Entertaining Style Research Articles

Kritik Satire pada Pejabat Negara Indonesia melalui Roasting Stand-Up Comedy Kiky Saputri di Youtube

The roasting technique is a joke that aims to comment on or criticize people in an entertaining style. This study aims to analyze the delivery of criticism through the roasting of stand-up comedian Kiky Saputri to state officials. This qualitative research method uses virtual ethnographic approach by conducting virtual interviews with six informants. The researchers were participatively involved through the comment’s column on the YouTube account of Stand-Up Kompas TV and BUMN Muda. This research found that Kiky's courage to roast state officials in the form of satire criticism without camouflage, meaning openly mentioning names, events, and actual cases. This research concludes that the courage to roast with a satire criticism style is based on honesty in facts. The dictions avoid blasphemy, sarcasm, and insults. The satire criticism as a tool for evaluating the performance of Indonesian state officials and as a means of political educationKeywords: Roasting, Satire Criticism, Stand-Up Comedy, Virtual Ethnography

Creation and formation of information resources for children

It should be noted that according to information obtained from written sources, the first book for children appeared in India in the 6th century BC. This didactic book tells about the moral and political conversations of a Brahmin in order to educate the ruler's son. The book, written in an entertaining style, consists of stories and fairy tales. In some sources, it is possible to find information that Confucius transcribed Chinese classics for children during that period. However, it is noted that this work has not been completed and the work remains unfinished. In the 600s AD, during the Anglo-Saxon period, monks and other scholars wrote a "textbook" for children. Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborne, went down in history as the first person to write a textbook for children. His book De Septenario, de Metris, Enigmatibus ac Pedum Regulis contains a long essay on the meaning and use of the number seven in the Bible. Aldhelm assigned 1500 writing samples for children. He used question-and-answer form or wrote in poem form in all his manuals. Bede (673-735) used more imagination than Aldhelm. One of his most famous works was called "De Natura Rerum". Containing information on the natural sciences, history, astronomy and botany, this work has been used as an English textbook for more than three hundred years. Much of the content of Bede's works is a repetition of the scientific treatises of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and others [4, p.1].

Neural and self-reported responses to antisocial news stories: Entertaining versus traditional news introduction

Recently, as entertainment programs have become more prevalent in the news media, there is a growing need to understand how entertainment appeal influences viewers' sociomoral evaluation of news content. We investigated neural and self-reported moral evaluation of antisocial news content in college students who viewed real-life news reports featuring moral violations inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scanner. Each news report was preceded by a traditional or entertaining style of introduction. The behavioral results showed that antisocial severity was reduced for antisocial news content that was presented following entertaining news introductions versus traditional news introductions. The fMRI results showed that entertainment news introductions tax more cognitive control resources than traditional news introductions during news processing, as indicated by greater activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal region; however, they diminish moral saliency, as suggested by the reduced activation in the medial prefrontal region. We also found that greater dorsolateral prefrontal activation during the early phase of news reports was associated with more lenient moral acceptability ratings in the entertainment condition. Furthermore, reduced functional connectivity of the mentalizing brain network was observed in the entertainment condition when compared with the traditional condition. These results suggest that entertainment appeal may increase resource depletion, diminish moral sensitivity, and reduce functional integration of relevant social information during news processing, thus hindering viewers' moral scrutiny. This novel study contributes to a better understanding of how entertainment features influence viewers’ sociomoral evaluation of news stories.

Morning report for all: a qualitative study of disseminating case conferences via podcasting

BackgroundDespite its long-established importance, diagnostic reasoning (DR) education has suffered uneven implementation in medical education. The Clinical Problem Solvers (CPSolvers) podcast has emerged as a novel strategy to help teach DR through case conferences with expert diagnosticians and trainees. CPSolvers has 25,000 listeners in 147 countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the podcast by eliciting the developers’ goals of the podcast, then determining to what extent they aligned with the listeners’ actual usage habits, features they valued, and perceptions of the podcast.MethodsWe conducted semi-structured interviews with 3 developers and 8 listeners from April–May 2020, followed by qualitative thematic analysis.ResultsThree major developer goals with sub-goals resulted:To teach diagnostic reasoning in a case-based format by (1a) teaching schemas, (1b) modeling expert diagnostic reasoning, (1c) teaching clinical knowledge, and (1d) teaching diagnostic reasoning terminology.To change the culture of medicine by (2a) promoting diversity, (2b) modeling humility and promoting psychological safety, and (2c) creating a fun, casual way to learn.To democratize the teaching of diagnostic reasoning by leveraging technology.Listeners’ usage habits, valued features, and perceptions overall strongly aligned with all these aspects, except for (1c) clinical knowledge, and (1d) diagnostic reasoning terminology. Listeners identified (1a) schemas, and (2c) promotion of psychological safety as the most valuable features of the podcast.ConclusionCPSolvers has been perceived as a highly effective and novel way to disseminate DR education in the form of case conferences, serving as an alternative to traditional in-person case conferences suspended during COVID-19. CPSolvers combines many known benefits of in-person case conferences with a compassionate and entertaining teaching style, plus advantages of the podcasting medium — democratizing morning report for listeners around the world.

Pseudo-discursive, mobilizing, emotional, and entertaining: identifying four successful communication styles of political actors on social media during the 2015 Swiss national elections

ABSTRACT Political actors are adapting their communication styles to the network media logic of social media platforms with varying success. This study investigates the communication styles used during the Swiss national election 2015 and their success in triggering digital reactions. In a quantitative content analysis of the “top 20” most reacted to messages on Facebook (n = 2170) and Twitter (N = 1796) of 246 Swiss parliamentarians and 11 parties we analyzed the impact of a pseudo-discursive, mobilizing, emotional and entertaining communication style. Whereas the pseudo-discursive style is the most common on both platforms, it leads on Facebook to fewer interactions. The entertaining style fosters reactions on Facebook but not on Twitter. Though the emotional style is used the least, it is the most beneficial. The paper concludes by discussing how these four communication styles alter communication between political actors and citizens.

Book Review | China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society: Changing Paradigms of Farming by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Jingzhong Ye

This book integrates current research in peasant agriculture with appropriate and relevant cases, and practical relevant examples. The beauty of the book lies in the individual chapters that delve into the density issues of Chinese peasant agriculture in readable and entertaining style. I see this book as a perfect outlet for readers who are curious about Chinese peasant agriculture and for students to explore this material through both assigned and optional reading.

The raven and the falcon: youth versus old age in medieval Arabic literature

This book fills a long-standing gap in Arabic-Islamic studies. Hasan Shuraydi presents an in-depth survey of relevant themes that concern youth and old age in Medieval Arabic literature in an informative and entertaining style intended for specialists and non-specialists.

On "Games and Mathematics. Subtle Connections" by David Wells

There is a number of popular books on mathematics and its connection with other human activities. The presented book ``Games and Mathematics. Subtle Connections'' belongs to this class but the author's perspective is original (see [2] in references for links to other texts and reviews on the book ) by David Graham Wells The title of the book is intriguing and outrageous at the same time. However, as it is possible to find in others' opinion (see Thomas~[1]), no one claims that mathematics is a game or bunch of games but doing mathematics is \emph{like} playing a game. This book is on this topic. In this book, the author presents an enthusiastic view of mathematics and explains why the study of mathematics is similar to the playing of games such as chess, hex and go, but also why it differs. The book considers a large number of mathematical problems and games, particularly from the field of geometry and number theory in an entertaining style, although he brushes over some of the concepts and as a result the book is not an easy read. The book is aimed at high school teachers and pupils with an aptitude for mathematics. Although many of the examples presented appear in other such books, the author often finds a novel approach to them. One thing which was particularly refreshing was that the author pointed out cases where initial attempts to find a solution were actually wrong and hence stressed the fact that mathematics is not a mechanical science, but requires insight as well as formalism. The reader does not need a very formal background in mathematics, a more intuitive approach is favored. On the other hand, the book covers a wide range of material (and historical figures) at a very rapid pace. Hence, some of the concepts presented are left unexplained.

The Identity Joke: Race, Rap, Performance in CB4

Since their birth in the 1970s, hip-hop music and culture have repeatedly been framed as black cultural forms that give youth a voice in American society to speak the truth of their lived experience and feelings of political anger. Steven Best and Douglas Kellner are representative of this approach. They note:Rap is thus at once a formidable form of musical expression, a subcultural means of opposition, a cultural idiom of counterhegemonic anger and rebellion, and an indicator that existing societies are structured according to a system of differences between dominant and subordinate classes, groups, races, and genders. . . . Rap can force white audiences to reflect on their own racial construction, on the ways that whites oppress blacks, on the ways that their own subject positions are constructed in opposition to an Other who is often presented in a negative light. Rap is thus a significant part of the postmodern adventure that forces an increasingly multicultural and multiracial society to become aware of its differences and to learn to live with otherness and dissimilarity.1Though optimistic, this assessment of hip hop as a political art form that questions whiteness as a political identity is a fair assessment, in spite of its totalization of rap as a singular style/genre. Many black fans and critics often disparage nonblack fans, largely whites from non-urban environments for misappropriating their form of urban culture, a debate that has roots in rock n' roll, jazz, and even the minstrelsy. Although black fans and critics may have a point in their critique of white performativity of black cultural performance, what they may not analytically see is the meaning that various groups attach to a set of social practices or cultural inventions. Rather than seeing this form is mere racial imitation or racial fakery those whites are in fact positioning themselves in the world through their performances of certain genres of rap. The point is no one is truly a racial insider, especially in the tradition of performance. The dichotomy of insider and outsider makes little sense. Performance of any form of entertaining style is open to multiple meanings and interpretations. In short, racial identity is never fully transparent to anyone in American culture.Hip hop is so thoroughly associated with blackness (even though Latino/as were equally important to the genesis of hip hop) that to separate the two is tantamount to genocide for the most committed fans and critics since African Americans dominate the form in the music industry. Most popular musical genres have a philosophy that shapes their aesthetics (e.g., how fans dress, behave, and discuss the idiom). These are its rules of identity and determine the fan's level of commitment to the musical. To propose hip-hop fans are following the rules of a musical culture rather than a race is an incendiary claim in the United States. Black American fans might especially fear white economic exploitation and the deracination of their cultural contributions. This is due in large part to a long history musical and economic exploitation and the mainstream, commercial musical industry that sold rap in record numbers as solely a hardcore and gangsta genre. The commercial music industry not only sold rap in this form, it also portrayed blackness in as monoracial, exclusionary urban identity.2All entertainers engage the role of storytelling in creating their stage persona. However, in this article I'm interested in the question of racial identity as a social construction and performed fiction. In much of commercial hip hop, blackness is often staged as one uniformed cultural expression of masculine prowess and violence, even when an artist tries to avoid being singularly categorized. In defending hip hop against the charges of being violent and misogynist, many critics, musicians and fans blame this state of affairs on the recording industry. In Byron Hurt's 2006 documentary film Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes on representations of manhood in rap, this argument is one of the guiding themes. …

Team Up with Your TA: Incorporating Late-Night TV Elements into the LRW Classroom

This article introduces an innovative pedagogical technique of strategically integrating the student teaching assistant into the legal research and writing (LRW) classroom dynamic. The technique incorporates established learning and educational psychology principles to foster a deeper, more effective learning of critical LRW skills. The article demonstrates how the TA’s in-class participation – including periodic, strategically planned exchanges with the professor (harkening the entertaining style of popular late night talk/variety shows) and occasional presentations – refreshes the students’ attention, enhances the professor’s presentation, keeps the class engaged, and promotes student-TA interaction outside of class. The technique taps the TA’s unique roles as former LRW student, student-peer, and bridge from the classroom to the law office, where LRW skills being taught today will be directly applied in the real world much sooner than fledgling 1L’s think. The article will be of value to new and veteran LRW professors, TA’s, and law professors who teach skills courses that utilize former students as TA’s.

텔레비전 탈장르 프로그램의 제작과정 특성 -KBS 2TV <스펀지>를 중심으로-

Nowadays, `fusion style` television programs are increasingly found in the production of television program. Originally such a trend has been developed with a purpose of changing tedious cultural program into entertaining style. Recently, however, it has also become as an alternative style of genre which is against from lasciviousness or lewdness of entertaining programs. This study is designed to analyse the characteristics of television production and theorize a producing process of the television genre-over program As a result of various aspects of research, it is found that recent producers who make genre-over program choose any kind of genre which is thought to be needed for their program, without any limitation in terms of methods or skills for specific genre. And with this change of concept for making programs, genre-over programs are newly defined as the entertaining programs, in which its entertaining function is widen and broaden, absorbing the informative function of cultural programs.

Dawn of the electronic age: electrical technologies in the shaping of the modern world, 1914-1945

Electrical power is supplied to virtually every home and workplace in our industrialized world. Providing a much-needed comprehensive overview of electrical and electronics history, Dawn of the Electric Age takes an international perspective within a chronological framework. The book explains how our engineering knowledge and its main applications developed in their scientific, economic, and social contexts, and describes how these contexts were profoundly affected by electrical technologies. Though a scholarly study, the book is written in an entertaining style for the general public as well as engineering professionals.

The Life and Death Consequences of Capitalism

be? The process inevitably involves a series of compromises between telling a good story, consciously and explicitly evaluating the evidence, presenting the full evidentiary base, and that killer of prose historiographical positioning. Picking up Tycoon's War, one is immediately struck by the blend of compromises it represents. It has the frame of the usual scholarly apparatus: notes, bibliography, and index. But the notes are scanty unto vanishing, and they reflect the serious use of only a fraction of the sources shown in the bibliography. Furthermore, fifteen minutes of research in a library catalog immediately turns up several works that Dando-Collins has ignored, not to mention his almost complete failure to consult Spanish language sources. So what do we get for this compromise on the scholarly end of the scale? Tycoon's War, despite the titular emphasis on Cornelius Vanderbilt, is actually about William Walker's (in)famous filibustering expedition to Nicaragua in the 1850s. Indeed, much of the book is a biography of Walker, presented somewhat in parallel with a biography of Vanderbilt. There is little doubt about the compelling interest of Vanderbilt' s personality, and Walker's story can be made into a rollicking good adventure story, which is Dando-Collins's intent. Dando-Collins is a historian born in, and now resident in, Australia, who has written a number of other works with the similar intent of telling a good story and drawing his audience into the narrative. Indeed, in the last few years he has produced a veritable flood of dramatic retellings of famous moments in the history of ancient Rome; works he preceded with another on the Ponca Indian Standing Bear.1 In addition to its prima facie appeal and a generally entertaining prose style, Tycoon's War has the advantage of appearing at a time of great economic

ROY HARRIS, The semantics of science

Roy Harris, The semantics of science. London: Continuum International, 2005. Pp. xvi, 240. Hb 49.00At least back to The language myth (1981), Roy Harris (not related to this reviewer) has plied variations of the same salvationist argument, in his customarily grumpy and entertaining style. If you're familiar with this argument, leap ahead to the third paragraph; if not, a quick synopsis, both of the errors he wants to save us from and of the salve he wants us to buy, will best place The semantics of science for you.

Skating on thin ice: rule changes and team strategies in the NHL

Abstract. In an effort to stimulate a more exciting and entertaining style of play, the National Hockey Association (NHL) changed the rewards associated with the results of overtime games. Under the new rules, teams tied at the end of regulation both receive a single point, regardless of the outcome in overtime. A team scoring in the sudden‐death 5‐minute overtime period would earn an additional point. Prior to the rule change in the 1999–2000 season, the team losing in overtime would receive no points while the winning team earned 2 points. This paper presents a theoretical model to explain the effect of the rule change on the strategy of play during both the overtime period and the regulation time game. The results suggest that under the new overtime, format equally powerful teams will play more offensively in overtime resulting in more games decided by a sudden‐death goal. The results also suggest that while increasing the likelihood of attacking in overtime, the rule change would have a perverse effect on the style of play during regulation by causing them to play conservatively for the tie. Empirical data confirm the theoretical results. The paper also shows that increasing the rewards to a win in regulation time would prevent teams from playing defensively during regular time.

Separating fools from their money: a history of American financial scandals

What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) Jack Welch and Jim Fisk? (Answer: Both were captains of industry, eventually undone by extracurricular philandering.) Which was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? (Answer: Tough call, but either Michael Milken's Predators Ball in 1985, or Dennis Kozlowski's Sardinian birthday bash in 2001, with its vodkaspouting sculpture.) Which U.S. war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street? (Answer: Ulysses S. Grant, but it's a long story.) These questions and more are discussed in Scott MacDonald and Jane Hughes' Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals from the early days of the young republic through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times. A host of colorful characters inhabit the pages of this history, revealing human nature in all of its dubious shades of gray. At the same time, the book exposes themes common to all financial scandals, which remain astonishingly unchanged over more than two centuries - greed, hubris, media connections, self-interested politicians, and booms-gone-bust, to name a few. It explores the role of reformers who emerge in the wake of a scandal, concluding with a fascinating comparison of crusading New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer with his equally crusading and equally ambitious namesake, crime buster Eliot Ness. Written in an informative and entertaining style, Fools should engage the interest of the casual business reader, investors, as well as academic economists interested in supplemental readings for their students.

Skating on Thin Ice: Rule Changes and Team Strategies in the NHL

In an effort to stimulate a more exciting and entertaining style of play, the National Hockey Association (NHL) changed the rewards associated with the results of overtime games. Under the new rules, teams tied at the end of regulation both receive a single point regardless of the outcome in overtime. A team scoring in the sudden-death 5-minute overtime period would earn an additional point. Prior to the rule change in the 1999-2000 season, the team losing in overtime would receive no points while the winning team earned 2 points. This paper presents a theoretical model to explain the effect of the rule change on the strategy of play during both the overtime period and the regulation time game. The results suggest that under the new overtime format equally powerful teams will play more offensively in overtime resulting in more games decided by a sudden-death goal. The results also suggest that while increasing the likelihood of attacking in overtime, the rule change would have a perverse effect on the style of play during regulation by causing them to play conservatively for the tie. Empirical data confrm the theoretical results. The paper also shows that increasing the rewards to a win in regulation time would prevent teams from playing defensively during regular time.

Stress and the Brain: A Fresh Perspective

Stress, the Brain and Depression, by Herman M. van Praag, Ron de Kloet, and Jim van Os. (2004). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 293 pp., $110.00, £65.00.This book addresses one of the fundamental questions in the etiology of depression: Does stress cause depression? Although intuitively one may answer yes to this question, the book presents detailed psychological and neurobiological evidence to show the complexity of the issue. The book focuses on three major themes: (1) pathophysiology of stress in depression; (2) stress-inducible subtypes of depression; and (3) diagnosing depression to understand biological underpinnings of the condition. Although each of the three authors wrote individual chapters (with van Praag writing most chapters), the book is well organized and flows smoothly. The book is well written in an entertaining style, especially the chapters written by van Praag. For example, when discussing the problems with the current DSM-IV diagnostic system, van Praag states, “psychiatric diagnosing is locked up in a nosological straightjacket, and thus immobilized” (p. 8). It is this type of commentary, sprinkled throughout the book, that holds the reader's interest. In addition, the authors provide a fresh perspective on diagnostic issues in depression, stress/negative life events, and the neurobiology of depression. I expect the volume will stimulate research ideas. To get the most out of the book, it should be read in its entirety. Exceptions are the chapters reviewing the psychobiology of stress and depression, which provide very comprehensive summaries of the research literature, and may serve as a good reference. The initial chapters build the theoretical foundation for the presentation of the biological data, and the final chapters integrate the biological data with the initial hypotheses. The authors take issue with diagnostic trends in psychiatry, definitions of stress and life events, and to a lesser extent, neurobiological approaches to psychiatric research. The authors do not rehash old findings, but include the most recent literature. For example, when discussing corticotrophin releasing hormone (CRH) receptors, they present new findings supporting a possible parallel parasympathetic-related system in addition to the traditional sympathetic response. When the data presentation becomes complex, information is summarized in easy-to-read tables.

Electroconvulsive Therapy, 4th ed.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Book Forum: Somatic TherapiesFull AccessElectroconvulsive Therapy, 4th ed.SAXBY PRIDMORE, M.D., SAXBY PRIDMORESearch for more papers by this author, M.D., Hobart, AustraliaPublished Online:1 Mar 2005https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.162.3.643AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail A veteran reader of the first three editions of this book receives the fourth with the expectation of pain and pleasure. The pain relates to the need to drag once more through the basic science, although refreshment is ever necessary because this knowledge only fleetingly sticks. The pleasure relates to the anticipation of a masterful analysis and synthesis of a vast and important topic by a legend in the field, who will deliver an unambiguous and personal statement in a clear and often entertaining style: “Like Man, ECT is at the end of an evolutionary line, but, also like Man, rather than facing imminent extinction it is flourishing.”An interesting addition in this fourth edition is a chapter on transcranial magnetic stimulation, which Abrams sees as having potential in the treatment of depression. This was a brave prediction, for at the time of writing he had access only to reports up to and including 2000. Over the subsequent years there have been more positive reports (1). Abrams correctly points out, however, that the current method of delivering transcranial magnetic stimulation “bears as close a relationship to the methods that will be employed in 25 years hence as unmonitored sine wave bitemporal ECT bears to modern ECT.”The predicted thorough review of the basic science is present and updated. Of particular interest in the new edition is the progress in the debate over the method of determining dose: stimulus titration versus fixed dose or age-based dose. After reviewing the literature, Abrams is quite clear in his own preference: “I prefer simply setting the ECT device to deliver the maximum dose.” He describes the fears of undue cognitive consequences of high-dose right unilateral ECT as “unwarranted.”An advantage of the publication is that in addition to the scholarly assessment of the literature, in chapter 9, Abrams gives a practical account of how he performs ECT. There are also reassuring practical statements, including that the higher the dose, the shorter the seizure—“confuting the frequently offered advice to increase the stimulus dose if seizures are too short, and reduce it if they are too long.”This is the most authoritative ECT monograph and has been so for almost two decades. It is essential reading for all trainee psychiatrists and essential source material for departments providing this treatment. It is based on evidence, interesting, and easy to read. Although Abrams cannot see how the treatment can be further improved, he observes that our knowledge of the mechanism of action is rudimentary, having not surpassed “in conceptual elegance the 18th-century claim that things burned because they contained phlogiston.”By Richard Abrams. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002, 328 pp., $66.50.Reference1. Fitzgerald PB, Brown TL, Marston NA, Daskalakis ZJ, De Castella A, Kulkarni J: Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of depression: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2003; 60:1002–1008Medline, Google Scholar FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited ByNone Volume 162Issue 3 March 2005Pages 643-643 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 March 2005 Published in print 1 March 2005

Francis Crick (1916–2004)

Francis Crick (1916–2004)