Research Papers
Understanding the True Identity
of the Culture Wars Combatants
Charles Ives - Doctor of Philosophy
Edmunckin Institute for Cultural Development - 2017
Abstract
This paper summarizes the true tribal identities warring for dominance in the “culture wars” of the United States. It begins with the premise that the current view of polarization in the United States is limited to horizontal maps of polar opposites. Left vs. Right, white vs. people of color, Christian vs. Atheist, male vs. female. This perspective can be categorized as “what seems to be happening.”
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Transmedia Impact on News, Facts, Commentary,
False Equivalents and Corporate Profits
Sarah Whembly EdD & Roger Adamire DMA
Media Studies - University of East Dallas - 2019
Abstract
This paper explores the emergence of Transmedia and its impact on cultural development in the United States. A number of perspectives have been researched on what is changing in citizen engagement influenced by information and news presented in expanded Transmedia production and distribution channels. Different initiatives were also analyzed that are promoting remedies that could potentially shift current cultural debates so that they are based on a common set of facts.
Post-Truth Politics and Democracy in the United States
Noah Hume PhD
Contemporary Political Theory Caucus
University of Pretonia, South Africa
2021
Abstract
This paper looks at the potential causes for the decline of American democracy. The number of democracies around the world has been in decline for the past 13 years. Many established and fledgling democracies have become stressed by waves of immigration from collapsing nations in the Middle East and Central and South America. This wave of immigration coincided with the rise of populism. Research polls noted that democratic institutions did not seem to be serving particular populations in the US anymore. The challenges of the inequity of income, jobs, climate change and racial justice appear too complex for democratic institutions to effectively respond to concerning middle to low income individuals and communities, particularly in the rural areas of America. This paper looks at the potential causes for the decline of American democracy
Disruptive Technology during Cultural Transitions
Llewellyn Evens and Eugena Folks
Auland School of Technology
New Zealand
2021
Abstract
This paper represents the findings of three years of research into the impact disruptive technologies are having on the current cultural transition. Some of these impacts were predicted and others unexpected. All add up to a transition of human intelligence from a postmodern perspective to a new, integrated worldview of human existence.
Every human cultural transition is impacted and influenced by disruptive technology. From tribal structures to the establishment of agricultural empires, from the industrial revolution to the creation of global digital networks, each of these major cultural transitions was driven by changes in technology that increased human developmental intelligence and capacity.
The discovery of fire, the domestication of animals, the development of seed crops, the emergence of the printing press, the invention of electric light, the steam engine and nuclear power, radio and television, the Internet, cell phones and now artificial intelligence are all examples of disruptive technologies that changed human culture.
Socioeconomic Impacts of the Current Cultural Transition
Salie Kingus and John Galbrith
Freedom Economic Forum
Washington D.C. 2020
Abstract
How socioeconomic impacts on cultures in transition are determined depends on how the current health of these economies is calculated. 2020 was an unprecedented year in the United States with the disruptions caused by the Covid Pandemic and the political unrest surrounding the Presidential Elections. Normal economic perspectives based on stock market share prices, and GDP seemed to prove less reliable in previewing the future because of the unprecedented disruption of the US economy.
2020 was also the culmination of four years of economic policy under the Trump administration. It also brought new expectations of what would change under the newly elected Biden Administration. Trends like the consolidation of wealth in 1% of the US population that were on the rise prior to 2020 continued unabated during the Trump administration. As a result of the impact of the Covid disruption on main street businesses and the controversial bailout of corporations and small businesses the question was asked… “is the US economic system rigged to benefit the rich and the powerful?”
Human Relationships During Cultural Transitions
Chitha Alston and Walt Bowser
University of Kenucky Human Development Institute
821 Fiber Ave, Lexington, KY 40510
Abstract
Human lives go through many transitions. From infant to toddler to teenager to adult, these stages of life each have their own developmental qualities and challenges. Human culture has also been through six-seven transitions from tribal to agricultural, industrial to global informational and so forth. At each stage of development the individual or culture increases their capacity to meet the challenges they are faced with. Tribal strategies of how to find enough food to survive are very different from agrarian societies developing seed crops to address the same challenge.
Often individual and cultural transitions are caused by crisis. Something challenges the usual way of doing things and requires growth and development of new strategies to successfully mitigate the challenges. All relationships change and evolve when going through a transition from one chapter to the next.
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In this paper we look at the impacts of the Covid 19 Pandemic crisis and the challenge to democracy that emerged post US 2020 Presidential election. We explore how relationships are being impacted by these events for individuals, their intimate partners, their families, their work communities and their nations.
What is Spirit Up To?
The Impact of the Evolution of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs
Rev. Dr. Chamilion Rush and Mark Campell Phd
Franklin Institute of Religious Studies
7651 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H2A 2A9
Abstract
Humans have speculated about the possibility that there is something larger than themselves from their very earliest reflections on the meaning of their lives. This paper explores in detail the relevance and impact of religious traditions, spiritual practice and multiple “ways of knowing” on the nature of human existence during a cultural transition like the one currently emerging.
As human culture has evolved through a series of “ staged” transitions of intelligence, each one more inclusive and intelligent than the previous stage, the accompanying religious traditions and spiritual practices or “spiritual intelligence” of each stage has had a major impact on how humans view themselves, the world, the Kosmos and the potential future of humankind.
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