Visualizing “Everything under the Sun”

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-81
Author(s):  
Florian Hoof
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Media History ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Intuitive Thinking ◽  
Epistemological Perspective

Chapter 1 gives a detailed introduction to the book’s historical-epistemological perspective, a combination of approaches from business and media history, media archeology, German media theory, and social theory. First, it establishes a systematic approach to understand visual consulting knowledge as media boundary objects and as part of a historically emergent graphic media network. It looks at the genealogy of the static, kinetic, and calculative media devices that form the graphic media network. Second, it traces the popularization of visualization methods that were originally developed in disciplines such as statistics, engineering, physiology, and macroeconomics. It shows the utopian potential that was attributed to visualization devices, which were conceived as new modes of intuitive thinking. It describes how management in industrial and commercial firms increasingly made use of these graphic, photographic, and filmic techniques. The chapter shows how this connection leads to fundamental changes in business practices, which are characterized as a form of “visual management.”

Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-32
Author(s):  
Benjamin Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Company Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Company ◽  
History Of Race

Chapter 1 focuses on the early history of race-based insurance. When the Newark-based Prudential Insurance Company of America incorporated in 1875, it revolutionized the American insurance industry by offering policies to the working class for an affordable three cents per week. What made the Prudential doubly unique was that the company insured not simply industrial laborers, but also African American laborers. The company was not in the progressive vanguard, though. Rather, the Northern upstart, in contrast to its Southern competitors, simply had not thought to craft a company policy to explicitly ban African Americans from purchasing life insurance. Just five years after becoming the first insurer to cover black lives, the Prudential began to charge differential, race-based premiums and commenced a public relations effort to defend its discriminatory practices. This foundational chapter traces how the theoretical work of scientific racism became embedded in the business practices of American insurers.

Emotional Ideologies

Enthusiasm ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Monique Scheer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
German Philosophy ◽  
Science Discourse ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Emotion Theory ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Emotion Concepts

Chapter 1 argues that there are two dominant strands of emotion theory in Germany in the modern period, one of “Enlightened,” one of “Romantic” character, which exist side by side and are mobilized in sometimes paradoxical ways. These heuristic categories aim to organize the vast stores of knowledge about emotions, and what implications it has for judgments about emotional practice. They are philosophical and aesthetic traditions which intertwine with emotional styles and theological orientations, and both underlie the development of psychology as a natural-science discourse in the mid-nineteenth century. By virtue of the influence of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German philosophy and social theory, they still undergird scholarly and everyday discourse on emotions and conviction to this day, even beyond the strictly German context. This argument is built on an analysis of emotion concepts stored in German encyclopedias from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, which document shifts in the location of “real” emotion as well as normative stances on what “real” emotion is. Understanding the historical trajectory of knowledge about emotion more generally helps situate the analysis of debates on enthusiasm in the following chapters.

scholarly journals Will the Sun Rise?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Takeshi Murakoshi
Keyword(s):  
International Market ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Presentation Style ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Variety Show ◽  
Business Structure ◽  
Tv Broadcasting

This article illustrates the TV format business in Japan, which has a 60-year history of TV broadcasting and is the second biggest market in the world; however, it is still a small player in the business. The article examines the elements which prevent the international sale of more TV formats and suggests possible solutions. To meet the objectives, this study presents the following research: 1) a questionnaire to ask TV content buyers about the problems and strong points of Japanese TV formats, 2) semi-structured interviews with Japanese TV format sellers via email, 3) semi-structured interviews with TV format experts, and 4) archival research. As a result, this study found that the elements that prevent Japan from developing the TV format business include their unique presentation style in light entertainment shows, called ‘variety show style’, an inability to adjust this structure to the international market, and traditional Japanese-styled business practices. As possible solutions, this article suggests 1) introducing flying producers, 2) changing the business structure, 3) buying foreign TV formats, and 4) taking risks.

scholarly journals Boundary Objects as a Learning Mechanism for Sustainable Development Goals—A Case Study of a Japanese Company in the Chemical Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6680
Author(s):  
Wen Pan Fagerlin ◽  
Minoru Shimamoto ◽  
Ran Li
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Objects ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Japanese Company ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Historical Contextualization ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Coordination Tool

This paper explores the role of boundary objects in the translation and transformation process of a sustainability concept—Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs)—into a firm’s business practices. The qualitative case study describes the experience where a Japanese company successfully implemented SDGs and generated product innovations through its learning process. The findings of the study identify four types of effective boundary objects: (1) organizational repository boundary objects, including historical contextualization and best practices; (2) a standardized form of boundary objects based on certification process of environmental sustainable products; (3) an ideal type of boundary objects through digital forum based learning platform; (4) a “powerful” community of practices that come across hierarchy and functions. This paper extends the literature by showing the interconnectedness of boundary objects, the possible negative side of technology based boundary objects, and the significance of community of practices as a monitoring and coordination tool to ensure the effective operation and measurement of sustainability.

Pauses, Cuts, and Static Interference

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-868
Author(s):  
Shaoling Ma
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Third World ◽  
Media History ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Technological Transfer ◽  
Village People ◽  
Malayan Emergency ◽  
British Colonies

The mergers and separations that shaped the decolonizing third world also made media history. Singapore’s separation from Malaysia on August 9, 1965, after two tumultuous years of union was no exception. Radio and television, which broadcasted the seminal moments, embodied the mergers and separations of media forms—this is a fact overlooked in both national histories and regional media scholarship. Reconfigured with the complex, shifting intersections of radio and television, the otherwise familiar account of merger and separation in the “Singapore Story” emerges anew with static noises, pauses, iterations, and interruptions. The technical effects of cuts and jumps in early radio and television editing undergird and thereby challenge the politics of representation in studies of decolonization. At the same time, technological transfer and adaptation in the former British colonies open the provincial confines of media theory to a more global, materialist trajectory. This article connects the televised broadcast of Singapore’s independence in 1965 to early enthusiasm for radio’s disembodied voice during the colonial, interwar period. The discussion then examines how Amir Muhammad’s 2007 independent documentary Village People Radio Show (Apa khabar orang kampung) recovers radio’s forgotten role in the Second Malayan Emergency, also known as the Communist Insurgency War (1967–89).

Evidence of Strategic Marketing in Social Enterprises

2019 ◽  
pp. 182-212
Author(s):  
Debbie Ellis ◽  
Evelyn Derera
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Strategic Marketing ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
The Social

Social enterprises represent a unique form of organization with both commercial and social objectives. As such, the application of strategic marketing to these organizations is not clearly understood. Chapter 1 developed a framework for analyzing strategic marketing, which is applied in this chapter to three South African social enterprises to assess the evidence of the application of strategic marketing in the social enterprise context. The results of the study reflect rich qualitative data providing evidence of the application of elements of strategic marketing as well as adaptations more appropriate to the social enterprise context. From these lessons, recommendations are made for social enterprises applying a more systematic approach to strategic marketing in their organizations.

scholarly journals Whose Virus - Whose Code

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Gómez-Venegas
Keyword(s):  
Media History ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Old World ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Protected Mode

This essay attempts to trace the currents of anxieties and fears that overflowed the digital during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Traveling with such flows, this work aims to model the questions that, circulating silently in a sort of latent state before the catastrophe, now haunt us as brutally unveiled; namely, to which extent the digital mediations we have attached to ourselves, to our lives, in order to know and experience this world under a protected mode, now push us to witness that that world has expelled us? To which extent these digital mediations tell us that now we belong more to them, than to that old world of which we became blind almost a century ago? Through a post-hermeneutical approach, one that analyzes some of the digital traces left by the rise of this pandemic by discussing them through the lens of media history and media theory, this work seeks to sketch a short media history of loss; the loss of many, the loss of our-selves.

Activity

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Audit Risk ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Audit Planning ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Audit Project ◽  
It Audit

To fulfill audit planner responsibilities, the information technology (IT) auditor must determine examinable units using a selection method for engagements. Through synthesis of relevant audit standards and guidelines as well as professional experience, Chapter 1 presents crucial inputs to the IT audit planning process to organize a comprehensive assessment of an IT audit area. Chapter 1 discusses how to obtain an understanding of assurance objectives, enterprise objectives, and business practices for an IT audit project. Moreover, Chapter 1 discusses IT audit materiality, IT audit risk assessment tasks, and presents foundational control appraisal tasks from a system perspective.

Compassion and Peregrinatio

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Joshua Hordern
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter begins to describe the response to Chapter 1’s diagnosis. The core of a social theory which will provide therapy is introduced, namely, peregrinatio, the wayfaring and pilgrim experience of life. Peregrinatio is explained and deployed to show how it reframes healthcare encounters, illuminating the nature of compassion, its civic context, and its everyday practice and fostering six attitudes which conduce to compassion: (i) interest in the human life-course; (ii) patience with plurality of perspective; (iii) curiosity in human encounter and companionship; (iv) humility in conversation; (v) recognition of the proper value of healthcare; and (vi) perseverance in preserving the communal nature of human life amidst suffering. The benefits of such a framing of the human condition for three aspects of healing are considered: (i) the healing of the affections; (ii) the healing encounter with God amidst suffering; and (iii) the healing role of healthcare professionals. Objections to peregrinatio are considered and addressed.

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