Translation studies
The post comprise two asighnments
1: Translation studies
Order Description
The research proposal is to be designed and written on only one the following three areas in question are ie you need to choose one of the three topics below:
1. The production of multimodal content, including the translation of content produced originally in Arabic, by jihadist groups.
2. The translation of jihadist videos, understood as a linguistic and pragmatic process.
3. The production of jihadist media content as a process of self-mediation that includes translation.
Additional info:
– The number of references and resources to be used must be 35+.
The following must be given close attention and try as much as possible to incorporate them in the references:
Cazdyn, Eric (2004) ‘A New Line in the Geometry’, in Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour (eds) Subtitles: On the Foreginness of Film, Cambridge, Mass.: Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press & Alphabet City Media Inc., 403-419.
Desjardins, Renée (2008) ‘Inter-Semiotic Translation and Cultural Representation within the Space of the Multi-Modal Text’,TranscUlturAl 1(1): 48-58. Available online: https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/TC.
Littau, Karen (1997) ‘Translation in the Age of Postmodern Production: From Text to Intertext to Hypertext’, Forum for Modern Language Studies 33(1): 81-96.
Pérez-González, Luis (2014) Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues, London & New York: Routledge. Chapter 6: ‘Multimodality’.
Pérez-González, Luis (2014) ‘Multimodality in Translation and Interpreting Studies’, in Sandra Bermann and Catherine Porter (eds)A Companion to Translation Studies, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 119-131. Post-peer review draft available online: https://www.academia.edu/ 4490004/_2014_Multimodality_in_Translation_and_Interpreting_Studies
Boellstorff, Tom (2003) ‘Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World’, American Ethnologist 30(2):225-212.
Cronin, Michael (2003) Translation and Globalization. London & New York: Routledge. Chapter 2: ‘Globalization and new translation paradigms’.
Pérez-González, Luis (2014) Audiovisual Translation: Theories, Methods and Issues, London & New York: Routledge. Chapter 3: ‘Audiovisual translation as a site of interventionist practice’.
Venuti, Lawrence (2008) ‘Translation, Simulacra, Resistance’, Translation Studies 1(1): 18-33.
1. Globalisation and media culture
1.1. Globalisation has become a broad and all-encompassing term that evokes images of dystopian homogeneity and benign cosmopolitanism.
1.2. Globalisation is mostly viewed as a continuing work-in-progress, rather than an already accomplished fact. However globally-linked our everyday lives may seem, they will only become ever more so in coming years and, it is suggested, at ever greater speeds.
1.3. It has been frequently suggested that globalization has sent many contemporary modern societies into a state of national identity crisis as exposure to other cultures increases. The transnational movement of information, texts, images, and populations is radically expanding the horizons of our imaginations.
1.4. Media culture is the material of representation. It is crucially important as a central site
Pérez-González, Luis (2014) ‘Translation and New(s) Media: Participatory Subtitling Practices in Networked Mediascapes’, in Juliane House (ed.) Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Palgrave Macmillan, 200-221. Post-peer review draft available online: https://www.academia.edu/4488806/_2014_Translation_and_New_s_Media_Participatory_Subtitling_Practices_in_Networked_Mediascapes
Schäffner, Christina (2012) ‘Rethinking Transediting’, Meta 57(4): 866-883. Available online: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1021222ar
van Leeuwen, Theo (2006) ‘Translation, Adaptation, Globalization. The Vietnam News’, Journalism 7(2): 217–237.
van Doorslaer, Luc (2012) ‘Translating, Narrating and Constructing Images in Journalism with a Test Case on Representation in Flemish TV News’, Meta 57(4): 1046-1059. Available online: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1021232ar
Banks, John and Mark Deuze (2009) ‘Co-creative Labour’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 12(5): 419–431.
Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin (1999) ‘Remediation: Understanding New Media, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Chouliaraki, Lilie (2010) ‘Self-mediation: New media and citizenship’, Critical Discourse Studies, 7(4): 227-232.
Chouliaraki, Lilie (2012) ‘Re-mediation, Inter-mediation, Trans-mediation’, Journalism Studies, 14 (2): 267-283.
Deuze, Mark (2009) ‘Convergence Culture and Media Work’, in J. Holt and A. Perren (eds) Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 144-156.
Dwyer, Tim (2010) Media Convergence, Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Jarvis, Jeff (2007) ‘Networked Journalism’, https://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/07/05/ networked-journalism, date accessed 15 November 201e.
Jenkins, Henry (2004) ‘The cultural logic of media convergence’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 7(1): 33–43.
Jenkins, Henry (2008) Convergence Culture (updated edition), New York: New York University Press.
Jensen, Klaus Bruhn (2010) Media Convergence, London: Routledge.
McNair, Brian (2006) Cultural Chaos: Journalism, News and Power in a Globalised World, London & New York: Routledge.
Meikle, Graham and SHerman Young (2012) Media Convergence. Networked Digital Media in Everyday Life, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Murdock, Graham (2000) ‘Digital Futures: European Television in the Age of Convergence’, in Jan Wieten, Graham Murdock and Peter Dahlgren (eds) Television Across Europe, London: Sage, 35.57.
Turner, Graeme (2010) Ordinary People and the Media: The Demotic Turn, London.
Denison, Rayna (2011). ‘Anime Fandom and the Liminal Spaces between Fan Creativity and Piracy’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 14(5): 449-466.
Pérez-González, Luis (2012) ‘Amateur Subtitling and the Pragmatics of Spectatorial Subjectivity’, Language and Intercultural Communication 12(4): 335-352.
Pérez-González, Luis (2013) ‘Amateur Subtitling as Immaterial Labour in Digital Media Culture: An Emerging Paradigm of Civic Engagement’, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 19(2) 157-175
2:Homeland Security Risk, Threats and Consequences Midterm Assignment
Assignment Instructions
Develop a 4 – 5 page essay that fully responds to the following prompt:
Prompt The Department of Homeland Security’s 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security
Review identifies six strateg‘c challenges (found on page 28 of this document) that it
befieves will drive risks facing the nation over the next several years. Explain the
process used by local communities (counties or cities) in determining which of these
threats pose the greatest risks to their respective communities, and how these
communities prioritize thei resowces in attempting to prevent or mitigate these
threats. In addition, what steps and actions might be taken by these communities to
prepare for such events in a proactive and effective manner?
(Note: The six strategic challenges are: The terrorist threat, cyber threats, biolog‘cal
concerns, nuclear terrorism, transnational criminal organizations and natual hazards.
Do not confuse these with the Department of Homeland Security’s five missions)