16 research outputs found
Southern Accent September 1995 - April 1996
Southern Adventist University\u27s newspaper, Southern Accent, for the academic year of 1995-1996.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/southern_accent/1071/thumbnail.jp
An exploration of corporate social and environmental disclosure in Egypt and the UK: a comparative study
Abstract available; p. ix
Co-productions of technology, culture and policy in North America's community wireless networking movement
This thesis investigates the visions and realities of community WiFi's social and political impact, examining how communication technology and social forms are co-produced and providing a communication studies perspective on the transformation of social visions of technology into technological, social, and policy realities. By following the development of local WiFi projects and the emergence of broader policy-oriented mobilizations, it assesses the real outcomes of socially and politically progressive visions about information and communication technologies (ICTs). The visions of advocates and developers suggest that community WiFi projects can inspire greater local democratic engagement, while the realities suggest a more subtle bridging of influence from community WiFi actors into policy development spheres. The thesis describes local WiFi networks in Montreal and Fredericton, NB, and the North American Community Wireless Networking (CWN) movement as it has unfolded between 2004 and 2007, arguing that its democratic visions of technology and their institutional realities have been integral to the politicization of computing technology over the last four decades. Throughout the thesis, WiFi radio technology, a means of networking computers and connecting them to the internet by using unlicensed radio spectrum, acts as an example of how a technology's material form is co-produced along with its symbolic social and political significance
Church in the apostolic spirit: a strategy for building indigenous apostolic congregations in the cultural context of Eastern Orthodox and post-Communist Romania
https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdissertations/1710/thumbnail.jp
Singing poets: popular music and literature in France and Greece (1945-1975).
This thesis is based on a comparative examination of popular music in Greece and
France between 1945 and 1975. Its central claim is that the concept of the singing poet
provided a crucial framing of the field of popular music in both countries and led to a
reassessment of the links between literature and popular culture. The term singing poets
is coined in order to regroup artists who used poetic texts for their songs or adopted a
poetic persona themselves, but also accounts for the reception of a particular style of
popular music in the period and the countries under discussion as poetic/intellectual
song.
Adopting a Cultural Studies approach, this thesis thus outlines the role played by
the prestige of literary institutions and an idealized view of oral poetry in the
conceptualization of high-popular music. It questions the presentation of certain singersongwriters
as 'poets in their own right', as folk poets, auteurs, poet-composers, bards
and troubadours.
Books, special editions and articles published in France in the 60s are extensively
examined in the first part to reveal their traditionalist consensus about the poetic value
of the work of certain Auteurs-Compositeurs-Interprétes. Roland Barthes's theorization
of reading (and) jouissance provides a vivid counterargument by opening up the
possibility of seeing literariness and pop pleasure as symbiotic rather than mutually
exclusive.
The second part focuses on Greek popular music and reviews how the field of
what was termed Entehno Laiko (Art-Popular) has been performatively shaped by the
work of Mikis Theodorakis and Manos Hadjidakis. The significant input of literary
ideals and the success of Theodorakis's Melopoiemene Poiese (Sung Poetry) project are
fundamental to this process. The resulting cultural divide between 'high' and 'low'
popular music spheres is reassessed by examining the 'dislocating' performance of
singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos, who appeared in the mid-60s performing a
hybrid mimicry of Georges Brassens and Bob Dylan. Through readings of his songs,
performances and interviews, popular music emerges both as the space of a reconstructed
utopia and as a subversive Other to high cultural forms
Place, Imaginary, Identity: Place Ethnography in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Place for me is the locus of desire, writes Lucy Lippard in the opening to Lure of the Local (1997). This research project is about place. Two distinct sets of scholarship on place emerged in the 1970s and the 1990s. A third wave of place scholarship is evident today. Coming initially from geography and anthropology, the study of place is now ubiquitous across fields in history, cultural studies, architecture, planning, health sciences, art and other disciplines. Despite the sustained interest in the study of place, one of the hallmarks of place is the ranging and contested contours of what place means. Place is defined, for the purposes of this study, as a describable location characterized by a shifting confluence of historical, material, political, cultural, economic, built, sensed and imagined qualities. There are three distinct goals in this research project. First, this research project seeks to explore how place has been theorized, imagined, and understood. Second, this research project is an inquiry into how place can be studied. To these ends, I name, define, and refine a method I call place ethnography. Place ethnography is a methodological framework that blends ethnographic and historic research with a range of disciplinary techniques in order to study place. I develop several concepts in this project. These include the idea of a place imaginary, defined as a dominant place perception, the concept of an historical vacancy, the perception of an emptiness in the historical fabric and settlement of a place or region, a particular kind of place imaginary and topofabulas, a concept that describes a historically untenable place narratives that are accepted as historical truth and are place defining. The third goal of this research project is to apply place ethnographic methods to a specific place. To these ends, this research project recounts a place ethnographic study of a small town named Truth or Consequences, New Mexico undertaken from July 2012- August 2014