scholarly journals Merging Professional and Collaborative Lexicography: The Case of Czech Neology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Škrabal ◽  
Martin Kavka
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Initial Dataset

Abstract This paper aims to relate two linguistic phenomena: neology (along with sources for its study) and collaborative lexicography. A pair of case studies is presented concerning two thematically defined groups of recent Czech neologisms: those abusing the Czech ex-president V. Havel’s name and those reflecting the Covid-19 pandemic. An initial dataset was provided by the user-generated content web dictionary of non-standard Czech Čeština 2.0 and the Neomat neology database, fostered by professional linguists. The objective data from a monitor corpus of Czech is used in contrast with the initial dataset and thereby leads to some open questions, especially with regards to the extent to which amateur and professional, two branches of lexicography, can inspire and enrich each other.

scholarly journals International TV series distribution on Chinese digital platforms: Marketing strategies and audience engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Gilardi ◽  
Celia Lam ◽  
K Cohen Tan ◽  
Andrew White ◽  
Shuxin Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between online media platforms in China and fan groups is a dynamic one when it comes to the distribution of international TV series and other media content, as media platforms incorporate user-generated content to encourage or foster audience engagement. Through a series of case studies, this article investigates how international TV series are acquired, distributed, marketed and curated on Chinese online video platforms. This helps to identify specific strategies and themes used by these platforms to promote international content and engage users. These marketing techniques, however, are not always as successful as expected, suggesting the need for a closer examination of the types of engagement sought by media platforms, and the ways in which Chinese audiences have responded within their cultural context.

scholarly journals Readers' Advisory: In the Readers’ Own Words: How User Content in the Catalog Can Enhance Readers’ Advisory Services

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise F. Spiteri ◽  
Jen Pecoskie
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Access Points ◽  
Advisory Services ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The Many ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
User Content

It’s always challenging and exciting to find topics for the readers’ advisory column, and professionals willing to write for them! I’ve been so thankful to the many professionals who have so generously given their time and shared their expertise for this column. From lessons learned, case studies and differing opinions on RA and its future, it is amazing how various and rich this area of librarianship is—and how rewarding and frustrating! In an effort to continue to provide a broad spectrum of thoughts and ideas, I asked Dr. Louise Spiteri of Dalhousie University to write for this issue. Spiteri recently completed two stages of research examining subject headings and user-generated content and how these connect with RA access points. Jen Pecoskie was Spiteri’s research partner in both studies.—Editor

Gestaltungsfreiheit im ungarischen GmbH-Recht

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leszek Dziuba
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Regulatory Authority ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Company Law ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Internal Relationships

Contractual freedom in company law determines the extent to which shareholders can regulate the internal relationships in their company in accordance with their own needs. The Hungarian approach to company law of 2013 promises innovative and practical formulations of the articles of association, especially for limited liability companies. However, the fundamental content and concrete scope of self-regulatory authority raises a multitude of open questions. With the help of legal history, legal doctrine and individual case studies, the author of this book attempts to create legal clarity and to provide practice with legally secure reference points. The work is aimed at both academics and practitioners.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brownstein
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Open Questions

This concluding chapter reviews the central contention of this book, which is that understanding the two faces of spontaneity—its virtues and vices—requires understanding the implicit mind. While alternative interpretations of each of the case studies discussed are available, the shared features of these cases illuminate a pervasive feature of our lives: actions the psychology of which is neither reflexive nor reasoned; actions that reflect upon us as agents but not upon what we know or who we take ourselves to be; and actions the ethical cultivation of which demand not just planning and deliberating but also, centrally, pre-committing to plans, attending to our contexts, and, as Bruce Gemmel—the coach of arguably the best swimmer of all time, Katie Ledecky— said, just doing the damn work. Finally, open questions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals Young Canadians’ Apprenticeship Labour in User-Generated Content

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Type Model ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Conditions De Travail ◽  
Political Economic

This article introduces a political-economic framework for analyzing young people’s production of user-generated content (UGC) as a kind of apprenticeship labour. Based on case studies of four young Montréalers engaged in creating user-generated content, the author developed the apprenticeship-type model of UGC labour to denote a process by which online immaterial labour or “free labour” coincides with self-directed and informal job training, channelled specifically toward a career in the creative industries. The 20- to 24-year-old participants’ online activity is seen as a non-remunerated training ground, driven by the promise of notoriety that begets autonomous future employment in areas such as fashion, music, and journalism. Throughout this process, young people must constantly negotiate their autonomy; negotiated autonomy is precisely what they are apprenticing into through UGC production, where uncertainty and flexibility serve as the hallmarks of new media working conditions.Cet article propose une approche politico-économique afin d’analyser les contenus web générés par les utilisateurs (mieux connus sous l’acronyme anglais UGC : usergenerated content) en tant que travail d’apprentissage. Suivant une étude menée auprès de jeunes montréalais actifs dans la création d’UGC, l’auteure a développé l’idée de « travail d’apprentissage » en tant que procédé au sein duquel le travail immatériel (ou « travail non rémunéré ») sert la formation informelle et autonome d’une main d’oeuvre vouée plus spécifiquement aux carrières afférentes aux industries culturelles. Ainsi, les activités web des jeunes dans la vingtaine ayant participé à l’étude sont conçues en tant que travail bénévole motivé par la promesse de notoriété qui conduirait, de manière autonome, à leur futur employabilité dans les domaines de la mode, de la musique ou du journalisme. Tout au long de ce processus d’apprentissage, ces jeunes deviennent les agents de négociations constantes à propos de leur autonomie ; pour ces jeunes, l’autonomie négociée constitue précisément ce vers quoi culmine leur apprentissage, alors que l’incertitude et la flexibilité deviennent les marques distinctives des conditions de travail dans le domaine des nouveaux médias.

scholarly journals Functional Biodiversity in Organic Systems: The Way Forward?

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Barberi
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Functional Group ◽  
Agricultural Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Functional Biodiversity ◽  
Input Substitution ◽  
Organic Systems ◽  
Open Questions

<p>Trends in EU agricultural policies recognize an increasingly important role to biodiversity conservation and use in agroecosystems, including organic ones. However, along with their economic success, organic systems are facing a risk of ‘conventionalization’, i.e. the prevalence of input substitution over agroecologically-based crop management. Understanding what is functional agrobiodiversity and when it can be successfully applied in organics may help strengthen the recognition of organic farming as the reference management system for agricultural sustainability. Here functional agrobiodiversity is defined as a subset of total biodiversity identified at the gene, species or habitat level able to deliver a given agroecosystem service, which extent increases with diversity in the functional group. Different functional agrobiodiversity categories are identified, compared to biofunctionality, and used to illustrate the mechanisms through which they can support agroecosystem services and consequently sustainability. Three case studies taken from the author’s own research are used as examples to illustrate functional agrobiodiversity’s potential in organic systems as well as open questions. Results show that (i) functional agrobiodiversity has potential to support agroecosystem services but it is not possible to generalize the effects; (ii) a given functional biodiversity element may create conflicts between different target agroecosystem services. In those cases, prioritization of services is required.</p>

Exploring the Impact of Web 2.0 on Knowledge Management

2013 ◽  
pp. 17-43
Author(s):  
Thomas Bebensee ◽  
Remko Helms ◽  
Marco Spruit
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Exploratory Case Studies ◽  
The Web

Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management (KM) have a considerable overlap. It appears promising to apply Web 2.0 applications for supporting and improving sharing and creation of knowledge. Yet, little research examining the impact of Web 2.0 on KM has been conducted. This chapter presents research examining the suitability and impact of Web 2.0 applications on KM in organizations. Two extensive exploratory case studies were conducted involving 11 interviews with key personnel of two student-run organizations. It is demonstrated how Web 2.0 applications can be used for a number of KM practices mostly related to the areas of asset management and knowledge creation and innovation. Moreover, they suggest that among all the Web 2.0 principles, User-Generated Content and Unbounded Collaboration exert the biggest influence on creating and sharing of knowledge within organizations. The study contributes to the general understanding of how Web 2.0 and KM practices can be interlinked with each other.

The framing of value

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lahey
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Late Night ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates the relationship between the television industry and participatory audiences through a rhetoric of empowerment that frames audience engagement in particular ways. I focus on how contests based on the creation of user-generated content are utilized in the industry–audience relationship; here my primary case studies are the use of user-generated video contests for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Office. I explore how these shows try to produce and harness the activity of participatory audiences. Further, I argue that an emphasis on understanding the regimes of value for participants is key to understanding these experiments in digital audience retention.

scholarly journals DIGITAL STORYTELLING DESIGN LEARNING FROM NON-DIGITAL NARRATIVES: TWO CASE STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Ilda Ladeira ◽  
Nicola J Bidwell ◽  
Xolile Sigaji
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Design Learning ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Outreach Programme

Digital tools for User Generated Content (UGC) aim to enable people to interact with media in conversational and creative ways that are independent of technology producers or media organisations. In this article we describe two case studies in South Africa that show that UGC is not simply something tied to technology or the internet but emerges in non-digital storytelling. At the District Six Museum in Cape Town, District Six ex-residents are central collaborators in the narratives presented. Ex-residents tell stories in the museum and can write onto inscriptive exhibits, such as a floor map showing where they used to live, and visitors can write messages on ‘memory clothes’, which are later preserved through hand embroidery. Such explicit infrastructures to access and protect cultural records are less available to rural inhabitants of the former Transkei. To address this gap local traditional leaders and villagers collaborated with a National Archives Outreach Programme by co-generating a workshop that linked various local priorities, such as representation to government, land rights and ecotourism to natural and cultural heritage. Both studies start to reveal opportunities to design technologies that increase participation in recording and sharing personal and cultural stories. They also show the need to respect values embedded in place-based oral customs, such as the importance of enabling transparency and supporting alternative views on historical events.

scholarly journals YOU MADE THIS? I MADE THIS: CULTURES OF AUTOMATIC (MIS)ATTRIBUTION ON TIKTOK

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bondy Valdovinos Kaye ◽  
Aleesha Rodriguez ◽  
Patrik Wikstrom
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Video Creation ◽  
The One

In 2019, TikTok captivated international attention as a breakout short-video platform. A key affordance for user-generated content creators on TikTok is how easy the platform makes reproducing popular videos. The video creation interface allows users to make new videos based on the one they were just watching with just one tap. While these features make it fun and easy for users to replicate popular videos, it can also obscure the identity of the creators who created the ‘original’ content being reused. In this way, TikTok engenders a culture of misattribution. Users can freely reuse popular formats, audio clips, or even licensed music without any connection to the original source with impunity. Using a combination of an app walkthrough, a bespoke data scraping tool, content analysis, and a series of qualitative case studies, this study explores the contradictory logic of authorship and how (mis)attribution is shaping cultural production and platform practices on TikTok.

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