One of the things I love about the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama is our culture of student research. I have the pleasure of advising Sierra Ruden in our Religion in Culture MA program. Sierra has been using discourse analysis to examine the social function of award shows. Sierra’s been experimenting with text coding, metadata management, and media production to think through what’s going on when artists accept awards.
Over on the Study Religion blog, Sierra shares a dispatch from her research. While undergoing this work, she noticed how awards shows buck against the subjectivty of art by creating a veneer of empirical measure. And she has some thoughts as to why cultural groups do this. Sierra’s also working on charting patterns in award speeches as a genre.
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