scholarly journals Change in Format, Register and Narration Style in the Biomedical Literature: A 1948 Example

Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Galli ◽  
Stefano Guizzardi
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Experimental Medicine ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Report ◽  
To Come ◽  
Evolution Of Science ◽  
The Relationship

Scientific communication has evolved over time and the formats of scientific writing, including its stylistic modules, have changed accordingly. Research articles from the past fit a research world that had not been taken over by the internet, electronic searches, the new media and even the science mass production of today and reflect a reality where scientific publications were designed to be read and appreciated by actual readers. It is therefore useful to have a look back to what science looked like in the past and examine the biomedical literature from older archives because several features of those publications may actually harbor vital insights for today’s communication. Maintaining a vivid awareness of the evolution of science language and modalities of communication may ensure a better and steadfast progression and ameliorate academic writing in the years to come. With this goal in mind, the present commentary set out to review a 1948 scientific report by I.L. Bennett Jr, entitled “A study on the relationship between the fevers caused by bacterial pyrogens and by the intravenous injection of the sterile exudates of acute inflammation”, which appeared in the Journal of Experimental Medicine in September 1948.

Mediatizing Sex

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crispin Thurlow
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on sex/uality in the context of so-called new media and, specifically, digital discourse: technologically mediated linguistic or communicative practices, and mediatized representations of these practices. To help think through the relationship among sex, discourse, and (new) media, the discussion focuses on sexting and two instances of sexting “scandals” in the news. Against this backdrop, the chapter sets out four persistent binaries that typically shape public and academic writing about sex/uality and especially digital sex/uality: new-old, mediation-mediatization, private/real-public/fake, and personal-political. These either-or approaches are problematic, because they no longer account for the practical realities and lived experiences of both sex and media. Scholars interested in digital sex/uality are advised to adopt a “both-and” approach in which media (i.e., digital technologies and The Media) both create pleasurable, potentially liberating opportunities to use our bodies (sexually or otherwise) and simultaneously thwart us, shame us, or shut us down. In this sense, there is nothing that is really “new” after all.

scholarly journals THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORAL COMPOTENCY THROUGH DIDACTIC DEMONSTRATIONS BY DOCTORAL STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 496-502
Author(s):  
S. Taubaeva ◽  
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S. Imanbaeva ◽  
Zh. Baltabaeva ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Design Experiment ◽  
Academic Reading ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Report ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The academic literacy among students development problem, which includes academic reading, academic writing, and academic performance, becomes relevant in the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the system of higher and postgraduate education. PhD students in the field of pedagogy study the basic discipline "Pedagogy Philosophy and Methodology". This discipline is designed to educate them in public speaking to an audience with their search and experiment results throughout their studies. For a speech to the audience, students prepare a scientific report. Report (scientific), researcher public presentation, which is a summary of his scientific search results, design, experiment. The purpose, structure and content of the discipline allows the teacher to systematize didactic presentations in six areas and use them in lectures and seminars. Over the past ten years, these presentations have contributed to the deeper understanding and assimilation by PhD students of the pedagogy philosophical and methodological foundations, and the pedagogical research methodological tools.

Collective Memory and Journalism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Bosch
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Journalistic Practice

The relationship between the practice and field of journalism and the interdisciplinary field of memory studies is complex and multifaceted. There is a strong link between collective memory production and journalistic practice, based on the proposition that journalists produce first drafts of history by using the past in their reportage. Moreover, the practice of journalism is a key agent of memory work because it serves as one of society’s main mechanisms for recording and remembering, and in doing so helps shape collective memory. Journalism can be seen as a memory text, with journalists constructing news within cultural-interpretive frames according to the cultural environment. Journalism also plays a key role in the production of visual memory and new media, including social media. Journalism is thus a key agent of memory work, providing a space for commentary on institutional and cultural sites of memory construction.

Social Media and Elections in Africa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iginio Gagliardone
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global North ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The analysis of the diffusion of social media in Africa and its relevance for politics has been caught in a paradox. On the one hand, social media have been saluted for their newness and for their ability, especially in connection with increasingly accessible portable tools such as mobile phones, to offer a level playing field for individuals to participate in politics and speak to power. On the other hand, this very enthusiasm has evoked relatively tired tropes used to frame the advent of other “new” technologies in the past, stressing what they could do to Africa, rather than exploring what they are doing in Africa. Early research on the relationship between social media and elections in Africa has tended to adopt normative frameworks adapted from the analysis of electoral contests in the Global North, presupposing unfettered citizens using social media to root for their leaders or demand accountability. A more recent wave of empirically grounded studies has embraced a greater conceptual and methodological pluralism, offering more space to analyze the contradictions in how social media are used and abused: how humor can be turned into a powerful tool to contest a type of power that appears overwhelming; or how armies of professional users have exploited people’s credulity of new media as “freer” from power to actually support partisan agenda. Interestingly, this latter approach has brought to light phenomena that have only recently caught global attention, such as the role of “fake news” and misinformation in electoral contests, but have played a determinant role in African politics for at least a decade.

One Voice Speaking for Many: the Mau Mau Movement and Kenyan Autobiography

1983 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol E. Neubauer
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Distinct Group ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Mau Mau ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In most traditional African societies, the relationship of the individual to the community is clearly defined from birth. Each child soon comes to understand his special relationship to his extended family, and to the historical founders of his ethnic group. Hereditary lines trace ancestral origins, and names reflect ties to past generations as well as those yet to come. From the very beginning the child understands that he is not alone, and that he is an integral member of a distinct group with traditional responsibilities and expectations. He perceives himself not as a solitary individual who must discover his own meaning in life, but rather identifies with the legendary history and social values of his clan. These inherited ties to the past, present, and future prove to be of tremendous benefit to the individual, and provide a shared sense of order and security.

scholarly journals Exploring the politics of visibility: Technology, digital representation, and the mediated workings of power

Semiotica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (236-237) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Brian Creech
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
First Century ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Image Production ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Strategies

AbstractFor the better part of the past decade, global social movements have drawn popular attention to the power of image production and acts of representation, particularly the ways ubiquitous cameras challenge the exercise of power This essay lays out a theoretical schema for interrogating a broader “politics of visibility” at work in the early twenty-first century, most readily apparent through the activities of smartphone-enabled and visually-savvy activists. As new media technologies have opened up new strategies of representation, these modes of representation have been incorporated into existing media practices that delimit the ways in which the consequentiality of various movements and political projects can be understood. Theoretically revisiting the concept of visibility, this essay critiques the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge in media studies before arguing that the visibility of an event presages a consequentiality partially determined by the ways in which it is rendered perceptible and thus, intelligible.

Mediatizing Sex: Sexting and/as Digital Discourse

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crispin Thurlow
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on sex/uality in the context of so-called new media and, specifically, digital discourse: technologically mediated linguistic or communicative practices, and mediatized representations of these practices. To help think through the relationship among sex, discourse, and (new) media, the discussion focuses on sexting and two instances of sexting “scandals” in the news. Against this backdrop, the chapter sets out four persistent binaries that typically shape public and academic writing about sex/uality and especially digital sex/uality: new-old, mediation-mediatization, private/real-public/fake, and personal-political. These either-or approaches are problematic, because they no longer account for the practical realities and lived experiences of both sex and media. Scholars interested in digital sex/uality are advised to adopt a “both-and” approach in which media (i.e., digital technologies and The Media) both create pleasurable, potentially liberating opportunities to use our bodies (sexually or otherwise) and simultaneously thwart us, shame us, or shut us down. In this sense, there is nothing that is really “new” after all.

scholarly journals The Consumer Influence of Marketing in the Digital Age: A Meta-Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Young
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Current Field ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

This study addresses the issue of the shift from traditional to new media marketing and its effects on the relationship between brands and consumers. Through a systematic analysis of 53 articles and research studies on an array of topics within digital marketing, this paper summarizes the main findings and compiles the major research trends. Through an aggregation of the surveys and studies existing in the current field, the following analysis was constructed, in order to form a dynamic representation of the developments within the process of consumption. The examination of consumer behavior refers to different areas, which were deeply investigated here, including: consumer levels of involvement, the various methods of information transfer, the multiple social networking platforms, and the ways these are utilized towards purchasing decisions. As this topic has become so intertwined in the marketing world today, this meta-analysis serves as a compilation of the major works of the past twenty years, leading up to this shift in ever-changing levels interactivity. With the introduction of the digital age, the Internet, which didn’t initially possess such transparent ties to the field of consumerism, has managed to reinvent and redefine the entirety of its inner workings.

scholarly journals The Demographic Factor in the Sustainability of Spain’s Pension System

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Albert Esteve ◽  
Daniel Devolder ◽  
Amand Blanes
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Falling Number ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Number Of Births

The falling number of births, increased life expectancy and future retirement of the baby-boomers represent a challenge for the sustainability of the pension system in Spain because the relationship between contributors and pensioners is now smaller. In this issue of Perspectivas Demográficas we shall examine the impact of these factors on the demographic sustainability of the pension system and the effects that several scenarios of death rate, fertility and immigration might have in times to come. The demographic conditions of the past, which were very favourable to the system, will not be repeated in future. However, the coming demographic situation need not be an obstacle for maintaining a sustainable, solidary and adequate pensions system based on the idea of distribution (pay-as-you-go pension system).

scholarly journals Bibliometric Analysis of Remote Sensing of Inland Waters Publications from 1985 to 2020

Geographies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-361
Author(s):  
Igor Ogashawara
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Earth Observations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Remote Sensing Techniques ◽  
The Relationship

Over the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of studies about the use of remote sensing techniques for the monitoring of inland waters. Since these aquatic environments have multiple uses for mankind, monitoring them is essential for the environment, society, and the economy. The use of Earth Observations data for the monitoring of inland waters is important for water quantity and quality management. Because of this, the goal of the present study is to systematically analyze and visualize the evolution of publications in this field. This study will not focus on algorithm comparisons or descriptions; instead, it will use a co-citation analysis to map the relationship among publications. Using the Web of Science database, publications related to the terms, “remote sensing” + “inland waters”, were analyzed using the entire database. The bibliometric analysis showed how research topics evolved from measuring optical properties and understanding their signal to the development of remote sensing algorithms and their applications to satellite imagery. This study provides the historical development of the scientific publications in this field and points out what could be the direction for future research.

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