旅游创意产品整体形象设计的区域文化个性解析

本文着重探讨区域文化对区域经济和产品品牌形象的建立及推广的意义,分析现代设计创新与区域特色产品品牌的文化个性化设计需求。开发多层次的文化旅游创意产品、树立特色鲜明的文化品牌形象提升旅游创意产品的文化品位。     

上海推动文化与科技深度融合研究

科技创新是增强文化产业核心竞争力的重要途径,文化与科技的深度融合是文化大发展、大繁荣的强大源动力。上海城市文化具有典型的融合性、创新性、开放性和多元性特征,这些特征决定了上海文化繁荣发展对于科技进步具有强烈的依赖性。上海打造国际文化大都市,迫切需要推动文化与科技融合互动,聚焦跨界融合关键领域,提升文化创意产业整体能级,培育龙头企业,创建拥有自主知识产权品牌,依托科技进步助推文化产业繁荣发展。     

浅析文化创意产品的内涵和外延

文化创意产业在全球范围快速发展,已成为很多国家经济发展的支柱和理论研究的热点.文化创意产品的内涵是指与一定民族和地区的文化背景相联系,源自个人才情、灵感或智慧,并通过产业化的方式进行生产、营销和消费的,满足人们精神需要和欲望的任何有形产品和无形服务.文化创意产品满足人们的精神需要可以从核心产品、形式产品、期望产品、延伸产品和潜在产品五个方面进行分析.文化创意产品的外延可以从国别和层次两个角度进行划分.各国应该根据本民族地区的文化特色和经济发展的现实需要,选择发展文化创意产业的目标和方式.文化创意产品按照层次划分,可以分为核心文化创意产品、外国文化创意产品和延伸文化创意产品三类.从营销学角度研究文化创意产品的内涵和外延,既具有很强的实践指导意义,又有积极的理论创新价值.     

“互联网+”时代吉林省创意农产品包装设计

作为国家重要农业大省,吉林省内各地分布着各类特色农产品,提升"互联网+"时代创意农业产品的包装设计,能有效打造高附加值的创意农业品牌。目前,吉林省创意农产品包装仍存在包装过度、保护功能差、缺乏文化特质、同质化及时代性不足等问题。创意农业产品包装设计应凸显地域特色,强化保护性能,重视符号设计,倡导低碳理念,满足人们高效便携需求,以更好地助推吉林创意农业在"互联网+"新兴业态的迅速发展。     

上海国际文化大都市建设评估报告

上海国际文化大都市建设仍存在一些基础性、结构性的问题有待解决.在文化生产领域,文化投入和文化管理、文化设施和文化品牌等方面需要进一步改善;在文化生活领域,文化多样性和文化活力、文化参与和文化教育需要进一步加强;在文化生态领域,民族气质和地方特色,文化产业政策制定的科学性、有效性、针对性和执行效率方面需要进一步强化和规范.     

天津市旅游产业与创意产业融合发展的创新思考

自1998年英国政府正式提出“创意经济”概念以来．发达国家和地区先后提出创意立国或以创意为基础的经济发展模式．发展创意产业被提到战略层面。对创意产业的界定．各国有着不同的定义，但都有三项共同的核心构成元素：以创意为产品内容，利用符号意义创造产品价值．知识产权受到保障。创意产业并非单指某一种产业，而是指一群在社会与文化发展的贡献上特性相符、具有相同经济发展与就业机会的潜力，并受到政府格外重视而被划分出来的产业类别。     

当代文学对城市文化品牌产业化建设的推进

城市的文化产业化需要建立有城市精神与地域特征的品牌产品,当代文学产业化因其具有的精神属性、创意属性、意识形态属性和多元辐射属性对于城市文化品牌的产业化具有品牌的塑造功能、传播功能和承接功能,因此要建立当代文学与城市文化品牌建设的产业化组织机制、产业化传播机制与产业化的调控机制。     

湖北长江经济带应大力发展创意农业

开发农业多种功能,把创意经济理念引入农业,发展创意农业,是发展现代农业的重要途径。农业是湖北长江经济带开发开发的基础,在长江经济带发展创意农业具有农业资源、文化科技以及综合基础设施的优势。要在长江经济带成功发展创意农业,则必须在完善创意农业政策、培育创意农业人才、树立现代发展理念、发展集体经济组织、优化农村发展环境、加强知识产权保护等方面做好工作。     

上海文化创意产业人才策略研究

上海文化创意产业发展的关键时期,人才问题愈加突出。在对上海文化创意产业人才发展基本情况调查的基础上,指出目前人才发展问题主要受认定机制、培养机制、知识产权保护机制、长效生活保障机制等几个方面的影响,上海应重视人才问题,不断创新人才发展策略,加大政策创新突破力度,为文化创意产业人才培养、发展创造良好环境,充分发挥其创意成果的转化、形成新的竞争优势、推动城市在"创新驱动、转型发展"中的独特作用。     

从国际创意城市的特征看中国创意城市的发展

随着经济全球化和文化多元化进程的深化,世界经济结构呈现出从"工业型经济"向"服务型经济"转化的趋势.在此转变过程中,融合传统文化与现代数字技术、生产性与消费性服务业的创意经济应运而生,创意(创新)成为经济发展的重要资源,创意经济已在国际上逐渐兴起,正成为现代经济的增长点.据统计,目前全世界创意经济每天创造的产值高达220亿美元,并以5%的速度递增.创意经济又叫创意产业,是源自个人创意、技巧及才华,通过知识产权的开发与利用,具有创造财富和就业潜力的活动,它包括广告、建筑、艺术、古董、手工艺、设计、时尚、电影、软件等诸多部门.     

Back and Forth and Beyond

The Journal invited Tom Andersen, author of major pioneering work on the reflecting team, and his colleagues, to offer comment on The Reflecting Team Process in Training. We thought such a north-south dialogue was in keeping with the spirit of reflecting teams, and the team members in Melbourne and Tromsø agree — Editor.     

Time and aging--mechanisms and meanings

A recent European Molecular Biology Laboratory Conference on Science and Society entitled "Time & Aging--Mechanisms & Meanings" fascinated scientists from different research areas as well as nonscientists. Topics discussed included not only the biological aging process but also the psychological effects of aging and social influences that affect this process.     

Arts and Crafts and Reconstruction

Abstract

This paper examines the role of arts and crafts in reconstructing communities after times of upheaval, their use in creating employment opportunities, and their impact on the nature of South African art history. It looks at craft initiatives during and after the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and draws parallels with early twentieth-century initiatives, particularly those of Florence Phillips, who founded the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1910, Emily Hobhouse, who established Boer home industries, and the South African National Union, which promoted the manufacture and use of local products.     

Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women

Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous research, the findings indicated that gay and bisexual men were significantly higher in SC when compared to lesbian and bisexual women. Similarly, sexually compulsive gay and bisexual men were more likely to report drug use with sex than their non-sexually compulsive peers, suggesting that “party n' play” may play a larger role for men with SC. In addition, the findings demonstrated empirical support for the proposition that lesbian and bisexual women with symptoms of SC were more likely to engage in specialized sexual behaviors in comparison to their non-sexually compulsive peers. These data suggest that SC manifests differently in gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women.     

Evening and night work schedules and children's social and emotional well-being

ABSTRACT

An emerging body of evidence shows that parents’ non-standard work schedules have a detrimental effect on children's well-being. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated mediating factors that underpin this association. Likewise, only a few studies have examined the impact of fathers’ non-standard work schedules on children's well-being. Based on data from the Families in Germany Study (FiD), this study aimed to address these research gaps. The sample consists of parents and their children at ages 7–8 and 9–10 (n?=?838 child observations in dual-earner families). The data were collected in the years 2010–2013. Non-standard work hours were defined as working in evenings and or at night (every day, several times a week, or changing as shifts). Children's social and emotional well-being was measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The findings show that both mothers’ and fathers’ evening and night work schedules are linked to an increase in children's externalizing and internalizing behavior and that this association is partially mediated by mothers’ and fathers’ harsh and strict parenting, with a stronger mediation effect for fathers parenting.     

Thinking and Speech and Protocol Analysis

Some form of verbal report—that is, a research participant' s concurrent or retrospective verbal account of thought processes during problem-solving activities—has been used throughout this century as the database from which psychologists have developed theories of human mentation. Newell and Simon (1972) and Ericsson and Simon (1980, 1993) have provided extensive justification for using one such method, protocol analysis, as a tool for investigating cognition from an information-processing (IP) perspective. Their arguments have characterized protocol analysis as a methodology capable of providing evidence of the ways in which people attend to information stored in short-term memory to solve problems, with the evidence providing them with the grounds from which to generate models of human cognitive processes. A different view of protocol analysis is available from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) based on the work of Vygotsky (1987), Leont'ev (1981), and others, and its concern with the mediation of human development by culturally and historically grounded signs and tools. Because of its emphasis on culturally channeled development, a CHAT perspective views speech, including the speech that serves as evidence for cognition in psychological research, as a tool that potentially enables changes in consciousness. In this article I outline a CHAT perspective that accounts for protocol analysis along three key dimensions: (a) the relation between thinking and speech from a representational standpoint, (b) the social role of speech in research methodology, and (c) the influence of speech on thinking during data collection. The purpose of this discussion is not to refute the IP perspective on protocol analysis but to illustrate how this method can be viewed through a CHAT lens and to identify alternative assumptions that must be made to use it from a CHAT perspective.     

History and the here and now

This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One feature of such changes has been the growth of gated communicates across the length and breadth of South Africa, but there are many more. One reason for their anonymity is that their evolution has been gradual and corpuscular, that they have become unconsciously familiar and are left unexamined. Another is our collective preoccupation with the metropolitan areas rather than the smaller localities where such processes are subterranean and confined. This paper presents very briefly some of the results of the researchers of the Local Histories and Present Realities programme over the past five years, in 19 separate centres. It examines the history and present circumstance of chiefdoms of Ga-Mphahlele and reveals the surprise finding that much of recent and contemporary politics revolve around events 200 years old. An analogous situation has arisen in Venda as well as in Mpumalanga and elsewhere, where a combination of new legislation to revive chiefly powers, and land reclamation legislation have lent a new legitimacy to chiefly powers, and inspired hundreds of phantom – and time-consuming – quests. Another massive development which has gone on around us but whose internal dynamics have never been observed is the rise of game hunting and ranching all over the interior of South Africa. This is a monster subject which is likely to have influence on all of our lives into which our group is now in a position to offer insights. A change of equal proportions is the rise of mining all over the interior Bushveld Igneous Complex – Mokopane is a good example of this and the huge social consequences this has brought in its wake. One final theme which embraces all the communities that we have studied is the local histories of transformation – collectively the most important – since 1994. This is almost entirely hidden to a wider world, including the transformed positions of local Indian residents.