scholarly journals A technology and its vicissitudes: playing the gramophone in Sweden 1903–1945

Popular Music ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-236
Author(s):  
Ulrik Volgsten
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Recorded Music ◽  
Scientific Curiosity ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Musical Communication

AbstractThis inquiry deals with the changing role of the technology and the use of phonographs and gramophones during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than looking at the UK or USA, which much previous research has done, the focus is on peripheral Sweden. More specifically the question is how phonography turned from being a scientific curiosity into becoming an everyday media technology, and how it thereby influenced culture and everyday musical communication. The findings show two distinct approaches to recorded music, which intermingle in today's unprecedented musicalisation of culture and everyday life around the globe – approaches respectively described as utilitarian and solipsistic.

The changing role of management sciences in the UK

Omega ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
P THORNTON
Keyword(s):  
The Uk ◽  
Changing Role

scholarly journals Journalism from Above: Drones and the Media in Critical Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Jonas Harvard ◽  
Mats Hyvönen ◽  
Ingela Wadbring
Keyword(s):  
Media Production ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legal Constraints ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research ◽  
Journalistic Practice

In the last decade, the development of small, remotely operated multicopters with cameras, so-called drones, has made aerial photography easily available. Consumers and institutions now use drones in a variety of ways, both for personal entertainment and professionally. The application of drones in media production and journalism is of particular interest, as it provides insight into the complex interplay between technology, the economic and legal constraints of the media market, professional cultures and audience preferences. The thematic issue <em>Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice</em> presents new research concerning the role of drones in journalism and media production. The issue brings together scholars representing a variety of approaches and perspectives. A broad selection of empirical cases from Finland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US form the basis of an exploration of the changing relations between the media, technology and society. The articles address topics such as: Adaption of drone technology in the newsrooms; audience preferences and reactions in a changing media landscape; the relation between journalists and public authorities who use drones; and attitudes from journalistic practitioners as well as historical and future perspectives.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland Atkinson ◽  
Sarah Blandy
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Us ◽  
Culture Of Fear ◽  
Contested Meanings ◽  
The Uk

Introduces the argument that in the early twenty first century the private home has become a key battleground in a social politics focused on fear, pre-emptive action and architectural fortification. Films, books, fairytales and myths are explored to underline the central importance of the home. Layers of complex and contested meanings have accreted over the basic need for shelter. The role of the home in providing haven, status and privacy, boosted today by celebrity culture, has longstanding philosophical and legal justifications. These have become embedded in everyday life, and their importance is shown through the use of metaphors emphasising the home as a kind of fortress space. We outline the idea that growing rates of homeownership in the UK, the US and Australia, encouraged by neoliberal governments, have led to a perception of housing as wealth rather than as ‘home’. At the same time the concept of a risk society has led to a widespread culture of fear, provoking a withdrawal into the home and an emphasis on control as the primary attribute of legal ownership.

scholarly journals Long-term retrospective trends in the EU foreign trade development with the UK, USA and China

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
L. L. Razumnova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Trade Turnover ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Foreign Trade Turnover ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
Changing Role

Based on the latest data, the article examines the quantitative indicators of foreign trade in goods of the European Union (EU27) over the past 15 years with states that are not part of this economic grouping. Trends in the structure and dynamics of foreign trade turnover are revealed, including those determined by changing role of Great Britain and the United States in connection with Britain's secession from the Union (Brexit) in January 2020. In particular, there is a convergence in the growth rates of the studied countries group and an increase in its share in EU imports while reducing the share in merchandise exports. The quantitative trends of changes in the trade balance and commodity structure are analyzed. The author identifies the most significant factors determining the development of EU commodity exchange, comprising the role of US oil exports and anti-Russian sanctions. Some promising areas of research on this issue are determined with consideration of the results obtained by Russian and foreign scientists, such as competitiveness and the formation of the global value chains.

scholarly journals Modern Monetary Theory and the Changing Role of Tax in Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Baker ◽  
Richard Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Monetary Theory ◽  
Funding Mechanism ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Changing Role

Tax is traditionally viewed as the main funding mechanism for government spending. Consequently, social policy is often seen as something determined and constrained by tax revenue. Modern Monetary Theory (‘MMT’) presents a reversal of the tax-spend cycle, by identifying a spend-tax cycle. Using the UK as an example, we highlight that one of MMT’s most important, but under-explored, contributions is its potential to re-frame the role of tax from both a macroeconomic and social policy perspective. We use insights on the money removal, or cancellation function of taxes, derived from MMT, to demonstrate how this also creates possibilities for using tax to achieve social objectives such as mitigating income and wealth inequality, increasing access to housing, or funding a Green New Deal. For social policy researchers the challenge arising is to use these insights to re-engineer tax systems and redesign social tax expenditures (STEs) for creative social policy purposes.

Individuals and their families

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Malcolm Torry
Keyword(s):  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Past Half

This chapter examines the changing family patterns in the UK and argues that a benefits system containing a Citizen's Basic Income would go a long way towards meeting the needs of families and households, now and in the future. It first considers the ways in which households and the family have changed during the past half century, citing the ‘flexible employment market’ which gives rise to ‘whole communities in which it is very difficult to establish and maintain families’, and how a Citizen's Basic Income would enable households to benefit from the economies of scale that they generate. It then discusses the changing role of women and asks what kind of benefits system will most benefit women and enhance individual dignity. Finally, it describes the ways in which women are affected by the current tax and benefits structure and the ways they might be affected by a Citizen's Basic Income.

scholarly journals Education for Critical Community and the Pedagogy of Asylum: Two Responses to the Crisis Of University Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leszek Koczanowicz ◽  
Rafał Włodarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
University Education ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Face ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The University ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe current heated debate on the deteriorating status of the university raises a range of pertinent questions, including: What role can the humanities play in culture today in the face of the crisis of higher education? To answer this question, the authors begin by problematizing the relationship between culture, the humanities, and education. In the second part of the paper, they examine the changing role of the humanities in conjunction with the understandings of culture, and outline three salient ways in which culture is conceived of today. Subsequently, they focus on the loss of the dominant status that culture suffered when everyday life was discovered in modernity. In the third part, they argue that everyday life, or rather social representations of everyday life and its practices, are currently becoming the chief criterion for assessing culture, the humanities, and education. However, everyday life remains complex both in theoretical conceptualizations and in research observations. For example, everyday life harbors a range of risks and anxieties which are veiled by its own obviousness and reinforced by socialization. The authors conclude that, given this, everyday life in democratic societies calls for the work of understanding, support, affirmation, and criticism, in which the humanities can retain their superior status. In the fourth part, the authors discuss non-consensual democracy, critical community, and the pedagogy of asylum as the forms of organization and action that promote an auspicious interconnection of culture, the humanities, and education.

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