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Dzień z życia Ziemi, czyli YouTube jako cyberkultura

Tomasz Żaglewski

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 1 (9) , 2011, pp. 90-180

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.11.009.0230

The article attempt to deﬁne YouTube’s cyberculture by describing a model of its user and by showing the ways of participation in this particular cyberspace. Author starts his research by mentioning the rick roll strategy as one of the major practices of “using” the YouTube content. However the main part of the article is concentrating on the efforts to reveal YouTube as a cyberculture thanks to the analysis of Life in a Day production and its reception. And so, one of the crucial theories that constitute YouTube as an individual medium is the one explored by Richard Grusin. Grusin’s thesis about the re-mediated and pre-mediated aspects of new media helps to understand the main idea of YouTube as a socio- technical proposition as well as Jan van Dijk’s characteristic of the new media offers like fragmentarization of the cultural texts or its constant visualization. By referring to the Life in a Day project, author of the article is able to point out the basic determinants of YouTube’s cyberculture by describing it as an example of digitalized bedroom culture and snack culture (both terms links with a speciﬁc tradition of thinking about the media consumers and consumption itself).

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Case study of modified stay cable’s anchorage ‒ laboratory tests

Tomasz Żaglewski

Technical Transactions, Civil Engineering Issue 4-B (21) 2012, 2012, pp. 1-1

https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.081.1858

The paper shows the case study of modified stay cable’s anchorage in concrete base. The idea of modification is the introduction of additional rings on the formwork tube to improve the composite action between steel and concrete. Comparison between tested anchorage and typical element used in commercial systems is discussed. Composite force between steel and concrete in stay cable’s anchorage is presented. Influence of introduced ring on load capacity and behavior of entire anchorage is discussed.

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Night of the Owls: Defining Transmediality as an Analytical Tool for Reconstructing Comic Book Mythology

Tomasz Żaglewski

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 3 (33), 2017, pp. 372-389

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.17.026.7796

In recent years, “transmedia storytelling” has become a handy term to describe certain types of popular narrative. While this term is now crucial to many areas of media studies, Żaglewski offers a challenge to the common, and often rather shallow, understanding of transmediality. He questions the very idea of transmediality and in particular its multimodal character. The basis for such an effort is modern comic book studies, and more specifically, the highly successful Night of the Owls story arc from the Batman universe. Żaglewski adapts the theoretical design of transmedial storytelling for at least two purposes: Firstly, he seeks to define the multi/transmediality of comics themselves, which can be seen in the unity of words and images. Secondly, he offers a new understanding of the enormous superhero-driven storylines that are an important feature of contemporary comic books (along with all of the associated retcons, reboots, crossovers etc.). Such story arcs are now presented as an important example of transmedial storytelling that takes place within a single (trans)medium. Exploiting a method that might appear to be paradoxical, Żaglewski opens up the definition of transmedial storytelling by limiting his discussion to a single medium: the comic book.

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Wprowadzenie do fantropologii (Małgorzata Lisowska-Magdziarz, Fandom dla początkujących. Część I: Społeczność i wiedza, Kraków 2017)

Tomasz Żaglewski

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 4 (34), 2017, pp. 602-606

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Tomasz Żaglewski

Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Szamarzewskiego 89A, 60-568 Poznań

Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Szamarzewskiego 89A, 60-568 Poznań