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Infinite Crisis In Ozymandias' And Batman's Republic: The Dystopian Visions Of Frank Miller And Alan Moore On Social Order And Civil Liberties, Luis Gomez Romero
Infinite Crisis In Ozymandias' And Batman's Republic: The Dystopian Visions Of Frank Miller And Alan Moore On Social Order And Civil Liberties, Luis Gomez Romero
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The word crisis derives from the Greek , ***** “judgment.” Interestingly, DC Comics published in 1985 a twelve-part series titled Crisis on Infinite Earths whose main goal was to clean up the chaos of narrative parallel universes which DC’s writers had established over the past forty-five years, in order to start afresh with one single story continuity. While a miserable fail as an attempt at simplification, Crisis on Infinite Earths still inaugurated an era of multifaceted, elaborate and rich superhero comic books. Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1986) are the first instances of …
The Twitterisation Of Journalism: Charting A Research Agenda For 'Social Journalism', Julie Posetti
The Twitterisation Of Journalism: Charting A Research Agenda For 'Social Journalism', Julie Posetti
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Social media is transforming professional journalism. And the speed of the real-time revolution raises significant challenges and opportunities for journalists their publishers and journalism educators. But it also necessitates a rigorous academic research agenda. The issues confronting journalism in the social media space include fundamental shifts in the practice of verification, the merger of private lives and professional practice, and the new journalistic role of community engagement. BBC Head of Global News Peter Horrocks said in February 2010 that social media practice for journalists was no longer discretionary. But this means that the professional training of journalists in social media …
The Body In Social Context: Some Qualifications On The "Warmth And Intimacy" Of Bodily Self-Consciousness, Shaun Gallagher
The Body In Social Context: Some Qualifications On The "Warmth And Intimacy" Of Bodily Self-Consciousness, Shaun Gallagher
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In this paper I examine William James' concept of the 'warmth and intimacy' of bodily self-consciousness and relate it to recent attempts to recast bodily self-consciousness in strictly neural terms. James takes bodily 'warmth and intimacy' to solve a number of problems related to the material and spiritual aspects of self and personal identity. He mentions but does not fully explore the possible disruptions in the bodily sense of ownership that can come about as the result of experimental and pathological circumstances, and that would have to qualify such solutions. I argue that an explanation in strictly neuroscientific terms does …
A Case Study Of Globalized Knowledge Flows: Guanxi In Social Science And Management Theory, Xiaoying Qi
A Case Study Of Globalized Knowledge Flows: Guanxi In Social Science And Management Theory, Xiaoying Qi
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This article examines globalized knowledge flows through a case study of the treatment of the Chinese concept of guanxi in social and management science journals. Three forms of concept– theory relations are postulated which effectively correspond with different patterns of knowledge flow. The treatment of this concept in 214 refereed journal articles published from 1999 to 2009 indicates that the concept guanxi, which possesses capacity for theoretical development, is predominantly treated merely as an object of study rather than the basis of theoretical elaboration. A continuing dominant pattern of knowledge flows from the metropole to the periphery is thus indicated. …
'The Riddle Of History Solved': Socialist Strategy, Modes Of Production And Social Formations In Capital, Mike Donaldson
'The Riddle Of History Solved': Socialist Strategy, Modes Of Production And Social Formations In Capital, Mike Donaldson
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Reflecting on Capital again allows one to place it within the arc of Marx’s unfolding work on social formations and modes of production in a wide variety of times and places. In this article, I show how Marx’s detailed and incisive analysis in Capital of the capitalist mode of production, its origins, functioning and future, made him more keenly aware of other modes of production and of their possibilities in a better future.
Social Connectedness And Generalized Trust: A Longitudinal Perspective, Patrick Sturgis, Roger Patulny, Nick Allum, Franz Buscha
Social Connectedness And Generalized Trust: A Longitudinal Perspective, Patrick Sturgis, Roger Patulny, Nick Allum, Franz Buscha
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Social, or ’generalized‘, trust refers to beliefs that people hold about how other people in society will in general act towards them. Can people in general be trusted? Or must one be careful in dealing with people? Research on the antecedents of social trust has typically relied on cross-sectional regression estimators to evaluate putative causes. Our contention is that much of this research over-estimates the importance of many of these causes because of the failure to account for unmeasured confounding influences. In this paper we use longitudinal data to assess the causal status of a particularly prominent mooted cause of …