Cultura

Youth and Memory: Understanding Participatory Culture in Contemporary Mandopop among China’s Millennials

VOLUME 22, 2025

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Fan LI
Department of Music, Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Mingyu NA
Department of Music, Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Ow Wei CHOW
Department of Music, Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Abstract

Mandopop, as a distinctive genre of Chinese popular music, has accomplished a flourishing scene within a few decades. A recent observation has demonstrated a phenomenon that reflects how China’s millennial audience participates in media platforms to exhibit idiosyncrasies defined by their memory and experience, seeking for the individual participation in Mandopop. By making use of a qualitative research design based on phenomenology, the study reviewed the participatory culture in Mandopop among China’s millennials from their perspectives. Ten participants were sampled through purposive sampling, and data was collected through semi-structured one-on-one interviews. The rationale was to investigate how China’s millennials characterize and interpret their daily participation in experiencing Mandopop. The findings demonstrate that China’s millennials deem Mandopop as an important, integral part of their lifetime and even in their youth and memory. It can offer an insight on how Mandopop fans establish their own position in order to find cultural identity and cultural memory in the mediatized context. The study concludes that participatory culture is an important theoretical domain to understand audience groups in popular music, and to build a media environment in which individuals can actively participate and share popular music content, rather than remaining passive consumers.

Keywords : Youth, Memory, Participatory Culture, Mandopop, China’s millennials, Media, Popular Music.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty