Jody Berland
Biographic Data
| ID | 640249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jody Berland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jody |
| FAMILY NAME | Berland |
| SIGNATURE | BERLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
McLuhan and Posthumanism: Extending the Techno-Animal Embrace
Background This article builds on McLuhan’s medium theory to address the undertheorized role of animals as mediators in network cultures.Analysis McLuhan’s medium theory aligns with and to some extent anticipates contemporary discussion about posthumanist thought that recognizes that human perception and experience are shaped by and extended through non-human tools and connections. Both digital culture and the endangered status of the natural wor…
Tab: Take Academia Back
Attending the Giraffe
In this article I compare the story of the first contact tribute giraffe sent from Bengal to China in 1414 with the story of April, the famously web-cam pregnant giraffe of 2017. Both giraffes were transported by new technologies that brought together geographically dispersed people through a notable event. Both giraffes had to be conveyed from natural habitats into confinement, from distance into quasi-intimacy with European and global observers…
North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space
Animal and/as Medium: Symbolic Work in Communicative Regimes
This paper addresses the widespread imagery of animals in contemporary media culture. Focusing on advertising for cell phones, it suggests that dogs and monkeys mediating between phones and users carry pedagogical messages that work across and underneath the surfaces of corporate advertising. Images from this well orchestrated campaign reveal a shift in how technologies are marketed to youths. Analyzing first the rhetoric and then the connective …
The elephant in the classroom
Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFE/ME) is an invisible disability that forces researchers to delineate new boundaries between illness and impairment, and between medical knowledge and patients’ experience. As a neurological impairment, this condition attacks memory and cognition, which paradoxically become the focus of patients’ own accounts of their experience and understanding. This paper addresses the pedagogical implicati…
Cat and Mouse: Iconographics of Nature and Desire
The popularity of digital cat photographs circulating through the Internet and across North American visual culture provides an occasion for a critical exploration of human–cat relations in contemporary culture. The representation of animals in traditional and digital photography is discussed in relation to the technologies of visual culture, human–animal relations, the companion animals debate, the social history of cats, and species interaction…
Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art
Writing on the Border
I WAS TWELVE WHEN I FIRST CROSSED THE BORDER FROM THE UNITEDSTATES into Canada. My American classmates viewed my departure to that country with a combination of envy and alarm. Like them I would not have been surprised to find igloos in the towns with the streets full of dog sleds. My ignorance about my new country was astounding
Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art
The twelve essays in the collection address cultural theory, aesthetics, and policy issues related to the economics of art in the context of globalization and the spreading influence of the practices and ideologies of market culture. With particular reference to Canada, they question whether these shifts and the rise of new media technologies are endangering or enriching public participation, democratic negotiation, and cultural diversity. The bo…
Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value of Art
Nationalism and the Modernist Legacy: Dialogues with Innis
Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 1, No.1
Theory Rules: Art as Theory/Theory and Art
Politics after Nationalism, Culture after ‘Culture’
English Canadian nationhood and its occasional eruptions into patriotismcarry little resemblance to the nationalisms I see described in newspapers orin social or cultural theory. It doesn't matter whether such theory analysesthe classic modernist nationalisms of an earlier era, or more contemporarythemes informed by postcolonial theory. It also seems to make no differencewhether the 'nation' in question is posited as an imperial or as an anti-imp…
"Politics after Nationalism, Culture after "Culture
On environmental matters
On reading ‘The weather’
Free trade and Canadian music: Level playing field or scorched earth
(1991). Free trade and Canadian music: Level playing field or scorched earth? Cultural Studies: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 317-325
Radio space and industrial time: Music Formats, Local Narratives and Technological Mediation
Radio is commonly referred to as a 'secondary medium' in the broadcasting industry. The phrase conveys the industry's pragmatic view that no one cares whether you listen to radio so long as you do not turn it off. Since it has been displaced by television, radio is expected to accommodate itself technologically and discursively to every situation. Are you brushing your teeth, turning the corner, buying or selling jeans or entering inventory into …
Locating listening: Technological space, popular music, Canadian mediations
Because of the traditional relationship between places and situations, group identities have usually been closely linked to shared but special access to physical locations. ... By severing the traditional link between physical location and social situation, electronic media may begin to blur previously distinct group identities by allowing people to ‘escape’ informationally from place-defined groups and by permitting outsiders to ‘invade’ many gr…
Sound, Image, and Social Space: Rock Video and Media Reconstruction
Radio space and industrial time: Music Formats, Local Narratives and Technological Mediation
Radio is commonly referred to as a 'secondary medium' in the broadcasting industry. The phrase conveys the industry's pragmatic view that no one cares whether you listen to radio so long as you do not turn it off. Since it has been displaced by television, radio is expected to accommodate itself technologically and discursively to every situation. Are you brushing your teeth, turning the corner, buying or selling jeans or entering inventory into …
Cat and Mouse: Iconographics of Nature and Desire
The popularity of digital cat photographs circulating through the Internet and across North American visual culture provides an occasion for a critical exploration of human–cat relations in contemporary culture. The representation of animals in traditional and digital photography is discussed in relation to the technologies of visual culture, human–animal relations, the companion animals debate, the social history of cats, and species interaction…
Sound, Image, and Social Space: Rock Video and Media Reconstruction
Animal and/as Medium: Symbolic Work in Communicative Regimes
This paper addresses the widespread imagery of animals in contemporary media culture. Focusing on advertising for cell phones, it suggests that dogs and monkeys mediating between phones and users carry pedagogical messages that work across and underneath the surfaces of corporate advertising. Images from this well orchestrated campaign reveal a shift in how technologies are marketed to youths. Analyzing first the rhetoric and then the connective …
Sound, Image, and Social Space: Rock Video and Media Reconstruction
Locating listening: Technological space, popular music, Canadian mediations
Because of the traditional relationship between places and situations, group identities have usually been closely linked to shared but special access to physical locations. ... By severing the traditional link between physical location and social situation, electronic media may begin to blur previously distinct group identities by allowing people to ‘escape’ informationally from place-defined groups and by permitting outsiders to ‘invade’ many gr…
Radio space and industrial time: Music Formats, Local Narratives and Technological Mediation
Radio is commonly referred to as a 'secondary medium' in the broadcasting industry. The phrase conveys the industry's pragmatic view that no one cares whether you listen to radio so long as you do not turn it off. Since it has been displaced by television, radio is expected to accommodate itself technologically and discursively to every situation. Are you brushing your teeth, turning the corner, buying or selling jeans or entering inventory into …
Free trade and Canadian music: Level playing field or scorched earth
(1991). Free trade and Canadian music: Level playing field or scorched earth? Cultural Studies: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 317-325
On environmental matters
On reading ‘The weather’
Politics after Nationalism, Culture after ‘Culture’
English Canadian nationhood and its occasional eruptions into patriotismcarry little resemblance to the nationalisms I see described in newspapers orin social or cultural theory. It doesn't matter whether such theory analysesthe classic modernist nationalisms of an earlier era, or more contemporarythemes informed by postcolonial theory. It also seems to make no differencewhether the 'nation' in question is posited as an imperial or as an anti-imp…
"Politics after Nationalism, Culture after "Culture
Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 1, No.1
Theory Rules: Art as Theory/Theory and Art
Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art
The twelve essays in the collection address cultural theory, aesthetics, and policy issues related to the economics of art in the context of globalization and the spreading influence of the practices and ideologies of market culture. With particular reference to Canada, they question whether these shifts and the rise of new media technologies are endangering or enriching public participation, democratic negotiation, and cultural diversity. The bo…
Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value of Art
Nationalism and the Modernist Legacy: Dialogues with Innis
Writing on the Border
I WAS TWELVE WHEN I FIRST CROSSED THE BORDER FROM THE UNITEDSTATES into Canada. My American classmates viewed my departure to that country with a combination of envy and alarm. Like them I would not have been surprised to find igloos in the towns with the streets full of dog sleds. My ignorance about my new country was astounding
Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art
Cat and Mouse: Iconographics of Nature and Desire
The popularity of digital cat photographs circulating through the Internet and across North American visual culture provides an occasion for a critical exploration of human–cat relations in contemporary culture. The representation of animals in traditional and digital photography is discussed in relation to the technologies of visual culture, human–animal relations, the companion animals debate, the social history of cats, and species interaction…
North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space
Animal and/as Medium: Symbolic Work in Communicative Regimes
This paper addresses the widespread imagery of animals in contemporary media culture. Focusing on advertising for cell phones, it suggests that dogs and monkeys mediating between phones and users carry pedagogical messages that work across and underneath the surfaces of corporate advertising. Images from this well orchestrated campaign reveal a shift in how technologies are marketed to youths. Analyzing first the rhetoric and then the connective …
The elephant in the classroom
Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFE/ME) is an invisible disability that forces researchers to delineate new boundaries between illness and impairment, and between medical knowledge and patients’ experience. As a neurological impairment, this condition attacks memory and cognition, which paradoxically become the focus of patients’ own accounts of their experience and understanding. This paper addresses the pedagogical implicati…
Tab: Take Academia Back
Attending the Giraffe
In this article I compare the story of the first contact tribute giraffe sent from Bengal to China in 1414 with the story of April, the famously web-cam pregnant giraffe of 2017. Both giraffes were transported by new technologies that brought together geographically dispersed people through a notable event. Both giraffes had to be conveyed from natural habitats into confinement, from distance into quasi-intimacy with European and global observers…
McLuhan and Posthumanism: Extending the Techno-Animal Embrace
Background This article builds on McLuhan’s medium theory to address the undertheorized role of animals as mediators in network cultures.Analysis McLuhan’s medium theory aligns with and to some extent anticipates contemporary discussion about posthumanist thought that recognizes that human perception and experience are shaped by and extended through non-human tools and connections. Both digital culture and the endangered status of the natural wor…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)