scholarly journals Dynamic Collections: A 3D Web Infrastructure for Artifact Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-352
Author(s):  
Fredrik Ekengren ◽  
Marco Callieri ◽  
Domenica Dininno ◽  
Åsa Berggren ◽  
Stella Macheridis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Archaeological Collections ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Web Infrastructure ◽  
3D Acquisition ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Visualization Technology ◽  
Rapid Emergence ◽  
3D Web

Abstract Archaeological collections are crucial in heritage studies and are used every day for training archaeologists and cultural heritage specialists. The recent developments in 3D acquisition and visualization technology has contributed to the rapid emergence of a large number of 3D collections, whose production is often justified as the democratization of data and knowledge production. Despite the fact that several 3D datasets are now available online, it is not always clear how the data – once stored – may be engaged by archaeology students, and the possible challenges the students may face in the learning process. The goal of the Dynamic Collections project at Lund University is to develop a novel 3D web infrastructure designed to support higher education and research in archaeology. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, all teaching at Lund University moved online, reinforcing the urgency for such an infrastructure. By letting a group of students test an early version of the system as part of their online teaching, we were able to study how they used and interacted with an archaeological collection in 3D and explore the intersection of digital methods and pedagogy in archaeology. This article presents the preliminary results from this experiment.

scholarly journals The Development of State Legislative Campaign Committees: A Second Look

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 213-234
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Shea
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
State Politics ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Exogenous Variable ◽  
State Party ◽  
Party Organizations ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Party Decline ◽  
State Legislative ◽  
Rapid Emergence

One of the most important recent developments in state politics has been the rapid emergence of legislative campaign committees (LCCs), now found in 40 states. A persistent theme in the literature is that the growth of these new organizations has been directly linked to party decline. More specifically, as traditional party organizations failed to respond to changing environmental conditions. LCCs were created. The analysis presented here rejects the functionalist perspective and argues that their development has occurred independent of party dynamics, and perhaps as a response to strengthening state party committees. Legislative professionalization is found to be the most telling exogenous variable, suggesting a good deal about LCC activities and goals. Contrary to expectations, these powerful organizations may not be interested in or capable of performing many of the functions historically undertaken by traditional party organizations.

scholarly journals Evaluate Students' Attitudes towards the Information Industry Chain of P.E. Based on Data Visualization Technology: A Cross-sectional Study

CONVERTER ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Feilong Wu, Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Visualization Technology ◽  
Strongly Agree

Based on data visualization technology, it expounds the attitude of Chinese college students to the P.E. information distance education industry. The research mainly uses attitude questionnaires to conduct cross-sectional surveys based on the Internet of Things, and uses data visualization technology to evaluate students' attitudes and opinions on informatized sports distance education. Our survey results show that in the online physical education courses carried out during the school blockade, students have a positive attitude towards informatized physical education, and the online teaching effect provided by the school is satisfactory. According to the vertical total score percentage of 16 measurement indicators, we can see that we strongly agree (364.22%), agree (439.37%), uncertain (422.28%), disagree (242.9%) and strongly disagree (130.854%). It can be seen that even if the school is blocked, students show a higher enthusiasm for information-based physical education.

scholarly journals Not a Mirror, but an Engine: Digital Methods for Contextual Analysis of “Social Big Data”

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-47
Author(s):  
Jonas Andersson Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Network Topology ◽  
Word Meanings ◽  
Social Big Data ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Social Scientific

Digital media infrastructures give rise to texts that are socially interconnected in various forms of complex networks. These mediated phenomena can be analyzed through methods that trace relational data. Social network analysis (SNA) traces interconnections between social nodes, while natural language processing (NLP) traces intralinguistic properties of the text. These methods can be bracketed under the header “social big data.” Empirical and theoretical rigor begs a constructionist understanding of such data. Analysis is inherently perspective-bound; it is rarely a purely objective statistical exercise. Some kind of selection is always made, primarily out of practical necessity. Moreover, the agents observed (network participants producing the texts in question) all tend to make their own encodings, based on observational inferences, situated in the network topology. Recent developments in such methods have, for example, provided social scientific scholars with innovative means to address inconsistencies in comparative surveys in different languages, addressing issues of comparability and measurement equivalence. NLP provides novel, inductive ways of understanding word meanings as a function of their relational placement in syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations, thereby identifying biases in the relative meanings of words. Reflecting on current research projects, the chapter addresses key epistemological challenges in order to improve contextual understanding.

scholarly journals Question -Response in Online Synchronous Videoconferencing Class

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Obaida Chaqmaqchee ◽  
Shamala Paramasivam
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Cognitive Level ◽  
Online Classroom ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Effective Factor ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Teaching Learning

With recent developments in technology and its massive impact on the education field, videoconferencing has emerged as an effective teaching learning tool in the language classroom. It is mainly a means of communication to overcome the impediments of geographical distance and separation. However, despite the successful implementation of this technology, it has been stated that using videoconferencing for online teaching is problematic. Videoconferencing impedes instructor-learner interaction and is unable to replace the traditional face-to-face classroom. To understand online interaction from a sociocultural standpoint, this study examined the characteristics of instructor questions in terms of cognitive level so as to investigate if instructor question can function as a stimulus for interaction in the online classroom. The results show that cognitive level of instructor question can function as an effective factor to promote online classroom interaction. Conclusions and implications are drawn at the end of this paper to help understand interaction in online learning.

scholarly journals Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching: a Collective Response to The Manifesto for Teaching Online (Bayne et al. 2020)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison MacKenzie ◽  
Alexander Bacalja ◽  
Devisakti Annamali ◽  
Argyro Panaretou ◽  
Prajakta Girme ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Teaching Online ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Collective Response ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education

AbstractThis article is a collective response to the 2020 iteration of The Manifesto for Teaching Online. Originally published in 2011 as 20 simple but provocative statements, the aim was, and continues to be, to critically challenge the normalization of education as techno-corporate enterprise and the failure to properly account for digital methods in teaching in Higher Education. The 2020 Manifesto continues in the same critically provocative fashion, and, as the response collected here demonstrates, its publication could not be timelier. Though the Manifesto was written before the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the responses gathered here inevitably reflect on the experiences of moving to digital, distant, online teaching under unprecedented conditions. As these contributions reveal, the challenges were many and varied, ranging from the positive, breakthrough opportunities that digital learning offered to many students, including the disabled, to the problematic, such as poor digital networks and access, and simple digital poverty. Regardless of the nature of each response, taken together, what they show is that The Manifesto for Teaching Online offers welcome insights into and practical advice on how to teach online, and creatively confront the supremacy of face-to-face teaching.

‘All the Musics Which Computers Make Possible’: Questions of genre at the Prix Ars Electronica

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Haworth
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Human Actors

This article explores the workings of genre in experimental electronic musics. Predominantly sociological in orientation, it has three main foci. First, it addresses practitioners’ and theorists’ resistances to the concept of genre in experimental musics. Drawing on recent developments in genre theory, it discusses the problems of agency, mediation and scale that any discussion of genre calls forth, pitting them alongside theories that emphasise genre’s necessity and inevitability in communication. The second section examines the politics of genre as they play out in practice, focusing on the Prix Ars Electronica festival and the controversy that ensued from the decision to change the name of the Computer Music category in 1999. The analysis focuses on issues of institutional mediation, historicity, genre emergence and the politics of labelling as they come into view when two broad spheres – electroacoustic art music and ‘popular’ electronic music – are brought into the same field together in competition. The third section deepens the analysis of Ars Electronica by zooming in on one of the represented genres, microsound, to examine how it is shaped and negotiated in practice. Using digital methods tools developed in the context of Actor-Network Theory, I present a view of the genre as fundamentally promiscuous, overlapping liberally with adjacent genres. Fusing Derrida’s principle of ‘participation over belonging’ with ANT’s insistence on the agency of ‘non-human actors’ in social assemblages, the map provides a means to analyse the genre through its mediations – through the varied industries, institutions and social networks that support and maintain it.

scholarly journals The Rapid Shift from Onsite to Online Teaching – Students’ Perceptions

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lulzime Kamberi ◽  
◽  
Alina Andreea Urlica Dragoescu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Course Delivery ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Delivery Modes ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Rapid Shift

Recent developments in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have had a substantial impact on students, teachers and content delivery modes around the globe. This paper reports the efforts of the University of Tetovo (UT) in North Macedonia (NM) and Banat’s USAMVB University “King Michael I of Romania” to find rapid and efficient means of switching from direct to remote course delivery while maintaining effective communication. Acknowledging that little space was available for training teachers and learners to prepare for such rapid changes, this study examines how students responded. Applying exploratory research methods, the paper offers a preliminary analysis of the difficulties that learners faced in shifting to online presentation. Qualitative data was collected using student interviews and content analysis (Silverman, 2005) was applied to identify themes, biases and meaning. Convenience sampling among enrolled students in the academic year 2020/2021 at both universities identified a non-random sample of 16 students. The findings of the study revealed that participants faced many difficulties in their venture; however, using various strategies, effective planning and organization, they managed to a certain extent to overcome this situation.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING THE ENRICHMENT OF A 3D CITY MODEL WITH VARIOUS CITYGML MODULES

2016 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W2 ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Floros ◽  
E. Dimopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Data Conversion ◽  
Future Research ◽  
3D City Model ◽  
3D Data ◽  
City Modeling ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
City Model ◽  
3D Acquisition ◽  
Conversion Tool

Recent developments in the massive 3D acquisition area made possible the generation of dense and precise 3D data, ranging from the representation of a simple building to a whole city. Nowadays, increasing urbanization, rapid growth of urban areas, and subsequently development of mega cities, are among the most important changes occurring worldwide. Therefore, developing techniques to manage these cities seems quite necessary. The aim of this paper is to investigate the enrichment of a 3D City Model with additional attributes, via appropriate CityGML Modules. The paper focuses on addressing the challenging issues that derive from a complex virtual 3D city modeling. More specifically, the paper investigates a complex built-up area, presenting and analyzing its constituting structures. Within this framework, the following CityGML modules are investigated: Bridge, Transportation Complex, CityFurniture, Land Use and Vegetation. To this purpose, the BIM-Standard software Trimble SketchUp and the data conversion tool FME are used. The processes of both modeling and converting are analyzed in detail. General conclusions and future research considerations are presented.

scholarly journals Acts of digital parasitism: Hacking, humanitarian apps and platformisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 2548-2565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Aradau ◽  
Tobias Blanke ◽  
Giles Greenway
Keyword(s):  
Social Science Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Black Box ◽  
The Other ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
A Site

The opacity of digital technologies has posed significant challenges for critical research and digital methods. In response, controversy mapping, reverse engineering and hacking have been key methodological devices to grapple with opacity and ‘open the black box’ of digital ecosystems. We take recent developments in digital humanitarianism and the accelerated production of apps for refugees following the 2015 Mediterranean refugee crisis as a site of methodological experimentation to advance hacking as critical methodological interference. Drawing on the work of Michel Serres, we propose to understand digital technologies as ‘parasitic’ and reconceptualise hacking as ‘acts of digital parasitism’. Acts of digital parasitism are interferences that work alongside rather than work against. On one hand, this reworking of hacking advances an agenda for digital methods through reworking hacking for digital humanities and social science research. On the other, it allows us to show how the object of research – humanitarian apps – is configured through platformisation and incorporation within digital parasitic relations.

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