Breda Luthar
Biographic Data
| ID | 640276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Breda Luthar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Breda |
| FAMILY NAME | Luthar |
| SIGNATURE | LUTHAR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conceptualising Liveness and Visibility in the News Repertoires of Adolescents in a Polymedia Environment
Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or “polymedia repertoires” and that media practices cannot be treated as unrelated practices performed on distinct platforms, the present study examined the digital sociability of young people and their media prosumption in a polymedia environment. Data were collected from group interviews of 67 12- to 19-year-olds and 59 personal visualised media sketches. The study fo…
Clothing and Expressive Revolution
This study investigates jeans use as well as the discursive practices that framed jeans-wearing in 1960s and 1970s socialist Yugoslavia. We adopt a practice theory approach that goes beyond the expressive capacity of jeans and focuses on their material and practical capacity as an epitome of cultural transformation. Practices discussed include embodied practices enabled by jeans and those that have jeans as their target, such as smuggling, dreami…
Intimate media and technological nature of sociality
The article argues for the audience studies, which draws on the analysis of artifactual, spatial, temporal, and sensorial aspects of media consumption and builds on, that is, the so-called medium theory and theory of practice in sociology. In the second part of the article, we interpret the results of a qualitative empirical study regarding the daily use of media technology among young people, aged between 19 and 29 years. The study finds that ci…
Begunci in »Odmevi
Avtorica v članku obravnava »begunsko problematiko« v oddaji Odmevi na slovenski javni televiziji. Zanima jo, kako konvencionalna naturalizirana pravila novinarske prakse in uprizarjanje nevtralizma kot sestavnega dela profesionalne samopredstave političnega novinarstva določajo obravnavo teme. V tem kontekstu analizira izbor »zunanjih« ali »prisvojenih« glasov v studijskih intervjujih v Odmevih ter diskurzivno umeščanje intervjuvancev v narativ …
Nation, Gender, Class
In this article, we explore performance and the “dramatic realization” of local female social elites in popular mass-market magazines in Slovenia and Croatia between 2008 and 2011. We argue that popular culture—and, more specifically, celebrity discourse—is one of the central locations for analyzing cultural shifts in gender, nationality, and class in postsocialist society. At the center of the discussion is the argument that ethnicity should not…
Class, Cultural Capital, and the Mobile Phone
This article uses data from a representative survey on the applications of information and communication technologies to investigate the use of the mobile phone as a cultural object by different groups of respondents/consumers. Setting out from the premise that the symbolic and artefactual nature of new media, their 'thingness', should be a central part of any investigation of their social and cultural signifi cance, the article focuses on the me…
People Just Like Us
The article explores the representation of political celebrities and their families in photo-interviews in mass market women's magazines and the role of the local personality system in the process of building the nation after Slovenia's succession from Yugoslavia in the 1990s. My aim is to trace how a common national normality was redefined/performed through the celebrification and humanization of political figures in the popular media, and how c…
Remembering socialism
Among the strongest individual memories of life in state socialism was the lack of desired goods, the culture of shortages, and the ‘dictatorship over needs’. This article analyzes the social experience of a culture of shortages, the symbolic value and public meaning of goods, and different practices in the acquisition of material artifacts.As a backdrop to a general discussion of consumption, material culture and desire in socialism, the focus i…
Food, ethics and aesthetics
Food, ethics and aesthetics
Remembering socialism
Among the strongest individual memories of life in state socialism was the lack of desired goods, the culture of shortages, and the ‘dictatorship over needs’. This article analyzes the social experience of a culture of shortages, the symbolic value and public meaning of goods, and different practices in the acquisition of material artifacts.As a backdrop to a general discussion of consumption, material culture and desire in socialism, the focus i…
Begunci in »Odmevi
Avtorica v članku obravnava »begunsko problematiko« v oddaji Odmevi na slovenski javni televiziji. Zanima jo, kako konvencionalna naturalizirana pravila novinarske prakse in uprizarjanje nevtralizma kot sestavnega dela profesionalne samopredstave političnega novinarstva določajo obravnavo teme. V tem kontekstu analizira izbor »zunanjih« ali »prisvojenih« glasov v studijskih intervjujih v Odmevih ter diskurzivno umeščanje intervjuvancev v narativ …
Nation, Gender, Class
In this article, we explore performance and the “dramatic realization” of local female social elites in popular mass-market magazines in Slovenia and Croatia between 2008 and 2011. We argue that popular culture—and, more specifically, celebrity discourse—is one of the central locations for analyzing cultural shifts in gender, nationality, and class in postsocialist society. At the center of the discussion is the argument that ethnicity should not…
Class, Cultural Capital, and the Mobile Phone
This article uses data from a representative survey on the applications of information and communication technologies to investigate the use of the mobile phone as a cultural object by different groups of respondents/consumers. Setting out from the premise that the symbolic and artefactual nature of new media, their 'thingness', should be a central part of any investigation of their social and cultural signifi cance, the article focuses on the me…
Food, ethics and aesthetics
Remembering socialism
Among the strongest individual memories of life in state socialism was the lack of desired goods, the culture of shortages, and the ‘dictatorship over needs’. This article analyzes the social experience of a culture of shortages, the symbolic value and public meaning of goods, and different practices in the acquisition of material artifacts.As a backdrop to a general discussion of consumption, material culture and desire in socialism, the focus i…
People Just Like Us
The article explores the representation of political celebrities and their families in photo-interviews in mass market women's magazines and the role of the local personality system in the process of building the nation after Slovenia's succession from Yugoslavia in the 1990s. My aim is to trace how a common national normality was redefined/performed through the celebrification and humanization of political figures in the popular media, and how c…
Class, Cultural Capital, and the Mobile Phone
This article uses data from a representative survey on the applications of information and communication technologies to investigate the use of the mobile phone as a cultural object by different groups of respondents/consumers. Setting out from the premise that the symbolic and artefactual nature of new media, their 'thingness', should be a central part of any investigation of their social and cultural signifi cance, the article focuses on the me…
Nation, Gender, Class
In this article, we explore performance and the “dramatic realization” of local female social elites in popular mass-market magazines in Slovenia and Croatia between 2008 and 2011. We argue that popular culture—and, more specifically, celebrity discourse—is one of the central locations for analyzing cultural shifts in gender, nationality, and class in postsocialist society. At the center of the discussion is the argument that ethnicity should not…
Begunci in »Odmevi
Avtorica v članku obravnava »begunsko problematiko« v oddaji Odmevi na slovenski javni televiziji. Zanima jo, kako konvencionalna naturalizirana pravila novinarske prakse in uprizarjanje nevtralizma kot sestavnega dela profesionalne samopredstave političnega novinarstva določajo obravnavo teme. V tem kontekstu analizira izbor »zunanjih« ali »prisvojenih« glasov v studijskih intervjujih v Odmevih ter diskurzivno umeščanje intervjuvancev v narativ …
Intimate media and technological nature of sociality
The article argues for the audience studies, which draws on the analysis of artifactual, spatial, temporal, and sensorial aspects of media consumption and builds on, that is, the so-called medium theory and theory of practice in sociology. In the second part of the article, we interpret the results of a qualitative empirical study regarding the daily use of media technology among young people, aged between 19 and 29 years. The study finds that ci…
Clothing and Expressive Revolution
This study investigates jeans use as well as the discursive practices that framed jeans-wearing in 1960s and 1970s socialist Yugoslavia. We adopt a practice theory approach that goes beyond the expressive capacity of jeans and focuses on their material and practical capacity as an epitome of cultural transformation. Practices discussed include embodied practices enabled by jeans and those that have jeans as their target, such as smuggling, dreami…
Conceptualising Liveness and Visibility in the News Repertoires of Adolescents in a Polymedia Environment
Based on the assumptions that digital media are used as integrated structures or “polymedia repertoires” and that media practices cannot be treated as unrelated practices performed on distinct platforms, the present study examined the digital sociability of young people and their media prosumption in a polymedia environment. Data were collected from group interviews of 67 12- to 19-year-olds and 59 personal visualised media sketches. The study fo…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Consumption (sociology (3 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (3 works) · Law (3 works)