ENREGISTERMENT, COMMODIFICATION, AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT: "GEORDIE" VERSUS "SHEFFIELDISH"

Pittsburghese shirts: Commodification and the enregisterment of an urban dialect

This article considers a type of material artifact that circulates ideas about regional speech in the United States: T-shirts bearing words and phrases thought to be unique to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I argue that Pittsburghese shirts, seen for themselves and in the context of their production, distribution, and consumption, are part of a process leading to the creation and focusing of the ide...

User Empowerment and Audience Commodification in a Commercial Television Context

This paper aims to provide insights into the concept of ‘user empowerment’ in current –digital and connectedmedia industries. We start by defining empowerment as a concept rooted in certain research traditions that focus on user behaviour and capabilities in dealing with digital and connected technologies and the production, aggregation, distribution and consumption of content. We then oppose ‘...

Value-Oriented Policy Taking and Contextual Architecture in Historical Context

Today, the field-oriented architecture of the historical context of the most important topics in the field of architecture Because of the inherent value and practical concepts and is directly related to the knowledge, awareness and decision-making at the individual or individuals. No matter how much knowledge is more valuable than the deeper, more complete and more accurate will be extracted ...

Explaining Social-Economic Strategies of Urban Regeneration in Historical Contexts (Case Study: Semnan's Historical Context)

The historic core is part of the city's integrity that has not grown and worn out in the process of urban development in line with the needs of the day. In order to solve the problems caused by the phenomenon of urban burnout, several approaches have been proposed, none of which have been able to permanently eliminate or control this phenomenon. Meanwhile, the urban regeneration approach has be...

Understanding Mahon in Historical Context