Modern Academic Research Articles

Smartphone Journalism: Modern Academic and Practical Approaches to the Study

Smartphone Journalism: Modern Academic and Practical Approaches to the Study

Understanding Man in the Modern Academic Philospohy after the Marginalist Revolution

Understanding Man in the Modern Academic Philospohy after the Marginalist Revolution

Modern Academic Discourse and the Typology of the Тext in Theory and Practice (a Comparative Study of the Abstract Genre)

This article discusses the abstract as a typological genre as well as the components that comprise its structure and content. Abstract writing as a discursive act is viewed from two angles: internationally and from within the isolation of national perspectives. Comparing the development of the genre within and beyond a single linguistic culture, the article describes the different approaches to the genre in Western and Russian research. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of such categories as textuality and “cultural markedness” and discusses the main characteristics of the genre in relation to the lingua franca. Through a close reading and comparative analysis of student abstracts, the article examines 1) mistakes occurring in these abstracts in order to make inferences about the typological features of the genre, and 2) specific structural and content components against the backdrop of the lingua franca in order to draw conclusions about the structure of the genre. This analysis reveals discrepancies between the structural components of the text and the transfer of the general meaning of the text as well as textual lacunae in the matrix of the genre of another linguistic culture. It subdivides the genre of specific types of texts according to their structure and content, and also identifies the precedent genre in Russian and English linguistic culture. Furthermore, it argues that an ethnomethodology should include information about the specificity of the genre within contemporary academic discourse. The article recommends further research in the following areas: divergences from norms within the genre; optional components in the typology of the text and national academic discourse; a three-tier model for analyzing the genre in the foreign-language classroom: the language being studied — the native language — the lingua franca.

Hungarian and International Russian Studies in a Modern Academic Journal: Overview and Trends

Russian studies have a decade-long tradition in Hungary. As part of a professional renewal following the change of the regime, new forums were established, including the Eötvös Lóránd University Russian Studies Institute, which later became a centre, and then was replaced by the Centre for the Research and Methodology of Russian Studies. In the meantime, Russian studies workshops were launched at other universities in Pécs, Szeged, Eger, Szombathely, and Debrecen. Research in Russian studies covers a broad spectrum in Hungary both in terms of time and topics, applying a multidisciplinary approach to Russian history and culture. The Russian Studies Hu periodical has undertaken to provide this multi-layered cultural and academic community with a medium and, along with it, a unique opportunity to present their most recent research findings in Russian studies. Representing a broad scholarly perspective, the periodical also promotes cooperation with international researchers studying Russian history and culture. The composition of the editorial board and the content of the issues published so far reflects this approach, with recognised international historians among the authors whose works have been published in the journal between 2019 and 2022. The issues of Russian Studies Hu provide an overview of the trends in modern Russian studies (after 2000). The periodical covers a wide range of historical genres and views and is strongly connected to historiographical approaches. This is especially true of the issues published after 2021, which we will pay particular attention to in our study.

Professor Moslem Bahadori (1927–2022), a Matchless Role Model in Modern Academic Medicine in Iran

Professor Moslem Bahadori (1927–2022), a Matchless Role Model in Modern Academic Medicine in Iran

Modern Academic Sinology in Ukraine: Philosophical Research Area in the 1990s – 2020s

Modern Academic Sinology in Ukraine: Philosophical Research Area in the 1990s – 2020s

Modern Academic Library’s User’s Competency in Reading: Paradoxes of Changes

The article briefly describes a role of educational institution of higher education students’ competency in reading in the context of pursuing educational goals. Russian and English-language researchers’ views on reasons of low quality of academic and professionally aimed reading among young people are analyzed. Some factors of unacceptably poor effectiveness of search, selection, interpretation of information undertook by students individually are considered, as well as factors of improper use data took by students from published documents for handling of applied problems. Personally and professionally meaningful consequences of lowering of students’ competency in reading are listed. The authors argue an idea about throwing library specialists at the problem of developing students’ competency in reading through pedagogic technology.

Activities of the Representative of the Drohobyсh Music­Pedagogical School of Vladimir Salii in the Context of the Modern Academic Art: Knowledge the Scientific and Composer Aspects

The aim of this paper is to study the development of the creative figure of the scientist and composer Volodymyr Salii and provide the analysis of the significance of his activities in the context of contemporary cultural and artistic space.Research methodology. Research on the scientific and creative activities of V. Salii has not been thoroughly covered yet. This issue deals with the general information from the online resources. Special attention is paid to the life and creative-scientific ways of V. Salii in the directories of the authorship of A. Dushniy and B. Pyts. However, this data is in need of updating. The main part of the information for this intelligence was V. Salii’s scientific and methodological developments that have a significant impact on modern educational programs, he is the author of, as well as new compositions written for children and adolescents, which during the second decade of the 21st century took a firm place in the repertoire of accordionists, bandurists, clarinetists and vocalists.Results. Having outlined the main milestones of life, the scientific and creative path of the composer Volodymyr Salii it can be confidently stated that his scientific explorations and thorough pedagogical research have made a significant contribution to the formation and development of modern national scientific thought and found his own scientific thought process at different stages of art education. Composer music is heard from the stage during various thematic and reporting concerts, competitions and artistic events, which in turn contributes to the development and popularization of academic art in the socio-cultural space of today.Novelty. The main scientific and composer achievements of Volodymyr Salii have been specified.The practical significance is to outline the importance of V. Saliі activities as a scientist and composer, in the active introduction into the repertoire of modern accordionists of his creative achievements.

The Museum as an Extension of the Library: Embracing John Cotton Dana's Vision in a Modern Academic Library

The Museum as an Extension of the Library: Embracing John Cotton Dana's Vision in a Modern Academic Library

The Acceptance of the Modern Academic System and The Re- establishment of the Traditional Academic Structure - Focusing on The Case of Chinese Aesthetics -

본 논문은 중국의 지식인들이 근현대 학술체계를 수용하고 중국 전통 학문구조를 재정립해나가는 과정을 중국미학의 경우를 중심으로 살펴봄으로써 동아시아 전통 학문과 근현대 학문 사이에 존재하는 간격을 좁히고 서로 간의 모순을 극복해나갈 수 있는 방향성을 제시하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 현재 중국을 비롯한 아시아에서 대학기관을 중심으로 하는 지식체계의 구조는 기본적으로 서양의 근대화 과정 중 신학원에서 파생되어 나온 학문의 구조를 따르고 있다. 한편 동아시아권 국가들의 경우 유구한 세월을 거쳐 그들의 지식체계를 정립시켜왔음에도 불구하고 근현대 학술구조와의 격차 때문에 그것이 하나의 지식으로 성립될 수 있다는 신빙성마저 의심받고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 동아시아 전통학문의 근현대화에 있어서의 가능성과 난점을 진단해내기 위해 중국의 경우를 중심으로 전근대 시기 사부지학(四部之學)에서 팔과지학(八科之學), 민국총서(民國叢書)로 이어지는 지식체계의 변화를 먼저 살펴본다. 이와 더불어 전통 지식구조의 근현대화에 성공했다고 평가되는 중국에서의 미학의 수용과 발전 과정을 집중적으로 살펴봄으로써 그 발전특징과 성공 원인을 분석해낸다. 극적인 성공을 거둘 수 있었던 중국 미학의 역동적 발전은 동아시아 국가들이 전통학문의 근현대화라는 난관을 극복해나가는 데 있어 하나의 실질적인 범례가 되어줄 수 있다.This paper aims to narrow the gap between traditional and modern studies in East Asia and at the same time to present a way to overcome the contradictions between them by examining the process how Chinese intellectuals have accepted modern and contemporary academic systems and re-established a Chinese academic structure. The structure of the knowledge system in East Asia basically follows the academic structure derived from the seminary during the Western modernization process. Oh the other hand, even though East Asian countries have established their own knowledge system in their rich history, there are doubts whether it can be an academic system nowadays due to the gap between modern and contemporary academic structure. Thus, to check the possibilities and difficulties that this modernization process has, this paper will preferentially examine the changes in the knowledge system from Complete Library of Four Branches of Books（四庫全書） to Eight branches of Learning (八科之學) and Series of books in Republic of China (民國叢書). At the same time, this paper analyzes the development characteristics and the cause of success by focusing on the acceptance and development process of aesthetics in China, which is considered successful in modernizing its traditional knowledge structure. The dynamic development of Chinese aesthetics which had a dramatic success, could serve as a practical precedent for East Asian countries to overcome the difficulty of modernizing traditional studies.

MODERNIZATION IN THE ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

In the present paper, a researcher will discuss the Academic Libraries in the Digital Era and Best practices for modernizing the library. As we know that, the field of digital libraries brings together participants from many existing areas of research. Currently, the domain lacks a clear agenda Academic Libraries in the digital age of this other area. It is tempting for researchers to think that the field of digital modernizing libraries is a natural outgrowth of an already known field, from a database Development of Academic Libraries or Digital Libraries information, can be present realised as a form of joined records. Since a viewpoint, the field of A Modern Academic Library could appear to be a use of the Academic libraries in the digital era. From a library science perspective, Digital Technologies might be seen as continuing a trend toward library Digitization.

Optimizing Library Services--Collaborations and Partnerships for the Modern Academic Library

Optimizing Library Services--Collaborations and Partnerships for the Modern Academic Library

Role of the Information Professional in the Development and Promotion of Digital Humanities Content for Research, Teaching, and Learning in the Modern Academic Library: An Irish Case Study

ABSTRACTThe Internet has been the catalyst for the convergence of many subject areas and online platforms. Information professionals such as Archivists, IT developers and especially Librarians have been impacted in the development and promotion of digital humanities content for research, teaching, and learning in the modern academic library. In this case study, relevant findings from research that sought to determine the level of awareness of digital humanities in Irish Libraries is examined. The research project, The Mary Martin Diary, is highlighted as an example of a multidisciplinary collaboration project that utilized library communication skills, project management skills, digital humanities tools and techniques, as well as other online resources in its development. These skills and tools have the potential to be applied to similar projects that librarians engage in. Recommendations derived from this research highlight the practical application of skills for information professionals and their roles in the development and promotion of digital humanities content for research, teaching, and learning in the modern academic library.

Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō by Isomae Jun’ichi

Reviewed by: Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō by Isomae Jun’ichi Jolyon Baraka Thomas Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō. By Isomae Jun’ichi. Translated by Galen Amstutz and Lynne E. Riggs. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 501 pages. Softcover $209.00. When I was a visiting research student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tokyo between 2006 and 2007, Isomae Jun’ichi’s 2003 monograph Kindai Nihon no shūkyō gensetsu to sono keifu: Shūkyō, kokka, shintō was indispensable reading. In that Japanese-language predecessor of the book under review here, Isomae refreshingly traced the adventitious process whereby shūkyō came to be the default translation for the English word “religion.” He also showed how the discursive structures of the religious studies field—including the assumed naturalness of the very word “religion”—shape the research questions scholars have been inclined to ask. Isomae’s willingness to critically examine religious studies was a stimulant for the field in general, and it would be no overstatement to say that his treatment of the political effects of the “R word” provided inspiration for my own current research on religious freedom in modern Japan. The sharp critiques that follow must be read with this indebtedness and profound respect for Isomae’s pathbreaking work in mind. Although the titles are similar, the English-language edition departs in significant ways from Isomae’s 2003 work, incorporating several new sections that reflect his voluminous output in the intervening years. While its topic is of indisputable importance to those of us who professionally study “Japanese religions” (a phrase I use here out of convenience), frankly the book would have benefited from some ruthless editing, a clearer framing of the argument, and a more rigorous chronological presentation. The introduction, for example, is a literature review of the sort one expects to find in some doctoral dissertations but cannot be justified in an academic monograph. Subsequent chapters are redundant, retracing the same material several times rather than providing a cogent presentation from start to finish. Translators Galen Amstutz and Lynne E. Riggs deserve congratulations for rendering Isomae’s text with fidelity to his idiosyncratic tone. Isomae habitually writes in the passive voice or—when using more active verbs—speaks of objects or institutions as if they were agents: “Shinto succeeded in prescribing its acts of religiosity as the public [End Page 186] duty of all the people of the state regardless of what beliefs they might hold as private individuals” (p. xix). He also speaks unhesitatingly about what Japanese people felt or believed without offering any evidence to support his claims. This creates the unavoidable impression that Isomae’s rigid binary between “the West” and “the non-West” and his sharp division of Japanese history into pre- and post-“religion” are premised on a rather naïve assumption that premodern Japanese people were somehow more noble or pure for lacking the modern concept of religion. Indeed, in Isomae’s telling the concept of religion becomes a sort of polluting agent or irritant. It is the small foreign body around which modern Japanese identity, the field of religious studies, and the religion/secular distinctions of the modern Japanese state cohered. This last claim that the foreign category of religion constructed modern Japanese governance is not dissimilar to Trent Maxey’s recent argument in The “Greatest Problem”: Religion and State Formation in Meiji Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2014). In contrast with Maxey’s stolid historical approach, however, Isomae advances an activist project that aims to recuperate a romanticized Japanese past while dreamily idealizing a different future for the study of religion. Isomae is on slightly firmer ground when he turns to actual historical data in part 1, “The Formation of the Concept of ‘Religion’ and Modern Academic Discourse.” Chapter 1 provides a sweeping overview of the introduction of the category “religion” to Japan and the diplomatic difficulties and domestic policy implications it engendered. Isomae sees the introduction of religion as a problem of the imposition of “Western logic” on Japan. But because he never clearly defines the “Japanese logic” against which he juxtaposes this (similarly undefined) “Western logic,” the reader...

“Go to Your Gawd Like a Soldier”: Transnational Reflections on Veteranhood

“Go to Your Gawd Like a Soldier”Transnational Reflections on Veteranhood Wayne Wei-Siang Hsieh (bio) At its most basic level, combat creates two classes of individuals: those who perish in war and those who survive the experience. Even the seemingly simple categorization of victors and losers frustrates—witness the burgeoning field of work on the memory of the American Civil War. Even for the maimed, whether in body or soul, the line between life and death marks a stark and simple contrast. However, for soldiers who serve as direct participants in war, suffering unites the dead and the living—and if there is another recent theme in Civil War studies, it is the importance of pain and trauma to any complete understanding of the war and its legacy.1 Recent scholarly work on veterans thus tends to focus on the importance of suffering, and one can hardly dispute the significance of the phenomena, considering how such literature marshals a wide ranging evidentiary base of woe. In many ways, such work joins Drew Faust’s Republic of Suffering as welcome responses to Edward Ayers’s now sixteen-year-old call for a less triumphalist interpretation of the Civil War than the relatively positive post–World War II consensus interpretation that reached its peak of prominence in Ken Burns’s Civil War documentary and James McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom.2 Ayers rightly called on historians to embrace a more complex and refined view of the war than Burns’ relatively rosy interpretation. In In the Presence of Mine Enemies, Ayers embraced the complexity of the war in the Valley and all its Woodwardian ironies.3 Unfortunately, some aspects of this new wave of Civil War revisionism with its focus on “dark history” runs the real risk of replacing an overly triumphalist and emancipationist narrative with one fixated on waste and folly.4 Such an interpretive key resonates more strongly with the sensibilities of modern academics, as opposed to the American Civil War’s own historical actors. So miserable and unredeemable do some historians portray Civil War military service that at times the field implies Civil War soldiers stood and [End Page 551] fought and died contrary to reason, humanity, and self-interest. For example, Drew Gilpin Faust, both a historian of the American Civil War and the leading tribune of the historical profession from her post at the head of Harvard University, has highlighted the importance of cultural narratives glorifying war and publicly cautioned against the power of “tales of glory, honor, manhood and sacrifice [that] enhance war’s attraction and mobilize men and armies.” Faust clearly sympathizes with the veterans of the western front who later saw such tales as “a betrayal.”5 Furthermore, an exclusive fixation on soldiers’ suffering raises larger questions of the persistence of war into our own era, and its obvious prevalence in the nineteenth century. For example, veterans of the Taiping Civil War (1850–64) in China may not have been able to draw on the ideological and legal protections embedded in American views of citizen-soldiers, but simple coercion cannot completely explain the scale of mobilization seen in a conflict whose butcher bill far exceeded that of the American sectional conflict.6 Nineteenth-century Americans also looked back at Europe’s Napoleonic wars, whose combination of wartime devastation with nationalist mobilization did not create a cultural sea change against war similar to post-Vietnam America. Perhaps by virtue of their distance from Europe, Americans had been insulated from that European conflict’s costs, but the sons of the Continental soldiers who fought the wars of the French Revolution seemed more than willing to continue to fight and die on sundry battlefields ranging from the Crimea to Italy to the Franco-German frontier. The modern academic’s reply, of course, is that he or she knows dirty secrets of war unknown to a past raised on fables of glory and deceit. Such views strike me as morally questionable, because they too easily fit into shibboleths about the fundamentally pacific nature of human behavior that blame war on jingoistic propagandists and malignant politicians. More importantly, such a perspective fails to explain how military life in...

The Road Oft Traveled: Collection Analysis and Development in a Modern Academic Law Library

While law students and faculty are content to research solely online, the librarians at Stetson University College of Law's Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library are actively involving every library department to analyze and develop both the print and digital collection. This case study will analyze the print to digital shift in academic law libraries and its effect on collection development. It will then describe the process of collection management at the Hand Law Library and how the entire library team is used to determine what is required of the collection to best serve our students, faculty, and the public.

Moderation Impossible? on Hype, Honesty and Trust in the Context of Modern Academic Life

This article deals with issues of hype in science and science journalism. It examines two cases of ‘hype’, one surrounding the discovery that neutrinos travel faster than light, or not; the other surrounding the discovery that the earth is warming, or not. These two cases are compared and contrasted, especially with a focus on discovering some of the pitfalls of ‘making science public’ in an era of hype. The analysis is carried out against the backdrop of an emerging ‘post-normal science’, the increasing pressure to make science public at an ever-faster pace, as well as the impact agenda in the UK. The paper shows that with relation to hype in science and science journalism, it might be useful to distinguish between honest hype and what one might call politicized hype. Using honest hype to make science public may be an option in fields of science that are relatively a-political, such as particle physics, an option that is probably unavailable in a highly politicized science, such as climate science. In this context, moderation seems as impossible as modesty on the part of the scientists involved.

A Modern Academic Priesthood

A Modern Academic Priesthood

Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth-Century China, edited by Brian Moloughney and Peter Zarrow. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011. xii + 429 pp. US$52.00 (hardcover).

<i>Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth-Century China</i>, edited by Brian Moloughney and Peter Zarrow. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011. xii + 429 pp. US$52.00 (hardcover).

A New Book of Japanese Sources

A New Book of Japanese Sources Steven Heine Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. Edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo. Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. Pp. xviii + 1,340. Hardcover $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3552-1. Paper $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8248-3618-4. Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook is a monumental achievement that must have taken many years of thoughtful planning and execution by a fine group of editors: James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo. Offering well over a thousand pages of invaluable resources for researchers and teachers at a very reasonable retail price, this volume will undoubtedly serve as an outstanding sourcebook for all those interested in Japanese philosophy, as well as religious thought, social ideology, and artistic expressions stemming from the classical (Heian) and medieval (Kamakura) through the early modern (Tokugawa) and modern (Meiji and post-Meiji) periods. Key portions of some of the major writings by leading figures in Japanese culture have been compiled by a remarkably skilled team of translators; the list of those involved reads like a "who's who" of the field (pp. xvi-xviii). In addition to the three main editors, who also contribute a number of the translations in addition to opening statements for various sections of the book, a few dozen carefully selected scholars participated in this comprehensive project, every one of whom is an expert in one or more fields and subfields of Japanese thought. The translations included here have obviously been labored over and have been double-checked and cross-checked; they will be of great service in the classroom and consulted by research specialists for many years to come. Following an introductory essay, "Framework," which lays out the aims, rationale, structure, and organization of the book, the materials on the major religious traditions cover about 550 pages, with the next section on Modern Academic Philosophy covering about 450 pages, and the final section on Additional Themes containing about 250 pages, followed by nearly 100 pages of Reference Material. Each section includes an "Overview," or introductory discussion, with a short list of Suggested Further Readings, and every thinker cited is explained and featured with an image of their likeness. The entire set of the translations and reference materials has the potential to be read very carefully by a wide readership, and the book will take its place alongside a very small handful of similar volumes that have such breadth and scope of coverage. The first main section of materials is presented according to the chronology of various traditions of religious philosophical thought, with about a half dozen or up to [End Page 88] two or three times that number of representatives chosen to represent these schools of thought. This section starts with Buddhist thinkers who reflect more general or unaffiliated trends, ranging from Kūkai in the ninth century to Nakamura Hajime in the twentieth century, and also includes a unit on "Original Enlightenment Debates" extending from Saichō in the early Heian era to the recent Critical Buddhism methodological movement. Next is the section on Zen, beginning with Dōgen and Musō Sōseki of the Sōtō sects, respectively, from the early Kamakura era and extending to Suzuki Daisetz and Hisamatsu Shin'ichi. The section on Pure Land, which includes five thinkers, ranges from Hōnen and Shinran, the respective twelfth-and thirteenth-century founders of the Jōdo and Jōdo Shin sects, to the recent Yasuda Rijin. After this, the section on Confucianism, which includes the greatest number of thinkers—seventeen in all—deals largely with a Tokugawa-era phenomenon that starts at the end of the sixteenth century with Fujiwara Seika and continues until Ninomiya Sontoku in the late nineteenth century. This is followed by Shinto, which is also rooted in the Edo period and begins with Kamo no Mabuchi and Motoori Norinaga in the eighteenth century and concludes with Ueda Kenji in the twentieth century. The category of modern academics is divided into three subsections. The first is "Beginnings, Definitions, Disputations," which covers a handful of Meiji-era thinkers who helped develop the Japanese...