Students’ satisfaction and preferences related to virtual streaming facilities during COVID-19 lockdown

This paper reported how students used the virtual streaming technology and consider their satisfaction and preferences related to video conferencing during COVID-19 lockdown. A case study was selected for an exploratory mixed methods design to explore students’ (n=89) lived experiences of the video conferencing facility during the COVID-19 lockdown. This study has found that students preferred both Teams and Zoom as virtual streaming facilities during COVID-19 lockdown. Students were satisfied with virtual streaming platforms as a teaching and learning supportive tool that facilitated their shift to online learning. Moreover, this study reported that using a web-based videoconferencing platform as a virtual streaming tool supports students in learning from home in critical times such as this pandemic. Further research is needed to determine students and lecturers’ digital literacy competencies using video conferencing for successful online learning post the COVID-19 lockdown.

Staying Local, Going Global

Streaming technology has facilitated the global distribution of foreign language shows such as Netflix’s Dark. The worldwide popularity of Dark, the streaming giant’s first original series made in Germany, raises questions about Netflix’s business strategy of producing “local stories with global appeal” as well as the international allure of German culture today. This article examines how Dark’s pop-cultural engagement with nuclear power connects to Germany’s post-war policies on atomic energy and the circulation of the country’s sustainability politics on the international stage. The show’s particular blend of local and global aesthetics of nuclear power, sustainability, and climate change demonstrates how German culture is now viewed as a fitting medium to reveal, correspond to, and have an impact on today’s zeitgeist globally. It also signals a shift in the dynamic between local and global media forms, and thus German film.

Novel sweeps technology in endodontics — A review

A novel SWEEPS® Er:YAG laser modality was recently introduced with the purpose of improving the disinfecting and activating efficacy of SSP laser assisted endodontic procedures by permitting the generation of primary and secondary shock waves throughout the complicated root canal system. The SWEEPS method greatly improves the efficacy of removing debris and medications from the root canal system. In the most current Er:YAG dental laser devices, the complimentary combination of SSP and SWEEPS® technology constitutes a distinct solution for modern endodontics. The aim of this review is to: (i) Offer the most relevant data on a novel SWEEPS (shock wave enhanced emission photoacoustic streaming) technology, its relative advantages, with an emphasis on single-pulse SSP laser-assisted irrigation and dual pulse SWEEPS technology; (ii) Provide recommendations for the use of SWEEPS technology in Endodontics based on current evidence; (iii) Highlight the areas in which more research is required.

Remote proctoring for high-risk coronary interventions with mechanical circulatory support during COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Remote proctoring by advanced digital technologies may help to overcome pandemic, geographic, and resource-related constraints for mentoring and educating interventional cardiology skills. We present a case series of patients undergoing high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (HR-PCI) with mechanical circulatory support (MCS) guided by remote proctoring to gain insights into a streaming technology platform with regard to video/audio quality, visibility of all structural and imaging details, and delay in transmission. According to our experience, remote proctoring appears to be a reliable, quick, and resource-conserving way to disseminate, educate and improve MCS-supported HR-PCI with implications far beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

WHAT 2 LISTEN 2: Reinventing The Presence Of Tastemaker Influences In Music Discovery Through User Interaction and Aggregate Data

Historically, the process of music discovery has been fostered through the personal connection(s) listeners develop with music and artists via broadcast media formats. Streaming technology has made music more accessible to the listener than ever before, but it has also failed the listener, inhibiting the process of music discovery by eliminating the tastemaker. By referencing the theory of Public and Counter-publics by Robert Warner, the paper outlines importance of audience recognition, response, and personal connection to music discovery. In 1942 Joseph Schumpeter wrote about “incessant product and process innovation”, coined the phrase “creative destruction” (a process through which something new brings about the demise of whatever existed before it) and proclaimed it to be “the essential fact about capitalism”. Despite this, Schumpeter also outlined the concept of “creative response” (innovative acts by entrepreneurs) and its importance to society. What 2 Listen 2 embraces the ideology of Schumpeter and creates a multi-level solution to expand the role of the tastemaker, and restore the concept of personal connection to the process of music discovery via storytelling. This solution has been articulated as a market ready broadcast property as well as an app/web solution in a beta form.

WHAT 2 LISTEN 2: Reinventing The Presence Of Tastemaker Influences In Music Discovery Through User Interaction and Aggregate Data

Historically, the process of music discovery has been fostered through the personal connection(s) listeners develop with music and artists via broadcast media formats. Streaming technology has made music more accessible to the listener than ever before, but it has also failed the listener, inhibiting the process of music discovery by eliminating the tastemaker. By referencing the theory of Public and Counter-publics by Robert Warner, the paper outlines importance of audience recognition, response, and personal connection to music discovery. In 1942 Joseph Schumpeter wrote about “incessant product and process innovation”, coined the phrase “creative destruction” (a process through which something new brings about the demise of whatever existed before it) and proclaimed it to be “the essential fact about capitalism”. Despite this, Schumpeter also outlined the concept of “creative response” (innovative acts by entrepreneurs) and its importance to society. What 2 Listen 2 embraces the ideology of Schumpeter and creates a multi-level solution to expand the role of the tastemaker, and restore the concept of personal connection to the process of music discovery via storytelling. This solution has been articulated as a market ready broadcast property as well as an app/web solution in a beta form.

Adoption of high frame rate live-action video content on social media platforms

New cinema technology has always been dictated by Hollywood studios and theater exhibitions. With emergence of video streaming technology and smart display availability to the mass population, cinema technology no longer needs to overcome the approval made by studios and exhibitors. High frame rate is an emerging technology that has the ability to enhance realism and temporal resolution in the production process. This technology is supported by various social video streaming platforms and allows users to experience high frame video. Though this technology is available and accessible, this project assesses the value and adoption of 60 frames per second video content versus the standard 24 frames per second.

Adoption of high frame rate live-action video content on social media platforms

New cinema technology has always been dictated by Hollywood studios and theater exhibitions. With emergence of video streaming technology and smart display availability to the mass population, cinema technology no longer needs to overcome the approval made by studios and exhibitors. High frame rate is an emerging technology that has the ability to enhance realism and temporal resolution in the production process. This technology is supported by various social video streaming platforms and allows users to experience high frame video. Though this technology is available and accessible, this project assesses the value and adoption of 60 frames per second video content versus the standard 24 frames per second.

UTILIZATION OF STREAMING TECHNOLOGY AS A PUSDAI TV DAKWAH COMMUNICATION MEDIA

Advances in information technology provide easy access for religiousinstitutions to communicate and socialize with the wider community. Including facilitating the way for the syiar Islam or better known as Dakwah. One of the contemporary da'wah media that utilizes streaming technology is Pusdai TV. This study aims to analyze the use of streaming technology as a medium and communication strategy for da'wah communication by Pusdai TV. This study uses a qualitative research method with a phenomenological approach. Data collection techniques were carried out by means of observation, interviews, and document analysis. The results showed that the first Pusdai TV da'wah communication strategy included message planning through objectives, media selection, main ideas, and audience analysis. Second, the strategic process of making broadcast programming through the stages of idea research, content creation, evaluation and control. Third, the da'wah communication strategy is carried out through internal and external approaches. With all the strategies that have been implemented, active audience feedback is obtained, spiritual fulfillment of audience needs, and audience loyalty.

Distance Learning in Higher Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Using a randomized experiment in a public Swiss university, we study the impact of online live streaming of lectures on student achievement and attendance. We find that (i) attending lectures via live streaming lowers achievement for low-ability students and increases achievement for high-ability ones; (ii) students use the live streaming technology only occasionally, apparently when random events make attending in class too costly, and (iii) offering live streaming reduces in-class attendance only mildly. These findings have important implications for the effective design of education policies.