scholarly journals Lessons from Lilian

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-35
Author(s):  
Alexander Badenoch ◽  
Kristin Skoog
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
International Association ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Media History ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Scholarship has long demonstrated how a focus on women's roles can reveal vital new elements of broadcasting history, adding critical perspectives on institutional, aesthetic, communicatory, and participatory media narratives. This article asks: What happens if we stop looking at the stories of women in broadcasting as “media history”? What other interpretive lenses and disciplinary traditions might we draw on, and how might we insert media fruitfully within them? The work derives from research on the early years of the International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) as read from the correspondence of founder Wilhelmina (Lilian) Posthumus-van der Goot (1897–1989), and builds on IAWRT's example to develop methodological considerations for writing entangled transnational histories of gender and broadcasting, absorbing insights from studies of international organizations, collective biographies, and reconsiderations of the archive in the digital age.

scholarly journals Becoming clowns: How do digital technologies contribute to young children’s play?

2019 ◽  
pp. 146394911986420
Author(s):  
Tove Lafton
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Early Childhood Setting ◽  
Material World ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play

Research concerning play and technology is largely aimed at expanding the knowledge of what technological play may be and, to a lesser extent, examines what happens to children’s play when it encounters digital tools. In order to explore some of the complexity in play, this article elaborates on how Latour’s concepts of ‘translation’ and ‘inscription’ can make sense of a narrative from an early childhood setting. The article explores how to challenge ‘taken-for-granted knowledge’ and create different understandings of children’s play in technology-rich environments. Through a flattened ontology, the article considers how humans, non-humans and transcendental ideas relate to one another as equal forces; this allows for an understanding of play as located within and emerging from various networks. The discussion sheds light on how activation of material agents can lead us to look for differences and new spaces regarding play. Play and learning are no longer orchestrated by what is already known; rather, they become co-constructed when both the children and the material world have a say in constructing the ambiguity of play. Lastly, the discussion points to how early years practitioners need tools to challenge their assumptions of what play might become in the digital age.

12 The IMO: The Role of the Classification Societies in Promoting Global Ocean Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delgado Ismael Cobos
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
International Association ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
International Maritime Organization ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Member States ◽  
Ocean Governance

This chapter discusses the role of classification societies in their capacity as recognized organizations (ROs) acting on behalf of maritime administrations to ensure that ships, old and new, meet their obligations under International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations and standards. Another aspect of the role of classification societies is to ensure that ships are designed, constructed, and maintained in compliance with the standards set by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). The chapter helps to that the IMO acting alone cannot provide all the answers to all of the issues regarding ocean governance. After all, the Organization relies heavily on the active participation not only of its Member States but also on those intergovernmental international organizations (IGOs) and non-governmental international organizations (NGOs) that are affiliated to it. In many situations, they have the specialized expertise and experience required to ensure that whatever regulations are adopted by the IMO are practicable.

scholarly journals IUGG in the 21st century

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-95
Author(s):  
Jo Ann Joselyn ◽  
Alik Ismail-Zadeh ◽  
Tom Beer ◽  
Harsh Gupta ◽  
Masaru Kono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Natural Hazard ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
International Association ◽  
Transdisciplinary Science ◽  
Climatic And Environmental Change ◽  
Space Sciences

Abstract. The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) has vigorously responded to a number of the natural, scientific, and technological challenges and driving forces that have marked the 21st century thus far. This paper reviews the actions of the Union that were precipitated by disasters caused by natural hazard events, climatic and environmental changes, and important scientific advances, as well as the opportunities to support International Years and other cooperative programs. This period has also given rise to a number of structural changes within the Union. IUGG added an eighth association, the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences, and inaugurated the new categories of affiliate and honorary memberships, introduced new grants, science education, and recognition programs, and formed new Union commissions on climatic and environmental change, data and information, planetary sciences, and a working group on history. Electronic communication was welcomed as a cultural norm. Overall, the development of the scientific landscape in the 21st century and a healthy future for the Union requires emphasis on fundamental Earth and space sciences as well as on transdisciplinary science to resolve urgent problems of society. IUGG will continue to evolve throughout the coming decades in step with the changing world of science and its international organizations, by responding to challenging problems as they arise.

scholarly journals THE AFFECTIVE BODY: PLATFORMED PRESENCE AND VIRTUAL EMBODIMENT IN THE POPULIST POLITICS OF NARENDRA MODI

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laboni Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Divided Society ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Cult Of Personality ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Media Narratives

Political theory agrees that the charismatic leader’s cult of personality is a cornerstone of populist politics, with an increasingly distrustful, contentious, and internally divided society seeing the leader as the embodiment of the popular will more viscerally than the electoral process allows (Laclau 2005). The power of the hypermasculine leader persists in the digital age where populists exert authoritarian control over media narratives and infrastructures, as feminist critiques of the iconography of statesmen like Putin, Erdogan and Duterte demonstrate (Chavez and Pacheo 2020). Yet this brand of strongman politics is discursively co-produced by the leader’s physical presence; my presentation argues in contrast that Indian PM Narendra’s Modi’s affective body is animated by its persistent digitization, virtualization, and absence of liveness. Modi’s populism is driven by his appeal as a technocrat, a man accessible to the people via hologram, Twitter, exclusive apps, 3D modelled YouTube videos, and other digitally enabled forms of disembodied representation which create a “fantasy of unmediated access” (Govil and Baishya 2018). When Modi appears in public to perform yoga or lay a silver brick in the foundations of a temple, his corporeal form is one iteration of his virtualized, mediated persona. Modi’s independence from the demands of embodiment is made possible by his substantive digital presence. The experiential intensity and interactivity of social media creates what I term “platform affect”, which mobilizes affective discourses like nationalism to material effect, such as drawing large crowds galvanized by a sense of intimacy with Modi’s virtual and physical person.

110th Anniversary of the Mexican National Seismological Service: An Account of Its Early Contributions

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 2904-2911
Author(s):  
Gerardo Suárez ◽  
Xyoli Pérez-Campos
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
Volcanic Belt ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Macroseismic Data ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Crustal Earthquake ◽  
Mexican Volcanic Belt ◽  
Populated Region ◽  
The City ◽  
Central Station

Abstract The Mexican National Seismological Service (SSN) was founded on 5 September 1910, in response to commitments made by Mexico to the International Association of Seismology in 1903. The first seismic instruments installed in 1904 were a Bosch–Omori seismograph and a Palmieri seismoscope. The SSN was formally inaugurated on 5 September 1910, a few days before the revolution broke out; a political struggle that lasted over two decades. The SSN was inaugurated with a central station in Tacubaya, Mexico City, and two secondary stations. Wiechert seismographs were selected by the SSN for its budding network. Despite the adverse economic and political situation, the SSN managed to grow and install more stations during the turmoil. Besides the installation of new seismic stations and reporting the location and macroseismic data of earthquakes in Mexico, the SSN staff produced remarkable reports of important earthquakes that occurred in those early years. Notable among these are the detailed reports on the 19 November 1912 and 4 January 1920 earthquakes on the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt. These reports have shaped the estimations of seismic hazard in this highly populated region of Mexico. In the first aftershock studies reported, the SSN took Wiechert instruments to the epicentral areas of a large subduction earthquake in 1907 and to the city of Xalapa, in the vicinity of the 1920 crustal earthquake. With foresight in those early years of seismology, the SSN scientists correctly attributed the 1912 earthquake to a local active fault. The seismograms collected in 1920 confirmed that it was a crustal earthquake and not an in-slab event. Lack of funding and official interest did not permit the modernization of the SSN for many decades. National interest in the Service was boosted by the 19 September 1985 destructive earthquake.

The activities of the IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics: status and future perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Di Capua ◽  
Silvia Peppoloni
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Social Role ◽  
International Association ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Real Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
The Status

<p>The IAPG (https://www.geoethics.org) was founded in August 2012 with the aim to increase the awareness of the geoscientific community on ethical, social and cultural implications of geoscience knowledge, research, practice, education, and communication.<br>In this perspective, geoethics has been initially developed in the context of geosciences, as a rediscovery by geoscientists, and in some cases as a real process of consciousness-raising, of the social role that they can and should play in support of society to face global anthropogenic changes.<br>Currently the IAPG can count on more than 2600 geoscientists (belonging to 130 countries) and its IAPG network includes also 32 national sections, working to develop geoethics by focusing on local specific issues of each country, and 3 task groups. Many international organizations recognize, appreciate and support results achieved by the association, through affiliations, agreements of cooperation and partnerships.<br>The IAPG has coordinated numerous publications, both books and articles, supports a book series on geoethics and a new scientific, open-access, not-for-profit, peer-reviewed journal on geoethics and social geosciences, and promotes a school on geoethics.<br>This presentation provides an update on the status of IAPG activities, and on future perspectives.</p>

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