74 research outputs found
Review of ”Brand-urile în era Web 2.0. Conținutul generat de consumatori” [Web 2.0 Brands. User-generated Content] by Rodica Săvulescu, Bucharest: Tritonic, 2016, 252 pages
No full textThe web 2.0 era has shifted brand ownership from communication specialists towards consumers. This is the main idea on which Rodica Săvulescu builds her argumentation in her recently published book, Web 2.0 Brands. User-generated content (2016). The emergence of new technologies blurs the lines between content producers and consumers. In this book, the author addresses the topic of democratization of content in relation with brand communication
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No full textCet ouvrage rassemble les textes issus d’une trentaine de conférences organisées par l’UMR Adess 5385 et la faculté d’ethnologie – anthropologie sociale et culturelle de l’université de Bordeaux. Ces conférences eurent lieu dans le cadre du séminaire de recherche coorganisé par Sophie Chave-Dartoen, Carole Lemée, Stéphanie Rolland‑Traina, Rodica Zane ainsi que Sonia Dheur, entre 2011 et 2015, et intitulé « Espace, temps, société. Pratiques rituelles, mise en mémoire et processus identitaires..
Food policies and practices during the Romanian last communist decade
No full textCette thèse se propose d’examiner l’hiatus « à la roumaine » entre les contraintes normatives exercées par la politique d’Etat et les pratiques quotidiennes des habitants dans les années 1980 en Roumanie. L’hypothèse principale de la recherche est fondée sur les pratiques alimentaires des acteurs qui s’apparentent à une véritable culture de résistance face aux politiques nutritionnelles menées pendant la dernière décennie communiste roumaine. A partir de l’approche théorique de l’espace politique de la santé (en l’occurrence, de l’alimentation) proposée par Didier Fassin, cette étude se construira selon trois axes qui constituent l’espace mentionné ci-dessus : le gouvernement des corps par la nourriture (« Gouverner et nourrir »), le pouvoir médical et sa limitation devant l’instance de l’Etat communiste (« Médicalisation de la nourriture »), et les disparités sociales face à l’alimentation (« Stratégies de ravitaillement et pratiques alimentaires »). Cette recherche sera conduite à partir d’une démarche associant l’analyse macroanthropologique (décorticage des actes législatifs, des traités médicaux de l’époque concernant la nutrition, des textes des articles de presse des quotidiens ou des périodiques, officiels ou de spécialité.) et l’analyse micro- anthropologique (observation des pratiques quotidiennes des habitants, entretiens, recueil des témoignages accrédités du point de vue scientifique).This thesis intends to analyse the peculiar hiatus between the Estate normative constraints exerted on and the everyday practices of the Romania’s inhabitants during the eighties. With this aim in view, we have formulated the principal hypothesis of this research, as follows: the food practices of the actors resemble a genuine resistance culture facing the nutritional policies of the Romanian last communist decade. Based on the theoretical approach of the political space of health (in this case, of food), proposed by Didier Fassin, this study will be built upon three axis, which form the abovementioned space: the bodies’ government by food (“Gouverner et nourrir”, “Rule and feed”), the medical power and its limitation confronted with the communist Estate’s authority ( “Médicalisation de la nourriture”, “Physicians and food” ), the social disparities toward the food (“ Stratégies de ravitaillement et pratiques alimentaires “, “ Supplies strategies and food practices”) respectively. This research has been conducted on the basis of an approach that brings together the macro-anthropologist analysis (dissection of legislative acts, of medical treaties of that period, concerning the nutrition, of official daily, periodical or specialty papers), and the microanthropologist analysis ( observation of everyday food practices, interviews, scientifically accredited collection of people stories) as well
Rodica Frenţiu, Yasunari Kawabata: "Dreams of the Floating World", Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2023, 324 p.
No full textLiterary interpretation is a complex art which always involves more than the work being analysed and can never be reduced to a decoding of the author’s thoughts. As obviously important as those two aspects are, delving into them exclusively would mean ignoring the author as a person, both in the sense of ignoring the influence of one’s life on one’s writing style and thematic choices, but also in the sense of ignoring the societal trends in thinking that inevitably affect all people within that context. This explanation was necessary as avoiding that mentality is one of the qualities of Rodica Frenţiu’s book, Yasunari Kawabata: Dreams of the Floating World (2023). The work becomes almost as much about Japanese history, society, culture and the language as about the renowned Japanese author himself, all in an effort to make it more accessible to a European reader, while keeping it a thorough interpretation that does justice to the alterity of Kawabata by not trying to naturalise and explain his thinking using Western concepts
Erratum to: Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum: going beyond the first and second pharyngeal arch involvement (Neuroradiology, (2017), 59, 3, (305-316), 10.1007/s00234-017-1795-1)
No full textIn the article “Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum: going beyond the first and second pharyngeal arch involvement”, the list of author names was incorrect. Author names were inverted with the surname preceding first name. Davide Brotto 1, Renzo Manara 2, Sara Ghiselli 1, Elisa Lovo 1, Rodica Mardari 3, Irene Toldo 4 , Alessandro Castiglione 1, Giovanni Schifano 1, Valentina Stritoni 1, Roberto Bovo 1, Patrizia Trevisi 1, Alessandro Martini 1
The Lăzărița at the Karavlachs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Avatars of a Ritual
No full textIn this essay, the author tries to shed light on the role of the Karavlachs in transmitting the spring ritual called lăzăriţa and on the transformations it has gone through during this process. It is argued
that the ritual has been taken over by the Karavlachs from the surrounding populations out of economic reasons, but also because of their wish to identify with the majority. The author stresses their important role in preserving, transmitting and “giving back” the rituals to the majority populations (in our case, to the Serbs in BiH), also discussing the process of folklorization some rituals must undergo nowadays in order to survive
The memory of abortion during Communist Romania : an ethnography of the memory forms of Romanian pronatalism
No full textL’objectif de cette thèse est d’établir une ethnographie des formes de la mémoire de l’interdiction de l’avortement dans le régime totalitaire de Ceausescu. Entre 1966 et 1989, le régime communiste roumain a imposé des politiques pronatalistes, au nom du : binele natiunii socialiste (« le bien de la nation socialiste »). Une construction de la maternité comme « tradition roumaine » a été ainsi développée, en parallèle d’une stricte interdiction de l’IVG, et de la mise à l’écart des moyens contraceptifs modernes. La remémoration sociale de ce passé difficile reste encore un tabou dans la société roumaine d’aujourd’hui. Il semblerait qu’en Roumanie actuelle cette remémoration-faible joue un rôle important dans la santé reproductive, et qu’elle est déterminée par des relations d’intersubjectivité entre les différentes formes de la mémoire du pronatalisme, c'est-à-dire la mémoire officielle, la mémoire culturelle (publique) et la mémoire sociale-partagée. L’analyse développée sur ces formes et leurs relations d’intersubjectivité a pour base un terrain anthropologique (2004-2009) sur la mémoire de l’avortement en Roumanie communiste, et fut réalisée dans le domaine interdisciplinaire des Études mémorielles.Taking the pronatalism of Ceausescu’s regime as a case study, this thesis is an an ethnography of the memory-formes of a recent delicat past, such as the banning of abortion in a totalitarist regime. From 1966 to 1989, the communist regime imposed extreme policies of controlled demography in Romania, as it was imputed, for ‘the good of the socialist nation’. A construction of maternity as ‘Romanian tradition’ was developed in parallel to the banning of abortion on request and the making of contraception almost inaccessible. The social remembering of such a difficult past is still a taboo in contemporary Romanian society. This law-remembering, which is maybe playing an important role in the current situation of Romania’s reproductive health, is influenced by the intersubjectivities devellopped between the different forms of pronatalist memory, i.e. its official memory, its cultural memory and its social memory. The analysis of those memory-formes and their intersubjectivities is based on an anthropological fieldwork (2004-2009) on the memory of abortion in Communist Romania, and is theoretically informed by the interdisciplinary field of Memory Studies
Between history and memory: the Bayash in Europe
No full textOn the basis of fieldwork recordings made in several Bayash communities from Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria, the author explores the way in which the interlocutors assume an identity and try to construct a past for their people, using etiological legends about the origin of their community which combine old and new historical information
Author Correction: WDR1 is a novel EYA3 substrate and its dephosphorylation induces modifications of the cellular actin cytoskeleton
No full textAn amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
Development of an Integrated Set of Indicators to Measure the Quality of the Whole Traveller Experience
No full textAbstractThe EU project METPEX is developing a measurement tool for the perceived quality of the whole journey experience. Special emphasis is given on the contribution to the overall quality perception from different phases of such experience, from pre-trip information acquisition to the eventual joint use of different services, especially for multimodal trips. Differences among travel means and user groups are investigated as well. Rather than exclusively focusing on public transport, the project also investigates quality issues dealing with other modes, especially walk and bike. Within such framework, the paper presents some sets of indicators distilled through Principal Component Analysis that could be used in different assessment exercises, shortly discusses how such indicators are showing us the different facets of the “quality of transport” concept and identifies future research directions for the project
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