Recruiting Women to a Male-Dominated Activity: A Case Study of Women’s Nonparticipation in Fantasy Sport

Fantasy Sports Collection, Inc. (FSC) is a fantasy sport organization offering fantasy play since 2005. Having plateaued in consumer growth, FSC is faced with difficult financial decisions. In a brainstorming session regarding new initiatives, Molly Brinkmeyer suggested an idea to purposefully market to and recruit more women to preestablished offerings. Molly’s reasons driving this idea were the fact that only 14% of their consumers were women and, after an evaluation of FSC’s marketing campaigns, employees of FSC quickly saw that advertisements were overtly produced for men. FSC’s management team felt that this was an idea worth pursuing. They charged Molly with acquiring information about women’s fantasy sport participation and gave her a 3-week window to learn more and report back. She found that women’s top perceptions of the activity were that: (a) the activity was time consuming; (b) the activity required research, surveillance, and information; (c) they had no interest or understanding of it; (d) they felt the activity was too competitive; (e) they thought it wasn’t real; and (f) they still had a positive opinion of fantasy sport. With this new information, marketing decisions could now be made to address existing concerns by women regarding fantasy sport participation.

Bermain Fantasi: Pengembangan Model Pembelajaran Menulis Fiksi Ilmiah

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This research and development aims to produce a short story learning model of learning with science fiction. Then, test the effectiveness of Fantasy Play model products. The use of the development model used is 4-D which has stages of define, design, develop, and desseminate. The test is carried out with an expert validation process and a small scale field test. The test results indicate that the qualifications are feasible to implement and have a normal distribution&gt; 0.05 and the significance is 0.000 &lt;0.05. These results indicate that the Fantasy Play model can be used in learning. </p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Penelitian dan pengembangan ini bertujuan untuk mengahasilkan model pembelajaran menulis cerpen dengan jenis fiksi ilmiah. Kemudian, melakukan pengujian efektivitas produk model Bermain Fantasi. Penggunaan model pengembangan yang digunakan ialah 4-D yang memiliki tahapan <em>define, design, develop, </em>dan <em>desseminate. </em>Pengujian dilakukan dengan proses validasi ahli dan uji lapangan skala kecil. Hasil uji menunjukkan kualifikasi layak diimplementasikan dan berdistribusi normal &gt;0,05 serta signifikasi diperoleh 0,000 &lt;0,05. Hasil tersebut menunjukkan bahwa model Bermain Fantasi dapat digunakan dalam pembelajaran.

Màgia i fantasia al servei de les nobles nissagues: el cas de Nofra-dona Dolcina en la novel·la històrica de Vicent Josep Escartí

Resum: Dos dels elements més identificables en la novel·la històrica de Vicent Josep Escartí són, per una banda, el component màgic i fantàstic i, per una altra, l’existència de dues nobles nissagues: els Roger i els Arcàngel de Sant Esteve. De fet, la primera ja s’apuntà subtilment en «El fill de Gepa» i es desenvolupà en «Epistolari del Comte de l’Hortxà», primer i segon relat de Barroca mort (1988). Posteriorment, s’estengué a Dies d’ira (1992) ?Days of Wrath (2013)?, Els cabells d’Absalom (1996), Nomdedéu (2002), Naumàquia (2004) i El mas de les ànimes (2019). Amb Espècies perdudes (1997) sorgí el segon llinatge, que continuà en L’abellerol mort (2009), en les quals els Roger també s’endinsen enginyosament. Però, si hi ha un enllaç directe entre ambdues nissagues i que, alhora, encarna el joc fantàstic amb què Escartí impregna la seua obra, són els personatges ?secundaris? de Nofra-dona Dolcina. L’objectiu de l’article serà fer un recorregut per la seua novel·lística gràcies a aquests personatges femenins, els quals serviran per constatar-hi la importància de la màgia i la fantasia. Amb el protagonisme d’una dona en la seua darrera novel·la, El mas de les ànimes, ho torna a posar de manifest. Paraules clau: novel·la històrica valenciana, Escartí, nissagues, personatges femenins, màgia, fantasia.Abstract: Two of the most easily identifiable elements in Vicent Josep Escartí’s historical fiction are, on the one hand, the magical and fantastic component and, on the other hand, the existence of two noble lineages: the Roger family, and the Arcàngel de Sant Esteve family. In fact, the first one subtly appeared already in «El fill de Gepa» and developed in «Epistolari del Comte de l’Hortxà» ?the first and second story within Barroca mort (1988). It subsequently spread to Dies d’ira (1992) ?Days of Wrath (2013)?, Els cabells d’Absalom (1996), Nomdedéu (2002), Naumàquia (2004) and El mas de les ànimes (2019). Espècies perdudes (1997) marked the emergence of the second lineage, which continued in L’abellerol mort (2009), where the Roger family are ingeniously introduced as well. Nevertheless, if a direct link exists between both lineages which simultaneously embodies the fantastic play that pervades Escartí’s work, those are the ?secondary? characters of Nofra-dona Dolcina. This article has as its purpose to make a tour of his novels thanks to these female characters, which will help verify the important role that magic and fantasy play in them. Escartí stresses this once again through the prominence of a woman in his latest novel, El mas de les ànimes. Keywords: Valencian historical fiction, Escartí, lineages, female characters, magic, fantasy.

Zambian Children’s Imaginal Caring: On Fantasy, Play, and Anticipation in an Epidemic

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lusaka, Zambia, this article puts forth the concept of imaginal caring to examine a form of caring that is fantastical, exaggerated, and counterfactual. To develop this concept, I take the vantage point of young children (ages eight through twelve) who lived in households with persons who were suffering from tuberculosis and HIV. The children were involved in providing day-to-day care in many ways. They were also constrained in their efforts to give and show care because of their social positions, their access to resources, and their small human bodies. Through a series of examples, I demonstrate the ways in which children created and played with often visual images of giving care to family members in the past, present, and future. I show that fantastical imaginations and images of children’s involvement in caring not only expressed that they cared for others but also served as ways for them to provide or perform care. There were high social and personal stakes for children in not being able to care for others, and children’s efforts to care imaginally responded to such stakes, envisioning futures different from those scripted for them by global health discourses and the conditions of marginalization and exclusion into which they were born. Mukusupawila Ukulingana no mulimo wakufwailikisha muncende ishaba mu Lusaka, mu Zambia, uyu mulandu uleleta palwalala ilangulushi lya kusakamana kwa kwelenganya mu kweesha ukusanga umusango umo uwa kusakamana uwasumbulwa ukucila mu cipimo, kabili uwabulamo ifishinka. Mu kupanga ili langulushi, nasenda ulubali lwa baice (abamyaka cine-konse konse ukushinta pamyaka ikumi limo na ibili) abo abaikele mu ndupwa umwali abantu abalecushiwa na malwele ya icifuba ca ntanda bwanga (TB) na kashishi ka bulwele bwa kondoloka (HIV). Abana balibulilemo ulubali mu kusakamana abalwele cila bushiku mu nshila isha pusana pusana. Abana bali abashupikwa mukwesha kwabo ukwa kupeela no kulanga ukusakamana pa mulandu wa mikalile yabo, ishuko lyabo ilya kusanga ifyakubomfya, ukubikapo fye ne mibili yabo iinono. Ukupitila mu filangisho ifingi, ndelangisha inshila isho abana abanono balepanga elyo no kubomfya ifimpasho ifimoneka ifya kusakamana abalupwa mu nshita iyapita, ino, elyo ne ya kuntanshi. Ndelangisha ukutila ukwelenganya ne fimpasho ifyapulamo ifya kuibimbamo kwa bana takwalanga fye ukuti balesakamana abantu bambi (abalwele/abalupwa), lelo kwabombele nge nshila shabo isha kupeelelamo nangu ukubomba umulimo wa kusakamana. Kwali amaafya ayengi elyo ayakulu mubwikashi bwa bana abaleesha ukusakamana bambi. Kabili amaka ya bana mu kusakamana kwa kwelenganya, yalyafwilishe kuli ayo amaafya, ukwelenganya ubupusano bwa kuntanshi ukufuma kuli ifyo ifyalembwa pali bena mu malyashi yabumi aye sonde lyonse elyo ne mibeele ya kusuulwa no kupatululwa, iyo bafyelwemo. Mwacidule Kulinganiza ndi nchito yofufuza-fufuza mu madera ya Muzinda wa Lusaka, mu dzoko la Zambia, iyi mbiri ibweretsa ganizo lachisamaliro chofanizira moyetsa kupeza maonekedwe yachisamaliro chakuya, chozama koma chimene chiribe Mfundo zeni-zeni. Pomanga iri ganizo, ndatenga choonerako cha ana ang’ono-ang’ono (ali ndi zaka zisanu ndi zitatu mpaka khumi ndi ziwiri) amene anakhala mu mabanja anali ndi anthu wodwala chifuwa chabefu (TB) ndi matende ya Kaliwondewonde (HIV). Ana anali kutenga mbali yasamara wodwala tsiku ndi tsiku munjira zo siyana-siyana. Anali wobvutika mukugwapo kwawo kopereka ndi kuonetsa chisamaliro chifukwa cha mukalidwe wawo, kukwanisira kupeza zofunikira ndipo kuchepepa kwamathupi yawo. Kupyorera mu zisanzo zambiri, ndiri kuonetsa njira zimene ana anapanga ndi kusewenzetsa kawiri kawiri zifaniziro zoonetsa kupatsa chisamaliro ku anthu mubanja kudala, tsopano ndipo kutsogoro. Ndiri kuonetsa kuti kuyerekeza ndi zifanizo zozama zakugwapo kwa ana pa nchito yachisamariro sizinali kuonetsa kusamalira kwawo ku anthu ena koma kumaonetsa njira zawo zopatsa ndi kusamalira. Kunali mabvuto yayakulu ku ana pa kusagwapo kwawo mu kusamalira anthu ena, ndipo kugwapo kwawo kogwapo kofanizira kunagwebana ndi mabvuto ayo pamene anali kuganizira tsogoro losiyanako ndi zolembedwa mu nkhani yaumoyo yadziko lonse lapansi ndi mukhalidwe wachisankulo ndi kusayesedwa ngati anthu zimene anabadwiramo.

Development and Validation of the Retrospective Childhood Fantasy Play Scale

This article describes the development and initial psychometric properties of the Retrospective Childhood Fantasy Play Scale (RCFPS), a brief 11-item retrospective self-report measure of preference for, and engagement with, fantasy play during childhood. Five studies were conducted to (a) develop the initial items for the scale ( n = 77), (b) determine the underlying factor structure ( n = 200), (c) test the fit of the model ( n = 530), and (d) and (e) ascertain construct validity ( n = 200) and convergent validity ( n = 263). Overall, the results suggest that the RCFPS is a unidimensional measure with acceptable fit and preliminary validity. The RCFPS may prove useful in educational and developmental research as an alternative to longitudinal studies to further investigate how childhood fantasy play relates to individual differences in adulthood (e.g., in the areas of creativity, theory of mind, and narrative skills).

"Collage of Colors"

In this article, I examine an episode of fantasy play, and a related theatrical production, as arenas for the creative processing of a child’s experience. My five-year-old son, Michael, constructs a microcosm of our field site in Acapulco, Mexico, and animates a drama featuring dinosaurs in mortal conflict. My intention is to explore the ways a child makes sense of place through imaginative play, and, further, to address the role of artistic expression in the child’s growing mastery over his material and social environments.