scholarly journals SHAPING ONLINE CULTURE AS THE NEW CULTURAL REALITY: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Olesia Beniuk ◽  
Kateryna Kyrylenko ◽  
Victoriia Stratiuk
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Cultural Reality

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the emergence of online culture as a new phenomenon of our time, the development of which was stimulated by the comprehensive approval of the online space as a space of existence of culture in the broad sense of this concept in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic with the reference to the cultural and philosophical ideas of the 20th-century thinkers (on the example of K. Jaspers, J. Ortega y Gasset and W. Benjamin’s ideas) and the 21st-century thinkers (on the example of E. Schmidt, J. Cohen and U. Eco’s ideas). The article outlines the main prerequisites for its rise and argues favouring the concept of “online culture” in its own right. Today, a new cultural phenomenon is being actively formed, which we mean as “online culture”. The impetus for its rapid development was the challenges common to all humanity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which stimulated the active search for new forms and opportunities for selfrealisation and communication by the world community. Online culture is a voluminous and multi-component phenomenon, and it has every reason to become a characteristic of contemporary culture and a new cultural form. The study uses elements of methods of hermeneutical reading of texts, comparative historical and cultural analysis of texts, as well as the method of participant observation. Conclusions. The study results show that a new stage of cultural development is currently being formed, which the authors of the study called “online culture”. The emergence of such a new cultural reality is closely linked to the online environment and digital forms of representation of cultural products. It is demonstrated that predictive reasoning about its occurrence took place in cultural and philosophical studios of the 20th and the 21st centuries, overcoming pandemic challenges by humanity; its entry becomes the realities of the present. The concept of “online culture” correlates with other cultural phenomena close to it in content and forms of representation, such as “information culture”, “digital culture”, “virtual culture”, etc. Still, it exists independently and denotes a fundamentally different cultural cross-section of the present. Now online culture is in its infancy, but the pace of its formation, inspired by the exponential development of the online space, is swift.

PECULIARITIES AND CONDITIONS OF ACTIVITY OF BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSES OF UKRAINE IN THE MODERN MEDIA SPACE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetyana Jezhyzhanska
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Book Publishers

In the information society the status of information is changing: this main value of global civilization becomes an important resource of socio- economic, technological and cultural development. The rapid development of virtual technologies and the growing number of Internet users in Ukraine and in the world causes the new challenges to communication of each organization. The book publishers are also obliged to respond to these processes. However, the works devoted directly to publishers’ communication in the modern media space are still lacking in Ukraine. The objective of the article is to clarify peculiarities and conditions of the activities of Ukrainian book publishers in today’s media space which is an important issue today. It is analyzed the literature and sources on this issue and it is ascertained the theoretical and practical possibilities to take into account the trends in the world of modern media in the PR-activity of book publishers. Also the prospects for further scientific study and practical use of PR-communications in the activity of publishers are determined. The analysis of current changes in the modern information space allows us to trace the general tendencies: the new subject and object areas are formed; the number of subjects is expanded; the new formats of interaction within the system of communications of the organization and in society as a whole are created. That means that publishing house’s PR-communications are complicated by the emergence of new elements, such as active audience, social networks as communication channels, promotions on the Internet and others. PR communication in the Internet space is the most effective and inexpensive tool for interaction of publishers with active audiences. Thus, the activation of PR communication in the modern media space is associated with the emergence of the latest information technologies, online media as well as development of Internet. The use of online channels of Internet for communication with the target audience of publishing organizations has certain advantages over traditional media. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the information saturation of media space, which complicates the way of PR-messages of book publishers to the reader.

Dead Pledges

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie McClanahan
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Credit Scoring ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Microeconomic Theory ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Irrational Behavior ◽  
Cultural Texts

Dead Pledges is a study of our contemporary culture of debt. Examining novels, poems, artworks, photographs, and films produced in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, this book aims to show how US cultural texts have grappled with the rise and fall of the financialized consumer credit economy. It argues that debt is such a ubiquitous yet elusive social form that we can most clearly understand it by looking at how our culture has sought to represent it. Whether popular entertainment or avant-garde art, post-crisis cultural texts allow us to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, microeconomic theory to anti-eviction activism. Across this range of sites, this book offers an account of the theoretical and political consequences of debt: how it affects our ideas of personhood and morality; how it deploys a language of irrational behavior and risky excess; how it transforms our relationship to property and possession. Bringing together economic history, debt theory, and cultural analysis, Dead Pledges demonstrates how our understanding of the economy can be illuminated by culture. What is at stake in our contemporary culture of debt is not just our measures of economic credibility but also the limits of our imaginative credulity; not just our account of economic character but also our literary characters; not just the money we see but also the way we see money; not just how we pay but also how we imagine getting payback.

Strategy of Adaptable Renewal Planning on Culture-Led Existing-Blocks in the Main City of Chongqing

2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 1612-1616
Author(s):  
Yu Hui Xu ◽  
Jia Xu
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Functional Decline ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Planning Strategy ◽  
Neighborhood Relationship ◽  
The City

Culture-led urban regeneration is an influential planning strategy in Western countries, which is to maintain the city character while enhancing the overall competitiveness of the city through the construction of cultural development to meet the urban environment of the new cultural needs. For the moment, the rapid development of social economy of Chongqing has accelerated its urbanization process. As one of the available land stock resources of urban, existing-blocks need updating to meet the new environmental requirements immediately because of physical and functional decline. So it is essential to consider the strategy of culture-led urban regeneration synthetically. It can not only maintain the social network structure and neighborhood relationship of the existing-blocks to continue urban context while improving its image, but also provide a sustainable competitive city. Taking existing-blocks in Chongqing as the main research object, analyze the current characteristics of the existing-blocks, then put forward the culture-led planning strategy from macro, micro and mid-scale to adapt the development of Chongqing existing-blocks by drawing on the experience at home and abroad.

Buddhism Unbundled

2019 ◽  
pp. 176-208
Author(s):  
Ann Gleig
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

The Buddhist Geeks project is an online Buddhist media platform launched in 2007 by two self-identified millennials who wanted to combine their passion for Buddhism with their “geeky skills.” It quickly gained a wide audience for its pioneering explorations into the convergence of Buddhism, technology, and global culture. Through an analysis of the Buddhist Geeks project and a consideration of its replacement, Meditate.io., this chapter explores the impact of technology and digital culture on American convert Buddhism. It draws on discourse analysis, formal interviews with some of the main players of the Buddhist Geeks project, informal interaction with multiple Buddhist Geeks participants, and participant observation at three annual Buddhist Geeks conferences from 2012 to 2015.

scholarly journals Strategies of contemporary culture in the concept of simulacres by J. Bordriyar

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
S. M. Forkosh
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Principal Role ◽  
The Real ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article analyzes the concept of simulators of J. Baudrillard in the context of the formation of a methodological toolkit for the research of contemporary culture. It is determined that attempts to consider the work of Baudrillard by certain stereotypes hide the fact that this philosopher, when creating models of the field of research, did not address the emerged methodological structures. The actual formation of a conceptual apparatus describing author’s models of the field of research turns methodological tools into signs that determine the field of Baudrillard’s research. One of the main conclusions that can be  made by exploring the Baudrillard concept is the provision of modern consumption as a consumption of signs and symbols that has lost touch with the pleasure of biologically based human needs. This process is called the desire of buyers to be identified. Baudrillard seeks to show that the signs themselves produce their referents and meanings. Moreover, the signs try to break with all meanings and references and to be closed only on interaction with each other. As a result, a real universe of signs appears and this sign-object machine seeks to absorb the «real» world. This is probably because language has always been a means of social control, and since in the era of globalization such exploitation of language has only intensified, now the signs are completely detached from their referents and the «era of simulation and simulacra» arises. The fundamental is discussing the evolution of the sign in its similarity with the evolutionary interpretation of labor. A «free» worker can produce only equivalences and a «free and emancipated sign» can only refer to equivalent values. That is why the philosopher determines the significance of the new European sign in the simulacrum of «nature» (the simulacrum of «nature» is regarded as the Idea of Nature). The problems of natural science and the metaphysics of reality are characteristic features of the entire bourgeoisie since the Renaissance.The principal role in the formation of Baudrillard’s conceptual representations belongs to language. The postmodern overcoming of the subject-object difference is realized by Baudrillard by appealing primarily to the linguistic or «sign» nature of reality. The object is transformed into an object-sign and as such, within the framework of the general theory of sign systems, becomes an encoded fragment whose main characteristic is not simply the stereotyped craving for «difference philosophy» but the subordination of the object system code to its totality. Objects appears from human life, and the life disappears as a subject, turning into a human-object, which like a thing, performing a certain function, appears in inter-human relations. Signed consumption covers the whole life of people, from consumption of things and ending with consumption of the environment of human life, which includes labor, leisure, culture, social sphere, nature. All this enters into human life in the form of consumed signs, «simulacrum», transforming it as a whole into a simulation, in the manipulation of signs. The sign, the «simulacrum,» indirectly helps a person to master reality, but at the same time he destroys the real, replaces it with himself. Therefore, it is impossible to distinguish reality from error, since a significant feature of our culture is that illusion, imitation or simulation is so deeply preserved in our lives that it makes impossible the distinction between the real world and the realm of the imagination. The position of the researcher that in the era of postmodernity the distinctions between true and false, authentic and unauthentic, real and unreal are disappearing, is one of the central in his works and indicates a possible vector of cultural development.

scholarly journals Description of Linguistic and Cultural Situation (LCS) as Theoretical Issue and Practical Task

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 787-799
Author(s):  
Lyubov Mikheyeva
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Youth Language ◽  
Youth Discourse

The article substantiates relevance of study of the Russian language current state from the standpoint of linguo-culturology as complex and interdisciplinary science. Historical and regional language particularities, temporal cultural context of a linguistic situation are considered. The study is conducted within the framework of the contemporary linguistics: cognitive science, sociolinguistics, ethno-linguistics, psycholinguistics, etc. Linguo-cultural description of a situation as theoretical concept and as object of a linguo-cultural analysis contributes to the development of LCS-theory and poses a problem of practical study of specific linguo-cultural cases. Any radical changes in a language are historically and culturally dependent. Directly or indirectly, they reflect socio-political or ideological transformations in the life of a society, and are related to language consciousness and language worldview of native speakers. Hence, space-time circumstances have crucial influence on a particular linguo-cultural situation and require a comprehensive analysis. Youth discourse, being a rapidly changing and constantly updated issue, is affected by the time period and the cultural environment in which it develops. It gives grounds to choosing youth discourse as the main object of study in the description of the current linguo-cultural situation. The linguo-cultural approach to the analysis of youth language (particularly, that of students as large and socially active layer in the modern society) is aimed at enhancing the forecast of some development trends both in the language and in the linguo-cultural situation in the country. Besides, it helps to determine both general regularities of linguo-cultural development and features of LCS as one of key linguo-cultural concepts.

scholarly journals Ekoteologitani untuk Kedaulatan Pangan Etos Islam dan Spirit Bertani pada Masyarakat Desa Srimartani, Kecamatan Piyungan, Bantul, Yogyakarta

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Moh. Soehadha
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Study Results ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Special Region

This article presents the results of an explorative research that examined the concept of agrarian ecotheology. This issue was raised with the assumption that Islamic teachings can be a part in the restrengthening of agrarian culture i.e. to take part in enhancing food sovereignty and security in Indonesia. This study is established on the perspective of anthropological ecology. The data source for this article is results of research that has been conducted at the Srimartani Village, Piyungan District, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region Province. Data collection was conducted by using various techniques such as participant observation, focused group discussion (FGD) and interviews through questionnaires. The data collected from the field research was then analyzed using a descriptive-interpretative method.The study results show that Islamic teachings could be employed in restrengthening the agrarian culture, that is as a means to enhance food sovereignty and security. This study also provides critical contribution to the perspective of contemporary Islamic ecotheology so that it does not tend to be anthropocentric, thus becoming exploitative in nature. A new construction of Islamic ecotheology, which accommodates the view that humans, as farmers as well, have a proportional position within their environment, needs to be developed.

scholarly journals Participatory communication as a key strategy in the construction of citizenship

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. 890-900
Author(s):  
Felipe Anderson Rios Incio ◽  
Enaidy Reynosa Navarro ◽  
Edith Gissela Rivera Arellano ◽  
Lindon Vela Meléndez
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Participatory Communication ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Social Empowerment ◽  
The Relationship

This research set out to analyze the importance of participatory communication as a critical strategy in the construction of citizenship through an exhaustive review of the specialized literature; whose purpose was to update the knowledge related to citizenship and its structure, participatory communication and its contribution to the construction of citizenship, as well as updated approaches to participatory communication. The scientific information supporting the study results was fundamentally extracted from scientific journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, Scielo, Redalyc, and Dialnet. All citations and bibliographic references were managed using Mendeley. As preliminary results, it is found that participatory communication facilitates the integration and cohesion of the communities, based on joint projects, decision-making, participation, and actions that benefit citizens. It is concluded that citizenship is in constant change depending on the citizen; also, that it is essential to recover the relationship between citizenship and participation in pursuit of socio-cultural development; likewise, that community participation must be legitimate, holistic, and inclusive; also, that the contribution of communication lies in the dynamization of social actors; finally, that participatory communication approaches make it possible to dynamize the determining social behaviors to achieve social empowerment.

scholarly journals INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CONDITIONS OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-23
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Bakumov ◽  
Vladyslav Neviadovskyi ◽  
Olha Shaituro
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
Intellectual Potential

In the era of rapid development of the information society, there is a problem of accumulation and rational use of intellectual capital, as well as the need to ensure its development. Now it is impossible to carry out the effective activity of enterprises without technologies, know-how, inventions, knowledge and experience of workers. Since world globalization and rapid transformation of the domestic economy led to some kind of economic and financial instability, which leads to an increase in interest in the research and use of information, it becomes necessary to study the possibilities of providing intellectual capital development in entrepreneurship and in the country. It should also be noted that sufficient funding for the development of intellectual potential leads to increased competitiveness of the country as a whole. Therefore, intellectual capital in a society with information as the main source holds key positions and is at the centre of a number of issues related to the development of entrepreneurship in the country, the development of the information society, the knowledge society, and the digital economy. Taking into account the cultural and value aspect and the explicit and implicit problems of multi-agent interaction in the information society, we believe that the approaches to the definition of the “information society” should not be antagonistic to each other, but symbiotic, and integrate the workings of each area of research of scientists, taking into account rapid development, globalization and informational synergistic effects that arise in recent years, it can be argued that the concept will be repeatedly transformed. It is investigated that, in the context of the information society, the concept of “intellectual capital” appears. We determine that intellectual capital is an aggregate of knowledge, experience, skills, creativity, abilities, relationships, accumulated in the process of intellectual activity, that have economic value and are used in the process of production and exchange for the purpose of obtaining income. The conducted research allows generalizing the conclusion that exactly the development of information and communication technologies has led to the emergence of an information society, which was an impetus for the development of e-economy, which precisely determined the emergence of e-commerce as its inherent part. It is proven that financing for the development of intellectual capital is required for many reasons; however, one of the keys is to raise the level of competitiveness not only of enterprises but of the state as a whole. Thus, the intellectual potential of citizens is aimed at the economic, technical, and cultural development of enterprises and their own state. Therefore, the support and development of the information society and its main good, namely, information and knowledge, should be actively implemented in enterprises for further development of entrepreneurship, the economy of the country and the state. That is why the research of models of financial provision of intellectual capital, which was carried out in the article (investment, crowdfunding, innovative), are defined as perspective directions of development of science and practice.

Mid-life Chinese women’s understandings of sporting pain and injury: A non-Western cultural analysis via the Confucian concept of ‘ren’

2020 ◽  
pp. 101269022090638
Author(s):  
Lucen Liu ◽  
Richard Pringle
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Tennis Players ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Confucian Philosophy ◽  
Life Story Interviews

This study explored middle-aged Chinese female table tennis players’ experiences of pain and injuries in the context of life in a foreign country (New Zealand). Data were collected in two table tennis clubs via a year-long participant observation study and through life-story interviews. The Confucian concept of ren, which has similarities to new-materialist theorising, was drawn upon to frame our interpretations of the participants’ experiences of pain and injury. The concept encourages individuals who have been raised in Chinese communities to value social connections, have sympathy for others and strive for harmony. Our study correspondingly examined how aspects of age, gender, culture, immigrant identity and Confucian philosophy interlink to shape experiences of table tennis pain and injury. Results illustrated that our participants were willing to tolerate moderate pain during participation as they were motivated to enhance community solidarity. In contrast to studies that have examined ageing athletes from western countries, our participants did not tolerate pain with the desire to prove one’s individual capability. This study contributes to a non-Western cultural reading of sports pain and injury to illustrate how broader cultural dynamics shape such experiences.

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