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Success in the marketing of subscription services
No full textSubscription as a means of generating revenue for businesses is rapidly growing, yet we do not fully understand what makes for their success. To address this gap, this study reviews a range of subscription models across categories to identify common factors for success. Our contribution is to establish a taxonomy of subscription models, establishing which aspects of these result in success, and why they do so
Understanding Data: Praxis and Politics [website]
No full textWe live in a datafied society where decisions taken by corporations and governments are increasingly data and algorithm-driven. Whilst data are often said to be ‘collected’ as if pre-existing, thus reflecting reality, the processes through which data are generated and communicated are neither neutral nor devoid of adverse effects. Richterich (2018) reminds us that data are socially constructed and embedded in their structures. Data are political. Therefore we need technical abilities and media literacies weaved into a critical approach to understand the socio-political and cultural mechanisms that affect individuals and groups that find themselves increasingly navigating data-driven system in their daily lives.
The project aims to design, develop and pilot an OER (open educational resource) to support educators in improving their critical data literacies. The OER will provide educators with content and analytical tools to think about real-life situations that will connect them with the most recent issues and research in the field
Where are we going? And what have we done?
Get PDFThis article discusses responses to the survey-score Where are we Going? and What have we Done?, which sets out to explore how Anglophone composers choose to ground the impacts of their compositional practice. The composers’ responses primarily centred around the psychosocial impacts of composition, and the article unpicks some of the implications of this focus. The article then details the effect the survey-score had on my own composing, before outlining the affordances of narrative approaches to the act of scoring, and their ability to shine a brighter light on the impacts of our practice, both retrospectively and also with regards to future performances
Education, solidarity and engagement: the role of emotions in fieldwork educational experiences
No full textFieldwork creates spaces where students can learn from experiences that have the potential to be transformative. These experiences are regarded as important in developing personal and professional skills, citizenship, and emotional intelligence. By placing students in unfamiliar locations, they demonstrate solidarity whilst being challenged by “others”. This may be expressed through empathy with local causes and issues as well as a sense of unity amongst students because of a common challenging experience and demands of peer teaching. This presentation seeks to understand the emotional experience and the moral/ethical values that are generated as a result and acknowledges the importance of these encounters. By identifying the critical reflections of students through reflective diaries, essays and conversations, this renders problems, tensions and contributions visible. Using case-studies we examine how the use of student-led peer teaching and learning, facilitated by tutors, supported by self-reflectivity exercises, can be harnessed to promote altruistic understanding. Our studies show how the effective integration of peer learning with self-reflectivity enhances students’ emotional intelligence and resilience and a deeper understanding of a sense of place, with the potential to achieve transformative learning
Caspar David Friedrich, 2024: Art for a new age [group exhibition]
No full textMajor anniversary exhibition will show iconic works by Friedrich such as Chalk Cliffs on Rügen and The Monk by the Sea alongside recent artistic responses to Friedrich exploring new perspectives
The Hamburger Kunsthalle will mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774 Greifswald–1840 Dresden) with a celebratory exhibition. CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH. Art for a New Age, to run from 15 December 2023 until 1 April 2024, will be the biggest review of work by the exceptional Romantic painter for many years. It centres on a themed retrospective with more than 60 paintings, among them many major iconic works, and about 100 drawings. The relationship between people and nature, which found novel expression in Friedrich’s landscapes, is a key thematic strand. His treatment of this subject was an essential factor, during the first third of the 19th century, towards transforming landscape painting into »art for a new age«. Also featured are about 20 selected works by colleagues such as Carl Gustav Carus, Johan Christian Dahl, August Heinrich and Georg Friedrich Kersting. Their paintings and studies build on Friedrich’s œuvre, but they also suggest new visions of nature. The deep fascination unleashed by Friedrich’s works has been enduring and they lend themselves with great facility to present-day issues, as demonstrated by a second, separate section of the exhibition, which will bring together responses to Friedrich in contemporary art. In contributions ranging from video and photography to installations, some 20 artists working across a variety of genres and media, both here in Germany and abroad, set out to explore the Romantic era, its attitude to nature, and the art of Caspar David Friedrich. The participants include Elina Brotherus, Julian Charrière, David Claerbout, Olafur Eliasson, Alex Grein, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Mariele Neudecker, Ulrike Rosenbach, Susan Schuppli, Santeri Tuori and Kehinde Wiley.
Superb and extremely rare loans of paintings by Friedrich, among them Chalk Cliffs on Rügen (c.1818–1822), The Monk by the Sea (1808–1810) and Two Men Contemplating the Moon (1819/20), will be on show alongside works from the holdings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle such as Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c.1817) and The Sea of Ice (1823/24). These works are Romantic icons. Friedrich applied his painterly skills to probing the ability of a landscape to express questions of his time, to tapping the potential associated with representations of nature and to finding ways to communicate with the viewer. His output of drawings was likewise prolific and the exhibition devotes special attention to these. Spending time in a natural outdoor environment in order to produce art was a distinctive characteristic of Romantic practice and essential to Friedrich’s œuvre. The exhibition honours the autonomous quality of his drawings and does not present them merely as studies of natural details to be integrated later into his paintings. Indeed, Friedrich’s sensitive attempts to capture nature are frequently reflections of his subjective standpoint.
The unique atmosphere that speaks to us from Friedrich’s works with their powerful motifs and compositions has inspired many artists to enter into a dialogue with their Romantic colleague, especially given the current relevance of ecological issues. The tension between the gradual destruction of the environment and a yearning for »untouched nature« has been an unbroken force from the Romantic age down to our own times. In Friedrich’s day, however, the Romantic perception of nature carried national connotations, whereas today’s artists approach the natural world and climate change from a global perspective. In this spirit, the exhibition embraces recent work devoted to the darker sides and absences in Romantic art and later reactions to it. Colonialism and its impact on people and natural resources are as much a theme here as the Western, hegemonial concept of nature and its expressions in art. All in all, the show presents a broad spectrum of concrete visual reworkings, some of which express a far more abstract take on Friedrich’s specific technique and his themes. The exhibits include two big adaptations of Friedrich by the American artist Kehinde Wiley (*1977), which reflect critically on an art canon informed by white Western input. A colour circle by Olafur Eliasson (*1967) accurately reconfigures the pigments used in Friedrich’s painting The Sea of Ice, albeit in a very abstract composition. Ann Böttcher (*1973) shows drawings which address the forest motif and nationalistic projections of it. The photographs by Elina Brotherus, who at one point places herself in the frame in a nod to Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, raise issues about gender-based attitudes and ways of seeing in Romantic art. Finally, a video installation by David Claerbout (*1969) offers visitors a software-generated immersive experience of the natural environment
“Fitting in whilst standing out”: identity flexing strategies of professional British women of African, Asian, and Caribbean ethnicities.
Get PDFIntroduction:- Professional British women of African, Asian, and Caribbean (AAC) ethnicities contend with unique challenges and experiences in the workplace. These challenges are often due to experiences that occur at the intersection of gender and ethnic identity, thus many professional white British women (of Anglo-Saxon decent), do not face the same challenges. AAC women are more often discriminated against, excluded from informal networks, and their contributions credited to someone else. We take an intersectional theoretical approach to better understand both the disadvantaged experiences and the possible advantaged experiences that British AAC women face, based on their experiences as AAC individuals, as women and as AAC women. The study seeks to 'give voice' to the experiences of AAC professional women, due to the limited amount of scholarship that adequately considers their workplace experiences. We consider the ways that their identity produces qualitatively different experiences determined by the context, by the nature of interpersonal encounters or by both the context and interpersonal encounters.
Methods:- We conduct real-time online written interviews and utilize thematic template analysis to understand whether AAC women strategically flex identity at work. We present four major themes. These are (1) the benefits of identity flexing, (2) the role of specific stereotypes, (3) context specific opportunities, and (4) the costs of identity flexing. We draw on literature that suggests that AAC women's identity experiences are not exclusively oppressive.
Results:- We find that unique experiences, occurring at the intersection of facets of identity may also yield forms of relative advantage, wherein individuals are able to adaptively leverage opportunities. Our results demonstrate that where the facets of one's identity are more varied, there might be more chance that the particular identity will be valued in a given social context. As a result, the individual may try to assimilate with certain identity groups (through flexing), as the context directs.
Discussion:- Nevertheless, engaging in identity flexing strategies has costs for women's well-being, such as needing to perform increased amounts of emotional labor and heightened feelings of frustration. Overall, these costs (as well as benefits), evidence the complex nature of identity flexing and the likely negative well-being implications that could ensue for the individual
Mainstream placements for children with PMLD: the perspective of teaching staff and parents
Get PDFThere is on-going debate about the extent to which mainstream schools are appropriate for children with PMLD (Simmons 2022, 2021a, 2021b). However, the people who are arguably in the strongest position to talk about the issue - parents and school staff with relevant experience of supporting children with PMLD in mainstream settings - are rarely consulted. To date, there have been no published studies that report the perspective of teaching staffand / or parents of children with PMLD who experience mainstream placements in the United Kingdom