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Rise of the far right: technologies of recruitment and mobilization/ edited by Judith Bessant, Rob Watts and Melody Devries.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index."This edited collection offers readers a practical focus on how media technologies are involved in recruitment and mobilization processes of far-right groups"--Introduction: The uncanny political work of technologies / Melody Devries, Judith Bessant and Rob Watts -- Far-right recruitment and mobilization on Facebook : the case of Australia / Jordan McSwiney -- Populist myths and ethno-nationalist fears in Hungary / Simon Bradford and Fin Cullen -- Multi-platform social capital mobilization strategies among Anti-LGBTQIA+ groups in Taiwan / Kenneth C.C. Yang and Yowei Kang -- Twitter as a channel for frame diffusion : hashtag activism and the virality of #HeterosexualPrideDay / J.P. Armstrong -- The online manosphere and misogyny in the far-right : the case of the #thotaudit / Simon Copland -- "A positive identity for men" : pathways to far-right participation through Reddit's /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill / Luc S. Cousineau -- Soldiers of 4Chan : the role of anonymous online spaces in backlash movement networks / Andrey Kasimov -- The internet hate machine : on the weird collectivity of anonymous far-right groups / Sal Hagen and Marc Tuters -- Gab as an imitated counterpublic / Greta Jasser -- Moments of political gameplay : game design as a mobilization tool for far-right action / Noel Brett -- Mobilized but not (yet) recruited : the case of the Collective Avatar / Melody Devries -- "Resisting" the far right in racial capitalism : sources, possibilities and limits / Tanner Mirrlees.1 online resourc
Boundary Images
No full textHow are images made, and how should we understand the capacities of digital images? This book investigates images as well as the technologies that host them. Its three chapters discuss the boundaries that images cross and blur between humans, machines, and nature and the ways in which images are political, material, and visual. Exploring these boundaries of images, this book places itself at the limits of the visual and beyond what can be seen, understanding these as starting points for the production of new and radically different ways of knowing about the world and its becomings.Published versio
Algorithmic Authenticity: An Overview
No full textWhat makes information feel true or compelling in our contemporary digital societies? This book brings together different disciplinary understandings of "authenticity" in order to find alternative ways to approach mis- and disinformation that go beyond contemporary fact-checking and its search for the "authentic" truth. Patterned under the algorithmic flows of digital capitalism, authenticity itself is subject to variation, iteration, and outside influence. Linking cross-disciplinary research on the history and practices of algorithmic authenticity points to new research questions to understand the impact of algorithmic authenticity on social life and its role in contemporary information disorder
The phonetic basis for tonal melody mapping
No full textTonal melody mapping (for example, one tone per syllable, in left-to-right fashion) has been proposed as a common way of analyzing lexical tonal patterns for languages like Mende, Etung, and Kikuyu (Leben 1971, 1973, 1978; Edmondson and Bendor-Samuel 1966; Clements 1984). I argue that the mapping analyses of lexical tones in these cases are unwarranted and the surface tonal patterns resulted from such 'mapping' are in fact due to constraints on the distribution of contour tones. These constraints are phonetically grounded, and are based on the principles that contours are preferentially limited to syllables with longer duration. These include, but are not limited to, the final syllables in a prosodic domain (Oller 1973, Klatt 1975) and syllables in shorter words (Lehiste 1972, Lindblom and Rapp 1973).The definitive version of this article was published in WCCFL 19 : proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2000) and is available at http://www.cascadilla.com/wccfl19.htmlZhang, J. (2000). The Phonetic Basis for Tonal Melody Mapping. In R. Billerey & B.D. Lillehaugen (Eds.), WCCFL 19 : Proceedings of the 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 43-56.). Somerville, MA : Cascadilla Press
Persistent mourning: parenting a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
No full textASD is a complex lifelong developmental disorder characterized by deficits in communication skills, difficulty with social interaction and obsessive/repetitive behaviors that affect a child’s ability to manage stimulus and function within age appropriate expectations. Conventional treatment methods focus solely on the child, relying on parents to be change agents through the administration and implementation of treatment recommendations, failing to consider parent’s capacity to function in the role of a partner in the treatment process. This case study is a phenomenological investigation into the perceptions and experiences of parent’s from three families raising children with ASD. The author considers how feelings of loss, grief, guilt, and shame affect parent’s ability to acknowledge that their child has ASD and understand how their child is impacted, potentially exerting a harmful influence on the parent/child relationship. The implications for clinical practice are to establish a sensitive and honest rapport with parents that fosters their ability to explore the complicated emotions attached to raising a child with ASD and interpret the unique meaning on their lives. As illustrated in the following case vignettes, best outcomes for a child with ASD require that parents recognize and understand their child’s impairments, modify their expectations, and amend family lifestyle to support and accommodate their child’s specific needs. The benefits of direct intervention with parents demonstrated in this study support the need for further research on this topic.DSWIncludes bibliographical referencesby Melody Midonec
The development of an assessment tool to gather evidence and evaluate the progress of performance skills of students in the Edgerton High School Band
No full textProject chair, Dr. Glenn C. Hayes.Because of the block schedule and the lack of certain basic music skills among the incoming band students at Edgerton High School, it is necessary to create a system to help students establish their basic performance skills. The purpose of this project is to design a set of assessment tools that will help students define and perform basic musical skills. A series of quarterly study sheets allows the student to study scales, rhythms, tone, and expression in a progressive manner through all grade levels. The student is required to master each form and the skill level demonstrated serves as a portion of his or her final grade. It is also necessary to have a way to assess the students’ skills. This project uses literature and methods from a variety of sources to develop a set of tools that will accomplish both of these objectives.
This project focuses on the four areas of skills basic to musical performance on a musical instrument including scales and arpeggios, rhythm, tone, and expression. The study of scales, arpeggios, and rhythm has been systematically designed to increase the technical skill of students on their instruments. Students will have studied the major, minor, and chromatic scales and arpeggios in a systematic method over a four-year course of study. Each term for four years (16 terms), the student will have studied one major scale, the relative minor scale, arpeggios, and the chromatic scale. In addition, the student will have studied a specific rhythm pattern each term. The chromatic scale study has been coordinated to the rhythm study for each term to help reinforce the rhythm pattern. The rhythm patterns began with the easiest whole rhythms (whole, half, and quarter notes) and get progressively more difficult with each term.
In addressing tone quality, the teacher will have assigned a phrase of music from the literature studied by the band. The student will have performed the phrase with the best tone quality he/she can produce. A rubric has been developed to assess the student’s level of tone production quality and to help the student begin to identify the qualities of an excellent tone.
Musical expression has been addressed in two manners. The first has been through a demonstration of expression during the same performance of the tone quality assignment. Students have been assessed on a rubric similar to the one designed for tone quality. In addition, the student has been presented with a blank phrase of music. The student then adds expression markings that they feel are appropriate and performs the excerpt. Again, a rubric has been designed to assess the work of the student
Extraction of Predominant Melody from Audio Recordings
No full textAudio melody extraction is a problem that still presents itself as not easily soluble on each annual MIREX competition. Algorithms developed for this purpose try to establish a track of melody (frequency of predominant tone at each moment) in songs and determine, whether the melody is even present. The results of competitions show that none of these two problems is completely soluble, since the algorithms make errors even on songs easily understandable by humans.
In this thesis I describe my implementation of the PreFEst algorithm, developed by Masataka Goto from 1999 to 2004. It is based on a promising approach that was very competitive at the time, but hasn't been developed further by the author. In this paper I propose my own implementation of the algorithm (without Goto's version of tracking) with several possible improvements - voicing detection, alternate spectrogram calculation with an additional level in the multi-rate filter bank and an optional combination of multiple window sizes, iterative tracking of peaks, outlier elimination, hypothesis balancing with the use of best successor evaluation, transition recognition using the Hough transform and adaptation of hypothesis to inter-frequency-bin values.
I have tested my expanded version of Goto's algorithm on the ISMIR 2004 competition database and MIREX 2005 learning set. I have compared my results with other algorithms from previous competitions in audio melody extraction. I have established the effect of using different improvements and determined possible weaknesses and strengths of this algorithm by analysing several hypotheses calculated on test data
Far-Right Recruitment and Mobilization on Facebook:The Case of Australia
No full textThe Internet is a powerful tool for the far right.1 By facilitating communication and participation across spatial boundaries, connecting like-minded organizations and spreading their messages (Caiani and Parenti 2016), the Internet, and in particular social networking platforms, have become vital to recruitment and mobilization for the far right today. This is especially the case in contexts where the far right faces institutional or social marginalization. This chapter explores how the far right utilizes the popular social networking platform Facebook through a case study of the Australian far-right Facebook fan page network in 2018. Though significant research has been conducted on the use of social media by the far right (e.g. Engesser et al. 2016; Ernst et al. 2016; Froio and Ganesh 2019; Klein and Muis 2019), these have tended to focus on the discursive or communicative utility of such platforms
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