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Chronicles the globalization of animated children's TV programs from the 1980s through the early 1990s, focusing on production strategies. The interplay between other areas is also addressed, identifying links between production, consumption, regulation, representation, & identity. Unique features of animated TV that make it particularly adaptable to international postproduction techniques are identified, including voice dubbing & story & sequence editing. Despite these advantages, there are several barriers to the international distribution of such programming, including scheduling differences in different markets, variations in consumer preferences, changing regulatory pressures, & the rise of coproduction partnerships; ways that these constraints are overcome are explored. It is argued that, as conditions affecting the business of international TV continue to evolve, local production strategies will become increasingly important. 65 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Presents personal reflections on editing a special journal issue of Feminism and Psychology (1992, 2, 3) which sought to thematize heterosexuality not as a given for women, but as an interrogative focus of research. Focus is on social constructionist work that investigates the coercive nature of heterosexuality, heterosexual identification, & the relationship between heterosexual sexual behavior & sexual identity. It is suggested that sophisticated treatment of these issues promises to reveal all the ways in which heterosexuality is a social construct rather than a biological given. Moreover, investigation of these themes is taken to represent an ideal case for the social construction of normative behavior & identity formation. It is concluded that analysis of the meanings & functions of heterosexuality is important for laying the groundwork of a lesbian feminism that can confront, resist, & undermine it. 84 References. D. M. Smith

A historian's commentary on difficulties involved in listening to & learning from narratives of the poor describes how these stories shed light on complex social entities & how the perspectives of poor people promote the creation of new research & a new politics for addressing changing realities. Nonetheless, it is maintained that it is hard for those involved in the domain of policy & political action to welcome the voices of the poor into active dialogue. One approach to oral history uses narratives of the people to provide data that are later interpreted/analyzed by the historian. Another approach views these narratives as self-explanatory & self-empowering. Dilemmas involved in trying to find a middle ground are explored, & personal experiences collecting working-class narratives are drawn on to illustrate concerns related to conducting, handling, editing, presenting, & interpreting interview narratives. Despite the difficulties, it is maintained that talking/listening across diverse realms of experience, combined with expertise, can provide the tools to create a new discourse of possibilities. 3 References. J. Lindroth

The present paper analyzes the evolution of technology from the beginning of the human history. A new paradigm to analyze the causes and trends of the global evolution is introduced. We also describe the direction of technological transformations, discuss and explain the present and forthcoming technological
changes. Our analysis of technological evolution mainly focuses on the second half of the 20th century. We present a detailed analysis of the latest technological revolution which we denote as 'Сybernetic', and give some forecasts about its development up to the end of the 21st century. It is shown that the development of various self-regulating systems will be the main trend of this revolution. We argue that the technological transition of the final phase of the Cybernetic Revolution will start in medicine, which is to be the keystone of technological convergence forming the system of MANBRIC-technologies (based on medicine, additive, nano-, bio-, robotic, IT and cognitive technologies). Today we are at the threshold of post-human revolution, the era of an intensive impact on the human body. The authors consider the directions of this revolution such as
considerable life extension, organ replacement, BCIs, robotics, genome editing, etc. It is very important to understand the mechanisms of technological development and to measure the possible risks arising from them.