bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
UN PROFIL DE TIP BIG FIVE AL PERSONALITĂȚII POLIȚIȘTILOR: analiză comparativă România-Moldova
Authors:   Universitatea Pedagogică de Stat „Ion Creangă”, Chișinău, OLARU LENUȚA , ANTON VICA ,   Universitatea Pedagogică de Stat „Ion Creangă”, Chișinău
Published: November 2024

Personality factors play a significant role in determining the choice of a profession. Military organizations select workers based on specific personality traits. The purpose of this study is to identify the personality traits prevalent among the sampled police officers and to examine the factors that may influence the development of these traits, such as age, gender, and nationality. The research sample consists of 100 police officers (50 Romanian and 50 Moldovan), who work in operative structures. Personality structure was assessed using the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire targeting five personality factors: impulsive sensation seeking, sociability, neuroticism-anxiety, aggression-hostility, and activity. The results show that police officers are mostly sociable and active people. Age is negatively associated with activity (p 0.01) and impulsive sensation seeking (p 0.05), and positively with anxiety (p 0.01). Also, there are statistically significant differences between Romanian and Moldovan police officers, regarding sociability (p 0.01). Regarding the influence of personality by the gender factor, no significant differences were recorded between women and men (the uniformity of workers being specific to the military organizational environment). The results obtained in this research provide important information about the personality of police officers, useful both in the personnel selection process and in the psychological assistance of police workers.
Advanced perspectives of biocomputational gene discovery
Authors: Shilpa Tiwari  , CS Mukhopadhyay
Published: November 2024

Gene discovery is one of the most significant processes in understanding and analysis of an organism’s genome after its sequencing. The method comprises determining the location of intron structures, exon structures, and open reading frames (ORFs). It computationally specifies all of the genes with near 100% reliability. It can substantially reduce the amount of wet lab experimentation. In eukaryotic genomes, mosaic organization occurs when a gene is divided into exons by intervening noncoding regions (called introns). Several methods are available for gene finding such as laboratory-based approaches, feature-based approaches homology-based approaches, and statistical and HMM-based approaches. In this paper, we aim to discuss in silco approaches for gene prediction with available bioinformatics tools for gene finding.
WHAT IS TELEVISION?
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

Dateline: the “What is Television?” event in Portland, Oregon

. This marvelous conference is under the benign and brilliant direction of

Janet Wasko

, a trusted leader in the field. On this opening morning, I’m sitting between

Dan Schiller

and

Sarah Berry

. Dan got us all moving last night with a stellar presentation on the digital depression.
COMING UP: A LOOK BACK ON OUR PREVIEWS OF WHAT WE HAVE IN STORE FOR YOU IN JUST A MOMENT
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

ITV celebrated the 50th anniversary of Candid Camera on UK screens with an archive show, originally broadcast on 28 December 2010. Ideal, I thought, for my course on TV history.
The End of Paper: Interview with Richard Padley of Semantico
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

At the 2010 Tools of Change for Publishing conference in Frankfurt, we met Richard Padley of Semantico. He spoke at the conference about mobile platforms from the perspective of publishers faced with multiple delivery models including apps and the web. We started off our interview with Richard Padley by asking: What does the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement mean to you? So, is it the end of paper?
THE END OF FRINGE DIVISION – OR IS IT?
Authors: Abbott Stacey
Published: November 2024

Sadly the 18th January 2013 marked the end of Fringe – the little – much loved — telefantasy show that managed to hold out for five seasons against the odds at Fox, a channel notorious for cancelling cult SF shows in their infancy (see Firefly, Wonderfalls, Dollhouse).
TRUE DETECTIVE AND PRACTICAL CRITICISM
Authors: Jacobs Jason
Published: November 2024

WARNING – THIS BLOG CONTAINS SPOILERS.

I was pleased to see Anthony Smith and CST finally engage with what I’ve described elsewhere (slightly hyperbolically) as the televisual equivalent of Manet’s

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe

:

T

rue Detective

. I agree with much of what Smith says about the pleasures of what he calls its genre uncertainty, but I want to take a different tack with it
BEETHOVEN, GAME OF THRONES AND THE PURE AESTHETIC KICK
Authors: Jacobs Jason
Published: November 2024

The kind of total or pure aesthetic experience I wish to describe here only happened to me (at this pitch of intensity) once in my life before that I can remember, and I’m not sure that this should be grounds for gratitude that it happened at all or regret it didn’t occur more often.
FROM HASTINGS TO LEIGHLEY: REDISCOVERING BILL BRAND
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

It was the recent conference at Hastings, ‘Raymond Williams and John Logie Baird – Television, Technology and Cultural Form’, organized by Professor Deborah Philips of the University of Brighton, which sent me back to Bill Brand (Jack Shepherd), hero of Trevor Griffiths’ 1976 series, who, as newly elected Member of Parliament for Leighley, wrestled with the question of whether the House of Commons was the best place to make a push for his brand
Divonne
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Demure, soft-spoken, personable, affable, no-nonsense. All those things, in that peculiarly North American way. Those words don’t do justice to B., the uniquely compelling individual I met for the second time last night in Divonne-les-Bains. To describe him as a living legend in the world of learning and development is accurate, but far from complete.
Quality in humanitarian education
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Humanitarian education is a huge undertaking. Each year, for example, 17 million trainees learn first-aid skills through face-to-face (FTF) training programmes run by the 189 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies worldwide.
DEAR MR MILLER
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

‘Dear Mr Miller John Lewis PLC has let us know that you recently bought TV equipment. However, we can’t find a record of a TV license for this address.’ The quotation above comes from a letter I received, signed by

Carl Shimeild, Operations Director of TV Licensing in Britain

. I don’t know what that title means, like virtually every job description I have encountered since arriving here.
LETTER FROM AMERICA
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Piers Morgan Half Term Report

Big fanfare: Piers Morgan has taken over Larry King’s 9pm interview slot on CNN in the US. It’s another stage in Morgan’s serial relaunching of himself: from celeb columnist to

Daily Mirror

editor to disgraced editor to

Britain

and

America’s Got Talent

judge to celeb interviewer.
MAD MEN FATIGUE AND THE OBSTINACY OF ART TV
Authors: Edgerton Gary
Published: November 2024

I was not interested in the Sixties.  I was interested in the Fifties.  It’s an important distinction. — Matthew Weiner, Austin Film Festival, 26 October 2009

Mad Men

creator Matthew Weiner had little idea of what exactly he wanted to do after graduation as he began his senior year at Wesleyan University in August 1986.
BENEFITS BRITAIN THE LIVE DEBATE: HIDING IN THE LIGHT
Authors: Wood Helen
Published: November 2024

Benefits Britain: The live debate

was broadcast this week. Reality television meets explosive talk show as Channel 4 use

Question Time

producers Mentorn to capture the reaction to their ratings hit

Benefit Street

. It was perfectly timed, live, at the end of the series.
Know-where
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Six months after starting to develop LSi.io, I have 64 ongoing conversations with 150 interlocutors, connecting humanitarian and development learning leaders, Chief Learning Officers and academic researchers. Being independent has given me a unique vantage point from which to examine the humanitarian and development sector’s learning, education and training strategies.
… AND WHAT HAPPENS WITH SPANISH TELEVISION?
Authors: Jiménez-Morales Manel
Published: November 2024

One of the most common questions I get asked when I am at a conference abroad is what television is like in my own country. As a researcher mainly interested in British and American television, people ask me if Spanish TV is of the same quality as English-speaking productions.
TV’S EVIL QUEENS
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

I read with interest Christine Geraghty’s blog ‘Reappraising the Television Heroine’ from 6 September. Geraghty notes the prevalence in recent TV drama of the female detective, and she discusses various contemporary television series and their handling of female protagonists. The question she poses at the start of her blog is, what is it I’m looking for in a television heroine? This got me thinking, but not so much about female heroes.
NEW YEAR’S ALIENATION
Authors: Crowder Matt
Published: November 2024

BBC-bashing is of course a venerable and well-cherished sport for the British press. A recent example was the ‘furore’ over the Corporation’s overly-enthusiastic use of Gary Barlow, particularly in his performance in

Gary Barlow’s Big Ben Bash

(BBC1), which aired from 11.15 on New Year’s Eve.
TV TOGETHER
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

TV has traditionally been seen as domestic, and often as social: stereotypical images of families gathered around the television readily come to mind. While we may think such images nostalgic in an era where many households and individuals are multi-screen, even those living alone can watch in company via social media.
Learning beyond training, to survive and grow
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Humanitarian organizations already organize and deliver training on a massive scale. For example, the Red Cross and Red Crescent train 17 million people each year to practice life-saving first aid, in addition to the training of its 13.6 million active volunteers.
A LONG TIME AGO WE USED TO BE FRIENDS, BUT …
Authors: Abbott Stacey
Published: November 2024

In 1986, in a now infamous

Saturday Night Live

sketch, William Shatner told fans

at a

Star Trek

convention to ‘Get a Life!’.
THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN SITCOM (III): THE BIG BANG THEORY
Authors: Lavery David
Published: November 2024

This is the third of five Telegenics that will examine the state of the American sitcom in the second decade of the 21st Century. Earlier entries were on

Community

and

How I Met Your Mother

. Subsequent Telegenics will look at

30 Rock

and

Modern Family

.

The Big Bang Theory

’s Title Card

Sheldon

: Leonard is upstairs right now with my archenemy.
THE NEW GREEK PUBLIC TELEVISION
Authors: Serafeim Katerina
Published: November 2024

On 11th June 2013, the Greek Government reached a decision to close down the, until then, public broadcaster (ERT) citing the rationale that this measure was inevitable and formed part of the “national attempt” to cut down on public spending and meet the terms of Greece’s bailout deal [1]. One month later, on 10th July, the new Greek Public Television(the interim Greek public broadcast service – EDT) emitted its signal via the three
FEMINIST MUSINGS: HOW TO LIKE RIPPER STREET
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

There is something bizarrely compelling about watching something that you’ve been told you will disagree with.
Maybe old learning isn’t so bad, after all?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

When I first saw Professor Cope’s photos of a 1983 elementary school classroom, I scoffed.
THE RETURN OF THE UNDEAD: THE WALKING DEAD, IN THE FLESH AND LES REVENANTS
Authors: Johnson Catherine
Published: November 2024

Horror is not a genre often traditionally associated with television, although as Helen Wheatley, Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett have pointed out television has a long history of telling horrific tales. It’s also not a genre with which I have much affinity or experience, being much too terrified to be able to watch most horror cinema.
THE GREAT VERONICA MARS REWATCH: MUSINGS ON THE SERIES AND THE MOVIE
Authors: Abbott Stacey
Published: November 2024

Hey there marshmallows!  Veronica Mars is back. I’ve been thinking about

Veronica Mars.

On the 12 April 2013, I blogged about the exciting news of the

Veronica Mars

Kickstarter campaign, in which TV creator Rob Thomas and actor Kristen Bell sought crowd funding to produce a cinema reunion film for their much loved teen hardboiled detective series.
THE TARDIS AS PLACE, SPACE AND SETTING
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

The TARDIS is one of

Doctor Who

’s most distinctive iconographic components and it performs as a space for narrative action, as a vehicle, as an object within a setting, and as a place that is inhabited.  In this post I want to link together some ideas about how the TARDIS functions aesthetically, with ideas about how it enables and constrains the production of

Doctor Who

.
MAKING IT AS A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

I knew I’d really made it when the

New York Times

wanted to speak to me about ‘Monocles’ last week. The inquiry was based, said the Grey Lady’s email, on my work about food on television. That in turn derived from something in my dark past. Years ago, I did a spot on the Food Network’s immodest televisual autobiography for its

Chefography

series.
GOOD EATS: NBC’S HANNIBAL AS FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Authors: Howard Douglas
Published: November 2024

If horror has a new name on television, then that name is actually something more familiar, something immediately recognizable.
CRITIQUING THE CELEBRITY DOCUMENTARY
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

Before sitting down to write, I decided to cast an eye over this week’s television schedule, alighting almost immediately on two examples of a genre which has long confounded and intrigued me: the celebrity documentary.
AGE SPOTS AND SPOTLIGHTS CONFERENCE BLOG
Authors: Akass Kim
Published: November 2024

According to Dr. Janet McCabe (Birkbeck) and Dr. Deborah Jermyn (Roehampton), co-organisers of Friday’s Age Spots and Spotlights one-day research symposium: ‘

We live in a culture where youth is revered and envied, while ageing remains feared, even repugnant

.’ One thing is clear, living your life in the glare of the media may bring its rewards, but once the glow of youth begins to fade, living those autumn years under the
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IS WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGES
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

As a TV scholar and a science fiction fan, I enjoyed watching

An Adventure in Space and Time

, a drama documentary about the early years of

Doctor Who

when it was broadcast in November of last year as part of the series’ fiftieth anniversary celebrations.
Interview on Deutschlandfunk about the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive
Authors: Pampel Heinz
Published: November 2024

I recently had the opportunity to speak on Deutschlandfunk about the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive. The occasion was the recent cyberattack on the Internet Archive (Schräer 2023). The Wayback Machine plays a crucial role in preserving websites and providing access to our digital past—for researchers, journalists, and the interested public alike.
TIS THE SEASON
Authors: Lavery David
Published: November 2024

I envy David Chase doing only thirteen episodes a season. I won’t insult him to suggest that’s a luxury because I know how hard he must work, but I think I would do very different episodes of Touched by an Angel if I had the same amount to do thirteen episodes instead of twenty six.
Scaling up humanitarian education: my presentation at the European MOOC Summit
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

I’ve just published my presentation (25 minutes with slides) about the urgency of scaling up humanitarian education on LSi.io. This is a recording with both slides and my narrative, that looks at a number of issues: Training like it’s 1899 – and why we need to think about learning beyond training The need for scale – some indicative figures What is broken about humanitarian education VUCA – What has changed about the nature of knowledge and why
THE END OF TV? I DON’T THINK SO
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Recent CST blogs have taken up the ‘end of TV theme’, arguing that timeshift viewing, video-on-demand and box-set bingeing is the end of broadcast TV. It’s more complicated than that, surely.
AND THE PHD MAKES THREE: WRITING A THESIS IN A RESEARCH TEAM
Authors: Horton Erica
Published: November 2024

As a plethora of PhD comics available for browsing will show, there are common themes that PhD candidates express about the thesis research and writing process. Largely, I am sure I don’t have to inform anyone, these focus on the anxiety that such an overwhelmingly massive undertaking is a task to which the candidate is just not fully equipped.
European MOOC Summit: What looks tasty – for organizations thinking about transforming how they learn
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is a quick overview of what I found of interest for international and non-governmental organizations in the program of the Second European MOOC Summit – possibly the largest and probably the most interesting MOOC-related event on the Old Continent – that opens tomorrow at Switzerland’s MIT-by-the-Lake, EPFL.
TEACHING TELEVISION 2: THE PLACE OF THE PROGRAMME IN TELEVISION TEACHING
Authors: Johnson Catherine
Published: November 2024

In a moment of frustration a few weeks ago I posted the following status update to Facebook: ‘Today’s teaching has felt like dealing with school children with half of my second years turning up to seminars without having done the screening or having been to the lecture.’ To be honest such moments of frustration are relatively rare for me. I love teaching and my students are inspiring individuals to be around.
AT HOME WITH THE (TV) STARS IN MUSWELL HILL
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

Why the parentheses? Well, the established argument is that television’s very domesticity and ‘ordinariness’ militates against any capacity to produce ‘stars’ in the sense that cinema is traditionally perceived to have done.
ASTD Learning Executive Briefing: Reda Sadki
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This article was first published by the ASTD’s Learning Executive Briefing.

By Ruth Palombo Weiss

Reda Sadki

is the

Senior Officer for Learning Systems

at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Q:

Why do you think the Red Cross Movement has a deeply rooted culture of face-to-face training for its 13.6 million volunteers?

A: There
$103,500 Reward: Help solve Mexican gray wolf’s death near Flagstaff
Authors: Frey Erzsebet
Published: November 2024

$103,500 Reward: Help Solve Mexican Gray Wolf’s Death Near Flagstaff

The Tragic Incident Near Flagstaff

A significant reward is being offered to anyone who can provide information leading to the resolution of an unfortunate incident involving a Mexican gray wolf near Flagstaff. The incident has raised concerns amongst wildlife conservationists and prompted a call for public assistance.
THE SEVEN STORIES OF RAGE
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

The key won’t quite turn in the front door, my hand unsteady in its intoxicated disenchantment. My loose change has already fallen from my pocket, splashing gold and silver into the rusty wide-open drain. I fall in, switch on the fluro lights, and crash on my sofa, grasping the TV remote as I do.  The smell of beer, kebab, and stale perfume rises off my wasted body;
LESS IS MORE?
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

By the time this blog is published,

Utopia

will have finished its six episode run on Channel 4. If Poliakoff’s

Dancing on the Edge

was launched with one kind of hype (see Stephen Harper’s blog),

Utopia

was surrounded by hype of a different nature.
TERROR, TORTURE, SOLDIER, SPY
Authors: Edgerton Gary R.
Published: November 2024

‘The United States has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember  .  .  .
GENUINELY NEW FORMS OF DIGITAL CONTENT: RISK, INNOVATION AND A MULTIPLATFORM PSB FUTURE?
Authors: Bennett James
Published: November 2024

Even in our near-miraculous coverage of the Olympics, I would say that we’ve taken – joyously – our capacity to present and distribute existing forms of content to their natural limits rather than innovate to discover genuinely new forms of content. Yet it’s the quest for this – genuinely new forms of digital content – that represents the next profound moment of change we need to prepare for if we’re to deserve a new charter.
THE BUILDING WITH A HEARTBEAT – SAYING FAREWELL TO THE BBC TVC
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

In analysing media in 21

st

century, we have becomes used to thinking about working relationships which have become virtual. In an ideal world, creators, practitioners and viewers can ignore the constrictions of place and produce work together in the click of an upload. But broadcasters still have buildings, offices, studios, sets and workspaces.
TIS THE SEASON TO BE GRUESOME
Authors: Abbott Stacey
Published: November 2024

October is one of my favourite months of the year. In the build up to Halloween, it seems that the world around me is finally catching up with my enthusiasm for all things gothic, gruesome and macabre.  Black and orange become the colour of the day; shops fill up with bat-shaped party decorations, ghoulish candy, and vampire or witches costumes;
THE RECIPE FOR A GREAT BRITISH BAKE (OFF)
Authors: Johnson Catherine
Published: November 2024

In my first blog after the summer hiatus I was going to write about some of the television I’d been enjoying over the first half of 2013 and in particular the glorious glut of zombies that seemed to be gracing my PVR for the past few months.
THE ‘OFFICIAL EUROPEAN PREMIER’ FOR THE NEW GREEK PUBLIC TELEVISION
Authors: Serafeim Katerina
Published: November 2024

On 1 January  2014, Greece assumed the rotating presidency of the EU Council. Although it is the fifth time for the county to be in charge of the European Union, holding the presidency comes at a crucial point, a critical transitional juncture for Europe.
The Butterfly Effect: The Chaos of Television
Authors: Howard Douglas L
Published: November 2024

I’ve been catching a number of butterflies on my television in the last year or so, but they bear little resemblance to the ones that I see from time to time in my backyard. Sitting through an episode from Season Three of

Dexter

last fall, I was struck by the self-reflective serial killer’s sudden contemplation of “the butterfly effect,” that “a butterfly [could] beats its wings in Brazil and set off a storm in Florida.”
JFK, 1964, AND THE BEATLES REDUX
Authors: Edgerton Gary R.
Published: November 2024

Kennedy set so much in motion in such a short period of time that the outcome of each narrative was unclear. Journalist and author Evan Thomas in

American Experience

’s

‘JFK’ (2013) The Kennedy assassination still marks a shared milestone for most Americans whether or not they were alive on November 22, 1963.
TOP BOY
Authors: Akass Kim
Published: November 2024

“I haven’t anything to be – except this.” Dushane,

Top Boy

(Channel 4, 31.10 – 3.11.11)

Channel 4’s

Top Boy

ended last night after less than 4 hours of screen-time.
DOT COTTON, DEATH AND COMMUNITY IN EASTENDERS
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

For those not familiar with

EastEnders

, the last few months may nevertheless have yielded glimpses of Dot Cotton (Branning) via the actress, June Brown, who has played her since July 1985 and who has been publicising her autobiography.
SUICIDE BY OPERA: THE FUCKING IDENTITY POLITICS OF RAKE
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

Rake is an Australian television series that airs on ABC1 on Sunday nights. Now into its third series, it centrally features Richard Roxburgh as Rake Cleaver Greene, a charismatic but anti-establishment, criminal defence barrister.
What’s my motivation?”: The Method Goes Fantastic in Television Acting
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

When we are on stage, we are in the here and now. —Konstantine Stanislavski

In a pivotal scene of

Fringe

’s “Over There,” Part 1 (2.21), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) meets his now-graying mother for the first time since he was a child. Ordinarily you would not need years of training at the Actors Studio to know how to play such an emotionally-rich encounter.
Chronology of a new transit camp on the Tunisian border (Part 2 of 2): Going live
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Part 1: Like clockwork | Part 2: Going Live

10:45 – The distribution of relief items starts

At the far end of the camp, four volunteers led by Arturo, a logistics specialist from the French Red Cross, get basic relief items ready for distribution. The items are NFIs, as we call them, or non-food items.

11:00 – A clean bill of health for the camp’s youngest baby

Omar is just 20 days old.
ANOTHER BBC CRISIS: HOW BAD IS IT THIS TIME?
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

The BBC is currently engulfed in a crisis that has already led to the resignation of the new Director-General George Entwistle after just 7 weeks in the job. Like several previous BBC crises, this one centres around journalistic standards. The difference this time lies in the issue: the reporting (or rather not reporting) of a story involving the BBC itself.
BABYLON AND THE COMEDY/DRAMA/POLICE SERIES
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

It may seem odd to suggest that the second series Bron/Broen (The Bridge 2011-) had a purity of narrative line. This was after all a series that began with a crewless tanker with its hidden plague-ridden cargo drifting into the bridge and ended with a disrupted European summit and the death of a high-security prisoner.
YO SOY 132, OR AMERICANO COMO TÚ?
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

There was an eerie feeling in Mexico City’s Benito Juárez Airport on the morning of July 1 as I made my way to Guadalajara to talk about global Hollywood, greening the media, cultural citizenship, and the new right of cultural studies. Quite a mouthful.
BBC3: EFFICIENCY OR INNOVATION?
Authors: Bennett James
Published: November 2024

A great deal of hand-wringing has taken place since the decision to cut BBC3 as a terrestrial television channel, particularly on the pages of

The Guardian

– where everyone from Steve Hewlett to Boyd Hilton to Mark Jackson has mused on the implications of the decision for the Corporation’s commitment to youth audiences, weighed against the relatively minor cost savings that will be made (Hewlett’s
SERIAL KILLERS: MASTERS OF TELEVISUAL MISE-EN-SCÈNE
Authors: Abbott Stacey
Published: November 2024

Jason Jacobs and Stephen Peacock  recently published a book on TV Aesthetics –

Television Aesthetics and Style

– in which they argue that discourses surrounding style and aesthetics are ‘curiously absent from many critical appraisals of contemporary television’ (2013: 1). They suggest that, instead, ‘academic work on television remains, for the most part, entrenched in theoretical frameworks’ (2).
BBC3: LAST OF THE OLD OR FIRST OF THE NEW?
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

On 5 March, the BBC announced that BBC3 would become an online-only channel, subject to  approval by the BBC Trust. It would be replaced on the digital broadcast spectrum by a new BBC1+1 service, following the success of ‘plus one’ channels for the other terrestrial broadcasters. This move has huge implications for the BBC.
THE ‘MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD’
Authors: Edgerton Gary
Published: November 2024

A lifetime of television viewing often encourages me to make unlikely connections.  Consider the wildly successful ‘Most Interesting Man in the World’ advertising campaign for Dos Equis beer (2007-present) produced by the multinational integrated marketing agency, Euro RSCG Worldwide.  The first time I saw one of these adverts in the late 2000s, I must admit I was confused.
NASHVILLE AND SMASH: “GOOD TELEVISION WITH SINGING”
Authors: Irwin Mary
Published: November 2024

ABC’s Nashville (2012) and NBC’s Smash (2012-13) are two new US serial dramas that have caught my attention over the past year primarily because of the innovative integral role that music and theatrical performance play in both series.
TV IS DEAD
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

Every now and then, I get the proverbial swarm flying around my headgear as people announce, predict, or incarnate the end of television. This generally takes the form of remarks such as ‘My children don’t watch television,’ ‘Nobody I know does it,’ or ‘Kids today aren’t interested.’ From music to politics, television’s day is supposedly over. This isn’t only true of everyday talk, of course.
TELEVISION’S DIFFICULT WOMEN
Authors: Kelly Lisa W.
Published: November 2024

This blog is primarily inspired by Christine Geraghty’s recent CST post ‘Re-Appraising the Television Heroine’ and also what Douglas Howard refers to as the ‘crossroads’ that has been reached in US quality television.
THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN SITCOM (V): MODERN FAMILY
Authors: Lavery David
Published: November 2024

This is the fifth of five

Telegenics

examining the state of the American sitcom in the second decade of the 21

st

Century. The first was on

Community

; the second on

How I Met Your Mother

, the third on

Big Bang Theory

,

and the fourth on

30 Rock

.

Modern Family

’s Three Families.
TEACHING TELEVISION: WHERE DO I START?
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

As the UK moves closer to the end of its annual academic teaching period and we are becoming reflective and perhaps also a bit optimistic about the future, I am struck by one big question: what does it mean to teach television today? A few weeks ago, in his CSTonline Blog, Toby Miller made a case for the continuation of television in its most traditional of forms.
LUCK: A CRITICAL CONVERSATION (PART TWO)
Authors: Peacock Jason Jacobs and Steven
Published: November 2024

SP – Steven Peacock  JJ – Jason Jacobs SP: The recent news of Luck’s cancellation, cited as due to the death of three horses on the show, leads us to the race sequences. The death of animals in unnatural circumstances, especially within the controlled arena of the film set is perplexing at best, reprehensible at worst.
TOP 5 NEW TV DRAMA OF 2013
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

Inspired by the countless reviews of 2013 in the New Year press, I started thinking what the best new TV of the last year had been. This is what I came up with. As well as being slightly self-indulgent, it’s also somewhat idiosyncratic. My choices are all drama. With one exception, they all have fantasy elements, and that one exception is definitely TV horror.
ANYONE SEEN PSYCHOBITCHES?
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

So, the first blog of the new year. Perhaps it should be about Christmas and television, a reminiscence of the supposed golden age when the nation was united around the tv set? But to be honest, television was a bit boring over Christmas and other people can write better about the two big moments: Matt Smith’s departure from

Dr Who

and Benedict Cumberbatch’s return from the dead as Sherlock;
There is no scale
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

So, you are unhappy with a five percent completion rate. Hire tutors (lots of them, if it is massive). Try to get machines to tutor. Use learners as tutors (never mind the pedagogical affordances, you only care about scale and completion). Set up automated phone calls to remind people to turn in their homework. Ring the (behaviorist) bell. Or not. Google’s Coursebuilder team has an interesting take on completion rates.
DO I DO ‘TELEVISION STUDIES’?
Authors: Mills Brett
Published: November 2024

How many of us define ourselves as doing ‘Television Studies’, and state as such when asked by others what our field is? I ask this following an interesting discussion at the opening plenary at last week’s MeCCSA conference, brilliantly hosted by Bournemouth University.
TV HISTORY, THE ROLE OF MEMORY AND SPACES OF TELEVISION
Authors: Panos Leah
Published: November 2024

I enjoyed

Helen Wheatley’s CST blog of 25 May

and found her ‘worrying at the question of what and who television history is for’ very pertinent to my own work for the research project ‘Spaces of Television: Production, Site and Style’. Therefore, in this, our project’s first guest blog for CST, I’d like to take the opportunity to ‘worry about’ my own historical methodology and offer some thoughts about the role of
Fahamu
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Fahamu Pecou (b. 1975) is an artist/scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia whose works comment on contemporary and hip-hop culture while simultaneously subverting it to include his ideas on fine art.
IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR: GERMAN MELODRAMA AND THE EVIDENCE OF SOCIAL ANXIETY
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

The holiday season is a particularly good time to enjoy television. All the broadcasters are pulling out the big guns, scheduling the most popular programmes, investing money in some big dramas, and in general trying to please the public through obviously popular fair that is also often very expensive to produce. And I do like my popular fair that has high production values.
MY MUM WAS A FEMINIST IN THE 1970s: RADICAL FEMINISM IN FRESH MEAT
Authors: Berridge Susan
Published: November 2024

In the introduction to their 2006 edited collection, Joanne Hollows and Rachel Moseley reflect on the decision to name their book

Feminism

in

Popular Culture

rather than

Feminism

and

Popular Culture

, arguing that ‘the idea of feminism

and

popular culture tends to presume that a “real” and “authentic” feminism exists outside of popular culture, and offers a
UNKNOWN TV CLASSICS
Authors: Cooke Lez
Published: November 2024

In 1969 Alan Lovell wrote a seminar paper on ‘British Cinema: The Unknown Cinema’, ‘unknown’ because of the paucity of scholarly work on British Cinema at the time – a situation which, in 1997, Lovell noted was no longer the case. Until relatively recently the same could have been said of British Television, given the paucity of academic study of television.
ADAPT OR DIE? NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTION CULTURES
Authors: Bennett James
Published: November 2024

So the BBC has called time on its Digital Media Initiative (DMI), the project to create tapeless workflow and archive access: £98m in the hole for a software solution that can now be bought off the shelf for less than £1,000. A project that was designed to save £100m by 2015, ended up costing the Corporation the same amount.
THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN SITCOM (1): COMMUNITY
Authors: Lavery David
Published: November 2024

This is the first of five Telegenics that will examine the state of the American sitcom in the second decade of the 21st Century. Subsequent entries will look at

How I Met Your Mother

,

The Big Bang Theory

,

30 Rock

, and

Modern Family.

The

Community

Cast.
SIT DOWN AND BE COUNTED: WHY TV STAND-UP WAS BETTER WITH A STOOL
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

Having since marked several dozen first year essays, Christmas is fast becoming a distant memory.
THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION HISTORY, OR, THE SENTIMENTS OF NOSTALGIA?
Authors: Wheatley Helen
Published: November 2024

I’m sure that at a certain point people are going to get bored of me worrying at the question of what and who television history is for (if they aren’t already). Speaking as someone who occasionally describes themselves as a television historian, you may see this as a form of existential angst, a near-obsessive need to examine and justify the thing that I spend the majority of my day doing.
HOMELAND, TIME AND TITLES
Authors: Jacobs Jason
Published: November 2024

If there is something ultimately distinctive about television it has to be in its strange handling of time and in our apprehension of this fact. I don’t mean merely its ability to transmit live images, or its collusion with the rhythms and seasonal adjustments of the local and national everyday, although its relations with these things is certainly odder than is usually acknowledged.
Meet Barbara Moser-Mercer, the lady who did MOOCs in a refugee camp
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

I first heard her described as the “lady who did MOOCs in a refugee camp”. It was completely ambiguous what that meant, but certainly sparked my curiosity. Barbara Moser-Mercer is a professor at the University of Geneva and a  cognitive psychologist who has practiced and researched education in emergencies. I finally caught up with her at the Second European MOOC Summit.
Seminar: Lez Cooke – The Forgotten History of British Television Drama‏
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries Research Seminars 2011/12 5-6pm, Wednesday 14 March Zen Room, The ATRiuM, 86-88 Adam Street, Cardiff CF24 2FN Dr Lez Cooke (Royal Holloway University of London) – The Forgotten History of British Television Drama Abstract: In recent years there has been a return to an empirically-based television history that seeks […]
WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE SHERLOCK HOLMES?
Authors: Lacey Stephen
Published: November 2024

‘I have this theory that your favourite Sherlock Holmes is the one you grew up with’ Amanda Field, author of The Wartime Files of Sherlock Holmes in Timeshift: ‘How to be Sherlock Holmes: the Many Faces of a Master Detective’ (BBC4, 12 January 2014). It has been hard to escape Sherlock Holmes in 2014.
HOW THE TV INTERVIEW CHANGED THE WORLD
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

BBC4 is featuring interviews at the moment, examining this most basic taken-for-granted of TV. They’re doing

the inevitable extracts series

;

rescreening samples from the archives

;

putting up classics on their website

;

getting interviewers to interview each other

(Mark Lawson does Terry Wogan for instance); and even showing a series by David Frost.
Thinking about the first Red Cross Red Crescent MOOC
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

You have no doubt heard about the Red Cross or Red Crescent. Some of you may be first aiders or otherwise already involved as volunteers in your community. My organization, the IFRC, federates the American Red Cross and the 186 other National Societies worldwide.
SAD SCREENS AND VIDEOTS
Authors: Jacobs Jason
Published: November 2024

I first saw

Melancholia

(von Trier, 2011) on my TV during the day while home alone. A few weeks later I saw it again at the cinema with friends.  It’s a film about two sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) a chronic depressive, and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) a rich bourgeois housewife, and their experience of the end of the world.
STRICTLY TEA TIME: THE WELCOME RETURN OF THE SATURDAY EVENING AUTUMN SCHEDULE
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

Outside a cold wind is blowing; the rain batters my window pane, and the shades of night are falling fast. All of which can mean but one thing: autumn has arrived, and with it the Saturday tea-time schedule. Yes, I’m aware that weekend programming is not exactly suspended for the rest of the year, but I always feel there’s something rather special about the run-up to Christmas;
THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF AND THE EXCEPTIONAL BAKE
Authors: Cardwell Sarah
Published: November 2024

‘A good bake’ As regular viewers of The Great British Bake Off will know, ‘a good bake’ is the highest praise indeed. It is a perfect pastry base: short, smooth and golden; it is a crisp, evenly-coloured biscuit; it is a cake of even crumb and airy texture. A good bake is the pinnacle of technique.
LSi.io interviews Plan B’s Donald Clark: Universities and humanitarian organizations in the Age of Disruption
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Donald Clark is an education innovator with no institutional ties to refrain him from telling it like it is. He answers three questions from LSi.io‘s Reda Sadki: Zach Sims at Davos referred to university brick-and-mortar structures as the “detritus” of a bygone area. Agree or disagree? We all remember Sebastian Thrun’s predictions about the impending concentration of higher education. Why does it feel like it’s just not happening?
UP AND DOWN WITH BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Authors: Jacobs Jason
Published: November 2024

What to make of

Boardwalk Empire

? HBO’s costume drama set in the USA during Prohibition reminds me of one of those fascinating objects that often crop up on

Antiques Roadshow

. One can admire from afar the detailed textures and evident craft of the thing without having much of a clue as to its function. Everything looks so good – the fabrics, the sculpted light, the big complex stage of the boardwalk itself;
PARENT INVASION: DADS AND THE MILLERS – TWO NEW INTERGENERATIONAL SITCOMS PART 1
Authors: Baluch Jamila
Published: November 2024

At a time when a growing number of older persons in the United States are living with their adult children (between 2000 and 2011, this figure rose from 2.2 million to 4.6 million

[1]

), the U.S. broadcast networks Fox and CBS have each launched a new situation comedy about retired parents invading their children’s homes.
Mobile learning: the “anywhere” in the affordance of ubiquity
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

When I look at my Facebook friends online, I can see that most of them are connected, almost 24/7, via their phones. Those connected from a laptop or desktop computer (shown by a green dot instead of a little phone icon) are an ever-dwindling minority. As Scholar is meant to be a social application for learning, I thought it might be useful to reflect on what mobile means for learning.
THE DOCUMENTARY OF MAGIC: DYNAMO MAGICIAN IMPOSSIBLE
Authors: Wood Helen
Published: November 2024

Having spent such a long time working in various ways on ‘television for women’, I realised lately that there are actually relatively few programmes watched together in my heterosexual, two-toddler household. Quality dramas that require investment tend to stack up on the Sky+ recorder and I might watch half of them alone.
Badges for online learning: gimmick or game-changer?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

As I’ve been thinking about building a MOOC for the 13.1 million Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers, I’ve become increasingly interested in connectivism. One of the platforms I’ve discovered is called P2PU (“Peer To Peer University”), which draws heavily on connectivist ideas. Surprise: on P2PU there is a debate raging on about badges, of all things. I initially scoffed.
RIDING THE ICE, RIDING A WAVE
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

Greenpeace organized an Ice Ride on September 15 2013 to rally support for protecting de-territorialized sections of the Arctic from mineral exploitation. The

Torygraph

has surprisingly good video coverage of the UK-based campaign, which included a vast polar bear puppet, the double-decker-sized Aurora the roarer, who lumbered through London to protest the nefarious activities of Shell and its kind. Listen here for some background.
. Comparison of Denosumab versus Zoledronic acid on serum bone alkaline phosphatase (BAP), total procollagen type 1 amino-terminal propeptide (TP1NP), bone gamma carboxy-glutamic acid containing proteins (BGP), and β isomer of C-terminal telopeptide of ty
Authors: Meng Jiayin
Published: November 2024

Background/aim: To compare the efficacy of Denosumab (DEN) versus Zoledronic acid (ZOL) in treating patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCF) after percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP).
Materials and methods:In this study, 128 OVCF patients who underwent PKP in our hospital from June 2020 to August 2023 were selected and randomized into a DEN group treated with DEN and a ZOL group treated with ZOL. Bone mineral density (BMD), bone metabolism, pain, and lumbar mobility were compared between the two groups before and after treatment, and the anterior vertebral height and local kyphotic angle were measured. Finally, the one-year re-fracture rate and treatment cost were counted.
Results: The two groups showed no notable difference in pain, lumbar mobility, anterior vertebral height, and local kyphotic angle after treatment (P>0.05). BMD was higher in DEN group at 6 and 12 months after treatment, while β isomer of C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen (β-CTX) was lower (P<0.05). No statistical inter-group difference was identified in the one-year re-fracture rate (P>0.05), while the total treatment cost was lower in DEN group compared with ZOL group (P<0.05). Conclusions: Both DEN and ZOL is effective in improving the prognosis of OVCF patients after PKP, but DEN can more significantly improve BMD and bone metabolism with higher economic benefits.
Transfer Pricing End-of-Year Adjustments in France
Authors: Gibert B.
Published: November 2024

Though there are no specific provisions on year-end adjustments in French law and regulations, the application of the general transfer rules and a rather well-established practice are reasons to allow, and even recommend, to perform such adjustments where TNMM methods are applied. This article indicates how to properly perform and document such adjustments.The article is part of a special issue of the International Transfer Pricing Journal on transfer pricing end-of-year adjustments. The other articles include the General Report and contributions on Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Transfer Pricing End-of-Year Adjustments in the Netherlands
Authors: Kunen J-W.
Published: November 2024

Year-end adjustments are commonly used by Dutch corporate taxpayers to ensure that their intercompany transactions are priced in accordance with the arm’s length principle. This article explores the Dutch domestic rules, practices, and insights concerning these adjustments.The article is part of a special issue of the International Transfer Pricing Journal on transfer pricing end-of-year adjustments. The other articles include the General Report and contributions on Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Portal de Pop-rock
Authors: Portela Lopa Antonio , Marías Martínez Clara
Published: November 2024

“El pop es el poema más bello”, decían los integrantes del grupo Mishima en una entrevista. Y no les faltaba razón. Son una palabras que resumen la cercanía y la difusa línea que separa la expresión verbal con carácter artístico y la música. El presente portal parte de esta idea para abrir un espacio en el que se materialice la cercanía de los estilos pop y rock con la palabra poética.
Optimal Design of Rectangular Tank Walls With Ribs Using Numerical Models and Global Optimization
Authors: Garbowski Tomasz , Borecki Przemysław , Rutkowski Janusz , Szymczak-Graczyk Anna
Published: November 2024

This paper addresses the optimization of the cross-section in rectangular above-ground tank walls, incorporating vertical ribs and an optional top ring. The objective is to minimize the volume of concrete used, while maintaining key performance criteria such as keeping the maximum tensile stress below the material’s allowable limit and minimizing deflections. The analysis is performed using the finite element method (FEM), with the optimization handled through a local gradient-based algorithm (trust region method), supported by a multistart technique to navigate the complexity of the design space and avoid suboptimal solutions. The results demonstrate that this approach effectively reduces concrete consumption without exceeding the tensile stress limits or causing excessive deflection, offering more efficient and cost-effective designs for rectangular tanks used in water storage applications. This method provides valuable insights into the balance between material usage and performance constraints, contributing to sustainable engineering practices.