Benjamin Litherland
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 668665 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Benjamin Litherland |
| NOMBRES | Benjamin |
| APELLIDO | Litherland |
| FIRMA | LITHERLAND B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3735-354X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Smarter, better, faster, kinder? The problems with claiming that media and popular culture has positive effects
For much of its history, popular culture has been seen as a threat to audiences. This paper identifies a parallel but powerful discourse that runs counter to these narratives: that popular culture is beneficial and makes us ‘smarter’, ‘better’, ‘faster’ or ‘kinder’. While media and cultural studies have robustly criticized ‘negative’ media effects, they’ve been slower to address ‘positive’ effects. This paper corrects that oversight by examining …
Meme-ing while the world burns
This article makes a case for the value and urgency of a cultural study’s contextual approach to researching how climate change news events are interpreted by audiences. Research that applies a classically cultural studies ‘bottom-up’ approach to studying climate media audiences in the spaces and contexts where they encounter and negotiate meaning is surprisingly sparse in the scholarship on climate news reception. The article draws on a case stu…
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’
Fan practices and behaviours have increasingly moved beyond fan communities into the political, economic and cultural structures of every day life. The proliferation of social media platforms has allowed both the progressive and reactionary aspects of fandom to converge in the public sphere, drawing on similar techniques, pleasures, and practices in order to interpret the world in a culture where the boundaries between popular and political commu…
Girls being Rey
This paper argues that consumers of popular culture engage in practices of ‘ethical cultural consumption’, whereby the consumption of cultural texts is imagined as having the potential to ‘do good’ both individually and socio-politically. The paper explores data from an online questionnaire and drawing activity with girls aged 5–10 and their parents on the experience of costume playing as Rey from the contemporary Star Wars trilogy. Imagined as a…
Ludosity, Radical Contextualism, and a New Games History
This article offers a social history of funfairs and arcades in mid-20th-century urban England. Critiquing existing histories of games for often neglecting players and the specific locales in which games are played, it draws on both new cinema history and cultural studies’ conception of “radical contextualism” to outline what the article describes as a game’s ludosity. Ludosity, the article proposes, is the condition or quality of game partcipati…
Critical feminist hope
Scholarship has pointed to contemporary feminism’s popularity and cultural “luminosity.” While this research has highlighted the limitations of feminist politics in a context of neoliberal individualism, this paper seeks to ask what possibilities for critiques and transformation of gender inequalities might be enabled by feminism’s visibility in neoliberalism. Using a framework of critical feminist hope, we highlight that capitalism’s embrace of …
Introduction
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Sporting Entertainments, Discarded Possibilities and the Case of Football as a Variety Sport, 1905–1906
During the winter of 1905/6, Olympia held a series of spectacular indoor, electrically lit football matches. Organised by the showman Edwin Cleary, the purpose of these matches was to provide entertaining shows to large audiences. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of fields, this article argues that such an organisation was a continuation of a longer interaction between sport and the stage that was restricted during the coalescence of the sporting a…
Introduction
Breakingkayfabeis easy, cheap and never entertaining
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBenjamin LitherlandBenjamin Litherland is a lecturer in Journalism and Media at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has recently completed his PhD examining the history of sparring contests, combat performances and professional wrestling in England, 1700–1980
Critical feminist hope
Scholarship has pointed to contemporary feminism’s popularity and cultural “luminosity.” While this research has highlighted the limitations of feminist politics in a context of neoliberal individualism, this paper seeks to ask what possibilities for critiques and transformation of gender inequalities might be enabled by feminism’s visibility in neoliberalism. Using a framework of critical feminist hope, we highlight that capitalism’s embrace of …
Breakingkayfabeis easy, cheap and never entertaining
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBenjamin LitherlandBenjamin Litherland is a lecturer in Journalism and Media at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has recently completed his PhD examining the history of sparring contests, combat performances and professional wrestling in England, 1700–1980
Introduction
Breakingkayfabeis easy, cheap and never entertaining
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBenjamin LitherlandBenjamin Litherland is a lecturer in Journalism and Media at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has recently completed his PhD examining the history of sparring contests, combat performances and professional wrestling in England, 1700–1980
Introduction
No abstract available
Sporting Entertainments, Discarded Possibilities and the Case of Football as a Variety Sport, 1905–1906
During the winter of 1905/6, Olympia held a series of spectacular indoor, electrically lit football matches. Organised by the showman Edwin Cleary, the purpose of these matches was to provide entertaining shows to large audiences. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of fields, this article argues that such an organisation was a continuation of a longer interaction between sport and the stage that was restricted during the coalescence of the sporting a…
Critical feminist hope
Scholarship has pointed to contemporary feminism’s popularity and cultural “luminosity.” While this research has highlighted the limitations of feminist politics in a context of neoliberal individualism, this paper seeks to ask what possibilities for critiques and transformation of gender inequalities might be enabled by feminism’s visibility in neoliberalism. Using a framework of critical feminist hope, we highlight that capitalism’s embrace of …
Ludosity, Radical Contextualism, and a New Games History
This article offers a social history of funfairs and arcades in mid-20th-century urban England. Critiquing existing histories of games for often neglecting players and the specific locales in which games are played, it draws on both new cinema history and cultural studies’ conception of “radical contextualism” to outline what the article describes as a game’s ludosity. Ludosity, the article proposes, is the condition or quality of game partcipati…
Girls being Rey
This paper argues that consumers of popular culture engage in practices of ‘ethical cultural consumption’, whereby the consumption of cultural texts is imagined as having the potential to ‘do good’ both individually and socio-politically. The paper explores data from an online questionnaire and drawing activity with girls aged 5–10 and their parents on the experience of costume playing as Rey from the contemporary Star Wars trilogy. Imagined as a…
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’
Fan practices and behaviours have increasingly moved beyond fan communities into the political, economic and cultural structures of every day life. The proliferation of social media platforms has allowed both the progressive and reactionary aspects of fandom to converge in the public sphere, drawing on similar techniques, pleasures, and practices in order to interpret the world in a culture where the boundaries between popular and political commu…
Smarter, better, faster, kinder? The problems with claiming that media and popular culture has positive effects
For much of its history, popular culture has been seen as a threat to audiences. This paper identifies a parallel but powerful discourse that runs counter to these narratives: that popular culture is beneficial and makes us ‘smarter’, ‘better’, ‘faster’ or ‘kinder’. While media and cultural studies have robustly criticized ‘negative’ media effects, they’ve been slower to address ‘positive’ effects. This paper corrects that oversight by examining …
Meme-ing while the world burns
This article makes a case for the value and urgency of a cultural study’s contextual approach to researching how climate change news events are interpreted by audiences. Research that applies a classically cultural studies ‘bottom-up’ approach to studying climate media audiences in the spaces and contexts where they encounter and negotiate meaning is surprisingly sparse in the scholarship on climate news reception. The article draws on a case stu…
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