Art and Society

Simulating Terror: An Affective Empathy Approach

2025-09-05T07:51:27+00:00

Historical education often prioritises factual narratives over the emotional dimensions of past experiences. This paper explores how historically-structured board games, particularly The Troubles, foster affective empathy — an emotional connection to historical actors and events. By analysing game mechanics, components, narrative framing, and player engagement, this study demonstrates how board games can challenge players to confront moral ambiguity, power dynamics, and the human cost of conflict. The paper argues that historically-structured board games serve as powerful pedagogical tools, supplementing traditional history education by making emotional realities more significant and efficacious.

Pregnancy as an Agent to Neutralize Painting as a Gender-Biased Concept in Contemporary China — The Works of Yu Hong, Ji Jingning and Xu Hualing

2025-09-05T07:55:27+00:00

This article offers a brief inquiry into pregnancy as a theme of contemporary art in the West and China. It subsequently tracks the entrenched frameworks of painting in China and the neglect of pregnancy as a theme in the Chinese art world from the historical perspective, in order to navigate pregnancy-themed paintings by three selected female artists: Yu Hong, Ji Jingning, and Xu Hualing. Through analyzing their paintings, it concludes that these pieces not only increase the visibility of women’s self-perception during pregnancy but also aestheticize pregnancy as a subject within their respective artistic traditions.

Artificial Intelligence: Prospects and Challenges in Future Progression

2025-09-05T07:59:18+00:00

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that makes the computers to mimic the human behavior and assist humans for better performance in the field of science and technology. It refers to the ability of machines to perform cognitive tasks, such as thinking, perceiving, learning, problem solving, and decision making. The goal of it is to make a machine as smart as a human. Particular applications of AI are in advanced web search engines, internet, robotics, biometrics identification, speech recognition, natural language generation, virtual assistants, superhuman play, and to analysis in strategy games, autonomous vehicles, etc. At present many organizations are applying AI accurately and efficiently to provide security to their data and information systems. If AI system is not properly operated, it may face technical difficulties, data difficulties, security snags, etc. The purpose of this study is to discuss aspects of AI, and its present and future applications for the welfare of the global humanity.

Narrative Migration from Music to Film: A Study on the Cross-Media Function of Leitmotif in Rebecca and Once Upon a Time in America

2025-09-05T08:03:01+00:00

The leitmotif, a musical device, functions as a cross-media narrative strategy in cinema. This paper explores how leitmotif is applied in cinematic storytelling through Alfred Hitchcock’s classic psychological thriller Rebecca and Sergio Leone’s epic film Once Upon a Time in America. Given the discussion on recurring visual motifs, musical theme variations, and audiovisual narrative techniques and other leitmotif’s symbolic manifestations in both films, it is found how this device reveals character psychology, advances plotlines, and intensifies thematic connotations.

“AI Implementation Journey” of SMEs in Germany — 10 Main Obstacles

2025-09-10T09:59:56+00:00

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are significantly less likely to use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies than large companies. However, company size has little to no influence on companies’ acceptance of AI technologies. There must therefore be barriers and obstacles that specifically prevent SMEs from using such tools. This study identifies and structures the “10 main obstacles” in the form of an “SME implementation journey” based on the current state of research and derives recommendations for action.

Achieving Climate Governance in Cameroon: Challenges and Prospects

2025-09-10T10:08:16+00:00

Climate change poses risks including economic output losses, heightened poverty, food insecurity, and increased vulnerability of communities, which are compounded by institutional weaknesses and policy gaps. The research problem centers on Cameroon’s fragmented and insufficient climate governance framework, characterized by weak legal regulations, poor coordination among institutions, inadequate integration of climate concerns into public financial management, and limited resources for climate action. The main objective is to identify key challenges obstructing effective climate governance while exploring prospects and strategies for improvement. The study employs a qualitative approach, analyzing climate policies, legal frameworks, and stakeholder engagements to assess governance dynamics. Major findings reveal institutional capacity deficits, lack of comprehensive regulatory frameworks, fragmented policy implementation, limited climate finance, and coordination challenges across levels of government. The study concludes that despite notable progress in policy development and international commitments, Cameroon’s climate governance remains hindered by systemic barriers. It recommends strengthening institutional capacities, enacting binding climate laws, enhancing coordination mechanisms, mainstreaming climate change into public finance and development planning, and mobilizing diversified climate finance to build resilience and promote sustainable development in the face of climate change.