scholarly journals Evaluation of Quality in Computer Games

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjetil Sandvik
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Computer games play an important role in the cultural daily life of children, teenagers and adults. This has led to arguments both in the EU and the Nordic countries that computer games should be included in the culture political strategies for financial funding as well as the development of talents for the game industry. Still this has yet to result in culture political efforts and progressive strategies on a larger scale. On the contrary the political initiatives tend to result in restrictions more than efforts being made to encourage and develop the game industry. This article draws a picture of the current culture political situation and criticizes the media skeptical debate for making a poor starting point for formulating a progressive political strategy. It would be more fruitful to have a closer look at the specific characteristics of computer games and how computer games are being played and the role they are playing in the social life of different groups of player. The article outlines ananalytical apparatus for evaluation of quality in computer games.

scholarly journals Muslims in Copenhagen: Social Cohesion or a Parallel Society? Results from an Empirical Survey 2008–09

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
The Political ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
The Eu

The Nørrebro sub-district of Copenhagen, where 14% of the population belong to ethnic minorities, mainly Muslim, has stood on the Danish media’s agenda for many years as a problem-ridden area, developing into a parallel society with ethnic ghettos, crime and deviancy among the second generation and lack of social cohesion and integration. This article introduces results from the survey ‘At Home in Europe: Muslims in the European Cities’ commissioned by the Open Society Institute, which examines the current policy and patterns of Muslim integration in eleven municipal districts of the seven metropolises of the EU countries. It argues that when measured across a range of parameters to ascertain the social, cultural and economic integration of the Muslim minorities, the empirical data and the documentary evidence gathered from, and about, the sub-district (2008-9) contradict the political claims and the media rhetoric of a parallel society.

scholarly journals La citoyenneté européenne et le déficit démocratique

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira E. Stüttler
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Integration ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Democratic Deficit ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Eu

The European citizenship and the democratic deficit are at the heart of the ongoing discussion about the European integration. Critics think that the possibility for the citizens to participate in the decision making process of the EU is not sufficient. In order to shed some light on this matter, the two concepts are examined under their different aspects. We emphasize not only their place in the larger context of the integration and the political situation in Europe but also the link between the two notions. This allows the conclusion that the European citizenship, because of its flexible and innovative character, should be the starting point in the search of an answer to the democratic deficit.

scholarly journals Framing Mass Hysteria Covid-19 dalam Berita Tempo dan Detikx

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Khairul Arief Rahman ◽  
Hamidah Izzatu Laily
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Research Method ◽  
The Political ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Media Criticism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mass Hysteria ◽  
Government Level

Coverage of the Coronavirus or Covid-19 in Indonesia was accompanied by confusion of information which resulted Mass Hysteria. Media criticism is also present as the vanguard of social control, which is not only limited to what and how it appeared, but also critically explores readiness from the political level of government to the social life of the affected community. How two "premium" media, namely Tempo and DetikX, build news construction about Covid-19? Then how do the media frame a topic or issue that has developed after Covid-19? and how is the concentration of the media in reporting on Mass Hysteria that developed after Covid-19 in Indonesia? This study takes news in March 2020, Especially on the main coverage presented by both media. This research uses qualitative research method and Pan and Kosicki's framing analysis model for explore data research. The Result is Tempo Magazine and DetikX generally drawing struggle toward Mass Hysteria and affair caused by Covid-19 on critics of handling policy government level and public with selectively choosing solution frame as shape of struggle.

Polarized pluralism of the Russian media and «controlled openness» of the PRC media (2013)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4(13)) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Shiyu Zhang ◽  
◽  
Sergey Borisovich Nikonov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Electoral Cycles

Political power is currently using the media as one of the main levers in the regulation of the social sphere. It is no coincidence that researchers believe that managing the information environment is the key to managing society. The work is devoted to the political situation in 2013. During the period when the President of Russia V.V. Putin entered one of his electoral cycles. The results of the study show how and under what circumstances the interaction between the media of the two states began. Based on these data, after 7 years, certain conclusions can be drawn about how media cooperation developed.

nr="127"Verunsicherungen an den Rändern der Ordnung. : Über eine pädagogische Störenfriedin

2021 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Christian Grabau
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

Zusammenfassung: Dass zum Thema ,Sicherheit und Ordnung‘ zwangsläufig das der Störung gehört, ist der Ausgangspunkt von Dieter Thomäs Philosophie des Störenfrieds (2016). Die Figuren, die auf diese Weise in den Blick geraten, sind Randgänger*innen, die keinen festen Platz in der Ordnung haben. Die Störenfriedin wandelt an den Rändern des Sozialen; sie bevölkert die Schwellen und Zwischenräume und vermag auf diese Weise nicht nur die politischen Verhältnisse, sondern auch pädagogische Ordnungs- und Kategorisierungsbemühungen zu beunruhigen. In diesem Beitrag soll einer besonders widerborstigen und widersprüchlichen Störenfriedin an die Ränder der pädagogischen Ordnung gefolgt werden: der ,,gefährlichen Leserin“.Abstract: The topic of ‘security and order’ inevitably includes that of disruption. This is the starting point of Dieter Thomä’s Philosophy of the Troublemaker (2016). The characters that emerge in this way are misfits who do not fit into social structure. The troublemaker walks on the fringes of the social; it populates the thresholds and gaps and is thus able to disturb not only the political situation, but also educational efforts to organize and categorize. In this article, a particularly stubborn and contradictory troublemaker is to be followed to the margins of the pedagogical order: the “dangerous reader”.

The Younghusband-Waddell Collection and Its People: the Social Life of Tibetan Books Gathered in a Late-colonial Enterprise

Inner Asia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-171
Author(s):  
Hildegard Diemberger
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Cultural Biography ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn this paper I follow the social life of the Tibetan books belonging to the Younghusband-Waddell collection. I show how books as literary artefacts can transform from ritual objects into loot, into commodities and into academic treasures and how books can have agency over people, creating networks and shaping identities. Exploring connections between books and people, I look at colonial collecting, Orientalist scholarship and imperial visions from an unusual perspective in which the social life and cultural biography of people and things intertwine and mutually define each other. By following the trajectory of these literary artefacts, I show how their traces left in letters, minutes and acquisition documents give insight into the functioning of academic institutions and their relationship to imperial governing structures and individual aspirations. In particular, I outline the lives of a group of scholars who were involved with this collection in different capacities and whose deeds are unevenly known. This adds a new perspective to the study of this period, which has so far been largely focused on the deeds of key individuals and the political and military setting in which they operated. Finally, I show how the books of this collection have continued to exercise their attraction and moral pressure on twenty-first-century scholars, both Tibetan and international, linking them through digital technology and cyberspace.

Management Problems and Countermeasures of City Outdoor Advertising - Taking Jinan as an Example

2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 999-1003
Author(s):  
Peng Chen ◽  
Jun Min Zhang ◽  
Ji Nan
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Outdoor Advertising ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Problems ◽  
Advertising Management ◽  
The City ◽  
Great Development

Along with the progress of society, the development of the city and economic prosperity, outdoor advertising has achieved great development and plays an increasingly prominent role in the social life. In this paper, the development present situation of outdoor advertising management of Jinan as the starting point, we analyze the problems in the management of outdoor advertising and put forward corresponding countermeasures.

scholarly journals KONVERSI KEAGAMAAN PASCA 1965, MENGURAI DAMPAK SOSIAL BUDAYA DAN HUBUNGAN ISLAM KRISTEN DI PEDESAAN JAWA

Harmoni ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-240
Author(s):  
M. Alie Humaedi
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Islam And Christianity ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Heating Up ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between Islam and Christianity in various regions is often confronted with situations caused by external factors. They no longer debate the theological aspect, but are based on the political economy and social culture aspects. In the Dieng village, the economic resources are mostly dominated by Christians as early Christianized product as the process of Kiai Sadrach's chronicle. Economic mastery was not originally as the main trigger of the conflict. However, as the political map post 1965, in which many Muslims affiliated to the Indonesian Communist Party convert to Christianity, the relationship between Islam and Christianity is heating up. The question of the dominance of political economic resources of Christians is questionable. This research to explore the socio cultural and religious impact of the conversion of PKI to Christian in rural Dieng and Slamet Pekalongan and Banjarnegara. This qualitative research data was extracted by in-depth interviews, observations and supported by data from Dutch archives, National Archives and Christian Synod of Salatiga. Research has found the conversion of the PKI to Christianity has sparked hostility and deepened the social relations of Muslims and Christians in Kasimpar, Petungkriono and Karangkobar. The culprit widened by involving the network of Wonopringgo Islamic Boarding. It is often seen that existing conflicts are no longer latent, but lead to a form of manifest conflict that decomposes in the practice of social life.

scholarly journals Connaissance de soi et reconnaissance. Bases éthico-anthropologiques de la justice dans la pensée ricœurienne

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Contreras Tasso
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sense Of Justice ◽  
Connaissance De Soi ◽  
Interpersonal Level

This article seeks to examine the ethico-anthropological dimension at the root of the ricœurian idea of justice, which is developed quite explicitly in Oneself as Another and then picked up in his last work The Course of Recognition. Our hypothesis is that the ricœurian analysis of justice implies an essential relationship between knowledge of oneself and recognition, which is marked by an inherent tension that both links and opposes these two moments in an irreducible dialectic. However, this dialectic runs the risk of disguising a founding sense of justice in the social life of man, both on an interpersonal level and on the political level, which reinforces the institution of justice at the juridical level. So, to begin with, we will try to show how that ethical sense of the just shows itself on the basis of the anthropological analysis of the capacities of the capable man, which reinforces the original correlation between knowledge of oneself and recognition; then we will attempt to relate the fundamental contributions of the hermeneutics of the self to Ricœur’s notion of justice.

scholarly journals Rimski novčići u ženskim srednjovekovnim grobovima sa teritorije Srbije: mogućnosti interpretacije

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 731
Author(s):  
Gordana Ćirić
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Roman Coins ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Secondary Usage ◽  
Definition Of

The paper explores the phenomenon of secondary usage of Roman coins (2nd to 4th century) in medieval necropolises (10th to 15th century) in the territory of Serbia. The research is focused upon the graves in which the coins are used as ornaments on the costume of the deceased, most frequently reshaped as pendants. This type of secondary usage is only registered in female graves. The paper aims to suggest the interpretation of this phenomenon via the analysis of value and importance of secondarily used coins in the formation of family treasures, defined in important and critical moments of the social life. The possibility is explored of the graves in which female individuals were buried with parts of their dowry. The construction of meaning of these objects is analysed through their exchange in the customs linked to marriage and, finally, funerary practices. Since the Roman coins are scarce and exclusively made of bronze, it may be concluded that the definition of their value and importance is based upon the symbolic and representational levels. The starting point of the paper is the concept of the social biography of objects, in order to further investigate the link between the Serbian medieval social structure and evaluation of the coins in rural communities of the Central Balkans.

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