The United States experienced a 25% unemployment rate in 1929 as result of the Great Depression. More than 5,000 banks announced closure, and more 80,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy direct Everyone was drowning woes being unemployed. However, Hollywood movies provided pastime people who were suffering every day during Although 1930s worst time U.S. economy, it golden age Hollywood. to late ...

A window has traditionally been a sturdy artistic metaphor, able to offer tangible account of acts witnessing and perception. For many theatre directors teachers, the our eyes become primary creative pedagogical tool, gazing within edifice Zoom, technology built by intersection interlocking digital windows, their meaning created gaze participants.And what are windows Zoom revealing? In context ...

The intense proliferation of social media platforms into every facet human lives has engaged researchers' attention towards understanding their adverse influences, referred to as the dark side (DoSM) in evolving literature. A relatively unexplored context this regard is employees' personal use during work hours and its impact on work-related outcomes. Since using can have implications for perfo...

In recent years, a surging number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are pervasively utilized in many areas. However, the increasing UAVs may cause privacy and security issues such as voyeurism espionage. It is critical for individuals or organizations to manage their behaviors proactively prevent misbehaved invasion unauthorized through effective anomaly detection. The UAV detection framework ...

The main premise of this paper is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication, has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrating power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrum...

Remote accessibility to video cameras, face recognition software, and searchable image and video databases enable automated video surveillance. The same technologies and features enabling advanced functionalities facilitate as well the misuse of a surveillance system and can lead to the infringement of the privacy of an individual. Examples of misuse are voyeurism and the unauthorized collectio...

Paraphilias as defined by DSM-IV, are sexual impulse disorders characterized by intensely arousing, recurrent sexual fantasies, urges and behaviors (of at least six months' duration) that are considered deviant with respect to cultural norms and that produce clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of psychosocial functioning. The common par...

This article provides a historical perspective on how both American and European psychiatrists have conceptualized and categorized sexual deviance throughout the past 150 years. During this time, quite a number of sexual preferences, desires, and behaviors have been pathologized and depathologized at will, thus revealing psychiatry's constant struggle to distinguish mental disorder--in other wo...