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

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。个人如何调整身份以适应社会变化是一个重要的问题，因为这种调整影响着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、私有财产与公共财产之间的基本紧张关系提供了机会。这篇博士论文研究了视觉媒体是否以及如何在快速变化的社会经济环境中反映和/或推动社会变革。这项工作为研究这些动态反馈提供了一个独特的视角，以说明身份表达在更大的社会经济结构中是否、如何以及以何种速度变化。这项研究有助于培养一名美国博士生，其研究结果将广泛传播给不同的受众。具体而言，该项目调查了当代视觉媒体的经济和美学策略，揭示了创造性工作在经历基本社会和经济转型的社会中的社会经济作用。它考虑了在快速的社会变革时期，财产的概念是否以及如何在视觉媒体的自我呈现、材料生产和展览基础设施中被暴露和重新加工。利用民族志和档案方法的整合，博士生研究区域视觉媒体，因为他们在集体主义和个人主义的归属感观念之间的转变正在转变的背景下，对最近国内社会经济改革作出反应。该学生将直接观察、对印刷材料的分析以及与相关利益相关者的访谈结合起来，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、经济和文化变革过程的晴雨表和参与者提供了更有力的解释。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.