Blogging the City

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Clavel ◽  
Kenneth Fox ◽  
Christopher Leo ◽  
Anabel Quan-Hasse ◽  
Dean Saitta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Academic blogging has typically been a form of digital scholarship that is under-utilized in academia. Although there are both costs and benefits to blogging at different stages in an academic's career, blogs can provide a rewarding platform for bringing research and academic perspectives to a wide-reaching and broader audience. This note explores the different experiences of each of the co-authors in terms of using blogs for their scholarly communication. The experiences and lessons gained are of particular relevance to urban planners, sociologists, and anthropologists, who study the social, economic, and historical elements of the city. The findings suggest that the motivations and approaches of scholarly blogging are diverse but overall add value to the academic community. Moreover, each testimony in this note provides examples of the benefits of blogging for research, collaboration, and engagement.

Conclusion

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Kamen
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Athenian Democracy ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

This chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. Through close analysis of various forms of evidence—literary, epigraphic, and legal—this book demonstrated that classical Athens had a spectrum of statuses, ranging from the base chattel slave to the male citizen with full civic rights. It showed that Athenian democracy was in practice both more inclusive and more exclusive than one might expect based on its civic ideology: more inclusive in that even slaves and noncitizens “shared in” the democratic polis, more exclusive in that not all citizens were equal participants in the social, economic, and political life of the city. The book also showed the flexibility of status boundaries, seemingly in opposition to the dominant ideology of two or three status groups divided neatly from one another: slave versus free, citizen versus noncitizen, or slave versus metic versus citizen.

A Scholar’s Guide to Research, Collaboration, and Publication in NINES

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Nowviskie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Course Syllabi ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Faceted Browsing ◽  
Nineteenth Century Studies

Abstract This essay offers a rationale for the design of Collex, the social software and faceted browsing system that powers NINES, a “networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship.” It describes how Collex serves as a clearinghouse and collaborative hub for NINES, allowing scholars to search, browse, collect, and annotate digital objects relevant to nineteenth-century studies from a variety of peer-reviewed sources. It also looks forward to the next version of Collex, which will include a sophisticated exhibits builder, through which scholars can “remix” or re-purpose collected objects into annotated bibliographies, course syllabi, illustrated essays, and chronologies – and contribute these resources back into the NINES collective. A detailed guide to using Collex, complete with screenshots, is included. This article frequently links directly into the NINES system (in which, by virtue of its publication in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, it is already included), thereby gesturing at the future of networked, “born-digital” scholarship.

Research, Collaboration, Experimentation: Creating a Digital Scholarship Unit in an Academic Library Setting

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulina Rousseau ◽  
Elizabeth O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The University ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Donne Lieu

Changes in traditional approaches to scholarship prompt new possibilities for the convergence of digital collections and scholarly communication. To meet the changing needs of its users, the University of Toronto Scarborough Library began a Digital Scholarship unit. The poster will describe both the rationale and practical considerations for establishing this unit.Des changements dans l’approche traditionnelle à l’enseignement donne lieu à de nouvelles occasions pour la convergence des collections numériques et la communication savante. Pour répondre aux besoins changeants de ses usagers, la bibliothèque du campus de Scarborough de l’Université de Toronto a mis sur pied une unité d’enseignement numérique. L’affiche présente les raisons et les considérations pratiques ayant mené à la création de l’unité. 

Performative Morality: Godey's Match Plates, Nineteenth-Century Stage Practice, and Social/Political/Economic Commentary in America's Popular Ladies’ Magazine

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 613-637
Author(s):  
CYNTHIA LEE PATTERSON
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tableaux Vivants ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Mystery Novels ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City

Recirculating the assertion of magazine historian Frank Luther Mott, subsequent generations of scholars maintained that Godey's Lady's Magazine eschewed content treating the social, political, and economic issues of the day. This article challenges that nearly universal reading of Godey's by arguing for the importance of a close reading of the “match plates” commissioned by Godey for his magazine. Appearing between 1840 and 1860, these plates, many engraved from pendant paintings created expressly for Godey, draw on the popularity of stage melodrama, dramatic tableau, and tableaux vivants to enact a performative morality addressing major social, economic, and political issues. Early match plates contrast virtue and vice, capitalizing on the enormous popularity of William Hogarth's engraving series Industry and Idleness. Match plates appear also in the popular fashion plates of the magazine – echoing the city mystery novels, plays, and prints first popularized by Eugene Sue – in Christmas for the Rich/Christmas for the Poor and Dress the Maker/Dress the Wearer. By 1860, even the magazine's “useful” contents, such as the pattern work prized by Godey's readers, echo the popularity of match plates: hence Fruit for Working/Flowers for Working. Closer attention to Godey's engravings calls for a reassessment of Mott's assertion.

AFTER THE STORM: In the Wake of Katrina

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Michael C. Dawson ◽  
Lawrence D. Bobo
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
The Political ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

By the time you read this issue of the Du Bois Review, it will be nearly a year after the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina swept the Gulf Coast and roiled the nation. While this issue does not concentrate on the disaster, (the next issue of the DBR will be devoted solely to research on the social, economic, and political ramifications of the Katrina disaster), the editors would be amiss if we did not comment on an event that once again exposed the deadly fault lines of the American racial order. The loss of the lives of nearly 1500 citizens, the many more tens of thousands whose lives were wrecked, and the destruction of a major American city as we know it, all had clear racial overtones as the story unfolded. Indeed, the racial story of the disaster does not end with the tragic loss of life, the disruption of hundred of thousands of lives, nor the physical, social, economic, and political collapse of an American urban jewel. The political map of the city of New Orleans, the state of Louisiana (and probably Texas), and the region is being rewritten as the large Black and overwhelmingly Democratic population of New Orleans was dispersed out of Louisiana, with states such as Texas becoming the perhaps permanent recipients of a large share of the evacuees.

scholarly journals From Rebellion to Reform: Representations of Regional and Civic Improvement in the Aberdeen Journal, 1747–85

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-220
Author(s):  
Alex Benchimol
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Agricultural Improvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
The City

The role of the Aberdeen Journal in facilitating the commercial modernization of Aberdeen and the northeast of Scotland in the four decades after the Battle of Culloden is an understudied aspect of the city's and region's social, economic and cultural history. This article examines the way improvement initiatives from key regional and civic stakeholders like the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland, the Aberdeenshire Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Manufactures, the Commissioners of Supply, Aberdeen Town Council, and Marischal College were represented in the newspaper. In particular it highlights how James Chalmers 2 and James Chalmers 3—the Aberdeen Journal's proprietors during its first forty years—developed Scotland's first newspaper north of Edinburgh as an informational hub to integrate the city and region into key currents of Scottish and British capitalist modernization in the second half of the eighteenth century, from linen manufacturing and processing, to land reform and agricultural improvement. The social and economic transformation facilitated by the newspaper led to demands for political reform by those new commercial stakeholders, like John Ewen and Patrick Barron, who had profited from this regional modernization, and the article argues that the Aberdeen burgh reform movement of the early 1780s that utilized the Aberdeen Journal as a principal periodical platform was an essential consequence of this trajectory of regional and civic improvement, and a key test for translating it into a tangible expansion of democratic rights.

scholarly journals The "Foundations and Criterias" the Integration of Transportion Systems in Large Cities' Centres

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
Mohammed Kareem Mohessen ◽  
Bahjet Rashad Shahin
Keyword(s):  
City Planning ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Easy Method ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fundamental Reason ◽  
The City

Transport systems are a major part and a key component of the city and its centre، and directly affect its planning and urban design. Integrated transport systems are considered as a fundamental reason of easy and possible accessibility of people، merchandise and others، as well as they appear distinctly in developed cities' centres، and to achieve such a targeted integration، the main bases must be provided. This study is emerged owing to the absence of a clear vision in our local studies about the integration of transport systems in the centres of large cities to achieve easy possible accessibility in a smooth and easy method، and also appropriate to the actual need for transport in a sustainable way to meet the social، economic and environmental requirements، such that many cities have developed plans to address traffic congestions in a studied approach. Therefore، the research problem is "the lack of a clear and accurate vision of the levels and ways to achieve the integration of transport systems in the centres of large cities، including the city of Baghdad". The research hypothesis is "integrating of different transport levels، contributes to build a sustainable city، and it is a guaranteed assurance to meet the immediate requirements of mobility and accessibility without compromising our communities' comfort in the future". Integration levels and their different foundations are the means to achieve integration to create easy accessibility and provide a sustainable environment by planning for the time being، and adopting sustainable systems in future plans. Thus، the importance of this research comes from the importance of transport systems and the foundations of their integration and their impact on the city planning to match the need for transport easily and in a way that promotes the social، economic and environmental aspects.

scholarly journals ARTIST HIDING IN THE CITY LIU BOLIN

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (73) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Important Place ◽  
External Threats ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The city is a place with many social, economic and political reflections. Every concept it reflects has a transformative power within itself. The city, which is an important part of the social structure, is an important place where the Chinese artist Liu Bolin offers a critical approach to many social, ekonomic and political problems at a global level. It reveals this approach as camouflaging in front of spaces and objects through performance and photography. The artist tries to reveal the local and universal concerns he wants to show by hiding. The concept of camouflage, which is a strategy of protection from external threats, shows the threat itself to the audience in Liu Bolin's works. While the concepts of being watched and hiding (camouflage) present two opposing situations, it makes one feel tension. The situation pointed out by the artist, who touches on issues such as environmental pollution, sustainability, human rights and equality that directly affect the future of the world and humanity on a global scale in recent years, is presented directly to the audience. The camouflaged body, which can be seen when carefully looking at the works in the Hiding in the City series, confronts us with the magnitude of danger. Keywords: camouflage, city, art, photography, artist, Liu Bolin, hiding

Repensar a Cidade Face a Novos Desafios

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Teresa Barata Salgueiro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

We start with the question of city definition and we present the concept as it is normally accepted in geography. That means focusing in concentration, centrality and services, besides the fact that the city is a social-economic process and a spatial form. The first component however raises the question of territorial appropriation and identification of space by users. Urbanization implies transformation, thus in the second part we refer to the most important components of the urban change. They run between opposite trends that almost enable the prediction o f the future for the cityscapes, once they are concentration and descentralization, growth and decline, global homogeneity and place differentiation. We look at them through the modifications they have in the urban land or in the social structure.

Traditional Urban Planning Approaches and Sustainable City

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Syful Islam
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Planning Approaches

The quality of city life and well being of city dwellers is central goal of urban planning approaches. Nevertheless, unsystematic and short-term planning approaches of cities have produced incomprehensible sprawl, which deteriorates social, economic and ecological sustainability of the city. The need to alleviate or remove these problems systematically for improving the social, ecological, spatial and economical components of the city is contemporary issue, though most of the planning systems do not yet explicitly address those issues of sustainability. This paper considers Urban planning as a key term as it has the capability to reveal the implications of land use strategies, policies and programmes for the social, economic and physical components of environment. In addition, all the traditional urban planning approaches have outlined to explore their soundness in the sustainable city planning, discuss the main approach followed for sustainable city planning, and outline emerging approach in both theory and sustainable city planning practice.

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