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Catalyzing social media scholarship with open tools and data

  • Smith, Marc A.
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.87-96
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    • 2015
  • Social media comprises a vast and consequential landscape that has been poorly mapped and understood. Hundreds of millions of people have eagerly moved many of the conversations and discussions that compose civil society into these services and platforms. There is a need to document and analyze these social spaces for many academic and commercial purposes. The Social Media Research Foundation has engaged a strategy to cultivate better research into the structure and dynamics of social media. The foundation is dedicated to the creation of open tools, open data, and open scholarship related to social media. It has implemented a free and open network collection, analysis, and visualization tool called NodeXL to facilitate social media network research. Using NodeXL a group of researchers has collectively authored a publicly available archive, called the NodeXL Graph Gallery, composed of network data sets and visualizations from users around the world. This site has enabled the aggregation of tens of thousands of network datasets and images. Use of the archive has led to scholarly research results that are based on the wide range and scope of social media data sets available.

Hierarchy, Construction, or Mentality: Capacity-Limiting Government Actions in the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake of China

  • Sun, Jingran;Li, Xiangyu
    • Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2015
  • Many people criticized how the Chinese government responded to the Wenchuan Earthquake. They focused on how it failed to address the psychological needs of the survivors. The study presented here approached this issue from a human resources perspective. It was determined that the Chinese government approached the situation in a bureaucratic way that limited the government's capacity and barred non-profit organizations and community groups from participating. It was also found that survivors could not contact these organizations for psychological support. This study concludes that the situation called for a more flexible and improvised institution that would respond to the emerging needs of survivors.

Fascism Expressed in Military Looks: Since the 1990s (밀리터리 룩에 표현된 파시즘 - 1990년대 이후부터 -)

  • 임상임;추미경
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.845-858
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the association of military looks with fascist aesthetics and to infer various aesthetic values of fascism expressed in military looks. The research method is documentary studies through the literature and academic papers, and examined masters' and doctors' theses, domestic and overseas books and fashion magazines, photographs and materials collected from the Internet. The facism expressed in military looks is as follows: First, nationalism, reflecting the current ideology of rebellion, appeals to the original national sentiment of the masses. Second, temptation implies that fascism tempts the mass using the nature of charisma rather than by force and, by doing so, accumulates mighty power without military force. Third, mythology is utilizing images and symbols of great appeal to people for absolute power beyond the concept of time. In order to express power for the effusion of emotional energy through the vision for realities and the magical power of images. Fourth, barbarism is always harbored in the conflict and confrontation of interests among ideas, economies, religions and classes on the other side of contemporary civilized society.

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The Socio-cultural Meanings on Kitsch in Consumption of Fashion Products (패션상품 소비에 나타난 키치의 사회문화적 의미)

  • 김순자
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.145-162
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    • 2001
  • This study focuses on how fashion products of our contemporary society of consumption are taking on a kitsch look, and on what kind of social and cultural meanings this phenomenon connotate. In general, kitsch is understood as an expression with a negative meanings such as aesthetic inadequacy or bad tastes. In our dairy life however kitsch has been highlighted as an another expressions of subjective beauty and gains positive meaning as almost all the people satisfy their desires through consumption of kitsch products. In order to prove the kitsch phenomenon in fashion products and social and cultural meanings, the researcher has Performed a case study on actual consumption of fashion products and the internal psychological meanings in fashion consumption. The internal psychological meanings of kitsch on consumption of fashion products are emotions and needs such as escape from reality. substitutional satisfaction, belonging confirmation, expression of individual taste, and fun, sexual amusements.

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A Study on the Planning of Waterfront about Fishing Village and Harbor in East coast - Focused on the Sachun Harbor of National Harbor - (동해안 어촌 어항의 워터프론트 계획에 관한 연구 -국가어항 사천항을 중심으로 -)

  • Cho, Won-Seok;Kim, Heung-Gee;Kim, Yong-Gee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2007
  • This study is to propose directions of waterfront planning about fishing village and harbor in East coast. Above all important waterfront-using in harbor, such as regional atmosphere and sea-scape are to investigate waterfront elements. For example, seaside park, harbor street mall, landmark, view point, promenade can be checked and design of waterfront may be possible to work out future harbor master plan. This study suggests that harbor of contemporary is to develop by regional waterfront characters. Accordingly, we analyze, it shows that the waterfront planning not only people of village but also visiting citizen is one of the important in developments about fishing village and harbor. As a results of this paper, we expect this research to be used as a valuable data in waterfront planning about fishing village and harbor.

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A Condition Analysis and Response Measures of Cyberstalking (사이버스토킹의 실태 및 고찰에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Tae-Hwan;Jung, Il-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.4 no.3 s.14
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    • pp.19-23
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    • 2004
  • In current society, there has been rapid change in process towards the information society from the industrial society. Cyberstalking can be regarded as a kind of new comer in the issue of contemporary crimes. The Cyberstalking has been focused on famous people and entertainers in th past, whereas more seriously, the range of victims has expanded to the public in recent. Form this aspect, the goal of this study is establish the cyberstalking by considering causes, characteristics and suggest legal, social methods.

Furniture Trend in Bed designs of Domestic Furniture Companies -Focused on Queen Size Beds- (국내 가구업체를 중심으로 한 침대 디자인 경향에 관한 연구 - 퀸 사이즈 침대를 중심으로 -)

  • Kang, Shin-Woo;Cho, Sook-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 2006
  • The change of consumers' lifestyles causes frequent study on beds along with growth of economy, improvement of education and increase of dwelling in new towns and nuclear family. Beds are frequently developed in recent years since consumers' lifestyles increasingly change caused by transformation of types of dwelling, influence of western lifestyle, and increase uses of a bed. Also, this transformation causes needs for research on bed designs. A Bed is an essential item in a life since people spend one third of a day in Also, in contemporary, the ages of consumers are varied from infants to seniors. The study examines the importance of beds which playa major role in households. Moreover, the purpose of this study of beds focused on surface materials, colors, and designs is suggesting bases for future developments.

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A Study on the Patterns of the Late 19th Century Funerals

  • Kim, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2003
  • As a ritual that deals with the issues of human life and death, and that embodies complicated cultural implications, funerals have been an important material to refer to in considering the spiritual life as well as the social aspects of contemporary people. The present study on the 19th-century Western funerals is significant in that current funerals have been formed and changed from the ancient practice in a long historical background. The funeral patterns in 1890 to 1910, the period when reformatory movements started to appear in the custom concerning death, have been changed and fixed to be the current funeral custom. The range of the present study is limited to the characteristics of enbalmment, funeral processions and ceremonies, as well as the costumes for the mourning period. The research method employed in the study is the review of literature concerning death and funeral rituals, previous studies, domestic and international technical literature, and photographs or paintings.

The Meanings of Dream Contents in the Psychotherapeutic Perspective (꿈의 의미(意味) : 정신치료적적 관점에서)

  • Lee, Byung-Wook
    • Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.90-97
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    • 2001
  • The reason for exploring dreams is to understand the of patient's conflicts and unconscious motivation. Even if the therapeutic value of dreams is considerably faded these days, I can not deny that dreams are still very useful. From the beginning of human history, dreams have been an appealing subject for many people. In the past, dreams chiefly had the value of prophetic meaning, and in our tradition attention was paid to dreams in terms of good and bad dichotomy. Freud's discovery of the Unconscious and technical development of its exploration is reinforced by dream interpretation. In contemporary terms, although dreams are not the royal road to the Unconscious, they surely present a short-cut. I suggest that dreams as a treasure island of the Unconscious have a useful therapeutic value, and that stressing the importance of dreams is by no means anachronistic. I believe that practical sessions without dreams are like a river without bridges.

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The Compositions of Approaching Sequence in Exterior Space of Tadao Ando′s Works (안도 타다오 건축의 외부공간에 나타난 진입시퀀스의 구성방식)

  • 문정민;안우진;고성룡
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.29
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2001
  • The concept of homogeneous space which was made in during the modern architecture was criticize for making our circumstances uniformly. The difference of place disappeared. The concept of place, however, has been watching in Contemporary Architecture. A basis for the concept of place is 'movement in space'through the sense of the body. Thus, architectural methods for experiencing place are composing the sequence through the continuous time. It is important that the composition of sequences in place makes the spatial experiences with harmonies of architecture and environments in exterior space for people who enter the building. Tadao Ando makes place in terms of experiencing body. Compositions of sequence in his works are expressed very well at the approaching stages in the process of exterior space. This stud is to survey the compositions of approaching sequence in Tadao Ando's Works.

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