scholarly journals Single Motherhood, Media, Methods, And Messiness: Exploring Virtual Reality As A Tool For Autobiographical Expression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Elizabeth Womby
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Single Motherhood ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Empathetic Response

<div>This research/creation project documents my experiences of living as a single mother with minimal financial, family, and social support. Since research suggests that virtual reality (VR) can generate heightened empathetic response in users, I chose to develop my story using VR as the primary creative tool. This study required engagement with the creative and methodological approaches of arts-based research—a process of learning-by-making that prompts questions and reflections on ethics, techniques, aesthetics, value, and subjectivity. The finished project, then, is an exploration of my journey not only as a single mother, but also as a researcher exploring emerging technological affordances and their capacity to engender empathy and serve as tools of autobiographical expression. In this way, the work could further be understood as contributing to the emerging field of autotheory, in which the researcher’s subjective and embodied experience is integrated with theoretical and philosophical approaches.</div><div><br></div>

scholarly journals Single Motherhood, Media, Methods, And Messiness: Exploring Virtual Reality As A Tool For Autobiographical Expression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Elizabeth Womby
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Single Motherhood ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Empathetic Response

<div>This research/creation project documents my experiences of living as a single mother with minimal financial, family, and social support. Since research suggests that virtual reality (VR) can generate heightened empathetic response in users, I chose to develop my story using VR as the primary creative tool. This study required engagement with the creative and methodological approaches of arts-based research—a process of learning-by-making that prompts questions and reflections on ethics, techniques, aesthetics, value, and subjectivity. The finished project, then, is an exploration of my journey not only as a single mother, but also as a researcher exploring emerging technological affordances and their capacity to engender empathy and serve as tools of autobiographical expression. In this way, the work could further be understood as contributing to the emerging field of autotheory, in which the researcher’s subjective and embodied experience is integrated with theoretical and philosophical approaches.</div><div><br></div>

scholarly journals Advancing Knowledge on the Health Consequences of Discrimination: The Potential of Virtual Reality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Priscilla Lui ◽  
Elizabeth Stringer ◽  
Ernest Jouriles
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Science Method ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Causal Pathways ◽  
Innovative Method ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Objectives: Racism and discrimination drive racial and ethnic health disparities, and are robust markers for a host of health outcomes in People of Color and Indigenous Peoples (POCI). A comprehensive understanding of possible causal pathways by which racism and discrimination lead to POCI’s health disadvantages is a critical step toward reducing disparities and promoting health equity. Experimental methods can help researchers delineate these causal pathways. In this manuscript, we illustrate how virtual reality (VR) can be used by researchers in experimental studies to advance discrimination science. Method: We summarize current findings on health effects of discrimination. We describe common methodological approaches that have been employed in discrimination science and discuss some of their limitations. Arguments for the potential benefits of using VR to advance discrimination science are provided. Results: VR has the potential to facilitate ecologically valid experiments that examine individuals’ responses to racism and discrimination-related experiences in real-time. Conclusions: VR offers scientists an innovative method that can be used in experimental studies to help delineate how racism and discrimination might lead to health problems in POCI. Still, VR is new to discrimination science; thus, research is necessary to empirically delineate advantages and possible disadvantages of using VR in studies on discrimination.

The Gender Gap in Poverty in Modern Nations: Single Motherhood, the Market, and the State

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Christopher ◽  
Paula England ◽  
Timothy M. Smeeding ◽  
Katherin Ross Phillips
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
The United States ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Single Motherhood ◽  
Policy Issues

In this article we examine gender gaps in poverty in the United States and seven other Western nations, asking how single motherhood, market earnings, and welfare states affect gender inequality in poverty. Our analyses speak to the theoretical literature emphasizing the gendered logic and effects of welfare states and labor markets. We find that single-mother families have higher poverty rates than other families in all nations except Sweden, though the degree of their poverty varies. Regarding welfare states, we find that the tax and transfer systems in Sweden and the Netherlands most effectively reduce gender inequality in poverty. Gender inequality in market earnings is worst in the Netherlands and Australia, though among full-time workers, Australia has the lowest gender gap. We conclude by discussing the policy issues raised by our findings.

VIRTUAL REALITY USAGE IN THE RADIOGRAPHY SIMULATOR DEVELOPMENT FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING PERSONNEL TRAINING

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
E. E. Kovshov ◽  
V. S. Kuvshinnikov ◽  
D. F. Kazakov
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Digital Radiography ◽  
Network Protocols ◽  
Non Destructive Testing ◽  
Destructive Testing ◽  
Technical Personnel ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
Non Destructive

Organizational, technical and methodological approaches to the creation and virtual reality usage in the development and implementation in additional education of a digital radiography simulator for non-destructive testing of products and materials are considered. It is noted that the most widespread virtual reality technologies are used for training and testing the knowledge of engineering and technical personnel and workers directly involved in production, as well as within the technological preparation of production during complex and responsible operations, including the control of products and materials. The pilot solutions obtained to date and tested allow us to judge the results of complex scientific research. Prospects of expanding the range of applicability of software and hardware solutions of virtual reality, including those based on network protocols and telecommunications solutions, are determined.

Working manifesto/a for rovers

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi A. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Body ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Arts Based Research

This arts-based exploration offers potentiality and theory to the wider arts-based research field by expanding and naming embodied experience as it relates to mechanical means of transport. The author dubs such a practice of physically moving the body between vast and varied spaces to be a roving art practice. She offers modes of potential, a preliminary list of protocols to contextualize a rover’s manifesto/a and ways to use roving as an educational tool applicable to the field of art education.

The Democratic Potential of Narrative, Poetry, and Performance

2021 ◽  
pp. 242-259
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Research Narrative

This chapter will present an overview of three particular methodologies of arts-based research: narrative, poetry, and performance. This chapter will discuss the ways in which these methodological approaches to research may be effective means through which to capture and share the knowledge possessed by community stakeholders. This chapter has positioned community stakeholders as partners in arts-based research. When university faculty and community stakeholders form reciprocal, mutually beneficial partnerships, it becomes possible to create and disseminate the knowledge needed to support a democratic society.

Aspirational Maternalism and the “Reconstitution” of Single Mothers in Morocco

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Marie Newman
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Single Motherhood ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Moral Discourses ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThis article interrogates how employees at single-mother associations in Morocco construct the mère célibataire (single mother) as an archetypal, aspirational figure. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork (2013–15), this article traces how counselors work with single mothers to imagine alternative maternal futures. I argue that by invoking a counternarrative I call “aspirational maternalism,” single-mother advocates disrupt traditional maternalist rhetoric that excludes single women. Aspirational maternalism draws on moral discourses and neoliberal values of independence and responsibility. Through its deployment, counselors create affective space for single mothers to think beyond pathologizing portrayals of single motherhood in Morocco. Counselors also disrupt the neoliberal focus on calculated, self-interested action by centering “the mother-child couple” within aspirational maternalism. The ideal-typical Mère Célibataire is capable of achieving the transformation from victim to self-sovereign mother. And yet, aspirational maternalism elides the significant structural obstacles to independence that single mothers face.

scholarly journals Editor's Introduction

Screen Bodies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Ball
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Affective Experience ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Animal Advocacy ◽  
Film Series ◽  
The Way

The six essays in this in this issue of Screen Bodies explore what we might call the affective modalities of media, that is, each author examines the potential of emerging and traditional media to transform individual and collective relations through the strategic use of embodied affective experience. Three essays in the issue focus on new and emerging technology. In, “The iAnimal Film Series: Activating Empathy Through Virtual Reality,” Holly Cecil examines the potential power of virtual reality to generate empathy in users. In particular, she looks at the way animal advocacy organizations combine documentary film and virtual reality to communicate the embodied experience of living and dying in a factory farm to provoke feeling and widespread opposition to the industry.

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