Symbolic Value Research Articles

Placing Value in Domestic Interiors

This article explores the interplay between place and value in the display of art in domestic spaces in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, using the painting collection of Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707) and Jacoba Bicker (1640-1695) as a case study. With the aid of a schematic 3D reconstruction of their house, based on De Graeff’s inventory and other sources, this research brings these artworks back to their original domestic context, testing hypotheses regarding their placement and visual impact while investigating display patterns. The 3D spatial mapping of De Graeff’s inventory connects the paintings’ monetary values with their location, and helps evaluate the symbolic and emotional values attributed to family portraits and other artworks. The article is accompanied by a methodological section in the HTML format detailing the 3D reconstruction process and sources.

Crowding out or crowding in? The interaction between public pensions and private transfers in China

ABSTRACT Public pensions and intergenerational family support are among the most important and well-researched income sources for older individuals in many societies. However, the interactions between them have received less attention. A few exceptions discuss if public transfers ‘crowd out’ private transfers. Yet, these studies in developed welfare states are considered misplaced due to their ‘fait accompli’ support arrangements. Furthermore, the cultural and symbolic value of support is often overlooked in these debates. Focusing on the case of China, where family support is institutionalized and public pension coverage is expanding, this study aims to contribute to the ‘crowding-out’ debates by examining intergenerational family transfers following the recent public pension reforms. Based on Heckman two-step regression analyses of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011–2015), the study shows that the ‘crowding-out’ and ‘crowding-in’ effects of public pensions co-exist. The long-established employee pension schemes reduced child-to-parent transfers, but increased parent-to-child transfers. More importantly, access to the new resident pensions, rather than displacing family support, has in effect ‘crowded in’ more child-to-parent transfers. These findings provide new insights into the dynamics between working-age and older generations, as well as between the state and family concerning their roles in welfare provision.

Cultural symbol value in animated advertisement model: systematic review

At present, animation has a wide range of applications in the field of advertising, and more cultural levels drive greater advertising effects. Cultural value with different cultural backgrounds, there are different consumer behaviors for advertising. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review to identify the most common dimensions of animated advertising presented in recent publications and to determine whether there is sufficient evidence for the effectiveness of cultural values in animated advertising. Through electronic search of the database, a total of 1829 citations were identified, of which 14 publications included models. Empirical data were included in 13 studies, and the focus of the review was around the visual perspective, the challenges faced due to the growing cultural diversity, but the lack of cultural value, which led to the dilemma in the cultural perspective of animated advertisement. This review will help researchers explore cultural value as one of the research variables that influenced the results of the study.

Turning Livestreaming Viewers into Game Players: Exploring the Impact of Game Streamers on Viewer Video Game Engagement Based on an Extended Means-End Chain Framework

This study aims to explore how perceived influence of game streamers affects viewer video game engagement. We propose a research model based on an extended means-end chain framework and validate this model through a two-wave field survey with 465 respondents. The results show that perceived attractiveness, perceived competence, and perceived trustworthiness are important attributes of perceived influence of game streamers. Additionally, viewer value perception—encompassing perceived utility value, perceived hedonic value, and perceived symbolic value—which is derived from watching game streaming, partially mediates the relationship between perceived influence of game streamers and viewer video game engagement. These findings not only provide insights into the psychological mechanisms underlying the impact of game streamers on viewer behavioral intention but also contribute to a better understanding of the contemporary game streaming landscape.

Effects of perceived value dimensions on customer brand loyalty towards luxury cars

PurposeThe research aims to examine the influence of perceived value (PV) dimensions on brand loyalty of luxury car owners and to examine the mediating role of attitudinal loyalty (AL) between PV dimensions and behavioral loyalty (BL).Design/methodology/approachPrimary data for the study were gathered from the luxury car owners in Kerala, India. The construct measurements have been adopted from previous research studies. Structural equation modeling with the partial least square (PLS) technique was used to analyze the measurements and conceptual model.FindingsThe findings show that out of four PV dimensions among luxury car owners, the hedonic value (HV) significantly influences their AL. Economic value influences BL, and social values have an impact on AL as well as BL, but the relationship of functional value with any is not supported by the results. AL is a strong predictor of BL, and it actively mediates the relationship of HV and symbolic value with BL.Practical implicationsThe manufactures of luxury cars provide more importance to hedonic and symbolic elements while launching new models and consider the price perceptions of the targeted customers while making decisions related to brand attachment and brand loyalty.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the decision-making of the rapidly growing vehicle market by examining the perceptions and by providing the effects of perceived values among luxury car owners. Also, it extends the literature by developing a framework for PV dimensions on AL and BL and also incorporated the mediating role of AL.

Reputation System as a Digital Socio-Economic Institution: Willingness to Sell in Online Markets

This study examines the features and big data consisting of digital trace records from economic actions within Bukalapak's reputation system and their impact on the willingness to sell (WTS) electronic products. Digital mixed content analysis was used to analyze the rapidly evolving digital-social-based economic institution infrastructure. Data were collected, analyzed, and visualized using Python and analyzed using the concepts of new economic institutions and WTS. The findings indicate that the reputation system is a formal element comprising algorithms, rules, scripts, and patterns. This system facilitates social processes through feedback mechanisms in product descriptions, comments, reviews, ratings, and badges, which generate informal elements such as norms, trust, and symbolic values. These two elements are interconnected into an institutional framework whose function is to ensure that the market, characterized by high levels of anonymous transactions, uncertainty, and asymmetric information, can remain stable and meet the expectations of the actors involved.

Membaca Bentuk Dan Pola Geometri Dalam Motif Batik Kawung

As one of Indonesia's cultural heritage recognized by UNESCO, the Kawung motif holds a wealth of deep aesthetic, philosophical, and symbolic values. Studies on the geometric forms and patterns in the Kawung motif not only offer a better understanding of cultural heritage, but also open up opportunities to explore the relationship between art, mathematics, and philosophy. This research aims to explore the geometric forms and patterns in the Kawung motif in depth, by integrating perspectives from art, mathematics, and philosophy. By analyzing the geometric structure and mathematical principles underlying this motif, as well as relating them to the symbolic and philosophical meanings contained within, it is expected to gain a more holistic understanding of Indonesia's cultural heritage and the intellectual wealth it possesses.

A literature review on the drivers and barriers of organic food consumption in China

Research interest in organic food consumption has increased significantly worldwide, but a systematic analysis of this phenomenon in China is still lacking. The existing studies in this area are wide-ranging and fragmented, and there is a lack of comprehensive research into the drivers and barriers specific to the Chinese context. Based on a literature review of 26 articles spanning from 2011 to 2021, this article employs the consumption values theory and the innovation resistance theory to discern patterns on the drivers and barriers of organic food consumption in China. The findings show that the most explored drivers include the functional values of healthiness and safety. Within the social value realm, environmental concern and symbolic value emerge as important influences on Chinese consumers. Conditional values shed light on factors such as perceived healthiness and certification/organic labeling. Regarding barriers, an aspect of research less analyzed, the article finds key obstacles being price sensitivity, perceived uncertainty, lack of knowledge or information, lack of reliability, and lack of availability or visibility.

Challenging the past in Spain

In recent decades, Spain has enacted two national laws on historical and democratic memory (in 2007 and 2022), alongside numerous laws at the sub-national level. The significance of these laws goes beyond their symbolic value; they not only contribute to collective memory but also acknowledge the plight of victims. This paper aims to analyze the factors influencing regional regulations on historical and democratic memory in Spain. Our focus will be on the drafting processes, exploring the political factors that shape their approval in different regions. Additionally, we will investigate regions that have yet to enact memory laws to understand the reasons behind the absence of such legislation.

More Than Curing the Sick: A Re-Examination of Medicine Buddha Worship in Medieval China

Abstract: The study questions and challenges the dichotomous approach that associates the worship of Medicine Buddha solely with the worldly benefits of the living, thereby neglecting its relevance to the concerns related to the deceased. The research investigates medieval devotees’ religious activities dedicated to this divinity, focusing on the Sui (581–618) and the Tang (618–907) dynasties when such devotion gained increasing popularity in China. It reveals that medieval veneration dedicated to Medicine Buddha transcended the presumed dichotomy, encompassing the well-being of both the living and the dead. This finding underscores the importance of moving beyond the limited perception. Instead of adopting the simplistic label of a “healing divinity,” contextualizing the worship within its broader religious milieu can better capture its full complexity. By extension, the research paves the way for reconsidering the conventional classification that assigns relatively fixed symbolic values to Buddhist deities, which contributes to a more thorough and nuanced understanding of religious practices and beliefs.

Why do generation X customers use wearable fitness technology equipment after recovering from coronavirus? The role of perceived health risks

The health sector has prioritized the physical health of vulnerable Generation X individuals at high Coronavirus risk. Despite vaccination efforts, both infected and healthy people continue facing health threats. Unlike other industries devastated by COVID-19, wearable fitness technology equipment (WFTE) is essential for health-focused individuals. This research examined customers' intention to use WFTE using an adapted Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) framework. A key contribution is the inclusion of perceived health risk and its impact on WFTE value perceptions and usage attitudes post-pandemic. The study gathered qualitative data from coronavirus patients and survey data from 513 participants. Structural equation modeling analysis supported the theoretical model. While the standard TAM evaluated intent to use WFTE, this study uniquely examined how WFTE's functional, hedonic, and symbolic value shapes its perceived value. Perceived health risk was found to significantly impact perceived WFTE value and usage attitudes after the pandemic recovery. Findings offer managerial implications to boost WFTE adoption among the vulnerable Generation X demographic.

Islands and Self-Determination in the Caribbean: Puerto Rico and Aruba in Comparative Perspective

The politics of self-determination in non-independent Caribbean islands features both common and divergent outcomes. The common outcome is a weakness of secessionism. The divergent outcome is the broader politics over status. Using a comparison of Puerto Rico (where secessionism is weak and the constitutional status is strongly contested) and Aruba (where secessionism is also weak but the status broadly accepted), this article refines arguments found in the literature on why non-independent island territories eschew the pursuit of independence, and it formulates an explanation for variation in the politics over status based on the symbolic value of institutions and historical processes of othering.

Exploring traditional Colombian foods and customs: a contemporary perspective on ancestral products

The OIR, Regional Intersystemic Observatory, of the Colombian Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD), as one of the organizational devices that comprehensively and collectively manages community outreach strategies, energizes service learning through interaction and participatory action with the territories in one of its lines of work. From this perspective, a work with an exploratory and descriptive methodological approach was developed in four representative regions of Colombia: Andean, Caribbean, Orinoquia and Pacific in order to identify uses, customs and perspectives of new generations in relation to their own ancestral foods of each territory. Through 559 surveys applied in each area, the use, acquisition, conservation, transmission and symbolic value of these were addressed in the face of the problem of food security and their articulation with peasant-based social organizations, being peasant activity or also called small-scale family agriculture who contribute significantly to the micro-territories. Among the main results are: the linking of ancestral foods as a differential factor in the development of communities, as well as the relevance of geographical location compared to habits, uses and transmission of traditions to future generations.

Slovenske knjižnice v Argentini

Purpose: To present the history of Slovenian libraries in Argentina: outline the work and organization of the libraries (whether they have a catalogue, how lending is done, what the opening hours are, etc.), characteristics of the users, borrowing, visits of the libraries, opinions what they would change in their library, and to present the impor­tance of the libraries for the Slovenian community in the past and today. Methodology/approach: Literature review and fieldwork. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with respondents from 18 Slovenian libraries in Argentina, the data was content analysed. Results: The Slovenian community in Argentina is organized in associations, most of which have libraries, as do the umbrella organization of Slovenians in Argentina, Zedinjena Slovenija, and the Slovene language lectorates in Buenos Aires and Cordoba (eighteen libraries in total). Most libraries are in Buenos Aires, but they are also present in Mendoza, Bariloche, Rosario, Cordoba, and Paraná. Most libraries are community and school libraries. The librarians are mostly volunteers without librarian education. The libraries obtain their materials from Slovenia or through donations and inherit­ances. Most do not have a catalogue, do not keep records of borrowed books, their opening hours are usually during society events. They rarely or never organize events. The only service they offer is book lending, mostly to children, Slovenian school teach­ers and older members. Only the library in Bariloche is included in the COBISS system. The most vital libraries are those of the third-wave emigration associations, most of which were founded in the first decade after the Second World War. They are important for the preservation of Slovenian culture and language, but also have historical, archi­val and symbolic value for the community. Originality/practical implications: The first research on Slovenian libraries in Argentina. In addition to an overview of the history and situation of libraries, it also gives some guidelines for the future development of Slovenian emigrant libraries.

Ukrainian–Russian bilingualism in the war-affected migrant and refugee communities in Austria and Germany: a survey-based study on language attitudes

IntroductionThis paper provides an initial exploration of Ukrainian–Russian bilingualism in the context of the war-affected migration from Ukraine to Austria and Germany. While extensive research exists on various aspects of Ukrainian– Russian bilingualism in relation to Ukraine itself, thus far no studies have been conducted on this bilingualism in the diasporic context, i.e., as a language of the first and subsequential generations with a migrant background in Austria and Germany.MethodsTo address this research gap, our paper examines the language attitudes of two respondent groups with a Ukrainian background in the two countries: migrants and refugees who left Ukraine after 2014 and those who left after Russia’s invasion in February 2022. In the framework of a sociolinguistic survey, we describe their current attitudes regarding the use of Ukrainian and Russian, among others, in relation to the actual and intended use of the language(s) in the multilingual context of migration. The survey eliciting information on demographic information, language proficiency, language attitudes and language use was conducted on 406 Ukrainians in two host countries (Austria: n = 103; Germany: n = 306). First, we compared self-rated proficiency in Ukrainian and Russian as well as attitudes and use of these languages. Second, we applied a network modelling analysis to determine the nature of relationships between these variables.Results and discussionThe results indicated that proficiency in Ukrainian and in Russian were the strongest nodes in the model affecting language use and language attitudes toward the respective languages. Our data analysis focused on the pragmatic and symbolic value of Russian and Ukrainian playing a crucial role in the language vitality in multilingual settings. The paper discusses the imbalanced correlation of the symbolic and pragmatic value of Ukrainian and Russian in the diasporic Ukrainian communities. While Ukrainian has gained a higher symbolic status, Russian maintains a better pragmatic one, despite its negative symbolic status. However, we anticipate that the increasing symbolic value of Ukrainian and the diminishing value of Russian will lead to an increase in the use of Ukrainian also in Russian-dominant bilingual groups of Ukrainian migrants and refugees, even as an insider-code in hermetic minority groups.

Analysis of Visual Images Using the Social Semiotic

With the continuous progress of the information society, the distance between people in modern society is gradually shortened. Graphics are used as a tool for human beings to communicate their thoughts. More and more people analyze the information conveyed to society and the public by various media through visual communication theory. Therefore, to reflect the value of symbols in information dissemination and communication, it is necessary to analyze the meaning of symbols in images because this can make the information transmission of graphic design more scientific and accurate, the expression more abundant, and able to be used as a method also more and more in the field of artistic creation and graphic design. This paper will collect and analyze a cohesive set of images from a group of McDonald's print advertisements to further explore how symbols express information.

Oles Pardabaitak in Pakpak Ethnic: A Semiotics Study

This article is entitled “Oles Pardabaitak in Pakpak Ethnic: A Semiotics Study”. This study aims to (1). describe the motifs contained in the function of the pardabaitak of the Pakpak Batak ethnic group. (2). describe the function of the motifs contained in the oles pardabaitak of the Pakpak Batak ethnic group. (3). describe the symbol value of the motifs contained in the Pakpak Batak ethnic pardabaitak oles. The theory used in analyzing the data is theory of semiotics put forward by Charles Sanders Pierce. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative research with structured interview observation. Based on the results of research and discussion, the author found that there are 7 forms motif values of kelang pajonggir, gerga, epen buaya, gatip dabbal, sirat, rambu, sisi. In addition, there are 10 equipment pamapan, lili, pagabe, baliga, totar, pangihunan, hatolungan, patibohonan, sorha, panaitan. And the value of motif found in this study id the value of social solidarity, mutual cooperation, courtesy, harmony, discipline, welfare and gratitude. Keywords: oles pardabaitak, sthnic batak pakpak,motif,semiotic.

PENGARUH UTILITARIAN VALUE, HEDONIC VALUE, DAN SYMBOLIC VALUE TERHADAP MINAT BELI (Studi Pada Live Streaming Shopee @Mayoutfitofficialshop)

In today's digital age, live streaming has become a dominant marketing platform, allowing for direct interaction between producers and consumers as well as providing a hands-on experience to users. Companies like Shopee @mayoutfitofficialshop have adopted live streaming as a key strategy to promote their products. This study identified the contribution of Utilitarian Value, Hedonic Value, and Symbolic Value in live streaming to consumer buying interest by involving 100 respondents in a quantitative and descriptive research design. Data from a questionnaire with a Likert scale of six answer choices were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression. The results show that Utilitarian Value, Hedonic Value, and Symbolic Value significantly influence consumers' buying interest in Shopee @mayoutfitofficialshop live streaming, emphasizing the important role of practical utility, fun, and symbolic value in the formation of buying interest on live streaming platforms such as Shopee @mayoutfitofficialshop.

Does algorithmic content moderation promote democratic discourse? Radical democratic critique of toxic language AI

ABSTRACT Algorithmic content moderation is becoming a common practice employed by many social media platforms to regulate ‘toxic’ language and to promote democratic public conversations. This paper provides a normative critique of politically liberal assumption of civility embedded in algorithmic moderation, illustrated by Google’s Perspective API. From a radical democratic standpoint, this paper normatively and empirically distinguishes between incivility and intolerance because they have different implications for democratic discourse. The paper recognises the potential political, expressive, and symbolic values of incivility, especially for the socially marginalised. We, therefore, argue against regulation of incivility using AI. There are, however, good reasons to regulate hate speech but it is incumbent upon the users of AI moderation to show that this can be done reliably. The paper emphasises the importance of detecting diverse forms of hate speech that convey intolerant and exclusionary ideas without using explicitly hateful or extremely emotional wording. The paper then empirically evaluates the performance of the current algorithmic moderation to see whether it can discern incivility and intolerance and whether it can detect diverse forms of intolerance. Empirical findings reveal that the current algorithmic moderation does not promote democratic discourse, but rather deters it by silencing the uncivil but pro-democratic voices of the marginalised as well as by failing to detect intolerant messages whose meanings are embedded in nuances and rhetoric. New algorithmic moderation should focus on the reliable and transparent identification of hate speech and be in line with the feminist, anti-racist, and critical theories of democratic discourse.

Police peer supporters in a domestic abuse-specific peer support initiative: Motivations, experiences and challenges

Police peer support programmes traditionally focus on mental health issues and experiences of trauma in work. Increased awareness of domestic abuse (DA), its impacts in the workplace, and calls to adopt trauma-informed approaches in the emergency and public services in the UK have culminated in a southern English police force instituting a novel peer support programme for personnel who are experiencing DA. This qualitative study interviewed 16 self-selected DA peer supporters to explore their motivations and experiences in providing support for their colleagues and the application of trauma-informed practice. Findings support previous research on the ongoing prevalence of stigma around help-seeking in the police generally, and this is perhaps even more pronounced for DA. However, the presence of this form of peer support has symbolic value to challenge prevailing culture and foster increased confidence to make disclosures. Findings also indicate value in adopting DA-specific peer support from an organizational justice perspective because this may enable a greater sense of staff well-being. The approaches employed in the DA peer support programme exhibited implicit trauma-informed practice, which could be made more explicit and aligned to wider initiatives of creating a more trauma-informed police service.