VOLUME 7 • 2008
PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM AND MASS MEDIA NEWS CONTENT
ABSTRACT. Payne claims that a concatenated set of structural and social forces contribute to homogenization of mass media news content. Braman observes that events are predictable and yield a limited, predetermined set of outcomes. Bird does not see tabloid consumption as essentially subversive or t..
MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE PHENOMENA
ABSTRACT. Reichenbach writes that the physical object cannot be determined by axioms and definitions: it is a thing of the real world, not an object of the logical world of mathematics. Preece and Stoddart claim that self-assembly deals with the construction of discrete molecular and supramolecular ..
GLOBALIZATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND STRATEGIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT
ABSTRACT. Altomonte and Pennings develop a simple test to assess whether horizontal spillover effects from multinational to domestic firms are endogenous to the market structure generated by the entry of the same multinationals. As Jain puts it, companies working to manage service as a strategic bus..
NEWS GATHERING AND DISTRIBUTION FRAMEWORK
ABSTRACT. Reese claims that understanding journalism in an “era of globalization” means going beyond a general update of news systems and practices in various countries. Sassen puts it that we need to retheorize digital space: the polarization between Internet romancers and the logic of business and..
INSIGHTS, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND SCIENTIFIC PSYCHOLOGY
ABSTRACT. Grallo remarks that phenomena of question and insight may have an important role to play in the process of learning and in the emergence and refinement of knowledge. Rao holds that awareness of one’s own existence, thoughts and surroundings are important indicators of consciousness. Samuel..
A MORAL ‘NEW DEAL’. WORLD POWER ETHICS RE-VISITED
ABSTRACT. Power ethics brings with it an intensity of experience for any communicative action – be it informal, infra-national (that is, confined to national criteria, within the borders of a nation) or global. In an international community embarked on many transformative processes, the ethical land..
GLOBALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS
ABSTRACT. OECD maintains that state aid should be reduced as it can distort competition in the internal market. Blaich et al. affirm that networks strive to minimize costs, maximize utility and coordinate activities leading to that end. Grimm and Ried consider a region to be defined by a set of coun..
CSR, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBAL BUSINESS
ABSTRACT. Diviney and Lillywhite write that state and federal governments and industry stakeholders should establish a multistakeholder platform to promote and implement the uptake of the global dimensions of CSR in the Australian garment sector. Jørgensen et al. point out that only suppliers can en..
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, SPATIAL DIVERSITY, AND GLOBAL COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
ABSTRACT. Pohle and Hittner claim that consumers are scrutinizing procurement and sourcing policies, are checking on trading practices product composition and lifecycle management. Diviney and Lillywhite contend that CSR is a concept whereby companies voluntarily integrate social and environmental a..
MUSICAL EXPERIENCE AND THE PERCEPTUAL CONSEQUENCES OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT. Schachter asserts that there is a gulf between musicians who find notes and the sounds they represent worthy objects of close study, and those who do not. Adorno notes that music resembles language in the sense that it is a temporal sequence of articulated sounds which are more than just s..
EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO MUSIC AND EXPRESSIVE ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE
ABSTRACT. Montague Lavy maintains that emotional response to music can be intense and momentary; symbols are emotional by virtue of their place and function within a musical structure. Ockelford claims that the power of association can overwhelm a listener’s reaction to intramusical attributes that ..
AUTHENTIC INTERPRETATION AND MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS
ABSTRACT. Le Huray states that the search for an authentic interpretation is not the search for a single interpretive answer, but for a range of performance possibilities from which to make decisions. Elliott maintains that the keys to understanding the human valuing of music are likely to be found ..