Minority Cultures and Social Media: Magnifying Garifuna

This paper looks at social media use by the Garifuna people. It explores how they are using social media to create a supraterritorial cyberscape. Despite the claim that global media is marginalising minority cultures and causing global homogenisation, this research found that newer forms of social media are in fact creating virtual cultural cyberscapes that are extending minority cultures. The Garifuna cultural response to social media can be demonstrative of the positive impact of social media minority perspectives. The larger implication, though, is that traditional geographical models of cultural space are becoming obsolete. In this research, a total of 60 Garifuna in locations all across the United States and Honduras were selected for participation. Their access to and use of media were examined.     

The Effects of National Culture and Face Concerns on Intention to Apologize: A Comparison of the USA and China

The current study examined national culture differences between US American and Chinese participants (N?=?317) regarding face need concerns and apology intention, based on positive and negative face needs (Brown & Levinson, 1987 Brown, P and Levinson, SC. 1987. Politeness: Some universals in language usages, Cambridge, , UK: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and concerns for self-face and other-face (Ting-Toomey, 2005 Ting-Toomey, S. 2005. “The matrix of face: An updated face-negotiation theory”. In Theorizing about intercultural communication, Edited by: Gudykunst, WB. 71–92. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.  [Google Scholar]). Participants read vignettes that varied in relationship types (in-group vs. out-group members) and situation types (negative face vs. positive face threatening) and responded to scales measuring realism of the vignettes, intention to apologize, and five types of face need concerns. The findings showed that Chinese participants, compared to US Americans, had stronger intentions to apologize when their acts threatened the other person's positive face, while US American participants, compared to Chinese, had stronger intentions to apologize when their acts threatened the other's negative face. Other findings and implications thereof are discussed.     

Cultural Diplomacy,Branding and the American Film Institute's Project: 20/20

The Global Cultural Initiative (GCI) was a flagship cultural diplomacy effort introduced by the Bush Administration in the mid-2000s; one project of this initiative was the American Film Institute's Project: 20/20, a program of 19 films from five continents scheduled to tour the United States and abroad. This paper is a historical exploration into how the Bush Administration reconstructed American identity and culture through framing, and how that framing was embedded within cultural diplomacy initiatives like the GCI. This paper contributes to an understanding of how intercultural dialogue is often based on key messages and constructed ideas.     

Boundary-Work in the Health Research Field: Biomedical and Clinician Scientists’ Perceptions of Social Science Research

Funding agencies in Canada are attempting to break down the organizational boundaries between disciplines to promote interdisciplinary research and foster the integration of the social sciences into the health research field. This paper explores the extent to which biomedical and clinician scientists’ perceptions of social science research operate as a cultural boundary to the inclusion of social scientists into this field. Results indicated that cultural boundaries may impede social scientists’ entry into the health research field through three modalities: (1) biomedical and clinician scientists’ unfavourable and ambivalent posture towards social science research; (2) their opposition to a resource increase for the social sciences; and (3) clinician scientists procedural assessment criteria for social science. The paper also discusses the merits and limitations of Tom Gieryn’s concept of boundary-work for studying social dynamics within the field of science.

观“剑心书韵”谈武术文化创新——2014年春晚武术类表演项目《剑心书韵》观感

武术文化的创新是武术面向大众传播的重要途径。近年来由于文化富国、文化兴国和文化强国战略的提出,武术文化也获得了创新发展,成为了具有新的生机与活力的时代产物。央视2014年春晚武术表演节目《剑心书韵》即是这种创新的展现。它在展示传统武术的美的同时,也给予人们许多反思。通过分析武术文化的渊源,解析前人传承武术的方式和途径,探究了时代变幻背景下当代武术的文化创新与传承发展的前途,论证了拓宽武术文化传播以及实现武术文化创新繁荣新局面的路径和意义。     

体育与健康课程生态意义的呈现与发展

体育生态化的实现离不开学校体育和体育与健康课程的发展。解读课程中所蕴含的生态意义,有助于人们提高对体育与健康以及生态体育的了解和认识。指出课程中现存的生态缺失并提出具体建议,为促进体育与健康课程和学校体育生态建设提供一定的理论依据。     

中西文化比较及对中国篮球的理性思考

通过对不同的文化和人文精神角度的比较,分析了它们对篮球运动发展的作用。提出了中国篮球要冲出亚洲,走向世界必须探寻适合中国篮球发展的文化和人文精神。提出了竞争、尚武的发展观念是中国篮球发展的新的理念。     

健身与教育视野下的高校网球运动推广

运用文献资料法,从分析网球运动的终身健身属性和文化教育属性出发,结合当代我国社会经济发展状况和大学生的实际需要,认为大学生参与网球运动有利于终身体育观念的培养和人文素质的提高,高校是推广网球运动的重要阵地,并提出影响高校网球运动发展的首要因素是运动场地偏少。     

体育新课改对福州格致中学学生终身体育意识培养的研究

对照分析新课改“体育选项”教学对高中生终身体育意识的培养,发现高中体育选项教学不仅能够提高中学生的身体素质,而且能够满足他们对体育教育的心理需求和体育文化需求,为终身意识的形成打下坚实的基础。