Diana in the World of Men: a character network approach to analysing gendered vocal representation in Wonder Woman

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pete Jones
Keyword(s):  
Network Approach ◽  
Wonder Woman ◽  
The World ◽  
Character Network

scholarly journals Wonder Woman: An Assemblage of Complete Virtue Packed in a Tight Swimsuit

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Theresa K Ashford ◽  
Neal Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Relational Networks ◽  
Wonder Woman ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Exemplary Model ◽  
The Trinity

This paper uses actor-network theory (ANT) and Aristotelian virtue ethics to think with/of Wonder Woman as an assemblage of human and non-human actors clustered on a page. It also considers how the emerging assemblage that is Wonder Woman might be viewed as the embodiment of Aristotle’s ‘complete virtue’ or justice. As one of the ‘trinity’ of superheroes of Detective Comics (DC), which also include Superman and Batman, Wonder Woman was created to counter the sadism and tyranny of the Nazi threat during the 1930s and 1940s and has been continually published since 1941. Wonder Woman is a multidimensional icon and an exemplary model of a superhero with a different body and voice, who operates in a different way in the world. She is presented here as a case study to trace possible translations of Aristotle’s configurations of virtue and justice. Using ANT, we argue that Wonder Woman arises from an assemblage of actors that include an armoured swimsuit, a magic lasso, shiny bracelets and a star-emblazoned tiara. By problematising these technologies as actors that commonly invite objectification (the swimsuit) or subjugation (the ropes), this paper suggests possible divergent readings that reveal how virtue and justice can emerge within these relational networks. We test how the sexualised body depictions and overt bondage references in the Wonder Woman comics, and in particular, in our chosen story, George Pérez’s Wonder Woman: Destiny Calling, offer something bolder and more profound—a complex performance of justice. Additionally, this paper intimates the productive methodological powers of ANT in relation to the broader field of comics studies.

scholarly journals MODELING THE CO-OCCURRENCE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSONANT INVENTORIES: A COMPLEX NETWORK APPROACH

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANIMESH MUKHERJEE ◽  
MONOJIT CHOUDHURY ◽  
ANUPAM BASU ◽  
NILOY GANGULY
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Weighted Network ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Better Than

Speech sounds of the languages all over the world show remarkable patterns of co-occurrence. In this work, we attempt to automatically capture the patterns of co-occurrence of the consonants across languages and at the same time figure out the nature of the force leading to the emergence of such patterns. For this purpose we define a weighted network where the consonants are the nodes and an edge between two nodes (read consonants) signify their co-occurrence likelihood over the consonant inventories. Through this network we identify communities of consonants that essentially reflect their patterns of co-occurrence across languages. We test the goodness of the communities and observe that the constituent consonants frequently occur in such groups in real languages also. Interestingly, the consonants forming these communities reflect strong correlations in terms of their features, which indicate that the principle of feature economy acts as a driving force towards community formation. In order to measure the strength of this force we propose a theoretical information definition of feature economy and show that indeed the feature economy exhibited by the consonant communities are substantially better than that of those where the consonant inventories had evolved just by chance.

scholarly journals Assessing Asset-Liability Risk with Neural Networks

Risks ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Patrick Cheridito ◽  
John Ery ◽  
Mario V. Wüthrich
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Neural Network Approach ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Liability Risk

We introduce a neural network approach for assessing the risk of a portfolio of assets and liabilities over a given time period. This requires a conditional valuation of the portfolio given the state of the world at a later time, a problem that is particularly challenging if the portfolio contains structured products or complex insurance contracts which do not admit closed form valuation formulas. We illustrate the method on different examples from banking and insurance. We focus on value-at-risk and expected shortfall, but the approach also works for other risk measures.

scholarly journals WONDER WOMAN (2017): AN AMBIGUOUS SYMBOL OF FEMINISM

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Marinda P. D. Ghaisani
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Wonder Woman ◽  
The World ◽  
Standard Set ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
The Ideal

Wonder Woman is a popular fictional character who promotes the idea of an independent and powerful woman. Her name is glorified as she is assumed that she changes to the idea of the world being solely led and dominated by men. A remake film released in 2017 brings this popular character back into the silver screen. Despite being highly anticipated, not everyone supports Wonder Woman as an ideal symbol for women’s empowerment as dreamed by the feminists. Instead, the perception directed to Wonder Woman is divided into two lenses. One side believes that Wonder Woman is in line with the idea of feminism. In contrast, the other believes that she is the ideal example of a character who conforms to the standard set by patriarchal ideology.In investigating this idea, this paper applies Kate Millett’s concept of “personal is political” and how men and women’s roles in society have been passed down to the younger generation. The discussion illustrates that patriarchal power has infiltrated the character of Wonder Woman. Therefore, Wonder Woman becomes an ambiguous symbol when used for the women empowerment movement.Keywords: ambiguous; feminism; film; patriarchal power; Wonder Woman

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Let's call a memory a memory, but what kind?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Keven
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
The World

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.

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