Uncovering the Politics Behind Adobe Stock

This paper explores how the categorization of images and the searching methods in the Adobe Stock database are culturally situated practices; they are a form of politics, filled with questions about who gets to decide what images mean and what kinds of social and political work those representations perform. Understanding the politics behind artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning systems matters now more than ever, as Adobe is already using these technologies across all their products.

Research on the Path of Patriotic Education for College Students in the New Era

Patriotic education in the new era needs to give full play to the role of the main channel of ideological and political courses, strengthen and improve the ideological and political work team, strengthen the construction of practical education base. At the same time, we will continue to explore new channels for educating people, and will fully integrate patriotic education with cultural and moral education. Students need to strengthen their ideals and beliefs, cultivate their patriotism, and turn their patriotism into a trip to serve the country.

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK): The ANC’s Armed Wing, 1961–1993

Launched in 1961 by leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa and the South African Communist Party (SACP), Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was the military wing of the ANC until its disbandment in 1993. The initial stage of MK’s armed struggle involved sabotage against government installations and other symbols of the apartheid regime by a small group of operatives. Under increasing repression by the apartheid state, and thanks to the support received from African and socialist countries, MK adopted a strategy of guerrilla warfare as armed struggle assumed an increasingly central role in the liberation struggle, although the military was understood as an extension of political work, that is, linked to the reinvigoration of political struggle and organizations. Geopolitical constraints prevented MK from waging a conventional guerrilla war, and from the 1970s MK adjusted its strategy by turning to armed propaganda and people’s war. While debates on the role of MK in South Africa’s liberation are often reduced to the relative success or failure of military strategy and action, the history of MK remains a sensitive topic post-apartheid, carrying significant weight both symbolically and in the lives of thousands of people who served in its ranks, including women, who joined and participated in MK throughout the three decades of its existence.

Research on Implementation Modes of Ideological and Political Courses in Pediatric Nursing

with the continuous advancement of socialist modernization, China needs more and more talents, in particular the talents who are not only high in professional techniques, but also high in ideological and moral level and thinking ability, thus producing ideological and political courses. Along with the constant development of education cause, the professional education starts to concern on ideological and political work and integrate ideological and political courses into professional teaching. To this end, the paper explores the specific implementation path of ideological and political course mode from the perspective of pediatric nursing, describes ideological and political courses in detail and points out the requirements on the construction of ideological and political courses of pediatric nursing so as to provide reference for education of pediatric nursing and improvement of students’ comprehensive quality.

Making Meaning Together: Heritage site management and new approaches to meaning-making

<p>This dissertation looks at how those who manage and interpret heritage sites are incorporating into their practice, new thinking about the way visitors make meaning. Recent research has emphasised visitors' agency, and drawn attention to the cultural and political work of heritage performance. The ways visitors use emotion and imagination has also received greater attention. Rather than heritage value as intrinsic to sites, and best identified by the professional, recent theoretical understandings position visitors as active co-creators of heritage. How these new ideas might be applied in practice, and how organisations could most productively share authority for meaning-making, has not been sufficiently addressed. This research positions itself in that gap, and seeks to contribute to a conversation about how theory translates to practice. The Department of Conservation (DOC) was selected as an information-rich case study. At the time of research, the Department was in its third and final phase of new policy work that places greater emphasis on working in collaboration with others. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four DOC staff from across a range of roles. A further three interviews were undertaken with DOC partners and a contractor connected with sites discussed by DOC interviewees. The findings show that while heritage managers accept that visitors will make a variety of meanings at a site, they do not currently have a robust understanding of the meanings their visitors are making; of what they think and feel, and what a visit to the site really means to them. Only recently has getting this knowledge really appeared a priority, and organisations are still working out how best to collect this data, and how it could then inform their practice. This lack of understanding has inhibited practitioners' ability to respond to visitors, and to recognise the cultural work they do. When it came to partnerships, organisations were more invested in both understanding and responding to the other party. In some cases, they were willing to add to or modify their own ideas about what the value of the heritage was, or what stories it could be used to tell. A flexible and reflexive practice is advocated, in which organisations are clear about their own goals, recognise and engage with the meanings visitors and partners make, and are open to the possibility of being changed themselves in the process.</p>

Making Meaning Together: Heritage site management and new approaches to meaning-making

<p>This dissertation looks at how those who manage and interpret heritage sites are incorporating into their practice, new thinking about the way visitors make meaning. Recent research has emphasised visitors' agency, and drawn attention to the cultural and political work of heritage performance. The ways visitors use emotion and imagination has also received greater attention. Rather than heritage value as intrinsic to sites, and best identified by the professional, recent theoretical understandings position visitors as active co-creators of heritage. How these new ideas might be applied in practice, and how organisations could most productively share authority for meaning-making, has not been sufficiently addressed. This research positions itself in that gap, and seeks to contribute to a conversation about how theory translates to practice. The Department of Conservation (DOC) was selected as an information-rich case study. At the time of research, the Department was in its third and final phase of new policy work that places greater emphasis on working in collaboration with others. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four DOC staff from across a range of roles. A further three interviews were undertaken with DOC partners and a contractor connected with sites discussed by DOC interviewees. The findings show that while heritage managers accept that visitors will make a variety of meanings at a site, they do not currently have a robust understanding of the meanings their visitors are making; of what they think and feel, and what a visit to the site really means to them. Only recently has getting this knowledge really appeared a priority, and organisations are still working out how best to collect this data, and how it could then inform their practice. This lack of understanding has inhibited practitioners' ability to respond to visitors, and to recognise the cultural work they do. When it came to partnerships, organisations were more invested in both understanding and responding to the other party. In some cases, they were willing to add to or modify their own ideas about what the value of the heritage was, or what stories it could be used to tell. A flexible and reflexive practice is advocated, in which organisations are clear about their own goals, recognise and engage with the meanings visitors and partners make, and are open to the possibility of being changed themselves in the process.</p>

Selection Method of Network Ideological and Political Education Resources under Big Data

The continuous development of network information technology has prompted people to use big data to process information in order to improve work efficiency. All kinds of data are affecting people’s lives. Under the background of the big data era, college students’ values, studies and lifestyles, and access to information have changed obviously. Therefore, colleges and universities should make full use of the convenience of information in the era of big data to improve the informatization of ideological and political work in colleges and universities. The ideological consciousness and values of contemporary college students are strongly impacted by big piece of data. Based on the characteristics of big data, this paper conducts research and analysis on ideological and political education in colleges and universities in the era of big data, and makes full use of network resources to improve the ability of ideological and political education.

Trevor Noah and the contingent politics of racial joking

This article takes up the transnational comedy career of Trevor Noah as a way to explore how the political work of racial comedy can manifest, circulate and indeed communicate differently across different racial-political contexts. Through the close textual analysis of two key comic performances –“The Daywalker” (2009) and “Son of Patricia” (2018), produced and (initially) circulated in South Africa and the USA, respectively – this article explores the extent to which Noah’s comic treatment of race has shifted between the two contexts. In particular, attention is paid to how Noah incites, navigates and mitigates potential sources of offence surrounding racial anxieties in the two contexts, and how he evokes his own “mixed-race” status in order to open up spaces of permission that allow him to joke about otherwise taboo subjects. Rejecting the claim that the politics of Noah’s comedy is emancipatory or progressive in any straightforward way, by means of formal analyses we argue that his comic treatment of race does not enact any singular politics, but rather that the political work of his racial humour shifts relative to its wider political contexts. Thus, rather than drawing a clear line between light entertainment and politically meaningful humour, this article argues that the political valence of racial joking can be understood as contingent upon wider discourses of race that circulate in national-cultural contexts.

Sisters and Sisterhood

This is a book about the possibilities for, and experiences of, working-class women in the militant suffrage movement. It uses the Kenney family as a case study through which to understand who these women were, what they wanted, and what the vote meant to them. It identifies why they became politically active, their experiences as activists, and the benefits they gained from their political work. It stresses the need to see working-class women as significant actors and autonomous agents in the suffrage campaign. It shows why and how some women became politicized, why they prioritized the vote above all else, and how this campaign came to dominate their lives. It also places the suffrage campaign within the broader trajectory of their lives in order to stress how far the personal and political were intertwined for these women. It addresses questions of class and gender, politics and activism, and agency and identity in the early twentieth century, engaging with recent historiographical research around politicization, networks, and transnationalism. It is a history of education, faith, and social mobility as well of suffrage, and of teachers, theosophists, political activists, social reforms, friends and sisters, as well as suffragettes.

Research on the Path of Network Ideological and Political Education in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of “Three Complete Education”

The ideological and political education in colleges and universities should take building morality and cultivating people as the basis of education. In order to further implement the quality improvement of ideological and political education under the background of the new era, it is necessary to fully integrate the scientific concept of “three complete educations” and network education. By analyzing the current practical problems of network ideological and political education in colleges and universities, this paper puts forward targeted implementation paths, so as to enhance the attraction, communication and influence of network ideological and political education, and maximize the ideological and political work in colleges and universities at the level of network education.