bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Introduction: New Approaches to Audiences and their Musics
Authors: Zaborowski Rafal
Published: February 2020

This is the introduction to the special issue: New Approaches to Audiences and their Musics
Book Review: Why Music Matters by David Hesmondhalgh
Authors: Zhongwei Li
Published: February 2020

Hesmondhalgh, David (2013) Why Music Matters, Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN: 978-1-4051-9242-2 (hardcover); 978-1-4051-9241-5 (paperback); 978-1-118-53581-3 (e-book), 198 pages.
Envisioning Design Futures via Practice-led Speculative Design Research
Authors: Tober Brad
Published: February 2020

Some criticisms of the contemporary maker movement (referring to the democratization of various production technologies) have conflated the validity of the making arising from this movement with the utility / commercial potential of said making. However, like pure research in traditional disciplines, the true value of exploratory making—of which practice-led research is a part—without immediate utility or application is in the development of a base for future research to build upon. This paper both establishes a context and proposes a framework for practice-led speculative design research, which positions the designer as an instigator whose work can inform that of both other designers and non-designers (such as those engaged in the maker movement). Such work holds the power to chart the course and ensure the future of the discipline as a whole, and thus should be viewed as an essential component of disciplinary activity.
Mediations of ‘the Refugee Crisis’: The (Ir)reconciliation of Ideological Contradictions in Fortress Europe
Authors: Harrison Alexander Callum
Published: February 2020

In the UK, the summer of 2015 saw the national popular press and public imagination captivated by the ‘refugee crisis’. On both mass and social media sites, public opinion predominantly orientated around two major narratives. On one hand, amidst the dramatic scenes in Calais (as well as elsewhere), the European media worked into a fervour of fear, amid concerns about the ‘swarms’ of migrants purported to be ‘invading’ Europe (Squires 2015, The Telegraph). Taking a theoretical focus through Agamben’s work and giving reverence to where his concerns converge with aspects of postcolonial theory, the following investigation unpacks how the hegemonic (new) media narratives have intensely cycled into an emotionally charged dichotomous discourse obfuscating a multitude of other key considerations. Employing content analysis, this article reads three cultural texts scraped from social media to discuss the ways in which the construction of the refugee identity has been shaped in the public imagination; it calls into question how forefronting the figure of the refugee has foreclosed wider debates about alternative agendas contributing to the processes of Fortressing Europe.
Imaging the Jungles of Calais: Media Visuality and the Refugee Camp
Authors: Ibrahim Yasmin , Howarth Anita
Published: February 2020

Calais became a space of renewed media interest in the summer of 2015, with an increased visuality into the state of refugees’ living conditions and their lives. We examine the images of the camps dubbed ‘the Jungle’ over time, when media started reporting on the camp which was demolished in 2009 and the more recent resurrections termed as ‘Jungle II’ or the ‘new Jungle’, thereafter. Earlier media coverage of the Jungle accompanied less visual depictions of their living conditions or daily existence beyond the threat they posed to their immediate environment. However, compared to 2009 there has been a surge in the number of images of the refugees, particularly a steep rise in 2014 and 2015. The refugee as an object of suffering and trauma is the subject of an abject gaze where the corporeal body is both a non-entity and invisible. Both death and the accident are ascribed to it, as inhabitants in this ‘state of exception’. We examine these aesthetics of trauma and violence in the liminal space of Calais. The increased visuality and curiosity in the camps since 2015 reinscribed the refugee as a political by-product of border politics, accentuating the refugee camp as a violent and dissonant space in civilised Europe. Despite the intimacy of the imagery, the increased visuality showcased the madness and futility produced through a border politics of legitimacy and ‘bare life’.
The Construction of the Mediterranean Refugee Problem from the Italian Digital Press (2013-2015): Emergencies in a Territory of Mobility
Authors: Vieira Inês
Published: February 2020

The Mediterranean Sea is a historical stage of mobilities and has been a witness to important movements of people and goods since ancient times. In this liquid territory, different social processes of globalization can be observed; yet, in recent years, it has been predominantly depicted as an emergency scene, a crossing platform for those in search of refuge in Europe. This scenario becomes connected to a set of dimensions of securitization and quests for control that redirect the debates about national and European responsibilities regarding maritime territories. In this article, this issue is addressed exploring the construction and development of the social problem of refugees in the Mediterranean, departing from a frame analysis of news items thematically filtered from the digital platforms of two Italian newspapers in 2013-2015. The problem is contextualized in time and content progression, deepening the framing of some critical events, and reframing the Mediterranean as a referent/emergent territory of mobility.
The Representation of (Illegal) Migrants in The British News
Authors: Silveira Carolina
Published: February 2020

This research looks at how migration is represented in British newspapers by using multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) to examine two news articles published in July/June 2015 from The Guardian and the Daily Mail. The study takes a closer look at the categories used to define immigrants, including the implicit assumption of illegality associated with ‘migrants’ crossing the Mediterranean/Calais. The analysis reveals how both news articles contribute to a similar discourse, which places the refugee at a distance and presents the UK as being threatened by a rising number of, specifically male, ‘migrants’. This article deconstructs two ideologically dissimilar news articles to reveal the manner in which they can both contribute to a negative construction of refugees and immigrants arriving in Europe.
The Harkive Project: Rethinking Music Consumption
Authors: Hamilton Craig
Published: February 2020

This report is an overview of my progress through a 3-year, AHRC-funded doctoral research project looking at the changing nature of Popular Music consumption, with a particular focus on digital technologies. I am undertaking this project within the School of Media at Birmingham City University in the United Kingdom. After providing an overview of the project and work completed so far, I will then highlight some of the key challenges I am facing now that I have reached the halfway point in my studies, before outlining some of the ways I am seeking to address these. I will end this report with a short reflection on the process of working towards a PhD.
‘Let me be your TV’ (Phillips 1996, 1)
Authors: Rentemeister Elke
Published: February 2020

Video abstract

Mobile media enable immediate and continuous connections as well as ubiquitous pro-ducing, sharing and consuming of audio-visual material. This article analyses the con-ceptualisation of ultra-short media forms and media convergence on Vine. The article is based mainly on the analysis of examples of the Vine users Thomas Sanders, the NBA and the America’s Funniest Home Videos, illustrating the aesthetics and content ena-bled by ultra-short communications. The term para-social interaction, as applied by Horton and Wohl (1956) in the context of mass media, is adapted to Vine as social me-dia, highlighting the performance of intimacy in communication mediated with digital tools.
The Elderly’s Media Appropriation as Variable for Target Groups
Authors: Haubold Rebekka , Ganguin Sonja
Published: February 2020

Media and media appropriation can be the basis for diversity and also for commonalities, describing target groups more exactly than the chronological age approach does. This paper demonstrates why it is necessary to expand the view of target groups beyond mere classification in the category of age, especially when the focus is placed on the elderly. It establishes that there are other possibilities than age to find also appropriate classification categories for the elderly by means of media appropriation combined with Bourdieu’s forms of capital. This paper suggests that, regardless of whether media use, education or media literacy, if the media research is intended to reach fruitful ends, its instruments need to be developed with media specifically in mind. In this case, they need to be subject-orientated in relation to the media appropriation of the elderly.
Gender and the Screenplay
Authors: Sawtell Louise , Taylor Stayci
Published: February 2020

While plenty has been written about gender representation on screen, much less has been written about gender in regards to screenplays. Emerging scholarly research around screenwriting practice often focuses on questions of the craft – is screenwriting a technical or creative act? – and whether or not the screenplay’s only destiny is to disappear into the film (Carriére, cited in Maras 1999, 147). Thus there might be room for further exploration into screenwriters and their practice – to ask who (in regards to gender) is writing screenplays, especially considering the assertion of Dancyger and Rush that the three-act structure (a dominant screenwriting practice) is ‘designed to suggest the story tells itself’ (2013, 38). Moreover, questions of gender representation on screen might be considered from the perspective of screenwriting practice, given this same ubiquitous structure means that barriers, including those related to gender, ‘are still presented as secondary to the transcendence of individual will’ (Dancyger and Rush 2013, 36). This special issue of Networking Knowledge, then, brings together a collection of scholarly perspectives on screenwriting theory and practice through the lens of gender.
In her own voice
Authors: Liddy Susan
Published: February 2020

International research highlights a paucity of female screenwriters and directors in contemporary cinema. The consequences, in terms of employment equality and on-screen representations, have been well documented. However, few studies interrogate the film industry from the point-of-view of the female practitioners themselves.  Certainly, these issues have not been comprehensively explored in an Irish context; something which this paper, as part of a wider study on Irish women screenwriters and writer/directors, sets out to address.

 An analysis of three in-depth, exploratory interviews with produced female writers of film and television is presented here. The purpose of the interviews is to tease out the experiences, work practices, perceived barriers and narrative preoccupations of this underrepresented group. Although generalizations cannot be made on the basis of three interviews, many of the views expressed by these practitioners correspond to theoretical and empirical work emerging in the field.  Other insights shed new light on aspects of women’s creative labour in the Irish film industry.
Sex and Sexualities in Popular Culture: A Networking Knowledge Special Issue
Authors: Popova Milena , Jones Bethan
Published: February 2020

In November 2015, we held a symposium on the theme of Sex & Sexualities in Popular Culture at the Watershed, Bristol. Having met at a conference on popular music fandom and the public sphere, earlier that year, the symposium was a result of our shared interest in, and work on, sex and sexualities in popular culture. Bethan has worked extensively on antifandom of Fifty Shades of Grey and the moral panics surrounding the ‘irrational’ behavior of One Direction and Twilight fans. Milena’s research focuses on sexual consent in erotic fan fiction, and they have a keen interest in how media and culture interact with the discursive construction of sex, sexualities, and consent. Through the symposium, then, we wanted toafford a platform for postgraduate researchers and creative practitioners exploring the nuances of sex and sexualities within popular culture to meet and share ideas. Of course, the terms ‘sex’, ‘sexualities’ and ‘popular culture’ are not fixed or immutable and while we included suggestions for what papers might examine, the abstracts we received covered a range of topics, from literature and computer games to social media and fan fiction, and advertising to social activism. The symposium was well received both in person and online. We encouraged attendees to live tweet using the hashtag #popsex15, and discussions took place both at the Watershed and on Twitter about consent, the normative depictions of sex andrelationships in popular culture, misogynistic hate speech and intersex characters in literature. The amount of engagement with the ideas and themes coming out of the symposium suggested that a deeper analysis was needed, and this special issue of Networking Knowledge - Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN attempts to engage in more detail with some of these.
Lifestyle and fashion in Mario Camerini’s romantic comedies Il Signor Max and I Grandi Magazzini
Authors: Faggella Chiara
Published: February 2020

Between the years 1922 and 1943, Italian Fascism revealed quite an ambivalent attitude towards lifestyle.[1] While the regime tried to impose standards of nationalistic moderation, popular entertainment of the time reveals that different aspects of culture never surrendered completely to the diktats of the regime. This article discusses the ways in which two films, Il Signor Max (Astra Film, 1937) and I Grandi Magazzini (Amato-Era Film, 1939) can provide a perspective into the consumer culture of Fascist Italy and its ambivalences. By presenting recurrent references to lifestyle commodities and fashion, the experiences of consumption in the two films take center stage in spite of the regime’s campaigns for modesty.

 

[1] The use of the capital ‘f’ is employed to specifically indicate the totalitarian regime led by Benito Mussolini, which occurred in Italy between the years 1922 and 1943, and to distinguish it from additional national variations (e.g. Spanish Falangism).
The Career Woman and the Princess
Authors: Velody Rachel
Published: February 2020

Fashioning is critical to explorations of television identities and American melodrama-thriller series Scandal (2012-17) provides opportunities to explore representations of ethnicity together with depictions of interracial romance and intercourse. Utilising semiotics I explore the contribution of costume designer Lyn Paolo to the construction of the Black-American heroine of the series, Olivia Pope, successful career woman and lover of a white, male President. Arguing for the potential of female spectacle and soft-core pornography as progressive I consider Paolo’s influences, suggesting that Olivia’s fashioning transformations illustrate her as dandy-flâneuse, one controlling the visualisation of her identity.
Stereo Imaging In Fashion Photography
Authors: Häsler Leonie
Published: February 2020

Fashion photographs are generally two-dimensional images showing one side of a three-dimensional model. This paper, however, deals with far less well-known stereoscopic fashion photographs. Stereoscopy is a technique that creates the illusion of a 3-D image. Based on the image collection of Swiss textile and clothes company HANRO, the article analyzes the composition of 3-D pictures by putting them in a broader media-historical context. The archived stereoscopic photographs date back to the 1950s and show a series of women’s fashion. In the same period, Hollywood experienced a 3-D-boom that may have had a technical and aesthetical impact on these photographs. Although fashion is not mediated in moving images in this case study, codes or formal languages of a film are inscribed in the images, as will be shown in the following text. Building on these findings, this paper further discusses the influence of cinematography and other media practices on the fashion industry’s attempt to free its fashion imagery from the confines of a two-dimensional page.
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 2018 Conference Special Issue: Introduction
Authors: Kaylee Graves Emma
Published: February 2020

On 5th and 6th July 2018, MeCCSA’s Postgraduate Network held their annual conference at Canterbury Christ Church University. The event was organised by Nicholas Furze, Aurora Patera and Emma Kaylee Graves, all of whom have contributed to the creation of this special issue. The papers presented in this special issue are each based upon presentations given by attendees of this conference. With the inclusive theme of media, community and culture, the conference saw a wide variety of scholarship from contributors based in the UK and beyond. As a result, the four papers that make up this issue vary greatly, but are all related in that they each consider communities’ relationships to the media around the globe.
Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter (Review)
Authors: Furze Nicholas
Published: February 2020

It has been 12 years since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last in the initial series of Harry Potter books was published, and yet the franchise remains very popular, with various films, plays, computer games, theme park rides and websites still being created, and enjoyed, by people all over the globe. All of this has helped feed a large and diverse fanbase whose engagement with the series remains just as strong as it was when the initial book series was first published. It is this fan community that is the focus of Frankel’s edited collection, which covers a wide variety of subjects from the more official expanded sources, such as Erin Pyne’s consideration of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios to the more unofficial fan-created stories, films and online activities, that have allowed the fan community to maintain its loyal base over the years. Similarly, this edited collection also includes interviews with various practitioners in the Harry Potter fan community, with their insights providing useful contextual information which could be useful for future scholars working in this field. Therefore, this edited collection makes a valuable contribution within the growing field of fan studies but it can also be enjoyed by those same fan communities who feature in the text.
Pentingnya pemuridan kontekstual bagi generasi pemurah kristen
Authors: datumanik Artati
Published: February 2020

Pemuridan menjadi salah satu cara yang dipakai Allah untuk mencetak generasi atau para pemimpin yang berkualitas. Pemuridan yang mengubah hidup kaum pemuda yaitu Disiplin Rohani, pemuda perlu didik sejak awal mengenai disiplin rohani. Pembelajaran Alkitab adalah elemen yang sangat melekat pada Pemuridan. Berbicara dengan pemuridan kaum muda masa kini, tidaklah semudah membalikkan telapak tangan.
Tugas MP2
Authors: Langi Oktavyani Payung
Published: February 2020

Anak-anak di jaman yang telah maju sekarang ini, lebih senang untuk bermain dengan gadget dan memainkan banyak game yang telah disuguhkan pada gadget mereka memiliki. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningktakan niat baca Alkitab anak Sekolah Minggu.
Implementasi Bimbingan Konseling Perceraian Terhadap Perkembangan Emosi Anak Di Gereja Toraja Jemaat Marinding
Authors: Sombo Penianti Taruk
Published: February 2020

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PENTINGNYA PEMURIDAN KONTEKSTUAL DALAM PENGEMBANGAN BIMBINGAN ANAK DALAM FIRMAN Allah
Authors: Lembang Sri Sa'bu
Published: February 2020

Bagi orang-orang yang tidak berpengalaman dalam bimbingan, tampaknya ada suatu mesteri. Dua orang bertemu. Satu orang bermasalah dan yang lain dianggap mempunyai cara penyelesaiannya. Mereka berbicara dan berbicara dan berbicara minggu lepas minggu dan bulan lepas bulan dan kemudian diharapkan orang yang dibimbing menjadi lebih baik keadaannya dan keduanya berpisah. Ada pun terjadai dalam bimbingan, bagaimana dan mengapa orang berubah mencakup tiga unsure orang yang dibimbing, pembimbingan dan percakapan dari ketiga unsur ini, orang yang dibimbing adalah faktof terpenting.
Pembelajaran Alkitab Memiliki Hubungan Terhadap Nilai-nilai Hidup Berbangsa Dan Bernegara Dalam Pemuridan Kontekstual
Authors: Marson Arkino
Published: February 2020

Radikalisme sering sekali kita dengar bahkan sudah lazim karena radikalisme merupakan sebuah gerakan kelompok politik dengan tujuannya mencapai kemerdekaan. Oleh karena itu dalam mempelajari Alkitab tentunya memiliki hubungan terhadap nilai-nilai berbagsa dalam pemuridan kontekstual. Radikalisme juga tentunya dapat kita ketahui bahwa begitu berkembang di negara-negara untuk melawan radikalisme tentunya dengan cara tidak melakukan kekerasan oleh karena perlu kita mempelajari Alkitab supaya kita dapat menanamkan nilai-nilai hidup berbangsa dalam pemuridan kontekstual.Untuk menghindari hal-hal mengenai radikalisme perlu kita mempelajari nilai-nilai kebangsaan supaya tidak terjadi hal-hal yang negatif. Untuk meningkatkan suatu nilai-nilai hidup berbagsa dalam pemuridan kontekstual sangat diperlukan pemahaman mengenai Alkitab supaya kita dapat menanamkan dalam diri bagaimana hidup berbangsa.
Implementasi kontekstual pemuridan
Authors: TIMANG KRISTIANI
Published: February 2020

Ada banyak gereja yang telah merasakan manfaat dari proses pemuridan. Salah satunya manfaat yang dapat dilihat adalah bahwa seseorang yang telah mengikuti proeses pemuridan mengalami pertumbuhan dalam kehidupan rohaninya menuju kepada kedewasaan rohani. Dengan demikian, kita dituntut untuk lebih aktif dalam pelayanan. Ketika kita menekuni pelayanan dalam gereja akan timbul kecintaan akan Firman Allah serta rela dan mau terlibat dalam pelayanan di dalam jemaat.
Tugas MPST Megawani Tonapa
Authors: Tonapa Megawani
Published: February 2020

Masalah saat ini yang banyak dialami oleh gereja-gereja adalah kurangnya pemimpin-pemimpin yang memiliki kemampuan ynag cukup untuk mengembangkan pelayanan digereja. Gereja yang seharusnya memiliki pemimpin yang memiliki iman yang benar, ilmu yang memadai, dan pengabdian yang sungguh-sungguh, malah memiliki krisis kepemimpinan.Di dalam generasi muda peran dan tanggung jawab seorang pemuda dalam keikut sertaan peran didalam gereja menjadi cerminan bagaimana usaha suatu gereja mengakomodasi potensi yang dimiliki oleh generasi muda. Berbicara dalam konteks Gereja, kondisi pemuda juga mengalami hal yang sama. Bisa dilihat, minimnya peran serta pemuda untuk dapat melayani digereja menjadi cerminan. Umtuk mengimplementasikan iman Kristen di tengah-tengah kehidupan bangsa, dan Gereja diperlukan semangat juang yang tinggi untuk menyuarakan kebenaran.
IMPLEMENTASI PEMURIDAN KONTEKSTUAL TERHADAP PERNIKAHAN USIA DINI
Authors: Sirupang Oriska
Published: February 2020

Pernikahan dini merupakan pernikahan di usia muda. Pada zaman sekarang ini ada begitu banyak anak-anak yang masih di bawah umur yang harusnya masih duduk di bangku sekolah tetapi sudah banyak yang melakukan pernikahan di usia dini yang secara kodrat belum bisa dan belum mampu untuk membangun sebuah rumah tangga. Pernikahan dini yang terjadi di kalangan remaja disebabkan oleh berbagai faktor diantaranya faktor ekonomi, pergaulan bebas, rendahnya tingkat pendidikan dan dari diri sendiri. Pernikahan usia dini dapat memunculkan berbagai dampak baik dari segi ekonomi, sosial, kesehatan maupun dampak psikologis pada pasangan tersebut, tidak sedikit yang ditimbulkan adalah dampak negatif bagi pasangan muda itu.
Pemuridan Kontekstual sebagai Pastoral bagi Kaum Homoseksual
Authors: Janna Yiska
Published: February 2020

Homoseksual berasal dari kata homo yang berarti sama dan sexual yang berarti hubungan seksual. Homoseksual merupakan ketertarikan seksual berupa disorientasi pasangan seksualnya. Allah menciptakan seks yang pada dasarnya mulia dan suci bukan sebagai sesuatu yang jahat dan hina. Tetapi bukan berarti bahwa manusia bebas melakukannya kapan dan kepada siapa saja termasuk kepada sesama jenis (Homoseksual). Seks yang adalah kudus hanya dipakai dalam ikatan pernikahan untuk memperkuat kesatuan suami-istri. Homoseksual kini tidak lagi hanya dipahami sebagai bentuk perilaku melainkan sebagai suatu bentuk orientasi seksual yang muncul di luar kehendak manusia. Bahkan sebagian orang menganggap bahwa itu adalah hal yang wajar dan tidak berdosa. Secara Teologis homoseksual merupakan tindakan seksual yang menyimpang dari ketetapan Allah yang kudus, bahkan dianggap sebagai perbuatan dosa yang akan menimbulkan berbagai hal dalam aspek kehidupan dan akan mengalami penolakan dalam masyarakat dan juga rentan untuk terkena penyakit seperti penyakit Aids.
Beyond good and bad: Varieties of moral judgment
Authors: Jimenez-Leal William , Murray Samuel , Amaya Santiago , Barbosa Sergio
Published: February 2020

We argue that people regularly encounter situations characterized by the presence of moral conflicts among permissible options. These scenarios, which some have called morally charged situations, reflect perceived tensions between moral expectations and moral rights. Studying responses to such situations marks a departure from the common emphasis on sacrificial dilemmas and widespread use of single-dimension measures. In 6 experiments (n=1607), we show that people use a wide conceptual arsenal when assessing actions that can be described as suberogatory (bad but permissible) or supererogatory (good but not required). In Experiment 1 we find that people freely describe actions as suberogatory or supererogatory. Experiment 2 shows that they differentially assess these actions in terms of how permissible, optional, and good they considered them. Experiment 3 tests the use of these evaluative dimensions with sacrificial dilemmas. We found that differences between these categories did not emerge when people respond to dilemmas, even when controlling for trait utilitarian tendencies. By including judgments of blameworthiness and sanction, Experiments 4 and 5 provided additional evidence of the richness sub/super erogatory evaluations. In Experiment 6 people offered their own explanations of their responses. Qualitative analyses revealed that they frequently appeal to character traits, the presence of rights, and the absence of explicit duties. Taken together these results suggest a richer spectrum of both situations and concepts relevant to characterize moral judgment than moral psychologists up to this point have generally recognized. (First three authors contributed equally)
Pengembangan pemuridan kontekstual sebagai konseling terhadap pemuda yang krisis iman
Authors: Kia Januar Minanga
Published: February 2020

Tujuan utama dari penulisan karya ilmiah ini adalah untuk memberikan kesadaran serta gamabaran bahwa bergitu pentingnya suatu perhatian terhadap generasi mudah sebagai harapan gereja nantinya. Kesadaran gereja sebagai lembaga yang akan membina serta memberikan perhatian kepada generasi mudah sangat dibutuhkan, karena seperti yang kita ketahui bahwa seiring berjalannya waktu dan berkembangnya zaman begitu banyak hal-hal duniawi yang mudah mengombang-ambingkan keimanan anak mudah dan mengakibatkan kekrisisan iman terhadap anak mudah sekarang ini. Kesadaran akan keprihatinan terhadap anak mudah sekarang ini sangat perlu dibangun untuk dapat mencegah terjadinya hal-hal yang tidak diinginkan trhadap anak mudah. Hal utama yang perlu dibangun terhadap anak mudah adalah membangun kerohaniannya agar tidak mengakibatkan terjadinya krisis iman, itu merupakan sebuah pondasi yang sangat perlu dibangun, agar kelak nantinya pemudah-pemudah dapat menjadi kader yang siap utus untuk menjadi pelaku-pelaku Firman Tuhan dalam kehidupan mereka.
tugas MP 2
Authors: Pasongli' Lushiana Ambo'
Published: February 2020

Masalah yang dihadapi saat ini adalah adanya kemerosotan karakter di kalangan siswa di sekolah. Kita sadar bahwa saat ini sebagian besar siswa mengalami masalah krisis karakter, mereka tidak terkontrol oleh pengaruh perkembangan zaman ini. Karena itu sangat diperlukan peran dari berbagai pihak dalam mengontrol siswa yang terbawa arus oleh perkembangan tersebut. Makalah ini berfokus untuk mengetahui bagaimana implementasi pemuridan kontekstual terhadap pembentukan karakter siswa di sekolah. Hal ini menghasilkan bahwa pemuridan kontekstual dapat membentuk karakter siswa di sekolah sehingga mereka memiliki nilai-nilai dan karakter yang mencerminkan Kristus didalamnya
Introducing the tablet-based Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus (OCS-Plus) as an assessment tool for subtle cognitive impairments.
Authors: Demeyere Nele , Haupt Marleen , Webb Sam Sappho , Strobel Lea , Milosevich Elise , Moore Margaret , Wright Hayley , Finke Kathrin , Duta Mihaela
Published: February 2020

ObjectiveHere, we present the Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus, a computerised tablet-based screen designed to briefly assess domain-general cognition and provide more fine-grained measures of memory and executive function. The OCS-Plus was designed to sensitively screen for cognitive impairments and provide a differentiation between memory and executive deficits. MethodsThe OCS-Plus contains 10 subtasks and requires approximately 24 minutes to complete. In this study, 320 neurologically healthy ageing participants (age M=62.66, SD=13.75) from three sites completed the OCS-Plus. The convergent validity of this assessment was established in comparison to the ACE-R, CERAD and Rey-Osterrieth. Divergent validity was established through comparison with the BDI and tests measuring divergent cognitive-domains. Internal consistency of each subtask was evaluated, and test-retest reliability was determined. ResultsWe established the normative impairment cut-offs for each of the subtasks. Predicted convergent and divergent validity was found, high internal consistency for most measures was also found with the exception of restricted range tasks, as well as strong test-retest reliability, which provided evidence of test stability. Further research demonstrating the use and validity of the OCS-Plus in various clinical populations is required.ConclusionThe OCS-Plus is presented as a standardised cognitive assessment tool, normed and validated in a sample of neurologically healthy participants. The OCS-Plus will be available as an Android App and provides an automated report of domain-general cognitive impairments in executive attention and memory.
Cultural Psychology, Diversity, and Representation in Open Science
Authors: Syed Moin , Kathawalla Ummul-Kiram
Published: February 2020

The current moment in psychology is one of great challenges and great opportunities. The open science movement--the move towards more transparent, credible, and reproducible science--has led to a redefinition of what constitutes “normal science.” However, the field of cultural psychology, broadly construed, has by and large not engaged with the open science movement, and likewise, the open science movement has by and large not engaged with cultural psychology. The purpose of the present chapter is to bring open science and cultural psychology closer together, highlighting how they can benefit one another. In doing so, we focus our discussion on three types of representations regarding diversity in psychological research and how they intersect with open science: representation of researchers, or the diversity of the scientists actually doing the research, representation of samples, or who is included as participants in our research studies, and representation of perspectives, or the substantive conceptual and theoretical views we bring to our work. For each of these three types of representation we outline the problem, and then discuss how embracing the principles and behaviors of open science can help.
Risk management as a component of the financial security management system in enterprise.
Authors: Khadzhynova Olena , Kurtyanik Mikhail
Published: February 2020

The article considers the risk management system, as a component of the general enterprise management system, ensures the financial security of the enterprise. The essential characteristic of risk management is given, its objectives and goals of implementation at the enterprise are determined. The basis of the study is a set of theoretical, methodological and practical issues of the process of building a risk management system in an enterprise. The authors found that in today's economic realities it is necessary to move to a new risk management model. The authors proposed to carry out the process of building a risk management system in several successive stages. The first stage is the organization and development of a common risk management policy; the second stage is risk identification; the third stage is the assessment of risks and the results of their impact on the business of the enterprise; the fourth stage - the development of risk management techniques; the fifth stage is the formation of a monitoring and control system. For each of the stages of risk management, a specific basis on which the entire risk management system is built. The authors concluded that risk management does not give every minute result and is aimed at a long-term nature and gaining additional competitive advantages in the future.
Theoretical and methodological foundations of product quality management at industrial enterprises.
Authors: Kravchenko Maryna , Ksenita Marharyta
Published: February 2020

In conditions of high competitiveness of the economy and the integration of industrial enterprises, increasing requirements for the development of market relations oriented towards competitiveness, both in the domestic and world markets, a fundamental change is taking on universal quality management, which ensures the achievement of the required level of quality of products in accordance with all world requirements and domestic standards, GSTU, GOSTs and continuous improvement in regulatory documents. A high level of scientific achievements and a correctly developed production management system makes it possible to form a new approach to high quality products at industrial enterprises of Ukraine. To achieve high results in product quality, it is necessary to pursue an active and reasonable state policy as a product.  Regulatory documents that ensure product quality in modern market conditions require enterprises to take a more thoughtful and deeper approach to quality management issues, and require the involvement of material and human resources in the process of manufacturing quality products at industrial enterprises.  Quality management is the main priority for achieving the main goals of the enterprise.  Therefore, the leaders of industrial enterprises of Ukraine should be interested in improving the quality of products and improve the management of production processes for the development of a quality management system. Ukrainian enterprises are trying to gradually move to world standards, but this is a complex and long period that requires time and effort, requires the study and use of the experience of leading industrial enterprises of the world, facilitated by the growth in recent years, the volume of information on various quality management issues. But copying by Ukrainian industrial enterprises of the methods and mechanisms of quality management can lead to a serious complication of the economic situation of enterprises, all internal and external factors affecting the quality in Ukraine must be taken into account. Updated scientific and economic approaches to quality require the creation of effective management of organizational development in the quality system, taking into account the characteristics of the industry, enterprise, region, at the level of organizational behavior, also taking into account all factors. Quality management for this period has different approaches and directions.
Practical aspects of business administration of process of environmental management in Ukraine and Poland.
Authors: Gorokhova Tetiana , Zarahulova Anastasiia
Published: February 2020

The article shows that environmental policy is one of the most important factors for sustainable development of the state. The essence of problems between society and nature is determined by the ever-increasing need for social production in natural resources and the progressive deterioration of human life. Environmental business management is just one of the slices, or aspects of a broader problem that is about streamlining the economy, and the primary entity at which the problem is to be addressed is the environmental enterprise. This issue was addressed through the example of the nature management mechanism in Poland. A comparative analysis of current environmental practices in Poland and Ukraine was conducted. The essence of natural resources has been identified as an object of management of rational environmental management. The basic mechanisms of natural resource management were identified. It should be noted that a feature of the conceptual development of the deployment of productive forces is a high focus on the needs of practice. The current stage of the formation of state regional policy is focused on the effective use of the internal potential of the territory and the formation of a new institutional structure and its implementation at the regional level. By means of comparative analysis, the state-legal mechanism of environmental protection in Ukraine and Poland was compared. Such analysis helps to reveal the effective and ineffective tendencies of nature management, which proposes to transform the results of the analysis with consideration of Ukrainian peculiarities in the management of natural resources in order to improve the level of administration of environmental management processes in Ukraine, which will undoubtedly positively affect the relationship between the community and nature. Recommendations were given on the use of a range of instruments, both administrative and especially economic in nature, which enhance the effectiveness of state regulation in the field of environmental management and ensure the environmental security of regional development.
Prerequisites for forming a strategy for sustainable development of the tourist services market in Ukraine.
Authors: Borblik Karyna
Published: February 2020

The purpose of the article is to determine the main aspects of forming a strategy for sustainable development of the tourist services market, which will ensure the competitiveness of the Ukrainian economy in modern conditions. The course of modernization involves the rationalization of the spatial organization of Ukrainian tourism and the effective transformation of its management system. The main purpose of the article is to monitor the implementation of the development strategy and to compare the results in terms of achieving the set goals. The dynamics of development of the tourist services market and structural changes in it, employment of the population, solving other social problems (level and quality of life, development of tourism infrastructure) are substantiated. Measures in the field of ecology, support of science, etc. are considered. The methodology of the European Expert Service Tacis EES is used, which must be tied to the conditions of Ukraine for the preparation of a strategy for the sustainable development of the tourist services market. It is proposed to use a methodological approach to the development of prerequisites for the formation of a strategy for sustainable development of the tourist services market of Ukraine. The article is based on the theory of jointly separated stages, recognition of tourism as a complex integrated human sphere, necessity of development of the market of tourist services in the conditions of fatigue.
Analysis of the global level of the banking system readiness for the implementation of the open banking concept.
Authors: Mints Aleksey , Sidelov Pavlo
Published: February 2020

This research main goal is to give an a vision of current state of Electronic Banking with analysis of the modern state of Open Banking and Open application programming interface (API) initiative. The tectonic shifts in regulation from Central banks and governments digitalisation strategy required from financial institutions to became more technologically ready to comply with licensing. This face banks and financial institutions with a new type of technological challenges which recently wasn't part of regular banks routine and now banks should adopt. Different regions and countries have own regulations and strategies how banking and payments sector should adopt. For example, in Europe each bank must apply a numbers of new software services which was never available for third party companies before. It gives a boost to overall banking and payments software industry to meet the demand of the market. Many other developed countries also have own initiatives for the banking sector similar to PSD2 but with own perspective, timing for implementation and features lists. Standardization and unifications of API’s and messaging between financial organization represented in ISO 20022 and main browsers integrated payments API also a huge step forward for integrators, service providers and software development teams. The results of this research represent current stage of readiness of banking and payment industry to new regulations requirements. Banks and Financial institutions must dramatically change their current business model and initiate completely new departments which makes bank more open from technological point of as never before. World wide size companies and organizations promote new financial messaging standards and API implementation on browser levels. With all of this, banks will become more “digital friendly” and new products and services from third party companies, in collaboration with banks, will fill in the market. Inside this research discovered different aspects of the current problems which banks usually faced during implementation and conclusions what they need to expect when such projects is initiated. The information inside this research gives readers detailed information about the most important aspects of the technical side of implementation and review of new standards and tools.
Technology investments as part of the marketing policy of diversified enterprises.
Authors: Kalinin Oleksandr
Published: February 2020

The article deals with the current state of technological investments of companies in different industries, with special attention paid to companies operating in different fields. To determine the nature of technological investments, an analysis of the scientific works of scientists was conducted, which proved that technological investments can be the basis for strengthening economic potential. It can also be part of a marketing concept to attract not only traditional investors, but also part of venture capital funds for conglomerates, which covers research analytics for technology investments most diversified in its assets and revenues of publicly traded companies. The analysis of the most widespread industries in which venture capital investors' money is channeled is analyzed. It is concluded that technologies and technological investments aim to improve the development of the following economic categories, namely: to make organizational management more efficient; enhances other sectors of the economy (able to optimize processes, for example, the capabilities of the modern Internet have changed such an industry as retail, and also gave impetus to the development of the goods delivery industry); ability to influence macroeconomic indicators (investments in technology are usually made through public financing, also very often the method of interaction of teams from different countries has a positive impact on the foreign trade balance of the country, the opportunity to improve financial markets, the development of social initiatives (social habits can change, with the further development of technology , so today, thanks to technology development, tourism, ease of telecommunications have become very popular among all social groups , transparent social activity, accessibility of media content); regulatory procedures (today with the development of technologies, the possibility of controlling business over its activity increases, as well as facilitating social control of business, stimulating it to be more responsible), contributing to the globalization of socio-economic processes (the level of mutualism among individual companies and even industries across the globe). The areas of responsibility of the organization are identified, which should be addressed in if I make a decision about implementing technology in the business process.
Interaction of institutions of higher education and business in the conditions of modern economic development.
Authors: Matskewych Yuliia
Published: February 2020

The integration of scientific, educational and innovation activities, cooperation between universities and the real economy is an important component for the development of universities, businesses, region, country. The high practical orientation of education and its connection with the realities of the economic situation should become unique characteristics of a modern University. Education at the University should meet the needs of the state, society and the individual. Its interaction with enterprises of various sizes provides the basis for the formation of a social order for students, from which the University should start in the formation of the curriculum, a set of disciplines and practices for teaching the student. Taking into account the demands of the external environment, in particular the demands of business and enterprises allows educational institutions to choose the right trajectory in the process of training students to get a graduate who has exactly the list of professional skills that are in demand today in the labor market, with which he will be in demand in modern society. The article focuses on the need to improve the interaction of Ukrainian universities and enterprises in such areas as training, employment of graduates, cooperation in the field of science and innovation, analyzed the ratio of satisfaction of partners with cooperation and considered the need for cooperation with companies of different sizes, highlighted the main problems and prospects of cooperation with the University business structures, proposed ways to solve them. The analysis of interaction of higher education and business structures in the conditions of modern market relations emphasizes the necessity of this process and its usefulness from the point of view of practice-oriented training and formation of practical skills among University graduates.