Values Influencing the Practice of Investigative Journalism in Malaysia: Media Practitioners’ Perspectives

Investigative journalism has been an American phenomenon, heavily embedded with their values. Scholars mentioned individualism and press freedom as two founding values of investigative journalism practice in the West. This study attempts to explore values influencing the practice of investigative journalism from a different viewpoint, by investigating Malaysia as a democratic country, but having a controlled media environment. Malaysia is also an interesting research subject because it is a developing country with strong Eastern values. Using local yardsticks, this study explores values influencing the practice of investigative journalism in Malaysia from local media practitioners’ perspectives. This research aims to explore more than just the differences between Western and Eastern culture, but also to understand how those different values influence the practice. In-depth interviews were used to explore the perspectives of 16 media practitioners from various backgrounds including editors and journalists who work in mainstream and alternative media in Malaysia. Vast data generated from the interviews pointing to a different viewpoint from current literature. The data, which was thematically analysed, revealed interesting findings which differentiate between Malaysian and Western practices of investigative journalism. The Eastern perspective was found to be dominant, especially in terms of collectivism culture, value of press freedom, and religious teachings influence. This study also highlighted the importance of considering the cultural factor in evaluating any journalism practice in the world. The study concludes that local values and culture must be included as research elements to understand a country’s journalism practice. Keywords: Investigative journalism, media culture, guiding values, press freedom, Malaysia.

Designing dolls according to Youkai stories and Shinto beliefs in Eastern culture

<p>Contrary to the contemporary views on the function and complex mastery skills of an object, the Eastern world puts more emphasis on the value of the object is in its inner spirit. This view is based on Shinto beliefs, where everything is spiritual and valuable. My project undertakes a case study of the relationship between humans and things. This is done by building on the uses of Shinto beliefs to design an object that initiates a narrative. More specifically dolls. Thus, invites a relationship and engages the belief that objects have souls. The dolls which I designed are an intersection of the spirit world and reality. By providing a process that facilitates the traditional Youkai story base on Shinto beliefs and how it has developed in modern society. In promoting participant engagement through design methods and processes, this project discovered a new vision of forming meaningful relationships between humans and objects empowers the true value of an object. This project visualizes participant experiences created an exploration of a narrative that contains the spirit.</p>

Designing dolls according to Youkai stories and Shinto beliefs in Eastern culture

<p>Contrary to the contemporary views on the function and complex mastery skills of an object, the Eastern world puts more emphasis on the value of the object is in its inner spirit. This view is based on Shinto beliefs, where everything is spiritual and valuable. My project undertakes a case study of the relationship between humans and things. This is done by building on the uses of Shinto beliefs to design an object that initiates a narrative. More specifically dolls. Thus, invites a relationship and engages the belief that objects have souls. The dolls which I designed are an intersection of the spirit world and reality. By providing a process that facilitates the traditional Youkai story base on Shinto beliefs and how it has developed in modern society. In promoting participant engagement through design methods and processes, this project discovered a new vision of forming meaningful relationships between humans and objects empowers the true value of an object. This project visualizes participant experiences created an exploration of a narrative that contains the spirit.</p>

The Rationale for Reconstruction of Money Politics Crimes in the General Election

The provision of necessities which were originally purely as a form of social solidarity to the poor or as souvenirs just to fulfill the appropriateness of eastern culture in visiting, when proven effective in gaining votes, became a new mode by candidates in approaching constituents, which such practice is commonly called with the practice of money politics. This research aims to find out and analyze the rationale for the reconstruction of money politics in the general election. The method used in this study is a normative juridical research method with a statute approach and a conceptual approach. The results of this study indicate that the rationale for the reconstruction of money politics in the general election is that giving something in the form of money or goods at the time of the election becomes a close causal relationship between the occurrence of corruption, both pre-gift and post-giving.

Understanding the Impact of Transformational Leadership on Project Success: A Meta-Analysis Perspective

This paper aims to systematically analyze the reasons for the differences in the relationship between transformational leadership (TL) and project success and apply meta-analysis to summarize which dimensions of TL are the main driving forces for project success. Adopting the meta-analysis approach, we investigated 31 independent studies (N = 6475) and studied the theoretical moderators of this relationship from the perspectives of mediating variables, cultural background, and document type to test whether the moderating effects can explain the inconsistent research results. The results reveal that TL positively affects project success and leadership charm is the primary driver of TL. Also, the existence of a mediating mechanism has a more significant impact on the success of the leading project. Meanwhile, compared with project construction under the Western cultural background, countries with Eastern culture are more inclined to use a people-oriented philosophy for project management to promote project success. This research provides an empirical perspective to help project leaders select management talents, regulate leaders’ words and deeds, and cultivate technical and soft leadership skills. Besides, this paper proposes a unique and nuanced view of the relationship between TL and project success, enhancing people’s understanding of the TL’s role in influencing project success.

Ayurvedic Remedies of Covid-19

The Sanskrit term Ayurveda has translated knowledge of life. It is one of the world's oldest healing systems that originated in eastern culture and it includes numerous medical concepts and it’s a hypothesis for treatment and prevention of disease. In ancient times near to 3000 years ago in India when there are no synthetic medicines was developed then people used Ayurvedic plants to get cures for different diseases. Ayurveda is based on a belief that health and wellness depend on a delicate balance of mind, body, and spirit. Ayurvedic herbs are key components of Ayurveda. COVID-19 is an infectious disease found in December 2019 and it has now become a pandemic. The COVID-19 infection is produced by virulent severe acute respiratory syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus although various antiviral drugs are available for controlling the infection but sometimes, they lack in supply for treating the worldwide population. So, it has become imperative to develop an effective medical strategy for the management of COVID-19 which has become a major threat to humanity. Herbs exhibit various biological activities so; they can effectively help with managing the pandemic. This review discussed some herbs which have the potential for the treatment of COVID-19.

Gaya Hidup Remaja Jakarta dalam Youtube (Studi Semiotika Konten Youtube Jakarta Uncensored)

Youth and lifestyle are two inseparable things. Through the use of technology, youth lifestyle can be portrayed through the use of social media like Youtube. One of the channels that talks about youth lifestyle is Jakarta Uncensored. This study aims to find the meaning behind youth lifestyle from Jakarta Uncensored Youtube content. Theories and concepts used are semiotics, lifestyle, youth, new media and eastern culture. This study will analyze signs through the use of Charles Sanders Peirce theory of semiotics which includes sign, object and interpretant. These three combines itself in the form of triangle of meaning. This research will gather data from the use of observation, documentation and literature studies. Conclusion of this research is that the youth of Jakarta emphasizes themselves as freedom. This is shown from their lifestyle that tend to be active sexually and socially. Jakarta Uncensored also helps in giving sexual education in Indonesia since it seems taboo.Gaya hidup sudah menjadi bagian yang tidak bisa dipisahkan dari kehidupan remaja. Dengan bantuan teknologi, gaya hidup remaja dapat dilihat dari media sosial seperti Youtube. Jakarta Uncensored adalah salah satu kanal Youtube yang mengupas topik seputar gaya hidup remaja Jakarta. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan makna dari gaya hidup yang diperlihatkan remaja dalam kanal tersebut. Teori dan konsep yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah semiotika, media baru, gaya hidup dan budaya timur. Adanya Youtube yang ingin dianalisis sebagai media menjadikan penelitian ini sebagai analisis teks media. Penelitian ini akan menganalisis tanda yang terdapat dalam lima video Jakarta Uncensored menggunakan segitiga makna Charles Sanders Peirce. Segitiga makna terdiri dari tanda, objek, dan interpretan. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah observasi, dokumentasi dan studi kepustakaan. Kesimpulan penelitian ini adalah gaya hidup remaja Jakarta yang terlihat sangat dekat dengan dunia malam dan seks bebas. Penulis memberikan makna bahwa remaja Jakarta dalam kanal tersebut lebih mementingkan nilai kebebasan daripada ajaran agama yang dianut di Indonesia. Di lain sisi Jakarta Uncensored juga membantu memberikan edukasi seksual di Indonesia yang masih minim dan terkesan tabu.

Research on the Influence of Superior Satisfaction on Subordinate Tacit Understanding

In today's increasingly competitive society, organizational members need to find some innovative ways to promote cooperation and increase organizational competitiveness. Subordinate tacit understanding occupies an important position in eastern culture and also plays an important role in the cooperation between superiors and subordinates in enterprises. However, there is a lack of research on the antecedent variables of subordinates' tacit understanding. From the perspective of employees, this paper investigates the positive impact of superior satisfaction on subordinates' tacit understanding, and further explores the influencing mechanism -- the mediating role of leader-member exchange and the moderating role of face consciousness.

Chiny wyobrażone – Chiny ucieleśnione. Państwo Środka w polskich i serbskich relacjach z podróży (od XVIII do połowy XX wieku)

The article presents an overview of the issues discussed in Tomasz Ewertowski’s monograph Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720–1949). It reconstructs the discourse that emerges from the journals as their authors report on their journeys to the Middle Kingdom. The article also analyses the conditioning of the presented attitudes in the context of individual experience. Using imagology-based tools, Ewertowski refers to the mental representations of reality recorded in the text in the form of stereotypically formed ethnotypes. Ewertowski creates a mosaic of the way travellers from the West imagined both Chinese cities and the characteristic features of Far Eastern culture, which is often marked by Eurocentrism and an evaluating attitude towards the Other.