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Massarani, Luisa, Rosicler Neves, Graziele Scalfi, Antero Vinícius Portela Firmino Pinto, Carla Almeida, Luis Amorim, Marina Ramalho, et al. "The Role of Mediators in Science Museums: An Analysis of Conversations and Interactions of Brazilian Families in Free and Mediated Visits to an Interactive Exhibition on Biodiversity." International Journal of Research in Education and Science 8, no. 2 (May 22, 2022): 328–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.46328/ijres.2636.
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The social interactions that take place in science museums, whether between family members or with mediators, are recognized as essential to visitors’ experience. However, there is still little empirical research in the Brazilian context on how families interact and converse on visits to science museums – and even less on the role of the mediator in the museum experience. In this exploratory study, the authors analyze the social interactions of families in an interactive exhibition on biodiversity: “Forest of the Senses”, at the Museum Science and Life (Brazil), characterized by having one of the lowest human well-being indicators in the country. In particular, the authors analyzed the ways in which the presence of human mediation influenced the experience of family visits to the exhibit. Video and audio of ten low-income families' visits were recorded and analyzed using a protocol based on social interactions that take place in museums. Results show that human mediation did not influence the amount or types of visitor-exhibit interactions or the amount of time spent at the exhibit, but increased the amount of conversation time among the groups, including the amount of time discussing science content, thus providing insights into mediator training and qualification.
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Strepetova, Marina, and Jordi Arcos-Pumarola. "Literary heritage in museum exhibitions: Identifying its main challenges in the European context." Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo 8, no. 3 (September 2020): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.46284/mkd.2020.8.3.5.
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Literary heritage presents a dialectic relationship between tangible and intangible elements. This complex duality presents challenges for curators, who must try to communicate this immaterial essence through the exhibition language. This article, structured on a two-phase research process, aims to identify the main challenges for literary heritage valorisation and communication in the museum context. First, interviews with specialists in literary heritage and museology from Catalonia and Russia were carried out to identify the main issues to be considered when designing a literary heritage exhibition and managing a literary heritage centre. Second, the websites of three renowned literary European museums were analysed to inspect whether and how these aspects are tackled by these museums and presented to their potential visitors. Results show that, firstly, the duality of literary heritage is vital in the designing of the exhibition; and secondly, that concepts such as human mediation, literary tourism, and promotion are important in finding new strategies to communicate and visibilise literary heritage intangible meanings.
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Arriaga, Amaia, and Imanol Aguirre. "Museum-university collaboration to renew mediation in art and historical heritage. The case of the Museo de Navarra." Arte, Individuo y Sociedad 32, no. 4 (July 23, 2020): 989–1008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/aris.66295.
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We present an action research project in which a university and a regional museum of art and historical heritage collaborate. The objective of this project has been to design and develop a mediation plan and its interpretation resources. First, a description is provided of the historical context of the debate regarding the educational function of the museum and mediation actions for the interpretation of art. Next, we present the theoretical principles on which our approach to mediation in museums is based and explain the two phases of the action research project. Initially, an investigation of the mediation tools offered by the museum is carried out. Next, a description is provided of how the conclusions drawn are materialized in the “All Art is Contemporary” project that renews part of the permanent exhibition and that offers accessible, rigorous, pluralistic and stimulating mediation/interpretation resources (gallery text, museum labels, etc.) that allow visitors to participate in the discourse that the museum proposes, turning it into a site of social interaction, a negotiation of meaning and an encounter between different sensibilities and identities. In short, it is a tool for continuous and critical civic education.
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Sousa do Nascimento, Silvania. "The human body on Exhibit: promoting socio-cultural mediations in a science museum." Journal of Science Communication 07, no. 04 (December 19, 2008): C05. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.07040305.
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This paper discusses three mediation concept approaches and, consequently, three facets of mediator action. The approaches presented start with a bibliographical review of the concept of mediation present in education and scientific communication studies. These approaches serve as a basis for interpreting a semi-directive interview with the director of the Museum of Morphological Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). They also help us reflect on the complexity of organizing the objectives of a museum action that takes into account the transformational role of the meaning of objects in interaction with different socio-cultural subjects. In conclusion, the museum's purpose in organizing a museum action using socio-cultural mediation approach and with the mediator as a passeur libre among exhibit objects and visitors is highlighted.
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Ilinskaya, N. I. "ART MEDIATION IN RUSSIA AND FRANCE: GENERAL AND DIFFERENCES." Arts education and science 1, no. 4 (2020): 149–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.36871/hon.202004019.
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The article discusses the phenomenon of art mediation. The relevance of this problem is due to the fact that the concept of art mediation, or "museum as a cultural mediator", is relatively new in Russia. It is mainly adopted in our country by contemporary art museums, often nonstate. At the same time, in a number of countries around the world, and especially in France, the concept of art mediation (médiation culturelle), or "museum-mediator", firmly rooted in museum practice, in the legal field, as well as in university education and training, practically forcing out the more familiar for Russia term "museum pedagogics" (pédagogie muséale). In this regard, it is important to think about and understand the French experience in this field and how it can be applied in the Russian context, outside the still relatively small sphere of private and contemporary art museums, where this experience is already being applied.
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Kliuchko, Yuliia. "MEDIATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE MODERN MUSEUM." CULTURE AND ARTS IN THE MODERN WORLD, no. 21 (July 10, 2020): 81–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2410-1915.21.2020.208238.
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Dubois, Arnaud. "How to understand engineering sciences with the techniques of the body: The case of the bridges collection of the Musée des Arts et Métiers explained by circus acrobatics." Social Science Information 56, no. 2 (April 13, 2017): 254–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018417697387.
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In this article, I will examine an experimental mediation performed by acrobats at the Paris Musée des Arts et Métiers in May 2016. I will ask if body techniques can facilitate the public’s understanding of the abstract engineering sciences exhibited in a science and technology museum. Using the ethnographic study of this performance, I will ask if this new type of museum mediation opens up new research issues about technical gestures and helps us to blur boundaries between tangible and intangible heritage in the museum context. In doing so I try to redeploy the methods of analysis of museum collections and to contribute to the theoretical and methodological renewal of the history of technology. I show that this new way to mediate science and technology museum collections using body techniques and gestures produces a methodological indistinctness between intentionality and contingency that often marks the epistemological break between art, technology and science in western culture. This anthropological way of looking at museums of science and technology opens up new research issues not only for the museum’s scientific and technical heritage but also for the history of science and techniques.
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Kuklinova, Irina A. "CULTURAL MEDIATION: HISTORY AND CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE TERM." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie, no. 41 (2021): 240–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22220836/41/21.
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This paper discusses the history of the use and specific understanding of one of the new museology terms – mediation. The terms of museology as an academic and university discipline still need perfecting, and this is vividly manifested in the use and treatment of the notion of mediation. The term originated in the French-speaking world, and it entered the Russian language in the 2010s. Currently, it is being developed by theoreticians and is also often used by practical workers describing the experience of a museum’s interaction with the surrounding world, there is training in this field for a master’s degree in many higher educational establishments in France (over 1,000 graduates every year). It has been noted that mediation is becoming urgent when a museum finally stops being an “ivory tower” focused on its inner life and opened for an exclusive circle of the initiated. In the second half of the 20th century, the museum turned into an institution opened to the general public. In recent decades, society has been deeply transformed, and cultural institutions in this environment can and should play a special role. Society views them as significant public spaces capable of being a place supporting a certain number of values, inherited from previous generations, and establishing new common values. At the same time, changes in society have touched museums as cultural institutions. They were significantly updated, and a new communicative strategy determined by the term mediation replaced traditional forms of working with visitors. Interactions of the museum with society are becoming more socially focused. And the original understanding of a mediator’s importance as an arbitrator dealing with irreconcilable conflicts, harmonizing the dialogue between individuals and organizations plays an important role in this environment in comprehending the special features of intermediary functions traditional for museums in the context of museum items, individual visitors, and various communities. Various forms of cultural mediation both inside the museum and beyond it are reviewed. They are intended for big audiences and single functions if they are such popular parts of events in modern society. Or they are focused on the long-term interaction of a museum with a limited circle. They can be both the traditional for a museum’s educational services audience (e.g. children) and previously marginalized population groups (convicts, migrants), with whom the museum had had no dialogue in the past.
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Rasteli, Alessandro. "Mediação Cultural no contexto Francês trajetória histórica e evolução." Páginas a&b Arquivos & Bibliotecas 16 (2021): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21836671/pag16a5.
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In contemporary logics, the concept of mediation gains prominence by its centrality in social interactions and symbolic mediations, becoming understood as an inherent process in all the work of the information professional. In view of this, the goal is to describe the trajectory of cultural mediation in France, observing its emergence, historyand evolution. The study hasa qualitative approach, of descriptive type, adopting the bibliographical research method. At first, cultural mediation was associated with book mediators and museum environments. Currently, its emergence in the French context is associated tocultural and artistic issues between information and culture and public institutions in order to reduce social fractures marked by social exclusion.
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Sidoli del Ceno, Julian. "Compulsory mediation: civil justice, human rights and proportionality." International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 6, no. 3 (October 7, 2014): 286–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlbe-09-2013-0036.
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Purpose – This purpose of this paper is to critically examine jurisprudentially the current judicial and academic scepticism that exists in some quarters with regard to compulsory mediation primarily from the context of England and Wales. In doing so, it seeks to respond to well-articulated and established concerns with regard to any compulsion in mediation as outlined by Hazel Genn among others as well as some senior members of the judiciary. Design/methodology/approach – This paper seeks to critically examine jurisprudentially the current judicial and academic scepticism that exists in some quarters with regard to compulsory mediation primarily from the context of England and Wales. In doing so, it seeks to respond to well-articulated and established concerns with regard to any compulsion in mediation as outlined by Hazel Genn among others as well as some senior members of the judiciary. Findings – This paper argues that the worries concerning compulsory mediation are unnecessary as they are based on a narrow reading of Article 6 rights, one not shared by many European lawyers, in particular the view taken by them with regards to proportionality. It further argues that compulsory mediation can be an appropriate, proportionate method of dispute resolution in some cases recognising that mediation is not a bar per se to subsequent litigation. Originality/value – Mediation is an important topic in contemporary law. The theoretical and jurisprudential aspects of mediation have as yet been underdeveloped. This paper is a contribution to this developing debate.
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Cieślak, Jan Piotr, Wiktoria Kozioł, and Magdalena Kunińska. "„Cały świat – samo życie”. Rola materii w malarstwie Tadeusza Kantora w latach 1945–1964." Artium Quaestiones, no. 29 (May 7, 2019): 121–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/aq.2018.29.5.
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The topic of the paper is the idea of matter in Tadeusz Kantor’s painting after World War II, including metaphorical painting, the informel, and the painting of the matter (1945-1964). The artist defined matter as an indeterminate, universal foundation which is a vehicle of the attributes of all that can be perceived by the senses, both animate bodies and inanimate things. A starting point are Kantor’s own texts – his notes and publications reflecting particular stages of his artistic evolution, critical essays on art, as well as later statements referring to the period under scrutiny. The present analysis is an attempt to find out whether Kantor’s postulates were really reflected in his art. Its main goal is to reconstruct his line of reasoning concerning matter and focus on the activities rooted in his theories, which is why contemporary reception and interpretations of his painting have not been taken into account. The frame of reference includes philosophical and artistic ideas known to Kantor or available to the artistic circles of the period. The text has been divided into four parts corresponding to particular stages of the artist’s development: (1) 1945-1947, when Kantor was trying to find ways of artistic expression beyond traditional topics of painting, such as the human figure, (2) 1947-1954, the metaphorical period, when, as a result of his visit to the Palais de la Découverte, he tried to represent the world invisible to the eye, (3) 1955-1959, the informelperiod, when paint became for him an equivalent of the matter, a synecdoche, one substance symbolizing all of it, and (4) 1958-1964, painting of the matter, when he kept using also other substances added to paint and chose a “concrete” approach to the painting’s meaning. The authors argue that over the first two decades following World War II Kantor succeeded in creating a new kind of painting, corresponding to the present, in which matter was to be dominant. To achieve that goal, for many years he was experimenting with different ways of representing matter – its ruling forces and principles. His initial existential observations, which challenged the uniqueness of humans in the universe, were later supplemented by shocking contact with science at the Paris Museum of Inventions. In the next decade, Kantor stopped making references to science and accepted process as a basic method of reaching the ontological foundation of the world, i.e. “matter.” His art was no longer “production,” but turned into “action.” At the last stage under consideration, he decided that the painting must not present signs referring to reality beyond it. He rejected the idea of painting as illusion and mediation, claiming that the matter of art is concrete, that it becomes “what it is.”
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Ruiz-Funes, Concepción Ruiz. "Mediation within science centres and museums. The guides of Universum, México." Journal of Science Communication 07, no. 04 (December 19, 2008): C04. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.07040304.
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The creation of a scientific culture through the experiences that can be offered in a museum is the central theme in the training of guides at Universum. Emphasising the social importance of science democratisation, providing the public with the chance to enjoy science itself, conceiving it as a human creation of extreme beauty, giving it the chance to be appreciated and enjoyed, presenting it from the different fields where an approach to it is possible, is something difficult to achieve outside a science museum and impossible without the intervention of the anfitriones.
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Coggburn, Jerrell D., Dennis M. Daley, Jessica Katz Jameson, and RaJade M. Berry-James. "Assessing the Six-Factor Model of Organizational Justice in the Context of Workplace Mediation." Review of Public Personnel Administration 40, no. 3 (December 12, 2018): 355–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734371x18816758.
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Applying the six-factor model of organizational justice, this study examines the relationship between disputants’ (i.e., grievants and respondents) perceptions of organizational justice and satisfaction with workplace mediation. Using secondary data, collected postmediation from participants in the (former) North Carolina Department of Correction’s (DOC) mediation process, the findings show that perceptions of organizational justice and mediation satisfaction are high for both grievants and, especially, respondents. Logistic regression results find statistically significant relationships between mediation satisfaction and three factors of organizational justice—distributive justice, procedural justice–process, and disputant–disputant interpersonal justice—as well as unexpected results for procedural justice–mediator and disputant–mediator interpersonal justice.
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Hrynko, Yana. "Explication of "places/museums of conscience" in the context of memory culture." National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts Herald, no. 2 (September 17, 2021): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.32461/2226-3209.2.2021.239940.
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The purpose of the article is to analyze the role and place of “museum of conscience” in modern politics of memory and cultural space. The methodology is based on a comprehensive study of a wide range of museum expositions (interviews, reports, museum projects, reviews of museum collections, etc.) and generalization of the obtained material to identify current trends in the development of "museums of conscience" in the context of memory culture. Scientific novelty. On the example of specific museum research institutions (the Sixth District Museum in Cape Town, the Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, USA), the Museum of Military Childhood in Sarajevo, etc.) for the first time in Ukrainian historiography, their contribution to the process of deeper study of crimes of the past and its reflection in modern politics of memory and cultural space is analyzed. Conclusions: Places of conscience are museums, memorials, and other historical places, which aim not only to preserve memory but also to stimulate people’s conscience. While working with a visitor, they prefer forms that contribute to the involvement of a visitor in discussion and dialogue. The museum exhibit serves as a safe place to discuss sharp issues and reconcile conflicting parties in society. The museum collection and the results of its research are distributed in order to stimulate the human conscience. The task of the museums is not only to preserve the memory about the crimes of the past but also to provide an opportunity for a visitor to establish a connection between this past and today’s struggle for human rights.
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Varela, Teresa, Odete Palaré, and Sofia Menezes. "The Enhancement of Creative Collaboration through Human Mediation." Education Sciences 10, no. 12 (November 24, 2020): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci10120347.
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This text presents a reflection on the elements that coinfluence creative processes in learning. This study highlights a specific period in secondary education at the António Arroio Art School in Lisbon, Portugal, developed during the curricular activity Training in Working Context with students of the 12th grade. It aims to identify interpersonal and intercultural relations utilizing active participation and involvement in communities of artistic practice. This research follows an action-research methodology with data collection via observation and interviews with students. The results show that human mediation promotes significant creative collaboration, the construction of one’s own identity, and artistic production with others, and it also allows us to perceive creativity as cultural empowerment. Empathy, emotional understanding, and an atmosphere of trust are the factors that students acknowledge as important in the creative process. Freedom and flexibility in creative collaboration practices, promoting autonomous and critical thinking, are also highlighted. Thus, we conclude that values such as mutual respect, solidarity, freedom of expression, and self-help applied in creative practices are crucial in interpersonal communication between teachers and students.
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Pilyak, Sergey. "Interpretation of Material Cultural Heritage in the Context of Museum." Ideas and Ideals 12, no. 3-2 (September 23, 2020): 337–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.17212/2075-0862-2020-12.3.2-337-351.
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Interpretation of cultural values and cultural heritage is one of the most common types of their development and creative understanding. However, the concept of ‘interpretation’ remains blurred among related processes, usually without getting much mention. In the field of cultural heritage preservation, interpretation is the main method of human development of cultural heritage objects. The process and results of interpretation, as shown by the long history of preservation of cultural heritage, also affect the preservation of cultural heritage. The proposed material is devoted to the consideration of a museum as an example of one of the most consistent built spaces and tools for the interpretation of cultural heritage. The subject of the research is the methods of museum work considered in the context of mechanisms of interpretation of material cultural heritage. Museum as an instrument of interpretation has been known since ancient times. Human interest in ancient artifacts that act as visible symbols of historical and cultural memory of the past, eventually led to the development of collecting, and then, with the publication of collections, to the emergence of museums. Museum and its activities occupy a special place in the methodology of interpretation. The museum space can set its own special rhythm of historical time and create conditions for comfortable perception of the presented artifacts. No other cultural institution has such a task, and if it is necessary to present an artifact, interested persons in one way or another turn to the method tested on museum sites. As a result of the research, the author identified five stages of museum activities, which are generally typical for the mechanism of interpretation of cultural heritage. Therefore, the main goal of museum activities should be recognized as an interpretation of cultural heritage. In accordance with this goal, the museum's tasks are also implemented, including the preservation, publication and promotion of the collection's artifacts. Thus, the role and place of the museum as a specific space created for the purpose of interpreting cultural heritage is proved. These provisions allow us to look at the theory and practice of museum activities in a different way, in the context of interpreting cultural identity.
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Weber, Wolfgang Georg, and Hans Jeppe Jeppesen. "Collective Human Agency in the Context of Organizational Participation." Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O 61, no. 2 (April 2017): 51–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0932-4089/a000234.
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Abstract. Connecting the social cognitive approach of human agency by Bandura (1997) and activity theory by Leontiev (1978) , this paper proposes a new theoretical framework for analyzing and understanding employee participation in organizational decision-making. Focusing on the social cognitive concepts of self-reactiveness, self-reflectiveness, intentionality, and forethought, commonalities, complementarities, and differences between both theories are explained. Efficacy in agency is conceived as a cognitive foundation of work motivation, whereas the mediation of societal requirements and resources through practical activity is conceptualized as an ecological approach to motivation. Additionally, we discuss to which degree collective objectifications can be understood as material indicators of employees’ collective efficacy. By way of example, we explore whether an integrated application of concepts from both theories promotes a clearer understanding of mechanisms connected to the practice of employee participation.
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Dang, Qiong. "Literature Review on the Digital Museum in a Chinese Context." Communication, Society and Media 1, no. 2 (November 28, 2018): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/csm.v1n2p149.
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<em>Parry (2007) claims that “it would be an exaggeration to suggest that the computer has been the cause of the recent ‘reimagining’, ‘rethinking’, ‘reshaping’ and ‘reframing’ of the museum” (p. 140). Technological innovation creates new possibilities for the development of the museum, and the digital museum as one of its products plays a key role in the preservation and communication of cultural heritage. However, research on the digital museum is lacking in China. Therefore, this article is an attempt to determine the extent to which factors influence the construction of digital museums. In order to answer the research question, a systematic review has been utilized in order to comb the available literature in the Chinese context. As a result, 1829 articles have been retrieved and 205 articles have been accessed, and finally, 41 studies have been selected and reviewed. The results indicate that the development of the digital museum is influenced by technology, human resources, and funding. Then, suggestions and implications are put forward for further research.</em>
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Boshuijzen-van Burken, Christine. "Beyond Technological Mediation." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 20, no. 3 (2016): 177–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne201671949.
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Several philosophers of technology have argued that technology mediates human actions. For example, in the branch of post-phenomenology, authors such as Don Ihde and Peter-Paul Verbeek have described the mediating aspects of technology in terms of morality of technology (more prominent in Verbeek) as well as in the sense that technology changes our perception of ourselves and the world (more prominent in Ihde). In this article, different existing types of mediation are presented, critiqued, and enriched. The four types are illustrated by referring to military high-tech environments with a focus on visual data and imaging technologies. These technologies can mediate actions (1) by inviting certain behavior, (2) through amplification and reduction, (3) through built-in norms, and (4) through interpretation. The four types of mediation mainly focus on the technology or technological artifact itself. What these approaches fail to grasp, however, is the specific user practices in which most technologies function. In this article, it is argued that to understand the mediating aspects of technology more fully, attention should be paid to the specific user context in which the technology functions. Therefore, an enriched understanding of the four types of mediation of technology is proposed by taking the lens of normative practices and analyzing the different types of mediation through this lens. The Kunduz airstrike incident, which took place in 2009 in Afghanistan, is a case in which a visual data sharing device called Rover played a prominent role. This case is used in this article to illustrate how technology mediates human actions in military practice.
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Conforti, María Eugenia, Maria Gabriela Chaparro, Pamela Degele, and Juan Carlos Díez Fernández Lomana. "Visitor profiling at the Museum of Human Evolution of Burgos (Spain)." Journal of Science Communication 17, no. 04 (December 14, 2018): A03. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.17040203.
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This paper presents the first study ever conducted on the profile of visitors to the Museum of Human Evolution of Burgos (Spain), which exhibits the finds of the Atapuerca archaeo-paleontological sites. The research was guided by the principles of public communication of science and the methodology of the studies on museum visitors. The analysis reveals a positive perception; the Museum is associated with the sites and they are valued as cultural heritage. Complaints are very limited but useful to produce a set of recommendations to further improve the exhibition. In addition, the findings are placed in the context of similar research carried out at other museums in Spain.
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Golding, Viv, and Maria Helena Lima. "Reclaiming the Human: Creolizing Feminist Pedagogy at Museum Frontiers." Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 7 (May 1, 2015): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/syn.16196.
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In this paper we reflect, together with a group of international students, on the affective and political power of texts and contexts. Our starting point is Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda, a text whose form, setting, and narrative structure render productive moments of “Relation” (Glissant), in which individuals and their historical experiences – rooted in colonial oppression – establish connection to each other through difference rather than commonality. We outline a series of collaborative teaching workshops designed with Andy McLellan, the Head of Education and his colleague Salma Caller at the Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford, which provided fresh ways to engage our students in the transnational space inherent in Imoinda, as well as in the tangible and intangible heritage that the Pitt Rivers Museum houses. The paper discusses how study of Anim-Addo’s libretto at a frontier site between the university and the museum can enhance understandings of the text and the context from which the work was created. Specifically, we argue that the value of such frontier work lies in progressing critical thinking, although Relation here is not simply cognitive, but vitally allows emotional and sensory re-connections with musical forms and art from around the globe to enrich intercultural knowledge. A major focus is on the development of a creolized feminist pedagogy at the museum frontiers that, without being naïve to hierarchies of power and control in the wider world of lived experience beyond institutions, is responsible. Such practice is dialogical in essence. It privileges careful listening and speaking amongst all participants – teachers and students – and strives to raise diverse voices through the embodied learning that multisensory activities with museum objects can promote. Most importantly, the interculturality of Imoinda in terms of text, music and context, reading, writing and witnessing creates another “contact zone” of sorts (to use Mary Louise Pratt’s term) which demands a re-examination of our paradigms for the analysis of subject formation and representation outside conventional binaries and across the Black Atlantic.
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Lewis, John. "The Intellectual Context of Solon’s Dike." Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 18, no. 1-2 (2001): 3–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/20512996-90000029.
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Solon is our only primary source for the intellectual context of archaic Athenian political thought. Dike is central to that context. The primary question of dike is the degree of abstraction it denotes. To Solon dike is neither an abstract principle with metaphysical proportions, nor merely the concrete procedures of dispute mediation. Solon understands Dike in a polis that is ordered by the thoughts and actions of particular human beings, not by divine dispensations. This re-alignment of political authority from vertical authoritarianism to horizontal citizen relationships is directly related to the views of nature found in the Milesian philosophers. Solon’s dike is immanent from the thoughts and actions of the citizens; it is not a divine power pushing down on the polis. Solon’s dike has three distinct functions. First, it is the inevitable result of unjust thoughts and actions; this is ‘natural dike’. Second, dike is a process of dispute mediation; this is ‘procedural dike’. Third, dike is a nascent ordering principle in the polis, found in one passage in Solon as distinct from the consequent retribution. Dike is an archaic concept standing for a comprehensive inevitability in the interactions of the citizens.
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Scott, David A. "Modern Antiquities: The Looted and the Faked." International Journal of Cultural Property 20, no. 1 (February 2013): 49–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739112000471.
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AbstractThis article discusses some of the issues regarding the acquisition of art and the different philosophical views of some of the main protagonists regarding the reclaiming of art by nation-states, following American museums' acceptance of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, using examples from the Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The mediation of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) claims by conservators is often an important component of the dialogue between museums and native communities. The philosophical and art-historical opinions regarding the value of copies and reproductions of works of art have oscillated from promulgation in the 1860s to outright rejection by the 1920s. In a modernist sense, points of view are once again open to reevaluation as host nations demand back more originals than ever before. Arguments against the claims of nationalist-retentionist countries and those advanced in favor of the claims of nation-states regarding the repatriation of their art are discussed. The problems created by looted art in association with the ever-increasing number of fakes is highlighted, with examples of the issues surrounding pre-Columbian art and some classical antiquities. The utility of copies in relation to the protective value of the authentic piece is discussed in the context of museum examples in which the concept of the utilization of copies for museum display has been accepted in certain cases as desirable.
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Siu, Noel Yee Man, Tracy Junfeng Zhang, and Ho Yan Kwan. "Reference effects and customer engagement in a museum visit." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 34, no. 2 (November 17, 2021): 482–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-02-2021-0208.
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Purpose By extending the expectancy-disconfirmation theory and integrating the elaboration likelihood model, this study aims to explore the reference effects (i.e. disconfirmation and self-identity) and customer engagement that affect customer experience on satisfaction with a museum visit. The study is designed to test a dual-mediator mechanism involving disconfirmation and self-identity. The moderating role of cognitive, affective or behavioral engagements is also examined with the overall purpose to advance the understanding of customer experience in cultural consumption such as museum visits. Design/methodology/approach A self-administered field survey in two stages was carried out on visitors to the Hong Kong Museum of Art. A total of 465 valid response sets were used for analysis. Hypotheses were tested using confirmatory factor analysis, three-step mediation test, structural equation modeling and moderation regressions. Findings Disconfirmation and self-identity are found to be dual mediators in the experience–satisfaction relationship. Cognitive engagement reduces the effect of knowledge experience on disconfirmation and self-identity but increases that of the entertainment experience on disconfirmation and self-identity. Affective engagement amplifies the effect of knowledge experience on self-identity but mitigates the importance of entertainment evaluations. Practical implications Findings highlight the importance of both perceived knowledge and entertainment experiences in visitors’ evaluation of a cultural experience. Managers are suggested to craft promotional messages with the psychological appeal that connects visitors with museum services. Appropriate engagement tactics for museums can be developed to avoid overloading visitors with information. Originality/value Previous studies treat disconfirmation as the dominant reference effect in the formation of customer satisfaction. This study shows both disconfirmation and self-identity as dual reference effects that link the customer experience to satisfaction in the museum context, serving as a pioneer in defining how the influence of experience on reference effects varies depending on how customers are cognitively and affectively engaged in such context.
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Diallo, Mbaye Fall, and Isabelle Collin-Lachaud. "Impact of Hedonic Evaluation of Technological Innovations on Revisit Intention in a Store Digitalization Context." International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction 15, no. 4 (October 2019): 38–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijthi.2019100104.
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The objective of this research is to investigate how hedonic evaluation of technological innovation affects directly store revisit intention and indirectly through the mediation of customer satisfaction and shopping experience. 257 real customers assessed the introduction of four innovative tools (automatic check-out, Internet kiosk, Smartphone and self-scanning) in supermarkets. Structural equation modeling results show that customer hedonic evaluation of technological innovation affects positively store revisit intention. However, while technology pleasantness influences it significantly technology interactivity does not. Furthermore, the authors establish significant mediation effects of customer overall satisfaction and shopping experience on the relationship investigated. FIMIX-PLS segmentation identifies two specific groups (low versus high hedonic technology seekers). This research stresses retail companies to focus on hedonic aspects of innovative technologies and to invest in personnel and accompanying measures that enable a smooth use of technological innovations.
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Chang, Man-Ling, and Cheng-Feng Cheng. "A mediation model of leaders’ favoritism." Personnel Review 47, no. 7 (November 5, 2018): 1330–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pr-10-2016-0283.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a mediation model for understanding how favoritism, in the context of the leader–member exchange (LMX) theory, influences subordinate-rated LMX via the subordinates’ perception of organizational justice.Design/methodology/approachThe sample comprised 39 managers and 159 employees working in local branches of banks in Taiwan. While the managers were asked to rate their LMX scores with all employees, three to five employees were randomly selected to participate in a survey which included two phases with a time lag of three months. Given the nested structure of the data, hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the mediation model.FindingsThe findings support the mediation model, indicating that LMX favoritism can significantly influence subordinate-rated LMX by enhancing subordinates’ justice perception.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the existing LMX research by showing that a superior’s LMX favoritism may change subordinate-rated LMX over time.
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NDHLOVU, Charles. "REACHING OF JESUS VIS-À-VIS LASSWELIAN THEORYG." Icoana Credintei 7, no. 14 (June 6, 2021): 20–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.26520/icoana.2021.14.7.20-26.
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Mediation is generally a terrestrial element. In heaven, we will see God face to face through the beatific vision. There will be no mediation because we will be there face to face with God. However, in our present life, it has pleased God to reveal himself to us in a mediated way. He has done this through different means which we call medium of God’s communication to the human person. This mediation happens in the context of the world – in the existential categories of life. Mediation takes place in this world – in our daily experiences. This agrees very much with the existentialism of Heidegger but without neglecting the transcendental categories of Kant.
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Partarakis, Nikolaos, Xenophon Zabulis, Michalis Foukarakis, Mirοdanthi Moutsaki, Emmanouil Zidianakis, Andreas Patakos, Ilia Adami, Danae Kaplanidi, Christodoulos Ringas, and Eleana Tasiopoulou. "Supporting Sign Language Narrations in the Museum." Heritage 5, no. 1 (December 21, 2021): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage5010001.
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The accessibility of Cultural Heritage content for the diverse user population visiting Cultural Heritage Institutions and accessing content online has not been thoroughly discussed. Considering the penetration of new digital media in such physical and virtual spaces, lack of accessibility may result in the exclusion of a large user population. To overcome such emerging barriers, this paper proposes a cost-effective methodology for the implementation of Virtual Humans, which are capable of narrating content in a universally accessible form and acting as virtual storytellers in the context of online and on-site CH experiences. The methodology is rooted in advances in motion capture technologies and Virtual Human implementation, animation, and multi-device rendering. This methodology is employed in the context of a museum installation at the Chios Mastic Museum where VHs are presenting the industrial process of mastic processing for chewing gum production.
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Macchia, Teresa, Giacomo Poderi, and Vincenzo D'Andrea. "Infrastructuring Knowledge in Cultural Infrastructure." International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development 7, no. 1 (January 2015): 16–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijskd.2015010102.
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This paper discusses infrastructuring as an informal experience of Participatory Design in the context of museums. The authors describe “participation” as an embedded and stable parameter for looking at museums sustainability. Their standpoint is that museums develop and encourage knowledge through participative and interrelated relationships among various actors. Thus, the value of participation intersects the concept of infrastructuring, which implies the ongoing feature, the hybridity of networks and the complexity of the context, and consider together human and non-human. Describing visitors' participation in infrastructuring processes, the authors underline the unprofessional and unplanned stage of design process in order to stimulate new direction on designing museum exhibition and for planning the introduction of interactive technologies in the museum environment.
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Bationo-Tillon, Anne, and Françoise Decortis. "Understanding museum activity to contribute to the design of tools for cultural mediation: new dimensions of activity?" Le travail humain 79, no. 1 (2016): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/th.791.0053.
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Duhamel, Karine R. "Kanata/Canada: Re-storying Canada 150 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 28, no. 1 (August 2, 2018): 217–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1050900ar.
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“Kanata/Canada: Re-storying ‘Canada 150’ at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights” seeks to contextualize the changing role of museums and of heritage institutions within contemporary discussions about the urgent need for public education on Indigenous histories and contemporary realities. The author of this article argues that museums can become truly decolonizing spaces if they are willing to re-examine their own purpose and mandate. Through an examination of the CMHR’s own exhibition development for 2017, she maintains that undertaking grounded, reparative reconciliation that is meaningful to communities in a museum context means going beyond acknowledgement and recognition to re-storying the very foundations of Canadian nation-building, and of projects like Confederation that remain, necessarily, unfinished.
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Sun, Yanan. "A Study on the Application of Computer-assisted Translation in Henan Museum Translation." MATEC Web of Conferences 359 (2022): 01027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202235901027.
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Museum is the Treasure House of human history and culture, which bears the responsibility of inheriting history and spreading culture. The Henan Museum is also attractive because of its rich and profound traditional culture. In order to make the world fully understand Henan culture, it is necessary to actively explore scientific and reasonable English translation strategies based on Henan Museum text features and incorporating Trans-cultural diffusion features. In the context of intelligent translation scenarios, the advantages of computer-aided translation are becoming more and more obvious, and the full play of Computer-assisted translation will provide effective support for improving the quality of Henan Museum translation.
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De Cesaris, Alessandro. "Philosophy and Mediation. A Manifesto." ETHICS IN PROGRESS 10, no. 1 (May 30, 2019): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/eip.2019.1.6.
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The current condition of philosophy as a discipline is quite problematic, in particular if we consider its relationship to other human sciences and to other disciplines in general. The philosophical debate appears fragmented, and philosophy itself has lost any specific role in the present scientific landscape. This situation determines a sort of “identity crisis”, whose main consequence is the coexistence of antinomical views about philosophy in the contemporary scientific and public discourse. Starting from this context, the paper aims at providing a description of philosophy as “theory of mediation”. This description does not want to be ‘original’, but rather tries to emphasize an element that is always been rooted in the very essence of philosophy, but that has also often been neglected. Philosophy has always pointed out the necessity to think the in-between of things, their relation and the passage from one to another, rather than just offering a taxonomy or a factual description of the world. In order to prove this point, the paper offers an analysis of some classical texts, in particular of some fragments by Heraclitus and of a passage taken from Hegel’s early writings. A view that rethinks philosophy as “mediology” allows a rehabilitation of philosophy as a specific discipline and as a systematic enterprise, at the same time providing a new framework for the understanding of the relationship between philosophy and other sciences.
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Bennett, Jim. "Geometry in Context in the Sixteenth Century: the View From the Museum." Early Science and Medicine 7, no. 3 (2002): 214–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338202x00126.
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AbstractThis paper examines the discrepancy between the attitudes of many historians of mathematics to sixteenth-century geometry and those of museum curators and others interested in practical mathematics and in instruments. It argues for the need to treat past mathematical practice, not in relation to timeless criteria of mathematical worth, but according to the agenda of the period. Three examples of geometrical activity (cartography, surveying and warfare) are used to illustrate this, and two particular contexts (the wider world of human affairs and the discipline of natural philosophy) are presented in which mathematical practice localised in the sixteenth century takes on a special historical significance.
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Finn, Rachael, Graeme Currie, and Graham Martin. "Team Work in Context: Institutional Mediation in the Public-service Professional Bureaucracy." Organization Studies 31, no. 8 (August 2010): 1069–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840610376142.
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This paper examines how context shapes team work within the public-service professional bureaucracy. We examine the effects of an interaction between both macro-institutional and local-organizational context upon the micro-negotiation of team work. Specifically, we consider how features of local context mediate professional-institutional effects. Drawing upon neo-institutionalism (Lawrence and Suddaby 2006; Powell and DiMaggio 1991), we view team members as ‘institutional agents’ (Scott 2008), shaping team work in ways that either reproduce or transform professional structures within particular local conditions. Exemplary of international government transformative efforts for public-service enhancement (Newman 2001; Osborne and Gaebler 1992), we focus upon a UK government initiative to reconfigure professional relationships through introducing team work in National Health Service genetic care. Findings from two qualitative, comparative case studies reveal contrasting outcomes: reproduction or transformation of the professional institution, respectively. Specific local conditions — organizational, and human and social in particular — combine to produce these divergent mediating effects towards inertia or change. This highlights the importance of antecedents to team work and taking a historical perspective to understand the influence of context. While the challenges of reconfiguring professional structures through team work are shown, our analysis also suggests optimism regarding possibilities for change, albeit within certain local conditions. The challenge for management and policy-makers becomes the extent to which — and indeed, if at all — such facilitative local environments might be supported.
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Wahyudi, Imam, and Rangga Kala Mahaswa. "Metafisika Mediasi Teknologis: Kritik Atas Filsafat Teknologi Klasik." Jurnal Filsafat 30, no. 2 (August 31, 2020): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jf.52321.
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This paper aims to propose philosophical criticism toward 'classical' thinking on philosophy of technology. This set of thinking tends to be trapped in the distinction between subject-object and romantic-pessimisms on the existence of technological dominance. The authors objective is to provide comprehensive understanding through contemporary approaches in philosophy concerning technological mediation. The study employs factual historical analysis and philosophical reflection to understand technological mediation patterns. The result maps point of view that develops a metaphysical orientation of technological mediation in terms of several approaches. Postphenomenological approaches technological mediation in a relational and intentional context rather than providing a subject-object distinction. Actor-network theory improves the asymmetrical relation of humans and non-humans. Simondon and Harman provide for ontological analysis of tools and technology in human relationships. Critical theory of technology opens the chance that technological relations are not only neutral-instrumental but have transformative and emancipatory power. Therefore, the technological mediation approach can become a new subject in the metaphysics of technology discourse in overcoming the limitations of the classical philosophy of technology.
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Prince, R., and M. Kameshwar Rao. "Voice behavior of Indian IT employees: a moderated mediation model." International Journal of Organizational Analysis 28, no. 6 (February 27, 2020): 1255–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoa-11-2019-1926.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how promotive and prohibitive voice behaviors of Indian information technology (IT) employees vary in their relationship with other factors. This study investigates a moderated mediation model involving different factors like managerial openness, voice self-efficacy, turnover intentions and promotive and prohibitive voice behaviors. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a cross-sectional design to collect data from 254 executives working in the IT companies located in India. This study uses IBM SPSS 22 along with the Hayes’ PROCESS module to investigate the moderation and mediation effects. Findings The results reveal that both promotive and prohibitive voice behaviors fully mediate the negative relationship between managerial openness and employee turnover intentions. The results also support that voice self-efficacy strengthens the relationship between managerial openness and promotive voice behavior but not prohibitive voice behavior. Originality/value This is one of the very few studies to explore voice behavior from the Indian context and thus heeds to the call made by researchers to explore voice in a non-Western context. The treatment of voice as a combination of promotive and prohibitive voice rather than as a unitary concept enhances the voice literature and invites further research.
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Curran, Deirdre. "The role of mediation in the resolution of two industrial disputes in Ireland." Employee Relations 36, no. 5 (July 29, 2014): 496–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/er-06-2013-0066.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of mediation on two long-running collective industrial disputes in Ireland using a theoretical framework established in the literature. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a detailed qualitative analysis of two disputes. In both cases a panel of mediators was invited to intervene when the established dispute resolution structures and processes had failed and impasse had been prolonged. Each member of the mediation panels, and the lead union representative, was interviewed about their perception of the mediation process and its impact. Interview questions centred around a set of mediation “Outcome Determinants” identified by Wall et al. (2001). Following Wall et al.'s proposal, Lewin's (1951) Force Field Analysis theory is applied as a theoretical lens for understanding the subtle impact of mediation in these cases. Findings – The empirical evidence suggests that while mediation did not lead directly to settlement, it influenced the resolution of these disputes. The disputes were a-typical in that most collective disputes in Ireland are resolved through established industrial relations structures and processes, either at firm level or through State-funded agents/agencies. However, intractable disputes occur periodically and there is an on-going need of this type of specialised ad hoc mediation. The Wall et al. framework combined with Force Field Analysis theory, provide a theoretical lens through which these disputes can be analysed and understood. Practical implications – An understanding of the nuanced impact of mediation is useful for justifying the continuation of this valuable approach. There is also some scope for predicting the likely impact of mediation in advance of engagement or at least allowing the mediators to explore the status of the Outcome Determinants related to a specific case in order to develop a tailored mediation strategy. Originality/value – This paper is unique in that it takes an existing theoretical framework and tests its application in two case disputes. The value of the framework is thus highlighted. Further application of the framework to other dispute scenarios would facilitate its development as a tool of understanding and some limited prediction. Mediation in this type of context has not been formally researched before. Public policy and theoretical implications of the work are highlighted in the concluding section.
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Toé, François Thierry, and Anne-Marie Émond. "Overview of Museum Education and Cultural Mediation in a Quebec Regional Museum: Between Democracy and Cultural Democratization / Aperçu de l’éducation muséale et de la médiation culturelle dans un musée régional du Québec : entre démocratie et démocratisation culturelle." Canadian Review of Art Education / Revue canadienne d’éducation artistique 46, no. 2 (September 13, 2019): 54–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/crae.v46i2.77.
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Summary: The Beaulne Museum is a regional institution located in Coaticook, Quebec. Its threefold mission includes the showcasing of textiles and costumes, local heritage, and visual arts. While favouring an historical approach, the museum’s programming is also open to modernity. A large number of exhibitions and a range of cultural activities are offered to the public with the aim of promoting cultural democracy and cultural democratization. This paper examines audiences’ response to the museum’s offerings and the impact of the socio-economic and environmental context on the relevance of its activities.Keywords: Museum education; Regional museum; Cultural democracy; Cultural democratization; Cultural mediation.Résumé : Le Musée Beaulne est une institution régionale de Coaticook, au Québec. Sa mission à trois volets inclut la mise en valeur des textiles et des costumes, du patrimoine local et des arts visuels. Privilégiant une approche historique, la programmation du musée laisse néanmoins place à la modernité. Il propose au public une vaste gamme d’expositions et d’activités culturelles dans le but de promouvoir la démocratie culturelle et la démocratisation culturelle. Cet article porte sur la réaction de la clientèle aux propositions du musée ainsi que sur l’impact du cadre socioéconomique et environnemental vis-à-vis la pertinence des activités muséales.Mots-clés : éducation muséale ; musée régional ; démocratie culturelle ; démocratisation culturelle ; médiation culturelle.
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Fleming, Stephen A., Jonas Hauser, Jian Yan, Sharon M. Donovan, Mei Wang, and Ryan N. Dilger. "A Mediation Analysis to Identify Links between Gut Bacteria and Memory in Context of Human Milk Oligosaccharides." Microorganisms 9, no. 4 (April 15, 2021): 846. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040846.
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Elucidating relationships between the gut and brain is of intense research focus. Multiple studies have demonstrated that modulation of the intestinal environment via prebiotics or probiotics can induce cognitively beneficial effects, such as improved memory or reduced anxiety. However, the mechanisms by which either act remain largely unknown. We previously demonstrated that different types of oligosaccharides affected short- and long-term memory in distinct ways. Given that the oligosaccharide content of human milk is highly variable, and that formula-fed infants typically do not consume similar amounts or types of oligosaccharides, their potential effects on brain development warrant investigation. Herein, a mediation analysis was performed on existing datasets, including relative abundance of bacterial genera, gene expression, brain volume, and cognition in young pigs. Analyses revealed that numerous bacterial genera in both the colon and feces were related to short- and/or long-term memory. Relationships between genera and memory appeared to differ between diets. Mediating variables frequently included GABAergic and glutamatergic hippocampal gene expression. Other mediating variables included genes related to myelination, transcription factors, brain volume, and exploratory behavior. Overall, this analysis identified multiple pathways between the gut and brain, with a focus on genes related to excitatory/inhibitory neurotransmission.
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Prianti, Desi Dwi, and I. Wayan Suyadnya. "Decolonising Museum Practice in a Postcolonial Nation: Museum’s Visual Order as the Work of Representation in Constructing Colonial Memory." Open Cultural Studies 6, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 228–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0157.
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Abstract The study of colonialism and its legacies have mostly left the category of memory studies. However, for the colonised subject, what they experienced in the past inevitably forms their present and future discourse. This study focuses on how the museum’s visual order articulates colonial memory. By looking at the work of representation, in this context museum’s visual order, this study investigates how memory lives on through the circulation of colonial memory that the museum simulates. Museum’s visual order translates how colonial memory should be remembered and celebrated as public knowledge. Although research on how museums affect society knowledge have been part of both memory and museum studies, those two studies barely touch upon museums’ role in translating colonial memory in the postcolonial nation. Memory lives on through its circulation in media forms. However, premeditation and mediation are made possible through articulating social and cultural sites, in this case, museums practice. In order to achieve its purposes, this research investigates public museums in different parts of Java, Indonesia which have colonial memory objects. The combination of field observation, document review, and visual method followed by focus group discussion between stakeholders and researchers are conducted to propose the research conclusion. This research argues that the museum’s visual order translates interrelated colonial memories to be accepted as a part of the history that forms the “existence” of the nation and to be appreciated as public knowledge that is shared and forms the national identity. In doing so, museum practice roams into the area of political visibility which decides the legibility of the narrative related to colonial memory. In addition, as museum practice is basically a colonial legacy, this research concludes that it is essential to deconstruct the practice from the perspective of the colonised.
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Che, Xiaoli, A. Fakhrorazi, Wei-Kit Loke, Swarmilah Hariani, and Qinyuan Chen. "The development of k-worker's task performance: an empirical research based on the Chinese context." Journal of Organizational Change Management 34, no. 7 (September 27, 2021): 1300–1315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-10-2020-0316.
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PurposeThis study examines the effect of knowledge workers' (k-workers') leader-member exchange (LMX) on task performance and the mediation effect of affective commitment and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in China.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, 384 qualified questionnaires will be collected from k-workers in China by using a self-administered survey, and the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique was employed for data analysis.FindingsThis finding showed that LMX has positive relationship on affective commitment, organizational citizenship behavior and task performance. The result also confirmed the mediation effect of organizational citizenship behavior on the relationship between LMX and task performance.Originality/valueThis research provide some implement to manage, motivate and inspire the k-workers and finally promote the organizational performance.
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Da Silva, Aila Regina. "O corpo mediador: dança e mediação no museu." Repertório, no. 28 (December 5, 2017): 390. http://dx.doi.org/10.9771/r.v0i28.25018.
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<p class="p1">Resumo:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2">De um simples piscar de olhos a um pulo, a dança traz ao ser humano novos meios de conectar-se consigo e com o espaço a sua volta. Este artigo é um estudo sobre as relações da mediação com dança em comparação aos processos do <em>site specific</em> e performance, como produtos indiretos da experiência mediativa. Recorte da pesquisa de mestrado <em>Proibido tocar, permitido dançar: dança e mediação no museu de arte contemporânea</em>, que submete um grupo heterogêneo de pessoas a vivências de dança e, posteriormente, ao diálogo sobre a obra de arte no Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo.</p><p class="p3"><span class="s1">Palavras-chave:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Dança. Performance. <em>Site specific</em>. Mediação.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></p><p>MEDIATOR BODY: DANCE AND MEDIATION IN THE MUSEUM</p><p class="p1"><em>Abstract:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p><p class="p5"><em>From a simple blink of eyes to an action of jumping, the dance provides to the human being new connections with himself and with the space around him. This article is a study about the relation among the mediation with dance, ‘site specific’ process and performance as indirect products from the mediation experience. Part of the Masters’ project “Do not touch. Dance, though. Dance and mediation in the Contemporary Museum</em><span class="s2"><em>”, the project put a heterogeneous group into living mediations that combine dance improvisations as a way to talk about contemporary art.</em></span></p><p class="p6"><span class="s1"><em>Keywords:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></span><em>Dance. Performance. Site specific. Mediation.</em></p>
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Kjartansdóttir, Katla. "The changing symbolic meaning of the extinct great auk and its afterlife as a museum object at the Natural History Museum of Denmark." Nordisk Museologi 26, no. 2 (December 6, 2019): 41–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nm.7476.
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This article examines the historical context and afterlife of the great auk as a museum object. The focus is on the changing meaning of the bird as it travels across cultural boundaries, material forms and historical periods. It starts by focusing on how the bird was contextualized within Ole Worm’s cabinet in the 17th century and then moves on to more recent museum representations. By conducting interviews with museum staff and professionals and analysis of items stored and/or exhibited at the museum, the symbolic meanings and representative functions of the great auk are brought into light. As proposed in this paper, certain characteristics, values and meanings stem from the materiality of the objects but also from their travels and re-locations. The investigation reveals how the role of the great auk in relation to collective museum (and human) challenges such as emerging ecological limits and biodiversity loss has been developing.
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Stier, Oren Baruch. "Torah and Taboo: Containing Jewish Relics and Jewish Identity at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum." Numen 57, no. 3-4 (2010): 505–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852710x501360.
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AbstractIs museum space religious space? Do strategies of display, i.e., the ways certain objects such as human remains and ritual items are presented and/or experienced, make them into sacred objects? Who or what determines whether or not a particular object may be appropriately displayed in a museum context? In focusing on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and on a series of staged encounters there with spaces, objects, and other people, this article considers the possibility that the USHMM serves as a contemporary Jewish reliquary as well as the implications of such a notion, especially in relation to the performance of different types of Jewish identity at the museum. Using archival sources, it examines the debates over the treatment and display of selected artifacts and how those decisions impact the Museum's Jewish character.
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Salasar, Desirée Nobre, and Francisca Ferreira Michelon. "Análise Prática de Mediação Acessível com um grupo de pessoas com deficiência intelectual em um museu português/ Practical analysis of accessible mediation with a group of people with intellectual disabilities in a portuguese museum." Revista Interinstitucional Brasileira de Terapia Ocupacional - REVISBRATO 2, no. 4 (November 3, 2018): 816–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.47222/2526-3544.rbto12758.
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O presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar e discutir uma intervenção da Terapia Ocupacional em uma visita com mediação acessível oferecida a um grupo de crianças com deficiência intelectual e necessidades educativas especiais, em um museu português. A prática referida neste trabalho insere-se no campo da Terapia Ocupacional e Cultura e foi realizada no Museu da Comunidade Concelhia da Batalha, localizado na Vila da Batalha, em Portugal, dentro do contexto do estágio em Acessibilidade Cultural, realizado no ano de 2015. As visitas guiadas a públicos especiais já compunham as atividades do setor educativo do Museu. Entretanto, a visita que será relatada neste artigo foi a primeira experiência do museu com intervenção da Terapia Ocupacional. Como resultados apresenta-se a relevância da utilização do instrumento de análise de atividade para que a visita abranja maiores interações entre sujeito-informação-ambiente. Destaca-se, assim, a necessidade do terapeuta ocupacional enquanto profissional integrante da equipe do setor educativo do museu. Com este trabalho, pretende-se fomentar a atuação do terapeuta ocupacional em ambientes museais. AbstractThis article aims to present and discuss an intervention of Occupational Therapy in a visit with accessible mediation offered to a group of children with intellectual disability and special educational needs, in a Portuguese museum. The practice referred to in this work is in the field of Occupational Therapy and Culture and was held in the Museum of the Community of Batalha, located in Vila da Batalha, Portugal, within the context of the Cultural Accessibility Internship, held in 2015. The guided visits to special publics already comprised the activities of the educative sector of the Museum. However, the visit that will be reported in this article was the first experience of the museum with intervention of Occupational Therapy. As results, the relevance of the use of the activity analysis tool is presented so that the visit encompasses greater interactions between subject-information-environment. This highlights the need for the occupational therapist as a professional member of the museum's educational staff. This work intends to promote the work of the occupational therapist in museum settings.Key words: intellectual disability; cultural rights; museums; Occupational Therapy.
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Hu, Yaou, Hyounae (Kelly) Min, and Na Su. "How Sincere is an Apology? Recovery Satisfaction in A Robot Service Failure Context." Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research 45, no. 6 (May 6, 2021): 1022–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10963480211011533.
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This study examined the effects of service recovery entities (i.e., robot-generated text, robot-generated voice, and human service employee) on recovery satisfaction through the mediation of perceived sincerity. This study also tested the moderating role of the need for human interaction. The results of this study suggest that people perceive service recovery provided by a human to be more sincere than that provided by a service robot, thereby leading to higher levels of satisfaction. Moreover, this effect is stronger for those with a stronger need for human interaction. However, differences in perceived sincerity and recovery satisfaction were not identified between the use of service robots generating either text or a voice to express an apology. This study contributes to the theoretical discussion on ways to enhance customer experiences in robot service environments and provides insights that can guide service management in the hospitality and tourism industry.
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���������� and Larisa Kozhemyakina. "Museum Pedagogics in the Context of Federal State Educational Standard of General Education (on the Example of the Museum n.a. Nicholas Roerich)." Standards and Monitoring in Education 2, no. 4 (August 15, 2014): 41–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/5873.
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The article focuses on capabilities of museum pedagogy (regulated by the Federal State Educational Standard of General Education)as part of the culture
edifying paradigm aimed tocreate a new individual of culture able to perceive personal responsibility for universal cultural and human values, that
enable existence, unity, and evolution of humanity and provide the dialog of cultures, epochs, and nations.
The article reveals the importance of artistic, literary, and epistolary heritage of a famous Russian artist, public figure, philosopher, and historian of culture
� Nicholas Roerich. Artistic heritage of Nicholas Roerich is of particular relevance for modern education, as it points out the spiritual unity of sacred
images and symbols of the East and the West, sets international humanitarian and moral values, helps to comprehend the uniqueness of Russian culture
and cultures of the East.
The author surveys cultural and educational space of the Museum n.a. Nicholas Roerich as part of the complex educational model: the museum educational
Program �Dialog between cultures of the East and the West�. Mastering this Program will contribute to: building the basis of museum culture,
evolving personal need for interaction with works of art andartefacts in the educational space of the Museum; creating emotional and axiological attitude
towards artistic heritage of Nicholas Roerich; accumulating individual cultural experience based on realization of universal human values and
cultural symbols; developing historical consciousness based on understanding particular cultural and social evolutional milestones in the history of
humanity, which are of evolutionary importance for the future unity of mankind; establishing respectful and caring attitude towards both Russian and
Eastern religious and cultural traditions; creating an individual worldview as a system of universal cultural, spiritual and moral values.
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Huertas-Valdivia, Irene, F. Javier Llorens-Montes, and Antonia Ruiz-Moreno. "Achieving engagement among hospitality employees: a serial mediation model." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 30, no. 1 (January 8, 2018): 217–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-09-2016-0538.
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Purpose This paper aims to disclose some mechanisms whereby job engagement can be created in a hospitality context. A study was conducted to examine the relationships among high-performance work practices (HPWPs), empowering leadership behaviors, psychological empowerment and engagement. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical serial mediation model was developed to examine the proposed relationship. The hypotheses were tested using regression analysis with bootstrapping. In total, 340 hotel workers participated in this study. Findings Both empowering leadership and psychological empowerment were found to be independent mediators of the HPWPs–engagement relationship; in addition, empowering leadership and psychological empowerment mediated this relationship serially. Research limitations/implications Results suggest that hospitality organizations should implement HPWPs and encourage empowering leadership behavior in their managers to create a work context that fosters psychological empowerment. These strategies will, in turn, generate employee job engagement. A richer, deeper understanding of various antecedents of engagement is the main theoretical contribution of this work. Practical implications This research stresses the importance of specific organizational conditions and managerial strategies in achieving psychological fulfillment of hospitality employees. In sum, the present study provides important insights for managers and human resource managers in the hospitality industry who seek to foster empowered, engaged employees. Originality/value The findings suggest that HPWPs are associated with employee engagement through a serial mediation model with two mediators. No research to date has used this nascent methodology to explore the association between HPWPs and engagement.
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Koštialová, Katarína. "The specific museum presentation forms of cultural heritage in rural areas, based on the example of the Hont ecomusuem and educational public footpath." Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo 10, no. 2 (2022): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.46284/mkd.2022.10.2.1.
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This study focuses on forms of museological presentation for the mediation of natural, cultural, historic and social values, with specific reference to ecomuseums and educational public footpaths. The object of the study is to characterise these forms and on the basis of real examples, in order to highlight opportunities in the field of museological communication that lead away from the traditional interpretation of forms focused on the object, towards contemporary flexible modes of communication directed towards the experience within its context. It also explores the utilisation of such approaches for the development and promotion of the locality and its attractions. The subjects of the research are the ecomuseum and educational public footpath in the village of Hrušov. These features are identified with the locality and accentuate specific aspects of its cultural heritage, presenting them to visitors. The study is the result of ethnological research undertaken periodically since 2017 and it represents an introductory probe into the chosen area.