Hip-hop Realness and the White Performer

Hip-hop's imperatives of authenticity are tied to its representations of African-American identity, and white rap artists negotiate their place within hip-hop culture by responding to this African-American model of the authentic. This article examines the strategies used by white artists such as Vanilla Ice, Eminem, and the Beastie Boys to establish their hip-hop legitimacy and to confront rap music's representations of whites as socially privileged and therefore not credible within a music form where credibility is often negotiated through an artist's experiences of social struggle. The authenticating strategies of white artists involve cultural immersion, imitation, and inversion of the rags-to-riches success stories of black rap stars.     

电视民生新闻:在故事化的叙述中坚守新闻的真实性

故事化的叙事方式广泛运用在电视民生新闻中,这种叙述方式可以拉近媒体和受众之间的距离,使民生新闻特有的亲民效果得到延伸。随着这种叙述方式的广泛应用,电视民生新闻中出现了一些因故事化而导致新闻失真的种种现象。本文试澄清电视民生新闻中故事化叙述方式的界定,并分析故事化的叙述方式在电视民生新闻的运用中存在的问题,探讨了电视民生新闻如何在故事化的叙述方式中坚守新闻的真实性问题。     

Side by side: old and new standards in the conservation of modern art. A comparative study on 20 years of modern art conservation practice

Conservation of modern art has in the last 20 years developed from a singular case-by-case approach into a full and independent specialization in conservation with its own strategy, theory, and ethics. The methods applied today are both newly developed and partly a continuation of traditional conservation standards. New is the special focus on the artist and his intent, and on the defining of the various artistic concepts, as these elements and the artist as a stakeholder, play decisive roles in decision-making on optional treatment interventions. Challenging new materials (plastics, light, food, kinetic art, or re-used objects) require ongoing research to formulate specific instructions, and special designed guidelines for conservation, putting a new perspective on collections care. As contemporary art may be produced by the artist, by assistants or industry, and can be made of artists' materials, anything from the hardware store, re-used or reworked objects or intangible elements, the reassessing of definitions on authenticity and originality eventually lead to the reformulation of standard rules on retouching, reversibility and in particular reconstruction. Thus new conservation strategies have been designed for various types of contemporary art, where applicable built from old standards.     

论修辞策略的评价标准

修辞策略的评价标准，就是用来判别策略的成败得失和优劣高下的标准。能否正确认识、科学把握评价标准，标志着对修辞策略木质和规律的理解深度，以及驾驭、运用策略的水准，对修辞策略的理论建设和实际运用具有重要的意义。文章着重论述了修辞策略的三条评价标准：功利性标准、真实性标准、审美性标准。     

论不同时代档案真实性及其挑战

不同时代背景下,档案真实性具有不同的内涵,也面临着各种挑战。本文通过对20世纪90年代末的档案真实性、信息技术时代电子文件的真实性、记忆理念下的档案真实性及其面临的挑战进行论述,提出在考察档案真实性的过程中需要加以思考的一些问题,希望学者和档案工作者不要囿于某种情况档案的真实性问题,而是结合文物、遗迹等其他形象化物体来追溯历史,从而最大程度地发挥档案的价值。     

Authenticity matters: A digital ethnography of FIA World Rally Championship fan forums

In today’s landscape of sport coverage, the increased competition for attention begs the question of how to provide offerings tailor-made not only to people’s media consumption patterns, but also to their motivation for following a certain sport. This paper argues that digital ethnography provides a way to analyze views on media coverage of sport that promoters can make use of in attracting new consumers and keeping existing ones. By investigating two online forums where the television coverage of FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) from 2010–2013 was discussed, the most important thing to offer rally fans is not technical perfection and sanitized images, but explicit storytelling elements that are authentic—mirroring ‘what rallying is all about.’ This approach is believed to be applicable across a range of sports. Therefore as much stress is laid on the methods involved as on the specifics of this example. Along the way, strengths and weaknesses of this approach, these methods and these findings, are discussed.     

Digital pilgrimage: Exploring Catholic monastic webcasts

This study questions how religious webmasters view the objectives of their webcasting in relation to pilgrimage. Findings uncovered four facets: (1) mediation of the holy sites and experience; (2) bonding between Holy Land communities and global believers; (3) cultivating agents; (4) media experiences as a pilgrimage surrogate. Drawing on Walter Benjamin, the study elucidates how online videos evoke proximity to the sacred, thus connecting holy sites and believers, while affirming webmasters as secondary actors of religious authority.