scholarly journals Symboliska teknologier och lärande i en digital tid

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 168-183
Author(s):  
Roger Säljö
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Many ◽  
Past Half

During the past half-a-century the education sector has grown in size and significance in most parts of the world. In what is talked about as a knowledge or information society, the time spent in educational institutions increases. One of the most important game-changers for education, and for educational research, is digitization and the growing reliance on digital resources in most activities in our daily lives. One of the many consequences of this development is that children early on in their lives make use of and adapt to digital media. It is argued that in this new media ecology the classical questions we ask about access to education and success and failure will continue to be important for educational research. At the same time, education as a discipline should consider the profound ways in which our knowledge and skills rely on coordination with symbolic technologies; we increasingly know by and through such resources, and this insight should guide the development of instructional practices. In addition, we should contribute to a debate about what “Bildung” and critical citizenship should be in a world which is going increasingly digital.      

scholarly journals Bioplastics – An Eco-friendly Alternative to Petrochemical Plastics

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Selvamurugan Muthusamy ◽  
Sivakumar Pramasivam
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Global Estimate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Emission Of Greenhouse Gases

Plastics have varied application and have become an essential part of our daily lives. The use of the plastics has increased twenty-fold in the past half-century and is expected to double again in the next 20 years. As a global estimate, around 330 million tonnes of the plastics are produced per annum. The production, use and disposal of the plastics emerged as a persistent and potential environmental nuisance. The improper disposal of the plastics ends up in our environment, resulting in the deaths of millions of animals annually and also the reduction in fertility status of the soil. The bioplastics products are manufactured to be biodegradable with similar functionality to that of conventional plastics, which has the potential to reduce the dependence on petrochemicals based plastics and related environmental problems. The expansion and development of the bioplastics and their products would lead to the increase in the sustainability of environment and reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases. The bioplastics innovation would be a key to the long-term solution for the plastic pollution. However, a widespread public awareness is also essential in effecting longer-term change against plastic pollution.

scholarly journals Screening Affect: Rape Culture and the Digital Interface in The Fall and Top of the Lake

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 569-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Horeck
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Crime Drama ◽  
Digital Interface ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Crime Dramas ◽  
The Many

Although it often goes unremarked, digital screens are a key point of commonality across the many different transnational renditions of the story of violence against girls and women found in contemporary TV crime drama. The Fall (United Kingdom, 2013–) and Top of the Lake (United Kingdom/Australia/New Zealand/United States, 2013–) are two striking examples of TV crime dramas that frame their self-conscious interrogation of rape culture through digital media. Considering the mutual imbrication of feminist politics and the deployment of new media technologies on these shows, this essay considers how the digital interface functions as a way of mediating viewer response to violence against women. Resisting a reading of digital technologies as either inherently oppressive or inherently liberatory, the essay explores how these TV series navigate the tension between the simultaneous violence of new media and its investigative/feminist/affective potential.

Material progress and immaterial observations: An exhibition of molecules that make life a little easier

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Emsley
Keyword(s):  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Electric Cable ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Biological Polymers ◽  
The Many ◽  
Material Progress ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Long Chains

You may think of polymers as entirely manufactured and therefore unnatural, but they are often the chemists’ attempts to supplement and improve on the biological polymers that nature produces. Cotton, ivory, leather, linen, paper, rubber, silk, wood and wool are wonderful materials made from the biological polymers that plants and animals produce, and which have evolved to serve such useful ends as providing protective outer layers, insulation, reinforcement, weaponry and so on. Humans learned that with a little modification they could turn these polymers into quite useful articles, such as briefs and briefcases, condoms and tea cosies, tickets and toothpicks. Sometimes we want polymers with features that never evolved in nature, such as non-cracking insulation for electric cable, clothes that can be unpacked after a long voyage and still be without creases, or pans in which to fry eggs without them sticking. For these polymers we have had to look to chemists. Most of the portraits in this Gallery are of these kinds of polymers—materials that do not have natural equivalents. Polymers are rather special kinds of molecules consisting of long chains, usually made up of carbon atoms, to which other atoms, such as hydrogen, fluorine and chlorine, are attached. The older name for polymers is plastics, and you probably know several of them by name— polythene, polystyrene, Teflon, Orion—but these are only a few of the many that now play an important role in our lives. Whatever role polymers play, they cause many of us to adopt quite strong attitudes towards them. A few of us admire them, many of us ignore them, but a growing number despise them and a few abhor them and will avoid them at all costs. To a chemist, this opposition to polymers seems rather strange. By the time you come to the end of this exhibition I hope that visitors with strong views will have seen enough to persuade them to change their mind. Attitudes towards plastics have changed over the past half-century. In the 19305, when cellophane, PVC, polystyrene, Perspex and nylon were launched, plastics were welcomed.

The Erosion of Racial Equality in the Context of Cuba's Dual Economy

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (03) ◽  
pp. 35-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A Blue
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Dual Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
State Employment ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Impact

AbstractScholars of Cuba have long linked Afro-Cubans' fate to the revolutionary government. As the government's influence on people's daily lives has declined over the past decade, the question arises of whether Afro-Cubans have sustained the gains they achieved in the revolution's first 30 years. This article uses survey data, collected in December 2000 from 334 Cuban families in Havana, to assess the impact of the post-1993 economic reforms on rising racial inequality in Cuba. It asks whether racial inequities occur in accessing dollars through state employment, self-employment, or remittances, and whether educational gains are tied to higher income. Results indicate that the structural means through which racial discrimination was once virtually eliminated through equal access to education and employment, and through which income levels became equalized according to educational level regardless of racial group, has lost its equalizing force in contemporary Cuba.

scholarly journals Telling Our Stories / Animating Our Past: A Status Report on Oral History and Digital Media

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven High ◽  
Jessica Mills ◽  
Stacey Zembrzycki
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Hard Drives ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Tens of thousands of oral history interviews sitting in archival drawers, on computer hard drives, or on library bookshelves have never been listened to. Thousands of new interviews are being added each year by the many large testimony projects now underway, including Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Historica–Dominion Institute’s Memory Project. Although the existence of these immense collections is widely known, the interviews are difficult to access. How can we combine oral history and new media to ensure that the potential of such important projects is fully realized? Emergent and digital technologies are opening up new possibilities for accessing Canadian memories and transmitting them to various audiences. New forms of media are changing the ways we think about and do oral and public history.Des milliers d’entrevues d’histoire orale oubliées dans des tiroirs d’archives, sur des disques durs et sur des étagères de bibliothèque n’ont jamais été écoutées. En même temps, chaque année, de nouvelles entrevues viennent s’ajouter par milliers dans le cadre de grands projets de témoignage, y compris la Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada et le Projet Mémoire de l’Institut Historica Dominion. Bien que l’existence de ces collections immenses ne soit guère un secret, les entretiens sont difficiles d’accès. Comment peut-on combiner l’histoire orale et les nouveaux médias afin de réaliser pleinement le potentiel de projets si importants? Des technologies numériques récentes présentent de nouvelles possibilités pour accéder aux souvenirs canadiens et les transmettre à divers publics. En effet, de nouvelles formes de média sont en train de changer les manières de penser et de pratiquer l’histoire orale et publique.

Distinctive Aspects of Diagnosis and Prescription in Mathematics for Children with Special Needs

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Wayne Ransley
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Achievement ◽  
Mechanical Performance ◽  
Mathematical Problem ◽  
Remedial Mathematics ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
National Council ◽  
Performance Skills ◽  
The Past ◽  
Skill Mastery ◽  
The Many

Over the past decade there has been in evidence a steadily growing awareness of the many children in our schools experiencing difficulties in school mathematics achievement. Recent public emphasis on educational accountability’ and the associated ‘back to basics’ debate has certainly contributed to the growing concern with those failing to learn elementary mathematics.In considering the manner in which our educational institutions are responding to the needs of such children, it needs to be stated at the outset, that the situation is confused by a lack of agreement as to what skills are ‘basic’ in the first place. If those children deemed to be in need of ‘remediation’ in mathematics, are to be well served, much more attention will need to be given to an analysis of what is ‘basic’ for them. At present, the view still prevails which restricts basic mathematics content to arithmetic, and in particular, it emphasises mechanistic skills in paper and pencil computation. It seems unlikely that any future employers will only require their workers to carry out mechanistic computational skills, yet pleas are still heard that this ought to constitute the main mathematical diet of those in remedial mathematics classes. It is often assumed that until these skills have been mastered no other worthwhile mathematics can be attempted. The current president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (N.C.T.M.), Shirley Hill (Newsletter, 1979) refers to this assumption as the ‘prerequisite fallacy’. This belief is manifested in schools where remedial children are kept in groups until a minimal level of competency is reached in the usual mechanistic skills. This means that many children never have an introduction to challenging and interesting mathematical problem solving at their own level. Insufficient recognition is given to the fact that much of this kind of valuable work can be given to children without prior complete skill mastery. Current practices too often, only disadvantage the slow learner even more, as the mechanical performance skills are the ones which will be least required of employees and citizens in the future.

Spouses, Siblings and Surnames: Reconstructing Families From Medieval Village Court Rolls

1983 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Common People ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Never Married ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Early Modern Era

Advocates of the “new social history” have buttressed their efforts to recreate the past lives of ordinary people with concepts, models, and quantitative methods taken from the social sciences. These new approaches have allowed scholars to extract vivid and dynamic reconstructions of past human experiences from the dry folios of civil and ecclesiastical registers. Their successes, as exemplified by the many publications of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, have focused largely on the demographic and familial histories of the early modern era. The manipulation of parish listings of baptisms, marriages, and burials is now a fairly precise science that has taught us much (and will doubtless teach us more) about the daily lives of common people and their families in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. But the tracing into the past of the social, familial, and demographic characteristics of the English people need not start abruptly with the auspicious advent of parish registers in 1538. Indeed, we can only hope to trace the origins of fundamental features of Tudor-Stuart life (such as the pronounced tendency towards late marriage and the high incidence of persons who never married) if we develop accurate techniques for analyzing the pre-1500, pre-parish register materials at our disposal. From the perspective of a medievalist, this work is clearly essential; most medieval people, quite simply, were peasants, and we shall better understand the histories of medieval parliaments, towns, and universities when we have successfully uncovered their rural underpinnings.

scholarly journals Soviet Films in the New Media Environment: Idealization or Discretization of the Past?

2014 ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Anna A. Novikova ◽  
Varvara P. Chumakova
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Rural Dwellers

Analyses how Russian viewers of the multichannel TV perceive narrative and aesthetic clichés of the Soviet movies. The influence of Soviet clichés on social construction of today’s reality, especially on attitudes of the rural dwellers towards the Past is in the focus of the paper, the authors of which follow the media ecology approach

scholarly journals ISEA 2011. International Symposium on Electronic Art

1970 ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Mikkel Thelle
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Media Art ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
New Media Art ◽  
Electronic Art ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
The Many

Rather than being a conference, ISEA 2011 is a festival of digital media, art and culture. The many different formats and activities are stimulating, but it is also sometimes difficult to find an overall perspective from which to describe the whole event. This year ISEA, which is one of the major digital festivals, was held in Istanbul, a city whose diversity was a mirror of the event itself. Among the many sessions can be highlighted themes such as “the logarithmic turning point”, which focuses on the influence that digital programming has had on global culture; ”media architecture”, understood as interactive façades in urban spaces; ”the curatorial gesture”, about curating and archiving new media and the issues around the role of New Media Art in art history. More generally, ISEA was permeated by the new media replication and unpredictabi- lity of new media, one expression of which was the festival’s ”Uncontainable” curatorial theme. As a negotiation of form and content, museums of cultural history in particular have something to learn from art and new media.

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