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THE TECHNOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE: NARRATIVE VS MEDIA ANALYSIS OF BASTILLE DAY, NICE, FRANCE 2016
Get PDFHumans possess the ability to experience life events and their accompanying emotions, to store these experiences in memory, and to create new behaviour in the future. It is often said that we learn best from our mistakes. However, life-threatening events are different. Extreme experiences can produce recurring memories that can lead to a range of stress disorders. In the present day many of our experiences and memories are being expanded and transformed by technology, especially the Internet. The author was a survivor of the lone terrorist attack on Bastille Day, 2016 in Nice, France. Two years later, this paper poses autobiographical narration to recount the experiences surrounding this incident and its aftermath. The author concurrently analyses the central narrative to juxtapose official accounts, media reports and reflection. The paper thus accomplishes two goals: it presents a first-hand experience of a major terrorist attack, and it compares a conscripted secondary version mediated by technology
The technology of experience : narrative vs media analysis of Bastille Day, Nice, France 2016
No full textHumans possess the ability to experience life events and their accompanying emotions, to store these experiences in memory, and to create new behaviour in the future. It is often said that we learn best from our mistakes. However, life-threatening events are different. Extreme experiences can produce recurring memories that can lead to a range of stress disorders. In the present day many of our experiences and memories are being expanded and transformed by technology, especially the Internet. The author was a survivor of the lone terrorist attack on Bastille Day, 2016 in Nice, France. Two years later, this paper poses autobiographical narration to recount the experiences surrounding this incident and its aftermath. The author concurrently analyses the central narrative to juxtapose official accounts, media reports and reflection. The paper thus accomplishes two goals: it presents a first-hand experience of a major terrorist attack, and it compares a conscripted secondary version mediated by technology
AEmulatio, Imitatio and Mimesis in Tertiary Education
No full textAbstractEmulation, imitation and mimicry are fundamental processes by which all children, adolescents and adults learn new skills, attitudes and behaviour throughout their lives. However, these basic processes seem to have been ignored or forgotten by most tertiary educational researchers. Most educationists believe that children develop through stages by using observation, and play. Children become expert mimics and learn how to speak, walk, and socialize by the time they are ready for school. In the first few years of school children learn by copying, rote learning and emulation of their teachers and peers, but as they progress, the importance of copying diminishes and may be penalized. At the tertiary level, emulation of scholarly writing styles, jargon and formats is always rewarded. This paper will use evaluation, observation and personal case studies in order to argue the value of these overlooked teaching techniques. It highlights academic ambivalence to plagiarism, and concludes the rhetoric about e-learning to be disingenuous. This paper asks educationists to rethink their pedagogy around mimicry, imitation, and emulation
Reflections on Personal Learning Environments: Theory and Practice
No full textAbstractThe nature of higher education has changed irrevocably due sweeping changes brought about by e-learning. Such changes include the educational experience, the research process, institutional expenditure & academic work. Possibly the newest development is the personal learning environment. This paper explores the question: what might be the higher education effects of personal learning environments (PLEs) within the context of already embedded learning management systems? A short history is given & the theoretical underpinnings of PLEs are investigated. The paper briefly describes institutional practice in terms of widely established learning management systems. Finally, contemporary approaches to PLEs are critiqued & their possible effects upon higher education evaluated
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Beyond E-learning management systems : screencasting for presentation and practice
No full textE-learning management systems (EMS) such as FirstClass, Blackboard and Moodle have become firmly entrenched at many Australian tertiary institutions as the primary method of implementing e-learning. However employing a management system comes at a cost – development difficulties, staff training issues, student boredom, and the high cost of system itself – are commonplace. A less obvious problem is that for most instructors, the EMS itself becomes the exclusive access point to e-learning activities. If one also considers issues of organizational control, usability, accessibility, and cultural bias, there is a need for a method of instruction that goes beyond what EMS’s can currently offer. One solution is to utlize screencasting software in order to create both Web-based and standalone tutorials which may be viewed without the need for an Internet connection. A case study using Adobe Captivate to teach statistics and report writing is described concluding that screencasting offers a viable alternative to monotonous and repetitive website links
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Sanctioned rhetoric : nefarious professional communications produced by the state
No full textThe state and its institutions have traditionally produced professional documents in the form of flyers, magazines and brochures. Typically free, or low cost, these documents cover informational, legal and political functions of the state. In the West, citizen health, safety, education, taxes, tourism, nutrition, the law, employment and technology are some of the needs fulfilled by these seemingly innocuous documents. Such public communication can however be subverted for ulterior motives, especially during periods of domestic conflict and war. Using case studies, this paper shows how professional communication can fulfil questionable purposes. This paper analyses the use of professional documents for mainly disreputable purposes, including a major WWII publication, an Australian magazine, and more recently, a jihadist online periodical. It concludes by inviting scholars and the media to analyse such propaganda as a method of understanding the intent of nefarious agencies and ultimately counteract their myths and public relations spin
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