... THE ROLES OF CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY ON THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT ——————————————————— Patience Madigan TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………….. 4 THE ROLES OF CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT 1.1 OVERVIEW ……………………………………………………………… 4 1.2 OBJECTIVE ……………………………………………………………… 4 2. DISCUSSION …………………………………………………………………… 5 2.1 TECHNOLOGICAL FORCES ON ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY … 5 2.1.1 1950’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.2 1960’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.3 1970’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.4 1980’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.5 1990’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.1.6 2000’s ……………………………………………………………… 5 2.2 CULTURAL FORCES ON ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY …………. 5 2.2.1 1950’s Mass Culture ……………………………………………….. 6 2.2.2 1960’s Counter Culture …………………………………………….. 6 2.2.3 1970’s Punk Culture ………………………………………………... 6 2.2.4 1980’s Heavy Metal and Rap Culture ……………………………… 6 2.2.5 1990’s Grunge and Rave Culture ………………………………...… 6...
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...The Transforming Role of HRM HRM/319 The Transforming Role of HRM The role of HR has changed over the years, changing from computer applications that were tasks considered to be easy, to a very complex Human Resource information system that houses lots of different applications that assist the HR dept in functioning effectively. This paper will describe how HRIS has progressed from the personnel administration field to a business-driven human capital management organizational unit. The paper will include the factors that have changed the primary role from that of an operation to that of a strategic partner. The paper will talk about technology and its affect in the HRM field and how a company’s culture has been influenced by HRIS. Human Resource Management has been recognized by different names in the past, it used to be recognized as a separate and important function. Some of the different names this position has been called has been personal relations then employee relations and then to human resources. Along the way employment laws have changed the scope of the Human Resource functions. National Cash Register developed a department that would handle employee complaints, wage management and other employee related functions. That took place in the year of 1902. In 1935 the Wagner's Act (aka National Labor Relations Act) was enacted. It seemed organizations changed their focus from efficiency of the workers to the efficiency through employees gaining satisfaction from...
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...played in the present time would have no meaning to the people playing it. For instance, a young jazz musician playing Charles Mingus' song "Fables of Faubus" (which was about the wrong doings of governor Faubus) would have no meaning to the musician because he/she never lived that era. As for new, recent music, the artist plays what he/she feels in respect to the present. For instance, Herbie Hancock's new album came out about a month ago called "Possibilities". This album was called his "all-star project" (Downbeat; Pg 38) because it featured new artists like John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, and Paul Simon. The album depicts a movement of music in how a new form of jazz, soul, and pop our recent era has developed. The decade of the 1960’s, also known as "The Sixties", are known for it’s popular culture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, formalities and schooling. Conservatives refer to...
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...established, they also had the great Chicago fire and they hired women for their police force. Finally for the political era and how it has affected the system today. I still see corruption being a big issue at least in my state, were at least once or twice a year we are hearing about another political person doing something wrong. The most recent being our former Governor Blagojevich, who was trying to sell President Obama’s senate seat for a profit. So in my eyes the political era played and is still playing a negative role in today’s society. The reform era took place after the political era and it lasted from 1920-1970. During this era “reformers attempted to redefine the role and function of the police. While this era was happening the police seemed to be trying to turn things around and gain some professionalism. It was the twentieth century when the reform era started to gain some momentum and political started to not play the big role in policing as it did during the political era. It was 1920 when the reform era came to “full bloom and police administrators struggled to establish members of their field as “professionals” rather than simply as person working at a job. During this era there were a few professional organizations that emerged, like The Association of Chiefs Police....
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...based on biological changes. He claimed that these detachments are favourable to men, women, children and wider society. Parsons believes women have the sensitive role designed towards homemaking and childcare. Men hold the instrumental role designed towards work and being the breadwinner. The New Right supports Parsons, they believe that the division of gender is normal and beneficial to family and furnishes the children to integrate to modern society. However many sociologists such as Young and Willmott claim that men are now sharing domestic roles and more wives are now becoming breadwinners as well. Feminist’s sociologists disagree with Parsons they claim that this only benefits men and the division of labour is not natural. Willmott and Young conducted a study in the 1950’s with a group of working class extended families which confirmed that conjugal roles have become more segregated. However in the 1970’s they conducted another study of middle and working class nuclear families in the greater and other London area. Within this study they established that conjugal roles have become more symmetrical (equal). Young and Willmott saw the growth in the symmetrical family occurring because of changes in the position of women. Many couples moving away from the community they grew up in, new technology labour saving devices and...
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...achievement in education since the early 1990’s.” Concerns over the link between gender and educational attainment focus mainly on the extent to which males and females perform differently in education and their tendency to study different subjects. However it is not true that males attain more qualifications in general than females at school. Girls have outperformed boys in 16 + examinations since at least the late 1960s but these overall gender differences in educational achievement began to increase in the late 1980s after the introduction of the GCSE. Previously traditional ideas about the proper role of women in society prevented them from achieving their full potential, yet now women have different priorities and are no longer destined to be only housewives and homemakers; women are now expected by society to go to school and get an education. Female aspirations have changed dramatically from the 1970’s to the present; Women have become more than just bearers of children, cooks, cleaners and wives. They are now educated; becoming surgeons, pilots, physiatrists and anything they want to be. An ethnographic study done by sociologist Sue Sharpe: ‘Just like a girl’, found a change in the aspirations of females in an interview conducted in the London borough of Ealing in the 1970’s and early 90’s. Her findings display a major shift in the views of women and education. In the 1970’s women had lower ambitions, they viewed educational...
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...Using evidence from the syllabus of your subject area at a pre-tertiary level of education in Ghana, discuss the dominant curriculum orientation(s) underlying the instructional programme. Introduction Science education has always been a part of the Ghanaian (and Sub-Saharan) culture. Modern education in Ghana came with the advent of European missionary and mercantile enterprises, and has largely become the vehicle for social upward mobility. Education in general, and science education, for that matter, is serious issues for all Ghanaians. Curriculum orientations are beliefs about what a school curriculum should achieve and how teaching, learning and assessment should occur (Eisner, 1970). The most fundamental concern of schooling is curriculum (Ornstein, 1982). These prepositions have led me to have an in depth study by evaluating the Ghanaian Basic School Science Curriculum from both the primary to the Junior High School levels trying to find out the various and dominant curriculum orientation(s) underlying the teaching and learning process of Integrated Science in schools. The Ghanaian Basic School Science Curriculum and Delivery The Ghanaian integrated science curriculum follows the “spiral approach,” treating the same themes at different times and in greater depths within each educational level. The curriculum is the modern replacement of what used to be called “nature study.” This is a generalist, survey course, which exposes the child to the universe. At this level...
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...Structural Change in the U.S. Banking Industry: The Role of Information Technology Sandra D. Cooke Economics and Statistics Administration Office of Policy Development Office of Business and Industrial Analysis June 1997 ESA/OPA 97-6 Structural Change in Banking: the Role of Information Technology Structural Change in Banking: the Role of Information Technology ABSTRACT Commercial bank investment in information technology (IT) equipment has grown rapidly, from $104 million in 1960 to more than $10 billion in 1994. These investments in “hard” technologies (computer hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, etc.) have been accompanied by increases in "soft" technologies, for example, complex financial innovations that were infeasible on a large scale without IT hardware. These developments, together with deregulation, are creating new competitors, new financial markets and instruments, and a new role for commercial banks as providers of financial services. This study documents how changes in information technology have affected the role of banks in financial markets and have influenced changes in the structure and performance of the U.S. banking industry. The analysis also covers new, fast-growing financial innovations linked to IT investment e.g., asset securitization and derivatives. IT’s effect on the banking industry has been positive. Increased competition has caused banks to lose traditional customers, but IT enabled the banks to offer new products...
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...standards. In the 1970's, the technology industry was evolving to target a "limited" set of business/consumer pain points and a "larger" set of unknown potential needs. In order to tap the potential market and grow exponentially, the industry required significant and radical investment from various dimensions including design, processor, operating system, application programs, external storage media etc IBM assured its success by embarking on the Open Standards, and got the industry to participate with the PC.They chose multiple partners but focused on the best-of-breed by collaborating with Intel ( 8085 v/s Motorola and Zilog ), Microsoft (PC/MS-DOS v/s CP/M-86 and p-System), Tacmar (Adaptor Cards) to drive the PC adoption. The IBM Technical Reference Manual (TRM) contained complete schematics for the system and adapters, assembly code listings for the ROM BIOS, and descriptions of all the I/O functions on the system board. Unlike IBMs strategy, Apple’s approach with the Macintosh was not an open system and was very tightly controlled, stands in contrast to the IBM PC approach. IBM PC had many more hardware and software offerings, and changed a lot of peoples’ lives. It enabled computing to be done closer to an individual Second, there is always the role of "Timing" in the success of any radically innovoative idea that requires the support of the ecosystem in the respective industry. Apple's Iphone has an incredible design but counts on various technology companies (Telecommunication...
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...Different Perspectives Of Employment Relations For the employment relations, there is complicate and compelling area of study which involves relationships with employees, employers, trade unions and government on a regular basis. At the same time, there are three perspectives which are unitarism, pluralist and radical, each offers a special perception of workplace relations and explain the actions, statements and employers behaviours and trade unionists, such as workplace conflict, role of unions and job regulation vary differently. Based on the UK employment relations structure, the essay will analysis which perspectives appropriate for employee relations in the UK. Unitarist pespective The unitaty perspective is based upon the assumption that the organisation is, at the same time, the unitary perspective organisation can be as an integrated and harmonious whole with the ideal of "one happy family", where management and other members of the staff are all share a common purpose, emphasizing mutual cooperation(Naukrihub, 2007) and they have a set of common values, interests and objectives. Furthermore, unitarism has a paternalistic approach where it demands on all employees loyalty, being predominantly managerial in its emphasis and application. For unitary perspective, there are two important implications stemming from this. The first one is that conflict as the expression of employee dissatisfaction and differences with management is perceived as an irrational activity....
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...advancement in education and technology, which advanced nursing theories. These theories are what shapes the clinical practice and critical thinking process of nurses today. All of the theories available today started with one woman – Florence Nightingale. 1859 – Florence Nightingale established the first nursing theory which provides the basis of nursing today. Nightingale identified nursing as an art and a science. According to Selanders (2010), “Nightingale provides the profession with the expectation that nursing will be practiced by educated individuals using current research and methods (science) as well as compassion and common logic (art).” 1943 – Maslow developed the Hierarchy of Needs. This theory focuses on people’s basic need to survive as the foundation. Each level above that deals with the other essential elements of survival. Using this theory in nursing provides health care workers with the ability to prioritize patient care needs (Preceden, 2014). 1950’s – In this decade, the need for nursing administrators, faculty members, and graduate level educated nurses was acknowledged. In 1952, a nurse theorist named Peplau, launched the first post baccalaureate nursing program and also developed the Theory of Interpersonal Relations. This theory explored the relationship between nurse and patient. Theorists from this decade based their knowledge on the theory that nursing diagnoses were different than medical diagnoses. 1960’s – There were many different...
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... MUDASSAR KHAN 10313 MUHAMMAD UMER 10331 Contents Introduction 1 What role Steve played to apple success in the 1970s and early 1980s 1 Steve’s leadership and management style 2 Steve’s steps to increase apples price 3 Was apple dependent on Steve and that without him the company would not be able to perform well? 3 Steve jobs best quotes 3 Introduction: The case examines in detail the leadership and entrepreneurial skills of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers (a leading Information Technology company) and Pixar (a leading US animation studio). Steve's role in shaping the computer industry through Apple's revolutionary products and a few 'unconventional' business practices has been explored in detail. The case also discusses the aspects of Steve's personality that were appreciated by many businessmen and industry leaders. The ups and downs in Steve's career graph and the way in which he overcame the obstacles are discussed in detail. Steve's departure from Apple and his comeback have been explored in depth. What role Steve played to apple success in the 1970s and early 1980s Yes the apple was always in the news during this period. There are number of factors that contribute to Apple’s success. Apple computer was a unique one in 1970’s and early 1980’s. The Apple 1 was the first single board computer that had a built in video...
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...1950’s Men and Today’s Men The gender role theory “posits that boys and girls learn to perform one's biologically assigned gender through particular behaviors and attitudes” (Boundless, 2015). The environmental causes of gender roles and the impact of socialization are emphasized by the gender role theory. The social role theory postulates that the social structure is the underlying force in determining gender roles. The social role theory also states that the division of labor between two sexes within a society drives sex-differentiated behavior. The division of labor is what created gender roles, which eventually, led to social behavior that could be defined as being gender specific in nature. Over the years, these roles would transform to adapt to the expectations of society’s current males. One popular trend of gender roles that has been commonly studied is workplace roles. For decades, men were viewed as the sole provider; therefore, the wife’s duties did not exceed past her home. She was in charge of caring for her husband, their children, and their home. Men were supposed to go to work every day to provide for their family, adequately meet all of their needs, and be someone that his children can look up to. In the 1950’s, men were coming back from war, and the women had filled the positions left open by men going off to World War II. During the 1960’s, known as the hippie era, gender roles began developing in a more neutral and equal manner, “but media still tried to...
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...Fontana argues that girls had lower self-esteem as it was constantly reinforced in the home and wider society that boys were superior to boys thus causing them to underachieve in the education system. Feminists argue due to early socialisation this idea that they had hardly no control over their own lives were fabricated form the roots. Therefore they were more likely to view their success down to luck and fate whereas boys saw their success was down to their ability. Feminists argue that female s are likely to suffer from material deprivation then males from a very early age which yet again reinforces this inequality within the home and later in the school. However this is not the case anymore as evidence has shown that girls are doing beret then boys. One main reason in which this change has occurred is due to impact of feminism. Feminism is a social movement which strives for equal rights for women in all areas of life. Since the 1960’s, the feminist movement has challenged traditional roles which is associated with...
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...GARCIA, Ronance Adrian F. 24th November, 2013 4ABE Prof. Dimaculangan “Private Equity Today and Tomorrow” The industry of business in its entirety has undergone a number of changes both good and bad over the last century. From the limitless amount of credit people had in the 1920’s, to the great depression that soon followed, with the popularity of manufacturing in the industrial age, over to the advent of technology development after the second millennium, time has changed how we conduct and treat our businesses. No matter what circumstance, the only thing that seemed to remain constant in all businesses is the understanding that it cannot function without capital. And although the internet obliterated certain walls of businesses such as geographic restrictions and costly marketing expenses, businesses would still have the need for capital. The need for business capital now brings us to the question of its procurement. There are a number of ways in which the budding entrepreneur or business prodigy can do this but perhaps one of the most effective ways in seeking funds for a business is through private equity. Private equity or private equity funds is the combined effort of individuals in a certain organization seeking to pool in funds in order to finance high-risk and potentially high reward projects. In its initial years, the private equity industry was a rage all over the American market. Its origins could be traced within the lines...
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