bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Pixel Perfect: Towards a Political Economy of Digital Fidelity
Authors: McCarron Gary
Published: August 2017

This paper examines the idea of perfection as a social construct which, while irrefutably marked with the trace of an original theistic impulse, operates concurrently as the objective of a technical project which aims at removing the stain of humanity from production. From the perspective of digital capitalism, perfection, despite the presence of a moral imperative rooted in religious inclinations, is an anti-human ideal. Hence the paper considers the manner in which contemporary references to perfect copies, perfect replicas, and perfect images are inflected with a political economic longing for the eradication of the human dimension from production.
Reflections on the Distance Learning Controversy
Authors: Feenberg Andrew
Published: August 2017

Recent enthusiasm for on-line distance learning among administrators in American colleges and universities has provoked a strong faculty reaction in favour of traditional classroom teaching. Overlooked in the controversy is the long history of experimentation with text-based computer-mediated communication. This article argues that that experience has lessons for us today which may help to resolve the controversy over distance learning.
Using Networked Technologies to Enhance Instruction and Research in Communications
Authors: Mitchell David , Ring Janelle
Published: August 2017

Are there good reasons for communications programs in Canada to experiment with distance and distributed learning technologies? This paper argues that because there are only a handful of relatively small programs in the country which are geographically dispersed, it may make sense to use networked technologies to develop a critical mass of expertise in an emerging field like the social context of information and communication technologies (ICT). The paper reports on two recent research projects: the first evaluates existing technical modes in terms of networking expertise at a distance; the second experiments with new modes (WebCT, Mbone videoconferencing). For those interested in experimenting with these modes within and between provinces, it is argued that choosing technical modes is only one of many considerations. One must also consider technical support and training for end-users, and collaborative approaches to administration and securing resources.
The Potential of Modern Telelearning Tools for Collaborative Learning
Authors: Katz Larry , Rezaei Alireza
Published: August 2017

Recently, a variety of telelearning/teaching tools and Web-based course delivery systems have been developed. Most of these tools are reported to be useful in collaborative learning. However, in this paper it is argued that true collaboration in schools requires not only the technology, but also well-designed learning activities based on sound principles of collaborative learning. In this paper, theoretical foundations and the importance of collaborative learning are discussed, then three sophisticated telelearning tools and their potential for collaborative learning are presented. Finally, in view of the costs and the limitations of these tools, a Collaborative Electronic Learning model based on a three-year study at the University of Calgary is suggested as a more promising and more economic alternative.
Céline Dion, the ADISQ Controversy, and the Anglophone Press in Canada
Authors: Young David
Published: August 2017

ADISQ, the organization that honours excellence in the Quebec music industry, gave francophone singer Céline Dion an award for being the Anglophone Artist of the Year in 1990. At the ADISQ gala that year, which was televised live across Canada, Dion refused to accept the award. Dion’s decision to not accept the award, and the statement she made when turning it down, became the basis for a controversy that received a great deal of coverage in Canada’s anglophone press. This paper examines anglophone press coverage of the ADISQ controversy involving Dion. After outlining press coverage of Dion and ADISQ during the years prior to the controversy, the paper identifies how the controversy began and analyses the issues that dominated the coverage. The paper also examines follow-up coverage of the controversy; it identifies how subsequent news stories on Dion, including some that were written several years later, linked the controversy to other issues.
Digital Networks: The Medium of Globalization, and the Message
Authors: Menzies Heather
Published: August 2017

This paper looks at the convergence between business-information networks and those associated with digital mass media in light of the proposition that the digital networks represent the core medium of globalization. It looks at the new business-organization paradigm of virtuality associated with globalized digitized business and interprets this in light of communication theory, building especially on the legacy of Harold Innis.
The Irvings Cover Themselves: Media Representations of the Irving Oil Refinery Strike, 1994-1996
Authors: Steuter Erin
Published: August 2017

This article focuses on the media coverage of a strike at the Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, between 1994 and 1996. A variety of central issues are examined, including: monopoly ownership of the New Brunswick media by the Irving Group of Companies, the ideological presentation of strikes in general, and the representation of changing labour relations in a postindustrial, globally oriented society. The four New Brunswick English-language daily papers as well as selected English-language papers elsewhere in Canada were analyzed for their representation of the strike. The paper argues that the media coverage reinforced an ideology of defeatism and aided in the increased legitimation of a “roll back” orientation in our society.
The Active Pursuit of Active Viewers: Directions in Audience Research
Authors: Clarke Debra
Published: August 2017

This article reviews the contemporary shift to active audience research among European and other media scholars, following the influential work of those such as Ien Ang and David Morley. It proceeds to examine the comparatively underdeveloped state of Canadian research about media audiences, and the variety of incentives to develop such research here. The distance between academic and industry research in Canada is discussed, and possible explanations of the gap in our academic knowledge of Canadian audiences are offered. Finally, the article considers possible means to approach the meaningful study of the media reception process within Canadian households. In the end, it is argued that the work of Ang, Morley, and others offers fruitful prospects for the understanding of media interpretation here.
Remembering Our Past: Reconstructing the Field of Canadian Communication Studies
Authors: Robinson Gertrude J.
Published: August 2017

Doing a historiography of the field of Canadian communication studies is very much a work in progress for which many of the building blocks are not yet known. Three types of information are needed. Information on the sociohistorical setting in which our field emerged, on the founders who conceptualized it in different universities (French and English), and on the theoretical emphases of our field. This paper brings together some of this contextual evidence.
Cultural Industries from an Economic/Business Research Perspective
Authors: McFadyen Stuart
Published: August 2017

This article reviews, and provides a context for, the cultural industries research carried out by the authors over the last 20 years. This work focuses on the television and feature film industries and uses a micro-economic analysis approach which recognizes the three unusual economic characteristics of feature films and television programs: they suffer a cultural discount when traded across international borders, they are joint consumption goods, and they may result in external benefits. The work encompasses industry studies of Canadian broadcasting, U.S. domination of international trade in audiovisual products, international co-production, and new media.
Exhausted Commodities: The Material Culture of Music
Authors: Straw Will
Published: August 2017

The twentieth century ended with the widespread conversion of cultural artefacts into digital information. Less attention has been granted to the ways in which cultural artefacts accumulate in the form of “things"-tangible books, recordings, and other objects whose economic value has often withered. This article examines the question of cultural waste and looks at those commercial and social institutions (such as the flea market and garage sale) which have evolved in order to keep old cultural commodities circulating. The recycling of old musical styles within contemporary practice is examined as one means of retrieving and revalorizing cultural waste.
Information and Responsibility: The Case of Social Kinds
Authors: Wong James
Published: August 2017

In this paper, I examine the impact of the media on social change in a new light by investigating the effect of the circulation of information on various groups of people in which society has a keen interest. I call these groups of people social kinds, the categories used in the social sciences to gain knowledge of people and their behaviour. Changes in the behaviour of those under study may contribute to social changes in unexpected ways. Further, the examination of social kinds raises, in a fresh way, issues of mass media responsibility regarding the production and circulation of information. The focus in this paper is on the issue of teen pregnancies and parenting, a pressing social problem in Canada and the United States.
Asymmetries Reconfigured: South American Television Flows in the 1990s
Authors: Falkenheim B. Jaqui Chmielewski
Published: August 2017

An analysis of the television programming flows in 10 South American countries shows that the television landscape has been reconfigured to include new subregional centres and new kinds of asymmetries, particularly in the Southern Cone. The volume of regional television has increased, having more than tripled in the last 20 years. This growth has occurred at the expense of U.S. programming, which still remains the dominant source of imports. In the larger, exporting countries domestic producers have elbowed out both regional and international players. In the smaller, importing countries domestic, regional, and global programs compete for the dominance of the television schedules. Considering the articulation of cultural audiovisual policies has been neglected, it is early to assess whether regional exchanges in television might contribute to the articulation of a regional cultural identity.
Fogo Island Goes Digital: Taking a Scholarly Journal On-line, the Case of CJC-Online.ca
Authors: Lorimer Rowland , Smith Richard , Wolstenholme Paul
Published: August 2017

An open-source software-based, on-line version of the Canadian Journal of Communication has been created by a group of scholars and students. This paper casts this activity as social science R&D with roots in development communications; as a viable alternative to control by aggressive profit-seeking commercial journal publishers; and as a transferable technology to other scholar-controlled journals. It describes the software used, the capacity of the software system developed, the dependence of the nature and speed of development on both technology and take-up by the user community, and the direction of future development.
Opinion Discourse and Canadian Newspapers: The Case of the Chinese “Boat People”
Authors: Greenberg Joshua
Published: August 2017

“Opinion” discourse — editorials, op-ed articles, and guest columns — assumes an important communicative function by offering newsreaders a distinctive and authoritative voice that will speak to them directly, in the face of troubling or problematic circumstances. Opinion discourse addresses newsreaders embraced in a consensual relationship by taking a particular stance in relation to the persons and topics referred. Nevertheless, despite its communicative importance, opinion discourse has received less sustained theoretical and empirical attention from scholars than “hard” news. Where “hard” news purports to be balanced and fair, “opinion” discourse problematizes the world by taking up the normative dimension of issues and events as the justification and rationale for taking sides. Taking the arrivals to Canada of four boatloads of “illegal” Chinese migrants in 1999 as a case study, this article aims to contribute theoretical understanding about the import of opinion discourse to the critical study of news, whilst offering a contribution to scholarship on the social construction of the Other.
Metadata, Knowledge Management, and Communications
Authors: Wolfe Mark
Published: August 2017

The increased volume and complexity of information available via the Internet and other networked information and communications systems (ICTs) have heightened the need for more efficient and effective ways of searching on-line resources. Technologies involving automated and human-operated software continue to evolve in meeting these needs but process and standardization remain key problems in determining who will do the work and how data and software programming should be structured to maximize the effort. The problem is exacerbated by database and search tool customization, as a widening range of organizations attempts to adapt the “metadata” technologies and approaches to unique information environments and resources. This paper overviews metadata in its current application and development as an Internet technology, and points to its relevance to communications — a field that has yet to embrace the movement thematically.
The New TVOntario: Salvation or Suicide for Public Educational Broadcasting
Authors: Kozolanka Kirsten
Published: August 2017

When faced with privatization by the Ontario government, the public educational broadcaster TVOntario took a pro-active stance in the face of the neo-liberal ideology of reduced public expenditure and institutional restructuring. TVO won short-term salvation by embracing market model methods, but in so doing it may have lost its niche as a public educational broadcaster. It now faces two major policy challenges. It must balance its general-audience broadcast arm with its newly refocused educational arm and it must negotiate possible political interference from the imperative to connect the government's newly revised school curricula to its new technology-in-education arm. This paper also situates the TVO example as a rejection of the privatization agenda of the Government of Ontario. Finally, this paper uses the TVO example to raise questions about hybrid models of broadcasting.
In Search of a Third Way: Balancing Public Purpose and Commerce in German and British Public Service Broadcasting
Authors: Steemers Jeanette
Published: August 2017

This paper considers the debate in the U.K. and Germany about the continued justification for publicly funded public service broadcasting in an apparently converging media and communications environment. It examines the public broadcasters' responses, which increasingly encompass a broad range of expansionary and commercial strategies. These strategies bring them into conflict with commercial players and policymakers who would like to see a more restricted form of publicly funded provision. In both countries the questioning of public service broadcasting's distinctive publicly funded role is growing as commercial media become both more dominant and confident, and this questioning is reinforced by the difficulties in defining the public service remit and securing sufficient funding for its fulfilment.
Regional Radio: A Response by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation to Democratization and Competition
Authors: Heath Carla W.
Published: August 2017

In 1992, constitutional governance was re-established in Ghana, and private broadcasting made legal for the first time. This paper explores one of the responses of the state-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to this novel situation, the opening of regional FM radio stations. Primary data for the paper was obtained from visits to six of the stations and interviews with station directors and other staff in July 1998. The political economic context in which the stations were established, their structures, and programming are examined. Evidence from this study indicates that with the new stations the GBC is expanding and enhancing its public service mandate. At the same time, institutional structures and scarce financial resources combine to prevent the Corporation from becoming independent of vested interests: government, commerce, or NGOs.
Australian Public Broadcasting Under Review: The Mansfield Report on the ABC
Authors: Brown Allan
Published: August 2017

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been subject to a number of government commissioned reviews in its 68-year history, the most recent being that conducted by Bob Mansfield whose report was released in January 1997. The Mansfield Report, The Challenge of a Better ABC, comprises a brief 53 pages but contains a number of far-reaching recommendations for the role and functions of the Australian national broadcaster. This paper provides an examination of the Mansfield Review as a case study of a contemporary independent inquiry into a public service broadcaster. It analyses the content and recommendations of Mansfield's report, evaluates the extent to which the recommendations have been implemented, and assesses the current operations of the ABC to determine the impact of the Mansfield Review on the Corporation.
Putonghua-Language Radio Programming in Hong Kong: RTHK and the Putonghua Audience
Authors: Wilkinson Jeffrey S. , Lu Chen
Published: August 2017

Three months before the People's Republic of China regained control over Hong Kong, the government-sponsored media service Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) began offering Putonghua-language (Mandarin) programming. Since then, the channel has been broadcasting programs for three groups of people. These programs help Mainlanders assimilate to Hong Kong, help Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong people learn the language of the Mainland, and provide a means for overseas Chinese in Hong Kong to be exposed to the mother tongue and learn about what is happening in Mainland China. This paper examines the evolution of programming on RTHK through the first three years of operation. Putonghua Channel has experimented with various types of programs, using block programming/niche programming to meet the needs of RTHK's varied audiences. RTHK's Putonghua Channel is an example of government-sponsored public broadcasting that focused on language to deliver programming for the specific needs of specialized audiences.
The 2001 Southam Lecture: Reflections on Harold Innis's "Minerva's Owl"
Authors: Taylor James R.
Published: August 2017

The thinking of Harold Innis on the relationship of communication to the rise and fall of historical forms of social organization has been little exploited in the context of contemporary organizational dynamics. In this essay, I use Innis' distinction between the vernacular and writing as an explanatory device to examine current trends in organization. Many of the patterns Innis pointed to can equally be found in the formation and disappearance of large organizations in our time, even though the time scale is radically compressed compared to his historical analyses. In one respect, however, a new pattern is emerging in the postmodern organization, where the "vernacular" is that of the writers, not the written, with paradoxical implications for the standard theory of rational organization, enunciated by Weber and others.
On A Colloquium on TVTV
Authors: Hanke Bob
Published: August 2017

This article presents a case study of a televised encounter between representatives of the fields of television, journalism, and academic media study. The article moves from a description of what was, and could be, said during Moses Znaimer's A Colloquium on TVTV to an analysis of invisible fields of cultural production and their effects. I argue that Pierre Bourdieu's work on television offers a valuable sociological perspective on television, intellectuals, and public knowledge, but that Canadian Learning Television's use of media studies may have paradoxical effects. Unless media scholars reflect upon these effects and begin to negotiate the terms and conditions of our appearance on television, our involvement may not increase the power of our analysis.
Reality TV, Big Brother and Foucault
Authors: Wong James
Published: August 2017

Reality TV allows us to gaze at others. Some critics link such watching, along with the reliance on new communication technologies in contemporary culture, to Foucault's use of the panopticon metaphor in his analysis of modernity. Perhaps in watching we have become Big Brother ourselves. This paper argues that linking reality TV (and the idea of Big Brother) to Foucault's use of the panopticon metaphor is mistaken. For Foucault, surveillance is only half of the story in the metaphor. The other half is that we are the ones who are exercising power over ourselves. We are our own masters. The article sets out the implications of this reading of Foucault on recent debates in connection with the preoccupation with Big Brother in contemporary culture.
Mass Communication: Some Redefinitional Notes
Authors: Lorimer Rowland
Published: August 2017

This paper offers a new definition of mass communication, one that embraces the Internet and its capacity to allow communication between individuals on a mass scale; decentralized broadcasting by means of the Web; and the traditional, centralized media of mass communication such as broadcasting and newspapers. It argues that such a redefinition affirms public access and relegates centralized broadcasting to a more appropriate, particular type of mass communication. It also discusses other redefinitional literature that focuses on the mass/interpersonal communication dichotomy. The paper is intended both to redefine and to encourage discussion of the significance of changing, modern communication technology.
The Process of Pacification in Southeastern Europe: Challenges and Issues from a Cultural Point of View
Authors: Dragojevic Sanjin
Published: August 2017

This paper examines the contextual factors and dynamics framing the contemporary situation in Southeastern Europe, reviews some strategies for addressing conflicts in the region, and considers some of the major challenges that societies in the region are currently facing. Two major features structure the larger context for the challenges and issues facing the region: first, the prevailing centre-semiperiphery-periphery theory, which is influencing the process of European integration, and, second, the proliferation of supra-national regional groupings in Europe. These form the general setting for, and influence the content of, current public debates on cultural values and identification.
"Little Supplements of LIfe": Urban Governance and Quality of Life
Authors: Mercer Colin
Published: August 2017

This paper presents an approach to urban governance and quality of life that combines recent French theory with current English and Australian practice. The historical concepts of "culture" and "governance" developed by Foucault and Bourdieu (among others) are integrated into several case studies of contemporary cultural policies enacted in cities across the U.K. and in Australia. The present work thus seeks to combine theoretical concerns with practical applications, towards the investigation and understanding of a particularity held in common: quality of life indicators, as expressed in patterns of both social and cultural capital assessment, in both urban and community environments.
Exploring Sociocultural Evolution: Intensive Modality and the Promise of the Third Sector
Authors: Mestrovic Matko
Published: August 2017

This paper seeks to articulate some of the frames, conditions, and alternatives for sociocultural evolution in the new millennium. Two frameworks are applied to this task: Francis Fukuyama's interpretation of historical process and Ervin Laszlo's concepts of intensive and extensive evolutionary modalities. In the context of the dynamics of the global economy, the paper considers the need to improve contemporary democracy, the role of artists in this struggle, and the importance of social networks and trust in underlining the functioning of society and economy. It also contemplates the possibilities of the voluntary sector as a realm where fiduciary arrangements give way to community bonds, and considers whether a social economy model could become an alternate institutional framework for civilizations in transition.
Arts and Culture as Profit Centre?: A Martial Arts Lesson for Canada's Cultural Policy Warriors
Authors: Higham Robin
Published: August 2017

This discussion paper proposes that those who would champion a higher ranking for culture and the arts on the national agenda should take a leaf from the Asian martial arts training manuals: the pages which explain how to employ an opponents' own strengths to your advantage. Since "good business" is where "good policy" begins in contemporary capitalistic democracies, rather than competing directly with economic priorities for ranking on the national agenda, cultural policy warriors should make their arguments in the language of economics. They must demonstrate the contribution of culture and the arts to society through their role as determinants of social capital and as marketeconomy facilitators.
Comparative Cultural Policy Research in Europe: A Change of Paradigm
Authors: Wiesand Andreas Joh
Published: August 2017

Parallel to the ongoing European integration process, comparative cultural policy research has changed its orientation and methods during the last thirty years, moving from institutional, almost "diplomatic" exercises to networking exchanges, and has arrived at an approach which favours integrated research projects. Against this background, this paper reviews the methodological problems of and first steps taken towards a more action-oriented and, at the same time, cohesive ("European") concept of cultural research, which extends beyond a mere comparison of national policies and experiences. This is illustrated through individual research projects and the more recent appearance of ERICarts, the European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts.
An Overview of the Conference Reader
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Canadian Cultural Research Network//Reseau canadien de recherche culturelle (CCRN/RCRC)
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Cultural Information and Research Centres Liaison in Europe (CIRCLE)
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Canada Must Make Broadband Infrastructure a Priority
Authors: Matear Maggie
Published: August 2017

This article argues that just as universal access to traditional communications media, such as the post office and the telephone, is considered an essential service, so also should access to high-speed Internet, particularly in areas that currently lack the infrastructure to make this possible. This paper illustrates the need for high-speed Internet connectivity, or broadband access, in remote and rural areas of Canada. The article outlines the rationale for establishing high-speed access throughout Canada and provides an overview of infrastructure implementation barriers faced by the private and public sectors. It concludes with a discussion of the ways in which community-based networks could play a role in the strategic planning, implementation, and application of broadband infrastructure.
How Prometheus Is Bound: Applying the Innis Method of Communications Analysis to the Internet
Authors: Frost Catherine
Published: August 2017

This article argues that Harold Innis' method of communications analysis is sufficiently modular that it can be applied to a medium not addressed in his own work - the Internet. It further argues that Innis developed this method because he believed each new medium faces us with a moral choice, and that his concern for the space/time balance represents a moral level of analysis focused on a medium's implications for freedom and humanism. Once applied to the Internet, this analytical method identifies reasons to be concerned for the social and political impact of this technology.
Green Mail: The Social Construction of Environmental Issues through Letters to the Editor
Authors: Hessing Catherine
Published: August 2017

Press coverage of environmental issues constructs a public discourse of the dynamic relations between humans and the world they inhabit. In the daily newspaper, letters to the editor act as a forum for public dialogue on forestry issues, mediating perceptions of land use, economy, and environment. The publication of "green mail" concerning the proposed logging in the Carmanah Valley of British Columbia shapes and reflects issues of social conflict and economic transition. Through various means, letters to the editor uphold ideals of economic utility and democratic process as determinants of land use policy. Yet green mail challenges the dominant paradigm through its extension of public access to the agenda-setting process, its development of an ecological critique, and the articulation of an alternative environmental discourse.
Events That Matter: Specific Incidents, Media Coverage, and Agenda-Setting in a Ghanaian Context
Authors: Kwansah-Aidoo Kwamena
Published: August 2017

Traditional agenda-setting research has convincingly demonstrated that the media's agenda influences the public's agenda in a somewhat linear fashion. Following from that, agenda-setting researchers are now investigating the attributes of culturally specific agendas. Their studies provide insight into what appears to be a complex process that may be affected by factors beyond those already documented. This paper similarly examines the intricate connections between media, specific events, and agenda-setting in Ghana. In this context it considers two specific events with significant sociocultural implications - events that were framed by the media to produce agenda-setting effects. The paper argues that the media's framing of those events provided their audience with certain ready-made patterns of cognition, thereby enhancing the possibility of agenda-setting.
America Under Attack 1: The War of the Worlds, Orson Welles, and 'Media Sense'
Authors: Heyer Paul
Published: August 2017

This article re-examines Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. Welles' ingenious use of radio is attributed to his innate "media sense" - an ability to understand the medium he worked with in order to push it to its artistic limits. Responses to the program on the part of print media and academe are examined along with more scholarly media sense of Marshall McLuhan, who comments on the so-called Panic Broadcast in Understanding Media. This paper features an on-line auditory component ( www.cjc-online.ca ) that includes excerpts from the author's 1998 radio documentary on The War of the Worlds for ABC (Australia).
The Construction and Globalization of the Knowlege Base in Interhuman Communication Systems
Authors: Leydesdorff Loet
Published: August 2017

The relationship between the knowledge base and the globalization of communication systems is discussed from the perspective of communication theory. The author argues that interhuman communication takes place at two levels. At the first level information is exchanged and provided with meaning, and at the second level meaning can reflexively be communicated. Human language can be considered as the evolutionary achievement that enables us to use these two channels of communication simultaneously. Providing meaning from the perspective of hindsight is a recursive operation: a meaning that makes a difference can be considered as knowledge. If the production of knowledge is socially organized, the perspective of hindsight can further be codified. This adds globalization to the historically stabilized patterns of communications.
The Progressive Construction of Communication: Toward a Model of Cognitive Networked Communication and Knowledge Communities
Authors: Campos Milton
Published: August 2017

Networked communication allows the emergence of a new social reality: knowledge communities in cognitive networks. This paper formulates a model of cognitive networked communication and knowledge communities. This model aims to show the progressive construction of communication and is based on an integrative view of conviviality (participation and engagement) and knowledge building(intentionality, individual and social representations that shape different levels of collaboration and influence learning in interpersonal relationships). The model suggests communication can progress from lower to higher cognitive levels, and that those levels are apparent in different types of communities. Although community communication is essentially structured through cognitive procedures ( logos), the model also suggests that it is shaped by affectivity and emotions ( pathos), and moral and cultural values, beliefs, and opinions ( ethos).
Gender, Talk, TV, Hockey, and "Canadian Identity": Feminist Takes on "Television Rejection"
Authors: Langley Sandra
Published: August 2017

A certain manner of framing totalizing critical takes on television has become common over the last few decades. It entails reference to the assumptions of cultural highbrows and of leftists contemptuous of mass popular culture. Such a framing is necessary but not sufficient. It fails to indicate the presence and significance of certain critical-popular responses to television viewing, responses related to how such viewing has figured within family circles and gender orders, and within histories of racial rule. This paper draws on representations in feminist fiction, on personal experience related to the ritual of "hockey night in Canada," and on Strikwerda and May's analysis of male friendship and intimacy to support the argument that we need to attend to critical-popular feminist takes on television rejection. They provide a way in to the consideration of issues which deserve further attention.
"Both of us can move mountains": Mary Quayle Innis and Her Relationship to Harold Innis' Legacy
Authors: David Black J.
Published: August 2017

This paper offers an account of the life and work of Mary Quayle Innis (1899-1972), the wife of Harold Innis, and a figure largely unknown in the Innis scholarship. Using material taken from her writing, archival sources, and interviews with two of the Innises' children, this paper provides background on her contributions to Canadian culture as a writer and editor. The paper also speculates on her possible influence upon Innis' political economy and media research, and suggests that in understanding Mary Quayle Innis better, puzzling features of Harold Innis' own work are illuminated. A full bibliography of works by and about Mary Innis is attached.
Digital Media and the Public Information Environment: A Retrospective Assessment
Authors: Ruggles Myles
Published: August 2017

Ten years after the emergence of the World Wide Web, the implications of new digital technologies for the news and public information function of the media are still a topic of vigorous debate. This paper, which is merely a preliminary report on an unfinished review of the literature pre-dating that event, revisits some of the critical analyses that had been articulated about the new digital media when the Web emerged. The intent of this larger, not-yet-completed project is to evaluate some major tendencies, already mapped a decade ago by research in the political economy of telecommunication, against the actual outcomes of the intervening decade of development and use of the new digital technologies of information and communication. Where the early predictions are confirmed, this re-evaluation may provide a simple means to distinguish persistent structural distortions in the public information environment from transitory or local effects, superficial influences, and alarmist predictions. Where the early results are refuted or less clearly confirmed, it may provide insight into the limits of political-economic methods of analysis.
History from the Inside: Prolegomenon to the "Memoir of Harold Adams Innis Covering the Years 1894-1922"
Authors: Heyer Paul
Published: August 2017

This essay provides an introduction to Harold Innis' autobiographical memoir covering the years 1894-1922 ( www.cjc-online.ca ). Consideration is given to sources that may have inspired him in this direction. They include the memoirs and autobiographies he cites in The Bias of Communication (1951), along with the diary-based studies of three individuals that he wrote in conjunction with his staples research in political economy: Peter Pond, Alexander James McPhail, and Simeon Perkins. Innis' own memoir is assessed as a document that can help us further understand how the scenarios of his early life influenced his character, motivations, and eventual career choices.
EFEKTIVITAS KERJASAMA GURU DAN ORANG TUA DALAM MENDUKUNG PEMBELAJARAN BACA AL-QURAN ANAK DI SD IT NURUL ISHLAH BANDA ACEH
Authors: Pratiningsih Dwi
Published: August 2017

Cooperation of teacher-parents is essential in stimulating the development of children’s abilities, especially the ability to read the Quran. This research focuses on: (1) What are the forms of cooperation of teachers-parents in supporting students’ learning of reading the Quran at the Integrated Islamic Primary School SDIT Nurul Ishlah, Banda Aceh; (2) How is the effectiveness of the cooperation of teacher-parents in supporting students’ learning of reading the Quran at the school? (3) What are the obstacles encountered in the implementation of the cooperation of teachers and parents? This is by nature mixed research. Observations, interviews, questionnaires, and document analysis were used in collecting data. The data were analyzed descriptively. The results show that there have been many kinds of collaborative efforts of teacher-parents, such as meeting of teacher-parents, seminars of parenting, monitoring book of the students’ tahsīn/tahfīẓ of the Quran, personal communication, and parents’ participation in learning to read the Quran at home. All these have been effective. Nevertheless, some constraints exist in the implementation of the cooperation, including the lack of attention and concern of some parents, and the lack of facilities and infrastructure that support the programs.
ANALISIS PERBEDAAN ANTARA KURIKULUM KTSP DAN KURIKULUM 2013
Authors: Hakim Lukmanul
Published: August 2017

A curiculum as a teaching program of one of the instutions may have changed in accodance with the need of the society. In Indonesia, the government under the administration of the Ministry of National Education has made the changes of curriculum for several times, such as, KTSP 2006 (unit lesson-based curriculum) and Kurikulum berbasis karakter2013 (character-based curriculum).These changes are aimed at developing the quality of education in this country. This writing discusses the differences between KTSP 2006 and Kurikulum berbasis karakter 2013. Through the discussion, it is found that there are some differences between both of these curriculum in many aspects in lessons focused, methods applied, students’ achievement scale, and teaching learning goals.
SEJARAH PERKEMBANGAN ILMU FALAK DALAM PERADABAN INDIA DAN KETERKAITANNYA DENGAN ISLAM
Authors: Akbar Reza
Published: August 2017

Although it is acknowledged that Islamic astronomy developed very rapidly during the Abbasid period (750-1258 AD), it should be noted that before the advancement of astronomy of the Islamic world, Muslim scholars of the time were very incentive to translate astronomical books from other nations, one of them was from India. There were at least two factors that led to the emergence and development of astronomical science in pre-Islamic Indian civilization. The first, the teachings of Hinduism that made the sun as the ruler and source of life. The second, the influence of civilization from other nations such as Egypt, Persia, and Greece. In pre-Islamic times, there were a number of names of historical figures of Indian astronomy namely Lagadha, Yajnavalkya (800-900 BC), Aitareya Brahmana (about 900-800 BC), Aryabhata (476-550 AD), Varahamihira (499-587 AD) Brahmagupta (598-668 AD), Bhaskara II (1114-1185 AD), and Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544 AD). While in Islam, there was a number of names namely Mulla Farid, Mulla Chand, Mulla Tayyib, Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (1606-1651 AD), Ghulam Hussain Jaunpuri (1790-1862 AD) and others. The results of civilization of Indian astronomy is clearly visible with the ancient astronomical texts, the concept of the universe, the Hindu calendar, observatory, zij (astronomical tables), and astronomical tools such as gnomon, Yasti Yantra, Ghati Yantra, astrolabe, and others.
Uso da problematização com apoio do Arco de Maguerez como estratégia de educação permanente para a promoção da segurança do paciente
Authors: Frates Cauduro Fernanda Leticia , Kindra Tereza , Ribeiro Elaine Rossi , Da Mata Junia Aparecida Laia
Published: August 2017

Relatar a experiência sobre o planejamento e a implementação de oficinas guiadas pela Metodologia da Problematização, apoiada no Arco de Maguerez, realizadas em uma Fundação Estatal, responsável pela gestão de alguns serviços de saúde da Prefeitura de Curitiba-PR, Brasil. Os objetivos das oficinas foram promover a discussão sobre a segurança do paciente entre gestores e trabalhadores da saúde; e elaborar estratégias em prol da melhoria nos processos de trabalho com foco no cuidado seguro. A estratégia pedagógica adotada apoiou-se no Arco de Maguerez, que é constituído pelas etapas: 1- Observação da Realidade; 2- Pontos-chave; 3- Teorização; 4- Hipóteses de Solução; 5- Aplicação à realidade. Como resultados, os participantes apresentaram planos de ação para os seus locais de atuação, definindo as medidas a serem desenvolvidas para promover a segurança do paciente. O uso da Metodologia da Problematização se mostrou viável nas ações educativas aplicadas no contexto relatado, capaz de aproximar as lideranças dos problemas factíveis e fomentar a elaboração de soluções compatíveis às necessidades dos serviços.
Adesão à imunização contra o papilomavírus humano na saúde pública do Brasil
Authors: Prince Karina Andrade de
Published: August 2017

O objetivo desse estudo foi avaliar a adesão de meninas com idade entre 11 e 13 anos à vacina contra o papilomavírus humano no Brasil. Trata-se de um estudo retrospectivo, descritivo, transversal, com abordagem quantitativa e de caráter exploratório, utilizando-se a base de dados do Sistema de Informações do Programa Nacional de Imunizações. Em 2014, foi administrado um total de 7.436.841 doses de vacinas, a maior cobertura vacinal foi na região Sudeste e a menor na região Norte. A cobertura da primeira dose da vacina foi de 99,84%, no entanto, a cobertura vacinal da segunda dose foi de 55,65%, verificando-se redução significativa da adesão quando comparada à primeira dose. É relevante a necessidade de instituir medidas públicas e educativas, com o intuito de ampliar a cobertura da segunda dose nos próximos anos e, consequentemente, evitar a transmissão do vírus.
Perfil dos gerentes da Atenção Primária: uma revisão integrativa
Authors: Peiter Caroline Cechinel , Caminha Maria Eduarda Pereira , Oliveira Walter Ferreira de
Published: August 2017

Objetivo: Caracterizar o perfil da gerência local de saúde da Atenção Primária. Metodologia: Revisão integrativa de literatura a partir da BVS e da BDENF, utilizando as palavras-chaves “Gerência de Serviços de Saúde” AND “Atenção Primária à Saúde”. Foram incluídos artigos publicados em todos os idiomas, de 2006 a 2015, resultando em 14 estudos. Resultados: Observou-se o predomínio do enfermeiro como gestor local de saúde, e a importância de habilidades como liderança, comunicação, organização, planejamento, bom relacionamento, conhecimento, criatividade, e capacidade de motivação. A formação continuada foi evidenciada como importante ferramenta para qualificação da gestão. Conclusão: A definição das competências do gestor local de saúde e discussões sobre a gestão de tais serviços de saúde é essencial para a qualificação da rede de assistência no SUS
Influência de políticas públicas e sociais na vida das pessoas em situação de rua e consequências no processo de rualização
Authors: Rosa Luiz Guilherme Da Silva da , Félix Sarah Beatriz Coceiro Meirelles , Ananias Felipe Conceição , Maria José Eduardo Fabrini de
Published: August 2017

O objetivo do estudo foi conhecer a influência de políticas públicas e sociais na vida das pessoas em situação de rua e as consequências destas no processo de rualização. Trata-se de revisão integrativa de artigos pesquisados na base de dados PUBMED, utilizando os descritores “Homeless person” e “social welfare”. Os critérios de inclusão foram: idioma português, inglês e espanhol, publicadas entre 2010-2016, disponíveis na íntegra, pautando políticas voltadas à população em situação de rua. Dos 535 artigos encontrados, 11 foram incluídos e abordavam programas norte-americanos, canadenses e ingleses; orfanatos quenianos e assistência social brasileira. Os resultados apontam que o uso de substâncias ilícitas e rualização ocorre mesmo em indivíduos acompanhados desde a infância, e as políticas amparam principalmente necessidades materiais, acarretando consequências que sustentam a necessidade de manutenção destas políticas não cumprindo o papel de emancipação de direitos individuais.
A Gestão e a Avaliação de Tecnologias em Saúde no Paraná: desafios e propostas para a SESA e para o setor de saúde paranaense*
Authors: Remondi Felipe , Lazarotto Helder , Almeida Marcio José de , Caputo Neto Michele
Published: August 2017

Texto preliminar, preparado para subsidiar discussões a respeito da necessidade de iniciar/fortalecer a ATS no estado. Curitiba, junho/2017.
Análise do controle da toxoplasmose gestacional e ocular nos serviços de atenção primária da 15ªRegional de Saúde do Paraná
Authors: Evangelista Fernanda Ferreira , Riedo Cristiane De Oliveira , Higa Lourenço Tsunetomi , Marchioro Ariella Andrade , -Guilherme Ana Lúcia Falavigna
Published: August 2017

Introdução: A primo-infecção pelo Toxoplasma gondii na gestação causa um risco de transmissão fetal entre 10% e 100%. Em 2006, a 15ª Regional de Saúde do Paraná criou a Rede de Controle da Toxoplasmose Gestacional e Congênita com referência para o Hospital Universitário de Maringá.Objetivo: avaliar as medidas adotadas pelos profissionais da Atenção Primária, para o controle da toxoplasmose gestacional e ocular.Método: Foram sorteadas 20% das 39 Unidades Básicas de Saúde de quatro municípios pertencentes à 15ª Regional de Saúde. A abordagem aos profissionais que assistiam as gestantes foi mediada por um questionário estruturado. Os dados coletados foram sobre as medidas realizadas: com gestantes soro não reagentes, com suspeita aguda, e com toxoplasmose ocular.Resultados: A maioria dos profissionais desconhecia a rede de controle, maneiras de infecção e medidas profiláticas para toxoplasmose.Conclusão: Isto mostra a importância da atualização profissional e perseverança da educação continuada.