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The Language of Film and Television
Get PDFAn increasing number of people receive most of their news, entertainment and even religious inspiration through the visual media of film, television or illustrated magazines. We all watch television.James Monaco notes that some cats watch television attentively! But how well do we grasp the specific language of the visual media?
In countries such as the U.S., there is evidence that the post-1950 generation that has grown up with television has a pattern of thinking more attuned to the visual than to print media. Yet, some cross-cultural studies suggest that many American children, for all of the long hours of TV they watch, have a relatively shallow perception of visual expression.
Primary and secondary education generally focusses almost entirely on understanding print media. Some educators urge greater emphasis on visual literacy to build upon the latent visual mentality of young people today and to cultivate a deeper understanding of film and television expression. One presupposition of many visual literacy programmes now being introduced into schools is that film and television have specific langnages and that we can teach students to understand this language.
This issue reviews some of the controversy among researchers regarding the notion of visual langnage and the debates on how to teach visual literacy
Quantifying Protein Storage In Subcellular Compartments Utilizing Genetic Sensors
No full textCurrent protein quantification methods including Western Blotting, ELISA, and fluorescence tagging, suffer from a variety of limitations such as spatial resolution, lack of real-time monitoring, and only end-point assays. In order to address such concerns, we have developed genetic sensors containing Gaussia luciferase (gLuc) and green fluorescent protein (GFP) in order to quantify protein storage. Each of our sensors contains different signaling peptides to target a variety of subcellular compartments. These sensors are transfected into human 293T with polyethylenimine (PEI), followed by a confocal microscopy and luciferase assays. In order to verify the results of our imaging analysis in human 293T cells, we tested the same genetic sensors in other human HepG2 cells, ensuring that protein localization is constant throughout the study. Using the Gluc marker as part of the luciferase assay, allows us to see protein localization and to determine how much protein is in each of the compartments. Our dual reporter system aims to solve the weaknesses of traditional quantification methods by providing a precise, sensitive, and real time method for quantifying protein storage that have implications for protein therapeutics and overall drug development in the biotechnology industry
Performance Evaluation of Delay-aware Packet Delivery in Wireless Devices
No full textAs wireless networks, such as WiFi, have evolved from a convenient alternative to wired internet into the backbone of modern digital life, with approximately 19.5 billion devices deployed in 2023, the emergence of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications has introduced unprecedented Quality of Service (QoS) demands that challenge existing wireless capabilities. While recent wireless standards have largely addressed throughput limitations, achieving consistent low-latency performance remains a significant challenge.
This thesis focuses on the implementation and performance evaluation of existing solutions to latency bottlenecks in wireless networks, and their impacts on User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Specifically, we consider two problems within the Reception (RX) buffer of devices: Head-of-Line (HoL) blocking and Out-of-Order (OOO) blocking. HoL blocking occurs when different application streams are multiplexed into the same reorder buffer, causing frame loss in one stream to block the delivery of successfully received frames from other streams. OOO blocking arises when the receive buffer enforces In-Order (IO) frame delivery despite upper layers being capable of handling OOO reception.
To investigate these issues, we implement and evaluate two existing solutions, using NS-3 simulation. First, we evaluate a stream de-multiplexing mechanism that separates traffic streams into different Traffic Identifiers (TIDs) by expanding available TIDs from 0–7 to 0–15 and evaluating Multi-TID Aggregated MAC Protocol Data Units (A-MPDUs), Block Acknowledgments (BAs), and Block Acknowledgment Requests (BARs). Second, we evaluate delay bounded RX buffers, enabling timeout-aware OOO frame delivery that balances latency and reliability requirements.
Our evaluation demonstrates significant improvements in blocking time and application-to-application delay for a dense environment. De-multiplexing two UDP traffic streams reduced the median blocking time by 22.0%, while applying a delay bound of 50 ms further reduced blocking time by 78.8%. This resulted in a median application-to-application delay reduction of 7.0% and 7.9% respectively. However, our results also reveal that delay bounds can be problematic when used with TCP, increasing the retransmission rate and the median Round Trip Time (RTT) by 1.33 KB/s and 3.7%, respectively
Bamboo, a Filipino Icon: A Beacon of Hope in Pope Francis’ Call to Climate Responsibility
No full textThe climate crisis demands urgent action, as highlighted by Pope Francis in Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. In response, the thesis explores the potential of bamboo cultivation as a strategic and faith-response solution in the Philippines. Bamboo, a Filipino cultural icon, offers rapid growth, carbon sequestration, sustainability, and resilience, making it a practical tool for climate mitigation.
Grounded in Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and employing the See, Judge, Act pastoral methodology, this study examines bamboo’s cultural significance, ecological benefits, and its role in addressing the country’s environmental challenges. It proposes mobilizing Catholic communities, particularly through the Magagmay nga Kristiyanong Katilingban (MKKs), to plant bamboos on Church, public and private lands.
This thesis bridges theology and ecology, offering a practical model for faith-based ecological conversion and communal climate action, with implications for global climate solutions
Diasporic Trans/Forming in Diriye Osman\u27s \u3ci\u3eThe Butterfly Jungle\u3c/i\u3e, Afdhere Jama\u27s \u3ci\u3eBeing Queer and Somali\u3c/i\u3e, Tofik Dibi\u27s \u3ci\u3eDjinn\u3c/i\u3e and Lamya H\u27s \u3ci\u3eHijab Butch Blues\u3c/i\u3e
No full textQueer East African writers like Diriye Osman and Afdhere Jama instantiate Christopher Ian Foster’s 2019 assertion that ‘neoliberal globalization and the management of movement— immigration—cannot be disentangled from heteronationalist discourses’. The criticism that one read years ago, and still reads, that the gay and lesbian “lifestyle” is a Western imposition on African identities, and that those Africans who espouse such identities for themselves are inherently un-African or even anti-African, is now ensconced in the laws of many African nations, making it dangerous to remain in one’s native land if one expresses—publicly—a sexuality that is non-normative or non-binary. The former is sometimes tolerated if the gender roles reinscribe the traditional roles of male and female; the latter, though, is seen (in Africa and elsewhere) as more destabilizing. Focusing on Diriye Osman in The Butterfly Jungle (2022), the essay will discuss the language used by those migrants from Eastern Islamic African countries, in particular who have gone abroad to escape procrustean categories and who understand their sexuality as one facet of their free personal expression of identity, one that is shifting and open to evolution. As Jama (2015) writes, ‘No matter where we are queer Somalis are fighting for our rights; even against western police who are not valuing our lives, or faith leaders who don’t recognize ours’
Four Updates: A Collaborative Project of Communication Research Trends and Facultad de Ciencias de la Información Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Get PDFThis summer the Revista de Ciencias de la Informaci6n published by the Faculty of Information Sciences of Complutense University, in Madrid, is bringing out a special issue consisting of translations of four issues of Communication Research Trends with additional sections, mostly by Spanish or Latin American authors
Televangelism and the Religious Uses of Television
Get PDFThe end of the policy of networks giving free broadcast time to \u27mainstream\u27 religious denomination--Catholics, Lutheran, Baptists, etc--has led to radical changes in religious broadcasting in the United States. The organized churches have almost disappeared from most TV channels, while the so-called \u27televangelists\u27--non-demoninational preachers who finance their broadcast by appeals to their viewers--have purchased time on local stations and the networks, as well as vigorously exploiting cable. Some observers even feel that televangelists have become the chief spokespersons for the \u27religious viewpoint\u27 in America.
Televangelism has begun to spread outside the United States, to Europe, Latin America, Africa and East Asia. Its identification with fundamentalism and Pentecostalism raises, in some places, the spectre of an alliance between conservative religion and reactionary political forces.
Secular researcher5s are concerned with the political implications of televangelism and with what it can tell us about the processes of media communication in general. Researchers in the mainstream denominations are asking, \u27What are the televangelists doing right?\u27 and \u27What are our own communicators doing wrong?\u27 Both are interested in the accuracy with which the efforts of the televangelists have been evaluated.
In this issue of Trends we shall look at some of this research, to see what it reveals about the television medium, in general, and about its used for religious purposes, in particular