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Icon Metaphors for Global Cultures
2014Developing icons has always been challenging, from the first appearance of icons on desktop computers to the current day mobile and tablet platforms. Many of the same challenges apply when designing icons for global enterprise software. Icons can easily be misinterpreted when the designer and user have differing cultural backgrounds.
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Dartmoor: Penal and Cultural Icon
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 2011AbstractDartmoor is one of the oldest British prisons still in use. Opened in 1809, it quickly gained a brutal reputation that its later history has done little to dispel. The image of Dartmoor has loomed large in England's penal and cultural past and endures because of its combination of particular architecture, topography and inmate population as ...
Barton, Alana, Brown, Alyson
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2019
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be an insignificant entity in the electoral arena of Tamil Nadu as the party won only one seat in the 2014 parliamentary elections. However, its efforts to expand its support base in the state where ideologically hostile political dispensations have near hegemonic presence demand a thorough scrutiny.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may be an insignificant entity in the electoral arena of Tamil Nadu as the party won only one seat in the 2014 parliamentary elections. However, its efforts to expand its support base in the state where ideologically hostile political dispensations have near hegemonic presence demand a thorough scrutiny.
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The Iconicity of Russian Culture
Almanac “Essays on Conservatism”, 2021Russian culture should be adequately represented in the modern cultural consciousness as a unique phenomenon. Among new approaches there seem to be three that can be considered the most important and promising. 1) The concept of the iconicity of Orthodox culture, created by V.V.
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The Eiffel Tower: Cultural Icon, Cultural Interface
2018In July 2000 I surveyed forty-four primarily German and French students at the Universitat des Saarlandes to find out what they knew about the Eiffel Tower. 1 Surprisingly, it was very little. Even if the question, “Who designed the Eiffel Tower?” might be considered misleading – since it was, in fact, not “Mr. Eiffel”
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International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2008
PurposeTo explore the evolution and function of the wristwatch as a contemporary cultural icon.Design/methodology/approachTo apply the concepts of iconography and of postmodern cultural theory to the general history of watches and to examine the meaning watches in contemporary culture.FindingsBecause the watch oscillates between use and signal values ...
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PurposeTo explore the evolution and function of the wristwatch as a contemporary cultural icon.Design/methodology/approachTo apply the concepts of iconography and of postmodern cultural theory to the general history of watches and to examine the meaning watches in contemporary culture.FindingsBecause the watch oscillates between use and signal values ...
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