Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography

With the advent of means to generate and disseminate fake, sexualised images of others for the purposes of financial gain, harassment, or sexual gratification, there is a need to assess and understand the public’s awareness and judgements of said behaviour. In two independently-sampled studies, we used moderation (Study 1) and linear mixed effects (Study 2) analyses to investigate whether judgements of deepfaking differed as a function of victim status (celebrity, non-celebrity), victim and participant demographics, and image use (sharing, own sexual gratification), whilst controlling for the potential covariates of psychopathy and beliefs about a just world. We consistently observed more lenient judgements of deepfake generation and dissemination for victims who were celebrities and male, and when images were created for self-sexual gratification rather than being shared. Moreover, lenient judgements, as well as proclivity to act were predicted by greater levels of psychopathy. We discuss our findings in the context of needing to qualitatively understand the general public’s rationale for said disparity in judgements, as well as identifying and combating barriers to disclose victimisation. Open data and a preprint of this paper are available at https://osf.io/fp85q/?view_only=24ed2820782f4c2f9c19352f97d58611.

The Visual Culture of American Protestantism in the 19th Century

The study of Protestant visual culture requires a number of correctives since many scholars and Protestants themselves presume images have played no role in religious practice. This essay begins by identifying misleading assumptions, proposes the importance of a visual culture paradigm for the study of Protestantism, and then traces the history of image use among American Protestants over the course of the nineteenth century. The aim is to show how the traditional association of image and text, tasked to evangelization and education, evolved steadily toward pictorial imagery and sacred portraiture. Eventually, text was all but eliminated in these visual formats, which allowed imagery to focus on the personhood of Jesus, replacing the idea of image as information with image as formation.

STRATEGI PROMOSI DESTINASI WISATA YOGYAKARTA DALAM AKUN INSTRAGRAM @thepotraitjogja

This research is a study that took @thepotraitjogja instagram account as the research object. This research focuses on how instagram @thepotraitjogja accounts promote the city of Yogyakarta to tourism. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. The results of the study it is known that instagram accounts @theportraitjogja image use a variety of language styles in their caption to influence readers' feelings. The feeling that you want to cause is a feeling of love and missing to Yogyakarta. Therefore, through the style of the language used, the instagram seeks to bring the image of a lover who is warm, charming and longed for in the city of Yogyakarta. The emotional closeness that is expected to be difficult after reaching the image is expected to strengthen the readers' desire to come to visit the city of Yogyakarta, just like coming to visit a lover. There are three styles of language used to bring up the image, among others: (1) comparative language style consisting of litotes, personification, metaphor, hypocorism, hyperbole, allegari and simile language styles, (2) affirmation language style consisting of language style repitition, parallelism and silepsis; and (3) the opposing language style consisting of the pardox language style. Keywords : promotion strategy, language style, tourism destination

Use and reuse of visual resources in student papers and presentations

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how undergraduate and graduate students use visual resources in their papers and presentations and what role images play in their academic work. It also focused on analyzing the types of image use/reuse in academic work. Design/methodology/approach This study was designed using an exploratory, qualitative approach. In all, 15 participants were recruited. Multiple sources of data were collected, including visual evidence, questionnaires and interviews. It adopted consensual qualitative research for data analysis. Findings This study finds a prevalent reuse of images in student presentations but limited use and reuse in papers. Images in presentations were primarily reused as objects for engaging and esthetic purposes. Reuse of images as a source of information was not common and in some cases problematic when students were missing context. The type of use/reuse of images in the papers was more varied with examples of creative use and transformative reuse. Practical implications This paper contributes to a better understanding of how students use and reuse images for academic papers and presentations. Results have important implications for teaching visual literacy and re-purposing images in higher education. Originality/value This paper analyses educational use/reuse of images along the data/object spectrum and distinguishes between different types of image use and reuse.

Using Images With Individuals With Aphasia: Current Research and Clinical Trends

Purpose Visuographic supports in the form of images are utilized during assessment and treatment for individuals with aphasia to supplement speech, language, and cognitive losses limiting communication. Clinicians rely on prior experience and intuition to make decisions regarding image-based support design and selection (e.g., augmentative and alternative communication strategies). Researchers have begun to focus on the relationship between the images and the benefits they provide for adults with aphasia. Method The aim of this review—resulting from a roundtable discussion at the 2016 Clinical Aphasiology Conference—was to disseminate summaries of current and past researches regarding image use by individuals with aphasia and to highlight areas of need within research and practice. Results Review of the literature illuminated 4 major themes: (a) image creation, capture, and sharing; (b) image characteristics; (c) image use across linguistic domains and contexts; and (d) implications for clinical and research practices. Conclusions Reviewing current knowledge and practice regarding the use of visual supports for individuals with aphasia is essential to advancing therapeutic practices and providing evidence-based protocols for creating, selecting, and implementing images within augmentative and alternative communication strategies. Several gaps in knowledge were identified as future research needs (e.g., caregiver training and enhanced image feature investigation).