Mobile Interface Theory: A Conceptual Tool for Identifying Digital Rhetoric in a Mobile Context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Mobile Interface ◽  
Interface Theory ◽  
Mobile Context

Place, Path, and Community: Evaluating Strategies for Mobile Application Creation by Memory Institutions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Geographic Locations ◽  
Mobile Interface ◽  
Interface Theory ◽  
Tourism Studies

Memory institutions want mobile apps to be able to connect items in their collections or specific historical events to specific geographic locations. They also want mobile apps to be able to mediate tours extending across a series of related locations, and to create an experience of community for users. Using a range of research from tourism studies, game studies, and mobile interface theory, this paper assesses these goals and concludes that mobile applications are extremely well suited to connect user, place, and historical event or object. Les institutions mémorielles ont besoin d’applications mobiles capables de connecter entre eux des articles de leurs collections ou des événements historiques particuliers à des zones géographiques spécifiques. Ils ont aussi besoin d’applications mobiles capables de servir de médiateurs de visites s’étendant à une série d'emplacements connexes, et de générer l’expérience d’une communauté pour les utilisateurs. En utilisant un éventail de recherches puisées parmi des études sur le tourisme, des études sur le jeu, et la théorie de l'interface mobile, cet article évalue ces objectifs et conclut que les applications mobiles sont extrêmement bien adaptées pour connecter l'utilisateur, le lieu et l’événement ou un objet historique.

Dismantling White Privilege: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Environmental Justice in Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Teelucksingh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Jim Crow Era

On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, alt-right/White supremacy groups and Black Lives Matter (BLM) supporters came face-to-face regarding what to do about public monuments that celebrate key figures from slavery and the Jim Crow era. White supremacists and White nationalists did not hide their racist ideologies as they demanded that their privileged place in history not be erased. The BLM movement, which challenges state-sanctioned anti-Black racism, was ready to confront themes of White discontent and reverse racism, critiques of political correctness, and the assumption that racialized people should know their place and be content to be the subordinate other.It is easy to frame the events in Charlottesville as indicative of US-specific race problems. However, a sense that White spaces should prevail and an ongoing history of anti-Black racism are not unique to the United States. The rise of Canadian activism under the BLM banner also signals a movement to change Canadian forms of institutional racism in policing, education, and the labor market. This article responds to perceptions that the BLM movement has given insufficient attention to environmental concerns (Pellow 2016; Halpern 2017). Drawing on critical race theory as a conceptual tool, this article focuses on the Canadian context as part of the author’s argument in favor of greater collaboration between BLM and the environmental justice (EJ) movement in Canada. This article also engages with the common stereotype that Blacks in Canada have it better than Blacks in the United States.

Deepfaking Keanu: YouTube deepfakes, platform visual effects, and the complexity of reception

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110304
Author(s):  
Lisa Bode
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
After Effects ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Media Creation ◽  
Media Practices

On July 14, 2019, a 3-minute 36-second video titled “Keanu Reeves Stops A ROBBERY!” was released on YouTube visual effects (VFX) channel, Corridor. The video’s click-bait title ensured it was quickly shared by users across platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Comments on the video suggest that the vast majority of viewers categorised it as fiction. What seemed less universally recognised, though, was that the performer in the clip was not Keanu Reeves himself. It was voice actor and stuntman Reuben Langdon, and his face was digitally replaced with that of Reeves, through the use of an AI generated deepfake, an open access application, Faceswap, and compositing in Adobe After Effects. This article uses Corridor’s deepfake Keanu video (hereafter shorted to CDFK) as a case study which allows the fleshing out of an, as yet, under-researched area of deepfakes: the role of framing contexts in shaping how viewers evaluate, categorise, make sense of and discuss these images. This research draws on visual effects scholarship, celebrity studies, cognitive film studies, social media theory, digital rhetoric, and discourse analysis. It is intended to serve as a starting point of a larger study that will eventually map types of online manipulated media creation on a continuum from the professional to the vernacular, across different platforms, and attending to their aesthetic, ethical, cultural and reception dimensions. The focus on context (platform, creator channel, and comments) also reveals the emergence of an industrial and aesthetic category of visual effects, which I call here “platform VFX,” a key term that provides us with more nuanced frames for illuminating and analysing a range of manipulated media practices as VFX software becomes ever more accessible and lends itself to more vernacular uses, such as we see with various face swap apps

scholarly journals A Diachronic Triangular Perspective on Landscapes: a Conceptual Tool for Research and Management Applied to Wadden Sea Salt Marshes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mans Schepers ◽  
Erik W. Meijles ◽  
Jan P. Bakker ◽  
Theo Spek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Salt Marshes ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Sea Salt ◽  
Conceptual Tool

AbstractStrong disciplinary academic fragmentation and sectoral division in policies lead to problems regarding the management of landscapes. As a result, there is a focus on the preservation and development of either cultural or natural landscapes. We argue that framing landscapes as “natural” or “cultural” will not help sustainable management. The goal of this paper is to show that even what is referred to as nature, virtually always features an intricate combination of physical geography, biology, and cultural history. It provides an analytical framework that visualizes the three forces at play in physical landscapes. Therefore, we introduce a diachronic triangular approach to study and manage landscapes from a holistic point of view, allowing an exchange of different perspectives. To test this approach, we have applied our model to a diachronic case study on Wadden Sea salt marshes. That area has been influenced by physical-geographical, biological, and cultural landscape forces, which are still visible in the landscape to a large extent. By placing different landscape zones in the triangular concept for different time periods, we can identify and visualize these driving forces through time for this specific landscape. These all play their specific roles in the appearance of the landscape over time in a close mutual interconnection. More importantly, we show that the diverse and complex interplay between these forces makes the current-day landscape what it is. We therefore conclude that the diachronic triangular approach provides a conceptual tool to define and operationalize landscape management in the Wadden Sea area. We welcome similar approaches in other landscapes to assess the usefulness of the diachronic triangular landscape approach.

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