scholarly journals Discourse of Retrotopia in the Internet Space (Notes on the Question of Nostalgic Representations)

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 168-179
Author(s):  
M. Yu. Markasov ◽  
O. A. Markasova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Secondary Importance ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
Cultural Components ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Modern Myth

The article considers nostalgic representations of the most relevant historical past for modern Russia – the Soviet period in social networks. It is noticeable that the so-called post-memory can be absolutely not identical, and often the opposite of “real” events, that there are as many varied recollections as there are social groups. Moreover, memory may be embodied and preserved in objects and things, and the modern myth is shaped primarily by the mass culture, absorbing the most orthodox stereotypes. The article discussed such socio-cultural and psychological phenomenon as retrotopia. Based on the analysis of some visual and textual materials, it argues that the discourse of retrotopia manifests itself at different levels of linguistic and cultural components. The opposite “anti-Soviet” discourse, on the contrary, is extremely ironic, and may be defined as network kitsch. This article analyzes materials about Soviet realities produced by the Belarusian blogger Maksim Mirovich. As a result, it concludes that the blogger aims not so much to deconstruct myths, but the fight against the illusions of “uncomfortable” consciousness, with the narrow-minded view of the world, thus, the reverse is true. Furthermore, Maxim Mirovich and the USSR fans create the narrative in the context of the so-called post-truth: each of the opponents constructs his own model of the world, in which the “truth/false” opposition has secondary importance. Generally, Internet materials about Soviets can be presented as a semantic game, juggling with mass concepts, filling the Internet space with meanings, rather than an ideological confrontation. 

scholarly journals The Place of Chinese Doramas in the Russian Socio-Cultural Landscape

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Zhou Lixia
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The increasing interest of people around the world towards the popular cultures of China, Korea and Japan leads researchers to question how these countries influence the socio-cultural spaces of other countries through the export of their mass culture products. This study focuses on the analysis of Chinese doramas in the Russian sociocultural space. The increasing number of online fan communities, the activity of translators and dubbers of Chinese TV series, and the widespread use of the Internet in Russia make Chinese dramas easily accessible to a wide audience. Using quantitative methods, the author of the study came to the conclusion that people in Russia are very interested in Asian cultures, and audiences of Asian TV series are growing at a tremendous rate every year. While Korean dramas remain the most popular in Russia, Chinese serials have great competitive potential against their Korean and Japanese counterparts. This article may be useful to all researchers of mass and popular culture and television series.

scholarly journals Slang of the world of fashion and fashion subculture in English: the problem of word-building and translation

2021 ◽  
pp. 152-160
Author(s):  
A. K. Pavelieva ◽  
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I. V. Sotnichenko ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The World ◽  
Communicative Space ◽  
Article Analyse

The article considers the slang of the fashion industry, systemization of slang units by speakers, as well as the main difficulties in translating English fashion slang into Ukrainian. It turns out that the vocabulary of fashion industry slang is enriched in epoch-making moments, important for the state as a reaction to turning points in history and to the emergence of new social phenomena. The article proves that fashion slang unites a large number of social groups: people working in the fashion industry, who create trends and fashionable novelties; fashion distributors and fashion buyers and even forms a new social group around them ‒ hypebeasts. The authors of the article analyse the slang of the fashion world through the prism of its interdependence and interaction with social networks and the Internet as a communicative space. Such methods of word formation of fashion slang units as metaphorization, word formation, appearance of telescopies have been considered in this scientific article. The presented research paper proposes to classify fashion slang by different groups of people who are somehow related to fashion, and thus cause the emergence of new slang units, forming their own kind of fashion slang, taking into account the peculiarities of their activities. It is emphasized that the basis for the formation of new slang of the fashion industry is the slang of young people mad about fashion, who build their own cult around it. The article also considers the most common ways of translating hypebeasts slang, such as transcoding (mixed and adaptive ones), transcription and transliteration.

scholarly journals Several Contemporary Economy Features, Consequences of Internet Expansion and I.C.T. Innovations in the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Șerbu Răzvan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Internet Firms ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
On Line ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractThe Internet has reach half of the population of the planet and in the latest three years more than 700 millions users came on line from the emerging world. Most of them are coming now from the poorer population. This it may be a turning point for their economic development. This paper attempts to outline some possible future developments of the contemporary economy within the new digital transformation and development of internet firms in emerging markets, some of the pluses and minuses, some of the opportunities and threats brought by the expansion of the Internet and information and communication technologies at different levels. We will present some significant aspects about this impact for individuals and for companies especially in Eastern Europe but also around the world. The study intends to deliver also analysis at the level of governmental reactions. Governments have gone through different sentiments that have led to different responses to these technologies. A new revolution that is about to begin it will be grounded on blockchain the technologies that cryptocurrencies are based on. What was initially translated as a threat to governments and central banks can become a solution if it’s deal cautiously.

scholarly journals Conversión digital de texto entre sistemas Braille y Letra en tinta

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Manuel Cruz-Luna ◽  
Aldo Hernandez-Luna ◽  
Julio Cesar Martinez-Hernandez ◽  
Adriana Cruz-Dominguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
Conversion System ◽  
The World

Writing is a communication way available to preserve information, ideas and knowledge, to be transmitted between different social groups and through the step of time of a generation towards its successors. To use the system of Letter in ink, it is required that the person can use the sight to recognize the lines and strokes that form the letters and can obtain knowledge; for blind people, they need to use another sense, in this case touch, to carry out the reading of information through the Braille system. Nowadays, there is a large amount of information in digital format, managed by informatics systems, where sight in needed to read that information. The development of this conversion system will allow blind people to be integrated into the world of digital information, so that they can access text files, represent them in Braille system and have the ability to read them without any problem; in addition, it will allow these people to express their own ideas, emotions and knowledge by writing them in the system they already know end be converted to the Letter in Ink system so that later, it can be placed on the Internet and used by anyone worldwide

Intertextuality as an interpretative method in qualitative research

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilana Elkad-Lehman ◽  
Hava Greensfeld
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Qualitative Researcher ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cultural Components ◽  
Different Levels

This article seeks to present and exemplify to the qualitative researcher the term intertextuality as a concept and as a method that may offer a framework for the analysis and interpretation of short narratives or life stories. Intertextuality as a central concept in the study of culture is particularly suitable for qualitative research, central to which is the subjectivity of the narrator, the story, and the listener/researcher, as well as the relative and indeterminate dimension of knowledge. However, using intertextuality as an interpretative method in various types of texts mandates the researcher’s awareness and abilities in areas that this article discusses. In light of the methodological objective of the article, we selected narratives that represent different types of intertextual linkage on different interpretative levels, on different levels of complexity, and on different levels of ideas. The intertextual reading to be demonstrated detects the combination of various types of cultural components in the narrative as a means of representing the world of the narrator; it takes into account a possible macro context in the narrator’s story, its style and structure, the narrator’s implicit personal interpretation, and the researcher-interpreter’s option to reread the narrative.

A hitchhiker’s guide to microscopy and microanalysis using telecommunications, e-mail, and the Internet

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 390-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nestor J. Zaluzec
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
On Line ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Communication Software ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
E Mail

The Information SuperHighway, Email, The Internet, FTP, BBS, Modems, : all buzz words which are becoming more and more routine in our daily life. Confusing terminology? Hopefully it won't be in a few minutes, all you need is to have a handle on a few basic concepts and terms and you will be on-line with the rest of the "telecommunication experts". These terms all refer to some type or aspect of tools associated with a range of computer-based communication software and hardware. They are in fact far less complex than the instruments we use on a day to day basis as microscopist's and microanalyst's. The key is for each of us to know what each is and how to make use of the wealth of information which they can make available to us for the asking. Basically all of these items relate to mechanisms and protocols by which we as scientists can easily exchange information rapidly and efficiently to colleagues in the office down the hall, or half-way around the world using computers and various communications media. The purpose of this tutorial/paper is to outline and demonstrate the basic ideas of some of the major information systems available to all of us today. For the sake of simplicity we will break this presentation down into two distinct (but as we shall see later connected) areas: telecommunications over conventional phone lines, and telecommunications by computer networks. Live tutorial/demonstrations of both procedures will be presented in the Computer Workshop/Software Exchange during the course of the meeting.

Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Ratnasingam ◽  
Lee Ellis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolutionary Explanation ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Preferences

Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

India Goes Digital..Smartphone is the New Shopping Destination

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Shankar Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Online Shopping ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
User Friendly

Despite being in nascent stage m-commerce is gaining momentum in India. The explosive growth of smart-phone users has made India much loved business destination for whole world. Indian internet user is becoming the second largest in the world next to China surpassing US, which throws open plenty of e-commerce opportunities, not only for Indian players, offshore players as well. Mobile commerce is likely to overtake e-commerce in the next few years, spurred by the continued uptrend in online shopping and increasing use of mobile apps.The optimism comes from the fact that people accessing the Internet through their mobiles had jumped 33 per cent in 2014 to 173 million and is expected to grow 21 per cent year-on-year till 2019 to touch 457 million. e-Commerce brands are eyeing on the mobile app segment by developing user-friendly and secure mobile apps offering a risk-free and easy shopping experience to its users. Budget 4G smart phones coupled with affordable plans, can very well drive 4G growth in India.

PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF EDUCATION AND TOLERANCE IN STUDENTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-119
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR GLEB NAYDONOV
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Interethnic Differences ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
Different Levels

The article considers the students’ tolerance as a spectrum of personal manifestations of respect, acceptance and correct understanding of the rich diversity of cultures of the world, values of others’ personality. The purpose of the study is to investgate education and the formation of tolerance among the students. We have compiled a training program to improve the level of tolerance for interethnic differences. Based on the statistical analysis of the data obtained, the most important values that are significant for different levels of tolerance were identified.

Creative Strategy Used in Electronic Advertising

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 597-606
Author(s):  
Dr. Maha Mustafa Omer Abdalaziz
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Creative Strategy ◽  
Electronic Environment ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Electronic Advertising

The study aims at the technological developments that are taking place in the world and have impacted on all sectors and fields and imposed on the business organizations and commercial companies to carry out their marketing and promotional activities within the electronic environment. The most prominent of these developments is the emergence of the concept of electronic advertising which opened a wide range of companies and businessmen to advertise And to promote their products and their work easily through the Internet, which has become full of electronic advertising, and in light of that will discuss the creative strategy used in electronic advertising;

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