Where Information Society and Community Voice Intersect     

Ramesh Srinivasan 《The Information Society》2006,22(5):355-365

Information and communication technology (ICT) development initiatives have begun to acknowledge the power and importance of cultural and community-focused belief systems. Yet the vast majority of such initiatives tend to preidentify developmental goals that communities hold. Paulo Freire's writings have influenced development initiatives by introducing the possibility of working with communities to orient projects. While these “participatory” initiatives have involved soliciting community feedback relative to a research project whose goals were formulated in the university or development institution, they do not go far enough to harness actual visions held by communities. It is important to conceptualize a model and methodology of engaging communities to develop and articulate their own goals of information access and ultimately, an indigenous approach toward cultural, political, and economic aspects of development. This approach holds promise to sustain communities within a return on the investment and efforts of the researcher or institution. This article closes by describing a current initiative in Southern India that reflects the described methodology.  相似文献   

Book review     

Uday Maitra  Vani Brahmachari  Parameswaran Sankaran  J. Srinivasan  Chanda J. Jog 《Resonance》1999,4(7):83-91

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Reasoning About the Scope of Religious Norms: Evidence From Hindu and Muslim Children in India     

Mahesh Srinivasan  Elizabeth Kaplan  Audun Dahl 《Child development》2019,90(6):e783-e802

Conflicts arise when members of one religion apply their norms to members of another religion. Two studies explored how one hundred 9- to 15-year-old Hindu and Muslim children from India reason about the scope of religious norms. Both Hindus and Muslims from a diverse Hindu–Muslim school (Study 1) and Hindus from a homogeneous Hindu school (Study 2) more often judged it wrong for Hindus to violate Hindu norms, compared to Muslim norms, and said the opposite for Muslims. In contrast, children judged it wrong for both Hindus and Muslims to harm others. Thus, even in a setting marred by religious conflict, children can restrict the scope of a religion's norms to members of that religion, providing a basis for peaceful coexistence.  相似文献   

PBL教学法与CBL教学法的比较 ——基于两种教学法的转换在临床课程学习上的效果分析   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Srinivasan M  夏颖  顾鸣敏 《复旦教育论坛》2009,7(5):88-91

本文通过调查加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)和加州大学戴维斯分校(UCD)学生和教师对以问题为基础的学习(PBL)和以案例为基础的学习(CBL)的认知和感受,结果发现,89%的学生和84%的教师更倾向于CBL教学法,两校教师和学生都认为CBL的引导式探究优于PBL的开放式探究.  相似文献   

Human and non-human intermediation in rural agricultural markets     

Elisa Oreglia  Janaki Srinivasan 《Journal of Cultural Economy》2020,13(4):353-367

ABSTRACT

A central trope of the information society is that of ‘information flows.’ The implicit assumption underlying such a vision involves the removal of gatekeepers and intermediaries who are perceived to impede such flows. Drawing from field research on information circulation, trade, and money in rural markets in Myanmar and India, we show why intermediaries persist alongside information and communication technologies (ICTs) in trade and financial transactions in the ‘Information Age.’ We examine the range of roles, (human and non-human) actors, and material practices that are involved in conducting financial transactions, and we show the importance of historical legacies and politics in explaining why both cash and financial intermediaries persist in the digital age. Focusing on the different value that human and non-human intermediaries bring to financial encounters helps explain what characteristics make each resilient or replaceable in a time of change. By situating intermediaries and mediations in the social relations within which they operate, we bring back the role of power and politics – an element that is often missing in accounts focused on the unmediated and ‘free’ circulation of information using ICTs – in explaining processes of mediation and circulation.  相似文献   

(4) Royal Scientific Society Course in Librarianship     

R. Shalini 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(2):189-193

The author supports the opinion that full benefit may be derived from the technological potential on condition that serious attention is given to the social, political and ethical aspects, which are often barriers to the free and multi-directional access to information, especially in developing countries. Causes of these barriers — “disarticulations” within a society — are listed and their importance in developing countries emphasized. Possible different communication structures in a society and their effects are examined. The author concludes that the traditional, principle of free flow of information is not sufficient in the advancing information society; there is a need for a, principle which deals more specifically with the “activation”, “mediation”, and “networking” of the needs and opinions at the different levels of society.  相似文献   

Trends in global communication policy‐making: Lessons from the Asian case∗     

Stewart M. Hoover  Shalini Singh Venturelli  Douglas K. Wagner 《亚洲交流杂志》2013,23(1):103-132

This paper surveys current trends in the restructuring of global communications since publication of the MacBride Commission Report on NWICO. Focusing on a specific region, Asia, the analysis addresses implications of the shift in communication policy from the dominant, twentieth century democratic conception of the ‘public’ as a community of free citizens, to a more archaic conception of the ‘public’ as individual consumers in a laissez‐faire’ market. The paper inquires into evidence of this policy shift in the Asian context as well as into the contemporary relevance of concerns expressed by NWICO advocates. Based on a substantive examination of recent literature, it is argued that since communication is a precondition to development, access to and control over the means and processes of communication are properly questions of great social importance. The paper further argues that current Asian trends converting communication into a commodity run counter to the possibilities for rational and autonomous public communication necessary to the practice of liberal democracy. A headlong rush to a global economic market as the definer of communication processes has forced governments to share power with national and multi‐national private commercial interests, thereby radically altering the very structure of institutions shaping communication policy and practice. Consequences of this restructuring have been to virtually eliminate any influential national or global setting where these issues may be debated and addressed.  相似文献   

Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker     

M. Rajeevan  J. Srinivasan 《Resonance》2006,11(8):3-5

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Nobel Prize for physics — 2003     

R. Srinivasan  Andal Narayanan 《Resonance》2004,9(2):50-60

A brief review of the work of the three Nobel Laureates — Alexei A Abrikosov, Vitaly L Ginzburg and Anthony J Leggett is presented. Their work forms the basis for understanding the phenomena of superfluidity and superconductivity.  相似文献   

Culturally Responsive Early Intervention Programs: issues in India     

Bharati Srinivasan  George R. Karlan 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》1997,44(4):367-385

The influence of economic factors on socio‐cultural aspects in traditional, industrial, and “transitional” societies is explored through an examination of the socio‐economic structure and organisation in these societies. Transitional societies are defined as those that are moving from a traditional nature to an industrial one. India is used as an example of a transitional society. Links between the socio‐economic contexts of the three societies, their child rearing goals and practices, and features of early intervention programs are established. Key aspects of effective intervention identified in the United States are analysed with respect to their appropriateness for Indian society. It is proposed that the diverse child rearing goals and practices of the Indian culture are not compatible with Western conceptualisations of effective early intervention. In conclusion, issues and questions for research that would lay the foundations for developing culturally responsive early intervention programs in transitional societies are identified.  相似文献