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Livestreaming Games and Parenthood: Exploring the Experience of Portuguese Parent Streamers
No full textStreaming games is increasingly popular amongst people of childbearing age. So, what happens when streamers become parents? There are few accounts, scarce advice and a dearth of research. Streaming seems incompatible with parenting due to its tensions with familial responsibilities. However, it is also conceivable that parent and gamer identities can be reconciled to yield successful outcomes. This exploratory study investigates the identity and experience of parent streamers. Six parent streamers, mothers and fathers from an online Portuguese community, were interviewed. Thematic analysis revealed several foci: (i) the difficulty of managing time effectively; (ii) the tension between work and play; (iii) the parent streamer identity (particularly, differences between mothers and fathers); (iv) the criticality of familial support; (v) the increasingly complex relationship between parents and games; (vi) children’s interference in streaming practices; and (vii) the benefits of streaming including communal connection and improved mental health. These findings highlight how online media increasingly challenge the way in which modern parents navigate parenthood and their own personal lives. They also pave the way for evidence-led guidance that can support parent steamers
Sailing on a Strange Boat
Get PDFReview of a conert by The Waterboys, Hall for Cornwall, Truro, 25 October 202
Multi-Institutional Multi-National Studies of Parsons Problems
Get PDFStudents are often asked to learn programming by writing code from scratch. However, many novices struggle to write code and get frustrated when their code does not work. Parsons problems can reduce the difficulty of a coding problem by providing mixed-up blocks that the learner assembles in the correct order. They can include distractor blocks with common errors that are not needed in a correct solution, but which may help students learn to recognize and fix errors. There is evidence that students find Parsons problems engaging, useful for learning to program, easier than writing code from scratch, typically faster to solve than writing code from scratch with equivalent learning gains, and useful for learning patterns. Most of the research on Parsons problems prior to this work has been in single-institution studies, so we saw a need for replication across multiple contexts.
A 2022 ITiCSE Parsons working group conducted an extensive literature review of Parsons problems, designed several experimental studies for Parsons problems in Python, and created `study-in-a-box' materials to help instructors run the experimental studies, but the 2022 working group had only sufficient time to pilot two of the studies.
Our 2023 ITiCSE Parsons working group reviewed these studies, revised some studies, created new studies, conducted think-aloud observations on some studies, and ran revised and new experimental studies. The think-aloud observations and experimental studies provided evidence for using Parsons problems to help students learn common algorithms such as swap, and the usefulness of distractors in helping students learn to recognize, fix, and avoid common errors. In addition, we review Parsons problem papers published after the 2022 literature review and provide a literature review of multi-national (MIMN) studies conducted in computer science education to understand better the motivations and challenges in performing such MIMN studies.
In summary, this article contributes an analysis of recent Parsons problem research papers, an itemization of considerations for MIMN studies, the results from our MIMN studies of Parsons problems, and a discussion of recent and future directions for MIMN studies of Parsons problems
DRY-STONE
Get PDFDRY-STONE is an artist book that combines a series of monotypes made in my studio at CAST during the very soggy summer of 2023, with fragmentary and broken text pulled from distant and not so distant memories.
Two earlier versions of the book were published in two “made to demand” editions by independent German publisher Edition Demand. These two versions were launched at two exhibitions in Düsseldorf that took place at Nillson in September 2023 and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in October 2023.
The third edition that I published and released in Cornwall in October 2023 is full-colour, 56pp, 270 x 190mm and is a hand-numbered and signed edition of 50 only
From the Culch: Film
Get PDFFrom the Culch is assembled from the bin cuts of a lost 1978 BBC documentary about the Fal River oyster fishery. After the documentary was broadcast a can of randomly assembled 16mm film was given to Dennis Laity, crewman on the working boat George Glasson, as a memory of his brother who passed away just after shooting wrapped.
The can of film lay in Dennis’s airing cupboard for 45 years, unseen, before being passed to the director. A 4K digital scan revealed the beauty captured in the celluloid and Dennis, now 82 years old, gave voice to his memories of the men who dredged the Carrick Roads and the boats they sailed on
'Havens: Portraits and Stories from NHS Lothian' exhibition, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
No full textThrough the media of photography, audio, collaborative investigation and observation, this major project considers the lived experience of those working within the National Health Service in Scotland over an 18-month period between 2022-24.
Our principal research question was What is it like to work in the NHS in the 21st century? With particular attention to: is there a difference in experience between the working lives of clinical and non-clinical staff in the NHS context? And is provision of appropriate break locations in NHS estate sites and in-field work locations linked with staff retention and satisfaction?
This research was co-created by Lottie Davies and Craig Easton using in-person qualitative interviews, portrait and still-life photography, creative workshops and observation of working practices (both clinical and non-clinical) across various NHS locations within the Lothian area in and around Edinburgh, Scotland.
Understanding the physical spaces where individuals take their breaks, and the psychological impact of those breaks (in nature, length and location), specifically within the context of each individual’s working role within the vast organisation that is the NHS, was key to the research and its output and impact. Thus, multiple methods of investigation including recorded interviews, informal observation and questioning, in conjunction with formal portraiture and observational still life photography, were employed to achieve a textured and multi-layered set of data from which to produce similarly multi-faceted outcomes.
The outputs of this research are more than 70 artworks with accompanying audio works, a permanent archive of the same (digital and physical), a publication including a 6000-word piece of creative non-fiction, and multiple touring exhibitions in exterior and interior spaces. These last began display in 2023 and will continue to tour indefinitely across NHS Lothian sites. The location of these exhibitions and the publication, specifically placed to engage the public on a daily basis, means that many thousands of visitors, patients and workers within the NHS will be able to engage with the research and its findings
Preloved Metaphors
No full textPreloved Metaphors is 'a collection of misses and mistakes', an attempt to record, reconfigure and remake the world around us before it disappears for good or becomes impossible to find. Even as the author tries to escape himself, time is one step ahead and somebody else has already re-used the secondhand words he has borrowed. Although 'there is no way to catch those / brief moments spent blinking in the sun', Loydell – in league with the ghost of John Ashbery – does at least try.
'a very readable and powerful collection, full of agonising yet filled with interesting materials.'
– Litter
'this is poetry as a record of experience, through and through: lived moments coupled to the reflections on the long-running tracks of thought to which one person idiosyncratically returns, time and again, coupled to a private journalism, curated through a totalising subjectivity, but one which is always overstretching the rigidity of those boundaries with new perspectives, alternating subjectivities entering through, melding with the pluralist eye/I.'
– Gists and Pith
Will AI Make Us Stupid?
Get PDFA prose poem about AI, technology, remixology, appropriation and paranoia
Correspondence Course & others by Rupert M Loydell
Get PDF4 poems: Correspondence Course, Reinventing the Wheel, Collapsed Senses, Impossible Delays