Quality Discourses. Community Media Articulations of Democratic and Negotiated quality
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Quality Discourses. Community Media Articulations of Democratic and Negotiated quality
Original language description
Quality is a pervasive notion that can be found in a wide variety of societal domains. Within the cultural domain, its intrinsic articulation with aesthetics, beauty, civilisation and culture as such has produced a Gordian knot that is virtually impossible to untie. In this chapter, quality is defined as a discourse, in line with Laclau and Mouffe's (1985) discourse theory. Their theoretical model provides a toolbox that can be used to analyse the articulation of the quality discourses within the dynamics of fixity and fluidity, emphasising the contingent while allowing sufficient space for its (temporary) fixation. The first part of this chapter will focus on two quality discourses that can be considered hegemonic and universalised: the aesthetic andthe professional quality discourse. The second part of this text uses a small group of interviews with community media producers in Austria and Switzerland to argue that, through the participatory cultures of these radio stations, other (
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Past, future and change: Contemporary analysis of evolving media scapes
ISBN
978-961-235-640-8
Number of pages of the result
11
Pages from-to
237-247
Number of pages of the book
393
Publisher name
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Press
Place of publication
Ljubljana
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