30115 research outputs found
Sort by
Musicians, the music industry, and suicide: Epidemiology, risk factors, and suggested prevention approaches
Get PDFEvidence suggests that popular musicians are an at-risk occupational group for suicide, with the deaths of famous musicians in the ‘27 Club’ reinforcing culturally powerful notions of musicianship and early mortality. This cross-disciplinary paper advances our understanding of the factors that may increase the risk for suicide among musicians and offers clinical recommendations around screening and prevention. First, we synthesise extant literature on suicide risk among musicians from around the world, including emerging evidence from Korea, and evaluate some of the methodological challenges presented in the analysis of suicide data on musicians. Second, given the lack of musician-specific forms of suicide prevention intervention, we draw on the Zero Suicide Framework and apply this schematic to musicians and the wider music industries, analysing the latest evidence on suicide screening, assessment, and prevention to develop best practices in this at-risk population. In doing so, we offer a comprehensive and clinically relevant overview of this most tragic of cultural affinities to improve strategies to prevent this devastating and all too frequent feature of musical life
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention
Get PDFWhen Tina Turner sang ‘What’s love got to do with it?’ she could have been singing about live methods. This article reflects on my experience as a reluctant ethnographer with children during COVID-19. I argue that it was ‘love’ for the community I was researching with that led me to use live methods. In this article I reflect on how love is the driving force in live methods. Taking inspiration from bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, I explore how love does indeed have everything to do with live methods and is not ‘a second-hand emotion’ but can definitely break your heart. My reflections are based on an 18-month multimodal ethnography that I undertook for my PhD studies with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social care intervention. The multimodal ethnography began in March 2020 just as the restrictions for COVID-19 in the UK began. Whilst I had originally planned for in-person methods, the children and I had to quickly navigate and negotiate a way to continue the research. On reflection I can identify elements of Back and Puwar’s manifesto in my methods, but undergirding my research was something I now recognise as love. In this article I reflect how I reluctantly came to my methodology and methods not because of my sociological sensibilities but due to the love for the families I was researching with. I reflect and argue how love needs to underpin live methods
Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations
Get PDFImpaired musical rhythm abilities and developmental speech-language related disorders are biologically and clinically intertwined. Prior work examining their relationship has primarily used small samples; here, we studied associations at population-scale by conducting the largest systematic epidemiological investigation to date (total N = 39,092). Based on existing theoretical frameworks, we predicted that rhythm impairment would be a significant risk factor for speech-language disorders in the general adult population. Findings were consistent across multiple independent datasets and rhythm subskills (including beat synchronization and rhythm discrimination), and aggregate meta-analyzed data showed that rhythm impairment is a modest but consistent risk factor for developmental speech, language, and reading disorders (OR = 1.32 [1.14 – 1.49]; p < .0001). Further, cross-trait polygenic score analyses indicate shared genetic architecture between musical rhythm and reading abilities, providing evidence for genetic pleiotropy between rhythm and language-related phenotypes
NIMBYs, shills and liars: ancient woodland, highspeed rail and the legibility of justifications
Get PDFThis article examines the environmental controversy around the planning and construction of high-speed rail in the UK (HS2) to analyse the changing dynamics and mediation of intra-green contention. The study situates a protracted episode of contention staged on Twitter, focused on the damage and destruction of 108 ancient woodlands by the construction of HS2, in a longer event history initiated by the first UK public consultation on high-speed rail. The article argues that platform-mediated interaction that delegitimises opponents as bad-faith actors, NIMBYs, shills and liars, also has the detrimental effect of obscuring the justifying arguments of critics of purportedly green infrastructure like high-speed rail. The article argues that it is not so much polarisation, but delegitimization that constitutes the greater risk of platform-mediated intra-green contention, an outcome that could be mitigated by discursive forums and iterative processes where trust can be built over time
Sexualized deepfake abuse: Perpetrator and victim perspectives on the motivations and forms of non-consensually created and shared sexualized deepfake imagery
Get PDFAdvances in digital technologies provide new opportunities for harm, including sexualized deepfake abuse–the non-consensual creation, distribution, or threat to create/distribute, an image or video of another person that had been altered in a nude or sexual way. Since 2017, there has been a proliferation of shared open-source technologies to facilitate deepfake creation and dissemination, and a corresponding increase in cases of sexualized deepfake abuse. There is a substantive risk that the increased accessibility of easy-to-use tools, the normalization of non-consensually sexualizing others, and the minimization of harms experienced by those who have their images created and/or shared, may impact prevention and response efforts. This paper reports on findings from 25 qualitative interviews conducted with perpetrators (n=10) and victims (n=15) of sexualized deepfake abuse in Australia. It provides insights into sexualized deepfake abuse, patterns in perpetration and motivations, and explores theoretical explanations that may shine light on how perpetrators justify and minimize their behavior. Ultimately, the study finds some similarities with other forms of technology-facilitated sexual violence, but identifies a need for responses that recognize the accessibility and ease in which deepfakes can be created, and which capture the diversity of experiences, motivations and consequences. The paper argues that responses should expand beyond criminalization to include cross-national collaborations to regulate deepfake tool availability, searches and advertisements
Spurring or Blurring Professional Standards? The Role of Digital Technology in Implementing Journalistic Role Ideals in Contemporary Newsrooms
Get PDFThis study examines the perceived relevance and implementation of competing normative ideals in journalism in times of increasing use of digital technology in newsrooms. Based on survey and content analysis data from 37 countries, we found a small positive relationship between the use of digital research tools and “watchdog” performance. However, a stronger and negative relationship emerged between the use of digital audience analytics and the performance of “watchdog” and “civic” roles, leading to an overall increase in conception–performance gaps on both roles. Moreover, journalists’ use of digital community tools was more strongly and positively associated with “infotainment” and “interventionism.
Chutzpadik: A Conversation on Jewish Art, Identity, and Curatorial Agency
No full textA collaborative essay in the form of a written dialogue. part of book published to coincide with exhibition at Jewish Museum of Australia. "Chutzpah: Spirit. Recollection. Self."
In addition to the written dialogue, a further dialogue took place at the launch of the publication, which will be published online
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989
No full textMovie, Book and Album review for Mark Reeder's B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989.
A history of Mark Reeder's life and involvement in the underground West Berlin punk and electronic music music scene
