The paper assumes a theoretical-empirical interface exists between top-down (structural concepts) and bottom-up (cognitive mechanisms and socio-cultural interactions) approaches to collective memory. Both deal with collaborative group accounts, material culture such as artefacts and representational re-descriptive technologies. Anthropology has shown how communal life was based on story telling...

In this chapter, universal and culture-specific aspects of socialization of emotion regulation are dis­ cussed. Emotions and emotion regulation are socialized and develop in cultural contexts. Cultural views on self·other relations are the basis for the child's agentic self and emotion regulation affecting the socio-emotional adjustm�nt in the respective culture. Cultural models of self-other r...

In this paper, we describe a method to analyse computer games. The analysis method is based on computer games in particular and not some kind of transfer from other fi eld or studies – even though of course it is inspired from other kinds of analysis methods from varying fi elds of studies. The method is based on seven different layers of the computer game: hardware, program code, functionality...

Fertility choices are linked to the different preferences and constraints of individuals and couples, and vary importantly by socio-economic status, as well by cultural and institutional context. The meaning of childbearing and childrearing, therefore, differs between individuals and across groups. In this paper, we combine data from Google Correlate and Google Trends for the U.S. with ground t...

Consumer culture theory helps us take note of the cultural forces and dynamics in which technology consumption is entangled. It enables people to articulate the cultural processes (ideological, mythic, ritualistic, etc.) through which cultural meanings become granted to or denied to technological innovations, thus shaping the value of technologies as cultural resources sustaining consumer ident...

India is unlike Western/European markets where cultural homogeneity is higher to the extent that marketing communications and branding solutions can be developed and seamlessly applied to large populations with greater efficacy. Communicating to culturally diverse groups using a common creative theme could be challenging. Communication serves multiple purposes, e.g. awareness and/or recall buil...

COMMUNICATION "Every cultural pattern and every single act of social behaviour involves communication in either an explicit or implicit sense"(Edward Sapir)-Communication is culture, culture is communication ROMAN JACOBSON ON COMMUNICATION: " meaning resides in the total act of communication. It is not a stable, predetermined entity which passes, untrammeled, from sender to receiver "-depending...

This paper brings a Vygotskian socio-cultural framework to young children’s drawing processes. Using examples of children drawing in a year one classroom I will examine the dialogic engagement with drawing. Drawing dialogues allowed these children to move from spontaneous concepts to more scientific concepts and played an important role in promoting higher mental functions. I will suggest that ...