Fixing and Circulating the Popular
Ethnographies of Technology, Media, Archives and the Dissemination of Culture
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2020
Book
Hardback
164 pages
978-3-0340-1394-9 (ISBN)
Description
Fixing and Circulating the Popular is a contribution to the fields of cultural anthropology/folklore studies, cultural studies, and media studies, exploring processes of appropriation and re-coding of popular culture in everyday life. The articles in this volume are inspired by the research approach of cultural analysis of technology (Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung) and present new ethnographic case studies on techniques of collecting and distributing popular culture in the past and present, such as folk heritage collections, radio, and cultural policies building upon such media. They investigate love communication and mobile phone videos produced and distributed with smartphones and the use of geodata platforms.
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Acknowledgements and Dedication
Ute Holfelder, Johannes Müske
Fixing and Circulating the Popular (Introduction)
Thomas Hengartner
Technology, Culture and the Everyday: Technology Studies as the Study of Everyday Culture
Fanny Gutsche-Jones, Karoline Oehme-Jüngling
Circulating "Swissness": The Construction of National Identity through Popular Music and the Impact of Technology
Karin Gustavsson
Investigations of Vernacular Architecture in Scandinavia in the 1920s
Johannes Müske
Transforming Superstition into Living Traditions: Archiving and Circulating "Folk Medicine" in Switzerland
Sibylle Künzler
Walking - Clicking - Locating - Zooming: Circulations of Spatial Practices through Navigational Geodata Platforms like Google Maps
Ute Holfelder
"The Unique Moment": Camera Phone Videos Taken at Concerts
Christian Ritter
Constructing Ethnicity through ICT: Visual Culture, Creativity and the Circulation of National Symbols in Postmigrant Youth Culture
Klaus Schönberger
Love Communication and Socio-Cultural Change: From Love Letter to Love Message via Camera Phone Video
Notes on Contributors
Ute Holfelder, Johannes Müske
Fixing and Circulating the Popular (Introduction)
Thomas Hengartner
Technology, Culture and the Everyday: Technology Studies as the Study of Everyday Culture
Fanny Gutsche-Jones, Karoline Oehme-Jüngling
Circulating "Swissness": The Construction of National Identity through Popular Music and the Impact of Technology
Karin Gustavsson
Investigations of Vernacular Architecture in Scandinavia in the 1920s
Johannes Müske
Transforming Superstition into Living Traditions: Archiving and Circulating "Folk Medicine" in Switzerland
Sibylle Künzler
Walking - Clicking - Locating - Zooming: Circulations of Spatial Practices through Navigational Geodata Platforms like Google Maps
Ute Holfelder
"The Unique Moment": Camera Phone Videos Taken at Concerts
Christian Ritter
Constructing Ethnicity through ICT: Visual Culture, Creativity and the Circulation of National Symbols in Postmigrant Youth Culture
Klaus Schönberger
Love Communication and Socio-Cultural Change: From Love Letter to Love Message via Camera Phone Video
Notes on Contributors