Cultural objects, material culture, and materiality

TE McDonnell - Annual Review of Sociology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The study of cultural objects and their materiality has moved to the center of cultural
sociology. This review synthesizes the work of this third wave of cultural sociology …

[HTML][HTML] Mental health discourse and social media: Which mechanisms of cultural power drive discourse on Twitter

A Pavlova, P Berkers - Social Science & Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
The global burden of mental health disorders has increased steadily during the past decade.
Today, mental illness is the leading cause of total years lived with disability. At the same …

Public ideas: Their varieties and careers

T Hallett, O Stapleton, M Sauder - American Sociological …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In light of ongoing concerns about the relevance of scholarly activities, we ask, what are
public ideas and how do they come to be? More specifically, how do journalists and other …

Rationalized authenticity and the transnational spread of intangible cultural heritage

M DeSoucey, MA Elliott, V Schmutz - Poetics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was
adopted by UNESCO to enshrine and preserve exemplars of the intangible heritage of …

[图书][B] Common enemies: Disease campaigns in America

RK Best - 2019 - books.google.com
For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common
enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Rachel Kahn Best asks why …

“I'm Saving Fuel to Buy More Guns”: The Electric Vehicle as Cultural Object and Climate Policy Solution1

TE McDonnell, A Gabur, R Keynton - Sociological Forum, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines electric vehicles (EVs) as cultural objects and assesses how they are
mobilized as a solution to the climate crisis. Taking a material approach to cultural objects …

[HTML][HTML] How twitter can support the HIV/AIDS response to achieve the 2030 eradication goal: In-depth thematic analysis of world AIDS day tweets

M Odlum, S Yoon, P Broadwell… - JMIR public health …, 2018 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: HIV/AIDS is a tremendous public health crisis, with a call for its eradication by
2030. A human rights response through civil society engagement is critical to support and …

Making Obama iconic: iconic potential and the affordances of images

TE McDonnell, MA Taylor, ML Wood - American Journal of Cultural …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract “Iconic” images possess cultural power. This paper asks: What makes an image
“iconic”? To become publicly recognized as “iconic,” images undergo a process of …

Heroes or criminals: discursive representation of cancer patients in health awareness advertisements

J Ho - Visual Communication, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article compares the use of metaphors in breast and lung cancer awareness
advertisements in order to examine the positioning and identity construction of the …

Ribbon Remembrances at the Tokai Forest Gender Based Violence Roadside Memorial: Mapping Materiality, Artivism and Multimodal Afterlives in Cape Town

H Hayes-Roberts - Critical Arts, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A multitude of brightly coloured ribbons tied along a barbed wire fence blow
wildly in the Cape South Easter wind giving kinetic energy to the Ribbon Gate Gender …