representation of culture

In 2019, the Pew Research Center reported that the general US population significantly changed their views of same-sex marriage in just 15 years—with 60% of the population being opposed in 2004 ...

Representation: Culture & Perception +Share. Media, entertainment, and other forms of popular culture play a significant role in shaping our perceptions of others. For many of us, popular culture is the primary way we learn about people who are different from us. The problem, though, is that many representations are based on cultural ...

Culture is sometimes considered as the discriminating principle through which all members of a community are alike in sharing some set of beliefs, values, and practices, and different from other communities which have their own sets of beliefs, values, and practices. In Moscovici's work, the theory of social representations has always been ...

Stuart Hall. 1 REPRESENTATION, MEANING AND LANGUAGE. In this chapter we will be concentrating on one of the key processes in the 'cultural circuit' (see Du Gay et al., 1997, and the Introduction to this volume) - the practices of representation. The aim of this chapter is to introduce you to this topic, and to explain what it is about and ...

Cultural heritage, cultural practices and the arts are resources for marshalling attention to urgent concerns, addressing conflicts, reconciling former enemies, resisting oppression, memorializing the past, and imagining and giving substance to a more rights-friendly future.

Representation—the production of meaning through language, discourse and image—occupies a central place in current studies on culture. This broad-ranging text offers treatment of how visual images, language and discourse work as "systems of representation." Individual chapters explain a variety of approaches to representation, bringing to bear concepts from semiotic, discursive ...

It first explains differences between mental, collective, and social representations with respect to culture and language. It then focuses on two meanings of social representing: first, on representations as a theory of social knowledge and second, representations as social and cultural phenomena and as interventions in social practices.

In an interview with Jonathan Crary and Phil Mariani in Wedge, 1985, reproduced in the book Power, Politics and Culture (6), Edward Said establishes a direct and dynamic link between (i) domination of a political, social and economic nature, and (ii) systems of representation that exist or are created. Said understands that the whole science of ...

Representation is a collection of works edited by Hall, with later editions bringing on co-editors Jessica Evans—Senior Lecturer in Cultural & Media Studies at the Open University—and Sean Nixon—a lecturer at the University of Essex. Hall is credited with the development of reception theory, which explains how media texts house a variety of encoded messages created by producers; but ...

The authors note that, in recent decades, the notion of representation has assumed a crucial role in many fields of enquiry, such as cultural studies, tourism studies, cultural geography, art history, communication studies, archaeology, and anthropology. However, it has rarely been taken up as a central theme in the field of heritage studies.

Faculty in Theories of Cultural Representation. Many faculty and students in our graduate program focus upon the intersections among bodies, minds, and cultural representations, both as part of historical, textual, and rhetorical scholarship and as programs of study within their own right. We are particularly interested in how cultures and ...

Representation in language textbooks can be approached from a number of different perspectives including national studies, citizenship education studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and transnational studies (Risager, 2021).Arguably, key to all these theoretical and intellectual strands are issues of cultural identities and power relations that concern questions such as whether ELT ...

Representation is a critical concept not only in postcolonial studies and academia, but in the larger cultural milieu. The term itself can be defined in many different ways. Often, we think of representation primarily as "presence" or "appearance" where there is an implied visual component. Representations can be clear images, material ...

Black Representations in Magazines and Advertising. African Americans remain well represented in magazines, though they are not as prominent in this medium as in television (Schug et al., 2017). Moreover, the trend in the representation of African Americans, particularly women, appears to be improving (Covert & Dixon, 2008).

Cultural representations play a critical role in determining how people view certain aspects of a specific culture. By bringing out unique aspects of a given culture, representations make it easier to create a shared understanding of the culture and shape how it is viewed by the general public. Without representations, it will be more difficult ...

The overall aim of this study is to analyze the cultural representation in modern literature. A set of values, beliefs, customs, and the way of life of any society in the globe is loosely defined ...

Cultural representations were analyzed using the Yuen's (Citation 2011) and Peterson's (Citation 2004) models. The researcher codified cultural content, calculated the frequency and percentage of each cultural dimension, and then interpreted the results. The point worth mentioning is that only those activities which were more than three ...

As for cultural categories, the representation of cultural products was the most, and cultural perspectives and cultural communities were represented the least in all three sets of textbooks. Regarding the form of cultural representation, the cultural representation in implicit forms was, to varying degrees, more than that in explicit forms.

These findings show that NHE's cultural focus is on the Western, European, and Anglo-American world of English-speaking communities. Such an imbalance in representation of world cultures leads us to conclude that NHE's writers do not sufficiently raise English learners' global cultural consciousness since there has been little engagement ...

The study analyzes the cultural representation in three types of culture: source, target, and international of English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks used in English classrooms at public universities in Saudi Arabia. Through the method of content analysis, it was discovered that a cultural representation balance was not maintained ...

Abstract. This study explores the representation of culture in My Book of English, a second-generation English-language book for the first-year middle school in Algeria. Based on both content and a linguistic analysis method, our objective was to demonstrate the cultural significance of some representational choices.

DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2022.2099406 Corpus ID: 250545471; Representation of cultures in national English textbooks in China: a synchronic content analysis @article{Zhang2022RepresentationOC, title={Representation of cultures in national English textbooks in China: a synchronic content analysis}, author={Hong Zhang and Xiao-Nan Li and Wen-Han Chang}, journal={Journal of Multilingual and ...

Shared cultural moments of authentic, raw representation are really welcomed - but it is now time for business to get in lock step with the shifting cultural dial. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn .

Typically, few developers or researchers dictate alignment norms, risking the exclusion or under-representation of various groups. Personalization is a new frontier in LLM development, whereby ...

This legal precedent permitted the image of African Americans to be reduced to caricatures in popular culture. Decades-old ephemera and current-day incarnations of African American stereotypes, including Mammy, Mandingo, Sapphire, Uncle Tom and watermelon, have been informed by the legal and social status of African Americans.

Its trailer did display a similar genre to the action-thrillers that "John Wick" reinvented, but watching this film is so much more than just another action thriller. "Monkey Man" is a blending of two cultures - and filming styles- into one. It's a story of mythology and capitalism, a film that aims to represent a culture and ...

These representations are significant not just for trans and nonbinary people — transgender movies are also immeasurably valuable to our culture at large, especially for those who don't know any ...

The Limits of Communication and the Ethics of Suicide in Cultural Representations. deadline for submissions: July 1, 2024. full name / name of organization: Middle Tennessee State University. contact email: [email protected]. In the past two decades, there has been a distressing rise in suicides worldwide. In what has been termed an "age ...

An artist from the Wood River Valley is re-envisioning iconic skiing photographs as a way to challenge stereotypes in winter sports. The project, "A New Winter," by Sofía Jaramillo, is a work-in-progress, it involves recreating old-time photos with models wearing historically accurate clothing and gear.Many of the photoshoots have taken place in Sun Valley during the past two winters.

The percentage of public Fortune 1000 board seats held by Asian directors increased from 4.0 percent in 2020 to 6.4 percent in 2023. A majority of public Fortune 1000 boards (54%) still do not have an Asian director. Nearly two-thirds of the Asian directors studied have held their board seats for less than five years.