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Music And International History In The Twentieth Century, Frédéric Ramel

International Dialogue

For several decades, musicologists have dealt with the role of music in international relations using their own tools. They have focused on musical change in the context of modernity, especially how traditional music and folk music interact with music from other localities. Paradoxically, musicologists have contributed more to the field of international relations than historians or political scientists. Fortunately, those in history and political science have initiated an acoustic turn which aims to fill the gap. Jessica Gienow-Hecht is one historian who has promoted this movement thanks to her well-known monography dedicated to cultural American-German relations in early twentieth century …

Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots Of Global Justice, David Reidy

International Dialogue

In this book, Carol Gould tries to envision a future for democracy that is both faithful to what she takes to be its philosophical and normative ground and well-matched to the political challenges of advancing global justice. These challenges arise because the social and institutional world is increasingly complex, with the relevance of state boundaries diminishing significantly in recent decades when it comes to identifying and evaluating agents, acts and effects on the global stage. I begin by reconstructing and summarizing what I take to be her central line of argument.

Voices Of The Undocumented, Ramón Guerra

International Dialogue

In the foreword to Val Rosenfeld’s Voices of the Undocumented, she illustrates the background for the collection of oral histories from immigrants. The immigrants in the collection are primarily from Latin American countries and have arrived in the San Francisco, California area without any documents to provide either residency or other legal status. The precarious nature of their existence in the United States underscores the very essence of this compilation and provides a running theme that connects the narratives of these individuals as told and recorded through oral history. While Rosenfeld refers to a preliminary personal draw to learning about …

Divergent Paths: The Academy And The Judiciary, Paul E. Mcgreal

International Dialogue

In Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary, Judge Richard Posner proposes a partnership between the federal judiciary and law schools.1 He provides a sweeping critique of the federal judiciary and suggests ways in which law schools can address these failings. His critiques fall under the headings of structural deformations (e.g., method of appointment, lifetime tenure), process deficiencies, (e.g., legal formalism in judicial opinion writing, lack of curiosity), and management deficiencies (e.g., poor staff management, lack of collegiality). The corresponding solutions include law schools providing continuing education for federal judges and changing their curricula to include new knowledge and skills. …

Politics Of Religious Freedom, Amanda Ryan

International Dialogue

When tackling the topic of “religious freedom” what are policy-makers and academics trying to define? Is religious freedom a universally defined set of liberal human rights from a secular state, or is religious freedom also seen in religious states? The Politics of Religious Freedom goes into the depths of complexity that is “religious freedom.” The book explores what religious freedom is in a variety of settings: South Asia, North Africa, Middle East, Europe, the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Brazil.

Welcome To Dignity, Donna M. Hughes

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Into English Language Instructors' And Students’ Intercultural Awareness, Burcu Yılmaz, Yonca Özkan

The Qualitative Report

The role of English as a global language has been increasing greatly in importance for the past few decades, giving rise to different varieties of English spoken by native and non-native English speakers all around the world. It has pointed to the need to raise intercultural awareness in English language classes. This study aims to reveal teacher and student perspectives of intercultural awareness regarding ownership of English and cultural integration in English language classes in Turkey. A mixed method research investigation was used in this descriptive case study. Questionnaires were employed to collect data from 45 English language instructors and …

Boiler Out! Program: Where Cultures Cross For Community Services, Quynh P. Nguyen

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement

Quynh Nguyen reflects on what she has learned from serving the community, from interactions with international students at Purdue, and how her volunteerism supports her current major in pre-pharmacy.

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. —Mother Theresa

Tipologi Komunikasi Minoritas Dalam Kultur Diskriminatif: Studi Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Terhadap Tipologi Komunikasi Tokoh Tionghoa Indonesia, Silvie Tanaga

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Studi ini membahas strategi komunikasi antar budaya yang diterapkan sepuluh tokoh Tionghoa Indonesia dalam kultur yang diskriminatif. Sepuluh tokoh tersebut adalah AW, DNT, LAD, MA, MB, SMB, TJH, YJ, YB, dan SAP. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori Co-Cultural Mark Orbe dengan strategi Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Hasil penelitian ini menemukan penerapan yang dominan pada orientasi akomodasi, yaitu upaya para informan menjalin interaksi yang harmonis dengan kelompok dominan namun pada saat bersamaan tidak ingin menghilangkan identitasnya sebagai Tionghoa Indonesia. Juga terungkap bahwa tipologi nonassertive assimilation diterapkan para informan sebagai upaya menyesuaikan diri ketika berinteraksi dengan kelompok dominan. Para informan tidak hanya dapat berinteraksi …

Kohesi Pada Jaringan Sosial Bullying, Nailul Mona

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Kohesi sangat terkait dengan konsep density dalam jaringan sosial. Mekanisme kohesi lazimnya terjadi pada jaringan yang padat/dense di mana para anggotanya memiliki kontak yang sering dan berulang/redundan. Kontak seperti ini menyebabkan perilaku dapat mudah menyebar secara contagious dan diimitasi oleh anggota jaringan secara kohesif. Objek penelitian ini adalah siswa sekolah menengah di sebuah asrama, yang terhubung dalam jaringan bullying. Para siswa ini memiliki kontak yang sering dan berulang, namun jaringan bullying mereka bukan merupakan jaringan yang padat melainkan renggang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penyebaran perilaku secara kohesi pun dapat terjadi pada jaringan yang renggang. Selain density, faktor yang turut mempengaruhi …

Efek Bingkai Berita Online Terhadap Penilaian Heuristik Individu, Angga Ariestya

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Situasi banjir informasi pada era media baru, membuat media online beramai-ramai mengejar traffic. Salah satu cara menarik audiens adalah dengan membuat bingkai-bingkai berita yang beragam untuk mendapatkan perhatian audiens. Bentuk bingkai berita yang cukup sering ada pada berita online di Indonesia adalah bingkai kata merakyat untuk mengkategorikan pemimpin politik yang ideal untuk rakyat saat ini. Bingkai berita dengan kata merakyat sesungguhnya adalah bingkai heuristik contoh-kategori yang telah ada penelitiannya di bidang psikologi. Premisnya bahwa contoh-kategori memiliki efek penilaian heuristik terhadap individu. Penilaian heuristik adalah penilaian yang berlangsung secara otomatis dan cepat dalam menilai suatu kalimat atau pesan yang telah dibingkai. …

Kekerasan Simbolik Terhadap Perempuan Dalam Fotografi Portrait Di Group Facebook: Studi Pada Komunitas Fotografi Indonesia, Radityo Widiatmojo

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Penelitian ini memaparkan pemikiran Pierre Bourdieu dan Theo van Leuween dalam membongkar kekerasan simbolik terhadap perempuan melalui medium fotografi di facebook. Pemaknaan foto melalui semiotika sosial Theo van Leuween merupakan hasil objektif-subjektif peneliti yang dikonfirmasi oleh informan, dilanjutkan dengan analisis mendalam dari pemikiran Pierre Boudieu tentang Habitus, doxa, modal, dan arena sebagai struktur pembentukan kekerasan simbolik. Bentuk-bentuk kekerasan simbolik yang dilihat dari semiotika sosial adalah fokus utama foto ada pada bagian payudara, penggunaan atribusi fotografi (kamera, lensa,tripod, tas kamera, warna kaos) untuk mendominasi perempuan, kata-kata vulgar dalam group facebook KFI, serta jenis pakaian yang dikenakan perempuan saat pemotretan. Hasil temuan …

Faktor-Faktor Yang Mempengeruhi Penggunaan Mobile Instant Messaging Dalam Komunikasi Informal Organisasi, Erwin Yulianto

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Popularitas Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) terus naik, termasuk dalam organisasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat faktor psikologis Penggunaan MIM dalam komunikasi informal organisasi menggunakan Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). Menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan metode survei, data dikumpulkan melalui kuesioner, kemudian dianalisis dengan Partial Least Square (PLS). Hasil penelitian dengan 89 responden dari Inspektorat Utama BPK RI, menunjukkan bahwa TRA tidak sepenuhnya terterapkan pada Penggunaan MIM dalam komunikasi organisasi. Berbeda dengan variabel sikap yang berpengaruh signifikan, variabel norma subjektif tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap intensi maupun perilaku.

The popularity of Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) continues to rise nowadays, includingits use in organization. …

Amerika Di Mata Pers Indonesia, Indah Hidayati

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

No abstract provided.

Komunikasi Homoseksual Berbasis Teknologi, Rusman Hadi Syahputra, Gati Dwi Yuliana

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Kaum gay masih sulit berkomunikasi dengan gay lainnya layaknya masyarakat dominan akibat orientasi seksual yangdimiliki. Oleh karena itu, kaum gay membutuhkan suatu media alternatif untuk dapat berkomunikasi guna memenuhi kebutuhan pribadinya, baik dalam hal sosial maupun seksual. Kaum gay pun menggunakan aplikasi Jack’D untuk memenuhi kebutuhan tersebut. Penelitian ini ingin mengetahui pola komunikasi antarpribadi yang terjadi di situs jaringan sosial oleh kaum gay sebagai pengguna aplikasi Jack’D. Penelitian ini menggunakan dua konsep sebagai landasan teoritisnya, yaitu Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) dan Social Information Processing Theory (SIP). Paradigma yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah konstruktivisme dengan pendekatan penelitian kualitatif. Adapun jenis …

Challenges And Potential Solutions To Communication Problems Faced By International Students At Arkansas State University, Ashutosh Pal

Student Theses and Dissertations

International students face difficulties after landing in different soil, climatic condition, environment, and socio-economic settings. There exist a mismatch between the conventional teaching methods and strategies back home and state of the art techniques employed in the United States. Through understanding, class discussion, participation and in-depth analysis of subject matter is possible only with two way communication medium, which happens to be English language for inside and outside of the classroom environment. English is a second language for many countries, however, lacks effectiveness due to less understanding of phonetics, accents, vocabulary, phrases and idioms, and localized slangs. An international student …

Maintaining The Japan Connection: The Impact Of Study Abroad On Japanese Language Learners’ Life Trajectories And Ongoing Interaction With Japanese Speakers, Rikki Campbell

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

This article explores the post-study abroad life trajectories of learners of Japanese. Drawing upon data collected from eight interviewees, it presents the experiences of study abroad returnees’ ongoing engagement with Japan and Japanese speakers once they were removed from the study abroad environment. In particular, it focuses on the impact of study abroad on ongoing studies and career trajectory, and examines ongoing interaction with Japanese speakers throughout these key life stages. Through the lens of possible selves theory (Markus & Nurius, 1986), this study also examines how the informants’ ongoing engagement with the target language is reflected in …

The Technological Factors Of Reddit: Communication And Identity On Relational Networks, Jennifer Kienzle

Department of Communication Studies: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The relational network reddit is one of the most popular and visited websites on a global and national (United States) level. Communication on reddit lends itself to intergroup communication in that reddit users engage with audiences from ingroup, outgroup, and mixed audience compositions. Reddit’s voting system allows for negative and positive feedback to enhance or impede on one’s message. I examine how these technological factors influence a number of communicative and identity processes: (a) identity salience, (b), identity gaps, (c) group and interpersonal evaluation, and (d) accommodative language. Drawn out of intergroup contact literature and theories about group processes and …

Blurred Boundaries: Interpreters As Researchers In Cross-Cultural Settings, Jennifer S. Hensley

Journal of Interpretation

This is a study of ambiguities and tensions that occur within the role of the bilingual/bicultural researcher in an ethnographic study. This manuscript presents an analysis of three instances from two interviews in a study on the acculturation of deaf students in deaf kindergarten classrooms in Japan and the US. This is an auto-ethnographic analysis of conflicts found in fluctuating between multiple roles: research assistant, interpreter, cultural mediator, and sociolinguistic consultant. In these examples my bicultural knowledge allowed me to identify “hidden” meanings overlooked by other members of the research team. However, my interpreter role at times made it awkward …

Interacting With Muslim Students: Strategies That Work, Oscar Osindo

Faculty and Staff Institute

This presentation will help faculty to become familiar with Muslim values and customs that might affect classroom relationships and learning. The Muslim and Christian worldviews are in conflict, which is reflected in day to day Muslim practices such as outward manifestation of their faith and practice, in lifestyle and their general view of community structures. This presentation will provide practical suggestions and how to build bridges towards healthy intercultural classroom atmosphere.

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