Histories and Cultures: Space, Filmmaker, Text and Spectator

Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433068.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 21-46

Author(s):

Shweta Kishore

Keyword(s):

Media Representation ◽

Film Festivals ◽

Third Cinema ◽

Participatory Video ◽

Public Protest ◽

Textual Representation ◽

Documentary Studies ◽

Context Specific

Beginning from 1980s onwards to the present day, this chapter examines diverse events including the formation of collectives, alternative film festivals, citizen-partnerships and other forms of democratic petitioning including public protest, to consider the importance of “relationality” or “bundles of relations” as the underpinning of independent documentary practice in India. Following three central concepts of documentary studies, the position of the filmmaker, the politics of textual representation and the position of the documentary spectator, I identify their context specific functioning. I trace the conceptualisation of “documentary filmmaker” formed in dialogue with the values of Third Cinema, the feminist “documentary text” that critiques media representation and ideologies, and finally, the problematizing of “documentary spectator” evident in the methods of participatory video producers

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Film festivals and the mediations of locality

Studies in South Asian Film & Media ◽

10.1386/safm_00005_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 59-71

Author(s):

Hrishikesh Ingle

Keyword(s):

Small Town ◽

Case Analysis ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Film Festival ◽

Film Festivals ◽

Third Cinema ◽

Alternative Discourse ◽

Non Fiction ◽

Local Contexts ◽

Spatial Dimensions

Abstract This article elaborates on the discursive role and mediations of local contexts in non-fiction film festivals that are organised in small-town settings in India. It argues that apart from the ideological imperative of forging an alternative discourse, local film festivals that are focused on non-fiction films and documentary cinema are also instrumental in producing an exuberant spatiality for re-articulating resistance as a function of filmmaking. Although this corresponds with the practices of Third Cinema of the 1970s, the temporality of the 2000s has provided a newfound relevance for locality, and its social spatial dimensions. The article develops this argument by undertaking a detailed case analysis of the Ankur Film Festival, conducted in Nashik since 2012. Identifying the numerous negotiations embedded in the trajectory of the film festival, the article also conceptualises a festival mode of cinema for contemporary social conditions.

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Context Specific Modeling of Communicational and Informational Content in Facebook

Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication - Graph Theoretic Approaches for Analyzing Large-Scale Social Networks ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2814-2.ch007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 109-124

Author(s):

Johannes Schick ◽

Martin Kuboschek ◽

Wolfram Manfred Lippe

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Specific Model ◽

Informational Content ◽

Specific Approach ◽

Privacy Settings ◽

User Groups ◽

Textual Representation ◽

Network Platform ◽

Context Specific ◽

Specific Modeling

In this chapter, the authors apply context specific methods to formalize communicational parameters for different profile groups in a social network platform, taking Facebook as an example. Information is posted to or shared with distinct user groups. The context specific approach is used to describe informational content of exchanged data and to formalize privacy settings in a social graph. Communicational and informational parameters are specified with direction and communicational content in a context specific model. Relations are defined to model communicational and informational interactions as well as environmental factors taking influence on the profile groups. The textual representation of this approach is introduced to describe models in a text-based form.

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Validation of the Procrastination at Work Scale

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000554 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 36 (5) ◽

pp. 767-776

Author(s):

U. Baran Metin ◽

Toon W. Taris ◽

Maria C. W. Peeters ◽

Max Korpinen ◽

Urška Smrke ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Work Engagement ◽

Discriminant Validity ◽

Psychometric Characteristics ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

And Performance ◽

Context Specific ◽

Negative Links ◽

Office Employees

Abstract. Procrastination at work has been examined relatively scarcely, partly due to the lack of a globally validated and context-specific workplace procrastination scale. This study investigates the psychometric characteristics of the Procrastination at Work Scale (PAWS) among 1,028 office employees from seven countries, namely, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Specifically, it was aimed to test the measurement invariance of the PAWS and explore its discriminant validity by examining its relationships with work engagement and performance. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis shows that the basic factor structure and item loadings of the PAWS are invariant across countries. Furthermore, the two subdimensions of procrastination at work exhibited different patterns of relationships with work engagement and performance. Whereas soldiering was negatively related to work engagement and task performance, cyberslacking was unrelated to engagement and performance. These results indicate further validity evidence for the PAWS and the psychometric characteristics show invariance across various countries/languages. Moreover, workplace procrastination, especially soldiering, is a problematic behavior that shows negative links with work engagement and performance.

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Ambulatory Assessment

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040.14.2.109 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 109-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 66

Author(s):

Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer ◽

Timothy J. Trull

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Clinical Psychology ◽

Real Life ◽

Ambulatory Assessment ◽

Computer Assisted ◽

Affective Valence ◽

Time Data ◽

Physiological Processes ◽

Context Specific ◽

Questionnaire Studies

Convergent experimental data, autobiographical studies, and investigations on daily life have all demonstrated that gathering information retrospectively is a highly dubious methodology. Retrospection is subject to multiple systematic distortions (i.e., affective valence effect, mood congruent memory effect, duration neglect; peak end rule) as it is based on (often biased) storage and recollection of memories of the original experience or the behavior that are of interest. The method of choice to circumvent these biases is the use of electronic diaries to collect self-reported symptoms, behaviors, or physiological processes in real time. Different terms have been used for this kind of methodology: ambulatory assessment, ecological momentary assessment, experience sampling method, and real-time data capture. Even though the terms differ, they have in common the use of computer-assisted methodology to assess self-reported symptoms, behaviors, or physiological processes, while the participant undergoes normal daily activities. In this review we discuss the main features and advantages of ambulatory assessment regarding clinical psychology and psychiatry: (a) the use of realtime assessment to circumvent biased recollection, (b) assessment in real life to enhance generalizability, (c) repeated assessment to investigate within person processes, (d) multimodal assessment, including psychological, physiological and behavioral data, (e) the opportunity to assess and investigate context-specific relationships, and (f) the possibility of giving feedback in real time. Using prototypic examples from the literature of clinical psychology and psychiatry, we demonstrate that ambulatory assessment can answer specific research questions better than laboratory or questionnaire studies.

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