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Refugees as icons: Culture and iconic representation

Sociology Compass, 2018
Abstract The September 2015 photograph of Alan Kurdi, a 3‐year‐old Syrian boy, lying facedown and dead on a Turkish beach, quickly became an iconic representation of Europe's “refugee crisis.” Even though images of distant suffering of refugees have become ubiquitous, only a few become iconic.
Werner Binder, Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
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Vinyl record: a cultural icon

Consumption Markets & Culture, 2016
ABSTRACTIn this paper, we use the case of the vinyl record to show that iconic objects become meaningful via a dual process. First, they offer immersive engagements which structure user interpretations through various material experiences of handling, use, and extension. Second, they always work via entanglements with related material ecologies such as
Bartmanski, Dominik, Woodward, Ian
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Culture Shock — Patient as Icon, Icon as Patient

New England Journal of Medicine, 2008
Dr. Abraham Verghese discusses the problem with a “chart as surrogate for the patient” approach. He believes that if one eschews the skilled and repeated examination of the real patient, then tests, consultations, and procedures that might not be needed are ordered, while simple diagnoses and new developments are overlooked.
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Renovating cultural icons

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005
Three case studies of historic renovations are presented where acoustics were a key component of the renovation process. Each hall is an icon of the cultural life in the surrounding community. The first case study is Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, a late nineteenth century musical gem where recent renovations (adding variable acoustic features) required
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Cultural Icons and Reasons of Culture

2023
Abstract At first glance it seems plausible to hold that cultural icons, landmarks, and other items of cultural significance should be protected in the context of war, even at the cost of some human life. But this presents a puzzle: what could explain the normative significance of icons?
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Horace Ové, Cultural Icon

Caribbean Quarterly, 2015
Horace Ove is internationally known as one of the leading black independent filmmakers to emerge in Britain since the post-war period. His feature film Pressure (1976) is cited in the Guinness Book of Records as the first black feature film to be made in the UK. It stars Herbert Norville, Norman Beaton, Sheila Scott-Wilkinson and Oscar James.
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Autocommunication and icon culture

Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture
The icon of the Eastern Christian tradition can be seen not only as a medium of sacred communication, but also as a thing that realizes autocommunication. Relying on the sought-after ideas about the icon as a specific contingent phenomenon, such as Pavel Florensky’s thought about the icon’s own dynamics, Jean-Luc Marion’s thesis about the intense ...
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