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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- December 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- December 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Commercials As Social Studies Curriculum: Bridging Content & Media Literacy, Shanedra D. Nowell
Commercials As Social Studies Curriculum: Bridging Content & Media Literacy, Shanedra D. Nowell
Journal of Media Literacy Education
This essay explores ways television commercials can teach both media literacy skills and social studies content knowledge. Because of their brevity and concise messages, commercials offer teachers a wide assortment of engaging, content focused lesson topics that can be used to introduce new ideas, as writing or discussion prompts to further explore concepts, or as creative media projects to assess the content and media literacy knowledge. I examine different approaches to integrate commercials into social studies classes and include resources to guide students through deconstructing commercials, understanding advertisers’ creative techniques and appeals, and creating their own commercials.
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Hayfa El Mansur, Nappily Ever After (2018): Chasing Perfection, Lena Cavusoglu
Hayfa El Mansur, Nappily Ever After (2018): Chasing Perfection, Lena Cavusoglu
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
2018 Netflix movie Nappily Ever After voices the relationship of Black women with their natural hair and try to free them from the white beauty ideals imposed by the modern culture. By delving into historical connotations, this film review aims to understand how and why stereotypical narratives about African-American beauty and hair exist in media and shows the societal and psychological consequences of underrepresentation.
At The Nexus Between The National And The Global: The Discursive Construction Of The Turkish Halal Market In The Neoliberal Age, Yesim Kaptan
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
This article analyzes a recently emerging halal market in Turkey and illuminates how discursive strategies foster the halal movement in an Islamic culture, and in a neoliberal economy. By exploring websites of the Turkish halal regulatory institutions and employing critical discourse analysis of the media materials, I demonstrate how Islamic actors (halal certification institutions and businesses) adapt, appropriate, and contest different discursive strategies to achieve legitimacy, to compete for distinction and to acquire power in a newly emerging and fiercely competitive, yet a globally defined field in a national economy. The discursive contestations of the actors shaped by the ambivalent …
More On The Pressing Global Problems, Socially And Ecologically, Deniz Atik, Nikhilesh Dholakia
More On The Pressing Global Problems, Socially And Ecologically, Deniz Atik, Nikhilesh Dholakia
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
No abstract provided.
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- October 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- October 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Orientalism, Resistance Or Global Harmony? Entangled Strands In The Film Isle Of Dogs, Soonkwan Hong
Orientalism, Resistance Or Global Harmony? Entangled Strands In The Film Isle Of Dogs, Soonkwan Hong
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
No abstract provided.
Education, Enterprise Capitalism, And Equity Challenges: The Continuing Relevance Of The Correspondence Principle In Japan, Masaaki Takemura
Education, Enterprise Capitalism, And Equity Challenges: The Continuing Relevance Of The Correspondence Principle In Japan, Masaaki Takemura
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
This paper revisits the correspondence principle of Bowles and Gintis (1976) – which refers to the mutual mimicking of the capitalist hierarchy in the workplace and the school. The Bowles-Gintis model still appears to be working in the context of schooling in Japan. In the international comparative educational assessment called PISA (Program for International Student Assessment), created by OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the association of advanced democratic nations), Japanese students achieve better results than most countries. Japanese students excel in PISA performance, especially in mathematics. Such excellence, however, has negative correlations with students’ creativity, positive attitudes, and …
Virtual Idol Hatsune Miku: Case Study Of New Production/Consumption Phenomena Generated By Network Effects In Japan’S Online Environment, Hajime Kobayashi, Takashi Taguchi
Virtual Idol Hatsune Miku: Case Study Of New Production/Consumption Phenomena Generated By Network Effects In Japan’S Online Environment, Hajime Kobayashi, Takashi Taguchi
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
Using Hatsune Miku, a vocaloid or a Desktop Music (DTM) software using voice synthesizer technology, as a case study, this paper explores how consumer generated media (CGM) and user generated content (UGC) diffused in Japan – rapidly at first and then at an erratic and not-so-rapid pace. The creative environment ushered in by the vocaloid platform, it appears, represents a form of "managed creativity", and not a rosy future characterized by a participatory turn to a widespread democratization of creative activity.
A Critical Marketing Practitioner In Japan: Philosophy And Marketing Activities Of Seiji Tsutsumi, Kazuo Usui
A Critical Marketing Practitioner In Japan: Philosophy And Marketing Activities Of Seiji Tsutsumi, Kazuo Usui
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
This paper explores some features of marketing activities and marketing thought of a Japanese critical marketing practitioner, Dr. Seiji Tsutsumi. The approach of the paper is biographical. Somewhat paradoxically, the paper finds – in the practices and thoughts of Dr. Seiji Tsutsumi – a refreshingly critical mindset, despite his huge commercial success in retail business in Japan. Similar biographical research should be done in other national contexts, to develop links between practices and critical theories.
Critical Thinking From Japan: Additional Perspectives, Masaaki Takemura, Nikhilesh Dholakia
Critical Thinking From Japan: Additional Perspectives, Masaaki Takemura, Nikhilesh Dholakia
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
No abstract provided.
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- August 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- August 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Does The Decriminalization Of Prostitution Reduce Rape And Sexually Transmitted Disease? A Review Of Cunningham And Shah Findings, Lily Lachapelle, Clare Schneider, Melanie Shapiro, Donna M. Hughes
Does The Decriminalization Of Prostitution Reduce Rape And Sexually Transmitted Disease? A Review Of Cunningham And Shah Findings, Lily Lachapelle, Clare Schneider, Melanie Shapiro, Donna M. Hughes
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
In 2013, research findings by Cunningham and Shah claimed that rape and sexually transmitted diseases were reduced by decriminalized prostitution in Rhode Island. The original unpublished claims have received wide media coverage which have gone unexamined. This review finds errors in their analyses. One error is the date when prostitution was decriminalized in Rhode Island. Cunningham and Shah claim that prostitution was decriminalized in 2003. Our analysis finds the date of decriminalization of prostitution was 1980. The change in the start date of decriminalization significantly alters the analysis and the findings. Another error results from Cunningham and Shah using an …
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- July 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- July 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- June 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- June 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Labor Market Policies And Women’S Labor Market Activity In The United States And Germany, Brianna Repke
Labor Market Policies And Women’S Labor Market Activity In The United States And Germany, Brianna Repke
Senior Honors Projects
In terms of per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and many other measures, the United States and Germany are both economic leaders in the global world. However, gender gaps persist in the labor markets of both countries. This paper examines these gender gaps and various labor market policies that are intended to reduce them. The policies examined include gender equality policies and family-oriented policies in the two countries. Over the last few decades, most of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries have experienced low and decreasing birth rates. In response, several countries have introduced parental leave regulations …
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- May 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- May 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
The Rhode Island Earned Income Tax Credit: History And Analysis, Andrew Boardman
The Rhode Island Earned Income Tax Credit: History And Analysis, Andrew Boardman
Senior Honors Projects
This paper offers a comprehensive political history of the Rhode Island Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and an analysis of Rhode Island EITC recipients. It explores the history of the Rhode Island EITC, an income subsidy available to low-income workers, from its introduction in 1975 through 2018. It details the forces behind expansions and reforms and the effects of those changes. It also analyzes microdata to construct a profile of current EITC recipients. This paper concludes that the Rhode Island EITC has historically been viewed as both a poverty alleviation program and an incentive for labor market work. The Rhode …
China In Africa: A New Scramble, Adelola Ojutiku
China In Africa: A New Scramble, Adelola Ojutiku
Senior Honors Projects
This paper looks into the nature of China’s involvement with African nations, which is a highly debated issue in recent times. Supporters of African nations’ relations with China argue that African countries have enjoyed increased trade, aid and investment from these relations; skeptics, however, worry that these relations may be reminiscent of European colonization, hinging upon unequal exchange and the exploitation of Africa’s resources and people. This paper interrogates whether theories of Western colonization, imperialism, and dependency by John Hobson, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg and David Harvey can explain the current context and conditions of China’s role in Africa. I …
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- April 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- April 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Searching: On The Cultural And Sociopolitical Implication Of Social Media, Siamak Javadi
Searching: On The Cultural And Sociopolitical Implication Of Social Media, Siamak Javadi
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
This is a review of the film Searching (2018), a multilayered thriller co-written and directed by Aneesh Chaganty. This film is a cinematic reflection of the profound impact of social media networks on our lives. The movies continuously navigates between the pros and cons of social media platforms. In this review, I focus on cultural and sociopolitical implications of social media platforms in relation to the film.
Van Dijk, Poell, And De Wall, The Platform Society: Public Values In A Connective World (2018), Batuhan Keskin
Van Dijk, Poell, And De Wall, The Platform Society: Public Values In A Connective World (2018), Batuhan Keskin
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
No abstract provided.
The Unfree Space Of Play: Emergence And Control In The Videogame And The Platform, Logan Brown
The Unfree Space Of Play: Emergence And Control In The Videogame And The Platform, Logan Brown
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
This article attempts to understand the economic and informatic ramifications of the convergence between increasingly connective games and massive online platforms by considering recent trends in both that center around designing for emergence. Scholarship on emergence as a property of games overwhelmingly treats emergent design as a liberating force that privileges player agency in a virtual space. Yet, as games fuse with surrounding platform ecosystems like Steam, Facebook, and Google, those emergent behaviors are subject to vast systems of inscription that analyze user behavior in order to reshape the free space of emergence and extract greater social and financial capital. …
[Cntrl] + [Alt] + [Esc] ? Virtual Platforms As Spaces Of Control And Contestation, Aras Ozgun
[Cntrl] + [Alt] + [Esc] ? Virtual Platforms As Spaces Of Control And Contestation, Aras Ozgun
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
No abstract provided.
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- March 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- March 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
"Baby Factories": Exploitation Of Women In Southern Nigeria, Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka, Akachi Odoemene
"Baby Factories": Exploitation Of Women In Southern Nigeria, Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka, Akachi Odoemene
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
Despite the writings of feminist thinkers and efforts of other advocates of feminism to change the dominant narratives on women, exploitation of women is a fact that has remained endemic in various parts of the world, and particularly in Africa. Nigeria is one of those countries in Africa where women are largely exposed to varying degrees of exploitation. This paper examines the development and proliferation of baby-selling centers in southern Nigeria and its impacts on and implication for women in Nigeria. It demonstrates how an attempt to give protection to unwed pregnant girls has metamorphosed into “baby harvesting” and selling …
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- February 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- February 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- January 2019, Leonard Lardaro
Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- January 2019, Leonard Lardaro
The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index
No abstract provided.