Meme Culture, Alienation Capital, and Gestic Play

culture, identity, and language education: home culture attachment, social/cultural capital, demographic factors and self-identity changes among iranian efl teachers

: در تحقیقی که پیش روی دارید ابتدا سعی شده است که نقش میزان بهره مندی مدرسان زبان انگلیسی از سرمایه های فرهنگی و اجتماعی در چارچوب نظریه بوردیو(1986) بر میزان وابستگی آن ها به فرهنگ خودی بررسی شود. لذا دو پرسشنامه به طورهمزمان بین 342 مدرس زبان انگلیسی در بیش از 25 موسسه ی خصوصی زبان انگلیسی در سطح شهر مشهد توزیع شد. رابطه ی بین میزان دسترسی به سرمایه فرهنگی و اجتماعی و وابستگی به فرهنگ خودی از...

What’s in a Meme? The Development of the Meme as a Unit of Culture

PRODUCING CULTURE AND CAPITAL Three

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Cosplay - Material and Transmedial Culture in Play

Through “cosplay” (costume play) fans perform existing fictional characters in selfcreated costumes, thereby enriching and extending popular narratives. Cosplay is a scarcely studied form of appropriation that transforms and actualizes an existing story or game in close connection to the fan community and the fan’s own identity (Lamerichs, 2011; Newman, 2008; Okabe, 2012; Winge, 2006). The acti...

Social Capital as Good Culture

To explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust equilibrium. In this context,...