scholarly journals Articulation of media on juvenile delinquency with special reference to India

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Nandini Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The One ◽  
Higher Doses ◽  
Society Today

Media plays a vital role in our society today. With the advent of mass media, including television and more recently, video and computer games, children and teenagers are exposed to increasingly higher doses of aggressive images. Media is a double-edged tool. On the one hand, it plays an important role in framing public opinion, and on the other, its character is to sensationalize issues to attract readers. But its objective should be clear; that is, to reform a juvenile and not to penalize him or her.  The article depicts the media's influence on juvenile delinquency and the tendency for delinquency. Several media reports show the cases of juvenile delinquency, with special reference to India.

scholarly journals The Evolving Interplay between Islam and Politics: From Islamist to Islamic Democrat

ICR Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Waqas Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Islam And Politics ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Democratic Parties ◽  
The One ◽  
Democratic Elections

Islam is unique in its relationship with politics. It plays a vital role in politics and governance, initially under the Rashidun and subsequently in many Muslim empires. The collapse of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 and the process of decolonisation which started in the mid-twentieth-century led to the start of many Islamic political movements in newly independent Muslim countries. These movements now sit at a critical juncture, with Muslims around the world being polarised around two political extremes. On the one hand, we have Islamic radical groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda, while on the other hand we have secular parties which do not see any role for Islam in politics and governance in Muslim countries. In response, many traditional Islamist parties are now evolving into Muslim democratic parties. Unlike Islamists, Muslim democrats take a more inclusive approach, preferring to integrate Islamic religious values into political platforms designed to win regular democratic elections. The Ennahda Party of Tunisia is one Muslim party that reflects this evolution. R. Ghannouchi, who outlined Ennahdas transition, has argued that Tunisians today are less concerned about Islamisation or secularisationthan with building a democratic government that is inclusive and meets their aspirations for a better life. This paper is an attempt to investigate this shift and its consequences for Islamism across the Muslim world.

scholarly journals Computer Gameplay and the Aesthetic Practices of the Self: Game Studies and the Late Work of Michel Foucault

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
The Self ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Practices Of The Self ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

This paper aims to critically introduce the applicability of Foucault’s late work, on the practices of the self, to the scholarship of contemporary computer games. I argue that the gameplay tasks that we set ourselves, and the patterns of action that they produce, can be understood as a form of ‘work on the self’, and that this work is ambivalent between, on the one hand, an aesthetic transformation of the self – as articulated by Foucault in relation to the care or practices of the self – in which we break from the dominant subjectivities imposed upon us, and on the other, a closer tethering of ourselves through our own playful impulses, to a neoliberal subjectivity centred around instrumentally-driven selfimprovement. Game studies’ concern with the effects that computer games have on us stands to gain from an examination of Foucault’s late work for the purposes of analysing and disambiguating between the nature of the transformations at stake. Further, Foucault’s tripartite analysis of ‘power-knowledge-subject’, which might be applied here as ‘game-discourse-player’, foregrounds the imbrication of our gameplay practices – the extent to which they are due to us and the way in which our own volitions make us subject to power, which is particularly pertinent in the domain of play.

Diversity and Exclusivity

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
M. Ashraf Adeel
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
The Other ◽  
Passionate Commitment ◽  
The One

It is argued that religions seem to insist, paradoxically, on both exclusivity and diversity to inspire passionate commitment on the one hand and to allow for genuine choice of religion on the other. The argument is developed with special reference to Islam, with hints of similar strands of thought in Judaism and Christianity. The paradoxicality of this position of religions is similar to Kierkegaard’s interpretation of faith, as exhibited byAbraham in his sacrifice. Interpreting religions in this way provides us with a better context for understanding the exclusivism/pluralism debate.

The Structure and Presentation of Contemporary Psychiatric Classifications with Special Reference to ICD-9 and 10

1988 ◽  
Vol 152 (S1) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
Near Future

The discussion here is largely concerned with the purposes and structure of classifications of clinical concepts, variously called diseases, illnesses, disorders and syndromes, which are the main reasons why patients go to see doctors. Multiaspect (or multiaxial) classification has deservedly come to the fore in recent years, and seems likely to increase in importance for purposes of education, communication and research in the near future, but it is mentioned only briefly in the following discussion. The main focus of attention for the moment is the clinical descriptions of disorders; this is, of course, usually the first aspect in a multiaspect system, and the one around which the other aspects tend to be organised.

scholarly journals Health and Sustainability in Public Meals—An Explorative Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 621
Author(s):  
Karin Höijer ◽  
Caroline Lindö ◽  
Arwa Mustafa ◽  
Maria Nyberg ◽  
Viktoria Olsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Food Habits ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Concepts Of Health ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

The world is facing a number of challenges related to food consumption. These are, on the one hand, health effects and, on the other hand, the environmental impact of food production. Radical changes are needed to achieve a sustainable and healthy food production and consumption. Public and institutional meals play a vital role in promoting health and sustainability, since they are responsible for a significant part of food consumption, as well as their “normative influence” on peoples’ food habits. The aim of this paper is to provide an explorative review of the scientific literature, focusing on European research including both concepts of health and sustainability in studies of public meals. Of >3000 papers, 20 were found to satisfy these criteria and were thus included in the review. The results showed that schools and hospitals are the most dominant arenas where both health and sustainability have been addressed. Three different approaches in combining health and sustainability have been found, these are: “Health as embracing sustainability”, “Sustainability as embracing health” and “Health and sustainability as separate concepts”. However, a clear motivation for addressing both health and sustainability is most often missing.

Marine investigations in the Lakshadweep Islands, India

Antiquity ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (282) ◽  
pp. 827-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sila Tripati
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
The One ◽  
Lakshadweep Islands

The Lakshadweep Islands lie on the sea route between west Asia and Africa on the one hand and south Asia and the Far East on the other. In maritime history, these islands have played a vital role by providing shelter, fresh water and landmarks to navigators through the ages. Recent discoveries made during marine archaeological exploration and excavations in the Lakshadweep have revealed evidences of early settlement and shipwrecks. The findings suggest that the islands had been inhabited much before the early historical period.

Response to W. Lance Bennett's Review of Television, Power, and the Public in Russia

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 933-933
Author(s):  
Ellen Mickiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Soviet Rule ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
The One ◽  
Post Soviet Period

W. Lance Bennett is rightly pessimistic about a state with government-run mass media, on the one hand, and unchecked corruption, on the other. The massive and partially acknowledged corruption operates menacingly at all levels of society, a phenomenon mainly of the post-Soviet period. And the situation is bound to worsen as the economic crisis grows. However, it is unlikely that this decade of rampant corruption is the source of most heuristics that Russians use, for the derivation and content of shortcuts to navigate news tend to be drawn from early experiences under Soviet rule.

Studies on the behaviour of Trypanosoma evansi in tsetse-flies with special reference to its phylogeny

Parasitology ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecil A. Hoare
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Trypanosoma Evansi ◽  
The Other ◽  
Circumstantial Evidence ◽  
Mammalian Host ◽  
Tsetse Flies ◽  
Morphological Similarity ◽  
Its Phylogeny ◽  
Subsequent Propagation ◽  
The One

In view of the morphological similarity of T. evansi and T. brucei, including the sporadic occurrence of marked polymorphism in the first-named species, the hypothesis is advanced that T. evansi may have originated from T. brucei, by the introduction of the last-named species into localities free of Glossina and its subsequent propagation by direct passages.The possibility of contact between the mammalian host of T. evansi, on the one hand, and Glossina and tsetse-borne trypanosomiases, on the other, is shown to exist in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, thus pointing to the source from which T. evansi in that country may have originated and providing circumstantial evidence in support of the hypothesis.Attempts were made to discover whether T. evansi is capable of developing in Glossina. A total of 568 flies were fed on infected mice and examined at periods from 6 hr. to a fortnight following the infective feed. The results were entirely negative: not only is the trypanosome incapable of establishing an infection in the fly, but the majority of flagellates perish and are digested during the first hours after ingestion by the insect.The behaviour of T. evansi in tsetse is shown to be similar to that of non-transmissible strains of trypanosomes of the Brucei group after prolonged maintenance by direct passages in the mammalian hosts, and is therefore also in keeping with the hypothesis.

Play as Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-40
Author(s):  
Daniel Pargman ◽  
Daniel Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Competitive Activity ◽  
Cross Country Skiing ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The One ◽  
Standardization Organization ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Contemporary images of desirable work (for example at gaming companies or at one of the tech giants) foregrounds creativity and incorporates and idealises elements of play. Simultaneously, becoming one of the best in some particular leisure activity can require many long hours of hard, demanding work. Between on the one hand work and on the other hand leisure and play, we enter the domain of games and sports. Most classical sports originally developed from physical practices of moving the human body and these practices were, through standardization, organization and rationalization, turned into sports. Many sport researchers, (sport) historians and (sport) sociologists have pointed out that sports have gone through a process of “sportification”. Cross-country skiing is an example of an activity that has gone through a historical process of sportification, over time becoming progressively more managed and regulated. Computer games are today following a similar trajectory and have gone from being a leisure activity to becoming a competitive activity, “esports”, with professional players, international competitions, and live streams that are watched by tens of millions of viewers.

scholarly journals The freedom of alienated reflexive subjectivity inThe Stanley Parable

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
The Other ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
Quest For Meaning ◽  
Theory Of The Novel ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe, 2013) is a game that self-reflexively meditates on the relationship between the structure in which choices are presented to the player in first-person exploration games and contemporary concerns over freedom. It takes, as its subject matter, its own ‘variable expressiveness’, yet must also delimit that expressiveness in order to direct the player towards a self-reflexive mindset. The article proposes, by analysing three of the endings in the game, that this endeavour necessitates the game to compromise its ‘gameness’ and to move towards being a Lukácsian novel caught in an endless interiority; it must maintain a tension between giving the player freedom and room for expression, on the one hand, and being tightly focused on reflections concerning freedom and meaning, on the other. This reveals something about what computer games must sacrifice in order to grasp at meaning and also what would be required for a work to indicate that in which freedom consists. It will be argued that neither of the two kinds of subjectivity that are detailed by Lukács ((1971) The Theory of the Novel. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press) – the Homeric subject without interiority and the alienated modern subject on a Sisyphean quest for meaning – are compatible with freedom. Instead, the carefully conceived tensions to which The Stanley Parable gives rise initiates a ‘dance’ that gestures towards freedom inhering in a subjectivity which avoids these possibilities. This could only be accomplished by being more than both a game and a novel. The implications bear upon the form of a medium that can most suitably function as a homology for the aforementioned subjectivity that transcends the two Lukácsian poles.

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