Online Identity Formation and Digital Ethos Building in the Chinese Blogosphere

2012 ◽  
pp. 269-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zixue Tai ◽  
Yonghua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
Media And Communication

Exponential growth in the past decade has turned the Chinese blogosphere into the largest blogging space in the world. Through studying some of the most popular blog sites and bloggers, this chapter critically examines a number of their key defining features such as rhetorical strategies and persuasive approaches in building popular ethos and unique online identities in order to attract a steady user base. It also discusses some of the personal, topical, social, cultural, and political factors of the emerging Chinese culture of blogs and blogging against the particular backdrop of China’s state-controlled media and communication environment.

scholarly journals V.V. Malyavin about the Origins of Ritualism in Chinese Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-164
Author(s):  
Sergey A. Prosekov
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

In the article analyzes the origin of Chinese ritualism based on the ideas expressed by well-known Sinologist V.V. Malyavin. The ceremoniality of Chinese culture, which has survived to the present day, is often presented to Europeans as a "relic of the past", a "retarding" mechanism in the civilization of Celestial. The author also demonstrates the fallacy of such beliefs and the closeness of some of the oldest complexes of the Chinese mentality and the postmodern mentality. In parallel, the basic foundations of the European and Chinese consciousness / unconscious are traced: cosmos and emptiness; man and the world as substances and as networks; the ratio of the signifier and the signified, the idea of true reality as such in European and Chinese traditions.

scholarly journals Introduction

Transfers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Mayurakshi Chaudhuri ◽  
Viola Thimm
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Power Negotiations

The past decade has witnessed an exponential growth in literature on the diverse forms, practices, and politics of mobility. Research on migration has been at the forefront of this field. Themes in this respect include heterogeneous practices that have developed out of traditions of resistance to a global historical trajectory of imperialism and colonialism. In response to such historical transformations of recent decades, the nature of postcolonial inquiry has evolved. Such changing postcolonial trajectories and power negotiations are more pronounced in specific parts of the world than in others. To that end, “Postcolonial Intersections: Asia on the Move” is a special section that engages, examines, and analyzes everyday power negotiations, focusing particularly on Asia. Such everyday negotiations explicitly point to pressure points and movements across multiple geosocial scales where gender, religion, age, social class, and caste, to name a few, are constantly negotiated and redefined via changing subjectivities.

Understanding School Leadership and Management Development in England

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 621-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Simkins
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Management Development ◽  
Leadership And Management ◽  
Leader Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Programme

This article explores the ways in which leadership and management development (LMD) in England has been researched and analysed over the past 40 years. The article is in two parts. The first analyses the ways in which patterns of provision have evolved in response to changing conceptions of how the school system should be organized and how, consequently, the roles of those responsible for administering, managing and leading it should be constructed. This analysis shows how patterns of LMD provision have changed, with a slow but consistent movement from relatively limited and fragmented provision to one of the most centralized forms in the world. The second part broadens out the analysis, using as a framework three ‘perspectives’: the functionalist, the constructivist and the critical. It explores the literature on LMD, identifying areas of consensus or conflict, and suggesting where more work needs to be done. This includes more work from a variety of constructivist perspectives, especially on leader identity formation; more critical analysis of the content and processes of LMD; and more work on the ways in which power is distributed and used in LMD, especially at the ‘meso' level between the individual programme or activity and national policy.

scholarly journals The Degree of Study of Numerals by Scientists in the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Umida Khodzhakbarovna Mavlyanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Oral Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Numerals are used in a variety of tasks, both in science and in everyday life. Using numbers, we record the results of calculations (twenty, forty years), determine the order between the elements of the plural (the first speaker, the millionth person to live), and express the results of the measurement of something (a mile and a half). In addition, numeric characters can be used instead of words, letters, for example, to encode text. Chinese culture is recognized as one of the oldest written cultures. Yu. M. Lotman considers writing to be one of the forms of memory. In this sense, history can be interpreted as an “additional consequence of the emergence of writing”. “While written culture is about the past, oral culture is about the future. That's why predictions, divination and predictions played a big role in it. "According to the scientist, “the world of verbal memory is full of symbols”, the material is included in the list of objects and is included in the text of ceremonies, not in the text consisting of words. In the written culture, however, the situation is different. Such a culture "seeks to see the Text created by God or Nature, to read the message expressed in it." Numbers play an important role in this "reading of the world-text" by the Chinese. According to А. Karapetyants's Great Dictionary of the Chinese Language (中文大辞典 zhōngwén dà cídiǎn 1962-1968), there are 13,296 dictionary articles beginning with numbers.

scholarly journals A Proposed Sketch of a Distance Education Model for the Enrichment of Adult Literacy in Pakistan

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Khalid Saleem ◽  
Mumtaz Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Model

Various efforts have been made to overcome the problem of illiteracy throughout the world, particularly in the developing countries. But, none of these had valuable results. Therefore, in most of the developing countries like Pakistan, governments are concerned about handling the literacy problem effectively. The present paper was conducted in view of the poor literacy condition in Pakistan.it focused upon the analysis of existing literacy situation in Pakistan as well as finding out workable suggestions for overcoming the literacy problem. The study revealed that there was no use of broadcast media or the motivational techniques to attract the illiterate people to the literacy centers. Above all there was no consistency in the literacy programmes due to political factors. The main objectives of the study included to analyze the past literacy programmes in Pakistan and to create a distance education literacy model for Pakistan. The modern way for imparting literacy should be used rather than following the conventional methods. For this purpose a distance education model for enhancing literacy is proposed to be used in Pakistan. This is a theoretical model workable in the low literacy areas with suitable physical provisions.

Fame, Fantasy, Fanfare and Fun

2012 ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zixue Tai
Keyword(s):  
Broad Context ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Trajectory

Phenomenal growth in recent years has made the Chinese blogosphere the largest blogging space in the world. By embedding the blogs against the backdrop of the broad context of the Internet communication environment in China, this chapter offers a panoramic overview of the fast-evolving Chinese blogosphere and critically assesses its social, cultural, and political ramifications. The chapter starts with an examination of landmark developments and milestone events in the historical trajectory of blogging in China in the past decade, followed by an in-depth analysis of major trends, popular practices, and dominant blogger groups. Finally, the chapter evaluates emerging platforms and themes unfolding on the horizon, and discusses their future implications.

Change vs. Order: Shijie Meets Tianxia in China's Interactions with the World

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Barabantseva
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
The West ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
State Initiatives ◽  
The World ◽  
Promotional Video ◽  
Chinese Popular Culture

This article examines how China, understood as a construct made up of multiple identities, constantly negotiates its relationships with the world. The oppositions—between tradition and modernity, the past and the present, China and the West— that are often presumed or reproduced in our thinking about China's place in the world are called into question. China's relationship with the world must be understood through the interplay between history and present, and thus through the particular uses of history in practice. The article especially explores how the world and China's place in it are seen in Chinese popular culture and visual expressions of state initiatives to promote Chinese culture. It focuses on the way images of the ever-changing world are depicted in two visual narratives: a promotional video of the Confucius Institute and the film The World (Shijie).

scholarly journals An introduction to three papers on human migration by Coleman, Laczko and Myers

2002 ◽  
Vol 357 (1420) ◽  
pp. 581-581
Author(s):  
Crispin Tickell ◽  
Semir Zeki
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Human migration is an activity that is as old as humanity itself. Yet it remains a sensitive and politically charged subject, creating tensions in societies that experience it. It is closely linked to economic, environmental, demographic and political factors. It has become a conspicuous feature of the world political and demographic scene, with an estimated number of 22 million migrants in the past year. It shows every sign of accelerating in the future, not only because of poverty, civil war and politics, but also from environmental reasons that, in the future, may cause still larger–scale migration. Migration will be influenced by a host of such factors as climate change, sea–level rise, desertification, and environmental degradation generally.

Memory, Migration and Literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-522
Author(s):  
Svend Erik Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Globalized World

More often than not, memory is taken to be the storehouse of past experiences situated in a local context. However, recent theories have moved the focus to the process of memory which, in any present moment, allows the past, collective or individual, to emerge as a construction that works as a strong driving force of identity formation. In this perspective the memory process selects features of the past and turns them into more or less coherent structures, which then will have to be checked out with others in order for them to exercise their role as valid interpretations of the past and building blocks of present and future identity. Memories are therefore dialogical phenomena shaped by discussion, or more broadly by exchanges in various media, concerning the selected features, their configuration and the identities they promote. Today, the globalized flows of migration open up a new set of problems for the understanding of memories and their functions. When migration becomes a dominant experience across the globe, the concepts of locality and of local experiences changes and raise a new question: can we imagine and attach any meaning to globalized memories? Today, a huge amount of literatures from all corners of the world takes issue with this question, the so-called literatures of migration, where the literary imagination suggests answers to the open question of what memory might mean in a globalized world. To address this question, the Greek-Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas’ novel The Slap (2008) and the Australian context will serve as my point of reference.

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