Social Dynamics of Hindi Eco-Cinema and the Politics of Water

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Panchali Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Contamination ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Water Contamination ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Box Office

Eco-terrorism and environmentalism in Indian mainstream visual media are either eclipsed or serve as ancillary thematic props to the project. The big banners, production houses, mainstream directors, actors, scriptwriters of the industry rarely undertake eco-cinematic projects since these movies fail in box-office collection. However, the beginning of the 21st century has seen a paradigmatic shift with the advent of “green movies.” Interestingly, Nila Madhab Panda's Kaun Kitney Paani Mein (2015) and Aparnaa Singh's Irada (2017) have successfully projected on the silver screen the problem of groundwater contamination and the scarcity of water leading to ecocide. The current chapter explores how eco-cinema has become a critical platform to talk about grim ecological matters like water contamination and depletion to sensitise the audience regarding the need for water conservation.

A Model for a Collective Aesthetic Consciousness

2015 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Sherry Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Aesthetic Consciousness ◽  
Media Society ◽  
Media Condition ◽  
Post Industrial

During the 20th century, the modern media was born and viewed as an industrial factory-model machine. These powerful media such as film, radio, and television transmitted culture to the passive masses (Enzensberger; 1974). These art forms were divorced of ritual and authenticity and were reproduced to reinforce their prowess (Benjamin, 1936). In the 21st century post-media condition, a process of convergence and evolution toward a social consciousness, facilitated by a many-to-many social network strategy, is underway. Web 2.0 technologies are a catalyst toward an emergence of a collectivist aesthetic consciousness. As the prophecy of a post-industrial society (Bell, 1973) becomes fulfilled, a post-media society emerges whose quest is for knowledge dependent upon economy that barters information. This paper identifies a conceptual model of this recent paradigmatic shift and to identify some of the possibilities that are emerging.

Reflections on the challenges of exhibiting popular music at the beginning of the 21st century through a case study of ‘A Magia do Vinil’

Popular Music ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alcina Cortez
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Art Exhibitions

AbstractThis paper sets out to reflect on the implications of the heritagisation of popular music by museums. ‘Heritage’ is not something that holds intrinsic value but rather represents a social construction that produces difference by adding value to specific objects within particular social dynamics. This means that heritagisation processes operant in museums prove highly susceptible to ideological distortion and hence require scrutiny. Studying the case of the Portuguese exhibitionA Magia do Vinil, a Música que Mudou a Sociedade, I analyse two specific domains: the concepts and the narrative deployed to address popular music discursively; and the objects selected for exhibition, in conjunction with the interactive practices they foster with audiences. This case study demonstrates how popular music heritagisation practices may largely correspond with those approaches taken by conventional art exhibitions – not only through the uncritical discourses they reproduce concerning their subject matter, but also through the idea that vision is the means for engaging museumgoers.

Some Observations on Agrarian Life and Performing Arts in Today’s Sri Lanka

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Saman Panapitiya
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Agricultural Society ◽  
Musical Traditions ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Working Processes

The main objective of the article is to present some observations on the singing styles that have been used in relation to Agrarian Life in Sri Lanka. They were sung until the late 1990s by people who were employed in agriculture or who were peasants themselves. Today’s commercial entertainment singers, in the 21st century, are performing these poems with great enthusiasm using audio-visual media. It is questionable whether they are well aware of the environment related to those songs. The agricultural society that promoted these songs has been widely transformed through changed working processes and demographic shifts. Therefore, the modern society is in a position where stage performers cannot have a real experience of these past times. This study is to observe and investigate the specific musical features of those songs that have been transmitted over the centuries. These observations may help to increase a conscious dealing with musical traditions in the context of Sri Lankan agrarian life and their future representation.

Building a Water-saving Society in Rural Areas of the PRC During the 13 th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020)

2021 ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Natalya Prohorova
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Water ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Modern Level ◽  
Control Water

Until recently, traditional methods of farming in the PRC required a much larger volume of water consumption than is necessary when irrigating individual crops, but in the 21st century, the situation began to change gradually. The modern level of technologies and measures taken for agricultural water conservation allows to control water consumption precisely. In the article measures taken for monitoring water consumption in the agricultural sector and associated transformations of the economic activities of modern Chinese villages are considered.

scholarly journals Kaleidoscope Aesthetics in Visual Media

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Maria A Romakina
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Natural Objects

The article researches into the evolution of the kaleidoscopic image. The first part surveys A.L. Coburns vortographic experiments of the 1910s, the kaleidoscopizing of a human body and natural objects in photography during the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, as well as the ideas of using it outside artistic practices.

scholarly journals Television Goes Mobile: the Transformation of the Audio-Visual Media Market

2018 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Mantas Martišius
Keyword(s):  
Full Article ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
English Abstract ◽  
Television Content ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Efficient Transmission ◽  
Article Abstract

[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] The 21st century is often called the age of information, and the society of this age is often dubbed the society of information and news. Meanwhile, a rapid and efficient transmission of news and the prioritization of this process have become relevant at least already back in the 90s. Information volumes consumed by the society have been growing by the day. Progress in technologies and communication have eliminated time and space barriers. The aim of this article is to answer how and when linear television is going to move online and especially to mobile networks. This aim is broken down into the objective of analyzing issues pertaining to the definition of television, the overview of the impact of media convergence on television, the analysis of the issues related to the definition of television and internet television, and the analysis of prospects for linear versus internet television. The article may be relevant for media experts and analysts, media regulators, users, and the creators of internet television content.

scholarly journals Assessment of Characterization of Leachate Generated using Leachate Generated Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 443-447
Keyword(s):  
Waste Water ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Groundwater Contamination ◽  
Water Contamination ◽  
Tube Wells ◽  
Leaching Behaviour ◽  
Land Disposal ◽  
Leachate Quality

There are many approaches which have been used to assess the ground water and surface water contamination. The land disposal of municipal waste is potential cause of groundwater contamination unscientifically managed dumping yards are prone to groundwater contamination because of leachate production. The leaching behaviour of a waste can be assessed either by the experimental determination of the characteristics of leachate generated or through mathematical modeling.A pilot study was conducted to assess the characterization of leachate generating using Leachate Generated Model (LGM). In present study the model is used to study the effect of gomutra and enzymes on the municipal solid waste and the leachate quality. The result indicated that the colour of leachate generated in study area was found to be oxygenated and has organic compound which resulted in increased permeability. The results reveal that the use of gomutra (15%) mixed with MSW, was a good indication that organic matters in leachate are readily biodegradable in mature land fill, where as 10% gomutra used in MSW, showed that (BOD / COD = 0.64) leachate had high biodegradability through anaerobic phase. This stimulator showed better result than enzymes used and is also helpful to prevent containing of waste water tube wells and bore holes affected from leachate generated.

scholarly journals Reconocimiento de competencias experienciales de adultos, en Portugal (2001-2011): hallazgos y debilidades

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 72-91
Author(s):  
Pedro Abrantes ◽  
Alexandra Aníbal
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Active Population ◽  
Phd Thesis

Basados en una tesis de doctorado y en un proyecto de post-doctorado en este tema, los dos autores describen y analizan el programa de reconocimiento, validación y certificación de competencias experienciales (RVCC)  desarrollado en Portugal, en la primera década del siglo XXI, permitiendo la mejora de los niveles educativos de más de un 5% de la población. El primer apartado debate los fundamentos teóricos y metodológicos del modelo innovador que se ha creado para la educación y acreditación de adultos. En el segundo, se detallan los agentes, etapas y dinámicas del proceso de RVCC. El tercero sintetiza las principales evaluaciones nacionales del programa que se han llevado a cabo. Y el cuarto apartado subraya algunos resultados de investigaciones cualitativas recientes de los autores sobre las dinámicas sociales generadas por el programa. En la conclusión, se reflexiona sobre los logros y fracasos del programa, proponiendo algunas pautas para futuros planteamientos en este campo. Based on a PhD thesis and a post-doc project focused on this topic, the authors describe and analyse the programme of skills recognition, validation and certification, as it was developed in Portugal during the first decade of the 21st century, enabling the qualification of more than 5% of the active population. In the first section, this innovative theoretical and methodological framework for adult education and certification is discussed. Secondly, main agents, stages and dynamics of this process are sketched. In a third section, the main results of the programme’s national evaluations are synthetized. And in the fourth one, key social dynamics observed through qualitative research are underlined. In the conclusions, programme’s achievements and failures are systematized and some remarks for future interventions in this field are sketched. 

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
R. Barker Bausell
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Internal Validity ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
The Status ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Published Research

The scientific reproducibility crisis is introduced as a paradigmatic shift in the culture and behaviors of the members of one of the most crucial societal institutions. Technically it involves a change from the 20th century methodological emphasis upon the internal validity and generalizability of scientific results to a greater emphasis upon the extent to which results are reproducible and not simply “wrong.” The need for this sea change has been recognized by some methodologically oriented scientists for decades, but it wasn’t until this century that the virtual blizzard of positive but false results began to worry enough scientists to approach the status of anything approaching the status of a movement. A movement if you will that received a steroidal boost by John Ioannidis’ iconic and reasoned 2005 article entitled “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” The book is therefore designed to tell the story of this dedicated cadre of 21st century researchers who recognized what had become a genuine scientific crisis and consequently dedicated their considerable talents and expertise to ameliorate its effects. It is a story involving a plethora of correctable questionable behaviors that allowed scientists to get themselves into this extraordinary situation. The book leans heavily on the well documented work of hundreds of other scientists who have taken it upon themselves to show their colleagues how to conduct science that can be reproduced by others and thereby contribute to the greater good. So in a sense this a story of modern science at its best and worst, but ultimately it is an optimistic telling of a corrective change in the culture and the credibility of an absolutely crucial societal institution.

scholarly journals TEORI WEWENANG DALAM PERIZINAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Grace Sharon
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Government Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

Based on the provisions in the 1945 Constitution article 1 paragraph 3 which states the State of Indonesia is a state based on law, it brings the consequence that every government action must always be based on the law. From another point of view related to the development of the 21st century, the State is often said to have developed into a modern state. Whereas the state's tasks, which were initially very limited, have become increasingly widespread. This is due to the increasing needs of modern humans and especially those related to the interests of life together. Regarding the social dynamics that occur in the community, licensing arrangements are needed. A license as a one-sided government action is a stipulation arising from the strategies and techniques used by the Government to control or control various conditions or activities carried out by the community. In other words, licensing is very much needed as an instrument of community guidance. However, the author limits the scope of research on licensing only to the nature of the authority of the permit, so that the author's research in this article is done through a literature review.

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