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Rap & Ringtones
CRIME AND DEVIANCE IN MASS MEDIA
» Thursday 27 August 2009 | 5 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing ideas
and people in the Okanagan creative economy. Join us as UBCO sociology professor Christopher Schneider conducts a wide-ranging, sharp and insightful exploration of the social and intellectual life of mass media, culture and technology.
» $2 at the door. Refreshments are available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Researcher Examines New Social Control Tactics in Everyday Life
This research talk investigates the connections between mass media, culture, and technology, and how these aspects of social life collectively operate with and contribute to changes in social interaction, communication, and social control. A basic contention is that popular culture is cultivated to enhance the integration of communication and information technologies into an effective, controlled, and accepted communication environment.
On Thursday, August 27th at 5 pm the ongoing weekly Okanagan Institute Express series at the Bohemian Café presents Rap & Ringtones: Crime and Deviance in Mass Media. Join us as UBCO sociology professor Christopher Schneider conducts a wide-ranging, sharp and insightful exploration of the social and intellectual life of mass media, culture and technology.
The principle argument his research advances is the idea that popular culture reinforces existing facets of both formal and informal aspects of social control while also contributing to the creation of new and unforeseen aspects of social control. In order to support this assertion, this presentation will examine the operation of social control in a. the meanings and censorship of "rap" music and artists; and b. the production, marketing, and identity promotion of telephone "ringtones." In the twenty-first century we have witnessed the development of new modes of communication and information exchange that have been unrealized in any previous historical epoch. Principle among these are mass media.
The willing acceptance of a mediated, technological, privileged and structured communication framework is an emergent feature of social control. These communication frameworks contain the capacity to exchange messages, information and discourse consistent with forms of control, however new emergent forms of control operate in different and unforeseen ways within these modalities. This research talk explores the merging of media, culture, and technology and emergent forms of social control that occur in daily life, particularly the ways that culture and technology have contributed to changes in social action and how these changes have also broadened meanings associated with social control and more generally social interaction.
Drawing from previous studies that focus upon social control, including cultural studies, cultural criminology, and media studies, this research talk investigates the institutional and theoretical structure of culture, and social control, located within the intersections of mass media, technology, and popular culture. Previous studies have relied on the analysis of select perceived negative attributes of particular elements of culture singled out for control such but have generally not assessed the situated meanings these and other images and symbols have within an ecology of communication in relation to ideas of crime and deviance drawn from communication and information technologies.
 Christopher J. Schneider, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. His research focuses on culture, deviance, and social control. Dr. Schneider has received awards for both his teaching and scholarly publications. His research has been featured nationally in Maclean's magazine and locally on CBC's "Daybreak" and on "News, Talk, Sports" AM1150, among others.
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Rap & Ringtones: Crime and Deviance in Mass Media takes place at the Bohemian Café. This marks the 104th event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007.
Express has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, distinguished editor and author Jim Taylor, poet and professor John Lent, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, community activist Don Elzer, dancer David LaHay, architect Jim Meiklejohn, culinary artist and writer Heidi Noble, broadcaster Marion Barschel and others from a wide range of creative fields.
The Okanagan Institute is a group of creative professionals that has gathered around the goal of providing events, publications and services of interest to enquiring minds in the Okanagan. We partner with individuals, organizations, institutions and businesses to achieve optimal creative and social impact.
Our mission is to ignite cultural transformation, catalyze collaborative action, build networks and foster sustainable creative enterprises. We invite the participation by all members of the creative community.
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