Néstor García Canclini and Communication Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby Miller
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Nestor Garcia Canclini

Néstor García Canclini is an anthropologist and philosopher of culture whose work in Latin America has pioneered ideas of interculturalism, hybridity, consumption, and citizenship, both regionally and globally. His collaborative and individual research has provided extensive empirical and theoretical insights into the daily lives of ordinary people, as well as the significance of indigenous and avant-garde art and the role of the popular in building nations and sustaining them under circumstances of globalization.

The Socio–Economic Life around Beans in Kyrgyzstan: Practices, Discourses and Local Households

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-56
Author(s):  
Gulnora Iskandarova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Life ◽  
Biocultural Diversity ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Impact

Bean production is a feature of post-independence agriculture in Kyrgyzstan, and bean production has come to play an influential role in the daily lives of ordinary people. This study aims to investigate the role of beans and bean cultivation in the agrarian villages of Talas (such as Amanbaev and Bala–Saruu) by discussing how practices, discourses and local households are shaped around bean production. Moreover, this study investigates the impact of bean cultivation on the socio-economic life of farmers by applying the concept of biocultural diversity as well as an ethnographic approach.

An Educational Avant-Garde

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tobias
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
National Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Sound Film ◽  
Film Education ◽  
Progressive Reforms

This chapter looks at the role of music and voice-over in constructing and deconstructing highly political messages in the experimental documentary format. It argues that Julien Bryan’s films on Latin America for the Office of Inter-American Affairs do not operate as US wartime propaganda, as is often believed, but are rather highly musical pedagogical essays challenging prevailing tendencies in US wartime communications by presenting progressive reforms proceeding in Latin America as more advanced than was politically feasible in the United States. These claims are dramatised and softened by complex synchronised scores. The films demonstrated the very problem of middle-class development as a highly gendered negotiation of national development. Bryan’s constructionist film education of often xenophobic US audiences on Latin America reframed the role of the spoken voice-over familiar from early cinema’s film lecturer, while deploying the newer, through-composed musical synchronisation of the sound film.

Digital Connectivity

2018 ◽  
pp. 560-578
Author(s):  
Tania Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Food Cultures ◽  
Food Activism ◽  
Cultural Economies ◽  
Key Participants

Digital connectivity has become central to the daily lives of billions of people throughout the world. This chapter employs the growing digitization of food as a way of grounding and materializing people’s engagements with the digital. The first section discusses the role of digital connectivity in relation to lifestyle and consumption. The next section on cultural economies of participation discusses the growing role of ordinary people as key participants in online food cultures in terms of the rise of “prosumerism” via video-sharing platforms such as YouTube. The third section turns to questions of food politics and the digital and also the constraints and affordances of digital connectivity in relation to food activism. The final section discusses the growing role of transnational corporate food players in social media space and the limits of data sharing and so-called informational transparency in an era of data monitoring and “big data.”

Medialisierung und Mediatisierung

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Birkner
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication

Mediatization is of the most successful yet most often discussed approaches used in media and communication studies. The issues of media change and societal change are central in this respect, with two traditions having developed, which examine the role of the media in our modern society in different ways (qualitative v quantitative methods). The research focus could be divided between a) changes to communication in humans’ daily lives, for example through smartphones, and b) influences of the mass media in different areas of society such as politics, the economy and sport. The second edition of this book, which has been revised and updated, explains the origins of these approaches, presents key studies and findings on them and discusses their similarities and differences.

Who/What is Marshall McLuhan?

2000 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Donald F. Theall
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Critical Area ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Culture And Communication

McLuhan's work intervenes in the critical area where new problems of embodiment are related to modernist and avant-garde interest in the harmonisation of the senses and the role of the artist as an engineer. McLuhan uses Joyce, the English-speaking modernists and the symbolists to intuit and explore this orientation in which electric technologies modify communication — production, reproduction and dissemination. McLuhan's ‘the medium is the message’ anticipates the present convergence of medium and message in the microcomputer. McLuhan placed on the agenda a whole new vocabulary, and consequently a new conceptual structure for the investigation of art, literature, culture and communication. His agenda penetrated academic, artistic, popular and official culture while currently a McLuhanesque vocabulary has permeated not only culture and communication studies but also media and bureaucracy. McLuhan was not a theorist, but interested in probes, percepts and affects grounded in a commitment to the traditions of classical learning adapting ancient modes of exegesis to the newly emerging world of post-electric technologies.

Indian Influences on Balinese Culture : The Role of Hinduism and Buddhism in Present Day Bali

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
I Ketut Ardhana ◽  
I Nyoman Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The People

Indian culture has dominantly influenced the Indonesian people, particularly in the western part of the archipelago. This, which started centuries ago, can still be seen in the peoples’ daily lives in social, cultural, economic and political matters. Both the Hindu and Buddhist lessons have been practiced in Bali, although it is argued that the Buddhist lessons had been developed earlier than the Hindu ones. These developments have strongly characterized Balinese daily life, so, it is very important to understand how the people anticipate and solve some crucial issues regarding the processes of modernization and globalization. There are some important questions that need to be addressed on the Indian influences in strengthening the Balinese culture from the earlier periods until the modern and even postmodern times. In this case, the specific questions are: Firstly, how did the Balinese accept these two lessons in their daily lives in the context of Balinization processes? Secondly, what kinds of tangible and intangible cultures of the Hindu and Buddhist lessons can be seen in the present day Bali? Thirdly, how do they strengthen the Bali identity or Balinization,  known as “Ajeg Bali”? Through this analysis, it is expected to have a better understanding of the issues of social, cultural, economic and political changes in Indonesia in general and Bali in particular in modern and postmodern times.

scholarly journals IUPAC Periodic Table Challenge

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Juris Meija ◽  
Javier Garcia-Martinez ◽  
Jan Apotheker
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Periodic Table ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The World

AbstractIn 2019, the world celebrated the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT2019) and the IUPAC centenary. This happy coincidence offered a unique opportunity to reflect on the value and work that is carried out by IUPAC in a range of activities, including chemistry awareness, appreciation, and education. Although IUPAC curates the Periodic Table and oversees regular additions and changes, this icon of science belongs to the world. With this in mind, we wanted to create an opportunity for students and the general public to participate in this global celebration. The objective was to create an online global competition centered on the Periodic Table and IUPAC to raise awareness of the importance of chemistry in our daily lives, the richness of the chemical elements, and the key role of IUPAC in promoting chemistry worldwide. The Periodic Table Challenge was the result of this effort.

Concurrent and Lagged Relations between Emotion Regulation and Affect in Adolescents’ Daily Life

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliana Silva ◽  
Teresa Freire ◽  
Susana Faria
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Trait Level

AbstractA better understanding of emotion regulation (ER) within daily life is a growing focus of research. This study evaluated the average use of two ER strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) and concurrent and lagged relationships between these two ER strategies and affect (positive and negative affect) in the daily lives of adolescents. We also investigated the role of the same strategies at the trait level on these within-person relationships. Thirty-three adolescents provided 1,258 reports of their daily life by using the Experience Sampling Method for one week. Regarding the relative use of ER strategies, cognitive reappraisal (M = 2.87, SD = 1.58) was used more often than expressive suppression (M = 2.42, SD = 1.21). While the use of both strategies was positively correlated when evaluated in daily life (p = .01), the same did not occur at the trait level (p = .37). Multilevel analysis found that ER strategies were concurrently related to affect (p < .01), with the exception of cognitive reappraisal-positive affect relationship (p = .11). However, cognitive reappraisal predicted higher positive affect at the subsequent sampling moment ( β = 0.07, p = .03). The concurrent associations between cognitive reappraisal and negative affect vary as function of the use of this strategy at the trait level (β = 0.05, p = .02). Our findings highlighted the complex associations between daily ER strategies and affect of a normative sample of adolescents.

scholarly journals Meaningful activities during COVID-19 lockdown and association with mental health in Belgian adults

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cruyt Ellen ◽  
De Vriendt Patricia ◽  
De Letter Miet ◽  
Vlerick Peter ◽  
Calders Patrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Resilience Scale

Abstract Background The spread of COVID-19 has affected people’s daily lives, and the lockdown may have led to a disruption of daily activities and a decrease of people’s mental health. Aim To identify correlates of adults’ mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium and to assess the role of meaningful activities in particular. Methods A cross-sectional web survey for assessing mental health (General Health Questionnaire), resilience (Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale), meaning in activities (Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey), and demographics was conducted during the first Belgian lockdown between April 24 and May 4, 2020. The lockdown consisted of closing schools, non-essential shops, and recreational settings, employees worked from home or were technically unemployed, and it was forbidden to undertake social activities. Every adult who had access to the internet and lived in Belgium could participate in the survey; respondents were recruited online through social media and e-mails. Hierarchical linear regression was used to identify key correlates. Results Participants (N = 1781) reported low mental health (M = 14.85/36). In total, 42.4% of the variance in mental health could be explained by variables such as gender, having children, living space, marital status, health condition, and resilience (β = −.33). Loss of meaningful activities was strongly related to mental health (β = −.36) and explained 9% incremental variance (R2 change = .092, p < .001) above control variables. Conclusions The extent of performing meaningful activities during the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium was positively related to adults’ mental health. Insights from this study can be taken into account during future lockdown measures in case of pandemics.

Financial Access of Latin America and Caribbean Firms: What Are the Roles of Institutional, Financial, and Economic Development?

2021 ◽  
pp. 097265272110153
Author(s):  
Lan Khanh Chu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Latin America And Caribbean ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

This article examines the impact of institutional, financial, and economic development on firms’ access to finance in Latin America and Caribbean region. Based on firm- and country-level data from the World Bank databases, we employ an ordered logit model to understand the direct and moderating role of institutional, financial, and economic development in determining firms’ financial obstacles. The results show that older, larger, facing less competition and regulation burden, foreign owned, and affiliated firms report lower obstacles to finance. Second, better macro-fundamentals help to lessen the level of obstacles substantially. Third, the role of institutions in promoting firms’ inclusive finance is quite different to the role of financial development and economic growth. JEL classification: E02; G10; O16; P48

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