phenomenon of fandom consumption in k-pop commodity through the army community

The appearance of ARMY as a loyal fans is a response to what BTS has to offer as a K-Pop idols. Aside being a fan, their consumption behavior is inevitable. Along with the development of media technology and as a result of pop culture commodities, fans create its own meaning and culture as an active actor of consumption. This research provides an overview of the way consumption culture is formed in ARMY fandom and how it affects most significant aspects in their life. The researcher also wants to examine related to the concept of free fan labor that fans holds such an important role at maintaining the fan production culture in the web and benefit the K-Pop industry to broaden their market globally. This research uses a qualitative method. Then the researcher collects data by interviewing six informants who have consume BTS merchandise continuously with purposive sampling technique. The result of this research showed that fans consistently interpret the goods they consumed, the value they generate from their sense of closeness to BTS members. This research also demonstrated regarding fans becoming “free” fan labor with their own eagerness, along with the fan production culture results to the personalize customization into their own interest as an active and loyal costumer, with the exchange of pleasure they got from actively interact and exchanging feedback with another fans in the cyberspace.

RURAL IRONWORKING CRAFT IN THE MEDIEVAL RUSSIA PRODUCTION SYSTEM

Получить полноценную характеристику производственной культуры Древней Руси невозможно без изучения роли сельского ремесла. Многофакторный анализ археометаллографических данных позволил сделать вывод о том, что сельское ремесленное производство представляло гораздо более сложное явление, чем виделось ранее. Древнерусское село не только служило поставщиком сырья в городские ремесленные центры и производило простую в технологическом отношении продукцию, но и воспринимало технологические инновации. Сельские мастера сами могли производить качественные кузнечные изделия и снабжали ими ближайшую округу. It is not possible to obtain full characteristics of the Medieval Russia production culture without examining the role of rural crafts. Multivariate analysis of archaeometallographic data made it possible to conclude that rural crafts were a much more sophisticated phenomenon than previously thought. A village in Medieval Russia not only supplied raw materials to craft centers and manufactured technologically simple products but also adopted technological innovations. Rural craftsmen were able to produce high-quality blacksmith products and supplied them to the nearby population.

A culture of improvement

Two years ago, a large-scale transformation started at the Eurasian Resources Group - they began to implement the ERG Way production system at the company's enterprises. This is the path to improving the efficiency of the company and its production processes, including a safety culture. The project is strategic, and the ERG management expects tangible results from it in the form of continuous improvements, increased productivity, and a change in production culture. And, despite the fact that last year due to the pandemic, the active phase of implementation was suspended, the production system continued to develop. The project team was able to create conditions under which the changes made did not suffer losses, to preserve the achieved results, and somewhere even to increase. For example, in 2020, ERG employees submitted over 16 thousand initiatives to improve production processes. Oleg Zakharov, ERG Director for Operational Efficiency, said how we managed to maintain production indicators at the proper level in a difficult period.

Chemical Photographic Treatment of Radiographic Films

The article discusses the features of automatic treatment of radiographic films, technological and psychological problems in the transition from manual processing to the use of machines for photographic processing. The chemical features of the development process in photomachines are discussed, typical errors and methods of their elimination are listed, the idea is expressed that it is necessary to control all components of the photomachine processing process. It was concluded that the main problems arising from machining are associated with a human factor: the photomachine exhibits films qualitatively and stably only with a corresponding production culture. The need for the early translation of ISO 11699-2 and the creation of its Russian counterpart was emphasized.

‘A lot of sharp teeth and claws’: Production culture and storytelling at National Geographic

This article examines the relationship between the production culture and storytelling practices of content producers for the National Geographic organization. Supplementing producer interviews with a textual and contextual analysis of National Geographic and the wildlife media it disseminates, this article suggests a number of political, economic and cultural factors that determine the focus of narratives created and disseminated by National Geographic across its many global media platforms.

Making television fiction in a commercial context: Commercialization, ideology and entertainment in a production study of Greek private television

This article draws from interviews with creators of television fiction (directors and screenwriters) with professional experience in Greek private television and examines how and why fiction programmes are produced in a commercial context. By focusing on the first decade of private television in Greece, an era popularly remembered as the ‘golden age of Greek television’, this study makes use of accounts from ‘exclusive informants’ in order to complicate facile assumptions about the relationship between commercialization, ideology and entertainment. As such, this article aspires to update the (limited) scholarship on Greek television production culture and to contribute to the recent research focusing specifically on private television in Greece.