scholarly journals Off the Map?

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Joseph Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Sonic Art ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
Cultural Homogenisation ◽  
The Way

This article examines the place of Sonic Art in the current cultural landscape. It deconstructs some of the preconceptions often associated with this field, and postulates that because work of this nature does not necessarily fit commonly recognised categories and hierarchies, it becomes effectively invisible (and therefore inaudible). While not attempting to propose a solution, the article looks at various pointers towards an alternative cultural 'placing' of sonic art; along the way looking at other genres such as hip-hop, techno and electronica, and the dichotomies of so-called 'high' and low' culture, media convergence and divergence and cultural homogenisation and fragmentation.

Discussion on the Intergration of Road Landscape Design and Urban Mining and Metallurgy Culture in Huangshi City

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 2002-2004
Author(s):  
Ou Xie ◽  
Yuan Sheng Tu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Urban Mining ◽  
Urban Road ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Urban Construction ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Environment ◽  
The Way

Road Landscape design does not exist independently in urban construction but intergrates into the urban cultures by design. This article discusses based on Huangshi Mining and Metallurgy culture the urban road design from the aspects of color, pavement, blind sidewalk, plants, and public environment facilities. Also it proposes the way of design that combines cultural landscape and natural landscape according to the city geographical features, therefore makes the urban road landscape design to be more cultural and representative.

scholarly journals Waikīkī: A paradisiac‐parasitic pacific paradise

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 2.1-2.12
Author(s):  
Daniel Kauwila Mahi
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
The People ◽  
Feature Lines ◽  
The World ◽  
Hip Hop Music ◽  
The Way

Waikīkī is a world-renowned leisure destination; at least, that is the image flung vehemently around the world about Hawaii. This framing of Hawaii as paradisiac is parasitic, it eats away and denigrates the enduring relationship that Hawaii the land and the people have. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen a shift in the way our home feels. Tourism, a self-proclaimed necessity of Hawaii’s economy, was not only put on hold, it was essentially eliminated. Through this project I would like to present pre/post-colonialist modalities of Hawaii, to contest and disarm this space densely affected by militourism. Hawaii has been framed as a leisure destination first by colonialists and much later by hip hop music. My approach to contesting these projections is to refuse this notion and feature lines from songs, chants and prayers related to Waikīkī which are pre/postcolonial and have been influenced by colonialism through hip hop.

English is getting weirder, and so R wee

English Today ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
English Language ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Acoustic Information ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Technological World ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTAn exploration of how technology is making English – and the human race – evolve. In The Dead Emcee Scrolls, poet and rap artist Saul Williams describes how his writing was transformed by a dance club experience in which the club's beats reset his biorhythms. He writes, Hail Mary. Mother of God. / Got the whole host of angels in my iPod (Williams, 2006:16). Then, later, Neck back jump kiss BREAK. / Uprock freeze pop lock BREAK. / Don't stop don't stop snap BREAK (30). These lines illustrate a growing use of urban hip-hop vernacular that has been distributed with alarming efficiency by the global music trend, through downloadable music and ipods. Music and its beats have created a rhythm to which this iGeneration dialogues, both internally and externally. Technology has given way to a continuum for emotional highs that can be sustained at any place and time. The technological revolution influences the way we socialize, collaborate and exchange acoustic information. Our changing and globalized subjectivities, as well as increasingly powerful acoustic technology, have exerted changes on the English language, making visible a significant revolution in the shaping of language within an increasingly mobile and technological world.

scholarly journals Susceptibility to apoptosis of lymphocytes from patients with peripheral arterial disease

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Skórkowska-Telichowska ◽  
Rajmund Adamiec ◽  
Dominika Tuchendler ◽  
Kazimierz Gąsiorowski
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Arterial Disease ◽  
Fetal Calf Serum ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Calf Serum ◽  
Arterial Disease ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
Peripheral Arterial

Purpose. To determine, in vitro, the susceptibility to apoptosis of lymphocytes from patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in the presence of a low culture medium serum concentration, and to evaluate the correlation of the degree of apoptosis and the serum lipid levels. Methods. Lymphocytes were isolated from the venous blood of PAD patients with lower limb ischemia secondary to obliterative atherosclerosis of Fountain stage IIb. None of the patients had received hypo-lipemic therapy. The lymphocytes were incubated for 48 hr in media containing reduced concentrations of fetal calf serum. The study group consisted of 10 patients (7 men and 3 women), with a mean age of 67.0 ± 4.0 yr. The control group consisted of ten healthy volunteers, of the same mean age and sex proportion as the study group. Results. The percentage of non-apoptotic lymphocytes was lower (by 17%) and the percentage of late apoptotic lymphocytes was higher (by 33%) in the PAD patients than in the healthy donors when comparing the slopes of regression lines describing the relation between frequency of apoptotic lymphocytes in culture media containing reduced concentration of fetal calf serum The percentage of late apoptotic lymphocytes was correlated with the levels of total cholesterol (rs=0.93; P < 0.01) and LDL cholesterol (rs=0.80; P < 0.01) , and negatively correlated with the level of triglycerides (rs=-0.71; P < 0.05). Conclusion. The results of this study of lymphocyte apoptosis are important in understanding of the disease pathogenesis and should be taken into account in elaboration of treatment strategies.

Culture: Media Convergence and Networked Participation

2008 ◽  
pp. 43-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Russell ◽  
Mizuko Ito ◽  
Todd Richmond ◽  
Marc Tuters
Keyword(s):  
Culture Media ◽  
Media Convergence

Heraclitus and Sonic Thinking

Resonance ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-333
Author(s):  
Trinidad Silva ◽  
Gregorio Fontaine
Keyword(s):  
General Outline ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Sonic Art ◽  
Material Flux ◽  
The Way

“The material Flux”; “the hidden mobility beneath”; “Sonic Logos.” Any classicist familiar with the fragments of Heraclitus would be surprised to find these concepts developed in today’s theories about sonic art from authors from different traditions such as Salomé Voegelin, Julian Henriques, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Christoph Cox. The present paper intends to open a dialogue between these authors and Heraclitus, claiming that there is an underlying connection beyond mere coincidence. Sonic thinking proposes listening as the way to access or produce a particular knowledge—one that would otherwise be too difficult or impossible to grasp. This knowledge is produced by practices such as listening and musical meditation instead of intellectual activity alone. To make the case, the authors will present a general outline of what sonic thinking entails to compare it with the relevant points in Heraclitus’s philosophy. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to provide a new sonic framework to read Heraclitus and to provide an old framework to read sonic thinking.

scholarly journals Technical Problems of Industrial Buildings Adaptation - Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-249
Author(s):  
Beata Nowogońska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Industrial Building ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Historic Building ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Way

The adaptation of post-industrial building allows for solving problems connected with the protection of relics and is useful in the process of providing order to the cultural landscape. However, the adaptation of historic buildings is associated with many problems. At the same time, the conservation, architectural, construction, technological requirements and the investor's ideas must be met. Meeting all conditions at the same time is a difficult task, but possible. The change in the way that a historic building is used requires a series of preliminary studies of the building to be carried out. The article presents the results of the diagnosis of the technical conditions preceding the adaption of a former factory in Zielona Góra.

Kideogames: Reimagining the Fringe of Literary Studies as the Forefront

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 772-788
Author(s):  
Emma Reay
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Games Studies ◽  
Permanent Home ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Literary Canons ◽  
The Way ◽  
Academic Study

The absence of children’s texts and ludic texts from traditional literary canons, curricula, journals, and conferences might appear obvious, practical, and natural—a straightforward reflection of theoretical and methodological divergence, and of the way texts are grouped outside of academic study. However, these seemingly self-evident explanations do not hold up under scrutiny. In this article, I posit that the omission of children’s texts and ludic texts from well-developed scholarly contexts is partly rooted in the ideological collocation of “children,” “play,” and “low culture.” I compare the strategies used by children’s literature studies and games studies to manage their marginalization and conclude that irrespective of the quality, the variety, the relevance, and the impact of research conducted within these two disciplines, neither will find a permanent home in the serious, sophisticated, “adults-only” space of the literature faculty. I ask whether this is necessarily a problem, and suggest that - when consciously embraced - the lightness of illegitimacy may be a potent as the heft of tradition. Finally, I advocate for an intersectional alliance between children's literature studies and games studies and explore some of the ways in which this kind of academic solidarity might counter the marginalizing effects of infantilization.

scholarly journals The formation of ‘Hip-Hop Academicus’ – how American scholars talk about the academisation of hip-hop

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Söderman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Low Culture

Social activism and education have been associated with hip-hop since it emerged in New York City 38 years ago. Therefore, it might not be surprising that universities have become interested in hip-hop. This article aims to highlight this ‘hip-hop academisation’ and analyse the discursive mechanisms that manifest in these academisation processes. The guiding research question explores how hip-hop scholars talk about this academisation. The theoretical framework is informed by the scholarship of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Hip-hop scholars were interviewed in New York City during 2010. The results demonstrate themes of hip-hop as an attractive label, a door opener, a form of ‘low-culture’, a trap and an educational tool.

scholarly journals On the Innovation of Journalism Practice Teaching in the Media Convergence Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Ruikun Zhang ◽  
Chunpeng Shen
Keyword(s):  
Internet Technology ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Practice Teaching ◽  
The Media ◽  
Innovation And Change ◽  
Obvious Feature ◽  
The Way

<p>The current media environment has undergone great changes, which benefit from the continuous development of Internet technology. The gap between different media is gradually being eliminated, and the concept and approach of news transmission have also undergone tremendous changes. With the integration of different media, the way of news dissemination also changes. In the current education of journalism and communication in China, the most obvious feature is the practicability of journalism practice. This paper mainly discusses the innovation and change of journalism practice teaching under the media convergence environment.</p>

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