Social Life of Zines and Other DIY Micro-Media Constituting American DIY Communities and Scenes

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08912416241252933" target="_blank" >10.1177/08912416241252933</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social Life of Zines and Other DIY Micro-Media Constituting American DIY Communities and Scenes

Original language description

The primary function of zines is often considered to be creative and expressive, and the function of other types of DIY (&quot;do-it-yourself&quot;) micro-media as utilitarian (e.g., flyers as promotion), but all of these media also perform important social roles. DIY micro-media (e.g., zines, flyers, Internet pages, graffiti, wall signs, and &quot;thank you&quot; notes) are in this way embroiled in social lives of their makers and help them constitute themselves culturally and socially. DIY micro-media in this way also acquire their own social lives. Inspired by my ethnographic observations of the social lives of DIY micro-media within particular American DIY houses and music scenes, I examine in this article not only the content of DIY zines and micro-media (i.e., to study them as texts), but primarily the social role of zines and other DIY micro-media in the material, social, and affective constitution of DIY and music communities and scenes (i.e., to study them as social agents). Therefore, I show how these micro-media operate as material and media objects that are simultaneously shaped by and shaping human and social relations. By combining zine and micro-media studies with anthropology and material culture studies, I offer in this article a nuanced micro perspective, both ethnographic and emic, of the social processes implicated in the social and economic mutual constitution between media objects and music/art communities and scenes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

ISSN

0891-2416

e-ISSN

1552-5414

Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

38

Pages from-to

544-581

UT code for WoS article

001242015600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85195944802