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Tablet Effervescent dari Ekstrak Daun Alpukat (Persea americana Mill.) sebagai Peluruh Batu Ginjal pada Tikus Jantan Galur Wistar (Ratus norvegicus)
Authors: Budiman Arif , Wardani Imas Amalia , Wiharya Dede , Anggrayta Yunanda Sri
Published: February 2020

Daun alpukat (Persea americana Mill.) merupakan salah satu tanaman obat yang termasuk ke dalam famili Lauraceae. Daun alpukat secara empiris telah dijadikan sebagai obat herbal yang dimanfaatkan sebagai pengobatan batu ginjal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas untuk meluruhkan kalsium pada batu ginjal. Pembuatan tablet effervescent dari ekstrak daun alpukat dilakukan dengan variasi kadar ekstrak pada setiap formula. Variasi kadar ekstrak daun alpukat yang digunakan pada  formula 1, 2, dan 3 berturut-turut adalah 35, 65, dan 100 mg. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perbedaan kadar ekstrak daun alpukat mempengaruhi efektifitas tablet effervescent. Formula 3 menunjukkan hasil yang lebih signifikan sebagai peluruh batu ginjal dibandingkan formula lainnya.
Il falsario Sententiosus
Authors: Slavich Carlo
Published: February 2020

An obviously fake inscription from a recently published collection helps unmasking another inscribed monument, whose genuineness was never doubted so far: a fortunate coincidence allows us to prove beyond reasonable doubt that both were indeed crafted by one and the same hand as part of a rather unique series of forgeries, perhaps drawing from a modern collection of Latin sententiae, captioning macabre imagery. Although both items were on the market in Rome in the early 1900s amidst a plethora of genuine inscriptions from recent excavations, it cannot be safely ruled out that they had been circulating for a long time before that.
Province Phenomenon in the Humanities: Analytical Survey
Authors: Parshina Ol'ga Dmitrievna
Published: February 2020

The article provides a multi-aspect analysis of the province phenomenon in the modern humanities knowledge. Formation of the “province” concept in the Russian linguistic worldview is traced. Axiological and semantic components of the “province” concept in the Russian and European languages are identified, their common features are revealed. “Province” semantics is described through semiotic two-member and four-member oppositions and their symbolic components. Linguistic and literary critical approaches to analysing the province phenomenon are described. The conclusion is made that the humanities examine the Russian province in natural-geographical, spiritual-ethical and figurative-symbolic aspects.
PEMIKIRAN POLITIK SYEKH MUHAMMAD ARSYAD AL-BANJARI: Dan Relevansinya bagi Pembinaan Politik Hukum
Authors: Al-Audah Abd Rochim
Published: February 2020

Penelitian ini diawali dari sebuah fakta sejarah bahwa Kitab Sabil Al-Muhtadin, karya Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari ditulis atas permintaan Sultan Tahmidullah dalam rangka proses Islamisasi dan penerapan syariat Islam. Berangkat dari asumsi bahwa relasi antara agama dan kekuasaan itu saling membutuhkan dan substansinya akan selalu relevan untuk setiap masa meskipun penguasa telah berganti, penelitian ini bertujuan: pertama, untuk mengungkap substansi pemikiran politik hukum Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari; kedua,  kontribusinya bagi proses Islamisasi di Kesultanan Banjar; dan ketiga, relevansinya bagi pembinaan politik hukum. Kontribusi pemikiran politik Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari bagi Kesultanan Banjar dilakukan dengan cara mengkaji proses penyebaran Kitab Al-Muhtadin dan penerimaan masyarakat terhadap karya Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari. Juga melihat pada pengaruh Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari melalui kitab dan pemikirannya  terhadap pembentukan struktur hukum. Penelitian menyimpulkan: pertama,  bahwa substansi pemikiran politik Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari adalah tauhid, keadilan, dan kemaslahatan yang meliputi pada taqnin, tathbiq, dan taghyir; kedua, pemikiran politik Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari memiliki konstribusi yang besar bagi Kesultanan Banjar yang ditandai dengan tersebarnya kitab tersebut, serta terbentuknya struktur hukum; ketiga, pemikiran politik hukum Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari relevan dengan pembinaan. Penelitian ini menemukan: pertama, bahwa pemikiran politik tumbuh dan berkembang serta diterima oleh masyarakat luas apabila mendapat dukungan penuh dari kekuasaan pada masa itu; kedua, bahwa produk hukum yang dibangun oleh Syaikh Arshad Al-Banjari melalui kitabnya, merupakan produk politik hukum Sultan Tahmidullah Banjar.
Ästhetik und Semiologie
Authors: Jäger Ludwig
Published: February 2020

For a long time, in the tradition of semiotics the sign was considered to be of inferior epistemological value, and even Baumgarten’s attempt to develop the conception of a semiotic aesthetics did not free the sign from its theoretical low status.
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Following Kant and his Kritik der ästhetischen Urteilskraft, especially Humboldt and Hegel ascribed to the sign a considerably higher theoretical value in their reflections about aesthetics. The sign no longer was considered to be a mere expression of a content that existed independently from it, but a constitutive role was given to the sign within the production of sense. The discourse of aesthetics, emerging by the end of the 18th century, therefore seems to contain a semiological subtext that grounds its aesthetic program on a theory of signs, whereas in the tradition of semiology, the skepticism towards the semiotic idea of the sign originated from the presuppositions of its conception of aesthetic represenation (Darstellung). Within a work of art, the content and its expression are combined by means of a semiological mediation as a result of which they are “so voneinander durchdrungen, daß das Äußere, Besondere ausschließlich als Darstellung des Inneren erscheint” (Hegel). This conception of representation was later called ‘symbolische Prägnanz’ by Cassirer. The emancipation of signs from their inferior theoretical value was predominantly based on the idea of an aisthetische form of expression such as Hegel had established within his philosophy of Kunstversinnlichung.
Dilemmas of Ethnographic Research: The Practitioner/Academic’s Quandary
Authors: Batabyal Somnath
Published: February 2020

This paper examines the ethics of ethnographic research for a practitioner turned academic. It looks at the use of contacts in gaining entry into newsrooms, the ethics of observation and participation, the use of the experiential to draw out journalists in interviews, the employment of insider knowledge to attain proximity to news producers and the resultant ethics.
Dressing up as Vampires: Virtual vamps - negotiating female identity in cyberspace
Authors: Mellins Maria
Published: February 2020

Dressing up as Vampires is an ethnographic audience study investigating issues of identity and the masquerade within the active female vampire fan community. Drawing on previous theoretical material by Milly Williamson (2005), Paul Hodkinson (2002) and wider methodological approaches such as Lori Kendall (1999) this paper will focus on the negotiation of female fans’ identities across various online networks such as MySpace, LiveJournal, VEIN (Vampire Exchange Information Network) and Yahoo newsgroups. Its objective is to explore how identity is constructed in the virtual community via imagery (avatars & graphics), photography and text and to what extent this online persona encroaches and impacts upon fans’ ‘real lives’.

Through analysis of these online networks I will suggest that female vampire fans use the Internet as an extension of their identity, and although they may construct an alternate persona within cyberspace, this usually serves as a reinforcement of their idealised ‘real life’ identity.
"Little Englander" : Fawlty Towers - A textual analysis of nationalistic ideology
Authors: Bartley Matthew
Published: February 2020

It is often agreed upon that television texts have provided an image of “Britishness” that constructs an image of the nation state. This in turn leads to the representation of community in British sitcoms where one example is Fawlty Towers. Here we have a small community as a mini-construction of Britain complete with its ‘strengths’ and ‘traditions’. This paper then, will elaborate through the analysis of narrative developments, thematic concerns and visual and linguistic analysis of the characters, just how Fawlty Towers showed this notion put into practice.

Considering what is considered the essence of ‘Britain’ in a textual example of a sitcom, it investigates how this ideological notion is applied within the textual narrative. This includes which characters are deemed worthy of inclusion in this mini-Britain, and which are not, and which ideological beliefs inform the notion of ‘Britishness’.
Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns
Authors: Dekavalla Marina
Published: February 2020

This paper presents preliminary findings from a wider study into the form that political debate takes in Scottish and English/UK newspapers’ reporting of the 2001 and the 2005 UK Elections. The research project aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the role played by the Scottish press in political deliberation after devolution and compares its contribution to the electoral debate with that of newspapers bought in England. This paper explores the results of a content analysis of articles from daily Scottish and UK newspapers during the four weeks of each election campaign period. This reveals that, despite some differences, the overall picture of the coverage of major election issues is consistent. A selection of the coverage of taxation, the most mentioned reserved issue in the 2001 campaign, is subsequently analysed using critical discourse analysis, and the results suggest more distinction between the two sets of newspapers.
From Below to Above the Title: the Construction of the Star Image of Barbara Stanwyck, 1930-1935
Authors: Berkvens Linda
Published: February 2020

This paper examines the construction of the star image of Barbara Stanwyck from her first role at Columbia studio in 1930, until 1935, when she became a freelance actress. I will focus especially on Stanwyck’s status as a female performer and the possible models of womanhood she portrayed. The work she did, and the accompanying publicity, raises questions about female representation, which I seek to address through this research. I will mainly use archival resources such as fan magazines, press books, and studio publicity material, contemporary to the period to examine how Stanwyck’s star image was constructed in this period. Traditionally, scholars look at film stars as part of the filmic text. My research method includes the use of other material (publicity, studio documents, etc.) contemporary to Stanwyck, and demonstrates my intention to look at stars and their images from a different

angle. This paper challenges the traditional way of looking at stars as fetishised objects, instead moving toward a more practical examination of the construction of the female star

image.
UTV, THE NETWORK RELATIONSHIP AND REPORTING THE ‘TROUBLES’
Authors: Lafferty Orla
Published: February 2020

UTV, formerly known as Ulster Television, has been the franchised commercial broadcaster in Northern Ireland since Hallowe’en night, 1959. While detailed research has been carried out on the history of the BBC in Northern Ireland (Cathcart, 1984, McLoone, 1996) there has been neglect in

the study of the political, social and cultural role of UTV in this period. Johnson and Turnock (2005) attempted to address the lack of attention given to the regional structure of commercial

broadcasting in the UK yet fail to even mention UTV in their index. There has however been some slight discussion of UTV within the wider context of broadcasting in Northern Ireland (Butler 1995, Curtis, 1998 and Millar 1994) and Bernard Sendall and Jeremy Potter’s (1983, 1990) volumes Independent Television in Britain provide an invaluable source of historical information. More recently a book released for the channel’s 50th anniversary gives some insight into the channel's working processes but remains mainly anecdotal. These studies have not acknowledged the importance of regional broadcasters, particularly in relation to Northern Ireland and have failed to sustain their research. This paper aims to address this issue through three assertions. Studies on

broadcasting in Northern Ireland have tended to focus on the lack of political debate or exploration of the situation in the region as well as productions which caused controversy when aired. This has led to a large neglect of aired programme material that can be analyzed and critiqued to add a

different perspective to the already vast debate on the media and Northern Ireland. Secondly, the most important relationship for UTV as an independent broadcaster was its relationship with the Independent Television Authority and network. Finally, in coping with the ‘Troubles’, UTV

adopted the approach of creating a dialogue with the community and ensuring that their focus remained on local people and their stories.
Interrogating Masculinity through the Child Figure in Bombay Cinema
Authors: Pandey Siddarth
Published: February 2020

Patriarchy is most often understood in relation to the position of women in society. I propose to interrogate patriarchy in relation to children – particularly the male child – as depicted in two major works of Bombay Cinema. The number and scope of critical engagements with the onscreen portrayal of the child figure are restricted, and in the light of this lack I interrogate the portrayal of the male child figure, with particular emphasis on the constructs of masculinity that always implicate the child. The paper will undertake a detailed analysis of these masculine constructs, which are significantly shaped and interrogated in the areas of family and educational institutions for the male child (See Kakar 1981, and Haywood and Mac an Ghaill, 2003).

For case studies, I analyze two highly acclaimed contemporary movies of Bombay Cinema: "Taare Zameen Par" (by Aamir Khan, 2007) and "Udaan" (by Vikramditya Motwane, 2010). Both movies critique the many notions associated with manhood and masculinity by situating their arguments within the contexts of family and educational institutions. What makes these critiques even more significant is the resistance offered by the child figure to conventional masculine authority through the agency of imagination. With such agency, not only does the male child debunk the traditionally sanctioned interests and attitudes of men, but also brings about a reconfiguration of those behavioral co-ordinates that have till now dominated the domains of family and education. Using ideas from sociological, film, gender and psychoanalytical theories, I highlight the role of children in subverting the traditionally oppressive ideas associated with Indian masculinity.
Transmedia Muppets: The Possibilities of Performer Narratives
Authors: Calbreath-Frasieur Aaron
Published: February 2020

This article examines how the Muppets franchise engages with transmedia narratives, their stories moving fluidly between television, film, comics, the internet and more.  Rather than highlight the complexity Henry Jenkins (2006), Elizabeth Evans (2011) and others associate with transmedia, an examination of the Muppets offers insight into a mechanism that allows for simpler coherent connection between texts.  The Muppets’ ongoing performer narrative challenges the prevailing understanding of transmedia storytelling.  As performative characters (singers, actors, performance artists), any text concerned with Muppets, even those in which they act as other characters, becomes part of an overarching Muppet narrative.  A high degree of self-reflexivity further supports transmediality, as most Muppet texts contain references to that text as a performance by the Muppets. Thus the comic Muppet Robin Hood and the film Muppet Treasure Island continue the story of the Muppets as further insight is gained into the characters' personalities and ongoing performance history. Examining different iterations of the Muppets franchise illuminates the ramifications of performer narratives for transmedia storytelling.
Gay Stuff and Guy Stuff: The Construction of Sexual Identities in Sidebars on Reddit
Authors: En Boka , En Michael , Griffiths David
Published: February 2020

The online community reddit seems to offer countless opportunities for the expression ofsexual identities in specific groups called ‘subreddits’ – from those who playtheir part in the ‘maledom sexology’ to others who ‘celebrate’ ‘femboys’ or‘girls with glasses’ to ‘gay bros’ doing ‘guy stuff’, and ‘actual lesbians’escaping the ‘male gaze’. The short descriptions that sidebars in these subredditsoffer may appear to serve simply as a welcome to those whose identities theyclaim to represent. However, it is these very representations that co-producethe identities of those who could be included in them. Based on analyses ofsidebars displayed in subreddits, we explore which aspects of identity are seen– and thereby made – to be markers of personal and collective sexualidentities. By taking a closer look at what is said – and what is not – aboutboth those who create content and those who are seen as this content, we seekto elucidate how sidebars in subreddits serve to include and/or excludespecific behaviours in/from the normative visions of socially negotiated sexualidentities. Based on these identity re-presentations and their potentialeffects on the experience of reddit users, we examine how the unlimitedopportunities for the construction of one’s (sexual) identity that the Internetappears to offer turn out to be restricted by hegemonic as well as othernormative prescriptions of seemingly open and welcoming communities.
Trigger Warnings: Sex, Lies and Social Justice Utopia on Tumblr
Authors: Bell Lenore
Published: February 2020

Inthe spring of 2012, a major scandal rocked the queer social justice communityon Tumblr. One of its most popular bloggers and activists, a 22 -year-oldtransman named Ira Gray suddenly faced by a deluge of sexual assaultallegations from multiple people via Tumblr. Despite the queer social justicecommunity's pride in being open and accepting, many of its practices are rigid,pedantic and counterproductive. The rise and fall of Ira Gray's celebritystatus has highlighted how truly divided this online community can be.Sexuality and gender identity were not the only lines of contention; mentalillness, race, class and trauma played dominant roles in the discussion. Thevery fact that the accusers had stayed silent for so long is telling. Throughanalysing the tumblr posts of the accused, accusers and othercommentators/spectators, one can see how mental illness, privilege andsexuality are negotiated in this small yet global community. For many queersocial justice tumblr bloggers, graphically detailed posts about theirexperience of sexual trauma lie side-by-side with explicit nude phone cameraportraits of the blogger tagged as "self-care." I argue that theethos created by this corner of the internet does not provide a queer oasis forthe user away from an overbearing, hetero-normative world. Instead, itintroduces a complicated set of rules and mores that presents newcomplications. The combination of naked exposure and online depersonalisationcan prove toxic.
Nostalgia, Nationalism and Notability: The Success of Skyfall
Authors: Kelley Sarah
Published: February 2020

2012 saw the release of what has since been branded ‘the most successful British film to date’: Skyfall broke box office records by making £94 million in the first 40 days of its release. The positive reception from film critics would have undoubtedly gone some way to attracting patrons to its cinema run, however, the overwhelming commercial success of Skyfall indicates that there were more hooks at play here, amongst the promotional campaign for the film. This article argues that strong themes of nostalgia, nationalism and notability (of the cast and crew), present throughout the marketing and preview literature for Skyfall, played a significant part in generating audience interest for the film. Through textual analysis of a variety of artefacts circulated in anticipation of the film's release, this article aims to explore how these three themes engaged with the audience and helped to ensure a successful box office run for Skyfall.
The Irish in American Cinema 1910 – 1930: Recurring Narratives and Characters
Authors: Scott Thomas James
Published: February 2020

This paper will consider cinematic depictions of the Irish between 1910 and 1930. American cinema during these years, like those that preceded them, contained a range of stereotypical Irish characters. However, as cinema began to move away from short sketches and produce longer films, more complex plots and refined Irish characters began to appear. The onscreen Irish became vehicles for recurring themes, the majority of which had uplifting narratives. This paper will discuss common character types, such as the Irish cop and domestic servant, and subjects such as the migration narrative, the social reform narrative and the inter-ethnic comedy. It will also briefly consider how Irish depictions in the 1910s and 1920s compared to earlier representations. While the emphasis will be on films viewed at archives, including the University of California, Los Angeles Film and Television Archive, or acquired through private and commercial sellers, the paper will also reflect on some films that are currently considered lost.
The Music of Tomorrow, Yesterday! Music, Time and Technology in BioShock Infinite
Authors: Ivănescu Andra
Published: February 2020

Filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino have taken full advantage of the disconcerting effect that pop music can have on an audience. Recently, video games have followed their example, with franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Fallout and BioShock using appropriated music as an almost integral part of their stories and player experiences. BioShock Infinite takes it one step further, weaving popular music of the past and pop music of the present into a compelling tale of time travel, multiverses, and free will. The third installment in the BioShock series has as its setting the floating city of Columbia. Decidedly steampunk, this vision of 1912 makes considerable use of popular music of the past alongside a small number of anachronistic covers of more modern pop music (largely from the 1980s) at crucial moments in the narrative. Music becomes an integral part of Columbia but also an integral part of the player experience. Although the soundscape matches the rest of the environment, the anachronistic covers seem to be directed at the player, the only one who would recognise them as out of place. The player is the time traveller here, even more so than the character they are playing, making BioShock Infinite one of the most literal representations of time travel and the tourist experience which video games can represent.
All About Oscar: An Introduction
Authors: Heffernan Liam
Published: February 2020

This article introduces the Special Issue 'All About Oscar; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Academy Awards'
No Oscar for the Oscar? Behind Hollywood’s Walk of Greed
Authors: Castaldo Lunden Elizabeth
Published: February 2020

In 1966 the popular interest in the Academy Awards propelled Paramount Pictures to produce The Oscar (Embassy Pictures-Paramount Pictures, 1966), a film based on the homonymous novel by Richard Sale. The Oscar tells the story of an unscrupulous actor willing to do anything in his power to obtain the golden statuette, regardless of whom he has to take down along the way. Building up on fantasies of social mobility, we see the protagonist (Frankie) display his vanity, arrogance and greed to create a less than likeable character whose only hope to put his career back on track lies in obtaining the precious statuette. The movie intends to be a sneak peek behind the scenes of the biggest award ceremony, but also behind the lifestyle of the Hollywood elites, their glory and their misery as part of the Hollywood disposal machinery. Despite not being financed or officially supported by the Academy, the film intertwines elements of fiction and reality by using real footage of the event, and featuring several contemporary representatives of the movie industry such as Edith Head, Hedda Hopper, Frank and Nancy Sinatra, playing cameo roles, adding up to the inter-textual capacities of the story. Head’s participation was particularly exploited for the promotion of the film, taking advantage of her position at Paramount, her status as a multiple winner, and her role as a fashion consultant for the Academy Awards. This paper is an analytical account of the film’s production process. Through a close look to its publicity, it will unravel how the studios relied on the awards, and all possible inter-textual capacities to promote the film, despite the Academy’s distancing from the project.
Introducing Interactive Documentary in the Context of Critical Media Education
Authors: Mikelli Danai
Published: February 2020

This paper provides an overview of my doctoral research project, concerning the educational uses of interactive documentary. It also discusses the pedagogical possibilities and limitations of Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker, which is a web application for the creation of interactive stories and consists the main tool for my fieldwork, involving young people in a series of workshops with the aim to produce their own interactive documentaries.   My research is theoretically anchored to the work of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and is aligned with the model of Critical Media Education. My research questions investigate the ways in which young people engage with interactive documentaries and the potential of such practices to raise critical consciousness, as defined by Freire (1970). Gifreu (2012) sees interactive documentary as a medium that offers ‘experiences that combine an entertainment with a didactic and/or educational dimension’, however its position within Critical Media Education has not been yet discussed.
Editorial: Introduction to Issue 8(3)
Authors: Dawes Simon
Published: February 2020

This is the editorial introduction to the first ever standard issue of Networking Knowledge – Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN.
A Comparative Approach to a Transatlantic Scandal: Le Monde and the New York Times’ Coverage of Roman Polanski’s 2009 Arrest
Authors: Lefkowitz Julia
Published: February 2020

Since internationally renowned film director Roman Polanski was arrested on six charges of misconduct directed at a minor in 1977, his legal case has drawn strong reactions in connection to a range of political, social, and moral issues. Responses to the scandal have differed sharply across French and American national lines and as such, prestige press coverage of the director’s 2009 arrest in France and the U.S. reflects differences in dominant national ideologies. This paper applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to analyze two specific sets of national ideologies connected to the case – those connected to that of the artist’s worth and those relevant to perceptions of sexual misconduct.
Human Rights in the UK Media: Representation and Reality, 19 September 2014
Authors: Rodgers Bethany
Published: February 2020

This is a report on the 'Human Rights in the UK Media: Representation and Reality' conference, 19 September 2014
New Materialist Spectatorship: The Moving-Image-Body, the Mockumentary and a New Image of Thought
Authors: Von Schantz Miriam
Published: February 2020

In this article I propose to rethink spectatorship as analytic category within cinema studies. Through an engagement with new materialist theory I shift the conversation from the locked positions of spectator and text towards an acknowledgement of the spectatorial event as a becoming increased or decreased in capacity to affect and be affected. By doing so I argue that what is effectuated in the event of spectating is in fact the production of a certain body, what I call a moving-image-body. This, I claim, develops in connection with different so-called spectatorial contracts, contracts that produce different agential conditions. An examination of some examples from the realm of the mockumentary, notably I’m Still Here (Affleck, 2010), leads me to discuss the core of the issue as one pertaining to the potential production of new realities, and my methodological proposal as a way towards mapping, not what the event of spectating means, but rather what it does.     KEYWORDS Spectatorship, Mockumentary, New Materialism, Genre theory, Audiovisual Event.
A Social Zombie: The Performative Nature of Contemporary (British) Zombie Cinema Fandom
Authors: Shakir Shanaz
Published: February 2020

It may be tempting to brush zombies aside as irrelevant, pop cultural ephemera but zombies have followed vampires out, through film and into wider culture, as icon and metaphor. Zombie popular culture, in addition to movies, books, and video games includes individuals routinely donning complex homemade costumes to march in zombie walks and/or engage in role-playing games like Humans vs. Zombies (See companies like Zed events  paintballing, or airsofting). There is even a mobile phone application circulating around college and university campuses, that purportedly helps new students get to know each other through role-playing a zombie-themed game of tag (other mobile phone applications include Zombie, Run! which is a combination of pedometer, GPS, scary soundtrack & zombie newscasts to make jogging fun). This is not to mention zombie related merchandise, (for example undead teds  and living dead dolls ) zombie music, (for example, Rob Zombie, White Zombie & Zombina and the Skeletones) and zombie fan-sites (all things zombie  and the Zombie Media Database ). The ways in which the cinematic spectatorship of the zombie has transformed, extending the spatial, experiential, interactive and phenomenological understanding of horror cinema within the digital context is an interesting one. In particular the relationship between bodies, spaces and technologies provides a philosophical interrogation of contemporary zombie experience. The performance-centric nature of this new zombie fandom can be seen as a new formulation of cinematic immersion and a new notion of interactive play.   In this article I examine the ethnographic case study of combat-ops-UK’s airsofting (paintball, without the paint) event - The Hungry Games - in which I performed zombification. I explore how such fan practices enhance the possibilities of cinematic fandom, interrogating the use of new media technologies in enhancing the pleasures (and terrors) that performing as a zombie or zombie-victim add to the cinematic experience.     KEY WORDS Horror, Film, Movies, Zombies, Zombie, Dead, Corpse, Living, Walking, British
Art of the Masses: From Kodak Brownie to Instagram
Authors: Tifentale Alise
Published: February 2020

In history of photography, new technological developments often provide a basis for new forms of imagery. These, in turn, are followed by new ways of theorizing the photographic image. For example, the cheapness and ease of use of the Kodak Brownie camera around 1900 gave rise to a massive movement of amateur photography, introduced the snapshot, and established a tradition of family photograph albums. Similarly, around 2010 we saw a rise in popularity of a new kind of image-making, image-sharing, and image-viewing device, which I propose to call the networked camera. This networked camera is a curious hybrid consisting of a smartphone with a built-in camera, wireless internet connection, and online image-sharing platforms and other social media. The availability of such devices have provided the technological basis for the formation of a new sub-genre of amateur photography – the selfie. The selfie continues the tradition of photographic self-portraiture yet at the same time presents us with a radically new type of image that demands equally new ways of analyzing it. Arguments put forward in this article are grounded in the research project Selfiecity (2013-2014) led by Lev Manovich and his research lab Software Studies Initiative.  This project was based on a dataset of 3,200 selfies posted to Instagram during one week from five global cities: New York, Moscow, Berlin, Sao Paulo, and Bangkok. Research methods included computational analysis (such as software-driven face recognition and use of custom-made data visualization tools) as well as formal and content analysis of each individual image. The article reveals some of the inherent complexities in understanding the selfie that the methods and findings of Selfiecity have helped to articulate. Seeking for valid methods of theorizing and contextualizing the selfie, the article attempts to combine insights from the perspectives of history of photography and art history, digital humanities, and software studies.
How to Become War Machine, Or … A Low Hacktivist (Un)Methodology in Pieces
Authors: Micali Alberto
Published: February 2020

In recent years, digital media and networks have been increasingly used to deploy dissent, opposition and resistance. More frequently, beyond traditional media as communicational tools, politically-oriented hacking subjectivities like ‘Anonymous’ employ media as weapons. However, a similar material deployment of media actions cannot be studied as a static, clearly definable ‘thing’ based on a representational order. These media actions, as well as their compositional relations, and the processes through which they are originated, are mostly ephemeral. Moreover, their deployment is always actualised in emergent and unstable contexts, within which the elements at stake – involving human and non-human components – are continuously in change, acting often beyond representation.   For this reason, I suggest a ‘low hacktivist methodology in pieces’ as a theoretical and practical exercise of assemblage for recognising and dealing with similar criticalities without imposing any impossible objectivity. Inspired by Wark’s ‘low theory’ and Guattarian ecosophy, such a ‘scattered’ (un)methodology is conceived as a ‘method assemblage’ capable of activating, rather than framing, the virtual ‘lines of flight’ of the (problematised) objects of research. Within such assemblages, in fact, subject and object are critically put into question, allowing new methodological strategies to deal with hacktivist media actions. Becoming ‘war machine’ is a temporary and fragmented attempt to ‘machinise’ with the forces populating hacktivist media assemblages. Here, an ontological reframing is needed: a confrontation with humanist paradigms that enables, as a critical circuit, the blossoming of theory from the same actions at stake.
Out of Time, or Anderson's National Temporality Revisited
Authors: Fjeld Torgeir
Published: February 2020

In his influential study Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson makes the claim that a novel conception of time is inaugurated by the introduction of nations: in contrast to the agrarian sense of time as cyclical and characterised by recurrence, the time of the nation is linear, homogeneous and empty. This notion of temporality is drawn from an earlier work by Walter Benjamin, who posits the linearity of traditional historiography with what he refers to as Messianic time, which is to be understood as a temporality where the moment of redemption is an ever-present potentiality. This essay sets out to delineate these three notions of time, and then goes on to discuss this third temporality in greater detail. First, it can be considered as a psychological time, or a mind time, that governed by traumatic encounters. This sense is shown as a strictly logical time in the work of Jacques Lacan. Second, it is a time of grace, in the sense that it is governed by necessity. Blaise Pascal and the Jansenists went to great length to refute the dominant notion of grace as sufficient. If there is an instance that determines events, then the means by which this instance governs can only be a necessary cause. Finally, the work of Benedict Anderson, and particularly a later article in his corpus, is reconsidered. Here, Anderson argues that the effects of globalization have to some extent rendered the temporal linearity of nationalism obsolete. It is therefore apt to consider what a time after nationalism will be like.
Openness and Opacity: An Interview with Clare Birchall
Authors: Broekhuizen Francien , Dawes Simon , Mikelli Danai , Wilde Poppy
Published: February 2020

In this follow-up interview to her keynote lecture at the MeCCSA-PGN 2015 Conference in Coventry, Clare Birchall discusses the “sharing economy”, “shareveillance” and the depoliticised subjectivity shaped by both open and opaque data. In order to re-imagine subjectivity in the face of shareveillance, Birchall calls on Édouard Glissant’s “right to opacity”. Ultimately, she explains how the concept of “sharing” can be politicised as a Commons, while the appropriation of opacity can become a political act. Her reassessment of the politics and values associated with openness and secrecy has implications for media scholars, particularly in terms of the need to think more critically about what kinds of publishing, networks and communications we want to develop.
Haunted Data, Post-Publication Peer-Review and Body Studies: An Interview with Lisa Blackman
Authors: Broekhuizen Francien , Dawes Simon , Mikelli Danai , Wilde Poppy
Published: February 2020

In this follow-up interview to her keynote lecture at the MeCCSA-PGN 2015 Conference in Coventry, Lisa Blackman discusses her work on affect and the body, as well as her new book Haunted Data, which explores the creative and critical challenges of computational cultures for theories of affect and mediation, and the potential of PPPR (post-publication peer-review) to provide a corpus of data that be re-moved (Rheinberger) and performed for its hauntological potential. Working with the concept of ‘haunted data’ to follow those traces, deferrals, absences, gaps and their movements within a particular corpus of data, and to re-move and keep alive what becomes submerged or hidden by particular regimes of visibility and remembering, Blackman illustrates how these movements are simultaneously technical, affective, historical, social, political and ethical.
Sharing Music: Social and Communal Aspects of Concert-Going
Authors: Dearn Lucy K. , Price Sarah M.
Published: February 2020

There is increasing interest in the academic community to better understand how concert audiences experience and value live classical music (Kolb 2000; Pitts 2005; Pitts et al. 2013; Radbourne, Glow & Johanson 2013). Numerous authors have recognised the social value of concert attendance, especially important for infrequent and young attendees (Brown 2002; ACE 2004), however it is often assumed that frequent attendees are motivated by purely aesthetic reasons. Similarly, it has been acknowledged that a listener’s experience of a concert is impacted by the presence of other audience members (Pitts 2005), yet there has been little research on the nature of the ‘community’ formed by a concert audience. In this paper, we wish to share our initial findings from our two collaborative doctoral awards in partnership with a regional chamber music promoter and a regional symphony orchestra. Through questionnaires, focus groups and interviews with audience members, we have sought to add additional understanding of concert attendance as a form of socialising, the short-term communal aspects of being ‘in-audience’, and the longer-term communities that surround cultural institutions, which can be seen to be displaying fan-like qualities. We aim to demonstrate that aesthetic pleasure is never the only motivating factor behind concert attendance, even for frequent attendees, as their selection of concerts and their listening experiences are always influenced by social interactions.
Talking Architecture: Exploring knowledge production through conversation in architectural creative practice research
Authors: Hatleskog Eli , Holder Anna , Hoete Anthony
Published: February 2020

This paper will discuss the field of Architectural Creative Practice Research (ACPR) with a view to understanding what architects actually do in practice and how what they do may be translated into creative practice research. It argues that, since it is an entrepreneurial profession, a lot of what architects do is talk, but that we do not usually think of talking as a design skill or research method.   However, talking about architecture is not just words. Not only can it can inform the production of built form, it can allow for nuanced and diverse views of practice to be shared and developed.   This paper will argue that talking about architecture (and not simply drawing it or writing about it) can help us to develop greater understandings of both the role of the architect in practice and the diverse opportunities that an architectural response to creative practice research may provide.
The D-Scope: Mining the Gap
Authors: Macgillivray Carol
Published: February 2020

In 2011, through combining practical research into animation and kinetics with digital projection mapping techniques, two students discovered a way of creating apparent motion without using a camera, film stock or a screen. Originally christened the Diasynchronoscope, in acknowledgement of the rich ancestry of pre-cinematic devices of wonder, the D-Scope technique involves positioning real objects in a blacked-out acoustic space and illuminating them precisely and sequentially; in effect animating through attention. After some years of refinement, the D-Scope immersive system now carries a registered trademark in the UK. It is an innovative medium, still in its infancy that draws on tropes from animation, film and Gestalt grouping principles to create animation freed from the screen. This paper argues that the technique reveals some new ideas about Apparent Motion when it is experienced and perceived on an environmental scale and not framed by a screen.
Describing the Archive: Preservation of Space, Time and Discontinuity in Photographic Sequences
Authors: Birkin Jane
Published: February 2020

The important relationship between the material arrangement of the archive and its accompanying catalogue is discussed and rationalised from a position inside the institution, from where I argue that an understanding of physical and contextual relationships between interconnecting units is critical to the spatiotemporal understanding of the archived image. The archive catalogue list is determined by the original order of the archive material and is subsequently central to the maintenance of order, functioning as ‘detector’ and ‘effector’ (Hood and Margetts 2007). There is a consideration of the comparatively new concept of original order from its development in the late 1880s publication known as the ‘Dutch Manual’. This manual for archivists emphasised recordkeeping without anticipating specific future use, a methodology that still persists today. The diachronic nature of archival ordering systems, dependant as it is on collection and use by original owners, is examined alongside important questions of narrativity and storytelling in photographic collections.
Media Policy, Media Reform and Media Power: An Interview with Des Freedman
Authors: Dawes Simon , Freedman Des
Published: February 2020

In this interview, Des Freedman discusses his work as an activist in the Media Reform movement, as a critic of media policy, and as a theorist of media power. Freedman explains his approach to media power as a material and relational property, distinguishing it from liberal pluralist, cultural studies and political-economic approaches. Discussing media power in the context of the recent BBC charter review process and the earlier Leveson Inquiry into the ethics of the British press, Freedman clarifies his proposal for a research focus on ‘non-decisionmaking’ in the policy field. Ultimately, he explains how guiding principles, programmes of action, and an understanding of the contradictory nature of media power are all necessary to bring about revolutionary reform.
Data-PSST Seminar Series Report
Authors: Blyth Abigail
Published: February 2020

This is a report into a series of multi-disciplinary seminars funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) over an 18 month period. Following the Snowden revelations in June 2013, assessing transparency, security, privacy, surveillance and trust have become integral themes, something the seminar series has sought to achieve by creating a series of key policy recommendations and further research questions.
“It seems like it has always been with us!”: Introducing media technology into children’s lives and family interpersonal relationships
Authors: Frolova Ksenia
Published: February 2020

Research on children and media often focuses on the risks surrounding children’s use of media technology and parents’ attempts to control, manage and limit it. However, while our knowledge of parental mediation styles and strategies is extensive, our understanding of what motivates parents and other members of the family to encourage children to use media technology is far from being comprehensive. Using qualitative data from an original empirical study of UK families and their media use, this article explores why parents and other relatives, such as grandparents, see value in children’s use of media, and how they encourage children to use media technology and maintain an ongoing relationship with it, introducing it into children’s lives and family interpersonal relationships from the early months of infancy.
Older Adults and Email Use: The challenges facing interface co-design
Authors: Almeida-Ferreira Sonia , Veloso Ana Isabel , Mealha Oscar
Published: February 2020

Faced with a rapidly ageing society and with constant technological progression, studies focused on fostering communicative action and reducing social isolation have become increasingly relevant. This paper presents a proposal of a graphical interface for an asynchronous communication service aimed at older adults, which was tested in different user contexts – both in Portugal and the United States of America. The main aims of this study are to determine to what extent the participation of older adults in the development of an email service can influence its usability and the design of a simplified interface. The usability results provide consistent clues as to how the technical development of an email service for older adults should proceed. We conclude that we should not design an email interface so as to be completely different from existing ones. Rather, we chose to improve its usability and simplify the entire process of using an email service.
Seniors, iTV and content about Social Services: Clarifying the relationship
Authors: Carlos Mariana , Silva Telmo
Published: February 2020

Over the years, television has been seen as a means of enriching human development. The technological evolution of this means of communication has led broadcasters to deliver more attractive and diversified contents. Hence, traditional broadcasting has evolved from the traditional passivity to the granting of a participatory role for viewers, creating a new paradigm – Interactive Television. Senior citizen viewers are great consumers of television and represent a considerable portion of people, who can take advantage of the interactivity potentialities. Most of the time, changes in social services take too long to reach senior citizens due to their technological, sensory or cognitive limitations, which tend to occur with the aging process. In this exploratory study, the research team aims to find principles for the development of content about social services, considering iTV potential and the limitations of senior citizens’ viewers. To accomplish this goal, the research team developed audiovisual content, videos regarding social services with different approaches on technological aspects. The evaluation of its effectiveness was by means of inquiry with direct questions on the material that was showcased.