Participatory Essays

  • Participatory Design In Interior and Spatial Design

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    Participatory design simply means encouraging and producing new social relationships. It is an approach to design attempting to actively involve participants in the design process. Sometimes it is useful in order to help ensure the product designed meets their needs and is usable. The term has been used in many different areas such as; product design, architecture, software design, graphic design… Also it has been used in various scales and different settings (performance of the building, performance

  • Urban Consolidation

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    undermined by ambiguous definition. This ambiguity, as expressed through a general lack of inter-governmental and inter-professional cohesion on this policy, can best be understood in terms of individual motives (AIUSH,1991). * State Government^s participatory role in the reduction of infrastructure spending. * Urban Professional^s recognition of the increased variability, robustness, and interest in both the urban area and their work. * Conservation Activist^s commendation of the lower consumption

  • America's Democracy

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    the answers to those questions means defining a model for a democratic system. William E. Hudson defines four such models in his book American Democracy in Peril: the Protective, Developmental, Pluralist, and Participatory models of democracy (Hudson, 8-19). Of these models, perhaps Participatory comes closest to an ideal, pure democracy of rule by the people (16-19). In practice, however, establishing a stable ideal democracy is not entirely feasible. In a country the size of the United States, it

  • Humor in Task-Oriented Group Discussions

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    to come up with ideals about who it is that actually does the joking (male or female), and when and where this joking takes place. The hypothesis suggests an image of joking as dealing with status in a society, the male sex, people who are very participatory and those that are frequent interrupters (or interrupted often themselves) to all show status-related patterns of humor use. The researcher’s further have a theory that if they know about the way people engage in humor, then they will be able to

  • Participatory Paradigm

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    Research is knowledge construction (Mertens, 2008). Researchers stand for different paradigms- positivism, post-positivism, constructivism, critical theory, participatory (Lincoln, Lynham, & Guba, 2011). A paradigm is a lens of thinking about the worldview that has a valid contribution to research. The paradigm is the skylight through which one can view in the world. It is a composition of individual’s values, beliefs, assumptions, behavior and attitude, verbal and nonverbal expression to observe

  • The Role of Government and Culture on Innovation in Greek City-States

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    shaped by fundamental political changes" (p. 57). This statement leads into a discussion of the rise of democracy in Greek city-states. An elected assembly wielded the authority in these city-states. Chant states, "Although the development of participatory modes of government might well be seen as a product of enlightened Greek culture, the influence of the Aegean environment must also be considered" (p.57). This assertion deserves some attention, as it insinuates that macro-level forces could be

  • Daniel Elazar, Bogus or Brilliant: A Study of Political Culture Across the American States

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    ideologies. Because of these similarities, it is possible to measure the dominant political culture within states or areas of a state, gaining insight into the mind-set of state residents. Whatever the state culture, whether liberal or conservative, participatory or exclusive, political culture identifies dominant, state-wide trends. The question remains whether there is an accurate way to measure this political culture phenomenon in the United States. Many studies try to measure political culture within

  • Participatory Culture

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    The article starts off with a brief introduction of participatory culture. Later develops as how and what are people's ability to participate. For this article, reference books have been used as the main guide from authors such as Henry Jenkins, Geert Lovink, and Zizi Papacharissi. Also some academic journals, dissertations as supporting elements for the article. The essay also describe the participatory culture at the social platform, YouTube. Pew Internet and American Life project have showed

  • Humanism

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    compassion. Affirming           the dignity of each human being, it supports the           maximization of individual liberty and opportunity           consonant with social and planetary responsibility. It           advocates the extension of participatory democracy and           the expansion of the open society, standing for human           rights and social justice. Free of supernaturalism, it           recognizes human beings as a part of nature and holds           that values--be they religious

  • Participatory Management

    644 Words  | 2 Pages

    Participatory Management In scanning the recent literature on participatory management certain themes arise. Participatory management is a way to empower employees and create a more innovative bottom up structure for organizations. It is a movement toward decentralizing power. There are many suggestions on how this type of structure is to be realized. Most articles I reviewed have positive views of this structural method. Participative management is rooted in the human resource theoretical

  • The Ban-Yatra Pilgrimage

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    deep and various. They are found not simply in the physical walking, but also in the walking away from physical and mental comfort. In his book, Journey Through the Twelve Forests, David L. Haberman describes in graphic detail the parting and participatory pains as he journeys on the Ban-Yatra pilgrimage. The Ban-Yatra (literally ‘forest journey’) is a 200-mile circuit through the forests associated with Lord Krishna’s activities around Braj, a town in central India. Krishna is a deity favored by

  • Participatory Leadership

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    will help me become a better leader. The common theme across majority of the surveys was that my leadership style is participative and I am an extraverted person that is motivated by self actualization. Knowing that my main style of leadership is participatory, I am going to use that to my advantage to encourage teachers and other staff members to become leaders. Being a school leader, there is an overwhelming amount of tasks that need to be completed, therefore creating and working with a leadership

  • Participatory Development

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    highlights the shortcomings of participatory development. He traces the development path followed within the primary health care sector and concludes that decentralization and popular participation have failed to correct the short comings thought to have been a result of the top-down political system previously in place. He does not support the top-down approach and acknowledges its shortcomings, but argues that decentralization fails to correct them. Enthusiasts of participatory development stress empowerment

  • Participatory Pop Culture

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    Internet and other inventions not only change how we consume popular culture but also change how media is made. Many of us are fans of something (Medkult, 2016) and we all want to share our feelings with others. From that need comes the rise of participatory culture and fandom, paving the way for fan communities to grow and expand in a never before seen scale. Therefore this secondary research paper will discuss how

  • Participatory Culture Essay

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    channel. Participatory culture could be defined as new ways of life that lead people to create and circulate new self-made content including video, audio, text, and images. The movement is taking shape and being popularized by consumer social networking sites such as Facebook, Flickr, and Wikipedia that encourage mass participation and collaboration. Participatory culture is changing the way people and the media communicate and actively engage. The characteristic that define modern participatory culture

  • Importance Of Participatory Media

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    ========================================== Participatory media technologies break the one-sidedness of traditional media platforms yet inherit improper ideas from audience’s perception of representation. Through participatory media technologies, people are able to aware of the monotonous representative in politics of representation, and by using various kinds of participatory media, people is challenging the stereotype brought by traditional politics of representation. As one of the most significant

  • Participatory Media Essay

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    Participatory media includes practices that empower community members with knowledge and technical skills to create visual, audio, theatrical, musical and textual representations of social, political, economic and cultural issues affecting them, with the aim of stimulating dialogues, experiential learning and social change. Participatory media practices are closely linked to participatory action research (PAR), whose core aim is community empowerment for social change which was developed out of the

  • Advantages Of Participatory Media

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    Is there a dark side to participatory media culture? In order to decipher whether there is a dark side to participatory media culture, we must first ensure that we know exactly what participatory media culture is. In this essay I will be discussing the definition and characteristics of participatory media culture, comparing this new form of media to traditional media, then unrouting the 'dark' habits of PMC (participatory media culture). I shall be doing so by looking into a media platform in

  • The Importance Of Participatory Architecture

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    "Nobody is against participation because it is good for you" - An analysis of the roles of those in power within participatory architecture. The notion of 'participatory architecture' is, in theory, nothing to oppose. "Nobody is against it because it is good for you" (Arnstein, 1969, p216). Participation is the calculated inclusion of the intended users of a building within some stages of its design process, a rarely contested idea. Yet how can an idea so intrinsically beneficial to society be simultaneously

  • Participatory Wellness Program

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    CONCLUSION A company wide wellness program will provide our employees with many benefits such as improved morale and overall satisfaction in their personal lives, all while offering a strong return on the investment for our company. With healthier employees, our productivity and other key performance indicators will see a positive impact. Our employees are our company’s greatest asset and we must strive to do whatever we can as management to encourage them to live healthy lives. To the