Approaching Transcultural Communication: Interview With Muniz Sodré

2021 ◽  
pp. 019685992110408
Author(s):  
Muniz Sodré ◽  
Otávio Daros
Keyword(s):  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Transcultural Communication ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Commons ◽  
The Media

Professor Emeritus Muniz Sodré discusses his contributions to the formation of the communication field in Brazil, of which he is one of the founding figures. The interview, conducted by Otávio Daros, unpacks some of the main arguments of his newly translated book The Science of the Commons: A Note on Communication (2019). Among the key concepts is mediatization, defined by him as the structural articulation of the media with social organizations and institutions. The Brazilian theorist also discusses the challenges for an education committed to “deracialization” and decolonization.

Characterizing Conflict, Defining the Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-48
Author(s):  
Herman Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Western Democracies

This chapter clarifies key concepts and theoretical frameworks and explains how they will be used to build the book’s central arguments. The chapter asks questions such as: What is meant by “the media”? How is conflict defined? What are the links between media and conflict? Is there a causal relationship between the mediatization of conflict and its outcomes? The chapter also introduces the question of the applicability of normative frameworks inherited from established Western democracies to African societies going through transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. The relationship between media, conflict, and democratization is a complex one that can be approached from different angles. This chapter considers three of these angles—the critical perspective, the contestation perspective, and the cultural perspective.

Development of System Based Code: Case Study of Life-Cycle Margin Evaluation

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tai Asayama ◽  
Masaki Morishita ◽  
Masanori Tashimo
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Plant Components

For a leap of progress in structural deign of nuclear plant components, The late Professor Emeritus Yasuhide Asada proposed the System Based Code. The key concepts of the System Based Code are; (1) life-cycle margin optimization, (2) expansion of technical options as well as combinations of technical options beyond the current codes and standards, and (3) designing to clearly defined target reliabilities. Those concepts are very new to most of the nuclear power plant designers who are naturally obliged to design to current codes and standards; the application of the concepts of the System Based Code to design will lead to entire change of practices that designers have long been accustomed to. On the other hand, experienced designers are supposed to have expertise that can support and accelerate the development of the System Based Code. Therefore, interfacing with experienced designers is of crucial importance for the development of the System Based Code. The authors conducted a survey on the acceptability of the System Based Code concept. The results were analyzed from the possibility of improving structural design both in terms of reliability and cost effectiveness by the introduction of the System Based Code concept. It was concluded that the System Based Code is beneficial for those purposes. Also described is the expertise elicited from the results of the survey that can be reflected to the development of the System Based Code.

scholarly journals Understanding the Meaning of Concepts Across Domains Through Collocation Analysis: An Application to the Study of Red Tape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Kaufmann ◽  
Richard F J Haans
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
The Media ◽  
Societal Problems

Abstract Public administration scholarship is facing a crisis of legitimacy, as academic research is viewed as both increasingly irrelevant for practice and methodologically underdeveloped. In this study, we put forward a so-called collocation analysis approach, which is a useful tool for studying the meaning of key concepts in public administration and (re)focusing academic research agendas to salient societal problems by identifying how concepts are talked about in different domains. To illustrate our approach, we assess the meaning of red tape in academia, policy-making, and the media. Our dataset consists of 255 academic articles, 2,179 US Congressional Records, and 37,207 US newspaper articles mentioning red tape. We find that red tape has specific connotations in each domain, which limits the extent to which these domains are being bridged. Using the insights from our analysis, we develop a red tape research agenda that aims for more relevant and rigorous knowledge generation and conclude by setting out implications and ways forward for public administration research at large.

scholarly journals The central philosophical viewpoint/concept of "mathematics of the commons" as a promising direction of applied mathematics.

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
Yasumasa Nishiura
Keyword(s):  
Applied Mathematics ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Mathematical Science ◽  
Slime Molds ◽  
Pattern Dynamics ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Research Director

Professor Emeritus Yasumasa Nishiura is a mathematician who has dedicated his career to understanding more about the profound impact mathematics has on the world around us. He worked as Research Director at the Alliance for Breakthrough between Mathematics and Sciences (ABMS) (2007–2016) in Japan where he was supporting research activities in mathematical science that highlights their potential for solving societal problems. Nishiura is working with a team of researchers based at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University in Japan where they are studying self-organisation patterns that naturally manifest without design but have rhythm in space and time, such as polymers, convection, slime molds, and chemical reactions, to help learn more about pattern dynamics.

scholarly journals Transylvanianism as Identity Discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-333
Author(s):  
Imola Katalin Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Efficient Communication ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Identity Discourses ◽  
Communication Breakdowns

Abstract This paper aims at making a presentation of the main regional ideologies of the Transylvanian cultural and spiritual life in the interwar period. The Hungarians’ Transylvanianism and the Romanians’ creative localism or ardelenism alike offered a wide range of key concepts and ideas that shaped/and were shaped by the cultural context of the time. Both regionalisms - Romanian and Hungarian - shared many of these concepts and ideas, although they never really sustained an open and efficient communication due to a series of causes. The shifts that occurred in the self-defining strategies, the communication breakdowns that characterized the relationships between the two cultural milieus and intellectual circles, the identity discourses that can be spotted in the media of that time, and the movement known as Transylvanianism are all approached with the purpose of identifying the causes that hindered real and efficient communication between Romanians and Hungarians.

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE COMMONS: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING COLLECTIVE ACTION IN CRISIS-RIDDEN SOUTHERN EUROPE

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-379
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Roussos ◽  
Haris Malamidis
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Commons

Both social movement research and the literature on the commons provide rich accounts of the anti-austerity mobilizations and uprisings in southern Europe. Movement studies offer important insights regarding the context of mobilization and collective claim making. The commons literature emphasizes bottom-up practices of shared ownership, self-management, and social co-production that move beyond institutional solutions. Although both literatures highlight similar phenomena, they remain relatively unconnected. Their distance precludes a full grasp of the implications regarding the dynamic and abundant to-and-fro movement between protest-based politics and everyday forms of collective action in this region, which is heavily affected by the crisis’ austerity management. Drawing on the South European context, this article rethinks key concepts addressed in both literatures (social movements-commons, activists-commoners, mobilization-commoning) and highlights how a conceptual synthesis can sharpen and (re)politicize the theorization of contemporary collective action in the everyday.

Making Infrastructures Audible

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-55
Author(s):  
Kyle Devine ◽  
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Waste Streams ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Media

The editorial introduction to this book offers an intellectual and political proposition for studying the media infrastructures of music and sound. It provides a summary of existing infrastructural scholarship across media studies, anthropology, science and technology studies, and other fields. It also describes the work of infrastructural analysis in relation to music and sound studies. Key concepts and approaches include examining supporting casts and operating in a deflationary mode, as well as adopting a mediatic perspective on the infrastructures of music and sound in order to understand the broad technosocial conditions that give rise to these cultural forms in the first place. Certain aspects of musical culture are described in terms of cultural techniques. There is also a section on the histories of notation, paper, ink, and publishing as media infrastructures of music and sound. Ultimately, the introduction lays the groundwork for a book that is about humble things and ordinary people—deeply hidden, plainly obvious, and everywhere powerful infrastructures of music and sound. The goal is to make infrastructures audible. For it is at this level—the level of supply chains, circulatory systems, and waste streams—where scholars can confront some of the most pressing dilemmas regarding the conditions of music, and the human condition more generally.

Identity Building in Social Marketing

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moshe Engelberg ◽  
Susan D. Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Marketing Plan ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Corporate Community

The corporate community has long been engaged in the process of identity building. Now, many social organizations recognize that identity building can be used to develop and promote programs, tactics, strategies and organizational missions. Identity building can help strengthen support for social organizations, improve effectiveness and use of programs by target audiences, help organizations determine the most unique and valuable benefits they can offer their stakeholders, and provide guidance for delivering those benefits. The research and development required for effective identity building is often summarized in an identity strategy, or platform, much like a marketing plan. This article is intended to help social marketers: 1) articulate how a strong identity can help organizations stand out in a competitive marketplace; 2) understand the key concepts of identity building within a social marketing context; 3) explain the elements that constitute an identity platform; and 4) describe the critical steps to develop an effective identity platform.

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