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Jonathan Ned Katz Author Event: The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adam
No full text“The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams,” interview with author, Jonathan Ned Katz, moderated by Emily Weiner (WWU) and organized by Congregation Beth Israel
Sensory, ethnographic and creative methods in Covid-19 conditions
No full textThis presentation is part of an NCRM webinar on methods adapted or suited to research in the COVID-19 pandemic (28 January, 2021). Presenters: Professor Carey Jewitt, University College London; Dr Ned Barker, University College London; Lili Golmohammadi, University College London
Ned Rorem
No full textNed Rorem is a distinguished author and composer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1976 orchestral suite, "Air Music." He has written several books and was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and three times received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Deems Taylor Award.Mr. Rorem is seated at a piano. He is wearing a corduroy jacket and dark shirt
Adaptation in sensory and material methods in Covid-19 times
No full textThis presentation is part of an NCRM webinar on Methods adapted or suited to research in the pandemic, 28 January 2021, Online
Presenters: Prof Carey Jewitt, University College London, Dr Ned Barker, University College London and Lili Golmohammadi, University College London
The full webinar can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzv58M2GAfm5DW00KORN5N6kV7vpZ4dhT
The webinar was based on the NCRM project Changing Research Prachttps://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/socscicovid19
The non-verbal emotional dictionary NED
No full textA human face is an extremely important source of information during human communication. We learn to recognize facial expressions long before we learn to communicate verbally. Facial expressions are the most effective way to communicate our emotions. For years most researchers centred their attention in the automatic recognition of facial expressions and the most important for them was the recognition of the shape of mouth, eyes and eyebrows. Nowadays, researchers are getting more interested in the automatic generation of facial expressions using an input text. This approach can be of a big importance in many disciplines, such as human communication through computer interfaces and games. Based on this approach, my Master thesis will be focused on building a Non-verbal Emotional Dictionary (NED) where the most important aspect is the relation between from one side an emotional word, and from the other side its corresponding facial expression coded by Action Units (AU) representation and facial expression. This dictionary can then be used as a bridge between an emotional text analyzer and a 3D Talking face system to mimic humane conversations using emotions in a virtual world. To accomplish this, the database of the NED system should include a number of the most used emotional words with there corresponding AU’s. Of course this database will not include all existing emotional words, but will use another database, the Dictionary of Affect Language (DAL) to find the link between the words that are not listed in my database to words that are listed in it. This database (NED) will help, when combined with a 3D talking face system with a text as its input, in the automatic generation of facial expressions. The idea consists of, given an input text, the system should be able to recognize the different emotions and the mood that this input text contains. In this way the “3D face” system should be, in the future, able to read a text or a story as emotionally as a human would do. Using such technology we will achieve a big step in the future of the human communication in the digital world.Media and Knowledge EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Picturing the environment: Documerica's visual rhetoric of interconnectedness
No full textSubmission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo termsThe student, Pamela Axtman-Barker, accepted the attached license on 2023-11-08 at 18:54.The student, Pamela Axtman-Barker, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2023-11-08 at 19:05.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2023-11-10 at 08:44.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #19897 on 2024-03-01 at 13:14:15Documerica was a national photography project created by the Environmental Protection Agency in the early 1970s. Despite producing over 20,000 images, the project failed to garner much attention or success. As a result, the story scholars tell of Documerica tends to focus on its so-called failures. In contrast, I argue that Documerica photographs succeeded in using a variety of rhetorical strategies to visually communicate the complexity and interconnected nature of the environment. Because of Documerica’s interest in visualizing Barry Commoner’s first law of ecology, that “everything is connected to everything else,” Documerica offers researchers a chance to examine how the environment can be pictured in ways that embrace complexity and nuance. Further, Documerica operated at a pivotal moment in environmental history: between the time of the environmental revolution that led to the first Earth Day and before the discourse of climate change as we know it today existed. Environmental communicators regularly utilize images as an essential part of their messages. Yet photographing the environment is no straightforward task. Each chapter explores a different topos that makes the environment difficult to capture visually: time, place, and health. First, I investigate how Documerica photographs address time. Environments change slowly, often over decades and generations. Documerica photographs literally capture moments in the early 1970s but, through their composition and captions, encourage a viewer to imagine additional moments in time that enable reflection about pasts and futures. Second, I investigate how Documerica pictures place. I argue that Documerica positions people relative to their material surroundings to create a sense of place through visualizing relationship(s). In this way, Documerica photographs explain the ways that environments and places are co-constructed by people and their material surroundings. Finally, I investigate how health appears in Documerica photographs. Humans face health consequences as a result of environmental conditions. My analysis shows that Documerica photographs reveal shifting norms of public health in the 1970s by making visible the administrative tasks already in progress to address systemic causes of environmental ills. Overall, my dissertation investigates the rhetorical choices made by Documerica staff and contractors to reveal strategies for visualizing the environment in ways that account for interconnectedness. As a government project, Documerica was not beholden to news cycles and production deadlines. This resulted in photographs that are less sensational, revealing a more ordinary, everyday picture (and understanding) of the environment that emphasized people. In looking for the environment in these mundane moments, one finds hope as the photographs make visible extended pasts and futures, construct a multitude of relationships with Earth, and reveal solutions and interventions already in progress
The Lynching and Rebirth of Ned Buntline: Rogue Authorship during the American Literary Renaissance
No full textThough largely unknown today, “Ned Buntline” (Edward Zane Carroll Judson) was one of the most influential authors of 19th-century America. He published over 170 novels, edited multiple popular and political publications, and helped pioneer the seafaring adventure, city mystery and Western genres. It was his pirate tales that Tom Sawyer constantly reenacted, his “Bowery B’hoys” that came to define the distinctive slang and swagger of urban American characters, and his novels and plays that turned an unknown scout into Buffalo Bill, King of the Border Men. But before “Ned Buntline” became a mainstay of the popular press, he had been on his way to becoming one of the nation’s highbrow literary elites. He was praised by the leading critics, edited an important literary journal, and his stories appeared in the era’s most prestigious publications. This study examines how and why “Ned Buntline” moved from prestigious to popular authorship and argues that the transformation was precipitated by one very specific event: in 1846, Edward Z. C. Judson was lynched. A close examination of Judson’s life, writing, and the coverage of him in the newspapers of the day (including the remarkable story of how he survived a lynching) demonstrates that the same issues that led to his lynching also led to his rebirth as a new kind of American author
Systems analysis & design fundamentals: a business process redesign approach
No full textSystems Analysis & Design Fundamentals: A Business Process Redesign Approach uniquely integrates traditional and modern systems analysis with design methods and techniques. By using a business process redesign approach, author Ned Kock enables readers to understand, in a very applied and practical way, how information technologies can be used to significantly improve organizational quality and productivity
The Song Cycles of Ned Rorem: a Technical Survey.
No full textThis monograph includes a brief history of the development of the song cycle genre in general, Ned Rorem\u27s definition of the genre in particular, and a brief history of Ned Rorem\u27s contributions to song cycles. Each of Ned Rorem\u27s published song cycles has been inspected for the following: poet(s) and literary theme(s); excerptability of individual songs; difficulty of individual songs (rated easy, moderately easy, or difficult); accompanimental instrument(s); and apparent cyclic interval(s), motive(s), or melody(ies). These data are compiled in a concise form for each song cycle and is followed by explanations of the determination of excerptability and difficulty, and the composer\u27s comments on each cycle taken from the composer\u27s notes which precede some of the cycles and/or a personal interview with the composer. The survey yielded the following information about the song cycles. Seventeen use a single poet or author, and eight use a variety of poets. Eleven have a consistent poetic theme, three create a narrative, and eleven have unrelated themes. Sixteen are accompanied by piano, four are accompanied by a small group of instruments (four or less instruments), four are accompanied by orchestra, and one is unaccompanied. Twenty-one contain excerptable songs (with forty-eight excerptable songs rated easy, sixty-seven excerptable songs rated moderately difficult, and forty-two excerptable rated difficult), and four contain unexcerptable songs. Twenty-one contain no apparent cyclic melody of melodic motive, and four contain a cyclic melody or motive. All of the cycles contain songs of varying difficulty, and all meet most definitions of song cycle. The typical song cycle composed by Ned Rorem has a single poet or author, has a consistent poetic theme, is accompanied by piano alone, contains individual songs which are excerptable and which vary in difficulty, contains no apparent cyclic melody or motive, and meets the requirements for most definitions of song cycle
Research strategy, uncertainty and COVID-19: A conversation
No full textAs part of NCRM’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we developed a project called Changing Research Practices that, over three funding phases between 2020 and 2022, aimed to bring together members of researcher communities to share ideas, support each other, and identify and synthesise rapidly emerging evidence about how to adapt research to the pandemic conditions.
In the third phase, we ran a series of workshops that focused on the theme of uncertainty in research, which had been an important aspect throughout the earlier part of the project. The workshop series involved a small group of participants, five of whom used the last workshop to generate a film of their conversation, which summarises many of the key issues in regards to uncertainty that emerged through the project. In the film, the researchers used a metaphor sketch elicitation method (coincidentally something we had generated for Phase I) to explore uncertainty in research practices and includes contributions from Ned Barker (UCL), Ceri Davies (Natcen), Romina Istratii (SOAS), Olimpia Mosteanu (Social-Life) and Pedro Rothstein (People’s Palace, Queen Mary University).
The video covers a wide of topics in regards to research processes and shows the methodological and ethical considerations that come to the fore in the context of crisis
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