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.

该奖项是根据2021年《美国救援计划法》的全部或部分资助（公共法117-2）。个人如何适应社会变革的身份是一个重要问题，因为这种调整会影响个人在更大的社会和政治结构中理解自己的位置。社会变革提供了机会，以阐明个人主义与集体主义以及私人财产与公共财产之间现代社会的基本紧张局势。这项博士学位论文研究调查了视觉媒体在迅速变化的社会经济景观中是否反映和/或推动社会变化。这项工作提供了一种独特的镜头，用于研究这些动态反馈的方式，以说明与较大的社会经济结构相关的身份变化的速度表达方式，以及哪种速度。该研究有助于培训美国博士生，其发现将广泛分配给不同的受众。具体而言，该项目调查了当代视觉媒体的经济和审美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。它考虑了在迅速的社会变革时期，视觉媒体的自我表现，材料生产和展览基础设施中，财产的概念是否以及如何在自我表现，物质生产和展览基础设施中进行了揭露和重新设计。博士生使用民族志和档案方法的整合，在集体主义者和个人主义归属观念之间的过渡正在发生变化的情况下，研究区域视觉媒体，他们对最近的国内社会经济改革做出反应。学生将直接观察，印刷材料的分析以及与相关利益相关者的访谈，以了解区域视觉媒体在私有化改革后如何应对房地产立法的变化。这项研究的结果为视觉媒体提供了更强大的描述，因为晴雨表和参与者在社会，政治经济和文化变革过程中的参与者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响审查标准的评估来进行评估的。