Interpretation of the Wood Drum of the Wa Nationality from a Symbolic Semiotic Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 503-504 ◽  
pp. 354-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Jian Li ◽  
Rui Bo Hu ◽  
Xi Ye ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Yu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Primitive Society ◽  
Public Voice ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Tourism Economy

As the public voice to protect traditional culture is upsurging gradually today, it is significant to study the wood drum of the traditional Wa culture so as to better protect and exploit the culture. This essay, mainly consisting of three parts: the origin of the wood drum, its functions and its cultural meanings, aims to interprate the important role of the wood drum in the Wa community form a new perspective. Through the study of the three aspects, it is concluded that the reasons why wood drums have played such a crucial role in the Wa community are mainly derived form the primitive society the Wa nationality was in and its surroundings. Therefore, to exploite the wood drum of the Wa nationality can not only protect the nation’s traditional culture but can also improve its tourism economy.

scholarly journals Restorative Design for Heritage Requalification: Selected Roman Works

2021 ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Luciano Cupelloni
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Technological Design ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractThe theme is the urban re-qualification, applied in particular to the architectural heritage and the public space. The goal is the ongoing challenge of outlining a new perspective aimed at “common good” and sustainability. The instrument chosen is the “environmental technological design,” understood as a cultural, scientific, and social position, that is, as a position on the role of architecture. The contribution reiterates the urgency of restoring the transformative power of the design mission to the project, too often reduced to a set of technical compilation procedures. In the best cases, a position that is lost in the complication of procedures, in the extension of time, in the waste of economic and human resources. A crisis of the project as “anticipation” of progressive scenarios, precisely in the most acute, ever more serious phase, of the urgency of the reorganization of urban systems, with a view to environmental, social and economic sustainability. Not a recent urgency, today only brought to light, dramatically, by the reality of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Among the solutions, the design experimental research, well beyond the objective of flexibility, up to the notion of “functional indifference,” understood not as shapeless neutrality, but as the maximum functionality of spatial, architectural and urban quality.

scholarly journals The Red Boat Spirit Leads the University’s Ideal and Belief Education Path from the Perspective of Identity Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. p10
Author(s):  
Zhai Xijuan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Essential Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The University ◽  
The Ideal

The Red boat spirit is the spirit formed by the Communist Party of China during the revolution, which contains rich ideals and beliefs and educational resources. It is a spiritual pillar for the construction and development of the CPC itself, so it has a unique value for guiding the ideal and belief education of college students. Identity theory provides a new perspective for exploring the era value of the Red Boat spirit leading the ideal and belief education in colleges and universities. At present, the public, especially college students’ awareness and recognition of the Red Boat spirit deserve more in-depth study. Through the exploration and integration of theory and practice, this paper plans from the following aspects: the guidance of Red Boat spirit to college students’ ideal and belief education, the improvement of the effectiveness of college students’ ideal and belief education, the core of which is to grasp the essential point of agreement between the Red Boat spirit and college students’ ideals and beliefs, find the agreement between the two from the perspective of homology and identity, explore the role of improving the Red Boat spirit culture in leading college students’ ideals and beliefs, and enhance the university students’ awareness and identity of the Red Boat spirit.

scholarly journals Valuing the Engaged Work of the Professoriate: Reflections on Ernest Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Allen Wendling
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarship Reconsidered

This article discusses faculty engaged teaching and research as an imperative function of the academic institution in the 21st century.  Reflecting on Ernest Boyer’s Scholarship Reconsidered, this article traces the history of the public nature of higher education and its role within institutions today and discusses the crucial role of promotion and tenure in advancing the engaged work of faculty.

Brain-computer Interfaces and Art: Toward a Theoretical Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 182-195
Author(s):  
Veronica Alfano
Keyword(s):  
Brain Computer Interface ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Reader Response Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Computer Interfaces ◽  
New Perspective

Art that incorporates brain-computer interface (or BCI) technology sheds fresh light on several aspects of aesthetic theory. Because it is radically interactive and can permit viewers or listeners to modify a work directly by means of their cerebral activity, such art illuminates the role of audience members in shaping that work's meaning; in this way, it literalizes reader-response theory and allows the public to engage even with opaque or alienating pieces. BCI-based art also reframes the significance of the artist's intentions, prompting a reconsideration of the truism that ‘the author is dead’, both by positing a collective form of authorship and by granting a creator access to her own unconscious impulses. Finally, via the notion that it may be possible to transfer unfiltered ideas between brains, BCI-inspired artworks provide a new perspective on art as mediation. Although artists have traditionally been praised for seeming to grant direct access to their emotions, one could argue that artistry happens in the act of concretizing and externalizing one's ideas – that is, in the mediated translation of thought rather than in thought itself. The essay concludes by discussing the implications of this theoretical framework for (among other fields) the digital humanities.

4. Consolidation and fragmentation

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-58
Author(s):  
Pippa Virdee
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Public Sphere

‘Consolidation and fragmentation’ recounts how the government of Pakistan has shifted back and forth from democracy and military rule to secular state and religious state from the time the country was created. For the democratically elected rulers of Pakistan, it has always been a case of holding onto power. As a result, institutional structures, party politics, and the public sphere of Pakistan weakened and eroded, while the crucial role of the army was strengthened. Pakistan's army was strengthened and consolidated by a civil bureaucracy of client–patron networks. The army–bureaucracy nexus formed the cornerstone of Pakistan that made it into an Islamic nation-state.

Krise der Imagination?

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-538
Author(s):  
Roland Reichenbach
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Aesthetic Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Liberalism

A Crisis of Imagination? Remarks on Civic and Aesthetic Education Immanuel Kant’s notion of reflective judgments and Hannah Arendt’s reinterpretation of its value for the understanding of the public domain and the crucial role of common sense are the starting points of the contribution in which central aspects of Jean-Claude Michéa’s recent critique of liberalism are presented. From this perspective it is neither convincing to strictly separate cultural (political) liberalism from economic liberalism nor to share their »negative« anthropology and/or the quasi sacred axiom of moral neutrality (of the state) in both liberal views. The crisis of (political) imagination rests on the crisis of common sense.

More than Words: A Multidimensional Approach to Deliberative Democracy

2020 ◽  
pp. 003232172095056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça ◽  
Selen A Ercan ◽  
Hans Asenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Since its inception, a core aspiration of deliberative democracy has been to enable more and better inclusion within democratic politics. In this article, we argue that deliberative democracy can achieve this aspiration only if it goes beyond verbal forms of communication and acknowledges the crucial role of non-verbal communication in expressing and exchanging arguments. The article develops a multidimensional approach to deliberative democracy by emphasizing the visual, sonic and physical dimensions of communication in public deliberation. We argue that non-verbal modes of communication can contribute to public deliberation when they (1) are used as part of reason-giving processes, (2) enable the inclusion of marginalized actors in public debates and (3) induce reflection and encourage new ways of thinking about the public controversies at hand.

scholarly journals The role of public service journalism and television in fostering public voice and the capacity to consent: An analysis of Spanish viewers’ discourses

Journalism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 1798-1815 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Lamuedra Graván ◽  
Concha Mateos ◽  
Manuel A Broullón-Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Voice Recognition ◽  
Media History ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Voice

This article explores the relevance of voice, recognition and consent as central attributes of the subject of participatory journalism. On the understanding that in democracy the design of political and social organisation ought to favour a process that develops the public voice of citizens, it explores the role that journalism, above all the public service kind, plays in meeting this objective. From this perspective, an analysis is performed on the discourses of the viewers of the newscasts of the Spanish public TV channel TVE, with a view to determining to what extent public recognition is based on the following three elements: (1) the recognition of citizens as such, (2) their capacity to give or withhold their consent and (3) to develop a voice capable of vindicating participation. The discussion and results aim to contribute to the debate on the ‘critical juncture’ of media history, at which the information ecosystem is undergoing far-reaching changes.

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