Katerina Girginova
Biographic Data
| ID | 291222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katerina Girginova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katerina |
| FAMILY NAME | Girginova |
| SIGNATURE | GIRGINOVA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9840-9343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Augmented Landscapes of Empathy: Community Voices in Augmented Reality Campaigns
In contrast with virtual reality which often aims to isolate a user from their surroundings in order to transport them to a distant place, augmented reality (AR) was uniquely designed to (re)contextualize local landscapes and to provide expanded human experiences in situ. This critical reflection adopts a “research through design” process to examine AR’s technological and affective capabilities in the context of three community co-created AR camp…
Global visions for a metaverse
There is a growing effort to locate metaverse developments within the purview of platform research. However, the majority of English-language studies take Horizon Worlds, Meta's US-centric prototype of a metaverse, as the starting point. This critical reflection argues that since the fate of the metaverse is far from settled, and its building blocks exist in a colorful array of global visions, we need to divorce discourses of the metaverse from M…
Global communication as a standpoint: A critical engagement with research, pedagogy, and the profession through a global communication lens
Grounded in the long tradition of embracing the global in communication and media studies and inspired by feminist standpoint epistemology, we argue that global communication can function as an epistemological standpoint. After summarizing the diverse and rich tradition of understanding the global in communication and media studies and beyond, we theorize that a global communication standpoint is characterized by a combination of four aspects tha…
Rio 2016: Olympic audiences and publishing publics
This essay explores how the organizers of the biggest media event in the world, the Olympic Games, interpret and construct their audiences. By critically tracing the discursive evolution of a 50-year span of official Olympic documents, we see the emergence of “the audience” as a key constitutive player in Olympic narratives. This is followed by a recognition of multiple audience groups and an emphasis on publishing publics in the digital era. The…
The Disappearing Audience and Reflexive Visibility
Contrary to popular opinion and some academic writing that celebrates the renewed visibility of new media audiences, this essay argues that they are increasingly going into retreat. To understand how new media audiences 'disappear' from view of one another, I borrow from Brighenti's typology of visibility and develop the idea of 'reflexive visibility.' The latter describes the ability to socially orient ourselves in a digital environment through …
New Media, Creativity, and the Olympics: A Case Study into the Use of #NBCFail During the Sochi Winter Games
The Olympic Games are not only the world’s biggest media event but now also the world’s largest hypermedia (online, mobile, and social media) event, too. This presents a ripe context for the proliferation of new communication technologies and creative practices, a phenomenon that has yet to receive systematic scholarly treatment. By tracing the contours of one ray from the Olympic hypermedia spectrum, the #NBCFail movement during the Sochi 2014 W…
Global communication as a standpoint: A critical engagement with research, pedagogy, and the profession through a global communication lens
Grounded in the long tradition of embracing the global in communication and media studies and inspired by feminist standpoint epistemology, we argue that global communication can function as an epistemological standpoint. After summarizing the diverse and rich tradition of understanding the global in communication and media studies and beyond, we theorize that a global communication standpoint is characterized by a combination of four aspects tha…
Global visions for a metaverse
There is a growing effort to locate metaverse developments within the purview of platform research. However, the majority of English-language studies take Horizon Worlds, Meta's US-centric prototype of a metaverse, as the starting point. This critical reflection argues that since the fate of the metaverse is far from settled, and its building blocks exist in a colorful array of global visions, we need to divorce discourses of the metaverse from M…
New Media, Creativity, and the Olympics: A Case Study into the Use of #NBCFail During the Sochi Winter Games
The Olympic Games are not only the world’s biggest media event but now also the world’s largest hypermedia (online, mobile, and social media) event, too. This presents a ripe context for the proliferation of new communication technologies and creative practices, a phenomenon that has yet to receive systematic scholarly treatment. By tracing the contours of one ray from the Olympic hypermedia spectrum, the #NBCFail movement during the Sochi 2014 W…
New Media, Creativity, and the Olympics: A Case Study into the Use of #NBCFail During the Sochi Winter Games
The Olympic Games are not only the world’s biggest media event but now also the world’s largest hypermedia (online, mobile, and social media) event, too. This presents a ripe context for the proliferation of new communication technologies and creative practices, a phenomenon that has yet to receive systematic scholarly treatment. By tracing the contours of one ray from the Olympic hypermedia spectrum, the #NBCFail movement during the Sochi 2014 W…
Rio 2016: Olympic audiences and publishing publics
This essay explores how the organizers of the biggest media event in the world, the Olympic Games, interpret and construct their audiences. By critically tracing the discursive evolution of a 50-year span of official Olympic documents, we see the emergence of “the audience” as a key constitutive player in Olympic narratives. This is followed by a recognition of multiple audience groups and an emphasis on publishing publics in the digital era. The…
The Disappearing Audience and Reflexive Visibility
Contrary to popular opinion and some academic writing that celebrates the renewed visibility of new media audiences, this essay argues that they are increasingly going into retreat. To understand how new media audiences 'disappear' from view of one another, I borrow from Brighenti's typology of visibility and develop the idea of 'reflexive visibility.' The latter describes the ability to socially orient ourselves in a digital environment through …
Augmented Landscapes of Empathy: Community Voices in Augmented Reality Campaigns
In contrast with virtual reality which often aims to isolate a user from their surroundings in order to transport them to a distant place, augmented reality (AR) was uniquely designed to (re)contextualize local landscapes and to provide expanded human experiences in situ. This critical reflection adopts a “research through design” process to examine AR’s technological and affective capabilities in the context of three community co-created AR camp…
Global visions for a metaverse
There is a growing effort to locate metaverse developments within the purview of platform research. However, the majority of English-language studies take Horizon Worlds, Meta's US-centric prototype of a metaverse, as the starting point. This critical reflection argues that since the fate of the metaverse is far from settled, and its building blocks exist in a colorful array of global visions, we need to divorce discourses of the metaverse from M…
Global communication as a standpoint: A critical engagement with research, pedagogy, and the profession through a global communication lens
Grounded in the long tradition of embracing the global in communication and media studies and inspired by feminist standpoint epistemology, we argue that global communication can function as an epistemological standpoint. After summarizing the diverse and rich tradition of understanding the global in communication and media studies and beyond, we theorize that a global communication standpoint is characterized by a combination of four aspects tha…
Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Event (particle physics (2 works)