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Techniques to Translate Anthroponyms and Toponyms in the Modern English Literary Tale
Authors: Smirnova Dar'ya Alekseevna , Abdul'manova Adelya Khamitovna
Published: February 2020

In accordance with the research objective, the article reveals peculiarities of the modern English literary tale, analyses anthroponyms and toponyms identified in D. W. Jones’ works, for the first time examines strategies and peculiarities of their translation into Russian. The authors describe the basic techniques used to translate anthroponyms and toponyms (ways of naming), translation versions and techniques used in translation of anthroponyms and toponyms, and examine in detail the problems that occur while transferring them for the Russian-speaking children’s audience. Ways of solving the arising problems are suggested.
Teaching Punctuation in the English-Language Scientific and Technical Text to Master’s Degree Students
Authors: Vlasko Natal'ya Konstantinovna , Vilkova Polina Vladimirovna , Kirichko Nataliya Vyacheslavovna
Published: February 2020

The paper aims to identify punctuation marks frequently used in scientific and technical texts. Knowing specificity of their usage allows future scientists to arrange the English-language texts taking into account genre and stylistic peculiarities of professional discourse. The research objective also includes development of exercises focused on the formation of students’ punctuation skills. The authors analyse causes and consequences of punctuation mistakes made by the Russian-speaking authors of the English-language scientific texts. Relevance of the study is conditioned by the fact that the findings contribute significantly to the methodology of teaching academic writing under the conditions of impetuous development of international cooperation in the sphere of scientific and technical information.
Lesson of the Russian (Native) Language in the Aspect of Forming a Schoolchild’s Ethno-Cultural Identity
Authors: Truntseva Tat'yana Nikolaevna
Published: February 2020

The article examines the stages of the Russian lesson focused on forming a schoolchild’s ethno-cultural identity through a problem-based situation in the process of studying integral categories of language and culture; through transformation of linguo-culturological, culturological information into integral culturological knowledge in the process of research activity. The author’s attention is focused on organizing written speech activity that satisfies schoolchildren’s need for ethno-cultural identification at the stage of integration of linguo-culturological and culturological knowledge.
“The Man Who Wished...” (Principles of Comical Inadequacy in Chekhov’s “The Seagull”)
Authors: Kichigina Viktoriya Viktorovna
Published: February 2020

The article examines implementation of principles of the comical in A. P. Chekhov’s play “The Seagull”. Traditional philological and scenic interpretations of the play emphasize its dramatic, even tragic element, and, consequently, the tragic side of conflict. The study aims to identify the basic motivation of conflict and to justify its comic nature. For this purpose, the researcher examines the author’s genre attribution through the lenses of the classical definition of comedy based on the inadequacy principle. The conclusion is made that the personages’ all-encompassing envy is the basic genre-formative feature of the play.
Mytho-Poetical Mentality of Homo Naturalis in the Late Dialect Tradition (by the Material of the Kuban Dialect Culture)
Authors: Tregubova Elena Nikolaevna
Published: February 2020

The article for the first time examines mytho-poetical mentality of Homo Naturalis as a basis of perception and interpretation of reality. The study is conducted by the material of discursive practices of the late dialect tradition, which contain the mythological layer relevant for the modern tradition bearers. The ethno-linguistic and cognitive-discursive analysis has allowed the author to identify the category “demiurge”, which refers to the sphere “a human being and nature” and belongs to the scientific field of social anthropology.
Early Modern Age as a Historical Period in World and Domestic Historiography
Authors: Krylov Aleksei Olegovich
Published: February 2020

The article analyses the origin and evolution of the “Early Modern Age” conception in world and domestic historiography. The author discovers to what extent the views regarding chronological frameworks and distinctive features of the Early Modern Age are associated with philosophical and sociological conceptions of the modernity of the XIX-XX centuries, traces evolution of the term meaning: from the “stage of social development” towards the “historical epoch” in broad understanding. The paper reveals specificity of the Early Modern Age interpretation in domestic historical science of the beginning of the XXI century.
Philosophy as Science of Consciousness (G. W. F. Hegel)
Authors: Torubarova Tat'yana Viktorovna
Published: February 2020

The article considers interpretation of philosophy as science of consciousness in Hegel’s metaphysics. In this connection, the paper discusses the problem of the scientific status of philosophy. It is shown that Hegel’s metaphysical approach to philosophical science is associated with the metaphysical conception, which considers existence as consciousness. The key principles determining understanding of philosophy as science of consciousness are revealed. The conducted analysis shows that absolute knowledge principle forms the basis of Hegel’s theoretical studies on the notion of science and plays a key role in constituting a human being as an absolute subject of his actions.
Masculinity Ethos and Father Status in the Buryat Society
Authors: Anandaeva Tsyndyma Tsympilovna
Published: February 2020

The article provides an analysis of one of the basic masculine identities - paternity. The author shows the role of the father as a key figure in the intra-family relations system, evaluates his contribution to education and formation of a child’s personality, identifies his place in the structure of the traditional Buryat society and family. Five father statuses (roles) are considered within the broader framework of social institutions commonly known as the institution of paternity. Specificity of paternity in the Buryat society is emphasized. The researcher’s attention is focused on axiological definitions associated with different spheres of social life.
Musical-Rhetorical Figures in Romanticism Heritage: Discussions on Research Methodology
Authors: Mal'tseva Anastasiya Aleksandrovna
Published: February 2020

The article discusses whether it would be relevant to analyse XIX-century compositions on the basis of musical-rhetorical figure terminology adopted from the treaties of the XVII - the first half of the XVIII century and constituting the foundation of a highly relevant hermeneutic model. The situation in the German and Austrian musicology is considered. Taking an article by L. Hoffmann-Erbrecht as an example, the researcher examines the author’s criteria for the choice of methodology to analyse F. Schubert’s songs. The conclusion is made about the necessity of conscious approach when choosing terminology to describe musical-semantic phenomena in compositions of the romanticism epoch.
Interactivity of Modern Material and Virtual Graphic Design Product
Authors: Gabrielyan Tigran Olegovich
Published: February 2020

The article considers communicative peculiarities of linear, reactive, dialogic interactivity. For the first time the paper suggests a classification of material and virtual graphic design products according to types of interactivity. The author identifies specificity of product interactivity, which is determined by the fact that design product activation occurs in virtual environment and representation - in the real one. Artistic and design peculiarities of figurativeness of such design products are described.
Musical Instruments of Cham Mystery
Authors: Zhigmitova Aryuna Arsalanovna
Published: February 2020

The article examines musical instruments used in Cham mystery - a kind of the Buddhist worship. The Tibetan music has ancient roots and, being a religious phenomenon, is characterized by conservatism and stability. Cham mystery is a masked dance requiring special plastique of a body and hands and accompanied by peculiar music of the unique Lamaist orchestra. Such issues as functions of musical accompaniment, correlation of certain instruments and leitmotivs with personages are considered; the author provides information about archaic musical instruments of the Lamaist orchestra, identifies instruments borrowed from the traditional Buryat culture.
European Safety in the Context of Russia-NATO Relations in the Black Sea Region in the Post-Bipolar Period
Authors: Smaglo Pavel Nikolaevich , Shasheva Susanna Vladimirovna
Published: February 2020

The article analyses the problem of forming the safety system in the Black Sea region after the USSR breakdown and its influence on Russia-NATO relations. The authors argue that restoration of Russia’s status as a big regional and global actor, including strengthening of its military power in the Black Sea region, has changed balance of power and provoked a conflict of interests. For the first time, the article suggests measures to stabilize Russia-NATO relations on the basis of equivalence of their military potentials in the Black Sea region.
Introduction
Authors: Thomsen Line
Published: February 2020

What is journalism? How does it exist and why? How does journalism define itself and in what ways can we make use of looking theoretically at the practice of it?

These were the central themes of our workshop; Theoretical Models as Mass Media Practice held at the ‘Minding the Gap’ conference at Reuters Institute in May 2007, from which this collection of papers has been selected. As with the other workshops during the conference, the majority of our panellists were themselves once media practitioners. It is my opinion that this background and inside knowledge of the field in itself can provide an exceptional framework for understanding the workings of mass media while helping the press reflect over these workings too. In a time of change for the journalistic profession, when media convergence is growing; the media is marked by deregulation and fewer journalists are being asked to do more, there is an increased need for the profession to get involved in debating the core values of its existence.
Steve Jobs: the human logo
Authors: Peacock Chloe
Published: February 2020

This paper will focus on the idea of the ‘human logo’ by exploring the example of Steve Jobs (the CEO of Apple Computers Inc.). Specifically this paper will investigate the notion that in the period of late-modernity ‘people’ increasingly have been able to brand themselves. This involves a type of commodification of the self for public consumption. Equally people have come to represent branded forms of knowledge, in the same way that a more traditional logo works as a sign to represent a wider system of beliefs. Findings from a discourse analysis of Jobs’ 2005 commencement address to a group of Stanford University graduates were compared with secondary sources about Jobs, and reoccurring discourses produced by consumer interviews. Conclusions look at how Jobs, through reflexively constructing for public consumption a ‘lifestyle project’ (Giddens, 1991), mediates between producer and consumer.
Explaining Media Frames of Contested Foreign Conflicts: Irish National ‘Opinion Leader’ Newspapers’ Frames of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (July 2000 to July 2004)
Authors: O'Regan Mary
Published: February 2020

This paper discusses the key findings of PhD research that analysed how four Irish national ‘opinion leader’ newspapers – The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and the Sunday Tribune – framed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from July 2000 to July 2004 (O’Regan, 2007).

Two sets of significant findings emerged from this research. Firstly, this research’s qualitative frame analysis found that the sampled newspapers acted as contested sites that variously displayed competing frames of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rather than exclusively transmitting hegemonic, or elitist frames. Secondly, it was concluded that the politics and dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict itself influenced newspaper coverage trends, as did the politico-cultural context supplied by Ireland’s ‘small state’ and post-colonial status and its consequent lack of ‘hard’ foreign policies towards the Middle East. A range of media factors, such as resource constraints, editorial judgments and news values, also had important constructivist implications for newspaper outcomes.

Taken together, these findings strongly critique the propaganda, hegemonic and political control perspectives that have characterised research to date. Instead, this research concluded that competing conflict protagonists’ level of media access is best viewed as an achieved outcome, which changes in line with developments in the wider political and media environments and in the operation of news factors.
Igorots in the Blogosphere: Claiming Spaces, Re-constructing Identities
Authors: Longboan Liezel C.
Published: February 2020

Indigenous peoples in the Philippines have rarely been covered by the mainstream media, despite comprising 20 percent of the country’s total population. Lacking access to the media due to various constraints, they have had limited opportunities to create content themselves. But the emergence of the Internet, particularly blogs, is now providing members of indigenous communities with the much-needed space for self-expression. More particularly, several indigenous groups in North Luzon, collectively known as Igorots, are using blogs more extensively to re-construct and re-present their ethnic identity in cyberspace. For this paper, I shall describe how a group of Igorot bloggers protested about a controversial Igorot statue and how this eventually led to its removal.
Blogging in China: Freedom of Expression vs Political Censorship in Sexual and Satirical Blogs
Authors: Thang Hai
Published: February 2020

The growing use of the web log reveals a radical socio-cultural transition and a progressing public sphere in China. In particular, bloggers actively exchange interests, comments and values and have formed a characteristically Chinese blogging culture. The feature of individualism shows that bloggers who insist on freedom of expression and pursue personal ideas can always find a place in the blogosphere. The two examples given in this paper – Muzimei’s sexual diary and Wang Xiaofeng’s satirical blog – demonstrate that individual opinions across the blogosphere have significantly reflected public consensus and implicitly changed political culture. However, the pursuit of freedom of expression in the blogosphere has to struggle with a strong political censorship, negotiate an unstable living space and thus, can only enjoy a limited success. Therefore, critical communication and democratic participation in China still have a long way to go.
‘We’re on Flashdrive or CD-ROM’: Disassembly and Deletion in the Digital Noir of Collateral
Authors: Gaine Vincent M.
Published: February 2020

This paper analyses the inflection of film noir that occurs in Michael Mann’s Collateral, adding to a thread by Paul Schrader, John G. Cawelti and David Desser. These arguments are applied to Collateral, which features a distinctive aesthetic that I argue is ‘digital noir’. Collateral both adheres to and departs from the features of noir, presenting an environment that is similar to an information system in which lives are comparable to computer programs. The film’s digital cinematography blurs people and places together, reducing the very presence of the characters into digital information, captured by the camera for easier manipulation.
Indeterminate Film-thinking and Interpretation
Authors: Billingham Jimmy
Published: February 2020

I challenge David Bordwell's distinction between the act of comprehension and the process of interpretation in the construction of meaning in narrative film, drawing on Wolfgang Iser’s concept of indeterminacy and Daniel Frampton's concept of film-thinking and the 'filmind' to demonstrate that in understanding narrative as a series of causally linked events the viewer segments and forms determinate relationships between events presented in the narrative. This activity can be facilitated by the thinking of the filmind by presenting events in their causal order, providing expositional information and by limiting possible causal combinations, such that a deviation from these practices of narrative articulation leads to an increased amount of indeterminacy between events, requiring more interpretative activity on the part of the viewer to connect them in cause and effect relationships, and in so doing 'completing' the narrative-thinking of the filmind.
Wots Not Queer: the Search for Sexual Representation in Audience Research
Authors: Haslop Craig
Published: February 2020

‘New audience research’ is a well established field within media and cultural studies. However, an analysis of audience studies since the 1970s demonstrates that issues of sexual identity have rarely been addressed. In this article, I argue the dominance of class and gender in the development of new audience research, and the influence of poststructuralism in queer studies, have contributed to the ‘queer’ being ‘sidelined’ in audience research. By critically analysing existing textual queer media research, I attempt to demonstrate why we need more audience research which addresses both the queer audience and representations of sexuality and sexual identity.
Mohamed “el-Limby” Saad and the Popularization of a Masculine Code
Authors: Van Eynde Koen
Published: February 2020

This paper investigates the representation of masculinity in contemporary popular Egyptian cinema as portrayed by Mohamed Saad and his immensely popular “el-Limby” character, as well as the variations to it. Mohamed Saad is a very famous Egyptian actor, who has become popular in a short period of time. The paper draws on several key concepts in the study of the identification with star personae in cinema as well as gender studies. Identification with the el-Limby character is essential for the popularity of the films. He portrays the image of what could be considered the opposite of masculine characteristics as they are generally defined in Egyptian society. Yet he is sympathetic to the audience and they do not mind identifying with his character(s).

The question addressed is if and how the construction of a certain type of masculinity is related to both the popularity and decline of the characters. To address this question, the article analyzes and constructs the masculinity in the el-Limby movies and their variations. The paper then explores how these variations have worked to create a sense of estrangement in the audience, which is verified by the movies’ decline in popularity.
Film Studies at Kent
Authors: Jeffers McDonald Tamar
Published: February 2020

Film Studies at Kent
Re-Envisioning the Artist Hero Through Two Cole Porter Biopics
Authors: Johnston Derek
Published: February 2020

Songwriter Cole Porter is unusual in having had two biopics based on his life: Night and Day (1946) starring Cary Grant, and De-Lovely (2004), starring Kevin Kline. The differences in the treatment of the character of Cole Porter between the films are striking, and indicate a change in the way that society envisions its artists, and the very act of creativity. Night and Day was conceived partly as a showcase of Porter's songs, but also as a means of providing inspiration to soldiers returning wounded from World War II, based on Porter's recovery from a traumatic riding accident. It depicts Porter as an everyman following a trajectory of achievement, from having little to great success, which was positioned as easy to emulate. De-Lovely, on the other hand, is about the relationship between Porter and his wife Linda, and the way that his creativity was influenced by his changing relationships with various people. Drawing on the work on biopics of scholars such as G.F.Custen, together with research into the shifting ideas of how creativity operates and is popularly understood, this article uses these biopics as case studies to examine the representation of changing concepts of the artist and the act of creativity through Hollywood film. It also considers how these changing conceptions and representations connect to shifts in American society.
SNS in India: Gossip as a Vehicle of Activism
Authors: Ray Paula
Published: February 2020

Statistics indicate that Facebook has more women users than men. A Mashable report released in 2010 claims that women in the age-group of 18-34 check their Facebook first thing in the morning, even before going to the bathroom. This can be linked to the chatty nature of interaction within social networking sites (SNS). Gossip need not be flippant, but can gratify the actor, as evident from the women’s communities actively promoting causes online and garnering public support for social, economic and political issues. SNS is quickly becoming a means of facilitating gender-based activism. What makes it more interesting, these women do not have to shun their domestic duties to become an actor in these global networks; they can very well partake in it from the confines of their kitchen. It can be argued that SNS has overcome the limitation of the ‘gendered media’ and has provided activists with the vehicle to organize their cause and promote participation for cross-border movements – traditional means of activism were perhaps never as swift. But how do they draw on SNS, particularly Facebook, to further their causes and what is the nature of the issues they engage in? To explore these questions, I take up India as a case study. Initial research indicates that digital activists are raising concerns about the way this communication tool is being used and the kind of the issues being raised.
All the Memory in the World, All the Music in the World: Mediating Musical Patrimony in the Digital Age
Authors: Roy Elodie Amandine
Published: February 2020

In this article, I will examine the internet through the lens of consumption and waste studies. The internet will be conceived of as the place where the cultural waste of music – in the form of marginal artefacts and obsolete media (such as vinyl records, tapes, and ephemera) – can effectively be excavated, recirculated and re-mediated by means of systematic digitisation and uploading. The redemptive role of popular and spontaneous digital archives (such as the video platform YouTube or dedicated audio blogs) will be critically examined. Complementarily, I will underline the idea that the internet also encourages a paradoxical return of tangible artefacts, as the work of digital music collectors may prompt the actual reissue of previously lost music objects (a tendency that is exemplified in the UK by the work of British contemporary reissue record labels such as Trunk Records or Finders Keepers). The internet will be discussed as an ambiguous site of redemption, forming the basis for a nostalgic retro-consumption of music. As such, it will be conceived of as a site of memory and as a possible archive, though the ambiguity of such a term will be discussed. I will reflect upon the cultural meaning of digital archives that, as they are ceaselessly renewed, continue to erase themselves. Lastly, I will suggest that the forms of redemption that are enabled by the internet are strictly inseparable from the production of further layers of cultural waste. Departing from Straw's assertion that the internet ‘has strengthened the cultural weight of the past, increasing its intelligibility and accessibility’ (2007, 4), I will point out that the internet may accelerate the processes of cultural obsolescence and oblivion that it seeks to suspend.
‘Look What We Have Gone Through’: Representation and Memory in the Bogside Murals in Northern Ireland
Authors: Aguiar Laura
Published: February 2020

Murals have been painted on the outside walls of houses and businesses in Northern Ireland and have functioned as visual evidence of people’s experiences of the conflict known as the Troubles. Created in 1994, The People’s Gallery is a series of twelve murals painted by three local artists in the Bogside district in Derry. This article examines how the murals ‘remember’ the conflict, what stories are included or excluded, how ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ are portrayed, and how the depiction of the past relates to the present. The analysis shows that the murals focus on the Bogside’s own experiences, portraying ‘Us’ as victims and as activists. The Other is represented directly by the image of the British army/RUC, and indirectly by the image of the chaos and violence caused to ‘Us’. Due to the lack of sectarian messages, The People’s Gallery can have a positive use as a storytelling tool in Northern Ireland’s current transitional scenario.
MeCCSA PGN 2014 Conference Special Issue Introduction
Authors: Rauh Ortega Andreas , Dawes Simon
Published: February 2020

This is the editorial introduction to the MeCCSA PGN 2014 Conference Special Issue.
MeCCSA-PGN 2015 Conference Special Issue Introduction
Authors: Dawes Simon
Published: February 2020

This is the editorial introduction to a special issue based on the MeCCSA-PGN 2015 Conference.
Transformative Images, Temporality and Infra-structures of Feeling: An Interview with Rebecca Coleman
Authors: Broekhuizen Francien , Dawes Simon , Mikelli Danai , Wilde Poppy
Published: February 2020

In this follow-up interview to her keynote lecture at the MeCCSA-PGN 2015 Conference in Coventry, Rebecca Coleman discusses the affective relations between bodies, images and environments. Coleman offers an overview of her work on images and the body, as well as her interest in theorising the present and the future, and explains her engagement with feminism, new materialism and Deleuze, in particular. To understand how bodies ‘become’, she argues for the need to understand both process, transformation and change, and what stays, sticks or gets stopped.
‘Explode All Our Metaphors’ – On the Potential of Sound in Media and Audience Studies. An Interview with Martin Barker
Authors: Zaborowski Rafal
Published: February 2020

In this interview Martin Barker discusses his recent studies concerning audience experiences of organised sound. Complicating a multi-sensory approach, he engages with a number of contested notions in the field, such as liveness or visualisation, and suggests that empirical work is necessary to better understand what they mean for the audiences – but methodologically, such empirical work is not without challenges. Reviewing a number of interdisciplinary publications, Barker argues that research of sound can help open up the field of audience studies, but to do that, we need a careful, historical analysis of sound audiences across time and place.
Introduction to Make, Mistake, Journey: Practice-led research and ways of learning
Authors: Clough Alice , Piper Anna
Published: February 2020

This article introduces the special issue 'Make, Mistake, Journey:  Practice-led research and ways of learning'
How to open my eyes? The performance-lecture as a method within artistic research
Authors: Cerezo Belén
Published: February 2020

This paper presents and examines my research/work How to open my eyes? as a case study attempting to highlight the tactic of the performance-lecture as an important critical method within artistic research. As a brief definition, the performance-lecture is a hybrid and heterodox form what contains performative and discursive components. Since the 1990s the performance-lecture is gaining prominence within contemporary artistic practices and the number of visual and performance artists that use this format is growing. However, David Ladnar noted that despite its ubiquity, the notion of the performance-lecture is still contested and the bibliography on it is short. Within this context, and focusing on artistic research, the aim of this paper is to analyse how the performance-lecture operates as a method that generates new knowledge, drawing on the interrogation of the research/work How to open my eyes? produced practice-led PhD enquiry, on some of the bibliography on the format of the performance-lecture and on my experience as a part of the audience of several performance-lectures.
Jumping the digital divide: How do “silver surfers” and “digital immigrants” use social media?
Authors: Fietkiewicz Kaja
Published: February 2020

For a long time, a digital divide was given between young Web users and older population, which out of anxiety or incapability restrained from using the new technologies. Recently, the so-called “Silver Surfers” and “Digital Immigrants” tend to use the Web not only for sending emails but also increasingly for socializing on social media services (e.g., Kübler 2009; Frees & Koch 2015). This paper aims to discuss the differences in use and adoption of social media platforms between different generations. An online questionnaire was created and distributed among social media users of all ages. The results indicate that the older generations represented a not insignificant part of social media community. They often use Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family, some apply Twitter and are fond of new followers and many re-tweets, and others just enjoy new videos on YouTube. There indeed appear to exist inter-generational differences in social media usage. In addition, data analysis leads to the conclusion that there are intra-generational gender-dependent particularities as well.
Position-in-frame
Authors: Moore Cath
Published: February 2020

An integral connection point between the screenplay and reader/viewer is the protagonist’s transformative journey.  The construction of this narrative backbone is critical to the articulation of overarching thematic concerns and story premise but also reflects the story creator’s worldview- one often coloured by representations of gender.  The Hollywood model certainly divides narrative function along gender lines but does this representation hold true within a different cultural context?  This article examines the selected screen stories of Danish director Susanne Bier whose partnership with screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen is one of Denmark’s most successful film partnerships.  Employing a case study methodology I examine the dramatic function of and agency afforded screen characters and the critical dynamic between cultural landscape, practitioner preference and narrative inquiry.  Key to this address is an exploration of mobility, legacy and sacrifice as textual considerations of gender and its utilisation as transnational narrative strategy.
‘We Are Not Things’: Infertility, Reproduction, and Rhetoric of Control in Avengers: Age of Ultron and Mad Max: Fury Road
Authors: Rowson Emily
Published: February 2020

Pregnancy occupies an uncertain position in Hollywood cinema, and discussions of infertility are notably absent. Indeed, two blockbusters (Avengers: Age of Ultron and Mad Max: Fury Road) invested in the politics and rhetoric of reproduction met with disparate critical and popular opinion. This article will examine the potential reasons for this, whilst establishing ideological parity between the films.
Introduction
Authors: Castaldo Lunden Elizabeth
Published: February 2020

This special issue belongs to a series of activities under the umbrella denomination “Studying and Exploring the Intersections of Fashion, Film, and Media Studies,” created in 2014 by film scholar Anne Bachmann and I. Our goal was to promote an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of fashion, film, and media. This venture was launched with two activities at the 2015 edition of the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, in Montreal. The first activity consisted of a panel featuring the on-going projects of four Ph.D. students working with these combined fields.[1]  The second activity consisted of a workshop, in which presentations opened to discussions addressing how the use of archival material and film fan magazines, combined with film studies’ methodological approach to history, could benefit fashion research.[2] This workshop expanded into a Symposium at Stockholm University featuring established scholars who pioneered research in these fields of studies combined. This special issue of Networking Knowledge seeks to include early career researchers in such conversation, broadening the network of scholars and the combined field of expertise. Since its inception, a historical approach has been encouraged by the founders of this project. Yet, the semiotic roots used for textual analysis of costume design shall not be overlooked. In this sense, this special issue intends to present a panorama of the heterogeneous nature of studies in these interconnected fields.

 

[1] The panel was titled “Industry Crossovers: Key Women in Fashion, Film, and Media,” with Michelle Tolini Finamore as respondent, SCMS Conference, Montreal.

[2] The workshop featured presentations by Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Jenny Romero, and Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén. Because Fashion Matters: Studying the Intersections of Fashion, Film, and Media, SCMS Conference, Montreal, 29th March 2015.
Book Review: Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television
Authors: Sweet Anne
Published: February 2020

This book review analyses Amanda Lotz's work on the evolution of the television industry and the rise of streaming platforms, or 'portals', like Netflix.
"IMPLEMENTASI PEMURIDAN KONTEKSTUAL SEORANG PENDETA DALAM MERANGKUL KEMBALI ANGOTA JEMAAT YANG LALAI”
Authors: JoniMambela
Published: February 2020

Melihat fenomena sekarang ini yang terjadi di dalam lingkungan sebagai suatu keluarga Allah, sudah banyak orang percaya menjauhkan diri dari persekutaun. Bukan hal itu saja, orang percaya juga sekarang ini kita bisa katakan dengan sebuah istilah “Kristen KTP saja”. Mengapa demikian, karena mereaka hanya mengaku kristen tapi mereka tidak melakukan apa yang seharusnya menjadi ajaran dalam kekristen. Masalah ini sering kita jumpai dalam kehidupan berjemaat, mereka yang dulunya rajin mengikuti persekutuan, tetapi entah mengapa mereka sudah lalai untuk mengikuti persekutuan. Disinilah sangat dibituhkan seorang gembala atau pendeta dalam merangkul kembali mereka yang sudah tidak berada dijalan yang benar, dan membawa mereka kembali ke jalan yang benar karena itu adalah tugas yang paling penting sebagai seorang gembala dalam mengembalakan umat Tuhan.
ATTITUDES TOWARDS ECT: A SURVEY OF POLISH MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Authors: Antosik-Wójcińska Anna , Gazdag Gabor , Święcicki Łukasz , Majtczak Beata , Rybakowski Janusz , Gosek Paweł , Wichniak Adam
Published: February 2020

Background: Although the efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been well established, the utilization rate of ECT has decreased in Poland in recent years. One of the main reasons could be the negative attitude towards ECT in the community and by mental health professionals. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge about and attitudes toward ECT in Polish mental health professionals including psychiatrists and non-physicians: nurses, psychologists, social workers.Subject and methods: Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in two large Polish hospitals were approached to participate in the survey by completing a 28-item questionnaire. The specific hospitals have been selected due to the fact that they were located in the same province of Poland (Mazowsze), had similar catchment area and profile, provided similar mental health services with only one exception; one offered ECT while the other did not. Of the 185 questionnaires that had been distributed, 165 were completed yielding a response rate of 89.19%. The study population consists of 85 psychiatrists and trainees and 80 nonphysicians.Results: Psychiatrists did not differ from other mental health professionals with respect to the knowledge and attitudes toward ECT. However, there were significant differences in the attitude (9.1±3.8 vs 7.1±3.3; p<0.001) and knowledge (5.9±3.8 vs 2.8±4.1; p<0.001) scores between those professionals, who have ever worked in a psychiatric ward where they could observe ECT sessions and those who have not had such an opportunity.Conclusions: Frequent witnessing of ECT sessions seems to be the most effective educational intervention to change negative attitudes towards ECT.
tugas mpst visca
Authors: memory Visca cindi
Published: February 2020

Allah bertindak dalam sejarah bangsa Israel, membebaskan mereka dari perbudakan di Mesir dan menyatakan kemurahan hati, kesetiaan dan prihatin terhadap keadilan dan kebebasan.Sebagai bentuk Refleksi Iman maka selayaknyalah gereja sebagai bentuk persekutuan untuk melakukan pelayanan kasih (Diakonia) perawatan preventif dan kuratif, mencegah dan menyembuhkan membantu mereka yang tidak mendapatkan bantuan oleh karena ketidakadilan sebagai masyarakat miskin sehingga menjadikan-Nya murid’’(Matius 28:19).Komunitas iman dapat mendukung seorang Kristen dalam saat-saat krisis dan pergumulan berat untuk mengatasi ketidakadilan, serta dapat menantang anggota-anggotanya untuk terus berjuang dalam transformasi sosial menuju masyarakat yang berkeadilan. Orang Kristen menyatakan keberpihakan pada orang miskin karena Allah berpihak pada orang miskin.
Human Networks and Data Science (NSF 19-608): Uncovering the "dark matter" of research
Authors: Nosek Brian A. , Milojevic Stasa , Pentchev Valentin , Yan Xiaoran , Litherland David M , Pfeiffer Nicole , Krall Tina , Grasty Fielding L. , Errington Timothy M. , Fortunato Santo , McCranie Ann , Silva Filipi Nascimento , Wittenberg Jamie Viva , Brooks Ronald E
Published: February 2020

With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Center for Open Science (COS) and Indiana University will create a dynamic, distributed, and heterogeneous data source for the advancement of science of science research. This will be achieved by using, enhancing, and combining the capabilities of the Open Science Framework (OSF) and the Collaborative Archive & Data Research Environment (CADRE). With over 200,000 users (currently growing by >220 per day), many thousands of projects, registrations, and papers, millions of files stored and managed, and rich metadata tracking researcher actions, the OSF is already a very rich dataset for investigating the research lifecycle, researcher behaviors, and how those behaviors evolve in the social network. As a cross-university effort, CADRE provides an integrated data mining and collaborative environment for big bibliographic data sets. While still under development, the CADRE platform has already attracted long-term financial commitments from 10 research intensive universities with additional support from multiple infrastructure and industry partners. Connecting these efforts will catalyze transformative research of human networks in the science of science.
Serge Moscovici's "Réflexions sur la popularité des conspiracy mentalities"
Authors: Klein Olivier
Published: February 2020

This is a pdf of the original typed manuscript of a lecture made in 2006. An annotated English translation will be published by the International Review of Social Psychology. I this text, Moscovici seeks to update his earlier work on the “conspiracy mentality” (1987) by considering the relationships between social representations and conspiracy mentality. Innovation in this field, Moscovici argues, will require a much thorough description and understanding of what conspiracy theories are, what rhetoric they use and what functions they fulfill. Specifically, Moscovici considers conspiracies as a form of counterfactual history implying a more desirable world (in which the conspiracy did not take place) and suggests that social representation theory should tackle this phenomenon. He explicitly links conspiracy theories to works of fiction and suggests that common principles might explain their popularity. Historically, he argues, conspiracism was born twice: First, in the middle ages, when their primary function was to exclude and destroy what was considered as heresy; and second, after the French revolution, to delegitimize the Enlightenment, which was attributed to a small coterie of reactionaries rather than to the will of the people. Moscovici then considers four aspects (“thematas”) of conspiracy mentality: 1/ the prohibition of knowledge; 2/ the duality between the majority (the masses, prohibited to know) and “enlightened” minorities; 3/ the search for a common origin, a “ur phenomenon” that connects historical events and provides a continuity to History (he notes that such a tendency is also present in social psychological theorizing); and 4/ the valorization of tradition as a bulwark against modernity. Some of Moscovici’s insights in this talk have since been borne out by contemporary research on the psychology of conspiracy theories, but many others still remain fascinating potential avenues for future research.
A Discriminative Approach to Bayesian Filtering with Applications to Human Neural Decoding
Authors: Burkhart Michael C.
Published: February 2020

Given a stationary state-space model that relates a sequence of hidden states and corresponding measurements or observations, Bayesian filtering provides a principled statistical framework for inferring the posterior distribution of the current state given all measurements up to the present time. For example, the Apollo lunar module implemented a Kalman filter to infer its location from a sequence of earth-based radar measurements and land safely on the moon. To perform Bayesian filtering, we require a measurement model that describes the conditional distribution of each observation given state. The Kalman filter takes this measurement model to be linear, Gaussian. Here we show how a nonlinear, Gaussian approximation to the distribution of state given observation can be used in conjunction with Bayes’ rule to build a nonlinear, non-Gaussian measurement model. The resulting approach, called the Discriminative Kalman Filter (DKF), retains fast closed-form updates for the posterior. We argue there are many cases where the distribution of state given measurement is better-approximated as Gaussian, especially when the dimensionality of measurements far exceeds that of states and the Bernstein—von Mises theorem applies. Online neural decoding for brain-computer interfaces provides a motivating example, where filtering incorporates increasingly detailed measurements of neural activity to provide users control over external devices. Within the BrainGate2 clinical trial, the DKF successfully enabled three volunteers with quadriplegia to control an on-screen cursor in real-time using mental imagery alone. Participant “T9” used the DKF to type out messages on a tablet PC. Nonstationarities, or changes to the statistical relationship between states and measurements that occur after model training, pose a significant challenge to effective filtering. In brain-computer interfaces, one common type of nonstationarity results from wonkiness or dropout of a single neuron. We show how a robust measurement model can be used within the DKF framework to effectively ignore large changes in the behavior of a single neuron. At BrainGate2, a successful online human neural decoding experiment validated this approach against the commonly-used Kalman filter.
Port clusters and economic development of ports.
Authors: Potapova Nataliya , Kravchenko Alla
Published: February 2020

The paper argues that cooperation between port authorities has not yet led to consolidation processes, unlike what has happened in other segments of the chain. Some examples of consolidation at the port authority level are given. It is emphasized that consolidation of port authorities will become inevitable as the economy grows, as well as environmental and social pressures. Therefore, an important condition for successful cooperation projects is the autonomy of port authorities. The need for freedom of port authorities to determine the economic justification for cooperation and the ability to influence these processes is justified. influence this process. If this is not justified, the likelihood of success becomes much lower. It is emphasized that, in addition to formal mergers and alliances, there are a number of other ways in which port authorities now cooperate with various stakeholders. Such funds include joint investments in connection with inland territories in environmental programs, initiatives in the «circular economy» that result in port authorities working together with their industrial clusters, in particular to provide new economic targets for waste such as wastewater, which were used to cool industrial installations, since they can be used further for urban heating. In addition to regional cooperation, ports are also interacting with the «trans-ocean» facility. The World Ports Sustainability Program is a partnership between IAPH and several international port development organizations and demonstrating global port leadership that promotes UN sustainable development and port capacity building. Mergers and alliances have been shown to be exceptional, which is related to the institutional context within most port authorities.
Theoretical aspects of assessment of the economic potential of the enterprise.
Authors: Mamatova Leila , Korniuk Viktoria
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the theoretical aspects of assessing the economic potential of an enterprise, and the essence of existing methodological approaches to its evaluation. The principles, concepts and methods of economic potential assessment are investigated. It is determined that an economic entity's economic potential is characterized by determining the amount of available resources available to the enterprise and the economic impact of their use. The essence of enterprise capital and the role of optimal structure are considered. It is proved that one of the main problems of estimating the potential of the enterprise is the difference between the real and the book value of the capital of the enterprise. As a result of the research, it is stated that the assessment of economic potential requires determination according to the factors of the methodological basis, which will allow to determine quantitative and qualitative aspects of formation and utilization of enterprise potential.
SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AS A FACTOR OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS SELF-REALIZATION
Authors: Lapina V. A. , Kozylov I.S.
Published: February 2020

The article considers the importance of communication among young people, as well as in the trainingof a successful future specialist.It proposes the practical approach to solve the problem of successful communication through extra classes aimed at forming successful communication among students.
ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OF RESEARCH OF FUEL SYSTEM OF YAMZ-238 ENGINE OPERATING
GAS DIESEL CYCLE
Authors: Al-Maidi Ali Abbas Hashim , Chernetsov D.A.
Published: February 2020

The procedure and equipment for carrying out experimental studies of fuel supply system for ЯМЗ-238 engine operating on gas-diesel cycle are given. The results of the tests carried out on the load bench, the dependencies obtained during the experimental studies are presented, their analysis is carried out. Based on the built graphic dependencies, conclusions are drawn.
OPERATIONAL BUDGETING SYSTEM IN TRADE COMPANIES
Authors: Drokina Y.
Published: February 2020

The transition of the economy to market economic conditions has led to fundamental changes in the planning, accounting, control of financial and economic activities and in the entire management system of trading enterprises.