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Vom Puzzle zum Spiel und zurück? Anbahnung literarischer Kompetenzen in "Storyteller"
Get PDFDas 2022 erschienene Computerspiel Storyteller stellt kurze Erzählungen als Bildergeschichten im Comicstil dar, indem es die narrativ-kausalen Konsequenzen der durch Spieler*innen vorgenommenen Arrangements von Figuren sowie Orten berechnet. Zur Lösung seiner Puzzles müssen daher durch die Konfiguration der Plots spezifische Endzustände der entstehenden Geschichten hergestellt werden. Der Aufsatz analysiert zunächst das Gameplay, bevor der Frage nachgegangen wird, wie Schüler*innen in einem Kreislauf vom Puzzle zum Spiel und zurück literarische Grundkompetenzen des Handlungs- und Figurenverstehens aufbauen und festigen könnten. Hinsichtlich einer didaktischen Einbettung in den Literaturunterricht werden dabei auch Potenziale der Reflexion von spielerischen Erfahrungen diskutiert.
Abstract (english): From puzzle to game and back? Initiating literary competences in Storyteller
Released in 2022, the computer game Storyteller displays short tales as picture stories in the style of comic strips by calculating the narrative-causal consequences of how characters and locations are arranged. In order to solve its puzzles players have to configure the plots to produce specific endings of the emerging stories. The paper first analyses the gameplay before enquiring how students could construct and consolidate main literary competences of understanding plots and characters. Regarding a didactic embedding in teaching literature, the potential of reflecting on playful experiences is discussed as well
Sexo, poder y espiritualidad en un monasterio femenino colonial. Las monjas de la Encarnación, Popayán, siglo XVII
Get PDFFew events could cause a greater scandal in colonial society than rumors about the sinful conduct of cloistered nuns. Because, contrary to what one might think, there were nuns who, in multiple ways and in various cloisters in the Indies, led acts of indiscipline, disobeyed bishops and judges, and had illicit relationships in defiance of male authority and professed religious vows. This is the case of the Augustinian nuns of the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación in Popayán, who were accused of various acts of sacrilege against themselves and against the cloister, causing an evident tension between estates, an assassination attempt on the person of the bishop, and the execution on the gallows of a foreigner. The interrogations and trials that make up the process show how the rumors about what was happening in the convent exalted the spirits of the relatives of the nuns, authorities and neighbors, who between 1608 and 1613, got involved in a strong dispute to condemn or defend the Augustinians, and whose outcome was to be exiled to convents in Pasto and Quito. Among the objectives of this text is to analyze a prohibited sexuality, as well as the rumors and testimonies of carnal relations that supported the accusations against the nuns, and that ultimately generated the challenge from neighbors and civil authorities to the episcopal figure and the scandal that the city experienced.Few events could cause a greater scandal in colonial society than rumors about the sinful conduct of cloistered nuns. Because, contrary to what one might think, there were nuns who, in multiple ways and in various cloisters in the Indies, led acts of indiscipline, disobeyed bishops and judges, and had illicit relationships in defiance of male authority and professed religious vows. This is the case of the Augustinian nuns of the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación in Popayán, who were accused of various acts of sacrilege against themselves and against the cloister, causing an evident tension between estates, an assassination attempt on the person of the bishop, and the execution on the gallows of a foreigner. The interrogations and trials that make up the process show how the rumors about what was happening in the convent exalted the spirits of the relatives of the nuns, authorities and neighbors, who between 1608 and 1613, got involved in a strong dispute to condemn or defend the Augustinians, and whose outcome was to be exiled to convents in Pasto and Quito. Among the objectives of this text is to analyze a prohibited sexuality, as well as the rumors and testimonies of carnal relations that supported the accusations against the nuns, and that ultimately generated the challenge from neighbors and civil authorities to the episcopal figure and the scandal that the city experienced.Pocos hechos podían provocar mayor escándalo en la sociedad colonial que los rumores sobre las conductas pecaminosas de las monjas de clausura. Porque, contrario a lo que pueda pensarse, hubo monjas que, de múltiples formas y en diversos claustros en Indias, lideraron actos de indisciplina, desobedecieron a obispos y jueces, y tuvieron relaciones ilícitas como desafío a la autoridad masculina y a los votos religiosos profesados. Este es el caso de las monjas agustinas del convento de Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación de Popayán, quienes fueron acusadas de diversos actos de sacrilegio contra sí y contra el claustro, provocando una tensión evidente entre estamentos, un intento de asesinato en la persona del obispo, y la ejecución en patíbulo de un extranjero. Los interrogatorios y juicios que componen el proceso demuestran cómo los rumores sobre lo que sucedía en el convento exaltaron los ánimos de familiares de las religiosas, autoridades y vecinos, quienes entre 1608 y 1613, se enfrascaron en una fuerte disputa por condenar o defender a las agustinas, y cuyo desenlace fue el de ser desterradas a conventos de Pasto y Quito. Entre los objetivos de este texto se encuentra el analizar una sexualidad prohibida, así como los rumores y testimonios de relaciones carnales que apoyaron las acusaciones contra las monjas, y que en últimas fueron generadores del desafío de parte de vecinos y autoridades civiles a la figura episcopal, y del escándalo que vivió la ciudad
Artificial Tricksters: Narrating AI in Relation to Age and Gender
Get PDFThis paper delves into the pervasive influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in contemporary society and discusses its reciprocal relation with both age and gender. While strong AI fuels both cultural fascination and trepidation, the essay posits that, so far, strong AI remains a fantasy. The discourse surrounding AI, often framed within metanarratives presented in fiction, media, and social platforms gravitates towards a humanized interpretation of AI. In contrast, this article introduces the age- and genderless trickster as a heuristic model to narrate AI. The trickster serves as a tool for critically examining how AI is currently narrated, reflecting its diverse manifestations as both a benevolent force and an anarchic character. The exploration extends to the impact of narrative framing on meaning-making in relation to AI, particularly focusing on age and gender categories. It thus becomes clear that the digital divide observed in the use of communication technologies persists with AI, disproportionately affects marginalized groups, especially older women. By proposing a shift in the narrative and reinterpreting the trickster paradigm, this article suggests that altering the storytelling around AI would influence its perception and development. The study emphasizes the need to address the potential structural discrimination embedded in AI systems, particularly in relation to age and gender, thus advocating for a more inclusive and equitable technological landscape
Phonological Awareness Training on Recoding of At-Risk German Kindergarten Children With and Without Behavioral Difficulties
Get PDFThe number of students who are deficient in literacy is increasing worldwide, possibly exacerbated by concurrent behavioral difficulties. This international challenge leads to the question of how and when to support children. Support should start in kindergarten and be focused on the acquisition of phonological awareness. Based on this premise, we evaluated a German phonological awareness intervention with motivational reinforcers to help ensure an easier transition to school for at-risk kindergarteners with and without behavioral difficulties through improved recoding. A single-case study (N = 7) took place over a period of 10 weeks with three weekly intervention sessions. Results showed that all children improved in recoding with significant moderate to large effects and slope effects. Based on these findings, limitations and implications are discussed
Linguistic road works ahead: a commentary on language, integration and unfulfilled obligations
Get PDFIntended as a critical commentary, this afterword asks academia to react to the debate on language and integration. What is the actual practicability and realizability of linguistic findings and decisions (in immigration offices, for mass media, in public discourse etc.)? And how can linguistics try to link current movements and debates around integration with academic insights into fluid multilingualism, dynamic language repertoires and, for instance, with recent findings in the field of raciolinguistics? The promotion of language to a key to integration has, despite a growing body of scholarly literature, shown to be a topic of complicated political dispute, a matter of public controversy, and, in particular, it has become subject to a media discourse that may teach us a lot about prevailing perceptions of language in society among the German public
Places and Spaces: The Public Sphere and Privacy in Lina Wertmüller\u27s Love and Anarchy
Get PDFMaking use of scenic and literary techniques, that is, means of strong intermedial, calculated cinematic construction, Lina Wertmüller\u27s film Love and Anarchy succeeds in bringing the private-public binarism into play in a way which oscillates between the two poles. Wertmüller subverts the traditional demarcation of the private and public, which has long served as an instrument of power in patriarchal societies, and mounts a discursive challenge to the pre-defined division of the spheres of public and private
Presenting the Naked Self: The Accumulation of Performative Capital in the Female Strip Trade
Get PDFThis paper explores the female strip trade in Canada and the United States from a dramaturgical approach by looking at how female strippers construct, present and manage their gender, bodies and emotions in their everyday work. The basic theoretical framework of the study is built on Erving Goffman\u27s dramaturgical approach to sociology, including three specific theories that can be related to it: Judith Butler\u27s performative theory of gender, Pierre Bourdieu\u27s theory of social reproduction, and Arlie Hochschild\u27s theory of emotion work.
Re-negotiating Concepts of Masculinity in Contemporary British Film
Get PDFBrassed Off (1996), The Full Monty (1997) and Billy Elliot (2000) reflect and problematise the consequences of economic change and political misfortune in post-industrial Britain. Moreover, they critically, albeit entertainingly comment on the changing social structures and the changing gender relations that were brought about by this economic decline. All three films problematise this loss of traditional masculinity but, at the same time, they also suggest potential solutions. Despite the fact that all three films make only tentative steps towards re- evaluating "stereotypical" concepts of masculinity, I would like to read them as examples of a successful deconstruction of gender stereotypes and as triggers for a cultural healing process of the trauma of social and cultural destabilisation caused by economic decline and a gradual realisation of what one might call "post-industrial masculinity.
Review: Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward, eds: Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth.
No full textIn lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the abstract:
In Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth (2005), Murray Pomerance and Frances Gateward have collected articles that make an important contribution to inquiries into cinematic depictions of boys in the twentieth century. The volume\u27s lucidly written introduction begins with the editors\u27 wondering what exactly is connoted by the word "boy" beyond the definition of "males who have not yet reached adulthood" (1). Noting that publications in the field of gender studies have more often (reasonably) focused on girls and women, Pomerance and Gateward write that
a truly progressive agenda, which is implied in some way or made explicit in most studies of gender and cinema, surely requires attention to boys-not only in terms of the pathways by which they come into adult male agency, the transformations by which their vulnerabilities become empowerments, or the way gender role expectations restrict, reshape, and corrupt masculinities but also in terms of how boys\u27 power affects girls. (1