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Television Series (television + series)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences50%

Selected Abstracts

Resistance Is Not Futile: Liberating Captain Janeway from the Masculine-Feminine Dualism of Leadership

GENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 4 2004
Michèle A. BowringArticle first published online: 10 JUN 200
. . . the boundary between science-fiction and social reality is an optical illusion' (Haraway, 1990, p. 191) My underlying purpose in this article is to uncover the way in which research on leadership has been constrained by a reliance on the categories male-female and/or masculine-feminine for theorizing and for empirical work. I argue that both gender and leadership are caught within what Judith Butler calls the heterosexual matrix and that this has significant repercussions on leaders and leadership discourse. I use the character of Captain Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager as a case study. I begin by analysing her leadership on the television series. I then perform a similar analysis of Janeway as she is represented in a text that subverts her gender by queering her character. I compare the two Janeways and the effect that the construction of each one's gender has on her leadership. In the conclusion I discuss ways in which we can use this analysis to move towards fluidity in the theorizing and practice of both gender and leadership. [source]

Enregistering, Authorizing and Denaturalizing Identity in Indonesia

JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2008
Zane Goebel
This article focuses on one aspect of processes of enregisterment in Indonesia, namely the ways in which institutional representations of language use formulate semiotic registers linking language use to performable social categories of personhood and relationship. I examine three types of institutional and thus authorized speech events: schooling, census practices, and television. Of particular interest are three patterns of representation which I exemplify with excerpts from three television series. The first is the language-ethnicity link long established in colonial practices and found in all three institutional representations of language use. The second pattern relates primarily to some of the new inflections created as part of the first pattern, namely the representation of Indonesian as an index of the ethnic other. The third pattern of representation resembles a type of competing ideology where language-ethnicity links are denaturalized through practices of adequation.[adequation, denaturalization, enregisterment, identity, Indonesia, media] [source]

The integration of film-induced tourism and destination branding in Yorkshire, UK

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH, Issue 5 2008
Noelle O'Connor
Abstract This paper identifies the integration of film induced tourism and destination branding on destinations featured in television series' such as Yorkshire, which is the film location for many popular English television series'. The review of the existing literature identified a gap in previous investigations and in response, a tourist survey and strategic conversations with the key stakeholders were an initial attempt to fill this gap. The issues which arose from these and the literature review highlighted some implications for the future development of these destinations, namely the use of destination branding in the promotion of a film location. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]