Spanish-language television: cultural and industrial transformations

Mining and utilizing cultural heritage resources and creating and developing creative and cultural industries have become the priority direction of economic development, setting off a wave of cultural heritage resource development, and industrial transformation. Which cultural heritage resources can have the high value of industrial transformation has become one of the research topics that have attracted much attention. In view of this problem, research is of great significance to the development of cultural heritage resources and the field of industrial transformation. With the in-depth research on resource development and industrial transformation, the research on artificial neural network (ANN) in cultural industry transformation is gradually carried out, and its performance advantages are of great significance to solve the problem of value evaluation. This paper aims to study the application of the value assessment method based on the BP neural network (BPNN) in the development of cultural heritage resources and industrial transformation. Through the analysis and research of BPNN and cultural heritage resource development and industrial transformation, it can be applied to the construction of resource value assessment methods to solve the problem of improving the value level of cultural heritage resource development and industry. This paper analyzes BPNN, cultural heritage, and value evaluation methods, conducts experimental analysis on the performance of the algorithm, and uses related theoretical formulas to explain. The results show that the evaluation method has passed the random consistency test, and the results are valid. The obtained index popularity weight value is 0.134, the economic benefit weight value is 0.093, and the resource correlation degree weight value is 0.074, which can be used as the key criteria for resource value evaluation. The classification of resources through resource value assessment can provide theoretical support for the development and industrialization of cultural heritage and can meet the needs of improving the value and quality of cultural heritage development and industrial transformation, and the development level and satisfaction have been greatly improved.

Many people were stunned to learn the Spanish-language television network Univision was the highest rated in prime time among all U.S. networks in July 2013, a feat it repeated a year later. Steady growth of its demographic and advertising bases, combined with astute management, has brought success to this dynamic industry sector. However, the boom years were preceded by several decades of formidable challenges and lean periods. This article exa mines the principal technological, programming, financial and competitive obstacles network management faced from the 1970s to the 2000s, illustrating the variety of fronts on which ethnic-oriented media leaders maneuvered during a period of rapid population growth and industry transformation.

Welcome to the succession-centric era of leadership. Where leadership transitions take center stage as 3 powerful narratives converge: cultural storytelling, industry transformation, and scientific insight. Entertainment juggernauts like Succession and Shōgun depict leadership transitions as deeply engaging human dramas, while $56 trillion in mergers and acquisitions over the last 2 decades demonstrate the staggering real-world stakes. The Center for Creative Leadership’s comprehensive analysis of succession planning spans 161 Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated television shows,190 case studies across 19 industries, and 1,000 peer-reviewed articles on succession planning. The evidence is unmistakable. As the number of companies from the original Fortune 500 list continues to shrink, organizations face record-high CEO turnover and hemorrhage $1 trillion annually through poor transitions. Yet 70% still operate without formal succession plans, navigating tomorrow’s challenges with yesterday’s ad hoc tools. Global forces drive this era. Leaders must navigate through societal polarization, adapt to shifting regulatory landscapes and demographics, and prepare for extreme weather events. They must harness artificial intelligence, leverage social media, and manage geopolitical tensions. Each new challenge reminds us that the old playbook for leadership transitions is closed. We believe an important opportunity lies within these challenges. Organizations that understand the succession-centric era as a convergence of 3 narratives — cultural storytelling, industry transformation, and scientific insight — will write the next chapter of leadership. The future belongs to those who recognize that succession planning is more than a process or a system. Succession planning is a mindset. One that understands and leverages the powers of culture, experience, and science to get it right, right now; keep getting it right; and reimagine what’s right for the future. Those who don’t get it right risk becoming cautionary tales. In our research, we’ve connected the stories and data we’ve collected to megatrends and real-world outcomes. Our research is presented across 4 reports that provide the leadership pulse and lists of leaders to watch, along with playlists, frameworks, strategic recommendations, and scenarios designed to help leaders and their teams provide continuity for the entire business and develop the unique capabilities to anticipate what’s coming next. The succession-centric era is here. Leaders must transform succession planning from a reactive necessity into their greatest competitive advantage. The future of leadership begins now.

In the post-epidemic era, comprehensive industrial transformation and upgrading is strong support to promote cultural tourism high-quality development, to cultivate new business forms, and an important force to boost rural revitalization. From the Wuli—Shili-Renli (WSR) methodology perspective, this paper constructs the three-dimensional inner logic framework of cultural tourism transformation and upgrading, and further puts forward the behavioral logic framework with seven main steps. Then a practical path for the cultural tourism transformation and upgrading with “three integrations” is also construed. Finally, it summarizes relevant reflection to cultural tourism transformation and upgrade. Combine with the WSR system method, this paper can not only enrich the logic mode analysis of industrial transformation and upgrading, but also provide certain methods and practical reference from a systems way of thinking. It also enriches the WSR systematic research to a certain extent.

The purpose of this article is to analyse the main trends in the development of cultural and creative industries in Ukraine in the first quarter of the 21st century. It examines the influence of cultural, social, and economic changes on the formation and transformation of cultural and creative industries, including artistic projects, national brands, and cultural initiatives. The research methodology is based on general scientific principles of systematisation and generalisation, which enabled the author to identify and scientific prove the key trends of the development of cultural and creative industries in Ukraine. The implementation of the systematic approach provided an analysis of cultural and creative industries as a complex and dynamic system that interacts with socio-cultural and economic processes. The comparative method allowed for the analyse of the development of cultural and creative industries in European countries and the identify their specificity in Ukraine. The analytical method facilitated the identification of conceptual foundations and characteristics of cultural and creative industries as a tool for cultural transformation. The historical approach ensured an understanding of the evolution of cultural and creative industries in the context of global trends and transformations of the Ukrainian cultural space. Using the descriptive method, the current state of the development of cultural and creative industries, their impact on Ukraine's artistic environment, and the international cultural brand of the country were analysed. The scientific novelty of the article lies in conducting a cultural analysis of the main trends in the development of cultural and creative industries in Ukraine in the first quarter of the 21st century, particularly through studying their interaction with European and global practices. For the first time, conceptual approaches to the formation of Ukraine's cultural brand based on artistic projects in the context of globalisation challenges and contemporary cultural transformations are examined. Conclusions: The development of cultural and creative industries in Ukraine in the first quarter of the 21st century occurs amidst dynamic changes in the socio-cultural environment, driven by globalisation, digitalisation, and the activation of artistic initiatives. An analysis of international experience confirms that cultural and creative industries play a key role in shaping the national cultural brand and enhancing Ukraine's international competitiveness. It has been established that artistic projects are an effective tool for developing cultural and creative industries, contributing to creative self-expression, creating new opportunities for artists, and strengthening cultural ties at both national and international levels. Integrating global practices and adapting them to Ukrainian realities opens up prospects for the further development of cultural and creative industries as an important element of the country's cultural transformation.

In the past few decades, with the industrial transformation and upgrading of many Chinese cities, a large number of obsolete industrial buildings have appeared in the central areas of the cities. Although these former industrial buildings have lost their original functions in manufacturing industry, they have great spatial structure and geographic locations. Some post- industrial areas also bear the expectations of the older generation since they have witnessed the historical changes, cultural transmission and development of the cities. Many western countries have experienced the transformation of post-industrial buildings earlier than China and some successful regeneration projects incorporated the transformation of post-industrial buildings with their national development plans and conducted in-depth theoretical studies and practical case demonstrations. Similarly, China has been actively conducting the research and practice for the transformation of post-industrial buildings in the past few decades. These former industrial buildings are effectively employed to maximize the economic benefits and enhance the historical values and cultural connotations of these old industrial buildings. This paper analyzes the purpose of innovative transformation of post-industrial building space and the significance of the transformation from the perspective of national economy, ecological environment, and national policy. It also explores the issues concerning the innovation of micro spatial change and cultural transformation.

This chapter reflects on maritime industrial transformations through the lens of a series of artists’ f ilms, that capture the transindustrial mutations of European port cities from the 1970s to the present. The selected films can be seen as articulating critical narratives that interrogate the identities and developments of European maritime history and heritage. Each depicts the lived experience of individuals and communities immersed in those industrial and cultural transformations, reflecting on the changing relations between machine and body, the local and the global, and crucially giving voice to the actors and landscapes they represent.

During the transformation of culture originality and health industries around the world, new-age of leisure, healthy living, and lohas-life styles were gradually matured under the concept of modernization. Facing challenges of 21th century, modern fitness must be re-responded. All sorts of traditional exercises must be re-adjusted and applied to those which modern society can accept. Static life style has been dramatically increased in our modern life. Cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome patients also have increased. Patients with severe obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoarthritis have difficulties walking or standing. And an appropriate exercise is what they need to improve their body conditions. Many patients with chronic medical conditions have trouble to walk or move around. For their healthy purposes, an appropriate exercise has come out and been called ＂Oriental Bio-Synergy＂. This exercise is developed for standing and sitting position, and it has certain market demand and necessity of industrial innovation.

The role of indigenous knowledge on the development of iron industry among the Tugen of Baringo County; Kenya. The study examined two distinctive epochs from which the understanding of how ironwork in Tugen land was conducted. They learnt the skill through their interaction with their physical environments to cope with the changing climatic conditions by making suitable artefacts for the varied demands in all sectors. The study relied on oral traditions and archival sources as primary sources. Secondary sources were utilised, such as unpublished works like articles, books, and thesis. The study described the distribution, methods and techniques and the procedure used in ironwork. It further assessed the types and uses of iron products. This study established the forces that led to the dismantling of the industry during the early periods of colonial rule, such as taxation, forced labour, settler farming, and western education. Ironwork in the 1930s underwent re-organisations in the form of labour innovativeness, cultural transformation, marketing strategies etc. These were analysed to ascertain the forces behind the persistence and resilience of the industry. The Tugen devised ways of survival to compete favourably with the British colonisers, which led to the Tugen transformation of the iron industry from 1945. This paper raised an argument against this position. The study has recorded the Tugen iron industry for posterity purposes. The study recommends the inclusion of indigenous knowledge to any industrial development and innovation in the country.

The study examined the approaches that were employed by the Tugen in their knowledge, skills and attitudes acquisition before and during the colonial period of Kenya. The study examined two distinctive epochs from which the understanding of how leatherwork in Tugen land was conducted. The work relied on oral traditions as a primary source. Secondary sources were utilised, such as unpublished works like articles, books, and thesis. Archival sources from Kenya National Archives were extensively used to supplement the sources from primary and secondary. The study described the distribution, methods, techniques, and procedures used in leatherwork. It further assessed the types and uses of leather products. This study established the forces that led to the dismantling of the industry during the early periods of colonial rules, such as taxation, forced labour, settler farming, and western education. Leatherwork in the 1930s underwent re-organisations in the form of labour innovativeness, cultural transformation, marketing strategies etc. These were analysed to ascertain the forces behind the persistence of the industry. The Tugen devised ways of survival to compete favourably with the British colonisers, which led to the Tugen transformation of the leather industry from 1945. The main problem that this study advanced is that Tugenland, like other African societies, is regarded by some people as having not had any form of industry or organisation before the arrival of the colonialists. This paper raised an argument against this position. The study has recorded the Tugen leather industry for posterity purposes.

When combined with information and communication technologies and powerful data analytic algorithms such as artificial intelligence, digital twins enable organisations to conserve physical resources. This applies both during the design phase and when performing diagnostic and predictive analyses during operations. These abilities bring significant opportunities to the infrastructure industry to develop new ways of designing, constructing, operating and monitoring infrastructure at a time when much of the world’s civil infrastructure is ageing and showing signs of deterioration. This study aims to find out how digital twins can help the infrastructure industry to deliver and operate sustainable and smart infrastructure assets. This paper presents an overview of digital twin definitions, current practices, benefits and challenges through a series of semi-structured expert interviews with executives from the UK infrastructure industry. Additionally, it suggests a series of strategies to aid digital transformation and digital twin adoption in the industry. Results from the interviews illustrated that the executives involved in digital transformation in the infrastructure industry are very well aware of the definitions, benefits and challenges of digital twins. In general, they understand the value of digital transformation and specifically digital twins. They know the reasons behind the need for transforming the industry and adopting data-driven concepts such as digital twins. Moreover, the executives interviewed as part of this study mentioned common challenges across different infrastructure domains. The strategies presented are focused on addressing these three main challenges identified and agreed upon by the participants – culture, technology adoption and lack of a skilled workforce. The three main strategies, addressing digital transformation (1), cultural transformation (2) and bridging the skills gap (3), are explained later in this paper. The article concludes by underlining the importance of creating equal opportunities for the current workforce to improve their digital fluency and skillset by providing information about the benefits of digital twins throughout the sector and organisations to improve adoption and the realisation of benefits.

Martin offers a critical overview of the political economics and cultural politics of social media news sharing. Using the case study of Logan Paul, the US YouTube influencer, she argues that online news sharing has radically altered journalism’s consumption, production and distribution. The chapter explores social media platforms’ capture of digital advertising and increasing use for news distribution, triggering the media’s move to social media analytics for measuring journalistic value. Against this power shift, Martin proposes we need a deeper analysis of what sharing signals convey, how they are used to commodify taste and how they are contingent on different cultural settings. This sets the scene for the chapter’s account of news sharing as cultural intermediation, data commodification, industrial transformation and everyday social engagement.

The paper takes the question “what happened” to investigate women film pioneer Pu Shunqing’s experience and practice in the Chinese film industry of the 1920s. It not only looks at reasons for her successful participation to the field of screenwriting where no women had before, but also examines the process of how she intervened in the filmmaking, and how she was suppressed by a series of industrial norms and changes. Through a detailed archival survey on Pu’s personal experience and her performance in the cultural and industrial transformation. The study not only reveals several specific details regarding this women film pioneer and her practice, but also reflects on the process of her departure and thus sheds light on the situation of women who tried to take on creative roles behind the camera in the early film industry.

Silo-cave is a unique human habitation form on the Loess Plateau in northern China, which consists of an excavated 6–7 m deep pit as the courtyard and cave dwellings in the surrounding four walls. This architecture has had a history of more than 7000 years, and yet such “living fossils for the history of dwellings” are now facing great crises and challenges during rapid social and economic development. In this paper, remote sensing and GIS techniques are used to comprehensively and systematically investigate the spatial distributions and morphological characteristics of silo-caves at both the macro and micro scales. The research shows that silo-cave villages are mainly distributed in economically underdeveloped areas, such as West Henan (Yuxi), South Shanxi (Jinnan), Central Shaanxi (Guanzhong), and East Gansu (Longdong). The morphological evolution patterns of typical silo-cave villages are identified, including: (1) retaining the periphery and rebuilding the inner parts of the villages, (2) retaining the inner parts and expanding the periphery of the villages, and (3) rebuilding the inner parts and expanding the periphery of the villages. These patterns are demonstrated to be influenced by many factors, including landforms, traffic conditions, economic development, population growth, and administrative division adjustment. Sustainable development of these traditional silo-cave villages relies on administrative policy and planning, people’s awareness of cultural heritage protection, culture inheritance, industrial transformation, and public services.

This chapter considers the key elements, mobilizing power, and evolution of the hyper-referential storytelling style that is at work in films of the genre. Combining a high density of references to other superhero narratives with attempts to approximate the aesthetics of comic books, this style is already on display in Richard Donner’s Superman(1978) and serves to locate feature films within larger networks of closely related narratives and media. Suggesting that this style evolves in response to larger cultural, medial, and industrial transformations, the chapter argues that more recent superhero blockbuster films have successively increased the frequency of their references to other narratives and media. To make this case, the chapter traces the evolution of the hyper-referential style across four waves of releases that began with Donner’s Supermanand came to an end in 2020, after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.