Georg Lukács as a Communications Scholar: Cultural and Digital Labour in the Context of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being

The task of this work is to apply thoughts from Georg Lukács’ final book, the Ontology of Social Being, for the theoretical analysis of cultural and digital labour. It discusses Lukács’ concepts of work and communication and relates them to the analysis of cultural and digital work. It also analyses his conception of the relation of labour and ideology and points out how we can make use of it for critically understanding social media ideologies. Lukács opposes the dualist separation of the realms of work and ideas. He introduces in this context the notion of teleological positing that allows us to better understand cultural and digital labour as well as associated ideologies, such as the engaging/connecting/sharing-ideology, today. The analysis shows that Lukács’ Ontology is in the age of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter still a very relevant book, although it has thus far not received the attention that it deserves. This article also introduces the Ontology’s main ideas on work and culture, which is important because large parts of the book have not been translated from the German original into English. Lukács’ notion of teleological positing is crucial for understanding the common features of the economy and culture.

Reflections Upon the Experience of Longitudinal Research into Cultural Event Production in a Developing Destination

Longitudinal studies have the capacity to provide more nuanced explanations of tourism and event phenomena, taking account of complexity, change and context. This paper is a self-reflexive, methodological study of research practice. It investigates my experience of engaging with cultural event producers in an emerging destination over a seven-year period. Focussing on my research journey, it considers the social and relational dynamics associated with longitudinal research. Reciprocal relations and co-production of cultural events reveal nuanced information and expose fluid relationships and networks. Long-term engagement uncovers evolving practices and develops understanding of event processes embedded within their wider context.

Global nation product equity depending on a level of cultural diffusion

Purpose This paper aims to propose the global nation product equity model (GNPE) to measure global consumers’ equity of a product that a country produces, especially a nation’s cultural products (i.e. culducts). The model also examines the significant difference of GNPE depending on a cultural diffusion level. GNPE model proposes that depending on the level of people’s recognition/acceptance/preference of a culture from another country (i.e. cultural diffusion level), the equity of a product from that country could be different in different countries. As variables that affect GNPE, global nation product equity in general, global nation product equity of a product category and nation cultural equity are included in the model. Design/methodology/approach To test the model, this study developed Hallyu (Korean cultural diffusion)-related Korean culducts and measured global consumers’ equity for the Korean culducts. In all, 351 surveys were collected from China, France, England and the USA. Findings The results show the significantly different equities and relationships among equities depending on the level of Hallyu diffusion in each country. Therefore, Korea is suggested to focus on different equities in different countries. Originality/value This research proposed a new model that extends the previous brand equity models to non-branded products (i.e. cultural products). This model proposed new variables that affect equity of a product mentioned above and suggests different equities to improve in different countries depending on their level of cultural diffusion. Also, this cross-cultural study suggests a direction of culduct design, distribution and promotion strategies in the global market.

A Social Institutionalist Perspective on HR Diffusion: Histrorical and Cultural Receptivity to HRM in a Post-Comminist Context

This research considers cross-national diffusion of international human resource management (IHRM) ideas and practices by applying an emergent frame of sociological conceptualisation – ‘social institutionalism’ (SI). We look at cultural filters to patterns of diffusion, assimilation and adoption of IHRM, using Romania as a case study. The paper considers the former Communist system of employment relations, suggesting that through institutionalisation former ways of thinking continued to influence definitions and practice of people management in post-Communist Eastern Europe. The paper provides a new perspective on HRM by discussing the value of SI as a general model for understanding cross-cultural receptivity to HR ideas, sensitising the HR practitioner and academic to institutionalised culture as a historical legacy influencing receptivity to international management ideas.

Elaboração de um plano de marketing cultural para o Museu de Marinha

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social para obtenção de grau de mestre em Publicidade e Marketing.

Market impact of international sporting and cultural events

We study market reaction to the announcements of the selected country hosting the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, the World Football Cup, the European Football Cup and World and Specialized Exhibitions. We generalize previous results analyzing a large number and different types of mega-events, evaluate the effects for winning and losing countries, investigate the determinants of the observed market reaction and control for the ex ante probability of a country being a successful bidder. Average abnormal returns measured at the announcement date and around the event are not significantly different from zero. Further, we find no evidence supporting that industries, that a priori were more likely to extract direct benefits from the event, observe positive significant effects. Yet, when we control for anticipation, the stock price reactions around the announcements are significant.

Som, sentido e paisagem sonora n'A cidade e as serras: análise de uma reportagem radiofónica

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Jornalismo.

Cão de Fila de S. Miguel : património cultural imaterial

Dissertação de Mestrado, Património, Museologia e Desenvolvimento, 2 de Outubro de 2015, Universidade dos Açores.

Reabilitação energética de um edifício de índole cultural: Centro Cultural de Belém

Dissertação de Natureza Científica para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil na Área de Especialização de Edificações

Constructing Cultural Policies in Romania. A possible model for communicating the national value system

The premise of this paper is that a model for communicating the national value system must start from a strategy aimed at the identification, the cultivation and communication of values that give consistency to the value system. The analysis concentrates on the elements of such strategies and on the implications of applying a value communication program on the identity architecture of the community. The paper will also discuss the role of the national value system in the context of the emerging global culture, where the individual has the power to create his/her own hybrid cultural model.

Recordações de Vandelli: Literatura e história nas viagens filosóficas de Portugal pelo Brasil

O confronto entre certas criações ficcionais e a dinâmica da colonização nos leva a diversos campos disciplinares. Se a história registrou o intenso intercâmbio de mercadorias e idéias que ocorreu entre Portugal e Brasil, a partir da descoberta do Novo Mundo, a literatura revisitou e recriou esse passado. É o que se constata na obra do escritor brasileiro João Guimarães Rosa, em que articulando a realidade e a imaginação, a natureza e o homem, o regional e o universal, o escritor de perfil naturalista ilumina a linguagem da História e da Ciência pela Arte. Com relação às expedições científicas portuguesas pelo Brasil, a história relata que, na segunda metade do século XVIII, Portugal impulsionou a elaboração de um projeto de confecção de uma História Natural, tendo como espaço de criação cultural a Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa. Esse empreendimento, no entanto, não teria sido possìvel sem as ―viagens imaginárias‖ do intelectual Domenico Agostino Vandelli, correspondente de Lineu e um dos principais articuladores da política portuguesa dirigida às colônias. Assim, instruídos conforme o livro Viagens filosóficas ou dissertações sobre as importantes regras que o filósofo naturalista nas suas peregrinações deve principalmente observar, alunos da Universidade de Coimbra, onde Vandelli era professor de História Natural e Química, são preparados para explorar as colônias ultramarinas. Em meio à produção literária de Guimarães Rosa, destacamos o conto ―O recado do morro‖, do livro Corpo de baile, lançado em 1956, para um paralelo com a História. Nessa ficção, um narrador conta a estória de uma pitoresca expedição, formada por moradores de um vilarejo, contratados por um viajante alemão, que percorre o interior do estado de Minas Gerais. Região de grutas, minerais, vegetação de cerrado (com diversidade em espécies comestíveis e medicinais), de fazendas de gado, animais em perigo de extinção e homens sábios do sertão, é com o uso dessa enigmática paisagem, que o escritor vai moldar o seu ―recado‖. Através de um estudo comparado entre os ideais naturalistas de Vandelli (evidentes nas correspondências trocadas com Lineu e nas Instruções aos viajantes) e do escritor Guimarães Rosa (expresso de forma ficcional), destacamos a necessidade de se resgatar, nos dias atuais, seus trabalhos, como forma de se propor uma nova relação do homem com o meio ambiente. Nós, de fato, reconhecemos que Deus todo-poderoso escreveu dois livros, a natureza e a revelação [...] (Lineu, 1765) O confronto entre certas criações ficcionais e a dinâmica da colonização nos leva a percorrer interessantes caminhos da História, da Literatura e das Ciências da Natureza. Se a história registrou o intenso intercâmbio de produtos e idéias, que ocorreu entre Portugal e Brasil, via Atlântico, a partir da descoberta do Novo Mundo, alguns escritores do Modernismo brasileiro revisitaram e recriaram esse passado. No que se refere às expedições científicas portuguesas pelo Brasil, o historiador Oswaldo Munteal Filho lembra que, na segunda metade do século XVIII, Portugal impulsionou a elaboração de um projeto de confecção de uma História Natural de suas colônias, tendo como espaço de criação cultural e reflexiva a Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa. Esse empreendimento, no entanto, não teria sido possìvel sem as ―viagens imaginárias‖ do intelectual ilustrado Domenico Agostino Vandelli, um dos principais articuladores da política portuguesa dirigida às colônias no âmbito da Academia. Segundo seu pensamento, era preciso munir os naturalistas com ferramentas capazes de desvendar um Brasil desconhecido do ponto de vista da ciência e ainda intocado quanto às potencialidades de seus elementos naturais. Portanto, o olhar do naturalista deveria passar, primeiro, pelo utilitário: as virtudes das plantas medicinais, os usos dos gêneros exóticos, o aproveitamento do reino animal e mineral e a fertilidade das extensas terras. Reordenar a Natureza, não mais de forma alegórica, mas através da observação e experiência figurava-lhe como medida necessária e urgente. A par disso e instruídos conforme o livro Viagens filosóficas ou dissertações sobre as importantes regras que o filósofo naturalista, nas suas peregrinações, deve principalmente observar, alunos da Universidade de Coimbra, onde Vandelli era professor de História Natural e Química, são preparados para explorar as colônias ultramarinas (p. 483-518).

Cultural organizations and communication in portuguese decentralization policy

This paper intends to show the Portuguese municipalities’ commitment, since the first decade of this century, in cultural facilities of municipal management and how it provided 12 of the 18 district capitals of mainland Portugal with cultural equipment, but after all we want to know if this effort resulted in a regular, diverse, and innovative schedule. Investing in urban regeneration, local governments have tried to convert cities’ demographic changes (strengthening of the most educated and professionally qualified groups) in effective cultural demands that consolidate the three axes of development competitiveness-innovation-creativity. What the empirical study to the programming and communication proposals of those equipment shows is that it is not enough to provide cities with facilities; to escape to a utilitarian conception of culture, there is a whole work to be done so that such equipment be experienced and felt as new public sphere. Equipment in which proposals go through a fluid bind, constructed through space and discourse with local community, devoted a diversified and innovative bet full filling development axis. This paper presents in a systematic way what contributes to this binding on the analyzed equipment.

Cultural organizations and communication in portuguese decentralization policy

This presentation intends to show to what extent the Portuguese municipalities’ commitment, from the first decade of this century, in cultural facilities of municipal management and which has provided 12 of the 18 district capitals of mainland Portugal with equipment, resulted in a regular, diverse and innovative schedule. Investing in urban regeneration, local government has tried to convert cities’ demographic changes (strengthening of the most educated and professionally qualified groups) in effective cultural demands that consolidate the three axes of development competitiveness-innovation-creativity. What the empirical study to the programming and communication proposals of those equipment shows is that it is not enough to provide cities with facilities; to escape to a utilitarian conception of culture, there is a whole work to be done so that such equipment be experienced and felt as new public sphere. Equipment in which proposals go through a fluid bind, constructed through space and discourse with local community, devotes a diversified and innovative bet full filling development axis. This paper presents in a systematic way what contributes to this binding on the analyzed equipment.