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PENGEMBANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI AKAD MUDHĀRABAH BANK SYARIAH BERBASIS DSS DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE AHP
Authors: Hartono Setyo Budi , Susatyono Jarot Dian , Kholiq Abdul
Published: March 2017

This research aims to develop a scoring system awarding financial cooperation that existed at Syariah Banking using various contract in it. The development of this system will replace the performance of the analytical assess and decide on the granting of the contract to mudhārib. With this system will streamline the performance of the analysis in maximizing profits at BMT. Given the increased profitability for the results to be obtained by sahib al-mal will also increase. The methodology in this research is to analyze the process towards a needs assessment, process analysis and counting processes are the priorities of the system. This study resulted in a system that will be applied in analyzing the Mudharabah where deemed profitable or have a larger revenue share.
STRATEGI PEMBANGUNAN EKONOMI YANG ISLAMI MENURUT FAHIM KHAN
Authors: Murtadho Ali
Published: March 2017

Several theories about the development strategy formulated by the most conventional neo-classical economists much criticized. Fahim Khan including contemporary Islamic economic thinkers who criticize conventional economic development strategy with alternative bids from the Islamic economics perspective. Their thinking is exciting to examined substance and its correlation with the economic development of contemporary Islamic discourse that dominated the development of financial institutions/syariah banking. The creation of entrepreneurial opportunities made Fahim Khan as a keyword in the concept of criticizing conventional strategy and supporting the Islamic economic development strategy. Strategy opened and graced this productive creative independent businesses are deemed appropriate and supported by the Islamic economic system based on profit and loss sharing partnership (profit-loss sharing). The idea is to promote excellence banking system of sharing based on the conventional interest-based banking system in spurring economic development suplus to enliven the entrepreneurial workforce.
Reducing the electrical conductivity of bore well water using natural bioadsorbents and augmenting azolla growth by neem bark powder-clay sorbent
Authors: Prasanthrajan M. , Pandiyan M. , Shalini S.
Published: March 2017

Experiments were conducted to select suitable plant-based bioadsorbents for the reduction of the electrical conductivity (EC) of bore well water (EC 2.20 dS m−1). Twenty-seven bioadsorbents were tested against salt reduction. Amla leaves, amla stem, prosopis leaves, calotropis flower and neem bark were efficient in reducing the EC from 1.89 to 1.77, 1.73, 1.69, 1.68 and 1.63 dS m−1 respectively. Among all, neem bark powder at 0.05% concentration was superior in reducing the salt content of bore well water (0.39 dS m−1 in 168 hours saturation time). The neem bark powder at 0.05% concentration was successfully used in an azolla multiplication tank and achieved salt reduction from 2.13 to 1.83 dS m−1. Azolla grew well in water with EC 1.83 dS m−1 having failed to grow in water having EC above 2.0 dS m−1.
Modeling and Controlling Strategy of Four-Switch Buck-boost Convertor with Smooth Mode Transitions
Authors: Zhang Wei-zhong , Lin Hui-pin , Zhang Yao , Jin Ji-min
Published: March 2017

Four-switch synchronous buck-boost (FSBB) converter is much suitable for battery management system for its characteristic of wide input voltage range, high efficiency, and positive voltage output. A three mode control scheme with two modulation signals and one carrier can be adopted to achieve the smooth transition among modes. Using feed forward voltage mode control, the input voltage information is injected into the control loop to prevent the disturbance effect on the output voltage through making input voltage construct the carrier signal. High efficiency is gained when the converter is operating in pulse skip mode in light load. The operating mode smooth transition and stability could be achieved by modeling the converter and designing the compensation. Finally, a power prototype was fabricated to validate the validity of the control strategy.
Rehabilitation after Rotator Cuff Repair
Authors: Nikolaidou Ourania , Migkou Stefania , Karampalis Christos
Published: March 2017

Background:

Rotator cuff tears are a very common condition that is often incapacitating. Whether non-surgical or surgical, successful management of rotator cuff disease is dependent on appropriate rehabilitation. If conservative management is insufficient, surgical repair is often indicated. Postsurgical outcomes for patients having had rotator cuff repair can be quite good. A successful outcome is much dependent on surgical technique as it is on rehabilitation. Numerous rehabilitation protocols for the management of rotator cuff disease are based primarily on clinical experience and expert opinion. This article describes the different rehabilitation protocols that aim to protect the repair in the immediate postoperative period, minimize postoperative stiffness and muscle atrophy.

Methods:

A review of currently available literature on rehabilitation after arthroscopic rotator cuff tear repair was performed to illustrate the available evidence behind various postoperative treatment modalities.

Results:

There were no statistically significant differences between a conservative and an accelerated rehabilitation protocol . Early passive range of motion (ROM) following arthroscopic cuff repair is thought to decrease postoperative stiffness and improve functionality. However, early aggressive rehabilitation may compromise repair integrity.

Conclusion:

The currently available literature did not identify any significant differences in functional outcomes and relative risks of re-tears between delayed and early motion in patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs. A gentle rehabilitation protocol with limits in range of motion and exercise times after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair would be better for tendon healing without taking any substantial risks. A close communication between the surgeon, the patient and the physical therapy team is important and should continue throughout the whole recovery process.
Effectiveness of Biologic Factors in Shoulder Disorders
Authors: Giotis Dimitrios , Aryaei Ashkan , Vasilakakos Theofanis , Paschos Nikolaos K.
Published: March 2017

Background:

Shoulder pathology can cause significant pain, discomfort, and loss of function that all interfere with activities of daily living and may lead to poor quality of life. Primary osteoarthritis and rotator cuff diseases with its sequalae are the main culprits. Management of shoulder disorders using biological factors gained an increasing interest over the last years. This interest reveals the need of effective treatments for shoulder degenerative disorders, and highlights the importance of a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the rapidly increasing knowledge in the field.

Methods:

This study will describe most of the available biology-based strategies that have been recently developed, focusing on their effectiveness in animal and clinical studies.

Results:

Data fromin vitrowork will also be briefly presented; in order to further elucidate newly acquired knowledge regarding mechanisms of tissue degeneration and repair that would probably drive translational work in the next decade. The role of platelet rich-plasma, growth factors, stem cells and other alternative treatments will be described in an evidence-based approach, in an attempt to provide guidelines for their clinical application. Finally, certain challenges that biologic treatments face today will be described as an initiative for future strategies.

Conclusion:

The application of different growth factors and mesenchymal stem cells appears as promising approaches for enhancing biologic repair. However, data from clinical studies are still limited, and future studies need to improve understanding of the repair process in cellular and molecular level and evaluate the effectiveness of biologic factors in the management of shoulder disorders.
Time Perspective and the Psychological Well-Being of Chinese University Students adapting to Russia
Authors: Pilishvili Tatiana S.
Published: March 2017

Background:

The purpose is to examine the specifics of time perspective and the psychological well-being of Chinese University students, who differ in their level of social-psychological adaptation to Russia.

Objective:

The psychological well-being and time perspective.

Method:

With the use of 5 questionnaire-type methodologies we conducted the study with 120 RUDN University students (60 men and 60 women from China).

Results:

The comparative and factor analysis reveal that there are differences in time perspective and psychological well-being. Students from the 1st group, who have been in Russia for less than one year, have adapted the least to Russian culture. They experience a low level of subjective well-being. The 2nd with approximately 3 years of adapting to a new culture shows instability in adapting. Their level of self-acceptance is average; they often experience emotional discomfort. The 3rd group with more than 5 years of immersion into a new culture, demonstrates a higher level of adaptation as well as a higher level of subjective well-being. This group is able to identify the positive experiences from their past and can relate to the uncertainty of their future optimistically. A link was found between maladaptation in the context of poor time perceptive, a negative view of one’s self in the past and the inability to intrinsically control ones present. The results received cohere with the concept of adaptation as a cyclical ever-increasing curve Y.Y. Kim.

Conclusion:

The observed differences can help to develop a program dedicated to the psychological adaptation of foreign students in Russia.
On the Scientific Discourse Practice in Psychology: Professional Comments and Replies in Different Subdisciplines of Psychology up to 2015
Authors: Krampen Günter
Published: March 2017

Background:

Scientific communications—including criticisms, comments, and replies—are a significant foundation of scientific progress.

Objective:

To give an overview on the frequency of written professional comments and replies published in the subdisciplines of psychology till 2015.

Method:

Scientometric analyses refer to the psychological databases PsycINFO and PSYNDEX.

Results:

Firstly, the results show that 2.8% of PsycINFO and 2.2% of PSYNDEX documents refer to scientific discourse. However, time trends were different, which increased (up to 3.6% at the millennium) and then decreased (2.4% in 2013-2015) in PsycINFO, with an up-and-down trajectory in PSYNDEX (decreasing from 3.5% before 1982 to 2.2% in the 1990s, an increase up to 3.1% at the millennium, and a continuous decrease to 0.9% in 2013-2015). Secondly, distinct differences were observed between the subdisciplines of psychology and with reference to both databases: psychological/health personnel issues, psychology & the humanities, clinical psychology, history & systems, and personality psychology received the most comments and replies in PsycINFO, and educational psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and intelligent systems the least. Most comments and replies related to PSYNDEX were found in sport psychology/leisure, personality psychology, consumer psychology, and experimental psychology, and the least are found in publications on intelligent systems, animal/comparative psychology, history & systems of psychology, and military psychology.

Conclusion:

The results are collectively discussed (1) with respect to other indicators of scientific discourse in psychology and other sciences and (2) with respect to the different cultures of scientific discourse between the subdisciplines of psychology in the Anglo-American vs. the German-speaking countries.
Mental Toughness and Success in Sport: A Review and Prospect
Authors: Cowden Richard Gregory
Published: March 2017

Background:

Mental toughness (MT) is often referred to as one of the most important psychological attributes underpinning the success of athletes. Although selected studies have examined this common supposition, research in this area has yet to be synthesized.

Objective:

The purpose of this study was to review the quantitative literature on MT, competitive standard, achievement level, and performance (competitive and non-competitive) in sport.

Method:

Searches using a specified key term were performed in 10 databases during August 2016. Following an initial screening of the unique records that were identified (N = 1025), 19 peer-reviewed articles met the eligibility criteria for inclusion in the review.

Results:

The majority of MT-competitive standard studies (N = 10) found total (66.7%) or subcomponent (71.4%) MT differences, with mentally tougher athletes participating at higher levels of competition. Of the remaining studies (N = 9), most indicated (77.8%) mentally tougher athletes tend to achieve more or perform better.

Conclusion:

Collectively, the results point to mentally tougher athletes’ superior levels of success. The findings are discussed alongside the limitations associated with this part of the current MT in sport literature, with several important areas outlined for scholars to consider and pursue when conducting future research.
PENINGKATAN PRODUKTIVITAS TERNAK DOMBA DENGAN PENERAPAN MINERAL KOMPLIT SECARA TERPROGRAM DI KEPUTREN, PLERET, BANTUL
Authors: Nurcahyo Heru , Ciptono Ciptono , Harjana Tri , Hasanah Himmatul
Published: March 2017

Fakta di lapangan menujukkan bahwa sampai saat ini masih banyak dijumpai ternak domba yang mengidap gangguan kesehatan yang disebabkan karena kekurangan mineral dalam ransum makanannya. Kegiatan pengabdian pada masyarakat (PPM) ini bertujuan untuk mencegah timbulnya gangguan kesehatan akibat kekurangan mineral dalam makanan pada domba yang dipelihara oleh para peternak domba di kelompok peternak domba ”NDREBOLO” di dusun Keputren, Pleret, Pleret, Bantul.Kegiatan PPM ini menggunakan 2 metode yaitu penyuluhan dan demonstrasi. (1) Kegiatan penyuluhan lebih menekankan tentang manajemen pemeliharaan ternak domba secara intensif dengan metode ceramah, dan (2) Kegiatan demonstrasi dan simulasi yang meliputi praktek manajemen pemeliharaan ternak domba secara intensif dalam rangka peningkatan produktivitas ternak, membedakan domba sehat dan domba yang menderita kekurangan mineral, mempersiapkan program pemberian mineral komplit, melakukan pemberian mineral komplit. Kegiatan ini dilaksanakan di Kelompok peternak domba di kelompok peternak domba ”NDREBOLO” dusun Keputren, Desa Pleret, Kecamatan Pleret, Kabupaten Bantul. Penilaian keberhasilan program dilakukan dalam konteks menilai kemampuan peserta dalam memahami dan mempraktekan manajemen pemeliharaan ternak domba secara intensif dalam rangka peningkatan produktivitas ternak, membedakan domba sehat dan domba yang menderita kekurangan mineral dalam diet, mempersiapkan program pemberian mineral. Metode evaluasi yang digunakan adalah: (1) Monitoring kompetensi peserta yakni kemampuan peserta memahami manajemen pemeliharaan ternak domba secara intensif dalam rangka peningkatan produktivitas ternak, dan (2) Authentic assessment. Katakunci: domba, mineral, manajemen peternakan
Canadian Communication Studies: A Discipline in Transition?
Authors: Robinson Gertrude J.
Published: March 2017

The four essays contained in this volume were all presented within days of each other either a t the 1987 Learneds or at the Montreal meetings of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA), the Association de recherches en communication du Quebec (ARCQ), or at the conference of the US based International Communications Association (ICA). The collective forum lent itself to a reconsideration of two questions occupying scholars for at least a decade: the development of communication studies in Canada and their relationship to the much older research traditions of the United States. Two of the papers, Roger de la Garde's Southam lecture and Liora Salter's response, address the f i r s t issue, while the presentations of Richard D. French, and John Meisel are attentive to the second. In spite of these differences in emphasis, the collected papers offer a great deal of overlap and cross-reference indicating that academic thinkers and government officials share a set of common concerns.
The War for Information: The Polish Response to Martial Law
Authors: Fedorowicz Hania M.
Published: March 2017

A decree declaring martial law in Poland was passed by the Council of State to go into effect at midnight Dec. 12,1981. The announcement was made on Polish radio in the early hours of December 13, on behalf of the newly-created Military Council for National Salvation (acronym WRON in Polish). Martial law was lifted on July 22, 1983. During this period Poles lived under a "state of war," the literal meaning of the Polish term: stan wojenny. To ordinary Poles the intent was singular: Jaruzelski had declared war on the nation.
Mass Media During the 1975 National Emergency in India
Authors: Pendakur Manjunath
Published: March 2017

As I write this essay, Indian people celebrate their fortieth anniversary of victory over British imperialism. There will be festivities all over the country, particularly in rural schools, where children of all ages parade through their town or village singing patriotic songs created during the freedom struggle. Coming from a family of nationalists, I used to be the lead singer in my school parade in a small village in southern India. As the modem media of communication - radio, newspapers, and television - were practically absent, rallies and parades dominated the political culture. Leaders seldom spoke about "national integration" at these rallies as they so commonly do today. They spoke of social justice in a free India and the struggle to preserve that freedom.
Stop Everything in Bangladesh: Communication, Martial Law, and National Strikes
Authors: Anderson Robert S.
Published: March 2017

"Different quarters have requested me many a time to promulgate Martial Law. But we had unflinching faith in the political system and as a result did not pay heed to such requests."
The Permanent Emergency of Ethical States: South Africa and Israel
Authors: Adam Heribert , Moodley Kogila
Published: March 2017

Robert Anderson's pioneering exploration of martial law and censorship on a comparative basis needs to be supplemented with the case of ethnically divided societies where the repression is mainly directed against ethnic outsiders. Of the four case studies in this collection, Poland and Chile are culturally homogeneous societies while the plural states of India and Bangladesh are sufficiently integrated not to make one ethnic group alone the target of state action.
Dans un ordre, je balance un « u » pour ordure : le déchet comme « sans-part » dans une pratique artistique technologique
Authors: Trudel Gisèle
Published: March 2017

The political philosophy of Jacques Rancière, with its concepts of aesthetics, dissensus and subjectivation, enables the analysis of the relation to matter perceived as waste. Is it possible to transform the latter by means of a technological art practice?
I Guess You Had To Be There: The Making of Battle River Railway – The Movie
Authors: Barney Darin
Published: March 2017

This note provides context for a video presentation made at the 2011 Canadian Communication Association meetings in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The video presentation recounted the efforts of a group of Alberta grain farmers who established a cooperative short line railroad in order to sustain alternative grain handling practices in their communities. The note considers the relative merits of textual and visual presentation.
Promotional Prime Time: “Advertainment,” Internal Network Promotion, and the Future of Canadian Television
Authors: Asquith Kyle , Hearn Alison
Published: March 2017

ABSTRACT Drawing on critical cultural theory, the industry trade press, and an exploratory content analysis of prime-time television, this article examines the under-researched phenomenon of “internal network promotions.” The authors argue that internal promotions constitute a central component of the growing promotional orientation of Canadian prime-time television. They provide a theoretical overview of the practices of branding and a general description of the rise of “advertainment” on Canadian television. They then focus on the ways in which internal network promotions comprise a taken-for-granted “branded” backdrop against which television content, already heavily infiltrated by promotional interests, is mounted. The article concludes with a call for more research into the promotional nature of Canadian prime-time television and its social, political, and cultural implications.
Packaging Fun: Analyzing Supermarket Food Messages Targeted at Children
Authors: Elliott Charlene D.
Published: March 2017

ABSTRACT  Childhood obesity has prompted an increased scrutiny of the foodscape, along with the call for innovative strategies to make our social environments more supportive of healthy eating. Child-targeted supermarket foods are an increasing, but typically overlooked, part of this food environment. Using content analysis, this article profiles the strategies used to market foods to children and their parents in the Canadian supermarket environment. Child-targeted food products were purchased from two major grocery store chains in Calgary, Alberta, and assessed in terms of their packaging, marketing appeals, nutritional quality, and food type. The discussion details how and why the marketing of “fun” in food creates key challenges in terms of supporting child health.
Blogging Homelessness: Technology of the Self or Practice of Freedom?
Authors: Schneider Barbara
Published: March 2017

This article analyzes a blog written by a man who describes himself as having been in and out of homelessness and addictions over a long period of time. I use Foucault’s ideas about governmentality and technologies of the self to explore the material on this blog and to suggest that the blog is not only a technology of the self through which power is exercised but also a practice of freedom and a means to ethical of care of the self. I propose a complex dialectic between domination and liberation as the writer transforms a disciplinary practice through which power is exerted into a call for the construction of an ethical self by writing regularly for his audience of readers and followers.
The Rise of McLuhanism, The Loss of Innis-sense: Rethinking the Origins of the Toronto School of Communication
Authors: Buxton William J.
Published: March 2017

This article compares why McLuhan’s work in communications has been the source of much acclaim whereas that of Innis has attracted attention only recently. It argues that the disparate responses to the contributions of these two theorists are rooted not only in the extent to which their writings were available, but also in their differing communication practices. The latter account for why Innis’ studies of media were initially ignored and why McLuhan was able to develop a considerable following, in part by drawing on Innis as a precursor; this resulted in a distorted view of Innis’ ideas that has persisted to this day. As a corrective, the article challenges McLuhan’s claims that Innis viewed media as a form of staple and that he sought to understand how various knowledge specialities could be unified. Finally, it makes the case that the Innis/McLuhan tandem  should be decoupled, to make better sense of a “de-McLuhanised” Innis on the one hand, and the McLuhanist-centred Toronto School on the other.
Le concept de moyen de communication dans l’École de Toronto
Authors: Martino Luiz C.
Published: March 2017

This article examines the works of Innis and McLuhan as founders of a current of communication thought whose central feature is to consider media as both objects and vectors of explanation. It shows how Innis’s conception of the medium is related to the notion of bias, which articulates a materialist view of communication processes with an original conception of history. The formalization of Innis’s concept can show how McLuhan builds on this conception of the medium, while introducing new elements. The approach of media as extensions provides a new interpretation of materiality and can develop the problem of the medium as technology and of its relationship to the human mind.
Folk Media: Alan Lomax’s Deep Digitality
Authors: Adam Svec Henry
Published: March 2017

This article reconsiders American folklorist and broadcaster Alan Lomax as a medium theorist. I examine how Lomax’s engagement first with the phonograph and then with digital computers came to inflect his understanding of “the folk” (or at least how this tendency is inscribed across his writings and projects). I also use Lomax’s engagement with media to critique aspects of German media theorist Friedrich Kittler’s work. I argue that Lomax’s “deep digitality” is not an abstract, sovereign world of code rendering particular media finally obsolete (as it is for Kittler); Lomax simply sought to plug Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari’s “nomad”—which he just calls “the folk”—into the machine. Lomax thus points toward a fascinatingly utopian assemblage of always-embodied voices and digital systems.
Precision Targets: GPS and the Militarization of Everyday Life
Authors: Kaplan Caren , Loyer Erik , Claytan Daniels Ezra
Published: March 2017

This article explores the militarization of everyday life through the emergence of a dual-use technology, the Global Positioning System (GPS), in the 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first century. It was launched in April 2010 as a Web-based multimedia piece funded by a Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. During the fellowship year and for several years afterward, author Caren Kaplan worked with programmer/designer Erik Loyer to produce a piece that would address the multiple social and political valences of GPS in a graphically dramatic but academically substantial manner. Ezra Claytan Daniels provided the artwork that illustrates Erik Loyer’s innovative digital “cube” design. Loyer and Kaplan developed the six storylines for the piece, and Kaplan wrote the text (see www.precisiontargets.com).
La communication entre présence et absence : Une relecture sémiotique de la « querelle des images » et de la mystique soufie
Authors: Kane Oumar
Published: March 2017

This article deals with certain semiotic issues pertaining to Christianity and Islam in medieval times. The formalization of “holy books” and the definition of “communities of believers” are the objects of struggles that are both material and symbolic. This article begins by presenting three categories of signs: written (holy books), oral (esoteric initiations) and pictorial (religious icons). It then identifies the idea of community as well as the ideal medium to create a horizontal link (within the community) and a vertical one (between the community of the faithful and a God who henceforth is transcendent). These links seem to oscillate between communication and communion and to favour a temporal as well as spiritual effectiveness.
“Gendering” the Self in Online Dating Discourse
Authors: Fullick Melonie
Published: March 2017

Online dating has become an increasingly acceptable way for “singles” to meet appropriate partners. The author uses discourse analysis to explore the use of language in the construction of gendered identities in 20 online profiles, comparing the norms of gender presentation and communication with the ways in which language is used to signal various kinds of gendered “selves.” Dating sites require users to develop a new literacy of self-presentation, one that reinforces and re-inscribes the tendency toward promotionalism that permeates contemporary social life. In this context, how are Internet and social media users tapping into existing social and cultural resources and putting gender norms to work in their representations of self? How do online dating sites provide insight into an ongoing, reflexive process of self-promotion and self-construction?
Rhetoric of Oil in Canadian News: Framed for Indigenous Care
Authors: Piotrowski Marcelina
Published: March 2017

This article critically examines news representation of oil and indigenous “voice” as a tactic of consensual politics. It suggests that by leveraging the politics of recognition to frame the “oil pipeline debates” as an issue fit primarily for indigenous care, news media position Aboriginality as the primary rhetoric of sustainability. Leveraging Nancy Fraser’s concept of scales of justice and Jacques Rancière’s intellectual emancipation, the article suggests that the politics of recognition can result in branding issue owners, creating lines of divisibility between political and apolitical subjects. The author contextualizes the topic of news representation of oil and indigenous “voice” within the sphere of political pedagogy and social change communication.
“Part of the University Lexicon”: Marketing and Ontario Universities, 1990-2013
Authors: Bolan Lindsay Carrocci
Published: March 2017

The authors examine the emergence and consolidation of marketing practices at five Ontario universities, beginning in the early 1990s, with a focus on student recruitment and the articulation and promotion of institutional identity. The five schools represent a cross-section of the university landscape in Ontario. Interviews were conducted with personnel performing communications and marketing-related functions. Institutional records, when available, were consulted, as were internal publications, trade publications, and print media accounts. The authors situate their treatment of this topic within the field of Critical Management Studies (Alvesson & Willmott, 2003) and related works dealing specifically with marketing. Most notably, they draw on Skålén, Fellesson, and Fougère (2008), who marshal critical theory and Foucault’s works on discourse and knowledge/power to demonstrate how marketing functions as a form of disciplinary power.
Research in Brief
Authors: Marland Alex
Published: March 2017

This article advances an argument that within small polities local political talk radio may be treated as a barometer of public opinion. Survey research and media monitoring spending data were collected from provincial government departments across Canada. The data indicate that larger provinces turn to opinion polls, that the Quebec government is a heavy user of media monitoring services and that, in particular, government elites in Newfoundland and Labrador pay considerable attention to local open line call-in shows.
Of Excrementality: Ec

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nomie, Signification, and Autoimmunity
Authors: Richards Tony
Published: March 2017

The author concentrates on a re-machining of Bataille’s notion of a sovereign “accursed share” of general economy by adding a theoretical dimension he terms “ecanomie,” which suspends the traditional moral-numerical restrictions of a hitherto dominant economic housing. The lodging here of this portmanteau is coined to uncannily combine the previously separate concepts of “economy” and “anomie” into something that suspends the classical modelling of each. The author then utilizes Heidegger’s “signification” (Bedeutung) to uncover embodiments that such ecanomic acts formally indicate or entail. Signification, it is argued, is not some abstract upper layer or mere outer ontic shell of representation, but a materially networked substance that works-over all individual comportments. Finally, the author explores signification through the optic of Derrida’s “autoimmunity,” in the concrete re-signification of “the suicidal” within social networking ecanomic technologies of the self.
Media Ecology: Illuminations
Authors: McLuhan Eric
Published: March 2017

This dialogue is an exercise in probing, which is the modus operandi of McLuhanism. After articulating the rationale behind the practice, the interlocutors Eric McLuhan and Peter Zhang explored the following topics together in an agonistic mode: perception and incarnation, anti-perspectivism, proliferation as a sign of obsolescence, applied poetics, the fusion of strategy and aesthetics, the eye and the ear, music and technology, the acoustic turn, the functional equivalence of electronics and psychochemicals, Einstein’s retrieval of Hindu philosophy, and Aristotle and rhetoric. Instead of talking about McLuhanism, the dialogue performs it.
Bridging Research and Expertise: Dominant West African Trends in Communication Studies
Authors: Kane Oumar
Published: March 2017

West Africa, in this article, is used as an analytical framework for examining communication research from a diachronic perspective. The text is based on a literature review through which the author analyzed a corpus on West African work (articles in scientific journals, grey literature, and books on African communication research). After briefly sketching scientific production trends at the continental level, the author provides a historiography of West African communication research from the 1940s onwards. The substantial contribution of the subfield of philosophy of communication and the foundational orientation that it has lent to research, especially in the 1980s, are then reviewed in greater detail. Particular attention is paid to Francophone communication and gender research. Finally, the article identifies the discernible trends guiding the future agenda of communication research.
Communication and Health: An Interrogation
Authors: Elliott Charlene D.
Published: March 2017

ABSTRACT “Health” is a highly prized positive value, a commodity and an industry—and also a topic of robust public and academic interest. This article aims to open a conversation about what a communications-oriented approach to health might look like. It reviews the Canadian Journal of Communication from its inception for instruction on how health-related topics have been examined by communication scholars, observing the lack of common questions and approaches when it comes to health and Canadian communication scholarship. The article suggests that alongside issues related to the “right to health” and the “imperative of health” (which is bound up with self-monitoring, lifestyle risks, and what I call the language of betterment), we might also ask important questions around promotion, packaging and embodiment.
Crisis Communication Response and Political Communities: The Unusual Case of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
Authors: Koerber Duncan
Published: March 2017

Researchers have examined the efficacy of crisis response strategies, which are intended to maintain or gain legitimacy after a serious incident. However, the video allegedly showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack provides an interesting case that reveals a blind spot in political crisis response theory: the factor of partisan community. This article suggests that crises should be seen not as types but as breaks in the discourses of communities. Ford’s response was not an example of poor crisis communication response because he acted in ways that were acceptable within his partisan community. The article suggests that crisis communication researchers and practitioners must first understand the norms and values of the political community in question before selecting crisis response strategies.
Comment se construit le « concernement » des publics de la démocratie dialogique? Analyse des débats publics CNDP
Authors: Mabi Clément
Published: March 2017

This article focusses on the construction of public involvement in the participatory procedures organized by France’s National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP). Particular attention is given to the enactment of the relation between the public and the object of techno-scientific debate. We posit that different publics are legitimized depending on how the organization of public deliberation problematizes the debated objects.
Innovation and Compliance in Making and Perceiving the Scientific Visualization of Viruses
Authors: Buiani Roberta
Published: March 2017

This article investigates the variety that typifies visualizations of the H5N1 virus. It argues for virus visualizations to be examined as products of processes, instruments, and socio-cultural assumptions, rather than as mere illustrations. Visualization unfolds through a series of tensions between two contending forces. The first implements normative rules and cultural narratives. The second seeks to escape them. This double tendency recurs at every stage of the visualization process. It is only by considering all stages of visualization that one can understand both its complex socio-technical articulation and the concerted role played by laboratories, graphic studios, and the general public in modulating and co-producing these tensions.
From Patients to Petabytes: Genomic Big Data, Privacy, and Informational Risk
Authors: Frizzo-Barker Julie , Chow-White Peter A.
Published: March 2017

Genomic big data is an emerging information technology, which presents new opportunities for medical innovation, as well as new challenges to our current ethical, social, and legal infrastructure. Rapid, affordable whole genomic sequencing translates patients’ most sensitive personal information into petabytes of digital health data. While a biomedical approach traditionally focuses on risks and benefits to the human body, the fields of Communication and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can provide some of the critical and theoretical tools necessary to navigate the newly emerging terrain of the human body as digital code. Core areas of expertise from these fields, including the Internet, the network society and the social constructions of technology, ground our discussion of the social implications of open access genomic databases, privacy, and informational risk
Hinduism in the News: The Shifting Role of Religion and the Media in Canadian Public Life
Authors: Mann Richard
Published: March 2017

This article studies Canadian and international newspaper reports from September, 1995, of the Ganesha milk drinking miracle. It analyzes the chronology of the newspaper reports as the story develops from an account of a miracle in the “exotic” East to an account of a miracle also occurring in Canada. The evidence demonstrates an inability on the part of the Canadian news media to view religion as hard news with broad social and political implications. The comparison with international reports demonstrates that the story had a significant political dimension and was viewed as hard news in other parts of the world. The comparison questions the assumed boundaries between the public and private spheres in relation to religion and demonstrates that such boundaries are constructed through power relationships and the news media itself.
“Keeping up” through Teaching and Learning Media Software: “Introducing” Photoshop
Authors: Lesage Frédérik , Smirnova Svetlana
Published: March 2017

Research on cultural industries suggests that the constant and rapid change to digital technologies used by creative practitioners requires that they continually upgrade their skills in order to remain relevant in their occupations. In this article, we present the results of an investigation into the mediation of Photoshop, focusing on how this digital imaging application software and its content are used to mediate access to cultural work. Teaching and learning Photoshop is presented as a key set of practices for digitally mediated cultural work, raising interesting paradoxes concerning Photoshop’s status as a digital imaging standard and how it is used by practitioners to negotiate access to occupations. The findings are drawn from two phases of an ongoing research project that includes interviews with practitioners in Canada and the United Kingdom and participant observation in a Greater Vancouver higher education institution.
Inside Out: The Internationalization of the Canadian Independent Recording Sector
Authors: Sutherland Richard
Published: March 2017

This article examines the growing internationalization of English Canada’s independent sound recording sector, largely defined by Canadian ownership. Although Canada’s music industry has had considerable links with the global music business for decades, the independent sector remained focused on the production of recordings by Canadian artists for sale in the domestic market. Recently, the links between Canadian music and Canadian-owned record companies have weakened, such that each is less reliant on the other. The article discusses the ways in which this dissociation has occurred within the context of the transformation of the global music industry over the past 15 years and considers the implications for future Canadian music industry policy.
Le quartier comme production culturelle: du développement économique municipal au développement culturel des quartiers à Montréal
Authors: Lussier Martin
Published: March 2017

During the last decade, urban planners and city councilors across the country have taken the “cultural turn.” In Montréal, this has led authorities to focus on citywide culture as a tool for enhancing creativity and for developing the economy of their municipality through the concept of “cultural poles.” But in the past few years, the attention of authorities has shifted from “poles” to “cultural quarters” (or “neighborhoods”), particularly through a new proposed action plan for cultural quarters. Basing itself on municipal documents, comments in the media, papers and reports, this article retraces the transformation from one concept to another as well as the interpretations and decisions that resulted from it. Echoing a larger process of municipalization of culture, the growing interest of Montréal’s authorities in policies that use quarters as an explicit object demonstrates a renewed and changing spatialization of cultural production.
Between the “Battlefield” Metaphor and Promises of Generativity: Contrasting Discourses on Cyberconflict
Authors: de Matos Alves Artur
Published: March 2017

This article proposes a theoretical assessment of discourses on cyberconflict, and of their relation to the current perception of the state of cyberspace. By contrasting the “battlefield” approaches to cyberconflict with theoretical and factual materials on its social and political impacts, this article suggests that the “battlefield” terminology frames the discussion of online security within a drive for the “militarization” of cyberspace. It concludes by presenting generativity-based perspectives as a contribution towards addressing contemporary challenges to network politics in cyberconflict theoretical frameworks.
“The Story Is Only the Platter On Which the Personality Is Served”: The Debate Over Media Integrity on CBC Radio’s Literary Arts Programming, 1948–1985
Authors: Allan Eaman Ross
Published: March 2017

The early efforts of CBC Radio to promote Canadian literature through programs such as Canadian Short Stories and its successor, Anthology, gave rise to various issues related to media integrity, including the selection of content, the use of language, and the format of presentation. Even before Robert Weaver retired in 1985, the approach he developed in the 1950s gave way to a different philosophy of literary arts programming, one focusing less on the needs of CanLit and more on the contingencies of radio. As in other cases of textual migration across media, the ontological requirements of the destination medium eventually took precedence. The process by which this shift occurred is examined using the relatively unexplored papers of Weaver and Howard Engel and other documents.
Millennials’ Media Use: It Is a Matter of Time
Authors: Botterill Jacqueline , Bredin Marian , Dun Tim
Published: March 2017

A transmedia diary tracked the media use of 388 Canadian university students, documenting the various ways they migrated across a range of devices and platforms as well as online and off-line sites during a typical day. The study suggests that media are used for entertainment, but also predominantly for socializing. The tendency to employ media for socializing is neither trivial nor alienating. It is a sign of a time when assembling sociality has become more challenging. Alan Warde’s theory of hypermodern times explains students’ dedication to “convenience technologies.” Media allow students to coordinate, stack, or shift their social interaction to better suit personal timetables. The analysis suggests that young people respond to new demands to socialize around the clock with escalating use of convenience technologies.
The Appropriation of a Digitally-Augmented Agora: Field Study of the Structuration and Spatialization of an Issue Public in Urban Space
Authors: Fortin Claude , Hennessy Kate
Published: March 2017

In 2013, we conducted a ten-week qualitative field evaluation of an interactive public space art installation. During these three months, we observed a vast array of examples of how the general public appropriated this technological artifact and the public space in which it was deployed. This article draws on Mosco’s political economy of communication framework to examine how one specific issue public—composed of several different groups actively engaged against police misconduct and brutality—creatively made use of Mégaphone in conjunction with online media to self-report, self-represent, and self-publish alternative and oppositional views around incidents of police abuses of power. In doing so, we explore how structuration, spatialization, and commodification might offer critical perspectives on interactive urban technologies.
« The Outlawry of War » ou l’autre débat Dewey-Lippmann
Authors: Trudel Dominique
Published: March 2017

This article aims to reconsider some recent interpretations of the debate on the role of public opinion in democracies that opposed John Dewey and Walter Lippmann throughout the 1920s. To this end, this article examines Dewey and Lippmann’s involvement in the “outlawry of war” debate during the same era. The analysis of this other debate sheds a new light on the political, philosophical, and epistemological differences that are described by James Carey, although minimized by a growing body of revisionist historiography.
Explicating the Values-Issue Consistency Hypothesis through Need for Orientation
Authors: Valenzuela Sebastián , Chernov Gennadiy
Published: March 2017

The values-issues consistency hypothesis posits that when the issues covered in the news resonate with people’s values, the power of the news media in setting the public agenda is stronger. However, we know little about the process by which values influence the agenda-setting process. We argue that the need for orientation (NFO) is a key mediating variable of the relationship between values and issue salience. To test this proposition, we conducted two studies: an experiment to examine the causal relationship between values, NFO, and issue salience, and a secondary data analysis of a nationally representative survey, in order to test the generalizability of the experiment’s results. Both studies provide support for the mediating role of NFO, further advancing research on the psychology of agenda setting effects.
“Recess Is Over, Students”: The Suburban’s Framing of Educational Issues and the 2012 Printemps Érable
Authors: Turcotte-Summers Jonathan
Published: March 2017

In this article, I explore how Montréal-area community newspaper The Suburban represented the 2012 Printemps érable and, more specifically, the educational issues at the core of this uprising, which was sparked by a historic student strike. A qualitative framing analysis was conducted on the visual and textual content of the newspaper’s front pages from February 13 to August 1, 2012. Results suggest that the paper framed the Printemps érable as an illegitimate series of individual protest actions worthy of derision. Students were represented as lazy, self-centred, directionless consumers, and authoritarian government action as desirable in forcing them to submit to the realities of a neoliberal economy and corresponding education system.