Debra Spitulnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 90075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Spitulnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Spitulnik |
| SIGNATURE | SPITULNIK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 418 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
CHAPTER 5 Thick Context, Deep Epistemology: A Meditation on Wide-Angle Lenses on Media, Knowledge Production and the Concept of Culture
Radio time sharing and the negotiation of linguistic pluralism in Zambia
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Theorising Media and Practice
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from places such as Zambia, India, Hong Kong, the United States, Britain, Norway and …
Alternative Small Media and Communicative Spaces
A discussion of communications and democratization in Africa is incomplete without references to the manifold ways by which people on that continent exchange information of political significance without relying on the formal mass media. If there is any aspect of the media that has been forgotten in the literature on democratization, it is the whole set of alternative small media that are significant in helping people create meaningful communicat…
Media
Mediating Unity and Diversity
The central concern of this chapter is to investigate the role of powerful institutions in the production and reproduction of language ideologies. While language ideologies are most readily identifiable in explicit metalinguistic discourse (i.e., language about language), I demonstrate here how language ideologies are also embodied in a very fundamental and implicit sense within the everyday practices of institutions.
Mediated Modernities: Encounters with the Electronic In Zambia
The Language of the City: Town Bemba as Urban Hybridity
This article describes the linguistic variety Town Bemba (Zambia) and considers its implications for the study of linguistic heteroglossia and the experience of modernity. I propose that Town Bemba be understood as a cover term for a set of Bemba-based multilingual practices that exemplify urbanity but need not be tied to urban locales. The structural, ideological, and sociocultural features of Town Bemba are examined using data from naturally oc…
The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities
This article demonstrates how mass media, because of their extensive accessibility and scope, can serve as both reservoirs and reference points for the circulation of words, phrases, and discourse styles in popular culture. Focusing on the social circulation of radio discourse in Zambia, I examine the semiotics of the decontextualization, recontextualization, and creative reworking of media discourse outside of contexts of direct media consumptio…
The Significance of Schooling: Life-Journeys in an African Society. Robert Serpell
Anthropology and Mass Media
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Anthropology and Mass Media
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities
This article demonstrates how mass media, because of their extensive accessibility and scope, can serve as both reservoirs and reference points for the circulation of words, phrases, and discourse styles in popular culture. Focusing on the social circulation of radio discourse in Zambia, I examine the semiotics of the decontextualization, recontextualization, and creative reworking of media discourse outside of contexts of direct media consumptio…
The Language of the City: Town Bemba as Urban Hybridity
This article describes the linguistic variety Town Bemba (Zambia) and considers its implications for the study of linguistic heteroglossia and the experience of modernity. I propose that Town Bemba be understood as a cover term for a set of Bemba-based multilingual practices that exemplify urbanity but need not be tied to urban locales. The structural, ideological, and sociocultural features of Town Bemba are examined using data from naturally oc…
Theorising Media and Practice
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from places such as Zambia, India, Hong Kong, the United States, Britain, Norway and …
Mediated Modernities: Encounters with the Electronic In Zambia
Media
Anthropology and Mass Media
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Significance of Schooling: Life-Journeys in an African Society. Robert Serpell
The Social Circulation of Media Discourse and the Mediation of Communities
This article demonstrates how mass media, because of their extensive accessibility and scope, can serve as both reservoirs and reference points for the circulation of words, phrases, and discourse styles in popular culture. Focusing on the social circulation of radio discourse in Zambia, I examine the semiotics of the decontextualization, recontextualization, and creative reworking of media discourse outside of contexts of direct media consumptio…
Mediating Unity and Diversity
The central concern of this chapter is to investigate the role of powerful institutions in the production and reproduction of language ideologies. While language ideologies are most readily identifiable in explicit metalinguistic discourse (i.e., language about language), I demonstrate here how language ideologies are also embodied in a very fundamental and implicit sense within the everyday practices of institutions.
Mediated Modernities: Encounters with the Electronic In Zambia
The Language of the City: Town Bemba as Urban Hybridity
This article describes the linguistic variety Town Bemba (Zambia) and considers its implications for the study of linguistic heteroglossia and the experience of modernity. I propose that Town Bemba be understood as a cover term for a set of Bemba-based multilingual practices that exemplify urbanity but need not be tied to urban locales. The structural, ideological, and sociocultural features of Town Bemba are examined using data from naturally oc…
Media
Alternative Small Media and Communicative Spaces
A discussion of communications and democratization in Africa is incomplete without references to the manifold ways by which people on that continent exchange information of political significance without relying on the formal mass media. If there is any aspect of the media that has been forgotten in the literature on democratization, it is the whole set of alternative small media that are significant in helping people create meaningful communicat…
CHAPTER 5 Thick Context, Deep Epistemology: A Meditation on Wide-Angle Lenses on Media, Knowledge Production and the Concept of Culture
Radio time sharing and the negotiation of linguistic pluralism in Zambia
Preview this article: Radio time sharing and the negotiation of linguistic pluralism in Zambia, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.2.3.12spi-1.gif
Theorising Media and Practice
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from places such as Zambia, India, Hong Kong, the United States, Britain, Norway and …
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)