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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Relevance of a Dialogue -- Chapter One: Context and Theory: Molefi Kete Asante and the Afrocentric Idea -- Afrocentricity -- Definition -- Historical Grounds -- Westernity -- Definition -- Historical Grounds -- Chapter Two: Reason and Analysis: Africana and New Interpretations of Reality -- Where Do We Stand? -- Dialogical Methodology -- Chapter Three: Afrocentricity and Modernism: Innovative Encounters with History and Ideology -- Afrocentric Critique on Modernity and Modernism -- The Obscure History of European Modernity -- The Historical/Ideological Conditions of European "Exceptionalism -- Ideology of Race: The Scientific Method of Proof -- Roots of Modernity-The Profit Motive -- The Geopolitical Triangular Atlantic Platform -- The African Experience and the Marxist Model -- Roots of Western Capitalism and the Marxist Paradigm -- Marxist Model in African Realities -- African Critiques to Marxism -- Toward the Reclamation of African Socialism -- The Afrocentric Response to Marxism -- Blackness and Existentialism -- The Existential Problem -- The Négritude Movement -- The Idea of Individualism -- Classical African Ideals -- Chapter Four: Afrocentricity and Postmodernism: The Moment of Truth -- An Afrocentric Critique on the Postmodernist Deconstruction of Power Relations -- The Collapse of the Super Structure -- Toward an Afrocentric Critique -- The Quest for the Center -- Afrocentricity and Feminist Epistemology -- Overview of the Movement -- Feminist Scholarship -- The Concept of Gender -- Postfeminism -- Black Women on Feminism -- Black Womanism -- African and European Perspectives: Postcolonialism or Neocolonialism? -- Talking Global and Postcolonial: The Political-Economic Thrust -- The Theoretical/Conceptual Discussion -- Postcolonial Theory and Literary Criticism.

Status and Power in Verbal Interaction is a sociolinguistic study of conversation in a social context. Using an ethnographic methodology and a network analysis of the social roles and relationships in a particular language community, the book explores how speakers negotiate status, relationship, and ultimately contest power through discourse. Of chief concern to the study is how speakers manage to negotiate relationship roles — which here consists of institutional status as well as the more variable social standing — using conversation. Discourse is seen to be not only what people say, but how they say it — how speakers take the floor, bring new topic to the floor, interrupt each other, and become a resource person in a conversation. The study revolves around the idea that power, while intricately tied to social standing and institutional status, is more than the sum of one's institutional standing, age, education, race and gender. Though these factors convey rank, conversants nonetheless use discourse to jockey for position and contest their relational role vis-a-vis their discourse partners. While institutional standing may be more or less fixed, power of relational roles fluctuates greatly because, as the study shows, power is accorded through a process of ratifying the positive self-image of a speaker. Thus, one's standing in a group is a community negotiation. By investigating power in community at a micro-level of analysis, this study adds a new dimension to existing understandings of power.

"This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison in the 1880s up to its relative obscurity today." "The jukebox's first twenty years were experimental, with low technical quality and other limitations. It then practically disappeared for a quarter-century, beaten out by the player piano as the coin-operated music machine of choice." "Then, new and improved, the jukebox spread quickly across America, largely as a result of the repeal of Prohibition and the increased number of bars nationwide. Other important elements of the jukebox are covered: it played patriotic tunes during wartime and, located in youth centers, entertained young people and kept them out of "trouble." The industry had one last fling due to a healthy export trade and then went into decline in the 1960s. Richly illustrated."--Jacket

[eng] The aim of this paper is to identify and analyse the main palaeographic changes that the Palaeohispanic scripts underwent after the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Some of these changes can be directly related to the influence of the Latin alphabet on the epichoric scripts, thus entailing a certain familiarity of the local population with Latin writing; other innovations, on the other hand, are better explained by a profound change in written culture, related to a greater spread of literacy, together with the introduction of new writing practices and implements and the monumentalization of epigraphic texts. These different factors seem to have contributed to the creation and consolidation of a new graphic style, which would become paradigmatic of the Roman era. The study ultimately reflects on the interplay between the social and material aspects of writing in Hispania. ; [spa] En este trabajo se identifican y analizan los principales cambios paleográficos que se produjeron en las escrituras paleohispánicas tras la conquista romana de la península ibérica. Algunos de estos cambios son atribuibles a una influencia directa del alfabeto latino en las escrituras epicóricas, y acusan de este modo una cierta familiarización de la población local con la escritura latina; otras innovaciones, en cambio, se explican mejor por un cambio profundo en la cultura escrita, en relación con una mayor propagación de la práctica de la escritura, con la introducción de nuevos hábitos escriturarios y la monumentalización de los textos epigráficos. Estos factores podrían haber contribuido a la creación y consolidación de un nuevo estilo gráfico paradigmático de la época romana. El estudio reflexiona en última instancia sobre la interacción entre los aspectos sociales y materiales de la escritura en Hispania. ; This work has been supported by the following research projects and institutions: littera Group, University of Barcelona; Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators 2017, bbva Foundation (hms-fil-0097); Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, through grant ryc-2017-22355; erc Starting grant LatinNow (No 715626), European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme; «Estudio paleográfico, lingüístico y funcional del corpus epigráfico ibérico» (pid2019-106606gb-c33), micinn. I am grateful to Joan Ferrer i Jané for his helpful comments.

Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of 'participatory culture' the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values that individuals and communities ascribe to it. To highlight the specific changes produced by social media, the book is structured around three major themes: Social Practice. New ways of understanding and experiencing heritage are emerging as a result of novel social practices of collection, representation, and communication enabled and promoted by social media. Public Formation. In the presence of widely available social technologies, peer-to-peer activities such as information and media sharing are rapidly gaining momentum, as they increasingly promote and legitimate a participatory culture in which individuals aggregate on the basis of common interests and affinities. Sense of Place. As computing becomes more pervasive and digital networks extend our surroundings, social media and technologies support new ways to engage with the people, interpretations and values that pertain to a specific territorial setting. Heritage and Social Media provides readers with a critical framework to understand how the participatory culture fostered by social media changes the way in which we experience and think of heritage. By introducing readers to how social media are theorized and used, particularly outside the institutional domain, the volume reveals through groundbreaking case studies the emerging heritage practices unique to social media. In doing so, the book unveils the new issues that are emerging from these practices and the new space for debate and critical argumentation that is required to illuminate what can be done in this burgeoning sector of heritage.

This book explores the symbolic side of globalization, development and aging, offering a special look into how temporality, technology, normativity, and empiricism structure the symbolic side of globalization and influence dominant images of the aging process.

Inspired by Walter Benjamin''s classical Arcades Project, Consuming Media is a pioneering exploration of the interface between communication, shopping and everyday life. Based on a six-year study by over a dozen scholars on a specific site, it analyses the links between power, media and consumption in contemporary urban culture. Illustrated with rich ethnographic detail, Consuming Media scrutinizes four main media circuits - print media, media images, sound and motion, and hardware machines - to assess how media texts and technologies are selected, purchased and used. Exploring the relations

"A presentation of the main facts about social media, and research about the relationship between social media use and mental health, to examine both the positive and negative effects. Useful to anybody working in education, social care or mental health. It will also appeal to an educated general readership"--

Since the late 1980's in Erurope and USA received broad support and development of the philosophy of corporate social responsibility. These concept formed in the whole world recently, about 60 years ago. Prior to this period, there were different standards and regulations in the areas of corporate governance, corporate ethics, and relationships with competitors, responsibilities towards the society and the country. Social policy rules and standards have not been developed at all because there was use of the "random" approach. However, from the late 1960s–1970s leading U.S. and European companies have started to come to an understanding of the need to unite different elements of corporate policies related to the relationship of the company with the environment, and to the development of a single integrated approach to interaction with society. Such a policy, would have to be associated with the philosophy of the company, its marketing strategy, and it should meet the expectations of society. The main reasons for the intensive development of corporate social responcibility in 1970s, in developed countries was because of the failure of consumers to purchase goods and services of irresponsible companies, as well as the growth of the trade union movement. At the same time in Western Europe and the United States ratcheted up the labor and environmental legislation, there were public policy initiatives aimed at developing the corporate social responcibility. ; В статье проанализированы эволюционные аспекты развития корпоративной социальной ответственности на основе исследования экономического, политического и социального направлений развития общества в сфере государства, предпринимательской активности и маркетинговой стратегии. Определены предпосылки становления и развития науки «корпоративная социальная ответственность», имевшие определяющее влияние на ее современное понимание. Результаты исследования, представлены в статье предполагают открытие новых горизонтов и направлений для проведения научного анализа содержания корпоративной социальной ответственности с целью объединения науки и практики, а также создание условий для ее интеграции в деятельность субъектов хозяйствования. ; У статті проаналізовано еволюційні аспекти розвитку корпоративної соціальної відповідальності на основі дослідження економічного, політичного та соціального напрямів розвитку суспільства у сфері державотворення, підприємницької активності та маркетингової стратегії. Визначено передумови становлення та розвитку науки «корпоративна соціальна відповідальність», що мали визначальний вплив на її сучасне розуміння. Результати дослідження, що представленні в статті припускають відкриття нових горизонтів і напрямів для проведення наукового аналізу змісту корпоративної соціальної відповідальності з метою об'єднання науки та практики, а також створення умов для її інтеграції в діяльність суб'єктів господарювання.