scholarly journals Gramophone, Masinatahikan – Typewriter, Press, Our Mother(s) Tongue

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Jane Bell
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Visual Record ◽  
Learning Analysis

This essay discusses a wide range of media—including an 1853 Albion Cree Press, a Cree typewriter, and contemporary Indigenous artworks—to create a sense of the multiplicity of Indigenous technologies available for study today and the vastness of the visual record. While older art historical studies would be limited to so-called high art, namely paintings and sculpture, this essay takes an expansive approach to consider multiple examples of visual culture in the formation of Indigenous literacy traditions. The work considers the importance of birchbark biting and moss in the pictorial record, for example, as a form of Indigenous technology. This essay has also been inspired by recent conversations with my mom and colleagues in the discipline of contemporary art and for that I am thankful and try to reflect a more conversational approach to the media discussed herein as a methodology of upending binaries and tensions of spoken and unspoken and not-as-yet written stories. The research engages in visual analysis of Indigenous literary artifacts and images. By Indigenous literacies I mean the way Indigenous people have engaged and engage technologies and media to move ideas forward, to create art and culture. The essay takes a speculative approach, using some stories about artworks and narrative approaches to honor a history of Métis and Cree paths to knowledge that are based on storytelling rather than definitive histories. As a person of Métis ancestry on my maternal side, I write this essay not as a fluent Cree or Michif speaker, but as one who is in a life-long process of language learning. Analysis of visual imagery expands staid notions and simplistic understandings of Indigenous literacies as solely based on writing.

Comparative Effects of High-Tech Visual Scene Displays and Low-Tech Isolated Picture Symbols on Engagement From Students With Multiple Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 693-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Holyfield ◽  
Sydney Brooks ◽  
Allison Schluterman
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Visual Scene ◽  
Future Research ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Difference

Purpose Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is an intervention approach that can promote communication and language in children with multiple disabilities who are beginning communicators. While a wide range of AAC technologies are available, little is known about the comparative effects of specific technology options. Given that engagement can be low for beginning communicators with multiple disabilities, the current study provides initial information about the comparative effects of 2 AAC technology options—high-tech visual scene displays (VSDs) and low-tech isolated picture symbols—on engagement. Method Three elementary-age beginning communicators with multiple disabilities participated. The study used a single-subject, alternating treatment design with each technology serving as a condition. Participants interacted with their school speech-language pathologists using each of the 2 technologies across 5 sessions in a block randomized order. Results According to visual analysis and nonoverlap of all pairs calculations, all 3 participants demonstrated more engagement with the high-tech VSDs than the low-tech isolated picture symbols as measured by their seconds of gaze toward each technology option. Despite the difference in engagement observed, there was no clear difference across the 2 conditions in engagement toward the communication partner or use of the AAC. Conclusions Clinicians can consider measuring engagement when evaluating AAC technology options for children with multiple disabilities and should consider evaluating high-tech VSDs as 1 technology option for them. Future research must explore the extent to which differences in engagement to particular AAC technologies result in differences in communication and language learning over time as might be expected.

How Scientists Communicate

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Conference Presentations ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Broad Overview

What is scientific research? It is the process by which we learn about the world. For this research to have an impact, and positively contribute to society, it needs to be communicated to those who need to understand its outcomes and significance for them. Any piece of research is not complete until it has been recorded and passed on to those who need to know about it. So, good communication skills are a key attribute for researchers, and scientists today need to be able to communicate through a wide range of media, from formal scientific papers to presentations and social media, and to a range of audiences, from expert peers to stakeholders to the general public. In this book, the goals and nature of scientific communication are explored, from the history of scientific publication; through the stages of how papers are written, evaluated, and published; to what happens after publication, using examples from landmark historical papers. In addition, ethical issues relating to publication, and the damage caused by cases of fabrication and falsification, are explored. Other forms of scientific communication such as conference presentations are also considered, with a particular focus on presenting and writing for nonspecialist audiences, the media, and other stakeholders. Overall, this book provides a broad overview of the whole range of scientific communication and should be of interest to researchers and also those more broadly interested in the process how what scientists do every day translates into outcomes that contribute to society.

The Social History of Alcohol as Portrayed in the Comics up to the End of the Prohibition Era

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Lambert ◽  
Stephen Israelstam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Considerable Effect ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The mass media tend to shape the values and opinions of their audience as well as reflect the culture in which they exist. The comics have long been an integral part of the media, appealing to a wide range of age and social class. As such, they could have considerable effect on attitudes and behaviours regarding alcohol consumption. In this paper, we examine the comic strips appearing in the daily newspapers before, during and up to the end of the Prohibition era in the United States, to see how alcohol was portrayed during this period when its manufacture and sale were prohibited.

scholarly journals Agony and the Collapse of Semenov

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-258
Author(s):  
Nikolay Gordeev
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The journal Russian-Chinese Studies (iss. 3–4(3), 2018) published an extensive article by V.I. Mertsalov Political “Face” of Chieftain Semenov (the History of the Civil War in the Far East). The author having analyzed a wide range of literature traced the evolution of political views of the chieftain and made a number of fundamental conclusions. According to the author, with all the diversity of views and actions of Semenov, they were consistently anti-Soviet and anti-communistic which is clearly reflected in the thesis formulated by the ataman: “…Where there is bolshevism, there is no Russia”. We can’t but agree with this author's argument. And yet, with all the variety of scientific publications on this issue, it is useful to continue the historical research, fully revealing all the criminal activities of the chieftain. Especially in recent years when among the representatives of the TRANS-Baikal “white” Cossacks and some local historians propaganda has intensified to reconsider the verdict of the USSR Military Board of the Supreme Court to chieftain Semenov and his subsequent rehabilitation. The reason for this is the “newly discovered circumstances” — declassified documents that allegedly indicate that “the charges against the chieftain are absurd, and the investigation and trial against him were conducted in violation of the law”. Therefore, “reviewing the Semenov case would play a positive role in reconciling Russian society”. Proponents of rehabilitation deliberately hide that during his life the chieftain got the infamous nickname “bloody” for what he did to the country. What kind of “reconciliation” — whom and with whom — can we talk about? In this regard, the author of this article offers his own vision of the chieftain case referring to his previous published research in scientific journals and the media.

scholarly journals History of Television Broadcasting Development in Japan (From Experimental Broadcasting to Nationwide Broadcasting in the 1960s)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 151-161
Author(s):  
Goryacheva Elena A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Media History ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Japanese Television

The article views and analyzes the early period of the nationwide television broadcasting in Japan (from the mid 1920s to the end of the 1960s). Previously, this problem has not been a subject of research in Russian oriental studies, and taking into account the operation of established television broadcasting system in modern Japan, it seems necessary to identify the features of the genesis and evolution of the nationwide television broadcasting in Japan at its earliest stage, using both historical-genetic and problem-chronological methods. Based mainly on the media history research of Japanese media historians, which are introduced into the Russian scientific community for the first time, the stages of the genesis and nationwide spread of television broadcasting in Japan are consistently identified: the pre-war period of experimental broadcasting, the reform of the media sphere during and after the occupation of Japan by the GHQ, the origins of the integrated system of Japanese public and commercial television broadcasting nigen taisei. In addition, the author concludes that television played an important role in the process of spreading Western values of democracy, as well as the renewed values of the nuclear family institution in Japan, which were declared by the GHQ, US occupation authorities. Based on the results of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the fundamental foundations of the modern multifaceted and original culture of Japanese television, as well as the model of broadcasting companies’ interaction: competition and coexistence of public and commercial television broadcasting, were laid precisely in the key period for the history of Japanese television ‒ the 1950‒1960s. The findings of this research can serve as a basis for studying the next stages in the evolution of television broadcasting in Japan up to the present period. This paper is aimed at orientalists, students of similar specialties, as well as a wide range of people interested in the history of Japanese media. Keywords: Japan, media history, television history, television in Japan, nationwide broadcasting

Dashboard for Analyzing Ubiquitous Learning Log

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erdenesaikhan Lkhagvasuren ◽  
Kenji Matsuura ◽  
Kousuke Mouri ◽  
Hiroaki Ogata
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Ubiquitous Learning ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ubiquitous Learning Environment

Mobile and ubiquitous technologies have been applied to a wide range of learning fields such as science, social science, history and language learning. Many researchers have been investigating the development of ubiquitous learning environments; nevertheless, to date, there have not been enough research works related to the reflection, analysis and traces of learners' activities in the history of ubiquitous learning environment. Therefore this paper presents a research on the design and development of a dashboard function which proposes new opportunity for ubiquitous learning. The dashboard captures, analyzes and visualizes traces of learning activities in order to promote awareness and enables learners to reflect on their own activity and helps to recall what they have learned. An initial evaluation has been conducted with 14 international students. Results indicate that the dashboard is a useful tool for self-reflection on activities and recall what learners have learned by repeated quizzes.

scholarly journals The Logic of Filtering

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melle Jan Kromhout
Keyword(s):  
Media Technologies ◽  
Recorded Sound ◽  
Specific Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Sound Media ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

This book traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: How do media technologies shape sound? How does this affect music? And how did it change what we listen for in music? Based on the information theoretical proposition that all transmission channels introduce noise and distortion, the argument accounts for the fact that technologically reproduced music is inherently shaped by the technologies that enable its reproduction. The media archaeological assessment of this noise of sound media developed in the book draws from a wide range of sources, both theoretical and historical, conceptual and technical. Together, they show that noise should not be understood as unwanted by-effect but instead plays a foundational role in shaping the sonic contours of technologically reproduced music. Over the course of five chapters, the book sketches a broad history of the problem of noise in sound recording, looks at specific analog and digital noise-related technologies, traces the ideal of sonic purity back to key developments in nineteenth-century acoustics, and develops an analysis of the close interrelation between noise and the temporality of sound. This relation, it argues, is central to the way in which recorded sound and music resonate with listeners. Ultimately, this media-specific analysis of the noise of sound media thereby greatly enriches our understanding of the way in which they changed and continue to change the sonorous qualities of music, thus offering a new perspective on the interaction between music, media, and listeners.

Race and the Rise of a Mass Visual Culture: The Case of David Hunter Strother’s Virginia Illustrated

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-479
Author(s):  
Christopher Lukasik
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
White Male ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Media History ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Relationship Of

Abstract The publication of David Hunter Strother’s Virginia Illustrated under the pseudonym Porte Crayon in Harper’s Monthly (1854–56) provides a compelling case study through which to consider the role of race in the development of a US mass visual culture. The media combinations found within and the reception history of Virginia Illustrated demonstrate the importance of racialized viewing to the early success of Harper’s Monthly at a critical moment in media history. To be sure, Virginia Illustrated circulated racist stereotypes to be mass consumed, but the image/text operations of Strother’s literary sketches and illustrations also extended the privileges and pleasures inherent in the performance of the white male gaze to the expanding readership of Harper’s Monthly despite the differences in region, gender, and class of that audience. The case study of Virginia Illustrated challenges us to revisit the oddly marginalized relationship of nineteenth-century illustration to literary, art, and media history and invites us to situate nineteenth-century US literature into the wider media landscape of which it was undoubtedly a part.

scholarly journals Environmental digital conflicts: Spanish-, german-, and russian-speaking actors

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-162
Author(s):  
María Pilgun ◽  
Alexei Rashodchikov ◽  
Olga Koreneva Antonova
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Media Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Network Technologies ◽  
Neural Network Technologies

Introduction. Almost all significant social communications are moving to virtual spaces. Thus, environmental conflicts play an increasingly important role in public life, as civic activity in solving environmental problems grows. The development of eco-territorial conflicts and requests for their social reactions lead to the emergence of digital conflict zones, sectors of the media space in which the current environmental agenda is discussed by a wide range of users. The analysis of conflicts in the digital environment is truly relevant and can be performed using neural network technologies. Methodology. Big data obtained from social media has become an important source of analysis of social processes, behavioral characteristics, speech perception, society's assessment of events and phenomena. The purpose of the work was to determine the specifics of perception in the media space of environmental conflicts in urban planning and construction. To analyze digital content, a multimodal approach was used along with neural network technologies, text analysis, sentiment analysis, analysis of word associations. The research data was collected using Brand Analytics and the corpus Sketch Engine. Content analysis was carried out using the multilingual technology of neural networks TextAnalyst 2.3. and visual analysis using the Tableau platform. Results and Conclusions. As a result of the study, common and different signs of the development of digital conflict zones related to environmental problems in the Spanish, German and Russian-speaking media space were identified.

The susceptibility of the vulnerable: some realities reassessed

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Short History ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disaster Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post War ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This intentionally short paper considers the wide range of interpretations of “vulnerability” since its 1979 adoption in disaster studies and proposes some necessary separation and re-categorisation of its current applications. Design/methodology/approach – The short history of the use of “vulnerability” in disasters studies is examined, contrasting present day contexts with those of its earliest use. Findings – “Vulnerability” is retained for its conventional place-based role, whilst superimposed social and political constraints are allocated to “susceptibility”, a term often used to define “vulnerability”; the two terms taking on equal mutually supportive roles. Separation of the two terms is supported by on example of their realities in war and post-war conditions, together with other examples not in contexts of war. Separation of terms suggests the issue of whether manifestation of vulnerability brings about additional personal susceptibility. Research limitations/implications – Implications are that both vulnerability and susceptibility may become better understood in disaster studies and its applications in the field. Practical implications – The media is seen as a possible eventual target for a published version of this short paper so that, in time, public as well as academic readership may be reached. Originality/value – Dissatisfaction occasionally expressed regarding uses of “vulnerability” has, so far, received little radical attention.

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