scholarly journals The Social Construction of Internet Addiction in China: Youth between Reality and Temporal Autonomy in the Documentary Web Junkie

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-105
Author(s):  
Annika Pissin

This article addresses issues surrounding the social construction of internet addiction, focusing on conceptualisations of reality, escape, hope, and time. Drawing on a critical realist account of semiosis, the framing of internet addiction in China is analysed using the documentary film Web Junkie as an empirical pivot and point of departure. A contextual overview of relations, interests, and tensions surrounding youth and the internet in China is provided, and the film Web Junkie is briefly presented. The main body of the article consists of a critical analysis of conceptualisations of “reality” and “escape.” The core tension focused on in the analysis is the struggle over time, necessitating engagement with critical thought on hope and utopia. The analysis concludes that struggles over temporal autonomy underlie conflicting claims about “reality” and “escape” that are central to “internet addiction” and its treatment in China today.

Author(s):  
Robert Parent ◽  
Denis St-Jacques ◽  
Julie Bélievau

This chapter reviews recent literature on knowledge and knowledge transfer (KT) and proposes the emergence of a classification system of the core KT concepts, models, and contexts that helps address issues of a strategic nature. The two paradigms that inform most of the KT literature, the positivist and social construction paradigms, and their implications on strategy formulation, are discussed. The positivist paradigm views knowledge as an object that can be passed on mechanistically from the creator to a translator who then adapts and transmits it to the user. The social construction paradigm views knowledge as the dynamic by-product of interactions between human actors who are trying to understand, name, and act on reality. In keeping with this dual paradigm logic, the literature on KT can be categorized as originating either from an information technology paradigm or an organic paradigm. The chapter discusses how most of the past strategy-related KT issues focused on the transfer of explicit knowledge and indicates that the future direction implies a shift in attention towards more tacit knowledge transfer considerations.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Verónica Ripoll León

Resumen. La autora Elfriede Jelinek –ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2004– es una incansable creadora de personajes estereotipados. Mediante el empleo de la ironía, Jelinek utiliza a los protagonistas de sus obras para reflexionar de manera crítica sobre el conjunto de acciones y comportamientos sociales que forman parte de las expectativas de lo que el género femenino y masculino deben representar dentro de una sociedad. Un año antes de la mención del Nobel, Jelinek publicaba un conjunto de textos dramáticos reunidos bajo el título La muerte y la doncella I-V. Dramas de princesas (Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V. Prinzessinendramen, 2003). En esta obra, la escritora austríaca reescribía dos de los cuentos de princesas –Blancanieves y La Bella Durmiente– y una leyenda –Rosamunda–, que forman parte de la tradición literaria occidental, para reinventar después la historia de otras mujeres reales del panorama histórico y cultural como son Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis y las escritoras Sylvia Plath e Ingeborg Bachmann. El objetivo del presente estudio es atender al problema que supone en estos Dramas de princesas la existencia de unos cánones de belleza cuando se pretende construir la imagen y la identidad de unas mujeres que han quedado sometidas a la supremacía de poder que la sociedad otorga al varón. Para ello, y siguiendo la senda del psicoanálisis, se prestará especial atención al elemento del espejo, entendido como un instrumento que brinda o niega el reconocimiento a estas princesasPalabras clave: Elfriede Jelinek, teatro posdramático, cuentos de hadas, psicoanálisis, espejo.Abstract. Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Literature Nobel Prize in 2004, is a tireless creator of stereotyped characters. Through the application of irony, the protagonists of her works are used with the intention of exciting critical thought about the social roles and actions expected to be played by women and men within a society. A year before being awarded the Nobel Prize, Jelinek released a body of plays under the title of Death and the Maiden I-V. Princess Plays (Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V. Prinzessinendramen, 2003). In this work, the Austrian writer rewrote two of the most famous fairytales featuring princesses, such as Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, as well as a legend played by Rosamunde. These tales are part of the core of Western literary tradition. In using them, she reinvents the story of other real characters and women from our historic and cultural panorama: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis or writers like Sylvia Plath and Ingeborg Bachmann. The main goal of the present paper is to analyse the problem posed by the existence of a beauty canon in these Princess Plays insofar as the construction and depiction of female identity is subdued by the control and supremacy of a patriarchal society. To do so, and following a psychoanalytical approach, the theme of the mirror will be the main focus as an instrument which brings or hinders the acknowledgement of these princesses.Keywords: Elfriede Jelinek, postdramatic theatre, fairytales, psychoanalysis, mirror.


2021 ◽  
pp. 125-151
Author(s):  
Neal M. Krause

The virtue of forgiving others and the virtue of compassion occupy a pivotal position in the core study model because they provide an important point of departure for explaining how spiritual support affects health. This fundamental issue is explored in three sections: (1) a theoretical rationale for focusing specifically on forgiveness and compassion is provided—in the process the social underpinning of these virtues is highlighted; (2) studies on the relationship between forgiveness and health as well as compassion and health are reviewed; (3) a submodel is introduced that aims to flesh out the nature of the relationship between spiritual support and these two social virtues is provided.


1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Solomos

ABSTRACTThe issue of black youth unemployment has become a central aspect of government race relations policies over the last few years, particularly in the aftermath of the 1981 street disturbances. This paper attempts to locate the various stages of response to this question, both at the level of ideology and of policy. It argues that although the policies pursued have been legitimized as helping young blacks, they have failed to mount an effective response to the employment crisis facing this group. In addition, it is argued that policies have tended to ignore the question of racism and to concentrate on the supposed cultural and personal handicaps which young blacks inherit from their cultural background. It concludes by questioning the ideology of equal opportunity, which is the core concept underlying government responses to racial discrimination, and argues for a more critical analysis of recent interventions premised on this notion.


2020 ◽  
pp. 48-64
Author(s):  
Graham Harrison

This chapter makes a critical assessment of the capabilities approach (CA). It sets out the core features of the CA and highlights its focus on local livelihoods and its development vision of incremental change. It notes the normative attractiveness of this position, and its focus on individual experiences. It then goes on to identify a series of limitations to this approach. It argues that the CA is excessively inclusive, using rights-speak to see all change as either good or bad. It also has a weak understanding of social relations because it focuses on individuals at the expense of structures. It argues that its liberal understanding of individual agency means that it fails to understand the social construction of agency. The chapter ends by sketching how the inability of capabilities to generate a theory of structural change leaves it limited in ambition and inattentive to history.


1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher

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