Immediacy and Hypermediacy: mind the oscillation

This paper considers that web design comprehends the notion of transparency (immediacy) as a mean to support user immersion. But it also comprehends the notion of opaque (hypermediacy) as a mean to support interactivity. Therefore, the user oscillates between being immersed on the content and interacting with the interface, and this oscillation might disrupt the making sense process. We argue that the creative oscillation between immediacy and hypermediacy can enhance reality and thus support meaningful web experience. To this end, this paper investigates the role of agency to sustain oscillation between immediacy and hypermediacy in a website. Thus, this paper starts reviewing some of the works that instantiate narrative in design and those that focus on the agency that is experienced when interacting with a computer. Thus, agency is used as an analytical lens to investigate how interface design was used to specific outcomes in retail context: a sense of aesthetic, service excellence, playfulness and consumer return on investment. In order to that, it is performed a close reading in two versions of two specific genres of websites to understand how remediation changed over time and its implication on agency. The first genre is service design, and the second is product design. The results suggest that those design that privilege narrative and cognitive interactivity intend to provoke a sense of aesthetic and service excellence. The results also suggest that those websites that privilege explicit interactivity intend to provoke a sense of playfulness and consumer return on investment. In addition, a creative oscillation between immediacy and hypermediacy enhance reality and support meaningful user experience. In addition, this paper identifies some of the signifiers that support different levels of agency. Finally, exploring the oscillation between immediacy (transparency) and hypermediation (reflectivity) creates meaning to the experience because it acknowledges the interface and the role it plays in presenting reality.

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Temperament and Coping Activity Under Stress of Changing Intensity Over Time

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000121 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 326-336 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Irena Heszen

Keyword(s):

Stress Intensity ◽

Emotional Reactivity ◽

Self Report ◽

Sensory Sensitivity ◽

And Coping ◽

First Myocardial Infarction ◽

Different Levels ◽

Over Time

Temperament is probably an important factor that influences coping activity. The framework of the study was the Regulative Theory of Temperament by Strelau, where six temperamental traits are distinguished: emotional reactivity, perseveration, activity, briskness, sensory sensitivity, and endurance. These traits were hypothesized to be connected to coping activity in accordance with their psychological characteristics. It was also expected that the associations between temperament and coping activity should depend on stress intensity. Participants were 278 diabetics and 232 patients after first myocardial infarction (MI). The study was longitudinal and two diseases had been purposely selected so as to represent stress intensity either increasing (in diabetes) or decreasing (after MI) over time. Temperamental traits as well as coping activity components: cognitive appraisal, affect, and coping strategies were measured using self-report questionnaires. As hypothesized, temperamental traits were connected to coping activity. Phase-related changes in coping activity confirmed an increase in stress levels in diabetics, while cardiac patients tended to experience the situation as more challenging. While the expectation referring to the differential role of temperament under different levels of stress intensity was not confirmed, the connections of temperament with coping activity were found to decrease under long-term stress.

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Tourism Promotion through Web

Strategic Marketing in Fragile Economic Conditions - Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6232-2.ch013 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 237-247 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nilanjan Ray ◽

Dillip Kumar Das ◽

Somnath Chaudhuri

Keyword(s):

Web Design ◽

Maximum Level ◽

Web Technology ◽

Website Design ◽

Service Excellence ◽

Tourism Management ◽

Tourism Promotion ◽

Tourism Information ◽

Tourism Service

This chapter studies the application of information technology in tourism promotion, particularly through Internet. In the context of tourism management, this chapter penetrates different usage of Web technology to disseminate maximum level of information for tourism promotion. This chapter is designed to determine the conditions of Websites as well as application of different application of Web technology like Virtual Reality (VR), CRS, etc. used in tourism promotion to identify the obstacles faced in this type of promotion via Web. The chapter adopts a survey from 200 respondents. Collected data is analyzed through different statistical tools like correlation analysis, simple average method, and Cronbach Alfa for reliability of the data. The results show that tourism promotion through the Web helps to increase competition as well as tourism demand if Web design helps to disseminate information about the tourism offers to the tourists' desire. Both sexes consider the Website design as a means helps to ensure the information veracity of tourism offers. The chapter recommends continuing development of the role of tourism promotion through the Internet in spreading information about tourism offers, so as to achieve the greatest possible benefits. This study also indicates how to develop and upgrade Web for promotion of tourism information and offer better tourism service excellence, while promoting less popular tourist spots.

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Tourism Promotion through Web

Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6543-9.ch022 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 366-375

Author(s):

Nilanjan Ray ◽

Dillip Kumar Das ◽

Somnath Chaudhuri

Keyword(s):

Web Design ◽

Maximum Level ◽

Web Technology ◽

Website Design ◽

Service Excellence ◽

Tourism Management ◽

Tourism Promotion ◽

Tourism Information ◽

Tourism Service

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Ageing and its Implications for Elderly Web Experience

Advances in Universal Web Design and Evaluation ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-096-7.ch005 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 97-115 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Syariffanor Hisham ◽

Alistair Edwards

Keyword(s):

Interface Design ◽

Web Design ◽

The Elderly ◽

The Internet ◽

Communication Services ◽

Age Related ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Independent Life ◽

Web Experience ◽

Elderly Users

This chapter discusses ageing-related issues and their implications to the Web experience of elderly users. Particular emphasis is placed on ageing in a developing region, highlighting some cases from Malaysia. The first section consists of a brief review regarding ageing functional abilities and their implications for Web interaction. Examples are given based on studies by other researchers in this area, covering major age-related impairments, namely visual and mental impairment. The potential benefits of the Internet and the elderly user as an ideal partner is examined. The second section presents more examples of the Internet as a platform for elderly people to pursue self-fulfilment. This can be achieved through the available facilities, including communication, services, personal enjoyment, and lifelong education, that facilitate an independent life and valued membership of society. The third section investigates some of the barriers that inhibit elderly users in utilisingWeb features. These include issues regarding interface design, assistive devices, and software aids for elderly users. A summary of the ICT penetration among elderly users in Malaysia is included after the three main sections. Finally, the chapter is concluded with some ideas concerning the cultural and demographic differences in determining new trends, directions, and opportunities in advanced Web design specifically for elderly users.

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The Other Partner: The Changing Role of Good Provider for Men’s Union Formation in Industrialized Countries

Canadian Studies in Population ◽

10.25336/p6789b ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 25 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Frances Goldscheider ◽

Dennis Hogan ◽

Pierre Turcotte

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Union Formation ◽

Industrialized Countries ◽

Men And Women ◽

Retrospective Survey ◽

Women And Children ◽

Changing Role ◽

Different Levels ◽

Over Time

Most studies of union formation behaviors have focused on women and children, with less emphasis on men. Using comparable retrospective survey data, this study looks at the ways Canadian, Italian and Swedish men begin conjugal life (distinguishing between marriage and cohabitation) and at how the effects of their good provider status qualifications have changed in the last 30 years. Results for Canadian men have shown that the simple patterns that have been assumed to shape separate and symmetrical roles for men and women are taking new shapes with the growth in cohabitation and changes in women's economic roles. Our study will extend these results to examine two countries at very different levels of cohabitation prevalence: Italy, where the growth in cohabitation has just begun, and Sweden, where it has been underway much longer than in Canada. Our results show strongly parallel changes underway in each country, indicating that it is important to continue to compare, both between countries and over time, if we are to understand the situations fostering (or not) changing gender roles for men as good providers.

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GEOGRAFIA ELEITORAL: UMA REVISÃO E POSSÍVEIS CAMINHOS - ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY: A REVIEW AND POSSIBLE WAYS

Raega - O Espaço Geográfico em Análise ◽

10.5380/raega.v39i0.41834 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 ◽

pp. 43

Author(s):

Ricardo Borges da Cunha ◽

César Augusto Ávila Martins

Keyword(s):

Political Institutions ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Political Life ◽

Political Organization ◽

Electoral Geography ◽

Political Sciences ◽

Systemic Model ◽

Different Levels ◽

Over Time

A afirmação dos processos eleitorais como uma das formas de organização política é objeto de investigação de várias ciências. No concerto das ciências, o Direito, a Sociologia e as Ciências Políticas destacam-se nas análises das eleições. As eleições como resultado de disputas entre determinados projetos, tem a função de eleger representantes para conduzir as instituições políticas. A perspectiva esta coadunada com o entendimento que as eleições são um dos momentos de manifestação de poder com diferentes graus de visibilidade, numa dada formação social com determinados regramentos e em cada conjuntura. O processo que articula determinados agentes pode ser compreendido em etapas e em seu conjunto. O artigo busca trilhar alguns dos caminhos da Geografia Eleitoral compreendida na Geografia Política, como um campo de análise geográfica das eleições, conhecendo sua evolução, apontando possibilidades e desafios. Metodologicamente, o texto realiza uma revisão de algumas das diferentes metodologias da Geografia Eleitoral, que são baseadas sobretudo na apresentação dos resultados eleitorais ao longo tempo e que tendem encerrar sua abordagem ao final de cada pleito. O texto advoga que a adoção de um modelo sistêmico, como uma alternativa para a compreensão de um pleito, integra os resultados das urnas e as suas consequências para vida política.ABSTRACTThis paper aims at introducing not only some of the directions of Electoral Geography in the light of Political Geography, as a field of geographical analysis of elections, but also its evolution, possibilities and challenges. Meaning is found in electoral processes as one of the forms of political organization which has become the object of investigation of sciences, such as Law, Sociology and Political Sciences. Elections, as the result of dispute among certain projects, play the role of choosing representatives to lead political institutions. This perspective agrees with the fact that elections represent a moment of power manifestation at different levels of visibility, with certain rules in each situation. Regarding methodology, this text reviews some proposals of Electoral Geography which are mostly based on the presentation of electoral results over time and tend to end their process at the end of each dispute. Among the selected authors, it is clear the growth of the geographical field with the quantitative methods, but the approaches did not connect the electoral process with the politics practiced in the perimeter involved leaving a gap to be completed. The text defends the use of the systemic model so as to understand the dispute as a moment of political life with integration among the phase that precedes elections, its results and its consequences for democracy.

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The role of neighborhood risk factors and personal stressors in romantic partner support and relationship quality among African American couples over time

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e512142015-577 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Frederick D. Clavel ◽

Carolyn E. Cutrona ◽

Daniel W. Russell

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

African American ◽

Relationship Quality ◽

Partner Support ◽

Romantic Partner ◽

Neighborhood Risk ◽

African American Couples ◽

Over Time

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Patrick Kavanagh and the Authentic ‘Dispensation’: Rereading the Role of Narrator in The Great Hunger

Irish University Review ◽

10.3366/iur.2012.0010 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 86-104 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Catherine Kilcoyne

Keyword(s):

National Literature ◽

Close Reading ◽

Peasant Farmer ◽

Nineteen Forties ◽

Death Knell

This essay posits a challenge to the continued reading of The Great Hunger (1942) as a realist depiction of the Irish small-farming class in the nineteen forties. The widespread critical acceptance of the poem as a socio-historical ‘documentary’ both relies upon and propagates an outmoded notion of authenticity based upon the implicit fallacy that Kavanagh's body of work designates a quintessence of Irishness in contradistinction to his Revivalist predecessors. In 1959 Kavanagh referred to this delusion as constituting his ‘dispensation’, for indeed it did provide a poetic niche for the young poet. Kavanagh's acknowledgement of this dispensation came with his rejection of all prescriptive literary symbols. While this iconoclasm is widely recognised in his later career, the relevance of The Great Hunger to this question continues to be overlooked. In fact, this poem contains his strongest dialectic upon the use of symbols – such as the peasant farmer – in designating an authentic national literature. The close reading of The Great Hunger offered here explores the poem's central deconstruction of ruralism and authenticity. The final ‘apocalypse of clay’ is the poem's collapse under the stress of its own deconstructed symbolism; the final scream sounds the death knell to Kavanagh's adherence to his authentic dispensation.

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Bad Dreams and Secret Artists: Translating Freud into Literature

Psychoanalysis and History ◽

10.3366/pah.2002.4.2.127 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 127-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ian Patterson

Keyword(s):

Sigmund Freud ◽

Ordinary Language ◽

Close Reading ◽

Careful Attention ◽

Popular Approach ◽

English Reader ◽

Creative Writer ◽

The Many ◽

The Way

This article addresses the increasingly popular approach to Freud and his work which sees him primarily as a literary writer rather than a psychologist, and takes this as the context for an examination of Joyce Crick's recent translation of The Interpretation of Dreams. It claims that translation lies at the heart of psychoanalysis, and that the many interlocking and overlapping implications of the word need to be granted a greater degree of complexity. Those who argue that Freud is really a creative writer are themselves doing a work of translation, and one which fails to pay sufficiently careful attention to the role of translation in writing itself (including the notion of repression itself as a failure to translate). Lesley Chamberlain's The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud is taken as an example of the way Freud gets translated into a novelist or an artist, and her claims for his ‘bizarre poems' are criticized. The rest of the article looks closely at Crick's new translation and its claim to be restoring Freud the stylist, an ordinary language Freud, to the English reader. The experience of reading Crick's translation is compared with that of reading Strachey's, rather to the latter's advantage.

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Value-driven issues throughout the development of sociological theory

Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing ◽

10.15407/sociology2020.04.147 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 147-160

Author(s):

Gulbarshyn Chepurko ◽

Valerii Pylypenko

Keyword(s):

Social Interactions ◽

Social System ◽

Sociological Theory ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Social Sphere ◽

Technological Advances ◽

The Social ◽

The Individual ◽

Different Levels

The paper examines and compares how the major sociological theories treat axiological issues. Value-driven topics are analysed in view of their relevance to society in times of crisis, when both societal life and the very structure of society undergo dramatic change. Nowadays, social scientists around the world are also witnessing such a change due to the emergence of alternative schools of sociological thought (non-classical, interpretive, postmodern, etc.) and, subsequently, the necessity to revise the paradigms that have been existed in sociology so far. Since the above-mentioned approaches are often used to address value-related issues, building a solid theoretical framework for these studies takes on considerable significance. Furthermore, the paradigm revision has been prompted by technological advances changing all areas of people’s lives, especially social interactions. The global human community, integral in nature, is being formed, and production of human values now matters more than production of things; hence the “expansion” of value-focused perspectives in contemporary sociology. The authors give special attention to collectivities which are higher-order units of the social system. These units are described as well-organised action systems where each individual performs his/her specific role. Just as the role of an individual is distinct from that of the collectivity (because the individual and the collectivity are different as units), so too a distinction is drawn between the value and the norm — because they represent different levels of social relationships. Values are the main connecting element between the society’s cultural system and the social sphere while norms, for the most part, belong to the social system. Values serve primarily to maintain the pattern according to which the society is functioning at a given time; norms are essential to social integration. Apart from being the means of regulating social processes and relationships, norms embody the “principles” that can be applied beyond a particular social system. The authors underline that it is important for Ukrainian sociology to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of axiology and make good use of those ideas because this is a prerequisite for its successful integration into the global sociological community.

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