Rethinking Cultural Criticism: New Voices in the Digital Age

Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Rethinking Cultural Criticism—New Voices in the Digital Age
	Culture and Criticism
	Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age
	Chapter Outline
	References
2 Public Intellectuals on New Platforms: Constructing Critical Authority in a Digital Media Culture
	Introduction
	The Public Intellectual as a Critical Meta-Position
	Public Intellectual Authority
	Qualification
	Institutions
	Media
	Discourse
	Personality
	Users
	Conclusion
	References
3 The Use of Wine as a Performance of a Style of Being: A Methodological Proposal to the Study of Persona-Driven Cultural Criticism
	Introduction
	Theoretical Foundation
	Analytical Conceptualization
		Theatricality
		Body
		Voice
		Spatiality
		Personal Narrative Performance
	Methodological Design
		The Case
	Analysis
		Creating Intimacy
		The Functions of the Wine
		Being Different
	Concluding Remarks
	References
4 Fans, Fun and Homophobia: Mischievous Criticism on the Czecho-Slovak Film Database
	Introduction
	Toward Affective Fan Criticism
	Methodology
	Mischievous Criticism as Word Play
	Mischievous Criticism as Evaluation
	Mischievous Criticism as (Un)Regulated Practice
	Conclusion
	References
5 When Golden Globes and Stars Align: The Awards Show as a Platform for Cultural Criticism
	Introduction
	Theory
		Elements of Cultural Criticism and Alternative Cultural Critics
		Cultural Awards and Movie Awards
		Live Media Events and the Three Scripts
	Methodology
	Analysis Part I: The Golden Globe Awards Show: Awards as “Selection-as-Evaluation”
		The Cultural Awards Show as Live Media Event and the Movie Awards Show as Authority
		The President’s Speech and the Aesthetic Criteria
		Selection-as-Evaluation: Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Series in 2018
		The Industry’s Quality Criteria Vs. Award Winners
	Analysis Part II. The Golden Globe Awards Show: Acceptance Speeches and Cultural Evaluation
		The Personal History Strategy: “My Mama Was an Advocate for the Women’s Movement”
		The Artwork-as-Reference Strategy: “We no Longer Live in the Gaps Between Stories”
		Strategies of Evaluation: When Film Stars Share Their Taste in Movies
	Conclusion
	References
6 The Dual Strategic Persona: Emotional Connection, Algorithms and the Transformation of Contemporary Online Reviewers
	Introduction
	Shaping Information … and Opinion and Commentary—A Brief History
	Presentational Media and Cultural Regime and Its Restructure of Commentary
	Pandemic Persona: The Privilege of the Self in Its Real Ordinariness
	The Aggregated Critic Persona Versus the Critic/Reviewer Persona: Rotten Tomatoes’ Dual Personas
	Making the Online Critical Persona—The Case 1: “Individually Approved” Mae Abdulbaki
	Case 2: High Visibility, Video Platforming and the New Personalized Critic Persona: YouTube, Chris Stuckmann and Jeremy Jahns
	Extrapolations and Implications of the New Reviewer Persona: Conclusion
	References
7 How Has the Role of Newspaper-Based TV Critics Been Redefined in a Digital Media Landscape?
	Introduction
	Approach
	Legacy Media (Mass Media) and the TV Critic
	The Media, Digitalization and the TV Critic
	Orientations of Change
		Knowledge Orientation: What Is Television? What Is the Focus of TV Criticism?
		Audience Orientation: Mediated-Interactive Debates
		Power Orientation: Niche TV, Niche Criticism
		Time Orientation: (Non)Synchronous TV, (Non)Synchronous TV Criticism
		Ethical Orientations: Critics and Television Values
	Conclusion: The Move to Liquid Criticism?
	Main Television Pages Analyzed
8 Digital Media in the Visual Art World: A Renewed Relationship with the Market
	Introduction
	The Pivotal Role of Art Criticism in the Visual Art World
		Exhibition Reviews and Art Magazines
	New Players: Artsy Magazine and Artnet News as Case Studies
		Presentation of the Cases
		Studying Artsy Magazine and Artnet News
		Analysis of Media Content
	New Dynamics: The Emergence of Branded Content in the Art World
		Branded Content
		Ethics and Judgments in this New Environment
	Conclusion
	References
9 Young Voices, New Qualities? Children Reviewers as Vernacular Reviewers of Cultural Products
	Introduction
	Vernacular Turn in Cultural Communication
	Children as Online Media Producers
	Methodological Setup
	Framework of User-Generated Reviewing
	Children as Amateur Reviewers
	Children as Consumer Reviewers
	Children as Pro-Am Reviewers
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
10 The Survival of the Critic: Audiences’ Use of Cultural Information and Cultural Reviews in Legacy Media
	Introduction
	Research Contexts
		Audience Research in a Changed Media Ecology
		Cultural Journalism and Cultural Reviews in a Changed Media Ecology
	The Danish Context
	Methodology
	Analysis
		Danes’ Broader Interests in Cultural Information
		Media Platforms and Their Trustworthiness
		Personal Relations as a Central and Trusted Entrance to Information about Culture
		Social Media Frequently Used but Rarely Trusted
		Professionalised and Trusted Communication by Cultural Institutions
		Legacy Media Challenged but Highly Trusted
		The Perception of Cultural Reviews in Legacy Media
		The Role of Professional Critics and Cultural Journalists in a Changed News Ecology
	Conclusion
	References
11 Where to Look Next for a Shot of Culture? Repertoires of Cultural Information Production and Consumption on the Internet
	Introduction
	Setting the Stage: Developments in Cultural Journalism and Cultural Criticism
	Explaining User-Generated Content in the Cultural Domain
	Method
		Internet Affordances
		Background Variables
		Statistical Analysis
	Results
	Conclusion
	Appendix 1
	References
Index