scholarly journals Pedestrians and E-Scooters: An Initial Look at E-Scooter Parking and Perceptions by Riders and Non-Riders

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owain James ◽  
J Swiderski ◽  
John Hicks ◽  
Denis Teoman ◽  
Ralph Buehler
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Perceived Safety ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Since 2018, pedestrians in many U.S. cities have been sharing sidewalk space with dockless shared e-scooters. The introduction of e-scooters has received pushback from pedestrians. Complaints reported in the media include e-scooters blocking walkways and sidewalks when parked illegally as well as safety concerns from pedestrians who do not feel safe around moving e-scooters. However, little is known beyond a few initial studies on e-scooter parking and anecdotes about pedestrian perceptions of e-scooter safety. Our case study from Rosslyn, Virginia, helps shed light on these two issues. First, we conducted a survey of 181 e-scooter riders and non-riders asking about their perceived safety around riders of e-scooters and experiences of sidewalks blocked by e-scooters. We found highly divergent responses about safety and sidewalk blocking perceptions from riders and non-riders. Second, we conducted an observational study of 606 parked e-scooters along three mixed-use corridors in Rosslyn to investigate the relationship between the built environment and e-scooter parking. We found that 16% of 606 observed e-scooters were not parked properly and 6% (36 e-scooters) were blocking pedestrian right-of-way. Moreover, our survey showed that e-scooter trips in Rosslyn replaced trips otherwise taken by Uber, Lyft, or a taxi (39%), foot (33%), bicycle (12%), bus (7%), or car (7%).

scholarly journals Exploring Spatiotemporal Variation in Hourly Metro Ridership at Station Level: The Influence of Built Environment and Topological Structure

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuangbin Shi ◽  
Ning Zhang ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Wei Xu
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Topological Structure ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Closeness Centrality ◽  
Spatiotemporal Variation ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Structure Factors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Best Fit

Reliable and accurate estimates of metro demand can provide metro authorities with insightful information for the planning of route alignment and station locations. Many existing studies focus on metro demand from daily or annual ridership profiles, but only a few concern the variation in hourly ridership. In this paper, a geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) model was used to examine the spatial and temporal variation in the relationship between hourly ridership and factors related to the built environment and topological structure. Taking Nanjing, China as a case study, an empirical study was conducted with automatic fare collection (AFC) data in three weeks. With an analysis of variance (ANOVA), it was found that the GTWR model produced the best fit for hourly ridership data compared with traditional regression models. Four built-environment factors, namely residence, commerce, scenery, and parking, and two topological-structure factors, namely degree centrality and closeness centrality, were proven to be significantly related to station-level ridership. The spatial distribution pattern and temporal nonstationarity of these six variables were further analyzed. The result of this study confirmed that the GTWR model can provide more realistic and useful information by capturing spatiotemporal heterogeneity.

scholarly journals The Vienna New Years Concert as a media phenomenon

New Sound ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Marija Maglov
Keyword(s):  
Media Representation ◽  
Television Network ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

This paper is aimed at drawing attention to the problem of the media representation of artistic music, through the case study of the television broadcast of the New Year's Concert in Vienna. The text contains a brief historic summary of the concert and its broadcast within the European television network, Eurovision. Using this year's broadcast (2013) as an example, certain aspects are marked that potentially represent a starting point for further interpretations of the New Year's Concert and, generally, the relationship between artistic music and media.

scholarly journals Media innovation and social impact: the case of living documentaries

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Frédéric Dubois
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Field Trip ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Internal Production

This scholarly essay discusses one particular form of documentary production: interactive documentary. It does so in the larger context of media innovation research. Its main aim is to shed light on how those thinking and creating living documentaries define and frame social impact. The thesis behind this essay is, that contrary to media innovation happening within the paradigm of what scholars and practitioners call the ‘media industries’ - which are largely tributary to capitalist impact criteria, living documentary producers are mainly driven by the potential social impact that their work might have. By presenting and analysing the living documentary Field Trip (2019), a project in which I assumed a combined role of practitioner-researcher, I offer a case study that illustrates and tests my assumptions. I complement my observations within the case study with interviews and other practices. My findings indicate that from a media production perspective, the impact expectations of those making living documentaries can loosely be as associated with a commons-based production paradigm. Yet, producers of these documentaries constantly need to renegotiate and compromise on their social impact expectations because of internal production affordances and the (external) dominance of the ‘media industries’ paradigm.

scholarly journals Diversity in the relationship between low and upland society in mountainous Southeast Asia

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-63
Author(s):  
Shinsuke Tomita
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

The mountainous areas of mainland Southeast Asia have been an area of interest for researchers for decades. The mountains are located in a region that stretches out to the southern and western parts of China and encompasses different ethnic groups, forming a unique political, historical, social and cultural space. Associate Professor Shinsuke Tomita, Asian Satellite Campuses Institute, Nagoya University, Japan, is exploring the relationship between lowland and upland society in mountainous Southeast Asia, as well as investigating how agricultural productivity can be understood in the context of culture and society. In previous studies, researchers have surmised that interactions between the two societies are one of the key drivers behind the region's formation. An example of this is wet rice farming, which is regarded as the source of political power of the chieftains of the region due to its higher agricultural productivity. As such, researchers have been prompted to better understand the political power derived from wet rice farming and rethink lowland and upland relationships. From a case study in northern Laos, Tomita and the team shed light on relationships that cannot be explained by agricultural productivity. The researchers have also unearthed interesting findings relating to the power of the chieftain, including that the wet rice fields owned by the chieftain are not necessarily larger than other villagers and the power of the chieftain is likely unstable.

scholarly journals Enterprise Crowdsourcing and Organizational Culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ada Scupola ◽  
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Innovation Culture ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Cultural Determinants ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Although enterprise crowdsourcing systems that aim to harness the collective intelligence of employees for innovation purposes are proliferating, little is known about how they may impact organisations and their culture. To shed light on this problem, this paper conducts a case study to investigate an engineering consultancy's efforts to implement an internal crowdsourcing as part of an effort to change the innovation culture of the organisation. Taking the starting point in the literature on the relationship between IT and organisational culture and enterprise crowdsourcing, this paper underscores the interplay between innovation culture and information technology. The study finds that enterprise crowdsourcing systems can contribute to small changes of the innovation culture of an organisation along several cultural determinants, including behaviours that encourage innovation, communication and knowledge sharing, employees' relationships, support mechanisms, and strategy.

scholarly journals Shifting Perceptions of Orient and Occident in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Travel Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Ibrahem Almarhaby
Keyword(s):  
Travel Literature ◽  
Pure Gold ◽  
The Political ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

This study investigates the relationship between the Eastern Self and the Western Other by focusing on the influence of the French Other on the ideology of the Arab Self in modern Arabic travel literature. As a case study, the analysis has been conducted on Takhlīṣ al-Ibriz fī Talkhīṣ Paris [‘The extraction of pure gold in the abridgement of Paris’]. The 19th century, from which this source originates, is considered to be significant in terms of distinguishing modern travelogue literature from that of the medieval period, where the image of the Western Other in Arabs’ imagination dramatically changed due to colonialism. As one of the richest and most open approaches in textual analysis, the study adopts the thematic approach to shed light on the extent to which the ideological impact of the Other on the political, religious, civil and social domains of the Self can be seen in this wide-ranging travel source. The study infers that al-Ṭahṭāwī was greatly ideologically impacted by West in all of the allocated domains, as can be seen clearly in his comprehensive comparisons, descriptions and explanations. This influence is indeed what distinguishes this modern travelogue literature from the medieval ones.

Textualisation of the Domestic Self: Hildagonda Duckitt’s Autobiographical Cookbook

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Crous ◽  
Alan Murdoch
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
British Empire ◽  
White Women ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
The Media ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Hilda’s Diary of a Cape Housekeeper (1902), by Hildagonda Duckitt, is an example of culinary literature and essentially a diary of life in the Cape at the time (one that includes recipes, notes on gardening, etc.). This text is investigated in this article with the aim of examining the responsibilities of women with respect to food, food preparation and the kitchen, the depiction of men with respect to food, its preparation and the eating thereof, and the influence of class and the ethnicity of the author’s intended audience. The article notes how these responsibilities have changed over time, particularly with regard to their content and appearance, as well as discusses the relationship between cookbooks and men. Cookbooks have become a mainstream subject of academic study, of popular culture and the media, not least of all for the insights that they provide about gender (especially in terms of the division of labour), ethnicity and culture, and while they have traditionally been aimed at white women, this is no longer always the case. Such gender issues are the primary focus of this article. The context of the book, namely South Africa under British colonial rule during the late 1800s and early 1900s, is also considered in order to shed light on the questions of ethnicity and culture. Duckitt’s affinity for the British Empire is explored, as well as her views about the indigenous people of South Africa, their roles with respect to food, and their place in the colonial home. Lastly, the article takes stock of Duckitt’s voracious appetite for new knowledge and its production, despite the patriarchy of the time.

Ethics, Wearable Technology, and Higher Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 1581-1596
Author(s):  
Marcia Alesan Dawkins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Wearable Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Google Glass ◽  
Interactive Instruction ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Communication Culture ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter explores the relationship between ethics, wearable technology, and higher education through the lens of teaching with Google Glass. Beginning with an introduction to Glass and to the contemporary concept of the digital citizen, the chapter traces out a pedagogical framework aimed at preparing learners to embrace their civic duty to contribute to the virtual world responsibly. Continuing with an investigation of ethical obligations, educational concepts, and learning exercises made available by advances in HET, the chapter describes how to use Google Glass as a case study for examining the limits and possibilities of a new point-of-view angle on interactive instruction. To this end, students' project-based and experiential learning about how Glass impacts communication culture and technology, commerce, security, access, etiquette, branding, ethics, and law is described. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how technology's ethical consciousness continues to be enacted and embodied via a “collusive” point-of-view angle and third voice that shed light on the ongoing rhetorical and pedagogical processes of expression, experience, and identification in the digital age.

scholarly journals Journalists and Olympic Athletes: A Norwegian Case Study of an Ambivalent Relationship

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Kristiansen ◽  
Dag Vidar Hanstad
Keyword(s):  
Constant Stress ◽  
The Other ◽  
Inside Information ◽  
Olympic Athletes ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

This case study explores the relationship between media and sport. More specifically, it examines the association (i.e., the contact and communication) between Norwegian journalists and athletes during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada. Ten athletes and three journalists were interviewed about their relationship. To regulate and improve the journalist–athlete relationship during special events like the Olympics, media rules have been formulated. In regard to the on-site interactions, they accepted that they are working together where one was performing and the other reporting the event “back home.” While the best advice is to be understanding of the journalists’ need for stories and inside information, the media coverage was perceived as a constant stress factor for the athletes. However, because of the media rules the athletes were able to keep their distance but one athlete did comment: “You will not survive if you take it personally.”

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