scholarly journals Researching event-centred projects: Showcasing grounded aesthetics

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412199097
Author(s):  
Frances Howard
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Key Features

Showcasing plays a fundamental role in arts education programmes. This paper presents an approach to research scenarios which explore ‘event-centred’ projects. Drawing on arts-based methodologies and research projects, this approach could be extended to the study of seasonal rituals, festivals and other types of organisational settings in which creative work culminates in some type of public display. This paper defines the key features of this method, which draw on Paul Willis’ concept of ‘grounded aesthetics’ and Sarah Pink’s work on the sensorial and embodied experience. I discuss the experimentation with various digital media and documentation strategies which adopt a participatory and collaborative perspective. I focus on how the sensorial, multimodal and collaborative approaches to ethnography are used within event-centred research projects which complement more ‘traditional’ ethnographic approaches. Finally, this paper offers a methodological contribution regarding how to unpack the ‘grounded aesthetics’ of specific contexts and communities.

Introducing Language and Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney H. Jones ◽  
Christiana Themistocleous
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Online Access ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Audio Files

This accessible and entertaining textbook introduces students to both traditional and more contemporary approaches to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, addressing current social problems that students are likely to care about, such as racism, inequality, political conflict, belonging, and issues around gender and sexuality. Each chapter includes exercises, case studies and ideas for small-scale research projects, encouraging students to think critically about the different theories and approaches to language and society, and to interrogate their own beliefs about language and communication. The book gives students a grounding in the traditional concepts and techniques upon which sociolinguistics is built, while also introducing new developments from the last decade, such as translanguaging, multimodality, superdiversity, linguistic landscapes and language and digital media. Students will also have online access to more detailed examples, links to video and audio files, and more challenging exercises to strengthen their skills and confidence as sociolinguists.

Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Evidence-Based Policing Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Boulton ◽  
Rebecca Phythian ◽  
Stuart Kirby ◽  
Ian Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
International Evidence ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Evidence Based Policing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Method Approach

Abstract A growing body of international evidence reflects the increasing recognition of evidence-based policing (EBP) and the co-production of research, yet the extent of which such research is being implemented remains unclear. This study seeks to explore the efficacy of EBP in relation to practical implementation issues and assess the impact research is having on practice, both within and external to a specific Constabulary. Twenty-nine research studies, conducted in association with the Constabulary, were examined using a mixed-method approach. Of the total projects, 52% of projects were found to have generated a change to practice or policy. The key features of research that were associated with impact included: (i) mixed-method data collection, (ii) transferability, and (iii) increased dissemination that engaged practitioner and academic audiences. Practically, these findings suggest that EBP research projects can be designed and disseminated in a way that increases the likelihood of implementing the findings to change practice.

A qualitative analysis of the digital literacy of arts education teachers in Chinese junior high and high schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Zhao ◽  
Heikki Kynäshlahti ◽  
Sara Sintonen
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Arts Teachers ◽  
Study Designs

Information communication technologies and media have challenged traditional education and changed teachers’ thinking. These technologies present unique opportunities for supporting creativity, which is the key aim of learning in arts education. Despite the direct and close link between them and arts education, how to integrate these technologies into traditional education has long challenged government and educational experts. Teachers’ digital literacy has been regarded as an important part of information communication technologies-enabled education. Because an arts education uses more equipment than other types of education, it is more dependent on digital media. Thus, arts teachers’ digital literacy has directly affected their teaching, and has played an increasingly important role in education. This paper, having investigated eight Chinese arts teachers’ digital concepts and utilities in their teaching, explores digital literacy in arts teaching in China from different perspectives. It also offers recommendations for research into arts teachers’ digital literacy and arts education research in China for the future. Overall, this study designs a framework of factors for Chinese arts teachers’ digital literacy.

scholarly journals Class conditioning and class positioning in young people's everyday life with digital media

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (s3) ◽  
pp. 150-162
Author(s):  
Martin Danielsson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In this article, I explore how social class shapes the conditions and configurations of digital media practice in the everyday life of young people in Sweden. Drawing on Bourdieusian theory and qualitative interview data from two research projects, I complicate the notion of Sweden as a universally wired media welfare state by showing how economic and cultural forces are structuring Internet access and digital media practice along the lines of preexisting social divisions. Invoking Bourdieu's conceptualisation of social classes as defined both intrinsically and relationally, I identify and exemplify two different but interrelated processes whereby class makes a difference in young people's everyday relationship to digital media: class conditioning and class positioning. I conclude the article by arguing that distinguishing between these processes might offer a better understanding of the relationship between class and everyday media practice. The complexities of advancing a welfare-oriented media policy in the age of digital media are also discussed.

Digital Steps of Protest, Reenactment, and Networked Interaction

2015 ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Alexandria Chuk
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Digital Labor ◽  
Virtual Events ◽  
The Impact

Joseph DeLappe is an American digital media artist whose creative work demonstrates unique intersections between analogue and digital creative processes. In 2008 he created the Salt Satyagraha project, a virtual and simultaneously physical reenactment of Mahatma Gandhi's 1930 Salt Satyagraha political march by using Second Life (SL) and a customized treadmill that corresponded to his avatar's movements. The project also included a blog, an exhibition, and numerous screenshots documenting the virtual events. This chapter explores the artist's intent and the impact of combining virtual and digital labor, performance, artistic intervention, play, and the role of the human agent in the human-computer relationship. DeLappe's project blog and two key philosophical theories – Walter Benjamin's concept of the spielraum, a playspace that allows for creative experimentation in advanced technologies; and Jacques Derrida's concept of the supplement, something added to an original that reinforces or changes its meaning – are used to frame this examination.

ADVANTAGES OF PORTRAYING FIGURES VIA JOURNALISTIC WORKS IN THE “MEGA STORY” FORM ON E-NEWSPAPERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (Special) ◽  
pp. 70-76
Author(s):  
Thi Huong Pham
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Key Features ◽  
New Form ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Journalism Students

The article introduces the notion and key features of journalistic works in the Mega Story form on e-newspapers as well as systematizes knowledge of the writing form focusing on figure portrayal as the main theme in journalism in general. This serves as a basis for the article’s generalizations of the features, analysis and identification of the advantages of portraying the figures in writings in the Mega Story form. Mastering the above-mentioned advantages helps journalists and journalism students to make worthwhile investments for this new form with a view to developing personal skills and partly enhancing the competitive edge of the newspaper in the context of digital media.

Reflections on progress in musical education

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-243
Author(s):  
William Salaman
Keyword(s):  
British Journal ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Musical Education ◽  
Music Classrooms

This article raises questions about three features of musical education that have been explored in the pages of the British Journal of Music Education (BJME) over the last 25 years: the assessment of creative work; the nurturing of an elite among young musicians; the uses of electronics in music classrooms. The article suggests that teacher-based assessments of pupils' compositional work rarely promote deeper understanding because pupils learn better by considering the extent to which they have fulfilled their own musical intentions. The dilemma of serving the needs of all pupils while attending to the musical needs of the most gifted musically is explored, and it is suggested that, inter alia, pupils aged 12 should have a strong voice in their choices within arts education. Electronic keyboards have become sufficiently embedded in schools for broad judgements to be made. There are few signs that basic electronic keyboards offer expressive opportunities of value whereas the use of computers in support of composition have led to results of quality that merit close attention.

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