Doctoral dissertation research: The dynamics of visual media and social change

博士论文研究：视觉媒体的动态与社会变革

• 批准号: 2116337
• 负责人: Gary Wilder
• 金额: $ 1.73万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2116337&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; dissertation; research; dynamics; visual

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).How individuals adjust identity to social change is an important question, as such adjustments affect how individuals understand their place within larger social and political structures. Social change offers opportunities to clarify fundamental tensions in modern societies between individualism versus collectivism and between private versus communal property. This doctoral dissertation research investigates whether and how visual media reflect and/or drive social change in rapidly changing socio-economic landscapes. The work provides a unique lens for investigating these dynamic feedbacks in ways that illustrate whether, how, and at what pace expressions of identity change in relation to larger socio-economic structures. The research contributes to training a U.S. doctoral student and its findings will be distributed widely to diverse audiences. Specifically, the project investigates what the economic and aesthetic strategies of contemporary visual media reveal about the socio-economic role of creative work in societies undergoing fundamental social and economic transformations. It considers whether and how concepts of property are exposed and reworked in the self-presentation, material production, and exhibition infrastructures of visual media during periods of rapid social change. Using an integration of ethnographic and archival methods, the doctoral student examines regional visual media as they respond to recent domestic socio-economic reforms in a context where transitions between collectivist and individualist notions of belonging are shifting. The student integrates direct observation, analysis of printed material, as well as interviews with relevant stakeholders to understand how regional visual media have responded to changes in property legislation following privatizing reforms. The results of this research provide a more robust account of visual media as both a barometer of and participant in processes of social, political-economic, and cultural change.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。个人如何调整身份以适应社会变化是一个重要的问题，因为这种调整会影响个人如何理解自己在更大的社会和政治结构中的位置。社会变革为澄清现代社会中个人主义与集体主义之间以及私有与公共财产之间的根本紧张关系提供了机会。这项博士论文研究调查视觉媒体是否以及如何在快速变化的社会经济格局中反映和/或推动社会变化。这项工作为研究这些动态反馈提供了一个独特的视角，用来说明身份表达是否、如何以及以什么速度相对于更大的社会经济结构发生变化。这项研究有助于培养一名美国博士生，其结果将广泛传播给不同的受众。具体地说，该项目调查了当代视觉媒体的经济和美学战略揭示了创造性工作在经历根本的社会和经济转型的社会中所发挥的社会经济作用。它考虑了在快速社会变革时期，财产的概念是否以及如何在视觉媒体的自我展示、材料生产和展览基础设施中被曝光和重塑。这位博士生综合运用了人种学和档案学的方法，考察了在集体主义和个人主义归属观念转变的背景下，地区性视觉媒体对最近的国内社会经济改革的反应。学生结合直接观察、对印刷材料的分析以及对相关利益相关者的采访，了解区域视觉媒体如何应对私有化改革后财产立法的变化。这项研究的结果为视觉媒体作为社会、政治-经济和文化变化过程的晴雨表和参与者提供了更有力的说明。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。