Abstract Photojournalistic images shape our understanding of sociopolitical events. How humans are depicted in may have far-reaching consequences for attitudes towards them. Social psychology has shown how the visualization an ‘identifiable victim effect’ can elicit empathic responses. However, identifiable victims media exception rather than norm. In context Syrian refugee crisis, majority Wes...

Building with a Memory is an experiential media system for capturing and representing dynamic human activity in a distributed workplace. Participants can perform purposefully, incidentally and unknowingly with the system, with individual and collective actions represented through a variety of ambient feedback mechanisms. Two iterations of the system are presented and observations and recommenda...

introduction: several factors affect the academic performance of college students and parenting style is one significant factor. the current study has been done with the purpose of investigating the relationship between parenting styles, academic achievement and career path of students at shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: this is a correlation study carried out at shiraz universit...

This article sheds light on the impact of media economists' expectations for future economic developments. We conducted a worldwide expert survey and find that provides most economists with valuable information influences their expectations. applies significantly more in countries long standing democratic systems developing somewhat flawed institutions than newer democracies authoritarian regim...

It would do no justice to a review of the Republic of China’s centennial development if focus is cast exclusively on the ROC’ early period on the Chinese mainland, the authoritarian era in Taiwan, or the two decades after democratization. This article attempts to provide a broad overview of the century of the Republic by putting the ROC’s three developmental stages in a theoretical framework, p...

Democracies depend on countervailing power. Opposition to authoritarian regimes requires large-scale counter-mobilization. Labor organization—be it in the form of unions or social movements—is often key to both. But by most measures labor power is decreasing just when corporate power appears to be increasing. Union membership, electoral and lobbying pressure, and protest, the indicators we gene...

Given the heavy Western metropolitan bias of the media in sub-Saharan Africa, the ideology of neocolonialism continues to exert a dominant influence on economic, social, political, and cultural life. This neocolonial influence is further reinforced by advertising that champions a consumerist culture centered around Western goods. The capital of multinational firms plays a crucial role in the ...