scholarly journals Inviting Citizen Designers to Design Digital Interface for the Democratization of Web Online Environments

2014 ◽  
pp. 657-673
Author(s):  
Rajendra Kumar Panthee
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Digital Interface ◽  
Composition Students ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Web Interface Design ◽  
Online Environments ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Cultural Usability ◽  
And Linguistics

Web online environments are supposed to create unifying spaces where diverse societies, cultures and linguistics as well as literacies and knowledge associated with them merge together as negotiated in neutral space. However, these online environments are not culturally neutral or innocent communication landscapes. They may alienate the users from marginal/periphery social, cultural, and linguistic background and experience because of their disregard to their social, cultural, and linguistics norms and values in the digital contact zone. Acknowledging the social, cultural, and linguistic limitations of these technologies that aim to provide agency to their users in this chapter, this chapter proposes to invite citizen designers to design the interface of web online environment in general and Learning Management Systems (LMS) in particular because this process can transform online environments into democratic platforms. Citizen designers, who have democratic sentiments for the creation of a just society, are composition students in general and students with periphery cultural and linguistic experience in particular. Doing a cultural usability test of Blackboard 8, the author argues that current web interface design is not democratic and inclusive, and proposes to invite citizen designers to re/design interface of online environments for their democratization so that they would include people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and enhance writing students' writing powers.

Inviting Citizen Designers to Design Digital Interface for the Democratization of Web Online Environments

2014 ◽  
pp. 174-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajendra Kumar Panthee
Keyword(s):  
Interface Design ◽  
Digital Interface ◽  
Composition Students ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Web Interface Design ◽  
Online Environments ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Cultural Usability ◽  
And Linguistics

Web online environments are supposed to create unifying spaces where diverse societies, cultures and linguistics as well as literacies and knowledge associated with them merge together as negotiated in neutral space. However, these online environments are not culturally neutral or innocent communication landscapes. They may alienate the users from marginal/periphery social, cultural, and linguistic background and experience because of their disregard to their social, cultural, and linguistics norms and values in the digital contact zone. Acknowledging the social, cultural, and linguistic limitations of these technologies that aim to provide agency to their users in this chapter, this chapter proposes to invite citizen designers to design the interface of web online environment in general and Learning Management Systems (LMS) in particular because this process can transform online environments into democratic platforms. Citizen designers, who have democratic sentiments for the creation of a just society, are composition students in general and students with periphery cultural and linguistic experience in particular. Doing a cultural usability test of Blackboard 8, the author argues that current web interface design is not democratic and inclusive, and proposes to invite citizen designers to re/design interface of online environments for their democratization so that they would include people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and enhance writing students' writing powers.

Minimal Morality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Moehler
Keyword(s):  
Social Contract ◽  
Moral Pluralism ◽  
Moral Diversity ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Restricted Form ◽  
Pluralistic Societies ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Just Society

This book develops a novel multilevel social contract theory that, in contrast to existing theories in the liberal tradition, does not merely assume a restricted form of reasonable moral pluralism, but is tailored to the conditions of deeply morally pluralistic societies that may be populated by liberal moral agents, nonliberal moral agents, and, according to the traditional understanding of morality, nonmoral agents alike. To develop this theory, the book draws on the history of the social contract tradition, especially the work of Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Rawls, and Gauthier, as well as on the work of some of the critics of this tradition, such as Sen and Gaus. The two-level contractarian theory holds that morality in its best contractarian version for the conditions of deeply morally pluralistic societies entails Humean, Hobbesian, and Kantian moral features. The theory defines the minimal behavioral restrictions that are necessary to ensure, compared to violent conflict resolution, mutually beneficial peaceful long-term cooperation in deeply morally pluralistic societies. The theory minimizes the problem of compliance by maximally respecting the interests of all members of society. Despite its ideal nature, the theory is, in principle, applicable to the real world and, for the conditions described, most promising for securing mutually beneficial peaceful long-term cooperation in a world in which a fully just society, due to moral diversity, is unattainable. If Rawls’ intention was to carry the traditional social contract argument to a higher level of abstraction, then the two-level contractarian theory brings it back down to earth.

scholarly journals Inayatullah, Rubina Saigol, and Pervez Tahir (eds). Social Sciences in Pakistan: A Profile. Islamabad: Council of Social Sciences, 2005. 512 pages. Hardbound. Rs 500.00.

2004 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faiz Bilquees
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Peace And Conflict Resolution ◽  
And Linguistics

Commissioned by the Council of Social Sciences (COSS), this volume evaluates the seventeen social sciences departments in the public universities in Pakistan for a given set of parameters. The social sciences departments or the topics covered in this volume and their respective authors include: Teaching of International Relations in Pakistani Universities (Rasul Bakhsh Rais); Development of the Discipline of Political Science in Pakistan (Inayatullah); The Development of Strategic Studies in Pakistan (Ayesha Siddiqa); The State of Educational Discourse in Pakistan (Rubina Saigol); Development of Philosophy as a Discipline (Mohammad Ashraf Adeel); The State of the Discipline of Psychology in Public Universities in Pakistan: A Review (Muhammad Pervez and Kamran Ahmad); Development of Economics as a Discipline in Pakistan (Karamat Ali); Sociology in Pakistan: A Review of Progress (Muhammad Hafeez); Anthropology in Pakistan: The State of [sic] Discipline (Nadeem Omar Tarar); Development of the Discipline of History in Pakistan (Mubarak Ali); The Discipline of Public Administration in Pakistan (Zafar Iqbal Jadoon and Nasira Jabeen); Journalism and Mass Communication (Mehdi Hasan); Area Studies in Pakistan: An Assessment (Muhammad Islam); Pakistan Studies: A Subject of the State, and the State of the Subject (Syed Jaffar Ahmed); The State of the Discipline of Women’s Studies in Pakistan (Rubina Saigol); Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies (Moonis Ahmar and Farhan H. Siddiqi); and Linguistics in Pakistan: A Survey of the Contemporary Situation (Tariq Rahman).

scholarly journals New Frontiers in Halal Pharmaceuticals

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (SPL1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halim Basari
Keyword(s):  
Individualized Medicine ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Improve Compliance ◽  
Prescribing Practice ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

It has been 20 years since the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) issued the first Halal certification to health supplements manufactured by CCM. Many innovative halal medicines were produced locally, since. However, halal medicines do not get much attention from the market, except by the Ministry of Defence, despite Malaysia being the world champion on the Global Islamic Economy Indicator for 5 consecutive years. Malaysia leads through its robust, comprehensive halal standards and extensive halal ecosystem. Muslims, in general, are unaware of Malaysia's halal achievement and hardly create demand for halal medicines. Studies also show a significant occurrence of medicine errors, while 50% of patients deliberately did not take their medicines. Medicine prescribing practice should be revamped using alternative perspectives to improve compliance and prevent unnecessary medication errors, namely personalized or individualized medicine, ethnocentricity, halalopathy, Muslim friendly hospitality, and Syariah compliant pharmacy practice. Healthcare practitioners and patients must enhance their Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards halal medicines. Religious beliefs, sentiments or ethnocentricity have formed the Social Norms and Values that play a vital role in the decision-making process of medicine-taking. Healthcare practitioners should empower patients to choose their ethnocentric medicines, thus improving their compliance, enhancing their therapeutic outcome, and also reducing unnecessary medicine errors.  

scholarly journals An Investigation into News Webpage interface Design in Kurdistan Region of Iraq

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
Hoger Mahmud Hussen ◽  
Mazen Ismaeel Ghareb ◽  
Zana Azeez Kaka Rash
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Web Interface Design

Recently the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has experienced an explosion in exposure to new technologies in different sectors especially in media and telecommunication. Internet is one of those technologies that have opened a way for information proliferation amongst a previously censored region. Developing web sites to deliver news and other information is a relatively new phenomenon in Kurdistan; this means that the design and development of web pages may lack the quality standard required. In this paper the quality of webpage interface design and usability in the field of news journalism in the KRI is examined against a set of web interface design and usability criterion. For the purpose of data collection 9 available popular news websites are chosen and 900 questionnaires are sent to 100 random users. The result is analyzed and we have found that the majority of users are satisfied with the interface design and usability of the news WebPages, however the result points out some weakness that can be improved. The outcome of this research can be used to enhance website design and usability in the field of journalism in the KRI.

scholarly journals The contribution of cognitive anthropolinguistics to educational linguistics

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
José Manuel Martín Morillas
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Educational Linguistics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pedagogical Grammar ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Linguistics

In this paper it is argued that, despite the welcome psycho-social emphasis in educational linguistic theories witnessed in recent decades, and with it, a rapprochement of the social sciences to the psychological sciences, the relationship between these fields has not gone far enough. The actual challenge is a move towards the unification of the social, psychological and language sciences (anthropology and sociology; cognitive science; and linguistics). A step in this interdisciplinary direction is offered by the discipline called 'cognitive anthropolinguistics', and its central concept of 'cultural cognition'. The paper discusses the implication of this concept for the field of educational linguistics, followed by a brief illustration of a cognitive-cultural application of that concept, namely the concept of 'ethnic stereotype', as part of a socio-cultural guide for a cross-cultural pedagogical grammar.

scholarly journals CODE SWITCHING USED BY PUBLIC FIGURES IN DEDDY CORBUZIER'S PODCAST: SOCIOLINGUISTICS APPROACH

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Rika Fiorensera ◽  
Nurma Dhona Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Linguistics

Sociolinguistics is a joint scientific discipline between sociology and linguistics which means the relationship between society and language. In this case, sociolinguistics is the relationship and mutual influence between language behavior and social behavior. A language is an object of study of the social structures in society as means of communication and group identity. The ability of each human being in the language is different. Some people use two languages in their daily life which is called bilingual. most people like to switch languages with their interlocutors as needed. In sociolinguistics, there is code-switching which is related to bilingualism. Code-switching refers to a kind of code to switch between two languages of the same language at the same time. Code-switching here is a necessary ability to build in an ever-evolving multicultural environment. From social media, people can learn many languages ​​and explore various languages ​​used by others. Almost everyone uses social media. One famous artist who has a YouTube channel with many subscribers is Deddy Corbuzier. In Deddy Corbuzier's podcast, Deddy Corbuzier tends to switch Indonesian English with the other public figures. Therefore, this research aims to describe the types of code-switching using in Deddy Corbuzier podcast. There are three types such as tag switching, intersentential switching, and intrasentential switching. The data was analyzed by using Stockwell (2002) theory. The researchers used descriptive qualitative research methods to research by using (Sudaryanto, 2015). The results of this research, researchers found 3 data for tag switching, 1 data for intersentential switching, and 5 data for intrasentential switching.

Cultural Exportation, Digital Distribution, and Penetration of K-Dramas in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-387
Author(s):  
Musa Khan ◽  
Yong-Jin Won ◽  
Nilüfer Pembecioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Television Content ◽  
Cultural Proximity ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Content Availability

South Korea has pursued a multidimensional public diplomacy strategy in which Korean television exports and capitalization have emerged as a public and commercial cultural diplomacy tool over the last two decades. This article examines the widespread influence of Korean television content, including digital serial delivery, cultural exportation, cultural interactions, and capitalization—that is, content sales, indirect advertising, and media-induced tourism. Empirical data was obtained from Turkey’s audience members using the online survey tool. As a result of the social and cultural impact, the respondents’ opinions on Korean serials are both animated and rational. The creation of audience members’ social, psychological, and cultural experiences with K-Dramas clarifies their intimacy and activeness. Unlike local or other international content, a significant number of respondents claim that Korean TV serials are not only a source of entertainment but also have profound edifying aspects. According to the results, “Cultural Proximity” and “Content Availability” are two of the most important factors in choosing Korean TV serials over foreign content. The “content availability” is based on the emergence and expansion of Streaming TV; however, in cultural proximity, similarities in family norms and values in both nations are notable.

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