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Transformaciones en la educación: la sinergia entre nuevas metodologías pedagógicas y tecnologías emergentes en la educación
Authors: Flores Jaramillo Johnatan Danilo
Published: November 2024

La educación actual está transformándose mediante la combinación de metodologías pedagógicas innovadoras y tecnologías emergentes, adaptando el proceso educativo a las demandas de una sociedad en constante evolución. Esta convergencia permite un aprendizaje personalizado y accesible, y facilita una evaluación formativa que ajusta las estrategias educativas a las necesidades específicas de cada estudiante. Este artículo de investigación explora el impacto y las barreras en la integración de estas metodologías y tecnologías, con el objetivo de identificar prácticas y herramientas eficaces que impulsen modelos de enseñanza inclusivos y personalizados. El estudio también propone estrategias y recomendaciones para superar las limitaciones en la implementación de estas innovaciones, promoviendo un aprendizaje accesible y orientado al desarrollo de competencias clave. La metodología empleada integra enfoques de análisis de fuentes científicas y estudios de caso para examinar barreras y prácticas exitosas en la educación. Además, se aplicarán encuestas a docentes y estudiantes para capturar experiencias cuantitativas, complementadas con entrevistas que exploren en profundidad los desafíos y beneficios percibidos. La investigación concluye que la integración de metodologías pedagógicas activas y tecnologías emergentes es esencial para responder a las demandas del siglo XXI, ofreciendo oportunidades para mejorar la calidad educativa y preparar a los estudiantes para un entorno globalizado y digitalizado.
Ist der ökonomische Mainstream auf der Höhe der Zeit? Defizite neoklassischer Schlüsselkonzepte und ihre Überwindung
Authors: Falkinger Josef
Published: November 2024

Rationalität, dezentrale Koordination und Informationsverarbeitung durch den Preismechanismus, kollektive Entscheidungen durch Aggregation individueller Präferenzen und Wachstum als zentrales Lösungskonzept für gesamtwirtschaftliche Knappheitsprobleme prägen den intellektuellen Rahmen der Ökonomie. Der Autor konfrontiert diese Konzepte mit aktuellen Gefährdungen liberaler Ideen und demokratischer Institutionen, wie sie am Rande unserer Disziplin, in anderen Wissenschaften oder in der allgemeinen Öffentlichkeit diskutiert werden. Die Gegenüberstellung macht Defizite im ökonomischen Denkrahmen sichtbar und weist die Ökonomie auf neue Aufgabenstellungen hin. Im mikroökonomischen Bereich verschiebt sich die Perspektive von der ökonomischen Aktion und Interaktion unter gegebenen Präferenzen und Marktbedingungen hin zur Arbeit an den Grundlagen für mündiges Handeln und ein funktionsfähiges Zusammenleben freier Individuen. Für die gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung verlagert sich der Fokus von der Expansion hin zu Fortschritt als gelungenem Wandel. Die mit dieser Verlagerung verbundenen Weichenstellungen werden anhand von zwei Beispielen diskutiert: der digitalen Revolution und der Klimakrise.
Strukturreformen für die EU
Authors: Butschek Felix
Published: November 2024

Der Autor sah sich durch die jüngsten binnen- sowie geopolitischen Veränderungen veranlasst, eine Reihe von konkreten strukturellen Reformen für die EU vorzuschlagen, welche geeignet sind, die Leistungen der Union für die Bevölkerung spürbar zu verbessern. Diese betreffen in erster Linie das zentrale Element der EU, den Binnenmarkt. Ausgehend von wünschenswerten Veränderungen der Ausgabenpolitik, fasst Felbermayr die Unzulänglichkeiten des Handelsverkehrs ins Auge, wie dessen Behinderung durch eine unzulängliche Infrastruktur. Obwohl die Währungsprobleme der EU durch die gemeinsame Währung grundsätzlich gelöst scheinen, verbleiben weiterhin jene der Budgetpolitik, die trotz Widerstandes der Mitgliedsstaaten durch strikte Fiskalregeln gelöst werden müssten. Über originelle Überlegungen zur Beitragsgestaltung gelangt der Autor zum Vorschlag unterschiedlicher Integrationstiefen für Drittstaaten. Schließlich weist er auf die Differenz zwischen Verantwortungs- und Gesinnungsethik hin. Letztere dürfe nicht die Außenwirtschaftspolitik behindern.
Erziehung durch Konsens und Zwang
Authors: Maukner Julian
Published: November 2024

Clara Mattei geht in ihrem Buch auf die Ursprünge moderner Austeritätspolitik ein. Ihr gelingt dabei eine außerordentlich gute Erzählung darüber, wie das Dogma des Sparens für das größere Wohl als Antwort auf eine Krise der Kapitalakkumulation nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg entstanden ist. Ziel war es, die Ansprüche der Arbeiter:innenklasse zu senken und gleichsam die Bedrohung, die sie für die kapitalistische Wirtschaftsordnung darstellte, zu beseitigen. Dabei kommt zum Vorschein, wie liberalen Ökonomen (sic!) zur Durchsetzung ihrer "reinen Ökonomie" auch die Zusammenarbeit mit dem italienischen Faschismus recht war.
CFP: British Medical Television, University of Brighton 27-28 July, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Film and Screen Studies, School of Media, University of Brighton 27-28 July, 2017 Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary 2 day conference at the University of Brighton In response to the news of the British government’s imposed changes to junior doctor contracts in 2015, actors from the BBC’s hospital drama Holby City and Channel 4’s […]
TWEET PRODUCTION: SOCIAL MEDIA AND LIVE TELEVISION
Authors: Bennett James
Published: November 2024

Much has been written about the way in which social media has reinvigorated live television, particularly from the perspective of the audience (for example, Liz Evans, Sheryl Wilson, or Inge Sø renson). But much less is known, or written, about how the liveness of social media has affected the production of a range of forms of live television that have made increasing use of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Periscope, Instagram and
“The future of media in Wales”, 29 March 2017, Cardiff
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The third annual IWA Cardiff Media Summit entitled “The future of media in Wales” is being held on March 29

th

, 2017 in Cardiff. Hosted by the IWA in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and University of South Wales, and supported by ITV Cymru Wales, S4C and TAC, the summit will open with analysis on the likely future of the media in Wales. BBC Director of Content, Charlotte Moore, will take part in an in-depth interview.
INSIDE THE STATE OF HATE
Authors: Harper Stephen
Published: November 2024

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster (Nietzsche) For docudrama lovers like me, a new Peter Kosminsky production is always eagerly anticipated and the unfolding of The State over four consecutive evenings on Channel 4 last week made for a particularly intense viewing experience.
RADIO, WITH PICTURES? BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR 2014
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

In the early days of TV, some people apparently said that television was just radio, with pictures. Now, the general opinion would be that this is by no means the case. So it seems a little perverse to write here about something that could easily be described as radio with pictures: the

BBC Young Musician 2014

competition final, as broadcast on BBC Four, though also covered on BBC Radio 3, on May 18th.
Scaling up critical thinking against extreme poverty
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In three years, the World Bank’s e-Institute enrolled 50,000 learners through small, tutor-led online courses and webinars. Its first MOOC, run on Coursera’s platform for four weeks, reached 19,500.
Dependency Groups and ReadTheDocs
Authors: Hoyt Charles Tapley
Published: November 2024

PEP 735 introduced dependency groups in packaging metadata, which are complementary to optional dependencies in that they might not correspond to features in the package, but rather be something like development or release dependencies. I am slowly working towards updating my cookiecutter template cookiecutter-snekpack to use PEP 735. So far, uv and tox have released support - all that’s left is ReadTheDocs.
THE RETURN OF MARX? ARE WE REALLY THERE YET?
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

A while ago, Martin Barker invited scholars to discuss the potential for the re-incorporation of Marxist ideas into audience studies. For a short time, a group of us discussed via email how Marxism might be re-introduced to the study of audiences. But very quickly, the group fell silent, largely, I assume as a result of our workloads that kept us from fully engaging in the discussion.
A TALE OF TWO POSTERS: NEGOTIATING PARATEXTUALITY AND AFFECT IN ‘OFFICIAL’ AND ‘UNOFFICIAL’ PUBLICITY FOR THE NEW TWIN PEAKS
Authors: Garner Ross
Published: November 2024

In this blog post I want to challenge the separation of ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ paratexts as divergent trajectories within what Jonathan Hardy (2011) has named the ‘commercial intertextuality’ of contemporary television series. To do this, I’m going to respond to Jason Mittell’s recent post for In Media Res where he suggests exploring the affective, rather than purely interpretive, meanings that paratexts generate.
TELEVISION, THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND THE ZOMNEY APOCALYPSE
Authors: Lavery David
Published: November 2024

(First published on December 14th 2012) Image from AMC.com. I am watching Walking Dead on the small flat screen television that sits beside my computer.
Quick Q&A with George Siemens on corporate MOOCs
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Here is an unedited chat with George Siemens about corporate MOOCs. He is preparing an open, online symposium on scaling up corporate learning, to be announced soon. The World Bank and OECD are two international organizations that will be contributing to the conversation. Here are some of the questions we briefly discussed: What is a “corporate MOOC” and why should organizations outside higher education care?
CHANNEL 4’S DEUTSCHLAND 83: ‘COOL NATION’ BRANDING, THE TRANSNATIONAL, AND RETRO CULTURE. (SELF-EXOTICISM #3)
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

Channel 4’s recent foray into foreign-language television drama,

Deutschland 83

, highlights a preoccupation of contemporary culture, and of contemporary television, with identity. The mediation of this theme/meme through popular television in particular has taken many dramatic and representational forms.
CfP: Alterity and the Research Imagination Conference @Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 25-26 Jan 2018. Deadline: Aug 31, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Preoccupation with theories and practices of representation and othering, across the breadth of various genres and disciplines, has moved forward debates about positioning in research and modes of constructing and producing knowledge.
HULU’S 11.22.63: BETTER TIME-TRAVELING THROUGH TELEVISION
Authors: Howard Douglas L
Published: November 2024

I seem to be thinking about the past lately—my last post, in fact, dealt with reboots, restarts, and remakes—and this month has me traveling back there again, this time through a “rabbit hole” at the back of a diner or, more appropriately, through one in my phone and TV.  (Am I preoccupied, or am I responding to a cultural preoccupation?  This recent article from

USA Today

suggests that it’s the latter.
NOT GLANCING, NOT GORGING: WATCHING TV ON FAST FORWARD
Authors: Inthorn Sanna
Published: November 2024

Did you enjoy

1864

(2014)? I sure did. That’s because I watched it on fast-forward. I am not sure I should admit this on a forum dedicated to all things television and I am slightly embarrassed. But more of my red ears of shame later.

1864

is not the only programme through which I tend to zoom.

Downton Abbey

(2010-2014) got the fast-forward treatment.
CFP – Call for Papers & Practice, SHOWREAL – Irish Screen Studies Seminar 2017, 12-13 April 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

SHOWREAL – Irish Screen Studies Seminar 2017 12-13 April 2017 – Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin voicesonfilm in association with Irish Screen Studies, Dublin Business School, SAH Journal, Filmbase and Film Ireland will host the 13th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar on 12-13 April 2017.
CFP: Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath, 31 March — 1 April
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Friday 31 March — Saturday 1 April (linking with VIVA Spanish and Latin American Festival, HOME Arts Centre, Manchester) This conference will explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen media has responded to the recent economic crisis.
Learn and change
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

A learning organization is an organization that has an enhanced capacity to learn and change. Watkins and Marsick dimensions of a learning organization   Source: Watkins, K.E., Milton, J., Kurz, D., 2009. Diagnosing the learning culture in public health agencies.

International Journal of Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning

2.
Skepticism about learning innovation
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Online technologies have afforded us many ways in which we can now learn even when we are not in the same location. Yet, some of us remain skeptical about the impact of new technologies, and in particular about new ways of learning that rely on technology. We prefer to do things the way we have done them in the past. New approaches to learning may be seen as too complicated in our task-oriented learning culture.
LESS CULT, MORE QUALITY?: AUDIENCE READINGS OF PRE-TEXTS FOR MARVEL’S INHUMANS AND ‘QUALITY-MAINSTREAM-CULT’ TV DRAMA
Authors: Garner Ross
Published: November 2024

The past weekend saw the annual San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) take place, an event which, as Lincoln Geraghty (2014: 96-103) has argued, has come to assume an increasing point of centrality within the screen industries as various intellectual property holders and brands use this to create buzz for new and returning series alike.
3 critical questions for the new Humanitarian Leadership Academy
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This morning, I’m looking forward to the London launch event for Save The Children’s Humanitarian Leadership Academy, touted by the Guardian as the “world’s first academy for humanitarian relief” that “may revolutionize” the sector.
BROADCASTING APPOINTMENT CHAOS
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Who wants to be Chair of the BBC? As it happens, nobody really. Who wants to be a director of Channel 4? As it happens, Ofcom recommended Althea Efunshile, former deputy chief executive of the Arts Council and a BAME woman.
LIVE BROADCASTING: BROUGHT TO YOU BY FACEBOOK
Authors: Arnold Sarah
Published: November 2024

Back in December, Cathy Johnson wrote a CST blog outlining the differences between TV Online and Online TV. Where TV Online represents the extended distribution of broadcast-first programmes across online platforms, Online TV refers to the way the overall television service uses both internet and television to make and distribute content that cannot be accomplished via traditional broadcasting practices.
THE RISE OF THE SAGANAUTS
Authors: Niblock Sarah
Published: November 2024

My eyes lit up when I saw her – I’d dreamt of seeing her in the flesh since I first laid eyes on

The Bridge

’s detective Saga Noren. Long, fashionably uncombed hair, ethereal beauty, flicking crumbs from her cinnamon bun off her ankle-grazing khaki military coat and leather trousers – this bewitching brunette was the ultimate Saganaut right down to her lace-up ankle boots.
TV 101: TIPS FOR TEACHING TELEVISION
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

I am often asked for my recommendations on what works in terms of teaching television at HE level. It’s not exactly the right time of the academic year for this, but here are some of the things I’ve learned from teaching television on undergraduate degree courses in the UK over the years.
Online learning 101: Approaches
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

There are myriad approaches to online learning. I’ve selected three. One of them should no longer be recommended. This is the production of information modules that test information recall. In some cases, aware of the limited outcomes using this approach, attempts have been made to encourage reflection or analysis, but then the limitation of the approach leaves the learner with limited or no formative feedback and reductive forms of assessment.
BACK IN THE USA, LOOKING FOR THE OXYGEN OF WOMEN’S TV
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

I’ve spent the last five months back in the US, thanks to a generous fellowship in Latin American Studies at Tulane in New Orleans.
FROM NICHE GAMING FANS TO THE MINECRAFT GENERATION: STAMPY’S WORLD
Authors: Panos Leah
Published: November 2024

Which children’s programme, made on no budget in a single room, attracts over 2 million viewers per daily episode? The YouTube videos of ‘Stampylongnose’ (or ‘Stampylonghead’ or just plain ‘Stampy’), devoted to the hugely popular computer game ‘Minecraft’, have gone from targeting a niche gaming fan base to capturing a large audience of children.
European Co-Production Symposium: a multi-disciplinary conference of scholars, practitioners and policy professionals
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

23-24 November 2016 University of Copenhagen, Keynote Speakers Roberto Olla, Executive Director, Eurimages Ib Bondebjerg, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen The European Co-production Symposium will explore co-production as the expression of a complex political and economic apparatus, and aims to bring to light the intricacies of producing a film across national borders with different
REPRESENTING TRUMP
Authors: Nochimson Martha P.
Published: November 2024

The recent furor about Oskar Eustis’ open air production of Shakespeare’s

Julius Caesar

in New York City in which Caesar was dressed up to look like Donald Trump and Calpurnia had a Slavic accent started me thinking about the larger issue of imaginatively representing the current occupant of the White House.
TELEVISION STUDENTS: A HISTORY
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

What Students Want to Write About (Final Project)

I have been absent from CST for too long. The reason for my absence has been entirely due to my commitment to work and students undergoing their ‘Final Year Project’. In January I was given the honour and task of guiding 150 BATAR (BA Television and Radio) final-year students through their last, and arguably most important, Theory Essay.
NOT SO COSY: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

I expect many people complained this holiday season that there was very little to entice in the television schedules.
NARCOS, LANGUAGE, AND TRANSNATIONAL PERIOD DRAMA
Authors: Steiner Tobias
Published: November 2024

It’s 2015, and from Hollywood’s Black Mass (2015) to TV’s The Americans (FX, 2013-), Halt and Catch Fire (AMC, 2014-) and Show Me a Hero (HBO, 2015) – the 1980s as an era have become one of the hottest cultural sujets de jour.
Television Drama Conference: Archives, Access and Research, 22 February 2017, NFT3, BFI Southbank, London, 11-6pm
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

22 February 2017, NFT3, BFI Southbank, London, 11-6pm.

An event co-hosted by the BFI, Learning on Screen/BUFVC and the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway (in association with the AHRC-funded ‘Forgotten Television Drama’ research project)

Rationale

·
Can analysis and critical thinking be taught online in the humanitarian context?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is my presentation at the First International Forum on Humanitarian Online Training (IFHOLT) organized by the University of Geneva on 12 June 2015. I describe some early findings from research and practice that aim to go beyond “click-through” e-learning that stops at knowledge transmission.
WHAT ACTORS DO: ALEC BALDWIN IN 30 ROCK (PART I)
Authors: Knox Gary Cassidy and Simone
Published: November 2024

For his portrayal of Jack Donaghy, GE Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming, in NBC sitcom

30 Rock

(2006-2013), Alec Baldwin has won a (to use the technical term) smorgasbord of accolades, including two Primetime Emmys, three Golden Globes and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards. In our view, he would pretty much deserve this acclaim on the strength of his work in the episode ‘Jack-Tor’ (1.5) alone.
Online learning around Ebola so far
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is the third in a series of five blog posts reflecting on what is at stake in how we learn lessons from the Ebola crisis that erupted in 2014 and continued in 2015.
FIDELETY MATTERS: NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS TV SERIES
Authors: Proctor William
Published: November 2024

Ever since I started exploring adaptation theory as a way to discuss reboots for my PhD thesis, I have found myself knee-deep in a conceptual quandary, one which I’d like to share with you today.
THE WEDNESDAY PLAY, CANON FORMATION AND COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY
Authors: Smart Billy
Published: November 2024

The difference between commemoration of the fiftieth anniversaries of

Doctor Who

last year and

The Wednesday Play

in 2014 could hardly have been more marked. I feel as though I have lived through general elections that got less press coverage than the

Doctor Who

anniversary, while the only attention given to

The Wednesday Play

was half a dozen BFI screenings; no repeats, no books, no documentaries.
Hungry Pelican’s Bold Move Stuns Volunteer and Tourists
Authors: Frey Erzsebet
Published: November 2024

Hungry Pelican’s Bold Move Stuns Volunteer and Tourists

The Unexpected Encounter

A routine day turned into an unforgettable experience for volunteers and tourists when a hungry pelican made a bold move recently. The unexpected encounter left everyone stunned, illustrating the unpredictability of nature.
CfP: Symposium “Revisiting Nostalgia and the Hyperreal” Jan 13, 2018 @Oxford Brookes University. Deadline: Sept 22, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

REVISITING NOSTALGIA AND THE HYPERREAL A Symposium at Oxford Brookes University Saturday January 13th 2018 This one day symposium aims to re-examine the discourse, debates, and products of the hyperreal in the light of contemporary media culture’s nostalgic impulses.
CfP: “Digital Violence” symposium, Nov 4, 2017 @Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Deadline: July 31, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Digital Violence: A Symposium. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Saturday, November 4

th

2017

Keynote Speakers:

Caetlin Benson-Allott (Georgetown University)

Eugenia Siapera &
TEENAGE BOYS’ ‘INTRUSION’ AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN 13 REASONS WHY (NETFLIX, 2017)
Authors: Berridge Susan
Published: November 2024

** This blog contains spoilers ** Firstly, apologies – this blog contains spoilers. But seeing as 13 Reasons Why was released on Netflix in the UK several months ago (and already covered in a blog by William Proctor back in May), I’m hoping this won’t be too much of a problem.
JUST ONE MORE:ROMANCING THE VIKINGS
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

For Mel

This is our ‘experiment’ together – watching an entire season of The Vikings in two dreamy sittings – the late eve of a romantic Saturday and the full span of an Autumn Sunday.
International Conference: Closing the gap in representation: public service journalism and activism for the democratization of the media 16-17 March 2017. Faculty of Communication. Seville University
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Organized by R+D Project “Relationship dynamics in the face of social change: contexts, content, producers, audiences, and produsers in the news programmes of TVE and YLE”. Main Researchers: M. Á. Vázquez Medel and M. Lamuedra Graván

Deadline for abstracts: 15 february 2017

More info: https://mediospublicos.wordpress.com/inscripcion/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Our system of representation of the
War in the Streets: weapons of terror in the news, cinema and media art
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cinema 2 The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Friday 18 November 2016, 2:30-4:00pm Free tickets can be booked at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-in-the-streets-weapons-of-terror-in-the-news-cinema-and-media-art-tickets-26922937230 (seating is limited, so advance booking is advised) An artist, two academics and two journalists selected a series of video fragments that engage with armed violence from recent news media,
Televising Childbirth Seminar Series, University of Nottingham
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Female Expertise in the Birthing Show: A Transnational Study

Dr. Sofia Bull, University of Southampton 18th January 2017, 12:00-13:00, [Room TBC] All welcome. To register email Sara De Benedictis: sara.debenedictis@nottingham.ac.uk This seminar series is supported by the Wellcome Trust. Co-hosted by the Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group and Health Humanities.
Televising Childbirth Seminar Series, University of Nottingham
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Decision-making as interactional practice in conversations between women and HCPs during labour: Insights from One Born Every Minute

Dr. Clare Jackson, University of York – 23rd November 2016, 12:00-13:00, [Room TBC] This seminar series is supported by the Wellcome Trust. Co-hosted by the Maternal Health and Wellbeing Research Group and Health Humanities. Twitter: @TelevisingBirth  All welcome.
CFP: Queering the Whedonverses—a Slayage special issue
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Over the last 15 years,

Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies

and other publications have featured a range of writing and scholarship about queer issues, identity and representations related to the Whedonverses but there has not yet been a publication dedicated solely to queer Whedon studies.
GHOST NATION BY KENNETH LONGDEN
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The killing of Osama Bin Laden by American special forces may have rid the collective American psyche of a man who at times appeared to be a ghost, but it also raised another ghost.
CROSSING ALL OF TIME, SPACE AND SOUNDSCAPES – THE DOCTOR BREAKS THE DIEGETIC SOUND BARRIER
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

Doctor Who fans were perhaps expecting a slow 2015.
No Way to Treat a Lady: The Decline and Fall of Soap Opera
Authors: Nochimson Martha
Published: November 2024

About two years ago, at a dinner party, with my husband to my left, I was surprised when I turned to my right to find Nancy Ford, the woman responsible for getting me my first job on a major network television soap opera. I hadn’t seen Nancy in more than 25 years.
CFP: MIA no. 164 (August 2017) Television Now
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Theme Editors: Amanda Lotz, Marion McCucheon and Sue Turnbull Overview This theme issue of MIA will explore the state of television in the age of the internet – its audiences, its distributors and its content creators.
NASTY NANNIES IN DOCTOR WHO
Authors: Harmes Marcus
Published: November 2024

Beginning with the young single mother Nancy in ‘The Empty Child’ (2005)

Steven Moffat’s

Doctor Who

stories have often included strongly written female characters. His creation of female roles reached new levels of variety and controversy with his transformation of the Master into the Mistress, or Missy for short.
The Mediation of Migration – LSE Symposium, 18 November 2016
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH EVENTBRITE

November 18th 2016 Silverstone Room – TW3.7.01.A London School of Economics and Political Science One million migrants crossed the borders of Europe in 2015, in, what came to be known as the “refugee crisis”. This Symposium focuses on the mediation of this “crisis” at a trans-European and local level, in order to address the questions:  * How is “the refugee crisis” communicated in
Call for Chapters: The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style. Deadline: Sept 1, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

As editors of a collection titled

The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style

, we warmly invite articles that focus on all aspects of American culture, such as literature, television, cinema, music, painting, material culture, photography, theater, and all other that are influenced by the crossovers of highbrow with lowbrow.
How do we solve problems in work?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

What do we do when we are confronted with a problem?  Problem solving begins when we encounter a new experience. We do this out of necessity, but also because we enjoy it. We also need to be able to solve problems fast. We develop our ability and willingness (including on a political level) to identify, analyze, and solve problems. We accept that tackling problems is painful.
CfP: “The City: Images and Imaginaries” conference @University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. March 12-15, 2018. Deadline: Nov 30, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

We are delighted to announce that from March 12th to 15th , 2018, the School of Humanities, Communication and Library Science, University Carlos III de Madrid, will host the International Interdisciplinary Conference: THE CITY: IMAGES AND IMAGINARIES. This conference aims to offer a diverse view of representations of cities, including the artistic dimensions, as well as the technical, historical, or urban perspectives.
CfP: “The Handmaid’s Tale: Gender, Genre Adaptation” Sept 30, 2017 @University of Worcester. Deadline: July 15, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The Handmaid’s Tale: Gender, Genre Adaptation – a one-day symposium Saturday, 30 September, 2017 Film Studies @ Worcester Jenny Lind Building, University of Worcester Despite being written over 35 years ago, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), set in a totalitarian New England where fertile women are kept prisoner in reproductive servitude, has been making […]
CfP: The CW Network. Deadline: Aug 1, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The CW network offers a compelling coming of age story reflective of its changing demographic. In 2006, the network was launched as a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros. Entertainment and next generation to The WB and UPN (1995-2006), which followed Fox’s success and shift in television broadcasting away from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and toward young viewers.
The idea of a university (updated)
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

So I’m reading John Henry Newman’s

The Idea of a University,

which begins by asserting that the university “is a place of teaching universal knowledge”. I’m fascinated by the historical context (Catholicism in Protestant England), by the strength and substance of the ideas, and by the narrative style of carefully-constructed arguments.
UK TV FOR SALE
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Huge changes took place in British TV over the summer, and very few people seem to have noticed. American majors embarked on a spending spree that is reshaping both production and broadcasting. Viacom has bought Channel 5 from Richard Desmond’s porn-to-Daily-Express Northern & Shell group for £450 million.
BIG BROTHER’S IDENTITY CRISIS
Authors: Lovelock Michael
Published: November 2024

Watching the seventeenth series of

Big Brother

UK, broadcast on Channel Five this summer, and perusing the headlines about the show which proliferate on news sites like

Metro

, the

Mirror

and

Mail Online

, one could be forgiven for forgetting that in 2010,

Big Brother

UK, the reality television phenomenon of the twenty-first century, was pronounced dead.
EFEKTIVITAS PENERAPAN INTERAKTIF E-BOOK MATA PELAJARAN PEMROGRAMAN DASAR PADA SISWA SMK
Authors: NFH Alifya , Suhardi Rahman Edi
Published: November 2024

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah: (1) menguji efektivitas penerapan bahan ajar interaktif E-book mata pelajaran pemrograman dasar dalam pembelajaran yang dilakukan oleh guru di SMK; (2) mengetahui faktor pendukung dan penghambat penerapan bahan ajar interaktif E-book mata pelajaran pemrograman dasar dalam pembelajaran yang dilakukan oleh guru di SMK. Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas X TKJ tahun ajaran 2019/2020. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah: (1) Efektivitas penerapan bahan ajar interaktif E-book dilihat berdasarkan rerata persentase tanggapan peserta didik terhadap penggunaan bahan ajar interaktif E-book adalah sebesar 88.70% dengan kriteria sangat baik. Selanjutnya sebesar 92% peserta didik memperoleh ketuntasan tes hasil belajar; (2) Faktor pendukung dalam penerapan bahan ajar interaktif E-book diperoleh dari hasil observasi selama proses pembelajaran, yakni: (a) ketersediaan LCD Projector di ruang kelas; (b) peserta didik memiliki laptop pribadi; (c) keterampilan dasar peserta didik dalam menjalankan komputer; (3)Faktor penghambat dalam penerapan bahan ajar interaktif E-book adalah ukuran laptop yang relatif besar (10-14 inci) dan berat membuat E-book tidak portable untuk dibawa kemana mana, selanjutnya keterbatasan materi, dimana E-book ini hanya membahas kompetensi dasar struktur kontrol perulangan.
Usability evaluation of Nigerian banks mobile applications
Authors:   Department of Information Technology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, Ajibade Oyekunle Rafiat , Ahuoiza Ibrahim Latifat ,   Department of Information Technology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, Ibrahim Asiya ,   Department of Information Technology, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Published: November 2024

The usability assessment of mobile banking applications is very important given the escalating reliance on electronic and mobile banking services, but there is an absence of a tailored evaluation framework for Nigerian mobile banking applications that promotes user-centric solutions that address specific challenges confronted by users in this region. This is why this study was carried out to evaluate the usability of mobile banking applications in Nigeria by examining usability metrics through a survey research design employing a quantitative approach. The study's population includes individuals in Nigeria who regularly use commercial mobile banking applications. Purposive sampling was used to select the top ten mobile banking applications based on market prominence, user ratings, and overall popularity and convenience sampling was then used to recruit 20 participants that use each application, totalling 200 participants. Data collection was conducted using a structured questionnaire focusing on usability metrics such as error prevention & recovery, customization capabilities, design features, security and privacy, ease of navigation, information clarity, accuracy and reliability, and accessibility and inclusivity. Descriptive statistics, including frequencies and percentages, were used to analyze the data. Findings reveal significant variability in usability across different applications, with some excelling in areas like error prevention, customization, and security, while others need improvement in design consistency, accessibility, and overall user satisfaction. Key recommendations for developers and stakeholders include enhancing user interface design, improving security and privacy features, expanding customization options, focusing on accessibility and inclusivity, and providing robust support and error recovery mechanisms.
Psycho-social variable and cybercrime among library users in tertiary institutions in Cross River State Nigeria
Authors:   Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calabar, Calabar., Ungwugwaye Igligli Joseph , Echija Ethothi Benedicta ,   Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar, Calabar Nigeria, Ibor Ubi Samuel ,   Department of Library and Information Technology, Federal Polytechnic Ugep,  Cross River State, Nkatv Undie Felicia ,   Department of Library and Information Science, University of Cross River State., Owere Ekpang Patience ,   Department of Library and Information Technology, Kampala International University, Uganda
Published: November 2024

Investigating cybercrime and the psycho-social variable among library users in tertiary institutions in Cross River State, Nigeria, was the aim of this study. Three objectives and research questions were developed to help the study accomplish its goal. The variables under investigation guided the completion of the literature review. For this study, a survey research design was chosen. For the study, a sample of five hundred and five (505) respondents was chosen. Purposive sampling was used in the selection process to guarantee that each faculty sample method was equally represented. This came to eight (8) tertiary institutions in all. 10% of the library's patrons were then chosen by accidently sampling them. A statistical analysis method called Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis was used to evaluate the research ideas. Because of the characteristics of the variables included in the investigation, this statistical method was employed. Every hypothesis was tested using relative degrees of freedom and at the .05 level of significance. The analysis's conclusions showed a relationship between cybercrimes in tertiary institutions and self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and gender. Based on the findings of the study it was recommended among others that management should adopt and Implement Psychological Support Services, integrated emotional intelligence training services, and promote gender-sensitive cyber security initiatives in the library.
Plantas alimentícias não convencionais: segurança alimentar e nutricional para o desenvolvimento sustentável no Semiárido brasileiro?
Authors: Aurino Ana Nery Batista , Nunes Ernane Nogueira , Lucena Camilla Marques de , Rego Elizanilda Ramalho do , Batista Fabiane Rabelo da Costa , Santos Suellen da Silva , Lucena Reinaldo Farias Paiva de
Published: November 2024

O estudo realizou uma revisão sobre o uso de Plantas Alimentícias Não Convencionais (PANC), correlacionando-as com importantes conceitos da atualidade como a promoção da saúde, segurança, soberania alimentar e nutricional, a conservação de espécies e com os Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS), enaltecendo a relevância da temática para o Brasil. As PANC representam uma importante ferramenta para garantir a segurança alimentar e nutricional da população, pois seu valor nutricional é igual ou superior ao de alimentos convencionais. Além disso, a temática das PANC está intrinsecamente ligada aos ODS, uma vez que a alimentação e a conservação da biodiversidade são questões indissociáveis da redução da pobreza, da promoção da saúde, da igualdade de gênero e do desenvolvimento sustentável. É fundamental que a população amplie seu conhecimento sobre a biodiversidade alimentar e aproveite ao máximo o potencial das PANC, contribuindo para uma alimentação mais saudável, sustentável e culturalmente rica.
Going Beyond High School Credit Recovery in Summer Learning: From Remediation to Acceleration
Authors: Almeida Rhea , Berger Natasha , McAlister Sara , Wilkerson Elise , Wilson Imani
Published: November 2024

First in Summer "Snapshot” series shows how school districts are reimagining the way students make up credits in summer
Detection of BRCA-1 gene mutations in epithelial ovarian tumors at tertiary care hospital Karachi
Authors: Gul Shaista , Muhammad Ishaque Syed , Muhmmad Khosa Shafi , Zafar Shahid , Ali Khan Ahmad , Jan Panezai Abdullah
Published: November 2024

ABSTRACT
Background: Ovarian cancer is the most common and lethal gynecological malignancy. Ovarian malignancy is the 3rd most common cancer in Pakistan. More than 90% ovarian cancers are of epithelial cell origin, about 24-40% such cancers have hereditary or sporadic mutation in the BRCA-1 or BRCA-2 genes. The present study was designed to detect BRCA-1 gene mutations in different histological sub-types of epithelial origin of benign, borderline and malignant ovarian tumors.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was based on the analysis of BRCA-1 gene mutations in the epithelial origin of benign, borderline and malignant ovarian tumors received at the department of Pathology, Basic Medical Sciences Institute, Jinnah Post graduate Medical Centre, from 01-01-2011 to 31-12-2015. A total of 80 diagnosed cases were selected and analyzed for PCR.
Results: BRCA-1 gene mutations were detected in 22 (27.5%) cases out of the 80 randomly selected epithelial ovarian tumors. Serous cyst adenocarcinoma was the commonest including 63% cases. BRCA-1 gene mutations were also positive in other epithelial ovarian tumors, including Mucinous cyst adenocarcinoma (13.6%), Endometroid adenocarcinoma and Mixed Mullerian tumor (4.5% each). In addition mutations were also detected in borderline tumors including Mucinous borderline tumor (9.09%) and Seromucinous borderline tumors (4.5%).The observations and results of the study were elaborated with the assistance of tables, figures and photomicrographs.                                   
Conclusion: BRCA-1 gene mutations manifestations were identified in a large number of serous malignant ovarian tumor cases. Small percentages of borderline and malignant mucinous tumors, endometroid adenocarcinoma and mixed mullerian tumor were also positive for BRCA-1 gene mutations.
Mobility in the lifestyle of today’s youth
Authors: Menshikov Vladimir
Published: November 2024

The researchers of the Institute of Social Investigations at Daugavpils University (Lat­via) carried out a project “Mobile Lifestyle of Today’s Youth” based on a new paradigm of mobilities (John Urry). The aim of the investigation was a study of the characteristics of mobile lifestyle perceived by the youth of Daugavpils. The most significant factors that contribute to the realization of mobile lifestyle are defined, the disproportions in the youth’s empowerment of its network capital are identified, the ways for the youth to optimize its mobility to increase competitiveness in the labour markets are outlined.
FACTORS INFLUENCING CHINESE TOURISTS’ PURCHASE DECISION ON THAI AMULETS IN THAILAND
Authors: Su Guiyu , Pimchangthong Daranee , Run Pharatt
Published: November 2024

With the continuous development of tourism and the pursuit of spiritual blessings, Thai amulets have become a unique cultural product that attracts Chinese tourists. However, to date, there has been a lack of in-depth research on the decision-making factors of PRC tourists purchasing amulets in Thailand and the association between these factors. This study aimed to 1) conduct a comprehensive investigation to explore how Chinese tourists' characteristics affect their choices to buy Thai amulets in Thailand, and 2) explore how product characteristics of Thai amulets influence Chinese tourists' decisions to purchase Thai amulets in Thailand. Data was collected through a questionnaire administered to a sample of 400 Chinese tourists who visited Thailand and purchased Thai amulets. The statistics used to analyze the data were descriptive statistics, including frequencies, means, and standard deviations, and inferential statistics, including the independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, LSD, and multiple linear regression. The results found that differences in terms of gender, monthly income level, and religious affiliation affect purchase decisions differently. Product characteristics, including price, reputation, and advertising, have influenced the purchasing decisions of Chinese tourists in Thailand. This study provides strong support for understanding and promoting the purchasing decision-making process of Chinese tourists towards Thai amulets. The marketing strategies and recommendations to develop a more attractive program for Chinese tourists in Thailand are provided in detail.
Pengaruh Gaya Hidup Terhadap Pengelolaan Keuangan Pribadi Generasi Z
Authors: M. Masrukhan  , Fitria Nur Afifa  , Salsa Nabila  , Fatimah Az-Zahra Nurdianto
Published: November 2024

Quantitative methods were used in this study to determine how lifestyle impacts personal financial management. Lifestyle includes the decisions a person makes about how they live their daily lives, especially about how they spend their time and money. The process of effectively managing a person or family's income, expenses, and assets to achieve short-term and long-term financial goals is known as personal financial management. Planning, budgeting, investing, investing, and debt management are all part of this. This questionnaire was circulated and completed by 66 people. Validity, reliability, and classical assumption tests have been used to collect data. Simple linear regression analysis was also used in this research methodology. The results of this study show that lifestyle has a positive impact on personal financial management.
CONFLICT-FREE “APPROACHING”: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
IN SOCIOCULTURAL PROJECTS FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN
Authors: Bystrova Tatiana , Tokarskaya Ludmila
Published: November 2024

Preserving the mental health of schoolchildren, including the level
of their sensory well-being, as well as the goal of cultural institutions seeking
to involve visitors in their practices, require evidence-based solutions. We have
identifi ed and tested some steps to develop digital products adapted to the
needs of urban schoolchildren of different categories already at the pre-project
stage. Purpose of the study. Based on the parameters of sensory well-being
during contact with interfaces, to clarify the algorithm for the adaptive design
of digital products addressed to schoolchildren of different categories, who are
included in sociocultural processes (game practices, immersive practices in the
museum, involvement, joint creativity). Research methods. At the fi rst stage,
J. Brook’s SUS method helps to identify interfaces of existing digital sociocultural
products that are diffi cult to perceive. Further, the survey (the author’s
methodology) shows ways to adjust these elements taking into account the
reactions of the target audience, recommendations from specialists in sensory
well-being, as well as their adaptation to digital and paper versions of the products.
Post-project analysis helps test the resulting options to ensure they can
be scaled up. Sample.  children of different ages with mild degrees of mental
disorders and ASD and  normotypical children from schools in Yekaterinburg.
Conclusion. The authors show the use of the results of survey to help determine
the parameters of games and applications on sociocultural topics that
take into account indicators of sensory well-being as much as possible. The
article presents a number of original products made on the adaptive approach
basis. Specifi c attention is paid to the development of several trajectories of
such products, among which, there must be a “paper” version in addition to
the digital ones. It is concluded that design algorithms for school-age children
with disabilities and normotypical children are highly similar.