One of the defining features of contemporary zeitgeist is that we live in an era of mediatization – a metaprocess, through (and by) which all everyday relations increasingly depend on networked media technologies and online communication channels. Due to rapid developments in digital electronics, all these Internet- or mobile-enabled platforms, and devices, are prone to the processes of quantification and datafication, and as such, surveillance is a principal dimension that lies at the core of mediatization. Through five peer-reviewed academic articles and the cover text, this dissertation provides a multi-faceted analysis of the complex relationships – built by Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s state intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies with a number of local, and global, private information, entertainment and telecommunications companies. The articles are focused on different cases: the complete dispersion of commercial social media based oppositional activists in Azerbaijan, and the arrests of Anonymous led hacktivists in Turkey, both happening in 2011; and, the mass mobilization of millions of Turkish citizens during the Gezi Park protests of 2013. The current compilation puts forth in-depth accounts and scrutiny of how various social movements (in general), and individual activists (in particular), are affected by an amalgamation of public, political; and, private, economic, surveillance practices and seeks to illuminate the abusive extents of this transformation – vis-à-vis the changing media and communication environment – by way of using mediatization as an analytical tool. Overall, this dissertation contributes a nuanced understanding of the complex interplay between the increasingly mediatized natures of activism and surveillance in semi-authoritarian states. The conclusions have relevance and significance – in considering both similar country contexts and on a global scale – in the light of contemporary technological and political transformations. / One of the defining features of contemporary zeitgeist is that we live in an era of mediatization – a metaprocess, through (and by) which all everyday relations increasingly depend on networked media technologies and online communication channels – and surveillance is a principal dimension that lies at its core. Through five peer-reviewed academic articles and the cover text, this dissertation provides a multi-faceted analysis of the complex relationships built by Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s state intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies with a number of local, and global, private information, entertainment and telecommunications companies. The current compilation puts forth in-depth accounts and scrutiny of how various social movements and individual activists are affected by an amalgamation of public, political; and, private, economic, surveillance practices and seeks to illuminate the abusive extents of this transformation by way of using mediatization as an analytical tool. Overall, this dissertation contributes a nuanced understanding of the complex interplay between the increasingly mediatized natures of activism and surveillance in semi-authoritarian states.

Practising Shadow Theatre in the West today means to subvert the predominantly negative view of shadow in the Western psyche, to transcend the faintly racist notion of shadow theatre as the quaint practice of traditional people of the East and to contend with the dominant influences of the electronic media on this once powerful and popular art form. This research is through creative practice in the form of the production, Cactus. This performance investigates the use of the screen in contemporary Shadow Theatre and the optimisation of the live theatrical experience. The performance also seeks to integrate mediatized and non-mediatized performance through the combination of live performance and projected images. My research is a social constructivist process to creative practice as research using a pluralistic approach including elements of action research and autobiography. The literature included for review in this study includes work by Brook, Grotowski, Auslander, Sontag, and Schechner. The literature analysis and previous training with Italian company, Teatro Gioco Vita, served to inform the application of my theories as praxis. The central question of this research project is: How can I break the fifth wall (which is the screen) in shadow theatre performance? Subsidiary questions are: How can we harness the advantages of both mediatized and non-mediatized performance to produce a contemporary shadow theatre form catering to the needs of a twenty-first century audience? How can I optimize the live theatrical experience? What is contemporary Shadow Theatre?

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T17:55:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 12 / Nenhuma / Esta tese examina as transformações que estão ocorrendo no âmbito do jornalismo a partir de sua imbricação com outros sistemas. A pesquisa observa o que representam, ao jornalismo, estes novos territórios conceituais a partir de uma reflexão teórica do fenômeno da midiatização e por meio de estudo empírico de dois acontecimentos – o "Escândalo da Arbitragem" e o "Acidente da Gol" – que, em sua processualidade, emprestam materialidade à análise proposta. O trabalho está estruturado em três movimentos: o desenvolvimento do cenário em que a midiatização se estabelece, a complexificação deste cenário e, finalmente, a processualidade da midiatização. Entendemos que a midiatização, em sua processualidade, acaba por afetar seus próprios dispositivos, neste caso os jornalísticos, midiatizando-os. Complexificam-se, assim, formas e processos desenvolvidos ao longo de pelo menos 300 anos de evolução, o que requer novas gramáticas interpretativas. / This thesis examines the changes that have been occurring in the journalistic field with regards its connection to other systems. The research observes what these new conceptual fields represent from a theoretical reflection of the mediatization phenomenon, and through an empirical study of two events known as "The scandal of arbitration" and "Gol's accident", which generated the content for this analysis. The work is structured in three parts: the scenario development, in which the midiatization is set; the complexity of this scenario; and finally, the process of midiatization. We understand that this process ends by affecting its own mechanisms, in this case, the journalistic ones, by mediatizing them. Forms and processes that have been developing throughout the last 300 years of journalistic evolution are becoming more complex and require new interpretations.

Submitted by Fabricia Fialho Reginato (fabriciar) on 2015-08-12T23:38:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LuanaTeixeira.pdf: 4161059 bytes, checksum: 8f4ca87f2ee64365d9ecf74d3b458d2b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-12T23:38:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LuanaTeixeira.pdf: 4161059 bytes, checksum: 8f4ca87f2ee64365d9ecf74d3b458d2b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-31 / Nenhuma / A presente dissertação examina as estratégias cada vez mais complexas empreendidas pelas organizações midiáticas na busca de novas interações que promovam o vínculo com a recepção. Ao analisar a Seção Participe de zerohora.com, dispositivo que realiza as interações do webjornal com seus leitores, observamos a constituição de um contrato de leitura imbricado em regimes discursivos atravessados pelos efeitos da midiatização do jornalismo. Através de um processo analítico-descritivo observamos, entre outros aspectos, que o contrato de leitura da Seção Participe é uma elaboração racional do nicho produtivo uma vez que visa resultados, ainda que nem sempre possam se efetivar nos termos segundo estimados. Ao percorrermos os seis blocos da matriz do contrato de leitura por nós examinado, podemos afirmar que se trata de um contrato organizado mediante operações diferentes com objetivos e estratégias diversas pensadas para atingir públicos distintos. / This dissertation examines increasingly complex strategies taken by media organizations in the search for new interactions that promote the link with the reception. In examining Section Participe of zerohora.com, a device that performs the interations of the web journal with its readers, observed the formation of a contract that brings reading discursive regimes crossed by the effects of media coverage of journalism. Through a process analytical-descriptive noted, among other things, that the contract is read Section Join a rational development of productive niche as it seeks results, although not always to be effective in terms which are estimated. When make six blocks of the array of reading contract examined, we can say that this is a contract arranged through separate operations with some other objectives and strategies designed to reach distincts audiences.

The 1990s saw a climax of literature representations in what Ong called the secondary orality, particularly in film, television, and radio; for instance, the film industry produced a number of adaptations of novels that had been accepted into the American literary canon, while television and radio marketed literature through book clubs and literary shows. All these literary productions mediated through film, radio, and television are referred to in this study as mediatized literature. The argument of this dissertation is that 1990s U.S. mediatized literature constitutes a post-modern re-enactment of the traditional oral literature that initially emerged on U.S. territory with pre-literate populations. In support of this thesis, chapter 1 presents the features of the oral traditions of four ethnic groups, while subsequent chapters feature an application of these characteristics, or variations thereof, to literary discourses from film, television, and radio. There is a structural correlation between the oral tradition of the four ethnic groups presented in chapter 1 -- Native-American, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian -- and some of the movie adaptations discussed in chapters 2 and 3 that are based on fiction representing the same ethnic groups (Beloved for the African-American mediatized literature, The Mambo Kings for the Hispanic one, etc.). While analyzing the features common to both the oral tradition and the mediatized literature, this study makes use of four variables (authorship, audience, literary product, and literary aesthetics) and of a complex critical apparatus that includes theories of the linguistic sign, the Bakhtinian dialogic system, the Jungian concept of the collective unconsciousness, Bolter's concept of remediation, etc. Throughout this dissertation, I will argue that, in spite of the Ongian condescension vis-á-vis oral cultural messages as inferior to the written ones, and contrary to Postmanian media apprehensions and Franzenian inertia toward mediatized literature, both oral and mediatized literary messages can be classified as literature, although they may not always follow traditional aesthetic parameters embraced by canonical written literature. Chapter 5 of this dissertation presents some of the major points of the current conversation related to the acceptance of mediatized literature and of the oral tradition into the category of literature and to the complex socio-economic and literary implications of the dissemination of literature through mass media.

The contemporary media landscape invites us to experience a belonging to various distant places, mourn the victims of faraway disasters, expose ourselves to foreign cultures and engage in political issues in places far from our local context of living. In other words, we are invited to become citizens of the world – cosmopolitans. But are we? And if so, how is such cosmopolitanism expressed in a given society, under what social conditions, and in relation to what media practices? Contemporary social theory depicts a global or cosmopolitan mode of orienting in the world as paradigmatic of social life in global modernity. To date, little is known about the structural realities of such orientations. Against this backdrop, the aim of the present study is to understand the potentially “cosmopolitan” character of peoples’ outlooks and practices, and the societal conditions in which they can be identified. On the one hand, the aim of the study is to contribute to the largely theoretical accounts of the “cosmopolitan” character of social life in present times, andon the other, to understand the specific role of various media practices in the process generally described as “cosmopolitanization”. Results yielded by a national survey deployed in Sweden (n = 1 025) show that the distribution of various cosmopolitan dispositions abides by logics of social stratification. In tandem with previous research, cosmopolitanism – when studied “from below” – has a tendency to emerge in more privileged spheres of society. Being “connected” and simply living in a potentially global media landscape does not nullify this pattern. Contrary to significant parts of popular and scholarly conviction, the media is no uniform, all-encompassing environment operating as a force of cosmopolitanization across all social strata. The results of this study point towards a “mediatized cosmopolitanism” that is impossible to disentangle from social context and the power dynamics pertaining to that context. / Det samtida medielandskapet tillåter oss att känna tillhörigheter till en mängd olika platser, sörja offer för katastrofer i fjärran länder, exponera oss för främmande kulturella uttryck och engagera oss i politiska frågor rörande platser långt bortom vårt lokala sammanhang. Vi tycks med andra ord bli inbjuda att bli världsmedborgare – kosmopoliter. Men är vi det? Hur uttrycks i sådana fall kosmopolitismen i ett givet samhälle - under vilka förhållanden och i relation till vilka mediepraktiker? Samtida samhällsvetenskaplig teori framställer ett globalt-, eller kosmopolitiskt förhållningsssätt som paradigmatiskt för det sociala livet i den globala moderniteten. Dock finns inte tillräckligt underlag för att förstå den strukturella verkligheten kring sådana förhållningssätt. Mot den bakgrunden är syftet med föreliggande studie att förstå den potentiellt sett ”kosmopolitiska” karaktären på människors förhållningssätt och praktiker och de förhållanden i vilka sådana orienteringar kommer till uttryck. Således är syftet å ena sidan att bidra empiriskt till teoretiska beskrivningar av vår kosmopolitiska samtid. Å andra sidan söker studien också förstå den specifika rollen av olika mediepraktiker i relation till den process som beskrivits som ”kosmopolitaniseringen”. Resultat från en nationell enkätundersökning i Sverige (n = 1 025) visar på en social stratifiering av kosmopolitiska orienteringar. I linje med tidigare forskning påvisar föreliggande studie att kosmopolitism studerad “underifrån” har en tendens att framförallt komma till uttryck i mer priviligierade samhällssfärer. Att vara “sammanlänkad” och helt enkelt leva i ett potentiellt sett globalt medielandskap motverkar inte den tendensen. I motsats till både populära och akademiska utsagor utgör inte medierna en unison och allomfattande miljö som sätter igång en process av kosmopolitanisering i alla samhällets skikt. Studiens resultat pekar istället mot en ”medialiserad kosmopolitism” som är omöjlig att förstå utan att ta hänsyn till sitt sociala sammanhang och de maktförhållanden som råder i det sammanhanget.

How do the media react in the face of a violent phenomenon involving actors both embraced and marginalized by society? One such phenomena – the McArthur murders – encapsulates this dynamic considering how the media explained the murders to their audiences. McArthur, a white LGBTQ+ man, murdered over a seven-year period specifically targeting male victims of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent associated with the LGBTQ+ community and geographic area in Toronto, Canada. The victims embodied a variety of marginalized identities including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, immigration status and houselessness. It is in this context that this qualitative study finds itself, investigating media coverage of the McArthur murders in two mediums/Canadian outlets. The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper representing newspaper coverage, and a podcast produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Uncover: The Village representing podcast (or audio) media. Considering the context of the McArthur murders and the identities of the actors involved, the study is focused on how normativity and deviancy are constructed through mediatized eyes (or frames). Through a blend of deductive and inductive framing analysis relying on a queer phenomenologically-inspired theoretical framework, the study’s aim is threefold: (1) to uncover what frames are most prevalent across both outlets, (2) to understand, using deductively applied frames, how both outlets construct the events of the McArthur murders and, (3) to understand the interplay between mediatized reification or mitigation of normativity. The analysis found that both newspaper and podcast were most concerned with attributing responsibility in their coverage, which introduced the queer phenomenological understanding of institutions into the analysis, a pattern which continued throughout each deductively applied frame. Moreover, connections to analogous sets of murders in 1970s Toronto broadened the implications of the study across time. Finally, the analysis showed that rather than solely reifying or mitigating normativity, both outlets’ coverage despite similarities and differences, are illustrative of normativity and deviancy’s ongoing orientation towards one another. The conflict between societally standard and aberrant is shown to be a constant over time, after death, and across contexts – a dynamic relationship which has significance for how media scholars might approach cross-medium analyses of complex phenomena in further research.

Little is known about ‘uninformative live-streaming’, a new genre of online streaming media that has become a new trend in China. In these real-time streams, streamers would not interact and communicate with viewers and not perform in front of cameras. The content is about uninterrupted trivial everyday activities, such as sleeping and studying for several hours. This thesis aims to obtain a comprehensive understanding of this media and to explore what motivates users to continuously watch it. This research employed qualitative methods of online observation and semi-structured in-depth interviews to collect empirical data, through the cases of study-stream and sleep-stream. The concept of media life by Mark Deuze provides a general theoretical context of mediatized lifeworld. Based on Uses and Gratifications Theory and Compensatory Internet Use Theory, I described and explained the prominent features of uninformative live-streaming and examined the user motivation for it. The research results show that this authentic, less-interactive, and non-narrative live-streaming creates an undisturbed media environment, in which users can escape media distraction and media overload. The prominent user motivations for uninformative live streams are self-discipline and self-management, and compensation for the real-life deficiency of ‘non-social companion’. These findings offer new insight into user motivation and help to expand and improve related theories.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:29:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RogerioSilva.pdf: 1371773 bytes, checksum: a117365b1dfe27d576dfb609d809eed1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation discusses the Humor in the media and their interaction with culture and social imaginary, it is a study of the program Custe o que Custar (CQC), broadcasted by Bandeirantes television network. Describes the evolution of humor in Western history, its relations with the cultures and their foray in the media, in the nineteenth century. Maps the humor present in the Brazilian media in XX and XXI centuries and presents a categorization of television comedy. About television program studied rescued up your history, from its origins in Brazil until today. It has been shown through literature, the process of mediatization of society and the creation of individual and social identities, guided by the production of consumer goods. There was integration among symbolic values of culture, media and social imaginary. We conclude by analyzing the program that humor is an important discursive element in the spread of ideas and values and can be both a transforming element when in accordance with the prevailing social structures. Also, the CQC is one element among many media products, which act as social agents to act in the construction of symbolic values and the social imaginary. In the case studied, the information is confused with entertainment, resulting in a hybrid characteristic of contemporary mediated culture. / Esta dissertação aborda o humor na mídia e sua interação com a cultura e o imaginário social, a partir de um estudo do programa Custe o que Custar (CQC), da rede Bandeirante de televisão. Inicialmente descreve a evolução do humor na história ocidental, suas relações com as culturas e sua incursão na mídia, a partir do século XIX. Num segundo momento mapeia o humor presente na mídia brasileira nos séculos XX e XXI e apresenta uma categorização de programas humorísticos televisivos. Em relação ao programa televisivo estudado, resgatou-se o seu histórico, desde a sua origem no Brasil até o início do ano de 2013. Demonstrou-se por meio de levantamento bibliográfico o processo de midiatização da sociedade e a criação de identidades individuais e sociais, pautadas pela produção de bens de consumo. Por meio de uma análise descritiva, pode-se verificar a integração entre valores simbólicos da cultura, mídia e imaginário social. Concluiu-se, pela análise do programa, que o humor é elemento discursivo importante na propagação de ideias e valores, e pode ser elemento tanto de transformação quando de conformidade com as estruturas sociais dominantes. Também, que o CQC é mais um elemento dentre diversos produtos midiáticos, que funcionam como agentes sociais a atuar na construção de valores simbólicos e no imaginário social. Ainda, que no caso estudado, a informação se confunde com o entretenimento, resultando em um produto híbrido característico da cultura midiatizada contemporânea.

Submitted by Fabricia Fialho Reginato (fabriciar) on 2015-08-28T00:39:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 monalisaXavier.pdf: 2470996 bytes, checksum: 2d8fc39181b86c16f613751d2d910b5d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-28T00:39:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 monalisaXavier.pdf: 2470996 bytes, checksum: 2d8fc39181b86c16f613751d2d910b5d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-13 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A midiatização em acelerado processo na sociedade contemporânea altera de modo complexo o funcionamento das enunciações e os modos de interagir, que passam a acontecer vastamente no espaço de dispositivos midiatizados. Tais dispositivos figuram como lugar de agenciamento de diversos saberes e práticas sociais, a exemplo dos saberes e práticas “psi” que, deslocados para sua ambiência, produzem significativas incidências que repercutem na episteme que produz a ideia de consulta. Este estudo se propõe a compreender a singularidade das experimentações tentadas em torno dos saberes “psi” em dispositivos interacionais midiatizados que findam por deslocar os referentes da consulta, de modo a transformá-la. Tais transformações são observadas em três dispositivos interacionais “psi” com ampla circulação social, a saber: a coluna “Vida Íntima”, de autoria de Alberto Goldin; o site Ajudaemocional.com, de Olga Tessari; e as enunciações produzidas por Ildo Rosa da Fonseca e Anahy D’amico no Programa “Casos de Família”. Os observáveis foram cartografados e tensionados em suas lógicas particulares, de modo a alcançarmos as regularidades e as singularidades emergentes em cada um. A análise desenvolvida como um estudo de casos múltiplos nos conduziu a perceber significativos aspectos dos processos sociais condensados nos dispositivos, bem como permitiu inferências acerca de modos como esses dispositivos podem fazer avançar os campos de saberes envolvidos em sua produção. / THE TRANSFORMED APPOINTMENT: Experiments of interactive “psy” devices in mediatized society Mediatization in an accelerated process in contemporary society changes the functioning of enunciations and ways to interact in a complex way, which will happen widely in the space of mediatized devices. Such devices work as a place of agency to several knowledge systems and social practices, as well as “psy” knowledge systems and practices that, when displaced to their ambience, will produce meaningful incidences that pass on the episteme that produces the idea of appointment. The present study aims to understand the singularity of experiments tried around “psy” knowledge systems in interactive mediatized devices that end up displacing the referents of an appointment and transforming it. Such transformations are observed in three interactive “psy” devices with broad social circulation: the newspaper column “Vida Íntima”, signed by Alberto Goldin; the website Ajudaemocional.com, owned by Olga Tessari; and the enunciations produced by Ildo Rosa da Fonseca and Anahy D’amico at the TV Show “Casos de Família”. The observable were mapped and tensioned in their private logics so that we could reach the regularities and singularities emerging in each one. The analysis developed as a multiple-case study has taken us to realize meaningful aspects of social processes condensed in the devices, as well as to allow inferences about the ways in which such devices can advance the field of knowledge systems involved in their production.