Human cloning in film: horror, ambivalence, hope

Fictional filmic representations of human cloning have shifted in relation to the 1997 announcement of the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep, and since therapeutic human cloning became a scientific practice in the early twentieth century. The operation and detail of these shifts can be seen through an analysis of the films The Island (2005) and Aeon Flux (2005). These films provide a site for the examination of how these changes in human cloning from fiction to practice, and from horror to hope, have been represented and imagined, and how these distinctions have operated visually in fiction, and in relation to genre

Television & New Media : Volume 17, Number 2, February 2016

1. Rearticulating Audience Engagement: Social Media and Television / Jose van Dijck, Thomas Poell, Hallvard Moe 2. Social TV and the Participation Dilemma in NBC\u27s The Voice / Karin van Es 3. Public Service Broadcasting and Data-Driven Personalization : A View from Sweden / Jonas Andersson Schwarz 4. Twitter Time: A Temporal Analysis of Tweet Streams During Televised Political Debate / Philip Pond 5. Social Television : Audience and Political Engagement / Donatella Selva 6. In The Living Room : Second Screens and TV Audiences / Sherryl Wilso

“Going Back in a Heartbeat”: Collective memory and the online circulation of family photographs

This article focuses on a form of online photo-sharing practice largely overlooked in recent literature: the sharing of personal collections of “old” analogue photographs retrieved from family albums, suitcases and cupboards. Recent scholarship on digital photography and online photo-sharing has argued that the widespread adoption of digital technologies and network infrastructures for image capture, storage, transmission and display have led to an “ontological reorientation” of popular photography away from preservation and memory. The article discusses two Facebook groups devoted to sharing photos and memories relating to Salford in North West England. The fate of Salford’s postwar working class neighbourhoods, vanguard spaces of creative destruction, and the relative scarcity of personal photographs of vanished streets are discussed as context for understanding photo-sharing as a popular collective memory practice

‘Freshly Generated for You, and Barack Obama’: How Social Media Represent Your Life

This article discusses the ways in which social media help us craft the narratives of our lives. Many discussions of social media look at self-presentation and the construction of identity on social network sites in particular and the Internet in general. This article switches the focus from the moment of self-construction and instead looks at ways in which social media represent our lives by filtering the data we feed into them through templates and by displaying simplified patterns, visualizations and narratives back to us. The article argues that social media help users to see themselves by taking their raw data and representing them in structured form, and gives examples of different ways in which this data is presented

Reframing Current Debates on Young People's Online Privacy by Taking into Account the Cultural Construction of Youth

In public discussions regarding online privacy, young people are oftentimes portrayed as individuals who put themselves and others at risk with their naive and reckless online behavior. Recent scholarly work, however, debunked the myth that teenagers do not value privacy anymore by uncovering how they manage sensitive information in their everyday life. In this paper we argue that underlying assumptions of this scholarship still hinder our understanding of youth’s engagements with social media and privacy. First, researchers tend to reproduce an image of young people as ‘unfinished’. Second, studies fail to account for young people’s exposure to technopanic narratives. Finally, the scholarship is oftentimes grounded in a liberal idealization of privacy as something inherently desirable for young people. To critically reflect upon these assumptions, we suggest taking into account the cultural construction of youth. Specifically, we argue that youths’ experiences as “beings-in-the-present”, society’s anxieties about a digital future, and power dynamics might be essential elements that mediate young people’s engagements with social media, privacy, and society