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Indiscriminate bill-postings have become one of the nuisances threatening the 'health' and aesthetic credibility of the physical environment in post-colonial Nigerian society. Although the problem is a serious one, it is yet to receive attention from the academia and other concerned authorities in Nigeria. It is within this context that this study examines bill-postings as pervasive media culture, using Edo Central District (ECD) of Edo State, Nigeria as a case study. In doing this, it adopts an evaluative methodology. This is complemented by interviews and random photographic snapshots of posted-bills across the district under examination. This study finds out that the indiscriminately posted-bills are eyesores, which apart from not being aesthetically pleasing, exacerbate the environmental management challenge in the ECD. It also discovers that the problem is a multilayered one, judging from the different kinds of posters that are commonly posted by diverse groups in society. Consequently, this paper asserts that probing the sociological causes and implications of the menace could offer some insights on how to redress the situation. To this end, a number of suggestions are made, with a view to improving the condition of the physical environment in ECD.

Große Reden, gefüllte Zuschauerränge, Fraktionstreffen in umliegenden Tagungslokalen. Vom Mai 1848 an standen Frankfurt und das dortige Paulskirchenparlament im Zentrum der politischen Aufmerksamkeit. Hier diskutierten die 587 Abgeordneten über eine deutsche Verfassung, Staatsform und vieles mehr. An sechs Tagen die Woche trafen sie sich in Ausschüssen, Fraktionen, im Plenum, Kleingruppen ... mehr
Der Beitrag Posting Paulskirche erschien zuerst auf Demokratiegeschichten.

"We consider a directed search model in which workers differ in productivity. Productivity becomes observable to firms after assessing their workers on the job, but it is not verifiable. Firms with vacancies choose between posting a noncontingent wage and leaving wages subject to bargaining with the worker. Under wage bargaining, firms cannot optimize the trade-off between paying higher wages and having a larger probability of filling vacancies. But wage bargaining makes wages increasing in worker productivity and so may allow firms to attract better workers into the vacancy. When workers' heterogeneity is large and bargaining powers come close to satisfying Hosios's rule, firms opt for bargaining. Yet, equilibria with bargaining fail to maximize aggregate net income and sometimes are not constrained Pareto optimal. " (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We study the impact of mandatory calorie posting on consumers' purchase decisions, using detailed data from Starbucks. We find that average calories per transaction falls by 6 %. The effect is almost entirely related to changes in consumers' food choices--there is almost no change in purchases of beverage calories. There is no impact on Starbucks profit on average, and for the subset of stores located close to their competitor Dunkin Donuts, the effect of calorie posting is actually to increase Starbucks revenue. Survey evidence and analysis of commuters suggest the mechanism for the effect is a combination of learning and salience"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Digital spaces such as LinkedIn, the world's largest professional digital network, constitute central sites for self-promotion, where job seekers and the employed present their polished "best" professional selves. However, in recent years, LinkedIn members are increasingly publishing accounts that highlight their vulnerabilities and struggles. This article examines the emergence of vulnerability on LinkedIn by analyzing how vulnerability is articulated in a sample of 40 posts (2021–2023). It identifies three genres: (1) Triumph over tragedy: vulnerability as a vector for self-growth and resilience; (2) Snap: vulnerability as a breaking point; and (3) Subversive commentary on self-promotion. On one hand, posting vulnerability on LinkedIn is a strategic form of digital self-branding, which monetizes vulnerability and depoliticizes its meanings. At the same time, vulnerability posts have the potential to form a basis for resistance to digital and work cultures' glorification of overwork, individualized resilience and self-sufficiency, and the constant pressure to self-promote.

In view of levelling the playing field between foreign and local employers in the host country, the European Commission proposed in March 2016 to revise the Posting of Workers Directive (PWD) 96/71/EC. The amended PWD (EU) 2018/957, that was adopted mid-2018, introduces some significant changes in order to combat the shortcomings resulting from the original PWD, strengthening the importance of ensuring fair competition (between local and foreign employers) and improving the protection of workers. In a nutshell, the PWD aims at promoting the principle of equal pay for equal work in the same place, especially by extending the so-called hard nucleus of working conditions and introducing a provision for long-term postings. This new legislation will be implemented throughout the EU as of mid-2020. The following article aims to investigate the extent to which the changes demand national implementation from an Austrian point-of-view; the latter could serve as a guidance.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the posting of certain notices in a primary election.

Social media users make decisions about what content to post and read. As posted content is often visible to others, users are likely to impose self-censorship when deciding what content to post. On the other hand, such a concern may not apply to reading social media content. As a result, the topics of content that a user posted and read can be different and this has major implications to the applications that require personalization. To better determine and profile social media users' topic interests, we conduct a user survey in Twitter. In this survey, participants chose the topics they like to post (posting topics) and the topics they like to read (reading topics). We observe that users' posting topics differ from their reading topics significantly. We find that some topics such as "Religion", "Business" and "Politics" attract much more users to read than to post. With the ground truth data obtained from the survey, we further explore the discovery of users' posting and reading topics separately using features derived from their posted content, received content and social networks.