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The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies gathers leading work by critical scholars in this burgeoning field. Redressing the lack of environmental perspectives in the study of media, ecomedia studies asserts that media are in and about the environment, and environments are socially and materially mediated.
The book gives form to this new area of study and brings together diverse scholarly contributions to explore and give definition to the field. The Handbook highlights five critical areas of ecomedia scholarship: ecomedia theory, ecomateriality, political ecology, ecocultures, and eco-affects. Within these areas, authors navigate a range of different topics including infrastructures, supply and manufacturing chains, energy, e-waste, labor, ecofeminism, African and Indigenous ecomedia, environmental justice, environmental media governance, ecopolitical satire, and digital ecologies. The result is a holistic volume that provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the current state of the field, as well as future developments.
This volume will be an essential resource for students, educators, and scholars of media studies, cultural studies, film, environmental communication, political ecology, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities
Centering Africa in Ecomedia Studies. Interview with Cajetan Iheka
No full textIn this conversation, Cajetan Iheka discusses his book African Ecomedia and its contribution to ecomedia studies. This volume, published by Duke University Press in 2021, centers Africa as a key site for media production, consumption, and disposal. It comprises five chapters examining a rich media archive produced in African locations, from Ghana to Kenya, Senegal to South Africa, and spanning video art, photography, documentary, and fiction film. African Ecomedia combines attention to the transformative agency of visual media with a focus on the socioecological costs of media processes. Cajetan Iheka is a Professor of English at Yale University. He specializes in African literature, ecocriticism, ecomedia, and postcolonial literature. Iheka is the author of the books African Ecomedia (2021) and Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature (2018), and the editor of the MLA volume Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media (2022)
Aedicula Tombs and Statues in Rome: Reconsidering the Monument of Eurysaces
No full textThis article revisits the well-known monument of Eurysaces in the context of the Roman funerary landscape. By focusing on its structure and original context, our research demonstrates that the monument, far from being a unicum, instead conformed to contemporary commemorative practices and was in many ways typical. Analysis of comparable monuments and funerary areas, as well as characterization of the concrete used, indicates that the monument of Eurysaces was originally an aedicula tomb with a superstructure, now missing. This reconstruction allows for a more convincing and traditional positioning of the relief images known as “Eurysaces and his wife” at the crowning level of this structure. While our research focuses on the monument of Eurysaces, an important and unexpected result has been the likely identification of several full-length portrait reliefs whose distinctive features suggest that they belong to a previously unrecognized corpus in Rome: aedicular statues. This designation explains the characteristics differentiating them from freestanding statues and helps fill the lacuna of evidence for Rome’s once robust group of funerary structures and ornamentation. The identification of these aedicular statues, in turn, reiterates the fact that aedicula tombs were once popular in the city’s funerary landscape, as they were across the Roman empire
The Fetishization of Youth and Beauty: A Contextual Analysis of the Lived Experiences of Women and Gay Men
No full textThesis (B.A. in Humanistic Studies,Minor in Philosophy)--John Cabot University, Spring 2023.We have stories of witches with an unquenchable thirst for youth. We are fascinated by television shows about a child coming of age and overcoming hardship. We are lured into fitness routines that promise to make us look younger. We shut away older adults into homes and refuse to acknowledge that we will all end up there someday. We are raised with myths of searching for the fountain of youth and drowning in a pond because of the beauty of our reflection. We are obsessed with youth. We are obsessed with beauty. Youth and beauty have a chokehold on everything we hold dear. With every turn we make in the modern day, we are confronted with images of what is considered beautiful and persistently cajoled into thinking that remaining youthful is the only way to obtain this beauty. The connection between the two permeates the depths of our culture. I will use this thesis to highlight the moral implications of these connections to show that humanity has not only created an everlasting relationship between the two but has escalated them to a problematic fetishization of both youth and beauty
When Canvases Converse: The Dialectical Nature of an Eighteenth-Century Pendant Attributed to Charles Louis Clérisseau
No full textMaster of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Fall 2023.Two unsigned eighteenth-century landscape paintings that belong to the Galleria Corsini in Rome are a pair of vedute ideate, or architectural fantasies containing recognizable ancient Roman ruins set within idealized landscapes. First appearing in the Palazzo Corsini art collection in 1784, the paintings have been left relatively understudied since then: they have been recognized as a pendant, but their content and meaning has not been analyzed. The pendant’s dialectical nature is the main topic of this thesis. Part of this thesis supports the recent attribution to French painter Charles-Louis Clérisseau with an investigation of new information and the tracing of the visual elements and iconography through a French genealogy. The next part of this thesis will be on the analysis of the iconography and what visual tools are used to create its pendant bond, with the most significant and strengthening one being the use of the human narrative. I will be dissecting what elements within the paintings are conversing in which composition and knowledge of ancient Rome are used to create the link. The final section treats the context of the paintings initial display in the Palazzo Corsini as of 1784, adding another level to their already-heightened state of communicative nature by the inclusion of other paintings in the room, all of which together were curated with care. By looking at how the Corsini pendant and the other paintings are displayed in the room sheds light on their display purpose as well as potential meaning they had for the Corsini family
Fourth-Wave Feminism and Digital Activism: Intersectionality, Unity, and Engagement in the Digital Sphere
No full textThesis (B.A. in Political Science and Communications, Minor in Gender Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2023.This thesis examines the current state of contemporary fourth-wave feminism in the United States. In the digital age, social movements have adopted digital platforms as a way to engage in activism, spread awareness, and mobilize. However, criticisms of digital activism as ineffective have also emerged. This research examines how American misogyny-affected individuals view the current state of feminist activism and examines whether they see digital platforms as a help or hindrance to the feminist movement through the administering of a mixed-methods survey. It also uses the Women’s March as a case study in order to measure their level of offline engagement and compare it to their views on the effectiveness of social media activism. This research finds that most participants emphasized the importance of feminism, particularly intersectional feminism. They held mixed but generally optimistic views on the potential of digital activism, but only a smaller percentage were able to translate their feminism offline. Finally, this research suggests that feminism as a social movement may be experiencing frame vulnerabilities and a lack of unity, an issue potentially worsened by the digital platforms utilized by feminist activists
Do Classical Studies Open Your Mind?
No full textWe investigate whether classical studies in high school that emphasize in Italy the study of ancient languages such as Latin and Greek - affect personality traits. Using Italian survey data, we compare individuals who did classical studies in high school with similar individuals who completed a more scientific academic curriculum. We find that having done classical studies does not affect conscientiousness and openness but increases neuroticism and self-reported unhappiness
Ecomedia Literacy Bringing Ecomedia Studies into the Classroom
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is to introduce the methodology of ecomedia literacy and demonstrate how ecomedia studies can be incorporated into any educational setting. Ecomedia literacy is defined as the ability to evaluate and critically engage how everyday media practice enables us to live regeneratively within Earth’s ecological parameters for the present and future. The primary analytical heuristic for this approach is the “ecomediasphere,” which analyzes “ecomedia objects” (gadgets, texts, platforms, etc.) from four different perspectives: ecoculture, political ecology, ecomaterialism, and lifeworld. An ecomedia object is something that has agreed upon properties, but its meaning and use change according to environmental context
The Face of Rome: Seventeenth Century Papal Patronage and the Formation of Public and Private Space – The Palazzo Carpegna and the Trevi Fountain
No full textMaster of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2023.The Palazzo Carpegna is most well-known for a series of unconstructed plans designed by Francesco Borromini from approximately 1638 to 1644, currently held by the Albertina Museum in Vienna. The form of the proposed Palazzo Carpegna was frequently reconfigured to adjust to the functional requirements of its elite patrons while corresponding to the everchanging property lines and the adjacent Trevi piazza and fountain, which were also being expanded and renewed. Borromini made creative use of public space that was manipulated to further the interests of the Carpegna family, using existing laws and government expropriation. By the end of the seventeenth century, through extensive litigation and significant expense, the Carpegna site had expanded to a triangular-shaped wedge with its apex on the Piazza Cornaro, its east edge along the vicolo Scavolino extending to the via del Lavatore, and its western edge along via della Stamperia adjacent to the newly located Trevi Fountain and expanded piazza.
Although there are a variety of studies on the forces that influenced the significant changes to early modern Rome, as well as expansive analyses of the Palazzo Carpegna, this thesis will directly relate the plans created by Borromini to the functional requirements of the aristocratic and ecclesiastical Carpegna family and the influences of papal patronage in the adjoining area of Rome. A specific focus will be on Borromini’s design process of the Palazzo Carpegna and how his plans responded to both the functional needs of the patron and the contextual features of the immediate environment, such as the ongoing design and construction of the Trevi Fountain and Piazza
Supply Chain Resilience in the Pharmaceutical Industry: A Qualitative Analysis from Scholarly and Managerial Perspectives
No full textThis paper aims to collect evidence from Global Supply Chains (SCs) actors in the pharmaceutical sector to understand how they define a resilient supply chain and what are the main resilience elements useful to measure the degree of resilience of a supply chain considering the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic period. In doing so, our purpose is to make a comparison between the two categories and uncover on which supply chain resilience-related topics there is agreement or not. Through a qualitative research design, a two-round focus group was conducted with supply chain players that represent different nodes along the chain (e.g., as for supplier, manufacturers, service providers, CMO). Key findings, related to the conducted discussions among the focus group, show how managers appreciate and agree comprehensive supply chain resilience definitions provided by extant literature. Nonetheless, although there is a general agreement on some recent definitions, managers asserted that some key resilience elements are currently missing in those definitions, regarding human resources and technology roles in enhancing the resilience of supply chains. In addition, supply chain resilience elements considered most important by managers of the pharmaceutical supply chain are adaptability, flexibility, agility, and collaboration