Linda Kopitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Kopitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Kopitz |
| SIGNATURE | KOPITZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3306-541X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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By weaving together reflections from other disciplines – particularly data studies, future studies and design research – this contribution aims to function as a starting point to imagine alternative ways of sharing audience research. The understanding of ‘sharing’ put forward here highlights that audience research, at its core, is a practice of care and collaboration, and raises questions about how different publication forms and formats correspo…
Energy! The power of audience research as field, practice and critique
This contribution is the introduction to the Cultural Commons special issue on ‘Energy! The Power of Audience Research as Field, Practice and Critique’, edited by Joke Hermes, Linda Kopitz and Helen Wood. Through the lens of ‘energy’, this special issue explores audience research as a field, practice and critique that both demands and harnesses energy. Between tensions, currents and changes, in light of both rapid development and enduring underst…
Future/sense
Living in “the most sustainable urban district of the Netherlands” will be a sensory experience: for the (re)development project Bajeskwartier in Amsterdam, the senses form the core of the urban imaginary produced in the publicly available material. Part of the larger discourse of “sustainable cities,” contemporary architectural projects are frequently infused, merged, and saturated with the multi-sensory qualities of nature. In doing so, urban p…
“AI Will Be the Beating Heart of the City”
Artificial intelligence will be “the beating heart” (Bell, 2022, para. 1) of the linear smart city The Line in Saudi Arabia, one of the most expensive and expansive urban living projects of our times—and crucial in the larger vision of a post-oil future for Saudi Arabia. Exemplary of the complex relationship between past and future in constructing alternative urban imaginaries, the promotional material of The Line highlights technology as the bes…
Mediating Monstrosity
Drawing on Susan Sontag’s understanding of the anxieties about contemporary existence lurking beneath the surface of science fiction films, this article argues that the focus on media monitoring, mapping and materializing the giant monster in the MonsterVerse functions as a negotiation of the limits of visibility of catastrophe. Hiding, waiting, lurking underneath the surface in the “Hollow Earth”, the giant monsters are—paradoxically—invisible a…
The Pocketbook of Audience Research
Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and outline how they can be employed. This handy guide is divided into three parts: the first part, ‘Watching Post-Television’, offers ‘television’ as a shortcut to understanding today’s platform media and gives an introduction to key theoretical terms such as repre…
Of monsters and men
The series You , which has become part of the cultural zeitgeist since the first season became available on Netflix in December 2018, has introduced a protagonist at the same time in line and notably different from other serialized serial killers. By establishing the main character, played by former Gossip Girl heartthrob Penn Badgley, not only as the protagonist but romantic lead in a format blurring conventions from both the psychological thril…
Urban/image
This article proposes that virtual renderings of speculative architectural projects provide a crucial entry point into the reimagination of sustainable urban life through the production of nature(s) within the city. Drawing on case studies of ‘sustainable’ building projects in and around Amsterdam, The Netherlands, I aim to trace the entanglement of virtual and real environments in imagining green futures. With the concept of the ‘render ghost’, …
Casting for Change
The moment of casting is a crucial one in any media production. Casting the ‘right’ person shapes the narrative as much as the way in which the final product might be received by critics and audiences. For this article, casting—as the moment in which gender is hypervisible in its complex intersectional entanglement with class, race and sexuality—will be our gateway to exploring the dynamics of discussion of gender conventions and how we, as femin…
We can sh*t for another 10 years.’ Toilet paper, pandemic politics and cultural citizenship
The global reality of the COVID-19/Corona pandemic paradoxically boosted national politics, broadcasting and citizenship. Media coverage, especially initially, praised citizen solidarity and the creative solutions that were pioneered to care for each other. A year later, a lasting social learning curve throughout and after this crisis seems illusory. The pandemic, this paper argues, needs to be understood in a longer timeframe as the working thro…
We can sh*t for another 10 years.’ Toilet paper, pandemic politics and cultural citizenship
The global reality of the COVID-19/Corona pandemic paradoxically boosted national politics, broadcasting and citizenship. Media coverage, especially initially, praised citizen solidarity and the creative solutions that were pioneered to care for each other. A year later, a lasting social learning curve throughout and after this crisis seems illusory. The pandemic, this paper argues, needs to be understood in a longer timeframe as the working thro…
Casting for Change
The moment of casting is a crucial one in any media production. Casting the ‘right’ person shapes the narrative as much as the way in which the final product might be received by critics and audiences. For this article, casting—as the moment in which gender is hypervisible in its complex intersectional entanglement with class, race and sexuality—will be our gateway to exploring the dynamics of discussion of gender conventions and how we, as femin…
We can sh*t for another 10 years.’ Toilet paper, pandemic politics and cultural citizenship
The global reality of the COVID-19/Corona pandemic paradoxically boosted national politics, broadcasting and citizenship. Media coverage, especially initially, praised citizen solidarity and the creative solutions that were pioneered to care for each other. A year later, a lasting social learning curve throughout and after this crisis seems illusory. The pandemic, this paper argues, needs to be understood in a longer timeframe as the working thro…
The Pocketbook of Audience Research
Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and outline how they can be employed. This handy guide is divided into three parts: the first part, ‘Watching Post-Television’, offers ‘television’ as a shortcut to understanding today’s platform media and gives an introduction to key theoretical terms such as repre…
Of monsters and men
The series You , which has become part of the cultural zeitgeist since the first season became available on Netflix in December 2018, has introduced a protagonist at the same time in line and notably different from other serialized serial killers. By establishing the main character, played by former Gossip Girl heartthrob Penn Badgley, not only as the protagonist but romantic lead in a format blurring conventions from both the psychological thril…
Urban/image
This article proposes that virtual renderings of speculative architectural projects provide a crucial entry point into the reimagination of sustainable urban life through the production of nature(s) within the city. Drawing on case studies of ‘sustainable’ building projects in and around Amsterdam, The Netherlands, I aim to trace the entanglement of virtual and real environments in imagining green futures. With the concept of the ‘render ghost’, …
“AI Will Be the Beating Heart of the City”
Artificial intelligence will be “the beating heart” (Bell, 2022, para. 1) of the linear smart city The Line in Saudi Arabia, one of the most expensive and expansive urban living projects of our times—and crucial in the larger vision of a post-oil future for Saudi Arabia. Exemplary of the complex relationship between past and future in constructing alternative urban imaginaries, the promotional material of The Line highlights technology as the bes…
Mediating Monstrosity
Drawing on Susan Sontag’s understanding of the anxieties about contemporary existence lurking beneath the surface of science fiction films, this article argues that the focus on media monitoring, mapping and materializing the giant monster in the MonsterVerse functions as a negotiation of the limits of visibility of catastrophe. Hiding, waiting, lurking underneath the surface in the “Hollow Earth”, the giant monsters are—paradoxically—invisible a…
Future/sense
Living in “the most sustainable urban district of the Netherlands” will be a sensory experience: for the (re)development project Bajeskwartier in Amsterdam, the senses form the core of the urban imaginary produced in the publicly available material. Part of the larger discourse of “sustainable cities,” contemporary architectural projects are frequently infused, merged, and saturated with the multi-sensory qualities of nature. In doing so, urban p…
Material not available
By weaving together reflections from other disciplines – particularly data studies, future studies and design research – this contribution aims to function as a starting point to imagine alternative ways of sharing audience research. The understanding of ‘sharing’ put forward here highlights that audience research, at its core, is a practice of care and collaboration, and raises questions about how different publication forms and formats correspo…
Energy! The power of audience research as field, practice and critique
This contribution is the introduction to the Cultural Commons special issue on ‘Energy! The Power of Audience Research as Field, Practice and Critique’, edited by Joke Hermes, Linda Kopitz and Helen Wood. Through the lens of ‘energy’, this special issue explores audience research as a field, practice and critique that both demands and harnesses energy. Between tensions, currents and changes, in light of both rapid development and enduring underst…
Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Architectural engineering (2 works) · Artistic and Creative Research (2 works) · Audience response (2 works) · Commons (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)