scholarly journals The Level of Kurdistan Region MPs’ Dependency on New Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-619
Author(s):  
Barham Khalid Ahmed ◽  
Fuad Ali Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
The Past

In the past decade media industry particularly traditional media has seen a significant decline as new media growth and become an important source for the whole society in developed countries. Albeit politicians have affected by new media impacts as replaced traditional media in many aspects. The new media has a great role for politicians to use it to get information, their publicity, and publishing their activities. This research paper explores the role of new media on Kurdistan region member of parliaments seeking how they rely on new media platforms to find out the MPs dependency on New Media in their works as a public figure.

scholarly journals The new commodities of the new media landscape

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. R01
Author(s):  
Andy Ridgway
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Science Journalism ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Science Media

BOOK: Content is king; News media management in the digital age. Graham, G., Greenhill, A., Shaw, D.Andvargo, C., Eds (2015), London, U.K.: Bloomsbury The ‘traditional’ media industry ― newspapers and magazines and the like ― have had a difficult time lately thanks to increasing competition online. This book's chapters consider ways the traditional media can reinvent themselves to secure their future. Two key themes that emerge from the chapters are the importance of building communities and the increasing role of credibility in today's highly-competitive media landscape. While this book does not focus on the science media, many of the conclusions are relevant to it, in fact some are cause for comfort for those involved with science journalism.

Vitamin A: dietologist’s position

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
S. V. Orlova ◽  
E. A. Nikitina ◽  
L. I. Karushina ◽  
Yu. A. Pigaryova ◽  
O. E. Pronina
Keyword(s):  
Immune Response ◽  
Urinary Tract ◽  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Vitamin A ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Mucous Membranes

Vitamin A (retinol) is one of the key elements for regulating the immune response and controls the division and differentiation of epithelial cells of the mucous membranes of the bronchopulmonary system, gastrointestinal tract, urinary tract, eyes, etc. Its significance in the context of the COVID‑19 pandemic is difficult to overestimate. However, a number of studies conducted in the past have associated the additional intake of vitamin A with an increased risk of developing cancer, as a result of which vitamin A was practically excluded from therapeutic practice in developed countries. Our review highlights the role of vitamin A in maintaining human health and the latest data on its effect on the development mechanisms of somatic pathology.

scholarly journals A Review of Finance–Growth Nexus Theories: How Does Development Finance Fits in?

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyankomo Marwa ◽  
Stephen Zhanje
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Conventional Model ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Concise Review ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Finance Growth Nexus

Abstract The finance growth-nexus debates have been contentious over the past three decades both empirically and theoretically. To contribute to this debate, the current paper presents a concise review of finance-growths nexus theoretical development and the current debate around growth-finance nexus theories. Then, it extends the current theoretical debate to include development finance within the broader scheme of finance-growth discourse. The key emerging trend is that, most of the contemporary theories trying to explain finance growth nexus have been exclusively focusing on the standard finance in general. Little attention has been devoted to understand the role of development finance on finance-growth nexus. It concludes that, for a more comprehensive understanding of the finance growth nexus, the role of development finance should be integrated in theory of finance-growth nexus. The paper demonstrates that conventional model of finance-growth nexus is more likely to underestimate the magnitude of the impact of finance on economic growth especially for less developed countries. The paper suggests that, a model which breakdown the finance into standard finance subgroup and development finance subgroup may provide more accurate and insightful findings.

scholarly journals Situating Continuing Professional Development in Life Long Learning in Qatar

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishanth Weerakkody ◽  
Mohamad Osmani ◽  
Paul Waller ◽  
Nitham Hindi ◽  
Rajab Al-Esmail
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
The Us ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level

<p>Continued professional development (CPD) has been at the centre of capacity building in most successful organisations in western countries over the past few decades. Specialised professions in fields such as Accounting, Finance and ICT, to name but a few, are continuously evolving, which is necessitating certain standards to be followed through registration and certification by a designated authority (e.g. ACCA). Whilst most developed countries such as the UK and the US have well established frameworks for CPD for these professions, several developing nations, including Qatar (the chosen context for this article) are only just beginning to adopt these frameworks into their local contexts. However, the unique socio-cultural settings in such countries require these frameworks to be appropriately modified before they are adopted within the respective national context. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of CPD in Qatar through comparing the UK as a benchmark and drawing corresponding and contrasting observations to formulate a roadmap towards developing a high level framework.</p>

Role of Affective Mediators in the Effects of Media Use on Proenvironmental Behavior

2020 ◽  
pp. 107554702097164
Author(s):  
Zongya Li
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Perceived Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Proenvironmental Behavior ◽  
Affective Constructs ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
Environmental Participation

Much of the research on media use and environmental participation has examined the persuasive effects of media-motivated cognitive constructs on proenvironmental behavior, whereas the role of media-induced affective constructs has largely been neglected. To address this gap, this study examines how affective constructs (emotional responses and perceived knowledge) arise from media use and in what ways they contribute to environmental participation in the context of haze. Results from a web survey of 1,589 Chinese citizens suggest that traditional media use elicited more positive emotions than the use of new media, while new media use evoked more negative emotions than that of traditional media. Both traditional and new media use were positive predictors of perceived knowledge. Moreover, negative emotion, positive emotion, and perceived knowledge were all positively associated with proenvironmental behavior. The results of mediation analyses indicated that these affective constructs mediated the association between media use and proenvironmental behavior.

Crippling Competition: Critical Reflections on Disability and Australian Telecommunications Policy

2000 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin ◽  
Christopher Newell
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
High Time ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Telecommunications Policy ◽  
Disability Discrimination ◽  
Telecommunications Reform ◽  
The Past ◽  
Explicit Reference ◽  
Disability Discrimination Act

Telecommunications reform in Australia, and in particular the introduction of competition, is often claimed to have delivered benefits to consumers. From the perspective of people with disability, this competition so far can been seen as crippling rather than enabling. There have been some gains for telecommunications for people with disabilities over the past decade in particular —delivered by slowly changing corporate attitudes buttressed by the explicit reference to the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 in the Telecommunications Act 1997. This article examines telecommunications and disability in Australia since 1975, and concludes that it is high time for a telecommunications and new media industry where measures of outcomes would include utilising the experiences and meeting the needs, expectations and aspirations of those who live with disability.

The gestures of Hermes: Federico Fellini as an interpreter and circulating agent of images

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Pintor Iranzo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
Federico Fellini

Based on its relationship to comic books, this article proposes an iconographic study of the public figure of Federico Fellini in terms of the Hermes archetype. With the aim of explaining how Fellini’s image has been interpreted from different visual perspectives, I consider two basic questions: what relationship does Fellini have to the images of himself and of Italian culture? And why have images in Fellini’s films and his own public image been the object of constant reinterpretations in film, advertising and on social networks? Focusing on the rereading of Fellini’s image in the comics of Milo Manara, this article explores a phenomenon that distinguishes Fellini’s filmmaking: his role as a circulator of images of classical and popular culture out of the past and into the future. The figure of Hermes, the god of mediation, constitutes the archetype through which we can understand this central role of Fellini.

scholarly journals IMAGES IN ARCHITECTURE – FROM MURALS TO ILLUMINATING PROJECTIONS

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Bąkowska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mural Paintings ◽  
Artistic Quality

As in every other domain of art, in contemporary mural painting it is possible to indicate great projects and realizations as well as failures. However, many examples confirm the thesis of an especially significant role of depicting in architectural and urban space. After all, like in other kinds of painting, the main feature here is the talent of an artist. Artistic quality of depicting in architectural scale is so important because of its aesthetical, ethical and education role. It is hard to answer the question about the future of mural paintings and the role of the new media of transmitting color and illusion in architectural space. Nowadays, in the time of instant development of science and technology, increasing tempo of life and continuous need of changes, it may turn out that the digital and hologram pictures better fulfil the expectation of the present recipient. It is not unlikely that the practical values of these techniques – their energetic and light features – might cause the elimination of traditional wall paintings which have accompanied architecture for so many ages. On the other hand, we could observe in the present culture evident “retro” tendencies – the growth of interest in the past, the recognition of traditional forms of expression, and a desire for their continuation. Materiality, touchable texture, and some mysterious load of energy executed by artists in traditional techniques are the elements acting to the advantage of old- fashioned painted walls. Paveikslai architektūroje – nuo freskų iki šviečiančių projekcijų Santrauka Sienų tapyba, kaip architektūros elementas, per amžius turėjo įvairių paskirčių: magišką, simbolinę, estetinę. Freskos suteikė vietai prestižo, perdavė religinio turinio žinias ir įamžino svarbiausias įvykius. Kadangi sienų tapyba visuomet egzistuoja architektūriniame kontekste ir perima architektūrinės formos specifiką, jos negalime suvokti kaip visiškai autonomiško meno. Dėl savo masto, spalvos, simbolinės prasmės ir tam tikrais atvejais aukštos meninės vertės freskos yra išraiškingi orientyrai miesto erdvėje, padedantys geriau susivokti „kognityviuose žemėlapiuose“. Šalia tradicinės sienų tapybos neseniai architektūrinėje aplinkoje ėmė atsirasti naujomis technologijomis – skaitmenine, lazerine ar hologramomis – atlikti paveikslai. Jų meninė vertė yra ypač svarbi dėl jų estetinės, etinės ir edukacinės reikšmės.

scholarly journals Adolescent Reproductive Health: The Role of Agency and Autonomy

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (4II) ◽  
pp. 569-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azeema Faizunnisa ◽  
Minhaj Ul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Large Population ◽  
Fertility Transition ◽  
Significant Decline ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Population Pyramid ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adolescent Reproductive Health ◽  
Age Range

The world is experiencing the largest cohort of adolescents in its history, and there are about 1 billion youngsters in this age group, most of whom belong to the developing countries. Worldwide, the adolescent age group is gaining prominence for researchers, policy-makers and donors. This issue is more important for Pakistan where about one-third of 150 million Pakistanis are in the age range of 10-24 years [Pakistan Census Organisation (2001)]. In Pakistan, the fertility transition has just begun [Sathar and Casterline (1998)], and we will have the largest cohort of young people in next five years. With a TFR of 4.1 which represents a significant decline in fertility in the past two decades for about two children [Pakistan (2003)], still we have a large population base. Nearly 33 percent of the population is aged 10-24, and ready to enter marriage and childbearing. Adolescents represents as a “bulge” in the population pyramid of Pakistan that will have serious implications at a variety of levels.

scholarly journals The Media Industry’s Structural Transformation in Capitalism and the Role of the State: Media Economics in the Age of Digital Communications

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Knoche
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media System ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Media

Abstract: This paper discusses how the capitalist media industry has been structurally transformed in the age of digital communications. It takes an approach that is grounded in the Marxian critique of the political economy of the media. It draws a distinction between media capital, media-oriented capital, media infrastructure capital and media-external capital as the forms of capital in the media industry. The article identifies four capital strategies that media capital tends to use in order to try to maximise profits: a) The substitution of “old” by “new” media technology, b) the introduction of new transmission channels for “old” media products, c) the definition of new property rights for media sectors and networks, d) the reduction of production and transaction costs. The drive to profit maximization is at the heart of the capitalist media industry’s structural transformation. This work also discusses the tendency to the universalization of the media system in the digital age and the economic contradictions arising from it. It identifies activity fields of the media industry’s structural transformation and shows how the concentration of the capitalist media markets is an essential, contradictory and inherent feature of the capitalist media system and its structural transformation. The paper identifies six causes of why capital seeks to employ capital strategies that result in the media industry’s structural transformation. They include market saturation, overaccumulation, the tendency of the profit rate to fall, capital-concentration, competition pressure, and advertising. The paper finally discusses the role of the state as an agent of capital in general and media capital in particular. It discusses the role of the state in privatisations, neoliberal deregulation, the formation of national competitive states, and various benefits that the state provides for media capital. This contribution shows that capital and capitalism are the main structural transformers of the media and communications system. For understanding these transformations, we need an approach that is grounded in Marx’s critique of the political economy.Translation from German: Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval

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