eSports Gender, Race and Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-130
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Violent Content ◽  
Gaming Culture ◽  
To Come ◽  
Race And Culture ◽  
Ongoing Concern

Gaming culture has often courted controversy, whether for its association with sloth, its violent content, or sexist depictions of female characters. In the narrower context of eSports, instances of misogyny, racism, and homophobia remain an ongoing concern. Despite the fact that women and racialized groups make up a significant proportion of the gaming public, eSports viewership among those groups is proportionally much lower. Moreover, analyses in this chapter show that women and people of color comprise a fraction of the top streamers on Twitch, as well as the broadcast face of eSports media coverage, the casters. Despite efforts to educate users and regulate the conduct of players and streamers, the eSports community continually runs into controversy. While the industry grapples with its image related to social justice and equity, the clear lack of diversity in eSports excludes a large and important demographic, and thus limits its economic growth. Reforms have been slow to come, and some argue have had impact.

A Long, Long Way

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Garrett
Keyword(s):  
People Of Color ◽  
Racial Reconciliation ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race And Culture

Hollywood films are perhaps the most powerful storytellers in American history, and their depiction of race and culture has helped to shape the way people around the world respond to race and prejudice. Over the past one hundred years, films have moved from the radically prejudiced views of people of color to the depiction of people of color by writers and filmmakers from within those cultures. In the process, we begin to see how films have depicted negative versions of people outside the white mainstream, and how film might become a vehicle for racial reconciliation. Religious traditions offer powerful correctives to our cultural narratives, and this work incorporates both narrative truth-telling and religious truth-telling as we consider race and film and work toward reconciliation. By exploring the hundred-year period from The Birth of a Nation to Get Out, this work acknowledges the racist history of America and offers the possibility of hope for the future.

Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge, Philippines – a new 32 km sea crossing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sammy Yip ◽  
Steve Kite ◽  
Paresh Vishnoi ◽  
Vikas Venkatesha
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
The Road ◽  
Metro Manila ◽  
To Come ◽  
Optimum Solution

<p>Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge (BCIB) in the Philippines is a proposed 32km sea-crossing which will connect Bataan to Cavite, to unlock opportunity for economic growth and expansion outside Metro Manila. A Feasibility Study was carried out to plan the road link, which would involve two major navigation bridges, long marine viaducts, and interchange connections. This paper outlines the Feasibility Study and the preliminary design of the crossing, and highlights how the bridge options were assessed in order to come up with an optimum solution.</p>

scholarly journals The targets and linguistic expression of mockery in contemporary jokes on gender

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Salomėja Bandoriūtė
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
To Come ◽  
Linguistic Means

  The article concentrates on the targets and linguistic expression on mockery in contemporary jokes on gender. The jokes have been collected from the humour websites www.cha.lt, www.anekdotai.us, www.linksmas.net, www.anekdotai.biz, www.anekdotai.org, www.che.lt. The aim of the research is to find out what types of characters are usually chosen as targets of jokes and what linguistic means are employed to create the comic effect in them. In addition, the article deals with the conception of humour and joke as a genre and provides the key theories of humour research. The study has been carried out applying the method of qualitative content analysis. The results of the study suggest that the choice of the target of mockery in the jokes is often determined by the stereotypes that are common in society and by the tendency to express aggressive emotions in them. Usually the targets of mockery in the jokes are female characters, such as blondes, wives and mothers-in-law. There are approximately three times fewer jokes about men in comparison to women. The most common linguistic means employed to express mockery in the jokes are sarcasm, ambiguity, absurd and irony. It is common to come across cases of a few linguistic means in one joke as well. There has been a connection found between the employed linguistic means and the target of mockery as well as the society's view to it. The article could be valuable to linguists, folklorists, sociologists and psychologists who investigate the linguistic expression of humour, the effect of emotions on humour and the image of social groups in contemporary jokes.

Impacts on Energy and Environmental Efficiency by Media Report – Modifies Undesirable Dynamic DEA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Li ◽  
Tai-Yu Lin ◽  
Yung-ho Chiu ◽  
Huaming Chen ◽  
Hongyi Cen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Environmental Efficiency ◽  
Air Quality Index ◽  
Media Reports

Abstract Background: Rapid economic growth in China has resulted in a commensurate increase in energy consumption, which in turn has caused an increase in environmental pollution problems. Past research has mainly focused on energy and environmental efficiency analyses with little consideration of the influence of media influence on environmental protection. Further, most studies have used static models and have ignored the dynamic changes over time. Methods : To go some way to filling this research gap, this study developed a modified undesirable Dynamic DEA model that included air quality index (AQI) and CO2 indicators to explore the relationship between energy, the environment and media efficiency in 31 Chinese cities from 2013 to 2016. Results: It was found that: 1. Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Shanghai had efficiencies of 1, but Lanzhou, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Xining and Yinchuan needed significant improvements; 2. while Chongqing, Guangzhou, Kunming, Nanning and Shanghai had relatively high media efficiency, the other cities had low efficiency and required improvements; 3. the CO 2 emissions efficiency in most cities was better than the air quality index efficiency; and 4. media reports in most cities were found to have a more positive impact on CO 2 emissions efficiency than AQI efficiency. Conclusions: As environmental awareness enhances the health of civilians and promotes economic growth, the news media needs to promote environmental protection, and should increase its environmental pollution coverage. The quality of media reports on environmental pollution and especially on air pollution need to be improved. Therefore, environmental pollution and awareness media coverage needs to be increased.

Representation, Image, and Identity

2014 ◽  
pp. 98-122
Keyword(s):  
Computer Games ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Heterosexual Male ◽  
Gaming Culture ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Secondary Characters

Throughout this book, the authors have disproved the dominant White, heterosexual, teen gamer image through highlighting current gamer facts and figures, as well as the research and literature in the area. However, despite these facts, figures, and previous research findings, it is apparent that the industry designs games for a White, heterosexual, male audience. Females tend to be underrepresented in games. This chapter looks at how female characters are often missing from games, especially as main characters, and when females are represented in games, they are often secondary characters and stereotypically represented most often in a hyper-sexualised way. This chapter identifies how computer games are designed for a male audience leaving female gamers as “other” within computer games and the wider gaming culture. It Discusses how females are underrepresented in games and the wider gaming culture reinforcing the “otherness” of the female gamer. It Reviews how the industry sexualises and eroticises women, and it considers how this might impact both male and female gamers as well as perpetuate the image that computer games are for boys.

Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project

2017 ◽  
pp. 227-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Reja Osmani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Hydroelectric Project ◽  
Significant Harm ◽  
Farakka Barrage ◽  
To Come ◽  
Freshwater Reservoir ◽  
The Right

Moving ahead from the freshwater reservoir versus climate change debate, the Indo-Bangla controversy over the Tipaimukh Project exists over the right of riparian states. India needs more energy to propel its economic growth, whereas Bangladesh is worried about downstream impact. The concerns of Bangladesh are based on the experience of severe water shortage and other impacts of Farakka Barrage and Teesta Barrage and also Himalayan Component of the Interlinking of River Project. Over the years some progress was made at bilateral level. But the major problem remains unaddressed i.e. without reconciling the issues of indigenous people a big dam cannot be constructed. This paper highlighted the existing scenario of Bangladesh and the indigenous people of Manipur in India in one hand and ecological, socio-economic concern in other hand i.e. obligation not to cause significant harm. There is no straight way answers available to be choose between a ‘Yes' or ‘No'; neither depends on the issues of ‘might' over ‘right' or ‘development' over ‘destruction', but on the circumstances to come.

Media vs. candidates and minorities vs. majorities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briana Trifiro ◽  
Yiyan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Subsequent Performance ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
The Media ◽  
Online Web

Abstract Despite an abundance of research dedicated to the first level agenda setting process in political elections, there is a considerable gap within the literature regarding how the amount of media coverage granted to minority candidates – people of color and women – influence their salience in public opinion. The current study seeks to address this gap by analyzing the effects of online coverage of minority candidates and their subsequent performance in national polling data from June 1, 2019 to November 20, 2019. The present study utilizes a time-series analysis to compare three information formats: Twitter accounts of major media organizations, online web mentions of candidates from these organizations, and the candidates’ own Twitter presence. The presented findings illustrate important relationships – specifically, where candidates of color were able to set their own agenda through their Twitter accounts as opposed to coverage that they received from the media.

Wang Shu’s design practice and ecological phenomenology

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hing-Wah Chau
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ongoing Concern

Wang Shu (b. 1963) is a locally trained Chinese architect who has received widespread media coverage in the last decade, especially after receiving the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2012, often considered the Nobel Prize of architecture. Numerous articles and interviews have been published concerning Wang Shu and his design practice, however, there is a lack of analysis of his work from what might be called the perspective of his ecological phenomenology. Wang acknowledges his interest in phenomenological thinking and expresses an ongoing concern about human relationships with place and nature, the continuity of craftsmanship in the face of technological development, as well as the materiality and tactility of bodily perception. Before analysing Wang's work, relevant ideas of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) and their influence on architectural discourse are firstly examined. Both of them were seminal philosophers who offered inspiring insights to ecological discourse.

scholarly journals Migration Intentions of Romanian Engineering Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 4846
Author(s):  
Vasile Gherheș ◽  
Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir ◽  
Mariana Cernicova-Buca
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

This paper aims to diagnose Romanian engineering students in relation to their migration intentions, motivations, and destinations, and to predict the magnitude of migration in the polled population. It presents the results of a quantitative study based on a questionnaire survey consistent in terms of number and structure of variables and responses. The online questionnaire was self-administered by 1782 students from the five major technical Romanian universities, which are the main providers of the highly skilled labor force in the area of engineering. Regression analysis was carried out to correlate the drivers of migration and the potential for real migration. According to the results, Romanian students from technical universities are inclined to migrate in a significant proportion; the economic factor being the main migration driver. The predictive model built on the logistical regression and the collected data accounts only partially for the variations of the variable decision to migrate, so further research is needed. The analysis of the students’ mindset can prove useful to understand the future interactions between the new graduates and the labor market, to develop regional and national policies regarding human capital, and to root development plans towards sustainable economic growth in solid databases concerning the engineering profession.

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