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Adolescents' characteristic understanding and use of mobile phones have led observers to speak of a "mobile youth culture." This article explores whether we can differentiate lifestyles within mobile youth culture. We construct a user typology of Flemish adolescent mobile phone users based on mobile phone gratifications. Eight gratifications were identified. Using these as segmentation variables, a cluster analysis differentiated a devoted ( N = 204), dependent ( N = 156), pragmatic ( N = 143), and disinterested ( N = 90) mobile lifestyle. These groups differed significantly in demographics and social–psychological characteristics, indicating that youths domesticate mobile phones in their life in response to the problems and opportunities that cross their particular path toward adulthood.

Rock the Vote was founded in 1996 as an attempt to exploit popular culture to boost political participation. Using pop musicians and comedians, it attempted to encourage young people to take part in politics. This article examines the formation of Rock the Vote, and explores its implications for the character of contemporary politics. It argues that Rock the Vote has to be understood not only as part of a larger shift in the nature of political campaigning and communication, but also as a response to the mutual needs of political parties and the popular culture industry. Rock the vote is both a symptom of new forms of campaigning and also a pragmatic solution to particular political problems.

Introduction: kill yr. culture -- Paradigm shift: the BMW enthusiast's discourse -- The sound that binds: negotiating community in no wave, garage rock and ska -- Genre as race, race as genre -- Got hybridity?: a mixed reevaluation of mumbo jumbo and ceremony -- Locating the punk preppy (a speculative theory) -- Conclusion

This volume collects the contributions of scholars who analyze mafia cultures and juvenile deviance generating a close comparison between different theoretical and research perspectives.

The article is devoted to the textbook by Ekaterina Isaeva "The Culture of Québec". It analyses the content of the textbook and pointed out its advantages. It shows the prospects of using this textbook in universities of the Russian Federation for the courses on social sciences and humanities.

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Although truly singular artworks emerging from distinct creative universes, Wang Shu's Ningbo Historic Museum (2008) and Jia Zhangke's Shanghai World Expo film Hai shang chuan qi/I Wish I Knew (2010) disclose common ethico-aesthetic features and artistic principles. Adopting Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the assemblage allows us to perceive how these outstanding farrago projects, with their rough and broken edges, share homologous 'abstract diagrams'; which become responsible for introducing discordant mental relations into China's processual cityscapes. Viewing both works as state-sanctioned vehicles of Chinese 'modernity', I explore how Wang and Jia's affective repurposing of urban detritus or salvaged cinematic material allows their sensational artworks to emit signals that subtly decompose the 'main melodies' associated with China's embrace of modernization. Drawing on a hybrid model of Deleuze's image regimes from Cinema 1 (2005a) and Cinema 2 (2005b) further permits us to perceive how these macropolitical 'monuments' critique the very narratives of progress that their commissioners charge them with celebrating.

Implementing an ERP project is a political process. This paper starts with a literature review of organizational politics and its implications to the implementation of ERP systems. The Political Strategies Framework which categorizes different ePolitics strategies in the cases is introduced. The framework is applied in the later sections of the paper to case study data from two companies, one in the US and one in Italy, that both implemented a SAP Enterprise Planning Systems (ERP) with very different outcomes. The discussion highlights the political dynamics in each case and the way in which the framework can help us understand these differences. The conclusion section discusses the differences between the political dynamics in each case and the implications from the findings to broader issues of research on ERP implementation and politics. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- About the author -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: antecedents and the trajectory of history -- 2 Political culture and institutionalization: defining characteristics -- 3 Contested discourse: policy dissonance and the limits of deliberative consensus -- 4 Corruption and development: value ethics in comparative perspective -- 5 Corruption and political decay: an institutional footnote -- 6 Corruption and socialization: a cultural hypothesis -- 7 Constructing identities: norms of dissent and political violence in the Niger Delta -- 8 Developing national security policy: context and competing imperatives -- 9 Strategic fusion: the making of a grand doctrine -- 10 Reconciling state and citizenship: civic culture and national development planning -- Appendices -- A. Divergent identities: a social constructivist analysis of conflict and political action in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. (Informed Consent Questionnaire AUM IRB 2009–28). -- B. Zonal ArcMaps: hotspot analysis of geographical clusters of respondents' opinions -- C. Respondents' sampled opinions on crucial policy and national issues -- Bibliography -- Index

Outsiders' reflections on being American: some pedagogical concerns / James Armstrong -- My American glasses / Francisco Martins Ramos -- American graffiti: curious derivatives of individualism / Jin K. Kim -- An outsider's view of American culture / Janusz L. Mucha -- America and I / Herv(c)♭ Varenne -- A cross-cultural experience: a Chinese anthropologist in the United States / Huang Shu-min -- The young, the rich, and the famous: individualism as an American cultural value / Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel -- Growing up American: doing the right thing / Amparo B. Ojeda -- Forms of address: how their social functions may vary / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- First impressions: diary of a French anthropologist in New York City / Fran(c)ʹoise Dussart -- Life and cultures: the test of real participant observation / E.L. Cerroni-Long -- America for Americans / Rik Pinxten -- Gender encounters in America: an outsider's view of continuity and ambivalence / Rahel Wasserfall -- Neighborly strangers / Honggang Yang -- A European anthropologist's personal and ethnographic impressions of the United States / Emanuel J. Drechsel

The mainstream publicity garnered from Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric paradigm has led to an often anti-intellectual and nonacademic misappropriation of its constructs. This approach fashioned out of mainstream sound bytes, commonly characterized as "Pop Culture Afrocentrism," suggests that a discourse need only feature or mention people of African descent to be considered Afrocentric. Such an approach has often led to the application of base intellectual offerings by scholars claiming to utilize Afrocentric methodology. This article discusses how mainstream media sound byte–type approaches toward Afrocentricity has (a) led to a dearth of understanding of the concept and (b) created the need for contemporary intellectuals to produce research that critically applies the Afrocentric paradigm in alignment with Asante's conceptualization in order to prevail over typical anti-Black mainstream contributions. To distinguish pop culture Afrocentrism from the Afrocentric paradigm, focus is placed on Asante's location theory as one of the most essential aspects of Afrocentric inquiry.

Food and digital culture are mutually implicated in contemporary processes of knowledge production and power contestation around the world. Our introduction and the papers in this special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies seek to draw out the distinctions, parallels and overlaps across food and the digital to offer critical insights into digital food culture's capacities, paradoxes and impacts on everyday life. We ask a series of questions fundamentally focused on issues of power that signal a critical concern for the (re)production and circulation of inequality within the food and digital nexus. For us and the authors here, Cultural Studies is particularly fertile ground from which to analyse digital food culture precisely because of the discipline's commitment to critiquing power and inequality and its subsequent capacity to illuminate everyday digital food politics and their social, cultural and ethical impacts. This article presents and highlights key questions—and introduces related concepts and theoretical debates—that drive this research agenda. In addition, we address the ways the issue's papers connect to digital food culture and power after COVID-19. We conclude with a summary of the articles in the issue and their contributions to digital food culture research and cultural studies more broadly.

One of the violations of human rights is violence experienced by women, where women are placed in a weak and vulnerable position with violence in terms of physical, psychological, economic and sexual violence. This violence results in women often undergoing unfavorable treatment and results in prolonged trauma due to acts carried out by men as holders of power and superior in life, as well as dominating both in the household, the economy and also politics. The existence of patriarchal culture which has existed for a long time and assumes that women indeed in their nature must serve their husbands and as successors to offspring result in women being unable to do anything, especially if coupled with the community's assumption that a woman as a weak person not required get an education which is high because it is labeled as a weak human being and this is what causes men to increasingly dominate the superior or power of women. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of patriarchal culture to violence experienced by women and efforts to combat violence caused by patriarchal culture. Method This study was conducted with normative research by examining the literature and legislation relating to the problem under study. The result is that a culture of patriarchy dominates the superiority of men to rule where woman can rule in life its aspects.

Africa was long seen primarily as an importer of global cultural forms, but it is now on the verge of becoming a major exporter of popular culture to the world.

This paper analyses agents of political socialization and their impact on Kosovo's political culture. The importance of political socialization in defining Kosovo's political culture is considerable, because with a special attention to its factors such as: family, education, religious institutions, peer groups, social classes, interest groups, political parties and the media, it may represent the attitudes, developments and changes that are involved in shaping political culture. To analyse the problems of political culture and the functioning of the Kosovo political system, the analysis is based on empirical research realized in February 2016, extending across the territory with a representative sample of (n=1007) respondents, including majority Albanians, and minorities Serb, Turkish, Bosnian, Roma and Ashkali. We compare the results with the empirical analysis of the pattern of political culture of Almond, Powell, Dalton and Strom (2008), always referring to the methodological criteria. The applied methods in the development of the study are the comparison method and the deductive method.