scholarly journals Gender representation in Christian book covers: A case study

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Viljoen ◽  
Leandra Koenig-Visagie
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Book Covers

In this article, we described how gender is represented on two Christian book covers by popular author, John Eldredge, namely Wild at Heart. Discovering the Secret to a Man�s Soul (2001) and Captivating. Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman�s Soul (2005). Through semiotic visual analysis, we explored how the active male�passive female opposition functions on these covers. This opposition is constructed by visually associating the male figure on the cover of Wild at Heart with active outdoor adventurism and the female figure on Captivating with passive situatedness in nature. The titles of the two books also contribute to positioning the male as active and the female as passive. We further investigated how certain myths are created on these covers in support of an active male�passive female opposition and its underlying ideologies. The cover of Wild at Heart creates and also taps into the colonial myth of conquest. The cover of Captivating creates and taps into the myth of the fairytale and visually represents the female figure in a whimsical manner, thus constructing her as a representation of the spiritual or divine. The article questioned the role this information design plays in prescribing the expectations of gendered identity.

scholarly journals MAPPING LANDSLIDES IN LUNAR IMPACT CRATERS USING CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS AND DEM’S

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B6 ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Yordanov ◽  
M. Scaioni ◽  
M. T. Brunetti ◽  
M. T. Melis ◽  
A. Zinzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Chebyshev Polynomials ◽  
Slope Failure ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Statistical Testing ◽  
Mass Wasting ◽  
Optical Images ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Lunar Impact

Geological slope failure processes have been observed on the Moon surface for decades, nevertheless a detailed and exhaustive lunar landslide inventory has not been produced yet. For a preliminary survey, WAC images and DEM maps from LROC at 100 m/pixels have been exploited in combination with the criteria applied by Brunetti et al. (2015) to detect the landslides. These criteria are based on the visual analysis of optical images to recognize mass wasting features. In the literature, Chebyshev polynomials have been applied to interpolate crater cross-sections in order to obtain a parametric characterization useful for classification into different morphological shapes. Here a new implementation of Chebyshev polynomial approximation is proposed, taking into account some statistical testing of the results obtained during Least-squares estimation. The presence of landslides in lunar craters is then investigated by analyzing the absolute values off odd coefficients of estimated Chebyshev polynomials. A case study on the Cassini A crater has demonstrated the key-points of the proposed methodology and outlined the required future development to carry out.

Chinese Snake Woman Resurfaces in Comics: Considering the Case Study of Calabash Brothers

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Moral Standing ◽  
Female Figure

This chapter provides a study of a transgressive female figure from Chinese legend who may enjoy lasting popularity, but who also has a dubious moral standing when one examines her relationship to the eponymous young brothers. Snake Woman’s monstrous qualities are revived alongside the magical brothers as the proper counterpart to their superhuman feats in a Shanghai Animation Studio revival from 1986. This chapter shows this to be part of a history that reveals what Chinese culture holds to be both repugnant and appealing about a woman embedded in a children’s narrative.

scholarly journals Developing creative product designs inspired by ethnic cultural heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiphe Nani Setlhatlhanyo ◽  
Odireleng Marope ◽  
Richie Moalosi ◽  
Oanthata Jester Sealetsa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
University Of Botswana ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The University

Due to colonisation and globalisation, ethnic cultures are changing and Botswana’s ethnic cultures are no exception to this change. This study aims to explore how the ethnic culture of different tribes in Botswana can be used to inspire the design of new products. A case study was conducted with students at the University of Botswana on particular themes of ethnic cultural knowledge, which inspired them to design futuristic innovative products. Visual analysis was used to assess the student designs for how they informed current trends without distorting their ethnic cultural meaning. The findings indicated that students were able to design using their own cultural heritage, to work in teams, thus, attaining soft skills, and to modernise ethnic cultural symbols to design symbolic, innovative, and futuristic products.

scholarly journals The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 135485652093374
Author(s):  
Olu Jenzen ◽  
Itir Erhart ◽  
Hande Eslen-Ziya ◽  
Umut Korkut ◽  
Aidan McGarry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Media Practices

This article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of ‘social media imaginaries’, a derivative of the broader field of ‘media imaginaries’, our analysis seeks to offer new insights into activists’ relation to and conceptualisation of social media and how it shapes their digital media practices. Extending the concept of media imaginaries to include analysis of protestors’ use of aesthetics, it aims to unpick how a particular ‘social media imaginary’ is constructed and informs their collective identity. Using the Gezi Park protest of 2013 as a case study, it illustrates how social media became a symbolic part of the protest movement by providing the visualised possibility of imagining the movement. In previous research, the main emphasis has been given to the functionality of social media as a means of information sharing and a tool for protest organisation. This article seeks to redress this by directing our attention to the role of visual communication in online protest expressions and thus also illustrates the role of visual analysis in social movement studies.

scholarly journals West Lake Tourist: A Visual Analysis System Based on Taxi Data

Smart Cities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiang ◽  
Cao ◽  
Liu ◽  
Fan
Keyword(s):  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Route Planning ◽  
Trajectory Data ◽  
West Lake ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Scenic Spot ◽  
City Construction ◽  
Analysis System

Mining the mobile pattern of the urban population plays an important role in city construction, and visual analysis is a powerful technique in studying mobile patterns. In this paper, based on the taxi trajectory data in Hangzhou, we share our design for an interactive visual analytic system, which helps analyzers leverage their domain knowledge to gain insight into travel patterns, including travel time rules of tourists and the distribution rules of pick-up and drop-off locations. Besides, our system can present the dynamic travel process and the Point of Interest (POIs) information of the origin and the destination. A case study has been conducted, which verifies that our system can provide tools for urban managers or urban experts on the design of scenic spot open entrances and exits and travel route planning.

User centred information design practices and processes at the Australian Taxation Office

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Martin ◽  
Shirley Gregor ◽  
John Rice
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Business Simulation ◽  
Simulation Design ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
User Centred Design ◽  
Design Practices

This paper discusses results from a research study in the design and implementation of information documents and products in the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). It presents a composite ethnographic and case study analysis of user-centred information design practices at the ATO from 2001-2005, and shows that the ATO has been an active proponent of user centred design practices in developing business information documents and products for an extended period of time, while also identifying potential opportunities to improve business simulation, design and product construction. The article highlights that user-centred design principles may have broad based application in both the public and private sectors.

scholarly journals The Historical Soundscape Analysis of Fatahillah Square, Jakarta

Acoustics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-867
Author(s):  
Michael Isnaeni Djimantoro ◽  
Widjaja Martokusumo ◽  
Heru W. Poerbo ◽  
R. Joko Sarwono
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Sonic Environment ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Understanding conceptions of the protection of cultural heritage continues to develop until now. Presently, urban historic places are not only comprehended as tangible but also include intangible dimensions. However, the conservation of cultural heritage dominantly still emphasises the visual sense more than any other senses. Thus, this paper addressed several questions on the role of human senses, the historic sonic environments, and the soundmarks of the past in examining a historical area. This paper aims to reveal the relation between sound sources and its predicted sonic environment in historic places over the time. The case study was Fatahillah Square, Jakarta, which has been documented from the 19th century until now. Some methods were carried out such as soundwalk, recalled in memory, and visual analysis. The results show that comprehensive study of multisensorial stimulus can increase a holistic understanding of historic places. Therefore, the protection of historic sites cannot only focus on the object per se, but also it must be considered to be a holistic entity. This research highlights new perspectives in analysing historical areas using combination of pictorial sources and sonic information.

VafusQ: A methodology to build visual analysis applications with data quality features

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-404
Author(s):  
Jhon Alejandro Triana ◽  
Dirk Zeckzer ◽  
Hans Hagen ◽  
Jose Tiberio Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Data Quality ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Interactive Applications ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Interactive Visualizations ◽  
Quality Features

The use of interactive applications to support the decision-making process is more common every day. However, a huge amount of data is required in order to make more informed decisions. Fortunately, with the arrival of new technologies there are many data sources available. This requirement of data causes heterogeneity and data quality problems. A set of data quality problems are reduced in the preprocessing stage. However, many data quality issues persist after the preprocessing stage. For this reason, we proposed a methodology to take the data quality problems, to represent them and simultaneously support the analysis process. In addition, an application is developed as a use case of the methodology by analyzing the public transport system in Bogotá. Furthermore, a case study is performed to test the usefulness of the developed application. As a result, the methodology made possible the development of interactive visualizations that constitute an application that is useful to achieve the analysis tasks by including data quality features.

Analysis of Specifications for Web Screen-Design Using Rough Sets

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 688-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshinobu Harada ◽  
◽  
Ryousuke Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Rough Sets ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Screen Design ◽  
Nonlinear Methods ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
The Web

Recent Web sites have created the impression of representing companies or universities. Little research has been done to verify the relations between the composition elements of Web sites and the sense of values using nonlinear methods such as rough sets. We made a Web site for a university in the design and information design field into a case study, and aimed at clarifying the relation between the composition elements and users’ sense of values regarding the Web site. First, a questionnaire for sample Web sites was conducted using six terms to evaluate the sense of values. We then analyzed the results with multiple regression analysis, and clarified what evaluation terms affected their degree of aesthetic appeal. As a result, the subjects were classified by their sense of values into five clusters. Furthermore, combinations of composition elements for the Web site affecting the degree of aesthetic appeal in each cluster were extracted using rough sets. As a result of assessing the new Web site on the basis of the above results, we found that impressions and aesthetic appeal are controllable.

scholarly journals Monte Finocchito and Heloros Pottery Production: New Evidence through Technological Studies and Material Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Raudino ◽  
Robert H. Tykot ◽  
Andrea Vianello
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
X Ray ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Material Analysis ◽  
Sources Of Variation ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Non Destructive

AbstractThis paper discusses the use of non-destructive portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to distinguish sources of variation in 8th Century BC Greek and Sicilian ceramics. The project comprises an element of my PhD study through La Trobe University, concerning Hellenic colonies established from the eighth century BC in the south of Italy, and on Sicily in particular. This specific case study looks at the relationships established between the indigenous site of Monte Finocchito and the Greek settlement of Heloros, both located in south-eastern Sicily. The results demonstrate the usefulness of the pXRF technique for detecting material variations which are not readily apparent using traditional visual analysis during fieldwork.

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