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Everyday Discrimination Scale: Dimensionality in a Portuguese Community Sample and Specific Versions for Sexual and Gender Minority
No full textPerceived everyday discrimination is a transversal phenomenon with a negative impact on people’s health. This study aimed to explore the factor structure and psychometric properties of three versions of the Everyday Discrimination Scale, with three different samples: the European Portuguese validation (EDS-PT, considering any reason for discrimination), using a sample of adults from the community (N = 610), a specific version for sexual minority (EDS-SM), with a sample of sexual minority individuals (N = 352), and a specific version for gender minority (EDS-GM), in a sample of gender minority individuals (N = 108). Factor structure and reliability of the different versions were examined. A second-order two-factor model (Everyday discrimination with factor 1 Unfair Treatment and factor 2 Personal Rejection) presented good adjustment and adequate reliability. Furthermore, all versions of EDS revealed weak to moderate correlations with indicators of convergent validity (mental health, satisfaction with life, social safeness, and social support). This study's outcomes provide insights into different types of everyday discrimination and suggest that the EDS-PT, EDS-SM and EDS-GM are valid and reliable measures useful in research and clinical contexts
Tabloid Tales: How the British Tabloid Press Shaped the Brexit Vote
No full textThis article focuses on the role of the British tabloid press (BTP), and specifically the eurosceptic press, as a ‘supply-side’ influence on the 2016 EU referendum. First, we focus on the BTP and its role as an ‘agenda-setter’ in shaping eurosceptic discourse regarding the UK's relationship with the EU. Second, we use content analysis of five tabloid newspapers – The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express and The Daily Star to demonstrate the disproportionate pro-Brexit discourse prior to, and during, the EU referendum campaign. Third, drawing on opinion poll data, we show how this ‘bombardment’ approach influenced the electorate in the referendum campaign. Given the ‘knowledge deficit’ about the EU in the UK, we conclude that the BTP had a significant bearing on tipping the referendum vote towards Brexit
Exploring the Religious and Spiritual Significance of Angkor Wat: Art and Architecture as a Window into Transcultural Heritage
No full textThesis (B.A. in Humanistic Studies, Minor in Communications and International Affairs)--John Cabot University, Spring 2023.Angkor Wat is widely recognized as the largest existing religious monument and temple complex in the world, its sprawling city stretching over 100 miles of rainforest. Despite facing years of war and centuries of abandonment in its isolated position in the Cambodian jungle, Angkor remains a mystifying and vital civilization, influenced by a multitude of cultures, religions, and ideologies throughout history. This thesis aims to investigate the cultural heritage significance of Angkor Wat and the ways in which it has been shaped by various beliefs over time, ultimately earning its place as a site of global anthropological importance. In guiding this study, how has Angkor Wat been influenced by different systems and ideologies over time, and how, though this, has it has gained transcultural importance? Angkor Wat is an indispensable monument, emphasizing that preservation on a global scale is necessary. Through an analysis of Angkor’s art and architecture, this paper will demonstrate its religious and spiritual significance as important to global cultural heritage. The feats expressed in Angkor Wat reflect the Khmer empire's connections to various beliefs and cosmological systems that influenced its construction, situating Angkor Wat as a symbol of cultural heritage, worthy of protection on a global scale. It is important to recognize Angkor Wat's transcultural significance– though originally built to represent a specific Hindu belief system, it has evolved over time to demonstrate a much wider anthropological and cultural importance. By using a combination of secondary scholarly articles and primary source journals from historical explorers, I aim to prove Angkor Wat's global cultural heritage value. It is generally agreed that the complex needs to be preserved, but each piece of literature argues for one specific framework, lacking connection between different cultures. Overall, this paper will provide a comprehensive understanding of Angkor Wat's cultural heritage from a broader, interconnected perspective
Tempo d’estate. La canzone balneare nell’Italia degli anni Sessanta
No full textAt the peak of the economic miracle (1961-62) a sub-genre of consumer song centered around beach holidays comes to light: pumped by the ubiquitous jukeboxes in the bathing establishments, these Summer hits inaugurate the vogue
of the "tormentoni" and are a typically Italian phenomenon, which has no equivalent anywhere else. Behind its rise there are social reasons (more money for leisure activities), cultural (the holiday boom) and market reasons, related to the new ways of enjoying music (the advent of 45 rpms, turntables and portable record players). This article aims to reconstruct the reasons, fortunes and protagonists of the beach song within the context of the society and culture of the time in order to reevaluate its role as a identity marker and the sociological impact on a rapidly growing nation
Villa of Livia: Dynamic Enhancement Through Floor Mosaics
No full textMaster of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Fall 2023.The ancient imperial Villa of Livia, situated along the Via Flaminia in Rome, stands as an archaeological marvel believed to be the ancient residence of Livia Drusilla, wife of Emperor Augustus. The villa is mentioned in the writings of Suetonius, Cassio Dio, and Pliny. According to Pliny, there is a poetic legend about its foundation relating how an eagle dropped a hen with a sprig of laurel in its beak in Livia's lap, inspiring the role of the villa during the early principate. While existing research has predominantly focused on the villa's wall paintings and archeological findings, this thesis aims to shift attention to the often-overlooked black and white floor mosaics that adorn the entirety of the space. It examines the intricate patterns of these mosaic designs, specifically exploring how they articulate space, evoke movement, and engage the visitor. Constructed between 30 and 25 BC, with subsequent modifications in the Flavian and Severan periods, the Villa of Livia presents a composite statement of the engagement with space and mosaic designs from the different periods. Such designs range from complex patterned thresholds demarcating spatial transitions to borders that center prestige rooms with static viewers, and mosaics that offer a nuanced expression of spatial dynamics. This study emphasizes the significance of these mosaics in light of the evolving artistic trends of the time. Examining these mosaic elements closely, this research contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the Villa of Livia's spatial experience, treating it not only as a built environment but also as a space with potential vistas. Employing visual observations and comparisons with contemporaneous works, this study addresses a gap in existing scholarship regarding pavement mosaics by further expanding on the intricate relationship between art, architecture, and the sensory experience of ancient Roman villas
Native American Resistance Through Visual Sovereignty
No full textThesis (B.A. in Political Science, Minor in Communications & Creative Writing)--John Cabot University, Spring 2023.This thesis aims to understand the extent to which Indigenous-made Cinema actively resists U.S. colonial hegemony. In the past, Native American Resistance has taken on different forms of direct or indirect action depending on the political or historical moment. Native Americans actively and passively resist U.S. colonialism to protect their sovereignty as independent nations. However, when it comes to representing Native Americans in films, the United States primarily takes on a white-centric perspective—dispelling authentic accounts from Indigenous Americans' perspective – intentionally or unintentionally implementing a dominant view which privileges Eurocentric ideology. Based on Nicholas Mirzoeff's theory of counter-visuality, Indigenous-made films, and television series provide a counter-hegemonic narrative to the white-centric portrayal of American Indians in the U.S. society. Extensive research has been conducted on the representation of Native Americans in film. Since hegemony can be further disseminated through visual media, enforcing or reenforcing dominant ideology, the interest of this study is to examine the use of cinematic images and narratives, which construct white-centric narratives, used to irrationalize the identities of Native Americans. According to Michelle Raheja, visual sovereignty is a new way of reimaging and restructuring what autonomy and self-representation means to Native American culture. Through technologies in the film media, Indigenous filmmakers can weaponize the art of cinema to deploy ideas communicating individual and cultural values of the American Indian population. Reasserting sovereignty over their own image and providing a counter-hegemonic view to dismantle colonial and/or imperial status quos
Spray without politics? Contrasting street-based perceptions and computer vision framings of graffitied Rome
No full textThe city of Rome has been a contested site for unauthorized graffiti since antiquity. Modern times have seen graffiti practices endure in their disruptive form and viral versions of digital street art. This paper applies critical, speculative methods to approximate distinct areas of graffiti research into a common framework of analysis. The idea was to offer insights into graffiti audiencing on digital and street-based spheres of perception while discussing the method’s limitations. After listing convergences and divergences between human-centric and algorithm-centric viewpoints, results revealed an interesting set of details uniquely brought up by computer vision metadata, but which, in turn, exposed limitations in recgonizing graffiti as a politicized practice with deep radical roots