scholarly journals Gender Qualities and Roles of Villains: Presented in North-American Web Comic Homestuck by Andrew Hussie

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Olga Ilina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Absolute Good ◽  
Binary Gender

In this article, using the popular North American comic Homestuck by Andrew Hussie (2009-2016), we look at the roles assigned to various antagonistic characters based on their gender. In the 21st century, the world has become more complicated and has ceased to be divided into black and white, absolute good and absolute evil. Literature and popular culture have become more complex, and with it the image of the antagonist has changed, the antagonist has ceased to be just a villain who does evil just because this is his role in the story. The idea of non-binary gender situations, when the usual traditional stereotypes could not describe reality, appeared. A revision of the traditionally masculine and feminine qualities took place, and feminine softness, diplomacy, and compliance began to be viewed not as a weakness, but as a privilege. At the same time, traditionally masculine qualities such as aggressiveness, self-confidence, and intransigence are no longer viewed exclusively in a positive way. This article discusses what the image of modern villains is and how their villainous role relates to their gender qualities.

Playing Politics: Videogames for Politics, Activism, and Advocacy

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Bogost
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Healthcare Reform ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Procedural Rhetoric ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The World ◽  
New Perspective

Videogames have dominated popular culture for some time, but only in 2004 did they make a significant break into the world of politics, advocacy, and activism. This paper provides an overview of a variety of types of games used for political speech, from endorsed party messages to activist dissent. After explaining the state of the field, I discuss approaches to design and measure success for such artifacts. While some political opinion is black and white, most issues occupy grey areas, heavily influenced by other public policy issues. Can healthcare reform really be separated from taxation, national budgeting, tort reform, and social security reform? Far from neatly isolated problems, policy issues are complex systems that recombine and interrelate with one another. In particular, I will interrogate how videogames afford a new perspective on political issues, since they are especially effective at representing complex systems. Central to the process of creating and understanding such games is an understanding of “procedural rhetoric” — the way that a videogame embodies ideology in its computational structure. By understanding how games express rhetoric in their rules, we not only gain a critical vantage point on videogame artifacts, but also we can begin to consider how to design games whose primary purpose is to editorialize, teach, and make political statements.

Motives for and Experiences of Expatriation to Coach

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Evelyne Felber Charbonneau ◽  
Martin Camiré ◽  
Pierre-Nicolas Lemyre
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Sport Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

Coaching is a global profession and coaches play a central role in enhancing the performance of millions of athletes worldwide. In the 21st century, the global mobility of coaches has increased, with many coaches taking advantage of opportunities to coach abroad. Norway leads the all-time Winter Olympics medals table (i.e., 368 medals), and with most of these medals coming from skiing disciplines, Norway represents a skiing hotbed that attracts ski coaches from other parts of the world. The purpose of the study was to examine ski coaches’ motives for and experiences of expatriation to coach in Norway. Five North American alpine ski coaches (four males and one female) were individually interviewed (M = 77 min, SD = 24.94), with the data examined using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Motives for expatriation included having a passion for skiing, challenging oneself, experiencing a new sport culture, and maintaining relationships. Upon arriving in Norway, coaches mentioned experiencing challenges with the Norwegian sport system, language, pressure from parents and the media, and being far from friends and family. Once acclimated, coaches discussed the benefits of expatriation that included the Norwegian work ethic, family-centric lifestyle, and popularity of skiing.

North American missionaries developed a North American-style school to prepare their children for life back in North America

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-434
Author(s):  
Lawrent L. Buschman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
White Children ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Mennonite Brethren ◽  
The World ◽  
American Style ◽  
Missionary Children

In her article “Sacred children and colonial subsidies” Anicka Fast suggests that the missionaries of the American Mennonite Brethren Mission developed a school for their children in order to separate the missionary children from the Congolese children. That is an unfortunate misinterpretation of the historical situation. The missionary children were always intimately associated with Congolese children on the mission stations. The missionary children’s school was developed to train the missionary children so they could return to North America, where they were legally expected to return and live. They were not immigrants in the Congo. They needed a “North American-style education” so they would have a reasonable chance of success when they returned to North America. The school itself eventually was moved to Kinshasa where it developed into the American School of Kinshasa, which serves a wide spectrum of black and white children from around the world. The matter of colonial subsidies was only tangentially related to the development of the school.

scholarly journals Traditional and popular cultural discourses within the post-war development of Japan’s cultural diplomacy

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Aurelijus Zykas
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
Important Shift

Vytautas Magnus UniversityThis paper analyses the development of post-war Japan’s cultural diplomacy since 1945, dividing it into four stages. It raises questions about what government institutions have been conducting cultural diplomacy, what the main international challenges have been, what communication tools have been used, and what kind of cultural discourses were prevalent during a particular stage. Special emphasis is put on the division of traditional versus popular cultural discourses within the cultural diplomacy of Japan, mainly concentrating on the important shift in this aspect that occurred at the beginning of the 21st century. This shift was marked by the government’s increasing shift towards popular culture discourse and the deliberate exploitation of that to promote Japan in the world.

scholarly journals Media and communication in Asia in early 21st century: Changes, continuities, and challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (62) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Jun Liu ◽  
Kjetil Sandvik ◽  
Christian Hviid Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Industry ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The World ◽  
Media And Communication

Asia has some of the largest, most dynamic, diversified, and complicated media industries in the world (McKinsey & Company, 2015). Entering the 21st Century, the rapid economic and political developments of Asia further energize the growth of media locally and globally (for general discussion, see, e.g., Keane [2006]; Thussu [2006], specific discussions on the cases of Korea [Kim, 2013], Japan [Iwabuchi, 2004], China [Sun, 2009]). In a reflection on the increasing importance of Asian players in global communication industry, Keane describes that “Asianness is colonizing international communications markets” (2006: 839-840) with the impacts ranging from the production of hardware (i.e., East Asian technology) to content (e.g., Japanese manga, anime and TV formats and South Korean popular culture) and from the cross-over of directors and actors from Asia to Hollywood and the world. Yet, a lack of timely understanding of media and communication in a fast-changing Asia is hindering not only our interpretation of the significance of media in social transformation in Asia, but also the efforts to de-westernize (e.g., Park & Curran, 2000; Wang, 2010) or internationalize communication studies (Lee, 2014).

scholarly journals SCANDINAVIAN CRIME FICTION AND POPULAR CULTURE: JO NESBØ'S HARRY HOLE NOVELS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darko М. Kovačević
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Typical Representative ◽  
The World ◽  
Full Power

Jo Nesbø is one of the most important and popular crimefiction writers of today, as well as a typical representative of thecontemporary literary genre known as Scandinavian crime fiction.Within the entire literary opus of this writer, the central positionis reserved for the series of novels in which detective Harry Hole isthe main character. Various segments and aspects of these novelsdemonstrate a strong connection and relation with popularculture, and they are identified and discussed in this article.However, before the mentioned identification and discussion,some facts are stated regarding the phenomena of Scandinaviancrime fiction, as a regionally determined literary genre whichemerged to the world literature scene in full power at the end ofthe 20th and the first decades of the 21st century, and its relation topopular culture.

Psychology from Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic Perspectives

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad A-L.H. Abou-Hatab
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

This paper presents the case of psychology from a perspective not widely recognized by the West, namely, the Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic perspective. It discusses the introduction and development of psychology in this part of the world. Whenever such efforts are evaluated, six problems become apparent: (1) the one-way interaction with Western psychology; (2) the intellectual dependency; (3) the remote relationship with national heritage; (4) its irrelevance to cultural and social realities; (5) the inhibition of creativity; and (6) the loss of professional identity. Nevertheless, some major achievements are emphasized, and a four-facet look into the 21st century is proposed.

Dancing Across the World Wide Web: Advocacy in the 21st Century

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Williams Cronin ◽  
Ty Tedmon-Jones ◽  
Lora Wilson Mau
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The World

Globalization and interconfessional communications

2001 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Serhii Viktorovych Svystunov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
Target Set ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Rapid Appearance

In the 21st century, the world became a sign of globalization: global conflicts, global disasters, global economy, global Internet, etc. The Polish researcher Casimir Zhigulsky defines globalization as a kind of process, that is, the target set of characteristic changes that develop over time and occur in the modern world. These changes in general are reduced to mutual rapprochement, reduction of distances, the rapid appearance of a large number of different connections, contacts, exchanges, and to increase the dependence of society in almost all spheres of his life from what is happening in other, often very remote regions of the world.

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