scholarly journals Inheritance and Dissemination of Cultural Collective Memory: An Analysis of a Traditional Festival

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402090160
Author(s):  
Zhenjie Liao ◽  
Guangquan Dai

The traditional festivals in urban societies constitute public memory and are essential for constructing a sense of locality. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the collective memory of traditional urban festivals to promote the sense of locality. In this research, the Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market was selected as a case study. By examining the historical literature, and conducting field research and interviews, the collective memory of the Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market was classified and sorted from the perspective of the categories of collective memory. A collective memory graph of the Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market was constructed using Gephi complex network analysis software. By examining the rich memory content and hierarchical structure of the Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market, we can better understand and foster the function of traditional urban festivals as collective memory and achieve the sustainability of collective memory.

Author(s):  
Bornali Phukon ◽  
Akash Anil ◽  
Sanasam Ranbir Singh ◽  
Priyankoo Sarmah

WordNets built for low-resource languages, such as Assamese, often use the expansion methodology. This may result in missing lexical entries and missing synonymy relations. As the Assamese WordNet is also built using the expansion method, using the Hindi WordNet, it also has missing synonymy relations. As WordNets can be visualized as a network of unique words connected by synonymy relations, link prediction in complex network analysis is an effective way of predicting missing relations in a network. Hence, to predict the missing synonyms in the Assamese WordNet, link prediction methods were used in the current work that proved effective. It is also observed that for discovering missing relations in the Assamese WordNet, simple local proximity-based methods might be more effective as compared to global and complex supervised models using network embedding. Further, it is noticed that though a set of retrieved words are not synonyms per se, they are semantically related to the target word and may be categorized as semantic cohorts.


In this chapter, the authors present a case study of Network Analysis in the field of bibliometrics, focused on the identification of central academic articles based on complex network metrics that can be implemented with algorithms covered throughout this book. The authors analyze a scientific citation network and systematically obtain the most central papers considering different perspectives of the selected document collection. Later, they discuss the potential benefits that the parallel kernels and the topology-aware partitioning algorithms can offer in the context of the presented study case. Finally, the authors summarize this book's main contributions and offer some concluding remarks.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaopei Chen ◽  
Dachang Zhuang

This paper takes the metro network of Guangzhou as a case study, and provides a quantitative analysis of the historical development of the network from 1999 to 2018. Particularly, the evolution of the topological structure of the Guangzhou Metro Network (GMN) is evaluated and characterized through the integration of geographic information system (GIS) and complex network analysis. The results show that: (1) The metro network of Guangzhou possesses the basic characteristics of small-world network, (2) with the development of GMN, the network complexity is increased and the spatial dispersion of the nodes tends to ease, but the average travel time and transfer rate continues to rise up, leading to the decreasing of the network transmission efficiency and the scattering of the nodes, (3) a good fault tolerance of the overall metro network of Guangzhou is revealed, but the spatial variance is observed, (4) the peak of degree centrality (DC) of the nodes is gradually moving northward along “Kecun Station–Guangzhou railway station–Jiahe Wanggang station”, while the peak of betweenness centrality (BC) is changing from “Kecun station” to “Jiahe Wanggang station”, and Jiahe Wanggang station has evolved into the most critical node in the current metro network of Guangzhou. In conclusion, this study should provide the scientific basis and significant decision-making support to the planning and operation management of GMN.


Author(s):  
Naomi HERTZ

Intensive manual labor enterprises in the developed world face challenges competing with products imported from countries where manufacturing costs are low. This reduces the volume of domestic production and leads to rapid loss of knowledge and experience in production processes. This study focuses on the Israeli footwear industry as a case study. Qualitative methodologies were applied, including in-depth interviews and field observations. A literature review on previous research, and contemporary trends was conducted. The field research examines challenges along the value chain in small factories. It finds that mass production paradigms impose a decentralized process between designers and manufacturers and therefore do not leverage local potential into a sustainable competitive advantage for small factories. The proposed solution is a digital and technological platform for small manufacturing plants. The platform mediates and designs the connections between production, technology, and design and enables the creation of a joint R&D system.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-346
Author(s):  
Iyam Marhamah ◽  
Yaya Yaya ◽  
Asep Sodiqin

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan sistem dakwah Pondok Pesantren At-Tawazun ditinjau melalui sistem terbuka mulai dari tahap input, conversion, output, feedback, hingga environment dalam upaya mengatasi problematika santri yang dipengaruhi oleh perkembangan zaman. Penelitian yang dilakukan ini menggunakan metode studi kasus dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan spesifikasi penelitian field research (penelitian lapangan). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa keberadaan pondok pesantren At-Tawazun dirasakan cukup besar manfaatnya oleh orang tua maupun masyarakat. Lembaga dakwah dan pendidikan ini telah ikut berkontribusi dalam menanggulangi masalah sosial dan kenakalan remaja yang semakin rumit, sehingga mampu memberikan lulusan santri yang brakhlak, berbudi luhur dan mampu mengamalkan ilmunya di masyarakat. Lebih dari itu, kehadiran pondok pesantren At-Tawazun diharapkan dapat mengatasi akulturasi budaya yang menyimpang di era sekarang ini. Sehingga semangat generasi muda kita dapat disalurkan terhadak hal-hal positif, untuk kemajuan Agama dan Negara. This paper aims to describe the da’wah system of At-Tawazun Islamic Boarding School through an open system starting from the input, conversion, output, feedback, and environment stages in an effort to overcome the problems of santri that are influenced by the times. This research uses case study method with qualitative approach and field research specification (field research). The results of this study indicate that the existence of the At-Tawazun Islamic Boarding Scool was felt to be of considerable benefit by parent and community. This da’wah and education institution has contributed to tackling social problems and juvenile delinquency that are increasingly complicated, so as to be able to provide graduates who are morally, virtous and able to practice their knowledge in the community, moreover, the presence of the At-Tawazun Islamic Boarding School is expected to overcome the deviant cultural acculturation in the present era. So that the spirit of our young generation can be channeled suddenly to positive things, for the advancement of Religion and the state.


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