden Globe, the Intellectual Dark Web, YouTube, Rotten Tomatoes and Artsy and particular national contexts such as Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark and the Netherlands, the book showcases the many theoretical and methodological approaches that may serve as useful frameworks for studying new critical voices in the digital age. It will be of interest to media, communication and journalism scholars as well as scholars from a range of aesthetic disciplines.
- About the authors
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Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, PhD, is Professor of Media Studies at Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, where she serves as Head of Section of Media Studies. She specializes in research about media and popular culture, cultural journalism and cultural criticism across platforms and political communication.
Unni From, PhD, is Associate Professor of Media and Journalism at School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, where she serves as researcher and Deputy Head of the School. She specializes in research about cultural and lifestyle journalism and cultural criticism across media, and applies both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Helle Kannik Haastrup, PhD, is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. She specializes in research about film and television aesthetics and popular digital media culture, celebrity culture, intertextual storytelling and cross-media analysis.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: Rethinking Cultural Criticism—New Voices in the Digital Age
Pages 1-15
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Public Intellectuals on New Platforms: Constructing Critical Authority in a Digital Media Culture
Pages 17-42
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The Use of Wine as a Performance of a Style of Being: A Methodological Proposal to the Study of Persona-Driven Cultural Criticism
Pages 43-65
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Fans, Fun and Homophobia: Mischievous Criticism on the Czecho-Slovak Film Database
Pages 67-89
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When Golden Globes and Stars Align: The Awards Show as a Platform for Cultural Criticism
Pages 91-112
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Rethinking Cultural Criticism
- Book Subtitle
- New Voices in the Digital Age
- Editors
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- Nete Nørgaard Kristensen
- Unni From
- Helle Kannik Haastrup
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-15-7474-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-7474-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-15-7473-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 264
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
- Topics