Tim Markham
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 204586 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tim Markham |
| PRENOMES | Tim |
| SOBRENOME | Markham |
| ASSINATURA | MARKHAM T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7304-2610 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 153 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Digital compassion
This article explores the relationship between mood, compassion and public values in a world suffused with digital media technologies. Its opening gambit is that mood should n’t be seen either as a reaction to the state of our public realm, nor as a private filter that shapes one’s personal experience of a pre-existing public world. Instead, mood is constitutive of publicness, including the values associated with it. This challenges the view that…
Towards an epistemology of digitally mediated temporality
The aim of this article is to lay the epistemological groundwork for investigating how the digital present is experienced as present. This is significant because, given the ontological priority of the present in phenomenological inquiry, this gets us closest to capturing digitally mediated experience itself. It will be argued that this does not mean pathologizing the pervasive digitization of everyday life, and the digital age affords researchers…
Investigating digitally mediated temporal experience
Much recent scholarship in the field of media phenomenology has investigated the role of temporality in shaping our experience of digital media in everyday life, as well as the ethical and political ramifications that flow from it. Consistent with the central phenomenological tenet of locating the present as ontologically prior to any past origin, the idea is that in order to properly understand the texture of day-to-day digital navigation our fo…
Affective solidarity and mediated distant suffering
In recent media and political theory the idea of affective solidarity has been treated as a contradiction in terms. Any relation to the other consisting in sympathy or pity cannot form the basis of full subjective recognition of the other, and in practice is often actively dehumanising. Further, there remains the notion that solidarity is contingent upon a rupture of habitual being in the world that produces a revelatory consciousness of the subj…
Conditions of Mediation
screens, digital projections, interactive building facades: acknowledging the increasingly interwoven status of media and urban space is now unavoidable.With media often no longer confined to the surfaces of individual screens or discrete devices, it is now necessary to conceptualize new forms of ambient, environmental, or "atmospheric media" -to use a term employed by Mark B. N. Hansen (2012: 501).Interpretations of this contemporary urban situa…
Media and the Experience of Social Change
Intimate politics
Journalism and Critical Engagement
This article explores the possibility of journalists acting as custodians of critical engagement, drawing on Rancière's conception of dissensus as organized disagreement over the conditions of understanding. It begins by assessing the status that worthiness and naiveté have as negative symbolic capital in the journalistic field, before asking whether journalists' ambivalent detachment from the objects of their inquiry hinders their ability to eng…
Celebrity advocacy and public engagement
This article sounds a cautionary note about the instrumental use of celebrity advocacy to (re)engage audiences in public life. It begins by setting out the steps necessary to achieve public recognition of a social problem requiring a response. It then presents empirical evidence which suggests that those most interested in celebrity, while also paying attention to the main stories of the day, are least likely to participate in any form of politic…
Social media, protest cultures and political subjectivities of the Arab spring
This article draws on phenomenological perspectives to present a case against resisting the objectification of cultures of protest and dissent. The generative, self-organizing properties of protest cultures, especially as mobilized through social media, are frequently argued to elude both authoritarian political structures and academic discourse, leading to new political subjectivities or ‘imaginaries’. Stemming from a normative commitment not to…
The uses and functions of ageing celebrity war reporters
This article starts from the premise that recognition of professional authority and celebrity status depends on the embodiment and performance of field-specific dispositional practices: there is no such thing as a natural, though we often talk about journalistic instinct as something someone simply has or does not have. Next, we have little control over how we are perceived by peers and publics, and what we think are active positioning or subject…
The Politics of Journalistic Creativity
This article begins with the assertion that creativity in journalism has moved from being a matter of guile and ingenuity to being about expressiveness, and that this reflects a broader cultural shift from professional expertise to the authenticity of personal expression as dominant modes of valorization. It then seeks to unpack the normative baggage that underpins the case for creativity in the cultural industries. First, there is a prioritizati…
The political phenomenology of war reporting
Drawing on interviews with war correspondents, editors and political and military personnel, this article investigates the political dimension of the structuration and structuring effects of the reporter’s experience of journalism. Self-reflection and judgements about colleagues confirm that there are dominant norms for interpreting and acting in conflict scenarios which, while contingent upon socio-historical context, are interpreted as natural.…
Neither playing the game nor keeping it real
Troubled closeness or satisfied distance? Researching media consumption and public orientation
4 Our examples here are men over 50 (whereas all the diarists linked with a celebrity-related connection to media were women under 40), so age and gender probably intersect as causal factors. 5The disengagement scale was constructed from nine variables (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree): 'You don't like to discuss politics with other people', 'You don't get involved in political protests', 'There's no point in watching the news, because …
The contribution of media consumption to civic participation1
A national UK survey (N = 1017) examined the association between media consumption and three indicators of civic participation - likelihood of voting, interest in politics, and actions taken in response to a public issue of concern to the respondent. Multiple regression analysis was used to test the variance explained by media use variables after first controlling for demographic, social and political predictors of each indicator of participation…
Connection or Disconnection?
The decades-long debate on media and the public sphere has primarily been normative, rather than empirical, in character. We especially lack empirical research detailing how the mediated public sphere is enacted ( if it is) in everyday life. There has been, we would argue, a significant gap in studying the experiential dimensions of citizenship (what it actually feels like to be a citizen (cf. LeBlanc, 1999)): indeed what are the practices which …
Celebrity culture and public connection
Media and cultural research has an important contribution to make to recent debates about declines in democratic engagement: for example, is celebrity culture a route into democratic engagement for those otherwise disengaged? This article contributes to this debate by reviewing qualitative and quantitative findings from a UK project on `public connection'. Using self-produced diaries (with in-depth multiple interviews) and a nationwide survey, th…
Tracking the Reflexivity of the (Dis)Engaged Citizen
The relationship between governments and citizens in many contemporary democracies is haunted by uncertainty, and sociologists face the task of listening effectively to citizens' own reflections on this uncertain relationship. This article reflects on the qualitative methodology of a recently completed U.K. project that used a combination of diary and multiple interviews/focus groups to track over a fieldwork period of up to a year citizens' refl…
Public Connection through Media Consumption
This article reviews the ongoing contribution of Personal Influence to our understanding of media' social consequences from the perspective of recent research (the London School of Economics “Public Connection” project, 2003-2006, conducted by the authors and Sonia Livingstone) into the extent to which shared habits of media consumption help sustain, or not, U.K. citizens' orientation to a public world. As well as reviewing specific findings of t…
The contribution of media consumption to civic participation1
A national UK survey (N = 1017) examined the association between media consumption and three indicators of civic participation - likelihood of voting, interest in politics, and actions taken in response to a public issue of concern to the respondent. Multiple regression analysis was used to test the variance explained by media use variables after first controlling for demographic, social and political predictors of each indicator of participation…
Celebrity culture and public connection
Media and cultural research has an important contribution to make to recent debates about declines in democratic engagement: for example, is celebrity culture a route into democratic engagement for those otherwise disengaged? This article contributes to this debate by reviewing qualitative and quantitative findings from a UK project on `public connection'. Using self-produced diaries (with in-depth multiple interviews) and a nationwide survey, th…
Tracking the Reflexivity of the (Dis)Engaged Citizen
The relationship between governments and citizens in many contemporary democracies is haunted by uncertainty, and sociologists face the task of listening effectively to citizens' own reflections on this uncertain relationship. This article reflects on the qualitative methodology of a recently completed U.K. project that used a combination of diary and multiple interviews/focus groups to track over a fieldwork period of up to a year citizens' refl…
The political phenomenology of war reporting
Drawing on interviews with war correspondents, editors and political and military personnel, this article investigates the political dimension of the structuration and structuring effects of the reporter’s experience of journalism. Self-reflection and judgements about colleagues confirm that there are dominant norms for interpreting and acting in conflict scenarios which, while contingent upon socio-historical context, are interpreted as natural.…
Social media, protest cultures and political subjectivities of the Arab spring
This article draws on phenomenological perspectives to present a case against resisting the objectification of cultures of protest and dissent. The generative, self-organizing properties of protest cultures, especially as mobilized through social media, are frequently argued to elude both authoritarian political structures and academic discourse, leading to new political subjectivities or ‘imaginaries’. Stemming from a normative commitment not to…
Celebrity advocacy and public engagement
This article sounds a cautionary note about the instrumental use of celebrity advocacy to (re)engage audiences in public life. It begins by setting out the steps necessary to achieve public recognition of a social problem requiring a response. It then presents empirical evidence which suggests that those most interested in celebrity, while also paying attention to the main stories of the day, are least likely to participate in any form of politic…
Troubled closeness or satisfied distance? Researching media consumption and public orientation
4 Our examples here are men over 50 (whereas all the diarists linked with a celebrity-related connection to media were women under 40), so age and gender probably intersect as causal factors. 5The disengagement scale was constructed from nine variables (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree): 'You don't like to discuss politics with other people', 'You don't get involved in political protests', 'There's no point in watching the news, because …
Affective solidarity and mediated distant suffering
In recent media and political theory the idea of affective solidarity has been treated as a contradiction in terms. Any relation to the other consisting in sympathy or pity cannot form the basis of full subjective recognition of the other, and in practice is often actively dehumanising. Further, there remains the notion that solidarity is contingent upon a rupture of habitual being in the world that produces a revelatory consciousness of the subj…
Journalism and Critical Engagement
This article explores the possibility of journalists acting as custodians of critical engagement, drawing on Rancière's conception of dissensus as organized disagreement over the conditions of understanding. It begins by assessing the status that worthiness and naiveté have as negative symbolic capital in the journalistic field, before asking whether journalists' ambivalent detachment from the objects of their inquiry hinders their ability to eng…
Public Connection through Media Consumption
This article reviews the ongoing contribution of Personal Influence to our understanding of media' social consequences from the perspective of recent research (the London School of Economics “Public Connection” project, 2003-2006, conducted by the authors and Sonia Livingstone) into the extent to which shared habits of media consumption help sustain, or not, U.K. citizens' orientation to a public world. As well as reviewing specific findings of t…
Connection or Disconnection?
The decades-long debate on media and the public sphere has primarily been normative, rather than empirical, in character. We especially lack empirical research detailing how the mediated public sphere is enacted ( if it is) in everyday life. There has been, we would argue, a significant gap in studying the experiential dimensions of citizenship (what it actually feels like to be a citizen (cf. LeBlanc, 1999)): indeed what are the practices which …
Celebrity culture and public connection
Media and cultural research has an important contribution to make to recent debates about declines in democratic engagement: for example, is celebrity culture a route into democratic engagement for those otherwise disengaged? This article contributes to this debate by reviewing qualitative and quantitative findings from a UK project on `public connection'. Using self-produced diaries (with in-depth multiple interviews) and a nationwide survey, th…
Tracking the Reflexivity of the (Dis)Engaged Citizen
The relationship between governments and citizens in many contemporary democracies is haunted by uncertainty, and sociologists face the task of listening effectively to citizens' own reflections on this uncertain relationship. This article reflects on the qualitative methodology of a recently completed U.K. project that used a combination of diary and multiple interviews/focus groups to track over a fieldwork period of up to a year citizens' refl…
Troubled closeness or satisfied distance? Researching media consumption and public orientation
4 Our examples here are men over 50 (whereas all the diarists linked with a celebrity-related connection to media were women under 40), so age and gender probably intersect as causal factors. 5The disengagement scale was constructed from nine variables (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree): 'You don't like to discuss politics with other people', 'You don't get involved in political protests', 'There's no point in watching the news, because …
The contribution of media consumption to civic participation1
A national UK survey (N = 1017) examined the association between media consumption and three indicators of civic participation - likelihood of voting, interest in politics, and actions taken in response to a public issue of concern to the respondent. Multiple regression analysis was used to test the variance explained by media use variables after first controlling for demographic, social and political predictors of each indicator of participation…
The Politics of Journalistic Creativity
This article begins with the assertion that creativity in journalism has moved from being a matter of guile and ingenuity to being about expressiveness, and that this reflects a broader cultural shift from professional expertise to the authenticity of personal expression as dominant modes of valorization. It then seeks to unpack the normative baggage that underpins the case for creativity in the cultural industries. First, there is a prioritizati…
The political phenomenology of war reporting
Drawing on interviews with war correspondents, editors and political and military personnel, this article investigates the political dimension of the structuration and structuring effects of the reporter’s experience of journalism. Self-reflection and judgements about colleagues confirm that there are dominant norms for interpreting and acting in conflict scenarios which, while contingent upon socio-historical context, are interpreted as natural.…
Neither playing the game nor keeping it real
The uses and functions of ageing celebrity war reporters
This article starts from the premise that recognition of professional authority and celebrity status depends on the embodiment and performance of field-specific dispositional practices: there is no such thing as a natural, though we often talk about journalistic instinct as something someone simply has or does not have. Next, we have little control over how we are perceived by peers and publics, and what we think are active positioning or subject…
Journalism and Critical Engagement
This article explores the possibility of journalists acting as custodians of critical engagement, drawing on Rancière's conception of dissensus as organized disagreement over the conditions of understanding. It begins by assessing the status that worthiness and naiveté have as negative symbolic capital in the journalistic field, before asking whether journalists' ambivalent detachment from the objects of their inquiry hinders their ability to eng…
Celebrity advocacy and public engagement
This article sounds a cautionary note about the instrumental use of celebrity advocacy to (re)engage audiences in public life. It begins by setting out the steps necessary to achieve public recognition of a social problem requiring a response. It then presents empirical evidence which suggests that those most interested in celebrity, while also paying attention to the main stories of the day, are least likely to participate in any form of politic…
Social media, protest cultures and political subjectivities of the Arab spring
This article draws on phenomenological perspectives to present a case against resisting the objectification of cultures of protest and dissent. The generative, self-organizing properties of protest cultures, especially as mobilized through social media, are frequently argued to elude both authoritarian political structures and academic discourse, leading to new political subjectivities or ‘imaginaries’. Stemming from a normative commitment not to…
Intimate politics
Conditions of Mediation
screens, digital projections, interactive building facades: acknowledging the increasingly interwoven status of media and urban space is now unavoidable.With media often no longer confined to the surfaces of individual screens or discrete devices, it is now necessary to conceptualize new forms of ambient, environmental, or "atmospheric media" -to use a term employed by Mark B. N. Hansen (2012: 501).Interpretations of this contemporary urban situa…
Media and the Experience of Social Change
Affective solidarity and mediated distant suffering
In recent media and political theory the idea of affective solidarity has been treated as a contradiction in terms. Any relation to the other consisting in sympathy or pity cannot form the basis of full subjective recognition of the other, and in practice is often actively dehumanising. Further, there remains the notion that solidarity is contingent upon a rupture of habitual being in the world that produces a revelatory consciousness of the subj…
Investigating digitally mediated temporal experience
Much recent scholarship in the field of media phenomenology has investigated the role of temporality in shaping our experience of digital media in everyday life, as well as the ethical and political ramifications that flow from it. Consistent with the central phenomenological tenet of locating the present as ontologically prior to any past origin, the idea is that in order to properly understand the texture of day-to-day digital navigation our fo…
Towards an epistemology of digitally mediated temporality
The aim of this article is to lay the epistemological groundwork for investigating how the digital present is experienced as present. This is significant because, given the ontological priority of the present in phenomenological inquiry, this gets us closest to capturing digitally mediated experience itself. It will be argued that this does not mean pathologizing the pervasive digitization of everyday life, and the digital age affords researchers…
Digital compassion
This article explores the relationship between mood, compassion and public values in a world suffused with digital media technologies. Its opening gambit is that mood should n’t be seen either as a reaction to the state of our public realm, nor as a private filter that shapes one’s personal experience of a pre-existing public world. Instead, mood is constitutive of publicness, including the values associated with it. This challenges the view that…
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