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Review: Fun, Taste, & Games: An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
Get PDFIs it fun to review a book about fun?
This latest in MIT’s Playful Thinking series comprises a series of essays and provocations that address fun through a composite lens and allows readers to
challenge their own, possibly rather staid, idea of what it means to have fun while
being playful
Austerity, Welfare and Work: Exploring Politics, Geographies and Inequalities
No full textConnections between welfare reforms, employment relations and social and geographical inequalities are explored in this perceptive assessment by David Etherington. Drawing on case studies and considering the impact of Universal Credit, this book highlights the role of trade unions and social movements in challenging the insecurities and inequalities imposed by work-focused welfare policies and suggests progressive new paths for welfare
Hawthorn Crater Project Report 1
Get PDFThis project report and presentation outline the research outcomes from the first field study at Hawthorn Ridge Crater at Beaumont Hamel in France. It is co edited by Associate Professor Fiona Graham and Professor John Cassella. Authors include both academic partner Keele University and industry partners including Stoke on Trent City Council, UAV Dynamics, and FARO and analyse the findings relating to the inter disciplinary project including: film, forensic science, history, and archaeology.
The crater is one of the largest in France, blown to mark the beginning of the Battle of the Somme on July 1st 1916. Exclusive access has been given to the site for research.
The site is of particular significance to film history marking one of the first examples of battlefield film by Geoffrey Malins
Psychological interventions for improving adherence to inhaled therapies in people with cystic fibrosis
Get PDFObjectives
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows:
The primary objective of the review is to assess the eBicacy of psychological interventions for improving adherence to inhaled therapies
in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). A secondary objective is to establish the most eBective components, or behaviour change techniques
(BCTs), of interventions for improving adherence to inhaled therapies in people with CF, using the BCT Taxonomy version 1 (Michie 2013)
Ethical Approaches to Human Remains: A Global Challenge in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology
No full textThis book is the first of its kind, combining international perspectives on the current ethical considerations and challenges facing bioarchaeologists in the recovery, analysis, curation, and display of human remains. It explores how museum curators, commercial practitioners, forensic anthropologists, and bioarchaeologists deal with ethical issues pertaining to human remains in traditional and digital settings around the world. The book not only raises key ethical questions concerning the study, display, and curation of skeletal remains that bioarchaeologists must face and overcome in different countries, but also explores how this global community can work together to increase awareness of similar and, indeed, disparate ethical considerations around the world and how they can be addressed in working practices. The key aspects addressed include ethics in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology, the excavation, curation, and display of human remains, repatriation, and new imaging techniques. As such, the book offers an ideal guide for students and practitioners in the fields of bioarchaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, medical anthropology, archaeology, anatomy, museum and archive studies, and philosophy, detailing how some ethical dilemmas have been addressed and which future dilemmas need to be considered
A Developing Grounded Theory Regarding How Footballers Measure Outcomes Following Career Termination and What Influences These Outcomes
No full textThe current study aimed to examine how footballers measure outcomes following career termination and what influences these outcomes. A qualitative, constructivist, grounded theory methodology was adopted. Eight footballers were interviewed to explore their perceptions of how outcomes are measured and what influences these outcomes. Data collection and analysis were intertwined and through coding, constant comparison and memos, a developing theory was produced. Players identified seven ways to measure outcomes and highlighted six components that influenced these outcomes, namely (i) characteristics of career termination, (ii) individual characteristics, resources, activity, processing and experiences, (iii) social resources, support and activity, (iv) lifespan and developmental constructs, (v) the environment, context, culture and location, and (vi) institutional, organisational and professional support and resources. The present study offers initial evidence that players use a variety of ways to measure outcomes and that such measures vary across players and within players across time. Players also perceived that a range of multi-dimensional constructs influence outcomes following career termination. In addition, the present study offers initial evidence regarding the varying magnitude of influence that components have on outcomes across individuals and time, how constructs may develop or be influenced by other components, and how components may be influenced by or interact with other constructs to influence outcomes. Theoretical implications in terms of future research are offered. Practical implications regarding offering a holistic framework for key stakeholders to understand career termination and consider self-directed actions and organisational provision to enhance outcomes, are also offered
Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties
Get PDFIn 1984, a disparate group of horror films imported from the USA and Europe were banned in the United Kingdom. It is popularly believed that these so-called ‘video nasties’ were the product of Britain’s immoral and disreputable independent video industry, and that following a series of public complaints about the advertising being used to promote these films, a moral panic spontaneously erupted that resulted in the introduction of the Video Recordings Act in 1984. While neither of these statements is entirely accurate, both have contributed to a discursively constructed history that holds the independent video distributors entirely responsible for the events that followed, and that ushered in a scheme of government- sanctioned censorship that continues in Britain to this day. Through an exploration of the marketing and distribution of the video nasties, foregrounding technological, economic and aesthetic concerns, this book will complicate the established history and will seek to contextualise the video nasties within the broader global landscape of emergent home video industry. Moving beyond the explicitly social readings that have positioned the video nasties as an quintessentially British concern, to instead reconsider them as part of a broader global film industry, with promotions demonstrative of wider industrial practice. In so doing, the book tracks the development of the category and reveals other possible motives and benefits in the introduction of the Video Recordings Act
Snuff
No full textAlexandra Heller-Nicholas has argued that while Snuff (1976) might not be the ‘best’ film produced in the 1970s, it could be the decade’s most important ‘worst’ film (online, no date); proof perhaps that an idea can often be more powerful than its execution. After all, the power of Snuff comes not from the quality of its production values, but from its central conceit; from the belief that somewhere, at some time, someone was killed on camera, and that crucially, this murder was carried out explicitly for commercial gain and for the sexual gratification of a debased and deviant audience. This is an idea has had a lasting effect upon both western cinema, and western society, and while the mythology of the snuff film did not begin with the release of the film Snuff, the existence of the film has given credence to the myth and to have consolidated the belief that people are actually being killed on camera for entertainment.
This is a book about the film Snuff, but it is also a book about the idea of snuff. The two are inseparable, and it is impossible to talk about the film without addressing both its cultural origins and its cultural legacy. The book is comprised of 6 chapters, that examine the myth, origins, authenticity, legacy, reality and definition of snuff, considering the acceptance and evolution of the category, and the ways in which much of this pervasive idea can be attributed to the film Snuff. Chapter 1, ‘The Myth of Snuff,’ introduces the film and provides an overview of the narrative. It explores the ways in which the film capitalised on the already existing myth of snuff movies in order to create a media furore. It considers how this furore further contributed to the myth and helped to consolidate an idea that has continued to reverberate through popular culture. Chapter 2, ‘The Origins of Snuff’, traces the aesthetic, cultural and the industrial origins of the film Snuff, exploring the debt that the film owed to cinema verité, but also to the mondo films of the 1960s. It considers how the Manson family murders contributed to the myth, and explores the industrial contexts that gave rise to the film in the first place. Chapter 3, ‘The Authenticity of Snuff’, considers a fundamental aspect of the snuff myth, the debate as to the authenticity of the film. However, rather than revisit the well-trodden argument about whether the film contains footage of a real murder, this chapter will instead consider the debate that surrounds the UK release of Snuff, and whether any of the versions available can be considered authentic. Chapter 4, ‘The Legacy of Snuff’, examines the cultural, cinematic and political legacy of the film, exploring how Snuff, and other films that have capitalised on the snuff myth, contribute to the belief that not only do snuff movies exist but that they are endemic in our culture. Chapter 5, ‘The Reality of Snuff’, examines some of the most horrific crimes of torture, rape and murder in recent years, and scrutinises how these crimes were reported but, also, how well they conform to the FBI’s definition for what constitutes a snuff movie. Finally, Chapter 6, ‘The Redefinition of Snuff’, revisits the accepted definition of the snuff movie and asks whether, in the 21st century and in the age of the internet, this traditional definition should be revised to accommodate an expanded notion of commerce in the attention economy
A brief mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention: Investigating the effects with recreational runners
No full textMINDFULNESS HAS GROWN in popularity and evidence shows that mindfulness-based interventions have beneficial effects on decreasing anxiety symptoms (Hoge et al., 2013), reducing depression and stress (Khoury et al., 2013), and promoting awareness. To this end, offering an approach that helps people to realise that their habitual mental responses are based on unhelpful habits of the mind (Crane et al., 2017). Mindful meditation techniques help individuals to focus on the present experience ‘without being judgmental, meaning that feelings, emotions, or unwanted thoughts are accepted in a non-judgmental way rather than avoided’ (Kabat-Zinn, 1994, p.4). In sport, mindful based programs have been shown to reduce the risk of injury (e.g., Ivarsson et al., 2015), enhance sport performance (e.g., Bernier et al., 2009), and promote positive functioning in highly demanding situations (Röthlin et al., 2016). Not limited to sport, the use of mindfulness has emerged in exercise settings. A cross-sectional study reported that mindfulness is related to sustained physical activity (PA) because being mindful helped participants to become more aware of the positive aspects of PA, and this satisfaction led to sustained physical activity (Tsafou et al., 2016)
OMG I love common culture !!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
No full textOMG I love common culture !!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️ was made in response to an American internet celebrity who in order to capitalise on the intimate relationship he had built with his online followers, had trademarked the name ‘Common Culture’ to brand, promote and sell a range of products.
For this solo exhibition at Die Raum (Berlin, Germany) the gallery was closed and the outside of the space converted into a Common Culture shopfront, turning a cultural space into what appears to be a commercial space. Stickers were produced, using comments from the online posts of the celebrity’s fan base, and placed onto the shop front as a visual signifier of the way in which stickers are used to draw attention to bands, brands, ideas or political messages or movements across contemporary city spaces. A new video work, appropriating YouTube footage of the internet celebrity, was accessible via the web domain www.commonculture.store indicated on the shopfront. The research explores how the aesthetics, interactions and transactional intimacy built by internet personalities are ruthlessly deployed to convert followers into consumers.
For the opening night only, the space was open and the audience were presented with the video that was available via the weblink and a range of t-shirts using some of the graphic sticker designs
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