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Aesthetic Revolution: How Art Shapes Social Worlds
ABSTRACT Art inhabits the imagination, but can it influence real‐world issues? While some scholars cast art as autonomous from moral and civic life, others see it as deeply entangled with the social world. We address this debate by synthesizing evidence on art's social influence across literature, music, visual art, and film.
Eftychia Stamkou, Dacher Keltner
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ABSTRACT This article draws from a one‐year connective ethnographic study that examined Brazilian transnational children's composing practices on a digital gaming platform named Roblox. Building upon research on digital childhoods, transnational childhoods, and play, the authors thought with concepts of relational bleeding, bending, and diffraction to ...
Mariana Lima Becker, Alex Corbitt
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VARIETIES ESTIGMATIZADAS: PRECONCEPTIONS AND JUDGMENTS IN THE MEDIA
This work presents evaluations and analyses linguistics made by some interviewed people about the variety of Portuguese language which is spoken in the Brazilian soap opera Chocolate com Pimenta.
Daniela Plachi
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Perceptions of Turkish film and television among Turkish‐Australians in Broadmeadows
Abstract This article investigates the importance of Turkish film and television in preserving Turkishness among the Turkish‐Australian diaspora. Turkish film and television are found to be crucial to diversifying constructions of Turkishness in the diaspora.
Orhan Karagoz
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Abstract This thesis engages in a “queering” of two South Korean television dramas, “Coffee Prince,” or “커피 프린스 1호점,” aired in 2007, and “Secret Garden” or “시크릿 가든,” aired in 2010, by exploring the complex representations and visuality of gender fluidity in tandem with queer, Marxist, and postcolonial theory.
Arin Kim Wise
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TELENOVELA AMBIVALENTE: a oscilação entre a dureza da hegemonia e os “mal ajustes” da decodiÞ cação
Considered the greatest product of the Brazilian Cultural Industry the soap opera is a fundamental mechanism to understanding the relationship between the market logic of the mass media and cultural and popular practices.
Larissa Leda Fonseca Rocha
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Revisiting Women's Empowerment and Contraception
Abstract This essay explores and reviews the literature from low‐ and middle‐income countries on the pathways of influence between women's empowerment and reproductive outcomes, specially focusing on contraception, and points to some outstanding gaps.
Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Zeba Sathar
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Abstract Current models inadequately address the role of information transfer in explaining the slow fertility decline in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) in the 1990s and 2000s. We posit that an important reason for this slow decline was the high level of social isolation of the rural population in the region, as a result of which new ideas regarding ...
Lamar G. A. Crombach, Jeroen Smits
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La popularidad de las telenovelas Brasileñas
A diversity of factors contributing to the popularity of Brazilian soap operas, both within and outside of Brazil, is discussed. Among these is the emergence of a typical style of soap opera in national television which has developed its own language
Jose Marques de Melo
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What do we know about no‐show behavior? A systematic, interdisciplinary literature review
Abstract No‐show behavior, a distinct form of absenteeism, is often problematic, particularly in the service industry. Given the growing relevance of the phenomenon in the industry, an increasing number of researchers from such different disciplines as educational economics, healthcare management research, and sports economics have begun examining both
Caroline Amberger, Dominik Schreyer
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