scholarly journals The Role of Internet/YouTube in the Socialization/Popularization of Science in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Roberta G. Leao ◽  
Reninni Taquini ◽  
Kyria R. Finardi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Internet ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Popularization Of Science

The study aims to analyze how science is socialized and popularized through the internet, more specifically, through the YouTube (YT) platform in Brazil. The study gives a brief presentation of the current socio-historical context in Brazil before presenting the theoretical framework that is based mainly on Michel Foucault's notion of knowledge and power, and its relations with the forms of control in society and on Theodor Adorno's view of mass culture. In order to analyze YouTube's role in the socialization/popularization of science, sixteen YT channels were analyzed in the first semester of 2019. The method used is mixed (Dörnyei, 2007) using a predominantly quantitative approach to measure projection in the internet of the channels analyzed. Qualitative analysis focuses on issues of content and source in the videos analyzed. In general, the analysis of the results suggests that STEM areas have a higher prevalence in the description of the videos. The study concludes with the suggestion that the platform improves the search engine so that users can filter more specific areas of knowledge, thus expanding the potential of the internet and this site in the dissemination and popularization of modern science.

Separatism: a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted study of word-meaning development in a time of conflict

Corpora ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-416
Author(s):  
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Word Meaning ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Word Usage ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Dominant Ideologies

This paper considers the role of historical context in initiating shifts in word meaning. The study focusses on two words – the translation equivalents separatist and separatism – in the discourses of Russian and Ukrainian parliamentary debates before and during the Russian–Ukrainian conflict which emerged at the beginning of 2014. The paper employs a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis to investigate the way wider socio-political context affects word usage and meaning. To allow a comparison of discourses around separatism between two parliaments, four corpora were compiled covering the debates in both parliaments before and during the conflict. Keywords, collocations and n-grams were studied and compared, and this was followed by qualitative analysis of concordance lines, co-text and the larger context in which these words occurred. The results show how originally close meanings of translation equivalents began to diverge and manifest noticeable changes in their connotative, affective and, to an extent, denotative meanings at a time of conflict in line with the dominant ideologies of the parliaments as well as the political affiliations of individuals.

scholarly journals Restricted Spatiality and the Inflation of Digital Space, an Urban Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aminreza Iranmanesh ◽  
Resmiye Alpar Atun
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Spatial Characteristic ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Spatial Interactions ◽  
Digital Space

This article aims to explore whether or not digital space assumes the role of the spatial urban grid when movement of people is restricted under quarantine. The era of Web 2.0 and the increasingly easy access to mobile devices and the internet has created alternative virtual space for urban socio-spatial interactions. The article addresses these concepts in three parts. First, it adapts a theoretical framework that can address the emerging digital public and spatial restrictions. Second, it explores the possible inflation of digital space. Third, it questions the possibility of transfer of spatiality into virtual space. The finding shows significant inflation of digital space after quarantine, but no significant spatial characteristic can be identified among those interactions. The study emphasizes the importance of adapting existing theories for evolving urban challenges.

The production of pro-suicide content on the internet: A counter-discourse activity

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 764-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Westerlund
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Search Engine Result

Pro-suicide websites are topping search engine result lists, raising fears about the internet’s detrimental influence on behaviour and attitudes related to suicide. Based on a qualitative analysis, this article argues that the production of pro-suicide content on the internet should be seen as a counter-discourse, directed against socially dominant perceptions of suicide. On pro-suicide websites, the description of technical, chemical and anatomic details, the expression of honourable and clearly individualistic ideals, the depictions of morbid bodily violence, together with the absence of emotional content could all be said to represent a kind of constructed Western masculinity. Furthermore, because of its potential for identity gain and the acting out of aggressive impulses, it is crucial – although this may seem somewhat paradoxical – to understand the production of the pro-suicide content as a manifestation of what is, for the participants, a meaningful practice.

Periodical codes and translation

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Periodical Studies ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article discusses the relevance of periodical codes, an analytical framework that has been developing in the nascent field of periodical studies, for translation research. It explores how using periodical codes as heuristic tools can be instrumental in shedding light on the role of translation in the making of a magazine’s common habitus in a historical context. It presents a case study on the Turkish literary and cultural magazine Varlık, which began publication in 1933 and is still in existence. It offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis on the position of translation in the magazine, highlighting the way it contributed to the creation of particular forms of internal and external dialogics. Special emphasis is placed on compositional and social codes of Varlık and the way translation has been instrumental in shaping both.

scholarly journals Cultural Translation as a Multidirectional Process in the Seventeenth-Century Madurai Mission

2021 ◽  
pp. 401-426
Author(s):  
Giulia Nardini
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Master Narrative

AbstractIn the seventeenth-century missionary context of South India, the Jesuit Roberto Nobili (1577–1656) engaged in a multi-directional process of translation, translating his Catholic mission, doctrine, and literature for a Tamil audience and adapting it to local Tamil beliefs, practices, and literature for the Roman Catholic context. Adopting theories from translation studies (Frege, Nida, Lefevere and Venuti), this paper suggests a model of “cultural translation” not only as a metaphor but as an analytical tool. Straddling the binary notion of orthodoxy-unorthodoxy, this mechanism pursues two goals: (1) it uncovers the role of translations in the construction of religions and social identities; (2) it applies the theoretical framework of “cultural translation” to illuminate the historical context of Jesuit missions in India and beyond. In doing so, it contributes to the analysis of transculturality and challenges the traditional master narrative of a homogeneous Christianity.

From International Literature to world literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-371
Author(s):  
Elena Ostrovskaya ◽  
Elena Zemskova
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Bertolt Brecht ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Georg Lukacs ◽  
International Circulation ◽  
Isaac Babel ◽  
Literary Journal

Abstract This article conceptualizes translation within the theoretical framework of world literature and discusses the role of translators in the multilingual leftist literary journal International Literature. It focuses on the biographies and work of three translators into English: Leonard Mins, Niall Goold-Verschoyle and Anthony Wixley. Living in Moscow in the mid-1930s, they contributed to the international circulation of authors that later became part of the canon of world literature: Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, and Isaac Babel. Exploring these translations within the historical context of Soviet cosmopolitanism, this article aims to uncover the mechanism by which Moscow in this period became a temporary sub-center of world literature.

Challenges Of Islamic Religious Higher Education In Indonesia: Qualitative Analysis Using NVivo Software

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
Septa Riadi ◽  
Ahiruddin Ahiruddin ◽  
Kuswarak Kuswarak ◽  
Husna Purnama
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Online News ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Topic Analysis ◽  
Institutional Strengthening ◽  
Religious Higher Education

This study aims to analyze and examine the main issues in any news on the internet related to the challenges of Islamic Religious Higher Education. Online News is obtained using the Google Indonesia search engine using the keyword "PTKI Challenge". In this study, 22 most popular news items were analyzed related to these keywords. All the news is then coded to find the main topic contained in the news using NVivo version 12 software. The results of the main topic analysis show that the PTKI Challenge according to various news quotes has revealed many things with 58 references obtained by researchers from 22 online news. The 58 references are divided into twenty main topics. Of the 20 main topics mentioned above, the most highlighted challenge was "the curriculum does not fit the needs" which were quoted from 8 references. Next, the most cited challenge for PTKI is the “Pandemic” which throughout 2020 is currently hitting Indonesia with 6 references. Furthermore, the challenge for PTKI that was highlighted the most was Institutional Strengthening, totaling 6 citations. And also widely quoted is the acquisition of skills and knowledge in PTKI which is a challenge with as many as 6 references.

scholarly journals PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES IN FAKE NEWS PUBLISHED BY SERBIAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Dušan Aleksić ◽  
Ivana Stamenković
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Definition Of

Observing propaganda as an essential part of the mass-communication process, its techniques and characteristics are changing constantly, both verbally and visually, adapting to the new trends. As Philip Taylor noted, propaganda is ‘a deliberate attempt to persuade people to think and behave in a desired way’ which is based on ‘the conscious, methodical and planned decisions to employ techniques of persuasion designed to achieve specific goals that are intended to benefit those organizing the process’ (Taylor, 2013: 6). If we accept a definition of fake news offered by the Cambridge Dictionary which states that those are ‘false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke’, then the relation between the two terms becomes more prominent, especially in the modern age. In that context, the goal of this paper is to examine which propaganda aspects are dominant and in what way they are implemented into contemporary fake news, published in Serbian mainstream media. The theoretical framework will be based on findings of contemporary research in the domain of propaganda communication. Through the qualitative analysis approach the authors will conduct the research focusing on detecting and analyzing propaganda techniques used in confirmed fake news articles in Serbian mainstream media which were discovered and deconstructed by reliable and certified fact checkers (Raskrinkavanje and Fake news tragač). The unit of the analysis will be a deconstructed text which is labeled as fake news.

scholarly journals Tacierzyństwo, czyli nowy wzór ojcostwa

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-151
Author(s):  
Bogusława Budrowska
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Model ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

The existing model for the role of a father is gradually being redefined. Examples in mass culture, the media and the internet which illustrate the way in which that role functions have been confronted with the expectations of women shown in the results of surveys. The background to the presentation of fathers’ commitment in their role are the results of surveys which show the actual involvement of Polish men in parenthood. The article also attempts to define the psycho-social determining factors for the appearance of a new model of fatherhood.

scholarly journals Syntactic innovations in Polish Internet communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Ewa Szkudlarek-Śmiechowicz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Normative Aspect ◽  
National Corpus

Today, the use of language on the Internet is the most important environment for the emergence of new language customs and variant forms. The article presents search results and the quantitative and qualitative analysis of two syntactic constructions: X and their non-normative variants: Y. The study takes into account the numerical ratio of normative and nonnormative constructions, comparative data from various types of discourses and media texts, including those derived from Polish Internet speech in its interactive and non-interactive variants, and a comparison of data from various periods (until 2000, 2001–2010, after 2010), when the Polish language did not succumb to the influence of network communication (or its impact was less). The sources of data are the National Corpus of Polish, Monco PL online news search engine and Forumowisko PL online forums. The overarching aim of the research is the initial implementation of research postulates formulated both in normative linguistics (developing research tools that will allow for the codification of the standard norm of Polish to be re-codified) and in the field of media linguistics (developing criteria for assessing the rules of communication in the network that will take into account the normative aspect of language in combination with the rules governing Internet communication).

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