Alles over VU Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society |
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Visor | 2009-07-28 01:18:29
Tradities roepen een beeld op van dingen en gedachten die doorgegeven worden waardoor ... VISOR voorbeeld van excellent onderzoek door VSNU; Wetenschappelijke productie van VISOR neemt ...http://www.visor.vu.nl/nl/index.asp
Alles over Connecting Cultures; interculturele dialoog in de NL-Blogosphere |
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About:Blank | 2009-01-16 16:00:25
Ingrid van Osch studeerde jongstleden november cum laude af aan de vakgroep Moderne Literatuur met de scriptie 'Connecting Cultures - Intercultural Dialogue and the Blogosphere'. Ze heeft deze scriptie kortgeleden online gezet, zodat deze nu voor iedereen makkelijk toegankelijk is.
Bij haar scriptie ging ze op zoek naar een antwoord in hoeverre de Nederlandse Blogosphere ruimte biedt aan een dialoog tussen Nederlanders en minderheden. Daarbij maakte ze gebruik van drie door haar zelf opgezette case-studies, in dit geval enkele Nederlandstalige weblogs (Geenstijl, Wij Blijven Hier en enkele Web-log lijflogs), en onderzocht in hoeverre deze ieder afzonderlijk een bijdrage leverden aan een interculturele dialoog.
Het zou niet goed zijn haar conclusie op deze beperkte ruimte samen te vatten, laat staan dat we een indruk zouden kunnen geven van waar de case-studies toe resulteerden, maar we kunnen het niet laten om haar slotwoorden in de conclusie te citeren:
When attention is paid to the way people can obtain different levels of access, starting with discursive access, to get them engaged in the blogosphere and take notice of how to use the media specificities in favor of intercultural dialogue, we may find bliamonds among the blogorhea.
Haar volledige scriptie is als zip-file te downloaden.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/about-blank/~3/513909020/Connecting_Cultures;_intercult
Alles over Triple Helix — Designing a New Molecule of Life |
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Slashdot | 2008-12-06 17:52:56
Anti-Globalism sends in this quote from Scientific American about attempts to synthesize molecules that function as well or better than the natural building blocks of life: "A molecule that some researchers study in pursuit of this vision is peptide nucleic acid (PNA), which mimics the information-storing features of DNA and RNA but is built on a proteinlike backbone that is simpler and sturdier than their sugar-phosphate backbones. ... Many studies have demonstrated PNA's suitability for modifying gene expression, mostly in molecular test-tube experiments and in cell cultures. Studies in animals have begun, as has research on ways to transform PNA into drugs that can readily enter a person's cells from the bloodstream. ... Some scientists have suggested that PNAs or a very similar molecule may have formed the basis of an early kind of life at a time before proteins, DNA and RNA had evolved. Perhaps rather than creating novel life, artificial-life researchers will be re-creating our earliest ancestors."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over Study raps Web sites touting stem cell therapies
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Yahoo! News: Top Stories | 2008-12-03 21:11:23
AP - Consumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm medical evidence to back up their claims.
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Alles over How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement |
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Slashdot | 2008-10-11 09:39:29
Zarf writes "I'd like to file a bug report on the US educational system. The New York Times reports on a recent study that shows the US fails to encourage academic talent as a culture.'"There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics," said Michael Sipser, the head of M.I.T.'s math department. "Sports achievement gets lots of coverage in the media. Academic achievement gets almost none."' While we've suspected that the US might be falling behind academically, this study shows that it is actually due to cultural factors that are devaluing the success of our students. I suspect there's a flaw in the US cultural system that prevents achievement on the academic front as valuable. Could anyone suggest a patch for this bug or is this cause for a rewrite?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement |
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Slashdot | 2008-10-11 01:50:58
Zarf writes "I'd like to file a bug report on the US educational system. The New York Times reports on a recent study that shows the US fails to encourage academic talent as a culture.'"There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics," said Michael Sipser, the head of M.I.T.'s math department. "Sports achievement gets lots of coverage in the media. Academic achievement gets almost none."' While we've suspected that the US might be falling behind academically, this study shows that it is actually due to cultural factors that are devaluing the success of our students. I suspect there's a flaw in the US cultural system that prevents achievement on the academic front as valuable. Could anyone suggest a patch for this bug or is this cause for a rewrite?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over Beyond Paradise | Jaap Kooijman |
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Beyond paradise | 2008-09-30 12:52:35
As part of the Amsterdam 2008 session, the participants of the European Summer School in Cultural Studies have visited the SMBA exhibition Beyond Paradise, curated by Delphine ...http://www.jaapkooijman.nl/tag/beyond-paradise/
Alles over Studies Confirm That Bad Boys Get More Girls |
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Slashdot | 2008-06-21 19:46:17
seattlle foodie sends along a New Scientist article outlining two recent studies that confirm what many have long suspected: bad boys get the most girls. "The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the 'dark triad' persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs. The traits are: the self-obsession of narcissism; the impulsive, thrill-seeking, and callous behavior of psychopaths; and the deceitful and exploitative nature of Machiavellianism. At their extreme, these traits would be highly detrimental for life in traditional human societies. People with these personalities risk being shunned by others and shut out of relationships, leaving them without a mate, hungry and vulnerable to predators."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over Lecturer (Wetenschappelijk Docent) |
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MegaJobs Vacatures - Onderwijs en wetenschap | 2008-06-04 12:37:14
Overheid: DR Rotterdam --- The Department of Arts and Culture Studies has a vacant position for a lecturer with broad knowledge of and research experience in the fields of cultural policy, cultural industries, cultural economics, and of the marketing and ma ...http://www.megajobs.nl/vacature_RSS/MJ/NL/366/4271716/Lecturer_Wetenschappelijk_Docent.html
Alles over LW - SCOM (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
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Vub Press | 2008-05-30 22:20:24
Als resultaat van een samenwerking tussen de Studiekring Vrij Onderzoek VUB, Perskring ... Cultural Studies Perspectives on War , verschenen bij Cambridge Scholars Press.http://www.vub.ac.be/SCOM/
Alles over VGK o Bekijk onderwerp - HK Massamedia (Algemeen) |
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Massamedia | 2008-04-01 23:20:16
Met behulp van theoretische inzichten uit andere disciplines (semiotiek, iconologie, cultural studies, ...) worden de studenten gesensibiliseerd voor de retorische strategieën en ...http://fkserv.ugent.be/vgkflwi/vgkforum/viewtopic.php?f=81&p=374346#p374346
Alles over 'Population Bomb' Author Paul Ehrlich Tackles Cultural Evolution |
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Wired News: Top Stories | 2008-03-13 12:02:27
Paul Ehrlich, the author of the 1968 book The Population Bomb, argues that cultural evolution needs to be studied as rigorously as genetic evolution.
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Alles over Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group |
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Slashdot | 2008-03-07 11:31:45
Pickens brings news that a student at Ryerson University is facing 147 counts of academic misconduct after helping to run a chemistry study group through Facebook. School officials have declined to comment, but students are claiming that it is simply a valid studying technique in the information age. Quoting: "Avenir, 18, faces an expulsion hearing Tuesday before the engineering faculty appeals committee. If he loses that appeal, he can take his case to the university's senate. The incident has sent shock waves through student ranks, says Kim Neale, 26, the student union's advocacy co-ordinator, who will represent Avenir at the hearing. 'That's the worst part; it's creating this culture of fear, where if I post a question about physics homework on my friend's wall (a Facebook bulletin board) and ask if anyone has any ideas how to approach this - and my prof sees this, am I cheating?' said Neale, who has used Facebook study groups herself."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over Natural Selection Can Act on Human Culture |
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Slashdot | 2008-02-17 12:58:24
Hugh Pickens writes "Scientists at Stanford University have shown for the first time that the process of natural selection can act on human cultures as well as on genes. The team studied reports of canoe designs from 11 Oceanic island cultures, evaluating 96 functional features that could contribute to the seaworthiness of the vessels. Statistical test results showed clearly that the functional canoe design elements changed more slowly over time, indicating that natural selection could be weeding out inferior new designs. Authors of the study said their results speak directly to urgent social and environmental problems. 'People have learned how to avoid natural selection in the short term through unsustainable approaches such as inequity and excess consumption. But this is not going to work in the long term,' said Deborah S. Rogers, a research fellow at Stanford."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Centennial | 2007-12-18 00:09:07
the Centennial Exhibition Of 1876 a Material Culture Study By Villanova University Studentshttp://www3.villanova.edu/centennial/
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Micro Memory | 2007-10-20 01:02:56
Offers courses in cultural studies, law, economics, and information science. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.http://www.amsu.edu/
Alles over Adat Pernikahan « Indonesian-Chinese Culture Study Group |
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Damai sprei | 2007-10-04 05:04:28
Hamparan sprei harus dilakukan oleh keluarga pria yang masih lengkap (hidup) dan bahagia. ... Pemakaman Melayu-Islam di Wihara Ancol ; 7 Pedang dari Gunung Thian ; Keragaman dalam Damaihttp://iccsg.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/adat-pernikahan/#comment-1049
Alles over Dot-Com Work Culture Making a Comeback? |
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Slashdot | 2007-07-03 16:00:36
jeebus writes "This week a Deloitte study has shown that high on the agenda of CEOs around the world is the shortage of tech talent. Is a shortage of talented geeks in the market seeing a return of the dot-com culture with foosball tables, beanbags, and inflated salaries used to entice talented workers? Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture, the future of yesterday. 'Global recruitment companies were telling prospecting employees that they were no longer going to be employed just because they were a technical guru. They were going to have to learn to dress, communicate, and adapt all the traditional corporate ideals that IT has been exempt from during the dot-com boom. Fast forward to Web 2.0 and while workplaces aren't as cheesy with their decor as they were were in the late '90s, and developers aren't getting paid $100K for being HTML and JavaScript jockeys, geeks just aren't chuffed with corporate culture.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Alles over Case Study: USAA Drives Fierce Loyalty With Its Customer-Centric Culture |
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Recent Research from Forrester | 2007-06-24 07:08:20
USAA consistently wins accolades for superior customer service. The insurer was founded by members for their own mutual benefit, which has engendered a best practice customer-centric culture. While competitors look to cut costs by reducing direct customer contact, USAA encourages its members to phone in and prepares its service reps for the interactions. As a result, member loyalty fuels consistent annual growth of USAA's asset and member bases.http://www.forrester.com/go?docid=42578&src=RSS_TopicGroupFeed
Alles over Internet censorship on the rise: study |
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RawStory.com Headlines | 2007-05-20 18:10:39
Internet censorship is growing worldwide, with 26 out of 40 countries blocking or filtering political or social content, a study reported Friday.
The survey carried out by experts at four leading universities found that people in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were often denied access to information about politics, sexuality, culture or religion.
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