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Abraham H. Foxman and Christopher Wolf (2013) Viral Hate: Containing its Spread on the Internet.
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CD/DVD Review: Darryl Holter, Radio Songs: Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles, 1937-1939
Get PDFDarryl Holter, Radio Songs: Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles, 1937-1939. 213Music, 2015
The Benefits of Delivering Formative Feedback via Video-Casts
Get PDFUniversities face the challenge of offering high quality feedback in a time- and cost-efficient manner. In this context, the use of eLearning technologies offers a number of potential advantages to both the tutor and student. For example, eLearning technologies may allow students to fully engage with their studies whilst maintaining other responsibilities (such as childcare or paid employment). The mixed methods study explored both student and tutor experiences of using video-casts (via the eLearning technology, Adobe Connect) for personalised formative feedback. Twenty four final-year students were offered the opportunity to receive video-cast feedback on their project drafts alongside more traditional written and face-to-face feedback. The experiences of eighteen students and the reflections of their tutors are reported here. In summary, students found video-cast feedback to be easy to access, clear, and motivational. Tutors reported that the video-cast feedback was easy to record, and reduced workload. Specifically, subsequent meetings were more focused and further follow-up meetings were unnecessary
"Jolly Banker": Woody Guthrie on the Financial Crisis of Yesteryear and Today
Get PDFOn March 22, 1940, during the course of an epic recording session with Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, Woody Guthrie drifted into a tune he referred to as “I’m a Jolly Banker” or, alternatively, “The Banker’s Lament.” But the former title best suits the song, for the financier who appears in it expresses no mourning, sorrow, or regret. Instead, along with the jaunty tune to which the song is set, the narrator exudes gaiety, cheerfulness, and merriment, all while engaging in the kind of fiscal shenanigans endemic of the era of the Great Depression and, more currently, of our own Great Recession. Guthrie turns the exuberant main character into a parasite, one leeching out the very lifeblood of his debtors at a time when they are most vulnerable, crushed by the twin realities of environmental and economic devastation. In 2009, members of the band Wilco took up Guthrie’s “Jolly Banker,” finding new meaning in the song written seventy years ago, giving it new life in the context of our own struggles — thus explicitly connecting the past struggles with financial wrongdoings to our own current ones. For the bankers, their actions, and their allies needed to be pilloried again, just as they did in Guthrie’s lifetime
“Who Cares if I Care?” Facilitating Learning in Higher Education
Get PDFBeing an academic practitioner for almost three decades, I am continuously enhancing my self-awareness, and developing strategies for addressing my, and student behaviour in order to eliminate the barriers to learning. By leveraging this awareness, I have focused on the facilitation of student engagement and learning, in order to create a caring and respectful learning environment. The paper explores the literature related to the “caring” individual and behaviours which can either enhance or hinder student engagement during student/teacher interactions. By unpacking the inherent complexities in order to identify strategies that promote pedagogical care, a reflective narrative is provided on the personal learning gained while investigating this integral aspect of the student experience. Finally, and, in an attempt to bridge the perceived gap, concluding thoughts and implications provide a synthesis between the analysis and the UK., Professional Standards Framework
Viral advertising and new pathways to engagement with the British National Party
Get PDFThis paper identifies and analyses the use of social media by the British National Party (BNP) – a far-right party based in the UK. The analysis centres on changing forms of political participation, suggesting that the BNP, as well as other political parties both on the far-right and in the political mainstream, are using social media to provide the opportunity for casual or even accidental engagement by sharing or engaging with material over social networks. To illustrate this point, the author draws on an extensive sample of visual material posted by the BNP on the social network Facebook. Engaging with material produced by far-right groups such as the BNP potentially opens audience members up to a number of personal, professional and legal risks. The paper concludes by linking the potential for casual or accidental far-right engagement online to wider calls to support more rounded and digitally literate citizenship education
A Correlation Analysis of Tech-based English Activities and Japanese Elementary Student Affective Variables
Get PDFThis paper reports the results of a group of Japanese elementary school students involved in a confirmatory study regarding technology-based foreign language activities and affective variables. The students were all native Japanese in the same school in Nagano prefecture, Japan (N = 27). The purpose of the study was to confirm previous results reported by Tagami (2011b), whose students participated in the preparation of a video ‘letter’ to send to student in Australia. His students also viewed a video ‘letter’ sent by the students in Australia. His results showed strong correlations between tech-based foreign language activities, international posture, and motivation, their self-perceived communicative competence (aka self-confidence in using English in oral communication), and EFL willingness to communicate, and desire to visit foreign countries. Both studies used an identical self-report measure after the viewing of the other school’s video ‘letter’. The results herein show strong correlations between foreign language activities, motivation, and willingness to communicate; motivation and international posture; and willingness to communicate and international posture. Also, the students reported that their interest in English improved when they realized English was a necessary means to communicate. Second, their willingness to communicate in English was supported through the activity. The results are discussed as they relate to teacher EFL classroom practice
Woody Guthrie and the Blues
Get PDFMost writing on Woody Guthrie focuses on his songwriting, his life, or his politics, but there is little focus on his musicianship or his knowledge of musical history. Guthrie’s relationship to the blues tradition is central to his work — as evidenced in his guitar, mandolin, and harmonica playing as well as his knowledge of blues history and his associations with Sonny Terry, Lead Belly, Josh White, the Golden Gate Quartet and others. Guthrie’s engagement with the blues is a crucial aspect of his broader relationship to racial issues
"Our Unseen Friend": Early Radio and the Tuning In of Woody Guthrie\u27s Performing Persona
Get PDFLike many early program hosts in the emerging mass communication medium of radio, Woody Guthrie — during the time he spent as a daily radio program host in Los Angeles, from 1937 through 1939 — learned to craft and hone extemporaneous techniques for successfully addressing a new and unseen audience. Without the benefit of later media effects studies and audience research, Guthrie discerned to whom he was speaking and in what kind of language that would best be accomplished. Guthrie determined that certain aspects of his aw-shucks personality were more successful than others, and this winnowing process developed the performing persona Guthrie utilized during the subsequent escalation of his cultural status. This critical-historical study describes the climate of radio production into which Guthrie and his co-hosts inserted themselves and examines the effect of the medium’s evolution not on the audience but on the performer. The evolving application of parasocial interaction theory is explored in the context of Guthrie’s process of determining his target demographics and especially of shaping the identity of his performing persona. The identity-forming process active in immediate interpersonal communication remains active within the asynchronous feedback channels between radio hosts and audiences. The cultural figure of Woody Guthrie celebrated nationally in the 1940s was largely an identity honed along the trial-and-error learning curve of his earlier radio tenure