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Lines of Exclusion/Lines of Collaboration: Pioneering Female Medievalists
Get PDFMy contribution to this roundtable focused on conventional forms of academic publishing in the early 20th century. Using the independent scholar Hope Emily Allen as a case study, I discussed forms of writing and publishing that fostered the exclusion of 'difference' from the academy and publishing landscape
Creative Robotics Theatre: Designing Creative Interactions with Tangible and Embodied Interfaces
Get PDFCreative robotics theatre allows us to explore contemporary problems and societal issues, pushing artistic frontiers and technological boundaries, enhancing storytelling opportunities, interdisciplinary collaborations, and pedagogical innovation [28]. With the above issues in mind, we aim to explore new technologies by co-designing with the community in participatory approaches that stem from posthumanism and new materialism philosophies
Towards AI Literacy: 101+ Creative and Critical Practices, Perspectives and Purposes
Get PDF“This collection of AI stories and examples in education exemplifies citizen science at its finest. It captures the authentic voices of individuals who are actively testing and expanding their AI literacy, sharing their experiences to support and inspire others. Through their contributions, they collectively advance our understanding and application of AI in educational settings, showcasing the true spirit of community-driven learning and innovation. Your feedback is encouraged; this story is only beginning".
Dr Margaret Korosec, Dean of Online and Digital Education, University of Leeds
This is the second open crowdsourced collection by #creativeHE which presents creative and critical practices, perspective and purposes from educators, researchers and students between September 2023 and January 2024.
We are grateful for all 119 contributions from 22 countries including Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay.
As the collection is made available under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA licence, anybody can use the collection as open data to further interrogate the use of AI in Education. Please share any resulting outcomes with the editorial team and the wider community
Charged Objects of Performance project
Get PDFA sharing of research findings from the XRNetwork+ funded project, 'Charged Objects of Performance
Fashioning the Hip-Hop Dancing Body: An Actor-Network Theory Approach to “Fresh” Performance Practice
Get PDFThis thesis examines how hip-hop dance performance, which increasingly moves into digital and site-specific contexts, is constituted through the material movements of, and connections between, bodies, clothing, and space. The research proposes a new materialist framework and highlights, through the concepts of assemblage and distributed agency, the constitutive entanglement between human and non-human agencies in live and digitalised hip-hop performance. Actor-network theory (ANT) is engaged as the main conceptual approach to explore the agential capacity of the fashioned, hip-hop dancing body to transform and be transformed by other material actors (actants) in multiple networks of relationships. ANT’s core principle of “tracing associations” is used not only to map relationships between human and non-human actors, but also to connect hip-hop to other academic fields – sociology, contemporary dance, performance, costume, and fashion. Fashion is approached as an ambiguous term in relation to hiphop; the complex fashion/ costume distinction is challenged through ANT’s concepts of translation and multiplicity.
The analysis of three hip-hop dance pieces – The Locksmiths Liiive, Our Bodies Back, and The Purple Jigsaw – reveals the multi-layered and multidirectional realities of contemporary hip-hop practitioners and the histories and concepts that inform those realities. For example, the term “fresh” – a critical material semiotic concept and trope embedded in hip-hop culture that encapsulates creativity, confidence, aspiration, success, and respect – is examined from the perspectives generated by interviewees and observed knowledge of material data gathered via ethnographic research methods. Fashion, through its entanglement with the hip-hop dancing body, is reframed as a mechanism of change that becomes powerful through its spatial and temporal displacement. The hip-hop performer is reconceptualised as a dynamic, material bodily assemblage with the capacity to cut through fixed dichotomies that have shaped hip-hop since its emergence in the mid-1970s; most notably the underground/ professional, live/ mediated, and masculine/ feminine dichotomies
Ten Texts on Sculpture 9: The Non-Object
No full textThe ninth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode Matt and Andrea read two texts that help us get to grips with developments in Brazilian art and sculpture in the mid-20th Century. First we look at Ferreira Gullar’s foundational Neoconcretist text ‘Theory of the Non-Object’ from 1959, with the help of Michael Asbury who embeds it within his essay, ‘Neoconcretism And Minimalism: On Ferreira Gullar’s Theory Of The Non-Object’ from the book Cosmopolitan Modernisms from 2005. Then, we take a closer look at the career of a famous Brazilian Neoconcretist, Lygia Clark, by reading Suely Rolnik’s essay ‘Molding a Contemporary Soul: The Empty-Full of Lygia Clark’ from 1999
To Share or Not to Share: Randomized Controlled Study of Misinformation Warning Labels on Social Media
Get PDFCan warning labels on social media posts reduce the spread of misinformation online? This paper presents the results of an empirical study using ModSimulator, an open-source mock social media research tool, to test the effectiveness of soft moderation interventions aimed at limiting misinformation spread and informing users about post accuracy. Specifically, the study used ModSimulator to create a social media interface that mimics the experience of using Facebook and tested two common soft moderation interventions – a footnote warning label and a blur filter – to examine how users (n = 1500) respond to misinformation labels attached to false claims about the Russia-Ukraine war. Results indicate that both types of interventions decreased engagement with posts featuring false claims in a Facebook-like simulated interface, with neither demonstrating a significantly stronger effect than the other. In addition, the study finds that belief in pro-Kremlin claims and trust in partisan sources increase the likelihood of engagement, while trust in fact-checking organizations and frequent commenting on Facebook lowers it. These findings underscore the importance of not solely relying on soft moderation interventions, as other factors impact users’ decisions to engage with misinformation on social media
“Ole Rag 'n' Lumber”: Intergenerational, Gendered, and Classed Relationships with Clothing, from Rag 'n' Bone to Depop
Get PDFT his essay explores intergenerational, gendered, and classed relationships with dress, clothing, and dressing practices through a combination of anecdotal narrative, material culture analysis, oral history, and critical analysis. It presents a journey through four generations of women in the same family from East London, from a twentieth-century “rag-and-bone” merchant to a contemporary teen using virtual resale clothing platforms such as Depop
Artificial Intelligence and fundraising ethics: What do we know and what don't we know about the ethical use of AI in fundraising?
Get PDFArtificial intelligence (AI) offers exciting opportunities for charities and nonprofits, from automating administrative tasks to gaining insights from data. However, consideration of how it should be used in fundraising has focused mainly on practical applications, with less thought given to the ethical implications that might arise from its use.
When attention does turn to the ethics of using AI for fundraising, the focus is often on how generic ethical issues about AI might also apply to fundraising. But AI will throw up ethical issues and challenges that are unique to fundraising and the nonprofit sector.
This project considers two related but separate questions:
1. What ethical issues are associated with using AI in fundraising?
2. Can AI be used to resolve ethical dilemmas in fundraising
Máthair
No full textIn 1954 an Irish woman travelled alone to England to give birth in secret in a Catholic Mother and Baby Home, she then returned to Ireland having given up the baby to the nuns. This event is the departure point for Keira Greene’s film Máthair. As the daughter of the child who was left in the home, Greene traces her family story along the matrilinear line, the resulting film enters into the gaps in memory and record. Máthair offers a fragmented and elliptical account of a search for knowledge in the face of institutional oppression and obfuscation; the film resists linear narrative and documentary modes, instead offering us an intense and revelatory encounter with a shared family trauma. Scant records and redacted documents describe the negation and erasure of those who passed through the church’s homes for unmarried mothers. The sensory lives of these ungraspable women are embodied in choreographed phrases performed by a group of four dancers, whose costumed movements both gesture towards and subvert the constrictive clothing regulations of Catholic institutions and the forced female labour in the church’s laundries. Glimpses of this performance are threaded between a chaotic collage of archival material and present-day online chat rooms; the only respite is found in the holding space of the landscape and the bodies of water between England and Ireland. The silences of the archive are countered by a dissonant sound score, a pulsing polyphonic composition, dense with complex sensory impressions, a chorus of unvoiced voices compelling us to stay with the problem.
HD video, 16:9, colour, 5.1 surround sound, 16 minutes, 38 seconds, distributed by LU