scholarly journals Small Theological Libraries as Place

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Susan Ebertz ◽  
Kris Veldheer ◽  
Vance Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Instructional Delivery ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
The Status ◽  
Library As Place

The idea of “library as place” has become challenged/problematized because of two concurrent realities—the pandemic and the growing popularity of online instructional delivery. These two realities have aggravated longstanding questions about the status of small theological libraries already struggling with limited personnel and resources. How can we envision the “theological library as place” in such a way that we can revalue physical space while also orienting and guiding development of virtual spaces? After speakers have shared concepts and resources, participants will be broken up into small groups to discuss experiences including challenges and successes and may focus on either physical place or virtual place.

scholarly journals Is there a paradigm shift for GIS data representation and analysis?

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Xiaobai A. Yao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Media Data

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In the era of big data, and particularly location-based big data, GIScience is facing significant challenges. The traditional data representational and analytical models have been primarily limited to the view of Newtonian space and time. However, the contemporary enormous amount of location-based social media data and other forms of voluntary geographical data has greatly enhanced the potential to expand the horizon of the field of GIScience by including data that represent more aspects of human activities in the world. For instance, human interactions and information exchange are taking place not only in the physical space but other in virtual spaces, or concurrently in both types of spaces. Similarly, locations may not only exist in the physical space but also in virtual spaces. Social connections may also be traced in either physical or social spaces, or both. Is the shift of ways people interact with each other and with the real world imposing fundamental changes in physical activities in the physical space? If so, how? Ultimately, how can GIS help to organize the data in order to answer new research questions?</p><p>This abstract is developed in response to the call for submissions to the research agenda session organized by the commission on geospatial analysis and modeling. Among other important and interesting research directions, I choose to discuss the following topics. I will provide my partial assessment of the current state of knowledge as well as preliminary analysis of associated research questions.</p><ol><li><p>Revamping the representation framework of current GIS</p>New representational framework is needed to organize data in spatial, social, and temporal space. Wei and Yao (2018) argued that current GIS representations do not distinguish between spatial location and virtual locations in the virtual space, neither do they account for social associations among people. They proposed an ontological framework that identifies four primary categories in the location-based social media data, namely Agents, Activities, Places, and Social Connections. Such framework is an example of what need to be represented and analysed in future GIS.</li><li><p>Representational bias of current location-based social media data</p>It is widely known that the demography of social media users is not representative of the demography of the general public. However, the location-based social media data are used anyway in many studies regardless of the representative bias. Little has been done to understand the nature of the bias and how the bias impact research findings. There is a dire need for research that can shed light on a better understanding of the bias and on possible responses to the problem.</li><li><p>Data fusion</p>In the era of big data, with a myriad of data sources and data types, how to integrate the heterogeneous data is a challenge task. Yao et al (2019) suggested that developing analytical data fusion approaches is an important research direction for location-based big data.</li><li><p>Analytical models for spatio-temporal-social relationships</p>Traditional GIS analysis and modelling focuses on space and spatial relationships, while sometimes the temporal dimension is also added. However, location-based big data are often acquired from individuals with fine-grained location and time information. Location-based social media data show connections among the individuals. In other words, social connections are embedded in such spatially and temporally informed data. Therefore, it is possible and highly beneficial to explore data in the integrated social-spatial-temporal dimensions. Traditional models were not developed for the high dimensional dynamics. New analytical models are in great demand to analyse the data to discover patterns and relationships in social-temporal-social dimensions.</li></ol>

scholarly journals Sound i historisk perspektiv: oppdagelse, naturalisering, kanonisering

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Eirik Askerøi
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Tape ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Musical Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Recorded Music ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vocal Expressions

This chapter addresses technological development as a driving force of musical development during the history of recorded music. The study is organized around three moments, which in various ways have contributed to forming new ways of producing music, and thereby also have left their audible marks on the sound of the music. The first example demonstrates how the development of the electric microphone contributed to new vocal expressions already in the 1930s. The second example takes up how magnetic tape technology has affected the status of recording, the possibility of multitrack recording and for experimenting with the sound of new, virtual spaces in recordings. The third example is the gated reverb on drums, which left a definitive mark on the sound of the 1980s. The overall aim of this chapter, then, is to provide an inroad to understanding the concept of sound in a historic perspective, through processes of discovery, naturalisation and canonisation.

scholarly journals In Search of Lost Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Matteo Mazzamurro
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Virtual Teaching ◽  
Pedagogical Literature

In this reflection, I discuss the changing affordances of physical and virtual spaces in PGR seminar teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. I start by reviewing how physical space has been conceptualised in the pedagogical literature in terms of its material aspects, affordances, and interactions with users. I then translate the above concepts to virtual teaching spaces. I discuss how the affordances of both physical and virtual spaces have evolved throughout the different stages of the pandemic, exemplifying the process through my personal experience of seminar teaching. I conclude with a personal reflection on the challenges and unexpectedly positive consequences of having to dynamically adapt one’s pedagogy to changing affordances and constraints.

Digital inequality and racialized place in the 21st century: A case study of San Francisco's Chinatown

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Hong
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Historic Structures ◽  
The Status

Despite robust scholarship on the digital divide, little attention has been paid to its spatiality: how does the organization of physical space, especially the status of the built environment, affect digital access? These questions are especially neglected with regard to Asian Americans, who are thought to have consistently high levels of technological attainment. Nonetheless, certain Asian American communities, particularly those that are poor, working-class, or from refugee backgrounds, remain disproportionately disconnected from the Internet. In this paper, I examine the relationships between digital, racial, and environmental inequalities in San Francisco’s Chinatown. I show that historic disinvestment in Chinatown’s building stock, combined with campaigns led by ethnic Chinese people themselves to preserve historic structures and prevent displacement, have created a physical landscape that cannot support broadband Internet. As a result, many residents depend on inferior connections that diminish their life outcomes. I conclude that digital inaccess is the most recent manifestation of historical place-based racism through which Asian Americans have been constructed as outsiders and perpetual foreigners.

Pixel of Matter: New Ways of Seeing with an Active Volumetric Filmmaking System

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-437
Author(s):  
Seonghoon Ban ◽  
Kyung Hoon Hyun
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Installation Art ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Digital Reconstruction ◽  
New Methodologies

Using volumetric filmmaking as a medium for artists and designers requires the development of new methodologies and tools. We introduce an installation art project using the active volumetric filmmaking technology to investigate its possibilities in art practice. To do that, we developed a system to film volumetric video in real time, thereby allowing its users to capture large environments and objects without fixed placement or preinstallation of cameras. Active volumetric filmmaking helps us realize the digital reconstruction of physical space in real time and can be expected to ultimately facilitate the coexistence of real and virtual spaces.

A personal space in the Web. Bases, processes and evaluation of a collaborative digital design experience for significant learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-245
Author(s):  
María Elena Tosello ◽  
María Georgina Bredanini
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Principles Of Design ◽  
Design Experience ◽  
The Web

We live constantly networked, performing multiple activities in virtual spaces which are intertwined with physical space, shaping an augmented and symbiotic chronotope. Considering that personal space is an area surrounding individuals that provides a framework for developing activities wouldn’t it be necessary to count on a virtual personal space? This article presents the bases, processes, and results of a didactic experience which purpose was to imagine and design a personal space in the Web, representing its properties and characteristics through a transmedia narrative unfolded through diverse languages and media. Three cases are presented, selected because they propose different strategies to approach the problem. In order to perform a comparative analysis of the results, the categories were defined based on the triadic structure of Peirce’s Theory of Signs, which in turn were divided into sub-categories that incorporate the Principles of Design and Evaluation of Interface-Spaces.

scholarly journals Human Computer Collaboration at the Edge: Enhancing Collective Situation Understanding with Controlled Natural Language

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Z. Bakdash ◽  
Erin Zaroukian ◽  
Alun Preece ◽  
Dave Braines
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Dynamic Information ◽  
Social Sensing ◽  
Controlled Natural Language ◽  
Behavioural Experiment ◽  
Conversational Interface ◽  
The Status ◽  
Shared Information

Effective coalition operations require support for dynamic information gathering, processing, and sharing at the network edge for Collective Situation Understanding (CSU). To enhance CSU and leverage the combined strengths of humans and machines, we propose a conversational interface using Controlled Natural Language (CNL), which is both human readable and machine processable, for shared information representation. We hypothesize that this approach facilitates rapid CSU when assembled dynamically with machine assistance, via social sensing, from local observations, with information rapidly disseminated among people at the network edge. We report a behavioural experiment wherein small groups of users attempted to build CSU via social sensing, interacting with the machine via Natural Language (NL) and CNL. To simulate a tactical environment, participants answered 36 questions (operationalized as CSU) by visiting various locations and describing their discoveries to a mobile conversational agent. To test our hypothesis, we compared the performance of groups of users between the:1) Online Condition: CSU, the status of all questions, dynamically updated by the machine as users collect information.2) Offline Condition: No dynamic machine-supported CSU, simulating unreliable connectivity at the edge. Each participant was restricted to their own information until the end of the experiment. Results indicated the Online Condition had greater agreement in CSU, but individual participants answered significantly fewer questions than the Offline Condition. In other words, the Offline Condition group provided more answers, but there was more consistency among the answers provided by the Online Condition group.

scholarly journals Education in the Virtual Space: A Sustainable Strategy for Achieving Tension-free and Inclusive Learning in COVID-19 Dispensation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Moses Obla ◽  
◽  
Ejeng Ukabi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Instructional Delivery ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Tension Free ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Inclusive Learning

Apart from scalable classrooms, learning in virtual space for pro-technology and pro-Internet generation contributes significantly to developing their inherent domains. This process manifests through the use of digital materials, making the pedagogical scheme enjoyable, catchy, innovative, and inclusive. Today’s staggering educational challenges of tertiary institutions, because of the COVID-19 Pandemic, call for operational rejig. Still alarming is the difficulty of containing the recent evolution into variants. Sequel to this, different countries adopted various strategies to achieve tension-free and inclusive learning environments as part of the ‘new normal.’ This study addresses the pertinence: Could the use of virtual spaces for instructional delivery constitute sustainable strategies for tension-free, and more inclusive, methods of educating learners during and after COVID-19 dispensation? To answer this question, we adopted a theory-based adaptation conceptual approach and inside-outside approach and brought the Nigerian situation into focus where virtual learning was sceptically debunked because of operational and policy slackness. This study agreed with the positive potentials of virtual space and disagrees with earlier studies deficient at uncertainty variables. Based on these, recommends areas of gaps filling in developing countries’ education systems, who stopped learning during the pandemic period for future adoption and adaptation.

Biopolitics as the “Fifth Character” in the Process of Humankind Editing

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Political Theology ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Psychology ◽  
The Status ◽  
Living Person ◽  
Tremendous Impact

At the end of the XIX — the beginning of the XX century under the influence of the ideas of K. Schmitt, G. Le Bon, G. Tarde, S. Freud, R. Kjellen and F. Galton intellectual discourses of political theology, mass psychology, geopolitics, and eugenics are gaining popularity. Each of these trends has a tremendous impact on the political and social life of the 1st half of the XX century. Political theology edits the beliefs and ideals of the age, mass psychology edits social relations, geopolitics edits the boundaries and physical space of the population, and eugenics claims to transform the very nature of man. If, in accordance with the canon of dramatic art, there are four main characters of the events of the era, then political theology should be assigned the status of a Hero, mass psychology — a Heroine, geopolitics and eugenics — Confidante and Villain (in the mask of the Savior). The key to clarifying historical conflicts is the Fifth character — biopolitics, the initiator, inspirer and hidden censor of these theoretical discourses, which have become the drivers of humankind editing practices. At the turn of the XX–XXI centuries, under the influence of biopolitics, political theology is transformed into biotheology, mass psychology — into biolaw, geopolitics — into biocapitalism, eugenics — into biotechnology. Together, these factors, expressing the biotheological hopes of the biopower, drive humankind towards the utopia of an eternal world based on eternal values in a state of eternal walfare for an ever-living person.

scholarly journals Conduciveness to Scholarship: The Essence of Academic Library as Place

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 536-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Antell ◽  
Debra Engel
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Academic Degree ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Opposite Position ◽  
Positive Statements ◽  
Library As Place ◽  
Fourth Theme

The dawn of the Internet era has prompted many researchers to investigate changes in the use of academic libraries, but most studies explore student use, rather than faculty use, of library space. In contrast, this study surveys use of the academic library space among faculty and doctoral students and explores the phenomenological differences between using library space and using the library remotely. The authors hypothesized that older scholars (by age and by “scholarly age,” as measured by the year in which the scholar’s last academic degree was earned) would report greater use of the physical library and less use of the library’s electronic resources and would make more positive statements about the physical space than would younger scholars. In three of the four major themes that emerged from the qualitative survey data, this hypothesis is supported. However, in the fourth theme, “conduciveness to scholarship,” the opposite position was supported. Younger scholars were far more likely than older scholars to make statements reflecting the idea that the physical library is a unique place that facilitates the kind of concentration necessary for doing serious scholarly work.

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