scholarly journals Screens we see, societies we unknow

Comunicar ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (30) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Jorge A. González-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Technical Artifacts ◽  
The Way

How does technology interact with the way in which we relate with information, communication and knowledge? The integration of these three dimensions conforms the nucleus of the symbolic ecologies. Throughout history, these symbolic ecologies have been constructed and transformed by its relation with technical artifacts and knowhow, understood as a technological vector. The problem should not be posed over screens as interfaces of more complex devices, but upon the specific relationships of information, communication and knowledge framed by those actually devoted to generate it for the use of those who are not able to do it.¿Cómo interactúa la tecnología en la forma en que nos relacionamos con la información, la comunicación y, el conocimiento? La integración de estas tres dimensiones constituye el núcleo de las «ecologías simbólicas». En toda la historia, éstas se han construido y transformado por efecto de su relación con dispositivos técnicos y saberes, que podemos considerar como un vector tecnológico. El problema no debe plantearse en las pantallas como interfaces de dispositivos más complejos, sino en las relaciones específicas de información, de comunicación y de conocimiento que aquéllos que sí generan conocimiento desarrollan para quienes no lo hacen.

RECURSOS QUE SURGEN EN LAS PAREJAS EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (49) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Gabriela Valls barrera ◽  
Daniela Vío GiaCaman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
The Way

The COVID-19 pandemic and confinement, as a measure to stop the contagion, have had a strong impact on the mental health of the population. Emotions such as uncertainty, fear of contracting illness and anguish have increased. But, also, positive experiences have emerged that reinforce interdependence and social support, the appreciation of affections and a greater connection and reflection on the way of life. The objective of this article is to delve into the experience of some couples who have been able to constructively face quarantine and who express a positive assessment of what this time of confinement has contributed to their relationship. Three dimensions are identified in which resources have emerged during this crisis: family reorganization and multiplicity of roles, the appreciation of support networks and the strengthening of intimacy in the couple.

Delineating Three Dimensions of E-Government Success

2015 ◽  
pp. 135-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandru V. Roman
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Complex Process

This chapter draws upon the historical evolution of e-government and at the extant body of knowledge in order to delineate the dimensions that are critical for the success of the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) for purposes of governance. Evaluating the impacts of technology adoption in the public sector is an intrinsically complex process. However, given that currently governmental spending on ICT projects rivals and at times even surpasses allocations for capital developments, the need for an evaluative framework becomes rather obvious. Based on multiple scholarly accounts and practical examples, this chapter suggests that the success of e-government should be examined along three chief dimensions: security, functionality, and transformation. All three vectors are highly interdependent, and it can be argued that the success of e-government in the long run is not possible if significant shortcomings are observed along any one of the three aspects.

Geography and War, Geographers and Peace

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Mamadouh
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Natural Event ◽  
Urban Riots ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Academic Geography ◽  
The Way

La géographie, ça sert d’abord à faire la guerre—geography serves, first and foremost, to wage war. Yves Lacoste made this bold statement the title of a pamphlet against French academic geography in the mid-1970s. He not only exposed the historical importance of geographical knowledge in the waging of war and, more generally speaking, the controlling of people and territories, he also attacked academic and school geography for concealing its political and strategic importance. Geography (i.e., the mapping of the world out there) indeed has strong connections to rulers and their attempt to control territories and peoples. On the other hand, geographers have in the past two decades been keen to promote geography as peace studies. This chapter examines the ways in which geographers have dealt with war and peace since the establishment of modern Western academic geography. It addresses both the way in which geographers have conceptualized and studied war and peace processes and the way in which geography has been applied and geographers have been implicated in these very processes. The result is an evaluation of whether geography has been converted from a discipline for war into a discipline for peace, to paraphrase O’Loughlin and Heske. This is done by considering three dimensions for which antagonist positions (war minded versus peace minded) are anticipated: the perception of war (a natural event versus an undesirable collective behavior), the focus of geographical studies that deal with war and peace (functions of war versus causes and consequences of war), and the advocated application of geographical knowledge (to win a war versus to prevent a war and to foster peace). War and peace do not seem to belong to the vocabulary of geography. The terms have no entries in the Dictionary of Human Geography or in the Dictionary of Geopolitics. This is mainly because war and peace are rather vague concepts. In this chapter, a limited conception of war has been chosen: political violence between states, that is, armed conflict. Therefore, the review neglects urban riots, social struggles, and related conflicts.

The Modernist Picture Book in three Dimensions

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Katie Trumpener
Keyword(s):  
Building Block ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Block Play ◽  
De Stijl ◽  
Art Schools ◽  
The Way ◽  
Child Readers

This chapter explores the way modernist picture books reconceive three-dimensionality, and hence the book as object. Around 1900, a Europe-wide vogue for picture books (Gertrud Caspari, Andre Hellé) in which toys come to life overlapped with new enthusiasm for building block play (H. G. Wells and E. Nesbit advocate the construction of “little worlds”), toy-centered ballets, and the explorations of movement and perspective enabled by the advent first of cinema, and then of cubism. The essay also discusses 1920s and 1930s constructivist, cubist, and De Stijl picture books by Lou Loeber, Nathalie Parain, Alexander Rodchenko, and Varvara Stepanova in relationship to the emergence, in schools and art schools, of new art pedagogies centered on paper crafts, a new sense of the picture book itself as a template for future art-making, and of child readers as fledgling artists in their own right.

scholarly journals Boosting Sustainable Innovation in Densely Populated Areas: A Milieux Innovateurs Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9131
Author(s):  
Yari Vecchio ◽  
Felice Adinolfi ◽  
Claudia Albani ◽  
Luca Bartoli ◽  
Marcello De Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Adoption ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Coordination Mechanisms ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
Sustainable Innovation ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Relational Assets ◽  
The Way

This paper deals with innovation adoption, with the purpose of analyzing the uptake of sustainable innovations among young farms working in urban and periurban contexts. Our hypothesis is that innovative milieus (IM) play a fundamental role in boosting sustainable innovation. In order to analyze the uptake of sustainable innovation, we will make reference to the two logics of the IM approach: the logics of interactions and the logics of learning. The former is focused on the socio-institutional domain, more precisely on relational assets and coordination mechanisms activated by the farms. The latter makes reference to the profile of innovation adopted and on various impacts innovation have under economic, social and environmental points of view. A questionnaire has been submitted to young farms participating to the Oscar Green Coldiretti Awards. In total, three dimensions of innovation are taken into account: economic, social and environmental. Data are processed through statistical tools aiming at describing the diversified set of interaction-learning mechanisms. Results evidence different innovative milieus which pave the way to diversified paths of innovation with different degree of sustainability and impacts.

Postnational memory: Narrating the Holocaust and the Nakba

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-110
Author(s):  
Nadim Khoury
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Way

At the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rages a struggle between two foundational tragedies: the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba. The contending ways in which both events are commemorated is a known feature of the conflict. Less known are marginal attempts to jointly deliberate on them. This article draws on such attempts to theorize a postnational conception of memory. Deliberating on the Holocaust and the Nakba, it argues, challenges the way nationalism structures ‘our’ and ‘their’ relationship to the past. While nationalism seeks the congruence of memory and territory, postnationalism challenges this congruence. Doing so entails (i) extending the communicative bounds of memory beyond national members, (ii) disrupting the territorialization of memory along national lines, and (iii) critically revising national narratives in light of a cosmopolitan memory. The article explores these three dimensions and offers a typology that differentiates the way nationalism and postnationalism mediate our relationship to the past.

Migration

2018 ◽  
pp. 441-456
Author(s):  
Audie Klotz
Keyword(s):  
Building Block ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The World ◽  
Security Concern ◽  
The Way

Migration as a potential security concern should be analyzed through the politics of threat construction. This chapter delineates the salience of migration along three dimensions of security: interstate, societal, and human. For each dimension, it draws upon iconic contributions to the literature and recent scholarly interventions. Along the way, the chapter weaves examples from around the world to underscore that, at a time when the security implications of migration are grabbing headlines around the world, the inclusion of migration within security studies also requires a reassessment of the field’s Eurocentric roots. In particular, the chapter pushes for rethinking the nation state as a building block of our theories.

scholarly journals Research on the Effects of Information Description on Crowdfunding Success within a Sustainable Economy—The Perspective of Information Communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaobei Liang ◽  
Xiaojuan Hu ◽  
Jiang Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Information Quality ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Word Count ◽  
Information Quantity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Sustainable Financing ◽  
Information Description

Crowdfunding has been widely used by small and micro enterprises, which can raise funds through launching a project in crowdfunding platform. It is also beneficial to sustainable financing. What is more, the success of crowdfunding projects facilitates the sustainable development of those growing enterprises. In this study, from the perspective of information communication and based on information asymmetry and signaling theory, we identify three dimensions of information description, including information quantity (word count, picture count and video count), information attitude (as measured by comment), and information quality (readability and update). We empirically examine their direct effects on crowdfunding success and the moderating effect of information attitude using binary logistic regression. Data (N = 7207) is collected from Kickstarter, a popular crowdfunding platform. The results reveal that when considering these three dimensions of information description together, word count is associated with crowdfunding success in an inverted-U shape. Picture count, video count, comment, and update have positive effects on crowdfunding success. In contrast, readability is negatively related to crowdfunding success. In addition, we find that comment negatively moderates the effect of picture count on crowdfunding success. These findings show the significance of information description on crowdfunding success, bringing theoretical and practical insights for project creators.

scholarly journals The academic conceptualisation of ethical clothing

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughan Reimers ◽  
Bryce Magnuson ◽  
Fred Chao
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Consumer Perceptions ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Employee Welfare ◽  
Slow Fashion ◽  
The Way

Purpose Despite supposed widespread consumer support for ethical clothing, it still often fails to translate into actual purchase. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the way in which academics have defined and measured ethical clothing could account for this. Design/methodology/approach An over reliance on convenience sampling and the use of student samples has also been touted as a possible reason for this attitude-behaviour gap. To address this, this study employed a consumer household sample. It also used a quantitative survey approach to collect its data and structural equation modelling to analyse it. Findings In contrast to the way in which academics have conceptualised the construct, consumer perceptions of ethical clothing were found to be influenced by four dimensions: environmental responsibility, employee welfare, animal welfare and slow fashion attributes. Originality/value Ethical clothing has typically been operationalised using just two of these four dimensions. Ironically, one of the two dimensions often overlooked by academics – animal welfare – had the strongest influence on consumer perceptions. Previous academic efforts had never employed more than three dimensions, and yet the results of this study suggest that all four must be present if an item of clothing is to be regarded as “ethical”.

Relating Leadership and Credibility

1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Z. Posner ◽  
James M. Kouzes
Keyword(s):  
Shared Vision ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Kouzes And Posner ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Using responses ( N = 998) from their subordinates, the relationship between leadership and credibility was examined. All three dimensions of credibility (trustworthiness, expertise, and dynamism) were significantly correlated with five behavioral practices of leaders (challenging the process, inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act, modeling the way, and encouraging the heart) as identified by Kouzes and Posner (1987). Implications for leaders are discussed.

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