Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Hudson Moura
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Need To Evaluate

Film and media practitioners and educators have been expanding the use of digital through new experiences with unusual and innovative technical and artistic “approaches.” Likewise, researchers and academics are questioning and analyzing these new practices that increasingly dominate global society, as seen in the past months with the advent of the worldwide pandemic. In 2013, we created the IFM-Interactive Film and Media Conference to provide an inclusive educational space within the digital theory and interactive studies where researchers and practitioners could discuss and present their research and work in film and media. With this purpose, the IFM has partnered with universities worldwide and established a space for a global integration between academia and the audiovisual production community that aims to forge a valuable exchange between researchers, faculty, students, practitioners, and the community. The goal is to generate a broad debate, emphasizing the need to evaluate the increasing use of digital screens in contemporary society and how people respond artistically, socially, and politically to the challenges of the digital cultural space. The work of professors, researchers, and practitioners (artists, filmmakers, and videomakers) from various areas and several countries, including Italy, Brazil, England, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Germany, and the United States, constitutes this special issue with selected articles and audiovisuals from the #IFM2014. The aim is to launch IFM Journal first issues while archiving our preliminary works.

Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
Hudson Moura
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Need To Evaluate

Film and media practitioners and educators have been expanding the use of digital through new experiences with unusual and innovative technical and artistic “approaches.” Likewise, researchers and academics are questioning and analyzing these new practices that increasingly dominate global society, as seen in the past months with the advent of the worldwide pandemic. In 2013, we created the IFM-Interactive Film and Media Conference to provide an inclusive educational space within the digital theory and interactive studies where researchers and practitioners could discuss and present their research and work in film and media. With this purpose, the IFM has partnered with universities worldwide and established a space for a global integration between academia and the audiovisual production community that aims to forge a valuable exchange between researchers, faculty, students, practitioners, and the community. The goal is to generate a broad debate, emphasizing the need to evaluate the increasing use of digital screens in contemporary society and how people respond artistically, socially, and politically to the challenges of the digital cultural space. The work of professors, researchers, and practitioners (artists, filmmakers, and videomakers) from various areas and several countries, including Italy, Brazil, England, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Germany, and the United States, constitutes this special issue with selected articles and audiovisuals from the #IFM2014. The aim is to launch IFM Journal first issues while archiving our preliminary works.

EDITORIAL: Migration and competitiveness: Japan and the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Variable Cost ◽  
Fixed Cost ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Past Half

Japan and the United States, the world’s largest economies for most of the past half century, have very different immigration policies. Japan is the G7 economy most closed to immigrants, while the United States is the large economy most open to immigrants. Both Japan and the United States are debating how immigrants are and can con-tribute to the competitiveness of their economies in the 21st centuries. The papers in this special issue review the employment of and impacts of immigrants in some of the key sectors of the Japanese and US economies, including agriculture, health care, science and engineering, and construction and manufacturing. For example, in Japanese agriculture migrant trainees are a fixed cost to farmers during the three years they are in Japan, while US farmers who hire mostly unauthorized migrants hire and lay off workers as needed, making labour a variable cost.

Keep Culture, Lose the Reductionism: Exploring Contemporary Cultural Spaces as Sites of Power Maintenance and Resistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-374
Author(s):  
Erik T. Withers ◽  
Manuel A. Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Spaces

In this article, we argue for the importance of investigating cultural spaces in connection to social inequalities. Within cultural spaces, culture in both material and nonmaterial forms is used in ways that bolster privilege, provide means for people and groups to navigate inequalities, and offers avenues for contesting inequalities. We critically examine some of the past and present ways that culture and inequalities have been studied together. We identify three trends that have arisen from the current scholarship on culture and inequality in the United States: space and place, embodiment, and performativity. In addition to examining understudied contemporary cultural spaces, the articles in this special issue contribute to and expand on the identified trends of studying cultural spaces as sites of inequality maintenance and resistance.

Chapter 1: 21st Century Physical Education in the United States: Introduction to the Special Issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Phillip Ward ◽  
Hal A. Lawson ◽  
Hans van der Mars ◽  
Murray F. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
School Programs ◽  
The Future

In this chapter, we examine the system of physical education with a Janus-like perspective. We focus on examining and learning from the past as we anticipate what society, school systems, and the physical education system might look like in the future. Drawing on futuristic scenarios developed for this special journal issue, we ask a timely, pivotal question. What does all of this mean for the future of the field of physical education, including its school programs, teacher education programs, doctoral programs, and salient public policies? The several chapters in this special issue can be viewed as a response to this question—and with a delimited focus on the unique context of the United States. This chapter is structured to provide an overall context for these other contributions. It includes a discussion of relevant theories provided in this special issue and a representative summary of the other articles. Selectivity is apparent and unavoidable in every article, and it can be viewed variously as a strength or limitation.

What Constitutes Successful Entrepreneurship? An Analysis of Recent Australasian Awards Experiences

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Kearins ◽  
Belinda Luke ◽  
Patricia Corner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Entrepreneurial Success ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Insight Into

Theory about what constitutes entrepreneurial success is explored using case studies of the 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winners for Australia and New Zealand. Findings suggest the need to more equally emphasize what theory presents as elements of successful entrepreneurship, and importantly, incorporate ethics as a key dimension. Further, the analysis offers insight into how business awards processes in general might be conducted.Entrepreneurship has long been considered an important economic activity. The past twenty years has witnessed an explosion of research into entrepreneurs and their actions (Venkatarman 1997; Hannafey 2003) with considerable emphasis on the elements that constitute successful entrepreneurship. However, there has been little empirical work substantiating these elements or exploring the extent to which they appear to be considered when judgements are made about entrepreneurial success. Additionally, some entrepreneurs that are judged successful, such as Monty Fu who won an entrepreneur of the year award in the United States, are later shown to be unsuccessful along a number of elements. It may be that some elements are more emphasized when judging entrepreneurial endeavours, than are others. For these reasons, the current paper focuses on the construction of successful entrepreneurship. It addresses the following research questions: Are there some elements of entrepreneurship that appear to be more emphasized than are others when judgements are made about successful entrepreneurs? Would recourse to theory help decide successful entrepreneurship?

South Pacific Commission

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-488 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Development ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work Program ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom

The twentieth session of the South Pacific Commission was held at Commission headquarters in Nouméa, New Caledonia, from October 13 to 23, 1959. It was attended by representatives of the six member nations, Australia, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States; the Chairman was Dean Knowles A. Ryerson, Senior Commissioner for the United States. The meeting studied progress made during the past year by the Commission in its three main fields of work —economic development, health, and social development—and reviewed its work program for 1960.

Introduction to the Special Issue: ADA at 25 and People With Cognitive Disabilities: From Action to Inclusion

Inclusion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Blanck
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Central Element ◽  
The United States ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
The Past

Abstract The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 has helped to define in the United States and globally the modern view of disability as a central element of the human experience. This second issue, of a two-part Special Issue of the journal Inclusion, examines the ADA at its 25th anniversary. From an array of disciplinary perspectives and lived experiences, the articles reflect on the past 25 years, examine present opportunities and challenges, and consider the future to ensure continued action toward the civil and human rights of individuals with cognitive and other disabilities for inclusion and active citizenship.

scholarly journals Mitigation Measures during Elections and It’s Impacts on COVID-19 Pandemic: Sabah State (Malaysia), New Zealand and the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156
Author(s):  
Syaza Zainudin ◽  
Mohd Amiruddin Mohd Kassim ◽  
Nor Nadia Mohamad Ridza
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
The People ◽  
Election Process ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
Health Organization

Background and Objective: Countries all over the world respect the election process asone of the fundamental steps in forming a government. However, the exponential spread ofCOVID-19 has been deeply alarming, with a high number of positive cases and total deaths,forcing World Health Organization to declare it as a pandemic on 11th March 2020. Duringthese unprecedented events, governments have had a tough decision to balance between theconstitutional obligation to hold an election and the safety of the people. As such, electoralcommissions have implemented numerous approaches to allow election to proceed in a safeand controlled setting during the pandemic.Methods: The preventative measures and standard operating procedures in the Sabah stateof Malaysia, New Zealand and the United States elections are discussed, as well as COVID19 post-election situation in respective countries. Innovative approaches and electionflexibilities shall be considered to allow voting in the safest way possible, following the newnormal.Discussion: Nevertheless, countries need to evaluate its strength of public health responsewhen deciding to hold elections due to potential devastating outbreaks following electionsdespite measures taken.Conclusion: The election is a fundamental process in a democracy. Countries are requiredto be flexible and innovative in their approach to hold a safe election. Nevertheless, it maybe prudent for countries with fewer resources and poor pandemic control to postponeelection as a rise in cases will be catastrophic, putting many lives at risk.

scholarly journals Change, technology and higher education: Are universities capable of organisational change?

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
E Learning

Technology and change are so closely related that the use of the word innovation seems synonymous with technology in many contexts, including that of higher education. This paper contends that university culture and existing capability constrain such innovation and to a large extent determine the nature and extent of organisational change. In the absence of strong leadership, technologies are simply used as vehicles to enable changes that are already intended or which reinforce the current identity. These contentions are supported by evidence from e-learning benchmarking activities carried out over the past five years in universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

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