Digital communication and agency by Jakub Siwak

“…To do so, it turns to a very specific source; the post-structural theorist, Gilles Deleuze, and his conception of digital societies of control, as well as contemporary theoretical works that reflect his concerns over our agency within the virtual spaces we now increasingly inhabit. …”
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An analysis of the factors influencing the gap between theory and practice in elementary teachers by Najmeh Soltaninezhad, parvin Salarichine

“…The results of this study show that teachers' practice is not only affected by education; There are also three factors: teacher experience, teacher personality traits, and the nature of the elementary child, which justify the gap between educational theorist theory and elementary teacher practice. Ignoring these three factors will reduce the efficiency of pre-, early and in-service training courses for teachers.…”
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Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic at the George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY), retrospective or exhibition? by Bruno Chalifour

“…Before being a curator, an educator, a theorist (among others, the snapshot esthetic, the social landscape, sequences & series, the photo-book), an advocate for visual literacy, and a key-figure in post-WWII American photography, he was a photographer-artist who looked at urban America with a sometimes amused, sometimes critical eye. …”
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After Abolition: Cugoano on ‘Lawful Servitude’ and the Injustice of Slavery by Johan Olsthoorn

“…This article reconstructs the answer given by a radical Black antislavery theorist writing in late eighteenth-century Britain: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (c.1757–c.1791). …”
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Towards intercultural communication effectiveness (congruence) in Sino-African interactions by Fungai Chigwendere, Lynette Louw

“… Within the field of intercultural communication, the position of theorist is adopted, to re-think and reframe existing insights by creatively combining them in a more useful and holistic way, towards intercultural communication effectiveness (congruence). …”
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Poetics of Friction by Nadja Ben Khelifa, Étienne Allaix, Jörg Sternagel

“…Called by these questions, our panel attempts to collaboratively work on corresponding responses within a poetics of friction that is rehearsed, acted out, and tried out in a setting where forces come into play that resist relative motions of solid approaches and beliefs sliding against each other: Whereas the three panelists – a multimedia artist, a cultural theorist, and a philosopher – call with their spoken words, screened images and handout materials, the members of the audience respond to these calls: Like the wheel that needs the concrete surface against its rubber to spin in movement, or the piece of wood that needs the wooden stick rotating against its bark to spark a flame, members of Performance Philosophy need frictions with which both Performance artists and Philosophy scholars slide against each other to spin, to move, to carry on, to reflect, to struggle, to doubt, to aim, to spark flames of inspiration. …”
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NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. WARCRIME, THAT COULD BE AVOIDED by N. P. Parkhitko

“…The approach to the problem, advocated by the German military theorist was in details researched in the article. …”
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Book review: Kravchenko S. A. “Sociology of Digitalisation: university textbook” by N. N. Meshcheryakova, L. A. Vasilenko

“…The review of a new book written by a leading Russian sociologist-theorist Sergey A. Kravchenko is presented. The book analyses the social implications and prospects of the digitalisation. …”
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Gregor Mendel: my time will come by Yu. M. Novikov

“…He was greatly inspired by studying with the theorist of hybridization and selection Professor Franz Diebel. …”
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Dennis Patterson on Wittgenstein by V. V. Ogleznev

“…Dennis Patterson, modern American legal theorist, is one of the active supporters of the importance and significance of later Wittgenstein’s ideas for resolving legal philosophy problems, including legal indeterminacy problem. …”
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Specters of Sex. Tracing the Tools and Techniques of Contemporary Music Analysis by Danielle Sofer

“…Centering on sonic experience and perception, this article challenges the common trope of the disembodied and disinterested music theorist by proposing that, rather than neglecting sexual discourses, like-minded music theorists have instead established a veritable field founded on the commonly-held belief that sex and music are (in some cases) interchangeable. …”
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Die frühe Schenker-Rezeption Hellmut Federhofers by Thomas Wozonig

“…Since Federhofer’s post-doctoral thesis (1943) is virtually a textbook on Schenkerian analysis, it seems likely that the department of musicology at the University of Graz, or at least Federhofer’s supervisor Werner Danckert, tolerated the ideas of the Jewish theorist. This article examines Federhofer’s earliest post-war publications and teaching activities to reveal his pioneering role in bringing Schenker to the surface of German-speaking musicological discourse.…”
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Japanese Popular Culture and Digimodernism by N. B. Afanasov

“…As a relevant methodological optics, the article refers to the concept of «digimodernism» by the British theorist Alan Kirby. With the help of its main provisions, it is shown that Japanese popular culture was at the forefront of the cultural process, offering several interesting finds to modernity. …”
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Was Grand Duchy of Lithuania a Federation? by Zenonas Norkus

“…The criticism of the federalist theory is grounded in the conceptual analysis of the state forms provided by the distinguished Lithuanian historian and law theorist Mykolas Rėimeris (1880-1945). In his analysis, M. …”
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Das Menschliche in der Musik . August Halms prozessuale Metaphorik im Brennpunkt analysetheoretischer Fragestellungen by Astrid Bolay

“…Musical analysis has traditionally relied less on the experience of actually listening to music than on what can be “seen” in the score. Music theorist August Halm, on the other hand, developed a rich and vivid vocabulary precisely for the expressive, dynamic, and processual qualities of music. …”
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The Application of Literary Theories in Literary Texts by Sandy Ferianda

“…The application of post-colonialism theory in literary text showed that the post-colonial theorist entered the literary texts or works through a specific critical lens, or a specific way of reading them. …”
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E. W. Godwin’s Month in Normandy: Travel Writing as Intertext by Richard W. Hayes

“…In order to assess Godwin’s travel account, I will make use of the concept of ‘intertextuality’ formulated in the twentieth century by the literary theorist Julia Kristeva (b. 1941). As Kristeva has posited, individual texts may be understood as participating in a matrix of relationships with previous texts. …”
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Critical realism and information systems research: why bother with philosophy? by Philip J. Dobson

“…Over the period 1979-1999 57% of papers had references to social theorists - the four major theorists being Giddens, Habermas, Foucault and Latour. …”
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A bajulação das massas by Franz Josef Brüseke, Héctor Ricardo Leis

“…The verdict of horizontality does not work only for politicians, but also to the society theorists. When these theorists accept this new role, they become suppliers of the "politically correct" speech. …”
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