Television and the City: the Impact of Television in Milan, 1954–1960

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Foot
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The early years of state television in Italy, which began transmission in 1954, have usually been viewed as crucial to the spread of mass culture through Italian society. In addition, these developments have essentially been seen in negative terms by historians and sociologists. This article explores these early years in detail for one, key, urban setting: Milan. Through an examination of the myriad and often hidden effects of television, the research attempts to draw out the contradictory and complicated impact of TV and its relationship with other media, the neighbourhood, the family, the home and daily life. The article also looks at the impact of one important quiz show in the 1950s and concludes with some reflections on the power of the media in the city in the 1990s.

scholarly journals Fear and floods in Serbia: Citizens preparedness for responding to natural disaster

2016 ◽  
pp. 303-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Safety Procedures

The consequences of the floods that had affected the area of Serbia in 2014 indicated a very low level of preparedness of population to respond to natural disasters. Therefore, the aim of quantitative research is to examine the impact of fear on the willingness of citizens to respond to a natural disaster caused by the flood in the Republic of Serbia. Bearing in mind all local communities in Serbia where floods occurred or there is a high risk of flooding, there was selected a random sample consisting of 19 out of 150 municipalities and 23 towns and the city of Belgrade. In the selected communities, a research was undertaken in those areas that had been most affected in relation to the amount of water or potential risk of flooding. The survey used strategy of testing in households with the use of a multi- stage random sample. The research results indicate that the citizens who have a fear of floods are familiar with safety procedures to a greater extent in relation to citizens who do not have the fear; they have taken the preventive measures; they point out that they still are not ready to respond, but plan to do so in the next 6 months; they would evacuate to the upper floor of the house; they point out that someone in the family has educated them about the flood. In contrast to that, citizens who do not have the fear are not doing anything to prepare themselves to react in such situations, they are confident in their own abilities to cope with the consequences of floods, etc. The originality of the research lies in the fact that in Serbia there has never been conducted a research to examine the state of preparedness of citizens to respond. Bearing in mind that the research is based on the territory of Serbia, conclusions can be generalized to the entire population. The research results can be used when creating a strategy for improving the level of preparedness of citizens to respond.

PERANCANGAN KOMUNIKASI VISUAL PROMOSI KERAJINAN LAKER PALEMBANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galang Sabillah Bahar
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Visual Communication Design ◽  
The People ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Modern Era

<p><em>Laker is a typical Palembang handicraft in the form of all products or household utensils made of wood, rattan, bamboo or whatever is painted with black ink and then coated with varnish as an ingredient to beautify it as well as preservative. In this modern era the use of Crafts Laker in palembang is increasingly fading and it's not longer a culture in the City of palembang, especially the younger generation. The lack of promotion carried out on Laker handicrafts has made many of today's young generations not too familiar with Laker crafts, not even a few of them don’t know at all what laker craft is. Moreover, in the current development era, there is a fear of changing cultural heritage forms as a result of the impact of the development and progress of modern technology and other cultural elements that come from outside. To avoid this, visual promotion efforts are needed to the people of Palembang. This promotion was carried out to be able to invite the people of Palembang to cultivate laker crafts in daily life,especially the younger generation. Therefore the Visual Communication Design, Promotion of Laker Crafts is a form of persuasive effort to the people of Palembang, especially to get to know the Laker Crafts so that they can instill a sense of love and pride in Palembang Laker crafts that are known to the Palembang youth, and can invite Palembang people, especially the younger generation cultivate Laker crafts in daily life along with the trends of the times.</em></p>

Kavaklidere-Ankara: The Formation of a Residential District During the 1950s

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Çılga Resuloğlu ◽  
Elvan Altan Ergut
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
International Style ◽  
Residential District ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This paper aims to examine the formation of Kavaklıdere as a ‘modern’ residential district during the 1950s. Contemporary urbanization brought about changes in various regions of Ankara, among which Kavaklıdere emerged as an important location with features that defined a new stage in the development of the identity of the capital city. The construction of houses in this district from the early 1950s onwards was in accordance with new functional requirements resulting from the needs of the contemporary socio-economic context, and exemplified the relationship between architectural approaches and social developments. In line with the rapid urbanization of Ankara throughout the 1950s, daily life in Kavaklıdere was transformed, as experienced in the apartment blocks that were the newly constructed sites of modernization. The contemporary transformation of Kavaklıdere was apparently formal and spatial, with the modernist architectural approach of the period, i.e. the so-called International Style, beginning to dominate in the shaping of its changing character. Nonetheless, the transformation was not only architectural but also social: the characteristics of this part of the city were then defined by structures like these apartment blocks, which brought modernist design features, together with modern ways of living, into wider public use and appreciation. The paper discusses how the identity of Kavaklıdere as a residential district was formed in the context of the mid-twentieth century, when these new residences emerged as pioneering modernist architectural housing, the product of social change, which housed and hence facilitated the ‘modern’ lifestyle of that time.

Bahamian Labor Migration to Florida in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-103
Author(s):  
Howard Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Early Years ◽  
West Indians ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Agricultural Export ◽  
Period 1880 ◽  
The Family ◽  
Permanent Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Outward Migration

In the period 1880–1920 wage-labor migration of Bahamians, unlike that of other British West Indians, was primarily to the nearby State of Florida. This article examines the economic structure of the Bahamas which, with the decline of major agricultural export staples, promoted this outward migration particularly to Miami in the early years of the twentieth century. It discusses the implications of oscillating and permanent migration for the sending area. This discussion involves a consideration of the effects of labor migration on the family and out-island agriculture and the impact of remittances on economic development in the Bahamas.

scholarly journals Educative TV or TV-sitter?: attitudes towards the current TV

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Ruiz-Trujillo ◽  
Rosa Ángela Vázquez-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The People ◽  
Common Task ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
People Development

Television is an important part of our daily life. TV has become «one of the family» and we cannot imagine our homes without one, two or even several TV sets. This situation of privilege in our families may turn into a double-edged sword: depending on the use given it may determine the people development and even manipulate the youngest ones if it is not used correctly. Making all the viewers –and especially the most vulnerable ones, the children- aware of the need for the use of TV from a critical and responsible point of view is a common task for all of us, family, school and society. And the fact is that we cannot only use the media passively, but in a dynamic and active way. La televisión forma parte de nuestra vida diaria. Se ha convertido con el tiempo en «uno más de la familia» y no concebimos nuestros hogares sin una, dos o incluso varios aparatos de televisión. Esta situación de privilegio en nuestras familias puede llegar a convertirse en un arma de doble filo: dependiendo del uso que se le dé puede condicionar el desarrollo de las personas, pudiendo manipular los más pequeños si no se emplea de un modo correcto. Es tarea de todos -familia, escuela y sociedad en general- colaborar para poder concienciar sobre el uso de la televisión de una manera crítica y responsable a todos los espectadores y en especial al colectivo más vulnerables, los niños. Y es que no podemos limitarnos a utilizar este medio de comunicación de una manera pasiva, sino de manera dinámica y activa.

Johannes Martin Bijvoet, 23 January 1892 - 4 March 1980

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 26-41 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Blast Furnace ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Early Age ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City ◽  
Harmonious Family

Johannes Martin Bijvoet* was born on 23 January 1892 in Amsterdam. His father, Willem Frederik Bijvoet, owned a dye factory. His mother was Barendina Margaretha Ruefer. He was the third of four sons in a harmonious family. His eldest brother, Willem Frederik, became a well known gynaecologist; his second brother, Bernard, became a famous architect; and his youngest brother, Frederik, succeeded his father in the management of the dye factory. The family lived in a traditional old house on the banks of one of his beloved Amsterdam’s many canals, the Binnenkant. In addition, they owned a small summer house in the dunes near IJmuiden, which was, in Bijvoet’s own words, ‘unequalled for romantic beauty, but in later years wiped out by the extension of a blast furnace site, so that even at an early age I met with the reverse of industrial blessing’. From 1897 to 1903 young Bijvoet went to the primary school ‘Zeemanshoop’ (sailor’s hope) at the Prins Hendrikkade, and from 1903 to 1908 he attended secondary school, the ‘Eerste vijfjarige HBS’ (literally: first five-year higher civil school) on the Keizersgracht. From these early years, spent in the old centre of the city, dated his lifelong attachment to Amsterdam .

“What They Had between Their Legs Was a Form of Cash”

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Alessio Ponzio
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
Queer Spaces ◽  
Bear Witness

This article, showing how ubiquitous male youth prostitution was in 1950s Italy, exposes the pederastic and (homo)sexual vivacity of this decade. Moreover, this article also suggests that even if police, the media, and medical institutions were trying to crystallize a rigid chasm between homo- and heterosexuality, there were still forces in Italian society that resisted such strict categorization. The young hustlers described by contemporary observers bear witness to the sexual flexibility of the 1950s in Italy. These youths inhabited queer spaces lacking a clear-cut hetero–homo divide, spaces where “modern” sexological categories and identities had not yet entered. Prior to the mass circulation of rigid sexual labels, it was still possible for many Italian boys, youths, and young men to dwell in liminal queer spaces. The exchange of money purified their acts, guaranteed their maleness, and effaced potential stigmatization.

The image impact of mega-sporting events perceived by international students and their behaviour intentions

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongfeng Liu
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
City Image ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Leisure Facilities ◽  
Willingness To Recommend ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Using Shanghai F1 as an example, this research seeks to examine the impact of mega-events on host city image from the perspective of international students. Leisure facilities and service were the most positive image impact perceived by the respondents, followed by affective city images as well as opportunities and convenience. International students tended to disagree that F1 would result in any crime and security problems and were unsure about any negative impact on environment and daily life. Some of the image factors were significantly related to intention to work in the city or the willingness to recommend the city.

scholarly journals The role of media in the construction of social reality

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanja Nišić ◽  
Divna Plavšić
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Th is paper analyzes the concept of media construction of reality and its impacton society. Recognizing the growing infl uence and importance of themedia in a man’s daily life, it can be said that the media and media cultureitself are an important factor in modern society. Th e media have the abilityto place information and to provide to the citizens-consumers to accept themwithout critical and conscious interpretation and real understanding. An importantfactor in the development of the media is and technological advancesthat contributed to the rapid spread of the media and gave more power to thepresentation of reality and the state of society as it corresponds to the creatorsand the “constructors” of that reality. By understanding Baudrillard and hisunderstanding of the simulation, we will present the impact and role of themedia in constructing the social reality (simulation of reality).

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