In the twenty-first century, complex and dynamic challenges within Africa are often borderless. With the ability to scale exponentially, localized conflicts can quickly destabilize regions. Since the early 2000s, scholarly efforts to explicate transnational challenges has led to a growing body of literature dedicated to the African continent. While promising, the corpora of secondary literatures often lack conceptual rigor and depth — requiring students, researchers and scholars to thread coherent narratives across diverse sets of government records, media reports, and firsthand accounts. Contemporary Security Issues in Africa by William A. Taylor attempts to fill this void by serving as a primer for students, researchers and policymakers on Sub-Saharan Africa. Spanning three decades across sixteen case studies, the work aims to "Explore the nexus of culture, politics and security at the national, regional and international level."
Over the last ten years, the authors have conducted a series of investigations into the use of the Internet by political parties and individual candidates during parliamentary election campaigns in Scotland. These are the only such studies which have looked specifically at the Scottish political arena. This paper provides a longitudinal overview of the results of these studies, and reflects on how new technologies have been adopted by political actors in Scotland in an effort to disseminate information to, and engage with, potential voters.
Over the last ten years, the authors have conducted a series of investigations into the use of the Internet by political parties and individual candidates during parliamentary election campaigns in Scotland. These are the only such studies which have looked specifically at the Scottish political arena. This paper provides a longitudinal overview of the results of these studies, and reflects on how new technologies have been adopted by political actors in Scotland in an effort to disseminate information to, and engage with, potential voters.
Most methodological approaches to the teaching of culture and civilization for second language students tend to have two things in common. First, they put an emphasis in history and high culture: fine arts, literature and film. Second, when they cover current events, they tend to take what I will call horizontal views of the civilization, trying to cover a wide spectrum of aspects of society, and not getting into an in-depth study of any of them. This article wants to propose a different methodology on both counts. First, instead of focusing on high culture, I want to use an item of popular culture to illustrate a certain civilization. Second, this article proposes a radically vertical view, which will center around a very specific aspect of the country's culture. More specifically, in this work I will attempt to use sports as a way to understand the culture and civilization of Spain. Although for a long time sports were ostracized from most intellectual studies, recently we have seen more attention paid to them in fields such as business, sociology, anthropology and media studies. I believe that sports and the spectatorship that they generate are so widespread that they offer unlimited windows into society as a whole. In this article I will focus exclusively on Spain, but this point of view can undoubtedly be extended to many other Latin countries, in the case of the teaching of Spanish, and to most Western countries for many other languages. This article will look at several ways in which sports provide a significant representation of Spanish culture and civilization. I will cover issues such as the media, the ways that Spaniards see themselves, political symbols and conflicts, and the status of certain social groups. I do not believe that such a view stands in competition with the more accepted horizontal views that focus on history and high culture. Rather the intention is to provide an alternative and complementary approach, as well as a handful of useful examples for all views from an often over looked field. I hope that this journey through sports in Spain will offer at least some ideas that will help teachers of Spanish use this topic in a culture and civilization class.
"Race Writing in the Internet Age" argues that the intensified forms of global economic integration made possible by Internet technologies have defined contemporary "postrace" narratives—narratives that, in turn, both formally embody and thematically challenge the racial ideologies that subtend this integration. The Japanese coders, South Asian hackers, "cyber coolies," African-American app designers, Korean- and Taiwanese-American social media addicts, and Nigerian "yahoo boys" who populate the contemporary American novel elaborate key contradictions between the "postracial" world of social technology and the global wage differentials that attend and make possible the Internet itself. In novels by Teju Cole, Bharati Mukherjee, Ruth Ozeki, Ed Park, Ishmael Reed, Gary Shteyngart, Colson Whitehead, and others, race disappears into a colorblind Web run through apparently abstract software algorithms, only to reappear in the wage gap between developed and undeveloped nations. However, these novels do not simply construct race in accordance with capitalist imperatives: they also sublimate technology into form, in ways that must change inherited understandings of the contemporary novel's relation to the information and communication technologies alongside which it came of age. Reading the "postrace" novel in light of new interdisciplinary research on the cultural implications of software systems and computer code, fresh interest in formalist analysis, and ongoing work on global political economy, "Race Writing in the Internet Age" discovers a range of contemporary writers turning to algorithmic forms—computational techniques for market forecasting, models of viral transmission and social networking, the underlying principles of Web browsing and search—as a way of illustrating race's reconfiguration within the tech-integrated global market.
The role of media in collective action repertoires has been extensively studied, but media as an agent of socialization in social movement identity is less understood. It could be that social movement media is normalizing a particular activist identity to the exclusion of other demographics. For instance, Harper has identified white-centrism in anti-speciesist media produced by the Nonhuman Animal rights movement and supposes that this lack of diversity stunts movement potential. Using the lesser-studied Nonhuman Animal rights movement as a starting point, this study investigates two prominent Nonhuman Animal rights magazines. We compare those findings with an analysis of comparable leftist movements also known to exhibit diversity strains. A content analysis of Nonhuman Animal rights, women's rights, and gay rights magazine covers spanning from 2000 to 2012 was undertaken to determine the manifestation of gender, race, body type, and sexualization. We find that the Nonhuman Animal rights media in our sample overwhelmingly portrays white women with a tendency toward thinness, but with low levels of sexualization as comparable to that of the other movements. All three movement samples unevenly depicted gender, overrepresented whites, and underrepresented non-thin body types.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui persepsi pemilik art gallery terhadap pengaruh perubahan tarif pajak terhadap laporan keuangan, perubahan tarif dan dasar perhitungan, kemudahan dan penyederhanaan, PP No. 46 Tahun 2013 sebagai media edukasi masyarakat untuk transparansi dalam pembayaran pajak, sosialisasi PP No. 46 Tahun 2013 yang dilakukan Direktorat Jendral Pajak (DJP) serta kesesuaian pengenaan pajak terhadap UMKM sesuai syarat pemungutan pajak harus adil. Data penelitian ini diperoleh dari wawancara secara langsung dengan pemilik Mammoth Art Gallery dan metode yang digunakan dalam pemilihan informan adalah metode purposive sampling. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa (1) Perubahan tarif pajak tidak berpengaruh terhadap laporan keuangan. (2) Owner Mammoth Art Gallery setuju dengan adanya perubahan tarif dan dasar perhitungan pajak. (3) Owner Mammoth Art Gallery sependapat bahwa kemudahan dan penyederhanaan perhitungan pajak penghasilan mempermudah menghitung pajak yang terutang. (4) Owner Mammoth Art Gallery berpendapat bahwa PP No. 46 Tahun 2013 tidak dapat mengedukasi masyarakat untuk transparansi dalam pembayaran pajak karena hal tersebut tergantung dari kejujuran Wajib Pajak. (5) Owner Mammoth Art Gallery merasa puas dengan sosialisasi mengenai PP No. 46 Tahun 2013 yang dilakukan oleh DJP. (6) Menurut Owner Mammoth Art Gallery penerapan PP No. 46 Tahun 2013 telah adil karena tarif yang dikenakan merata kepada UMKM.Kata Kunci : Persepsi, art gallery, PP No. 46 Tahun 2013 The study aimed at finding out the perception of art gallery owners on the influence of the changes in tax rates on the financial report, change of tariffs and the basis of calculation, the ease and simplicity based on the government regulation No. 46 in 2013,as a social educational media for transparency in the tax payment, socialization of government regulation No 46 in 2013 by the Directorate General of Taxes, as well as suitability of taxation towards UMKM according the term of taxation should be fair. The informants were selected based on the purposive sampling method. The data of the study were obtained from a direct interview with the Mammoth Art Gallery. The results indicated that (1) the change of tax rates has no significant effect on the financial report. (2) Mammoth Art Gallery Owner agreed with the changes of tax rates and the basis of tax calculation. (3) Mammoth Art Gallery Owner agreed that the ease and simplicity of the income tax calculation could help simplify in calculating taxes payable. (4) Mammoth Art Gallery Owner considered that government regulation No. 46 could not educate the society to be transparent in the payment of taxes, because it always depends on the tax payer's honesty. (5) The Owner Mammoth Art Gallery felt satisfy with the socialization about government regulation No. 46 in 2013 which done by Directorate General of Taxes. (6) According to the Mammoth Art Gallery Owner the implementation of government regulation No.46 in 2013 had been fair enough because the rates to be imposed to the UMKM was prevalent. keyword : perception, art gallery, government regulation No.46 in 2013
Education is entrusted with the task of teaching children, adolescents and young people to use their mother tongue in their relationships with people around them, to speak correctly and express their ideas in an understandable way. Oral expression is necessary to represent knowledge, ideas and feelings, through words and accompanied by gestures and intonation. In military high schools, this theme is of paramount importance since their mission is to train military high school students in sciences and letters with high moral, political and ideological qualities and with a solid base of knowledge, habits and skills which allow them to continue studies. To accomplish this mission, teachers are required to show a high command of the basis of their profession to guarantee an optimal performance of students in the development of their communicative skills. This article aims to propose teaching tasks to develop oral expression in the referred students. Different methods of the theoretical and empirical level were used, such as: historical-logical, analysis-synthesis and systemic-structural, document analysis, observation and interview. Additionally, as to the statistical methods, the intentional non-probabilistic sampling method and the percentage calculation were used. Concerning the research results, conceptual and methodological clarifications and a proposal of teaching tasks for the development of oral expression were synthesized, provided by several authors from this area of expertise. ; A la educación se le encomienda la tarea de enseñar a los niños, adolescentes y jóvenes, a utilizar la lengua materna en sus relaciones con las personas que les rodean, a hablar correctamente y expresar sus ideas de forma comprensible; para alcanzar lo planteado se hace necesario el dominio de la expresión oral, pues es la forma más empleada por el hombre para representar, mediante las palabras, acompañadas de gestos y entonación, sus conocimientos, ideas y sentimientos. En las escuelas militares de la educación media superior esta temática alcanza un redimensionamiento en su importancia pues su misión es formar bachilleres en ciencias y letras con elevadas cualidades morales, políticas e ideológicas y una sólida base de conocimientos, hábitos y habilidades que les permitan la continuidad de los estudios en el nivel superior. Esto exige del profesor una elevada profesionalidad, que garantice un óptimo desempeño de los estudiantes en el desarrollo de la comunicación. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo proponer tareas docentes para desarrollar la expresión oral en los referidos estudiantes. Se utilizaron diferentes métodos del nivel teórico y empírico: histórico-lógico, análisis-síntesis y sistémico-estructural, de los métodos empíricos: el análisis de documentos, la observación y la entrevista. De los métodos estadísticos se utilizó el método de muestreo no probabilístico intencional y el cálculo porcentual. Como resultados se sintetizaron precisiones conceptuales y metodológicas para el desarrollo de la expresión oral, aportadas por varios autores estudiosos del tema, así como ejemplos de tareas docentes para desarrollar la expresión oral.
This short essay concludes a Special Section on the book Venture Labor and reflects on the directions for future research for media and communication scholars. The essay argues that new ways of studying the political economy of information-intensive industries stretch the traditional scope of media and communication studies. This "informational economy" relies ever more on the production and circulation of commodified and monetized values emerging within the media industry and media practices broadly construed. This essay concludes a collection of articles proposing theoretical frameworks and empirical examples to deal with the transformations of work and economic value within the media and communication field. Collectively, the authors in this special issue address how media workers are responding to technological and economic change and how new communication technologies influence the production of economic value. This essay argues that the field of media and communication studies can help scholars understand the practices of the informational economy, the status of workers within this economy, and their resistance to its exploitative tendencies.
Culture and youth -- Cultural studies and education studies -- New youth research -- Media education -- "Race" and representation -- Children and television -- Young adult fictions -- Popular music, youth, and education -- Futures: youth, politics, citizenship
The article presents the results of an aesthetic study of content and visual forms on Instagram, a relatively new social media platform. The study focuses on how the products of digital technology, understood as new artifacts within the postmodern aesthetic framework, have been taken up within the digital culture. The results of the research help us to understand the characteristics of this new social media platform, indicating that Instagram has been highly successful in changing aesthetic criteria and standards and creating new aesthetic forms and content.
The political machinations of post-tsunami Sri Lanka continue to divide the nation, and any hope of reconciliation between the Government and the Tamil Tigers has long been lost. Reconstruction efforts littered with allegations and counter allegations of racial discrimination continue to dominate post-tsunami politics, with both the Government and the Tigers continuing to gain a political edge through the rehabilitation program. However a closer look at the pro-Eelamist media, in the wake of the tsunami devastation, reveal the political optimism and a hope for reconciliation may have been ill-founded form the onset. Thus an analysis of pro-Eelamist media which flooded the internet, suggest a Tiger media strategy, albeit in the form of a preliminary politico-media tactic had emerged within the first few hours of the Tsunami. This strategy of accusing the Sri Lankan government of preferential treatment to Sinhala Tsunami victims of the South and neglect of North-Eastern Tamils, was in line with the wider claims of the Eelamis media machine. This paper attempts to outline the pro-Eelamist media strategy, and decipher the numerous narratives and subnarratives that were carefully orchestrated by the Eelamist lobby to secure an political advantage in the international arena.
