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Background: Through a close reading of the four issues of The Bowater Papers, this article aims to understand the rise of a paper modernity and to reinsert it—as material and infrastructure—into media studies. Analysis: Producing wood paper is a strain on the landscape and the environment. The Bowater Papers showcases the histories and material possibilities of paper media products. A paper-dependent modernity can be understood as an infrastructural assemblage of harvesting, production, circulation, and consumption. Conclusion and implications: Paper calls for a natural history and geography of media. Thinking about the mediations from tree to paper through the encompassing notion of “xylomedia” is a way of articulating the intersection of the material, environmental, and infrastructural in media studies. Today is still a paper world, one that is also the age of lignin, package, and Amazon. Contexte : Par une lecture attentive des quatre numeros de The Bowater Papers, nous cherchons a comprendre l’essor de la forme moderne du papier. Se faisant, nous le reinsererons—en tant que materiau et infrastructure—dans le champ des etudes mediatiques. Analyse : La production de papier de bois est lourde de consequences pour l’environnement. The Bowater Papers nous renseigne sur des aspects historiques et materiels du papier. La modernite, dependante du papier, peut ainsi etre apprehendee comme un assemblage infrastructurel liant recolte, production, circulation et consommation. Conclusion et implications : Le papier appelle une histoire et une geographie naturelles des medias. Penser aux mediations de l’arbre au papier avec le concept de « xylomedia » est une facon d’articuler l’intersection du materiel, de l’environnement et de l’infrastructure dans l’etude des medias. Nous vivons toujours dans un âge du papier, un âge qui est aussi celui de la lignine, des paquets, et d’Amazon.

The review analyzes the collected materials from the 13th International Scientific Conference “The Current Problems of Parliamentarism: History and Modernity” (Tauride Readings 2019). Most of the papers in the collection cover various aspects of the activities of the parliament of the Russian Empire. Some of the materials touch on the issues of the current situation in the people’s representation in the Russian Federation and the CIS countries as well as important aspects of the history of foreign parliamentarism. The review considers the key articles of the collection and notes the role of the published proceedings of the conference discussion platforms. It is concluded that the collection under review is of great relevance for studying history, theory, and practice of Russian and foreign parliamentarism.

The twentieth century has witnessed a tremendous shift in the practice of art, relying on experimentation with rawness, where the material has shifted from being a physical medium to being a concept in itself, thus giving modern art innovative lessons in freedom from traditional materials and utilizing new materials that the artist can formulate in an art form of creativity and modernity to free from all that is traditional and look for unfamiliar alternatives to open new horizons in the field of artistic creativity and innovation. Paper is a natural raw material that has special qualities that open for free and wide for expression and may allow the artist when trying to form new artistic dimensions contribute to making the artistic activity more innovative occurs in the detection of the formulations and technological processors contribute in the field of formation in general and formation on themannequin in a special capacity for this the researcher used paper dough and employed them because of its values The composition, aesthetics and rhythms of different to obtain designs that support the environment and fall under the term sustainable environmental development and thus can convert waste that poses a danger to the industrial society from visual pollution and health degradation to artistic works contribute to the development of the sense of aesthetic and behavioral values in society, in addition to the researcher's aspiration to get out of the ordinary and provoke the innovative creative addition in the field of formation on the mannequin hence the problem of research in answering the following questions: What is the possibility of preparing clothing designs that carryvalues using paper dough? What techniques are required to form and design paper dough on themannequin? The success of the proposed designs from the point of view of specialists? Objectives: find modern experimental approaches through paper dough and the possibility of using them in the field of design onthe mannequin through: Producing designs of a special nature using paper dough that is unique and unique. Research methodology: descriptive, and experimental methods. The results have shown: It is possible to use paper dough in the formation on the Manican from the point of view of specialists, where it was found that all the designs have obtained a proper level with averages ranging from (3:2.70), and all designs and supplements are considered executable and the order of designs

The paper highlights the context and the main points of the speech given by Max Weber at the International Congress of Arts and Science in St. Louis in September, 1904. It analyzes Weber’s views on the dynamics of social change as presented by the German classic in the shape of the comparative historical sociology of the European and American versions of modernity. The first part of the article covers the background and the most significant episodes of the trip to the United States undertaken by Max Weber and his wife Marianne. The second part of the article elucidates the main points of Weber’s speech in St. Louis. The third part examines the observations and conclusions of the specifics of American modernity made by Weber through his direct acquaintance with life in the United States. In conclusion, the paper proposes a brief analysis of Weber’s contribution to the development of historical sociology’s ideas about the nature and pathways of Western modernity.

The review analyzes the collected materials from the 12th International Scientific Conference “Current Problems of Parliamentarism: History and Modernity (Tauride Readings 2018).” Most of the collected scientific papers cover various aspects of the activities of the State Duma of the Russian Empire. The review considers the key articles of the collection and notes the significance of the published materials of the conference discussion platforms. It is concluded that the collection of articles under review is of great relevance for studying history, theory and practice of the Russian parliamentary system.

This paper presents a comparative analysis of two late nineteenth-century magazines’ positions on women’s work and independent living: The Girl’s Own Paper, published in the United Kingdom, and La Mujer, published in Colombia. This article argues that the ways in which both magazines navigated between tradition and modernity were influenced by their respective publishing markets and readerships. The Girl’s Own Paper defended a progressive attitude on these matters, mostly because of market demands. In order to be successful, The Girl’s Own Paper had to respond to the current demands of its readers for information about work and career opportunities. On the other hand, La Mujer and its editor Soledad Acosta de Samper, largely due to the editorial freedom of a less consolidated press market and readership, created a contradictory discourse that oscillated between tradition and modernity.

High-profile revelations of organizational malpractices in the last few years such as unethical business deals based on large-scale conflicts of interest, insider trading, overvaluation of housing mortgages, doctored inventories of inadequate capital holdings to raise finances, and manipulation of facts and figures have made transparency an important value in today’s organizational world. Stakeholders, whether internal or external, expect to have access to information and organizations have little choice but to open up in keeping with current trends (Christensen, 2002; Christensen & Langer, 2009). This paper offers a tentative examination of what we believe to be an original conceptual framework for a critical understanding of processes of and motivations for organizational transparency, including its paradoxes, by drawing on and combining theories of power, hegemony, legitimacy, and liquid modernity.

Traditional Chinese paper-cut art is a splendid flower of folk art. It has a long history and already been rich treasure of world art treasures. This thesis expounds the traditional paper-cut art history, style characteristics, and the combination with modern design. Focus on the tradition and modernity, inheritance and innovation, the thesis analyzes the new concept of paper-cut in the modern design. It can be said that the ingenious combination of paper-cut art and modern design, not only enriches the design thinking, but also has enlightenment on the concept and performance of modern design. Moreover, in the global art and design context, we also should summarize and rethink profoundly. Keywords—Traditional paper-cut art, Modern design, Inheritance, Innovation