bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Cultural Identity, Experience Quality and Revisit Intention to Mount Tai as A Heritage Tourism Destinations: Mediation Roles of Perceived Value, Perceived Destination Image and Satisfaction
Authors: Liu Qi , Deeprasert Jirawan , Jiang Songyu
Published: November 2024

The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of cultural identity, experience quality, and perceived value on tourists' revisit intention to Mount Taishan as a heritage destinations, and to investigate the roles of perceived destination image and satisfaction in influencing revisit intention, particularly to reveal satisfaction as a mediator between perceived value and revisit intention. Using a structured questionnaire survey, data were collected from 438 tourists who have the tourism experience in Mount Taishan. We then use structural equation modeling (SEM) approach to process the data analysis. The findings indicate that cultural identity, experience quality, and perceived value significantly influence revisit intention, with cultural identity showing the strongest effect. Furthermore, perceived destination image and satisfaction play crucial roles in shaping revisit intention, with satisfaction mediating the effect of perceived value. These insights underscore the importance of fostering a strong cultural connection, enhancing experience quality, and maintaining a positive destination image to promote sustainable repeat visitation at heritage sites like Mount Taishan.
How to test AI: A case study of a machine learning-based trading system
Authors: Lewandowska Olga , Mai Edgar
Published: November 2024

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and especially machine learning (ML) has significantly transformed the technological landscape, influencing diverse sectors and making notable inroads into the realm of finance. This paper delves into the challenges posed by ML models, known for their black-box nature, non-deterministic behaviour, reliance on big data and inherent complexity, often lacking clear specifications. These characteristics present novel testing challenges compared to traditional software. In addressing these challenges, the authors introduce a conceptual framework tailored for testing ML-based systems, with a specific focus on financial applications. Theoretical concepts are exemplified through a real-world case study of the implementation of an ML-based bond trading system within a banking context. As the AI technologies become increasingly integrated into critical financial systems, a deeper understanding of their testing strategies will be essential for mitigating risks and harnessing their full potential. The heightened significance of in-depth testing knowledge, propelled by AI-driven progress, holds relevance for both testers and managers in navigating the complexities of the technological changes.
Perspectives on Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education Implementation in the Philippines
Authors: Lumanlan Jhonas , De La Torre Ryan , Asistio Fevvie Von , De Guia Lani , Do Hoa , Ramos Eduardo Teodoro , Acuña Ma. Jhona
Published: November 2024

This qualitative content analysis is aimed at analyzing the status and school support programs or activities for MTBMLE implementation in selected schools in the Philippines through the perspectives and experiences of 15 participating teachers and school administrators. A phenomenological research design laid out the theoretical groundwork of this study as it looked into the participants’ lived experiences using semistructured interviews. Transcripts were analyzed for codes, thematized into three discussion headings: (a) status and school support on the implementation of MTBMLE; (b) perspectives on the importance of L1 or Mother Tongue as MOI and learning area; and (c) awareness on the principles of MTBMLE. In summary, the findings showed that regarding the status and school support on implementing MTBMLE, the schools adhered to the provisions of the guidelines set by the Department of Education. In terms of the participants’ perspectives on the value of L1 or mother tongue as MOI and a learning area, the benefits of L1 or mother tongue use in pedagogy are recognized; finally, regarding the participants' awareness of the underlying principles of MTBMLE, a few expressed incomplete, if not lacking, awareness at all. However, all of them were deemed knowledgeable, with an implicit willingness to learn more about the concept. Recommendations for further research were indicated. This paper stands unique among others for its method of analysis and its unique look at the implementation status seen through school support and status, perspectives of teachers and school administrators, and awareness of the same on the principles of MTBMLE.
Management of Severe Dyselectrolytemia in an Elderly Patient with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Authors: Shah Avinash Kumar , Niroula Parash , Yadav Prince Kumar , Mautsa Rutendo Moleen
Published: November 2024

Dyselectrolytemia represents a significant clinical challenge, particularly in elderly patients with comorbid conditions. We present a case of a 72-year-old male with known normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) who presented with acute symptoms of vomiting, persistent hiccups, generalized weakness, urinary incontinence, and myalgia. Laboratory investigations revealed severe hyponatremia (118 mEq/L) and hypokalemia (2.6 mEq/L), along with elevated blood glucose levels (258 mg/dL). The patient had a 10-year history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, managed with telmisartan, amlodipine, metformin, and glimepiride. Cardiac evaluation through 2D echocardiography showed mild tricuspid regurgitation, left ventricular hypertrophy, and slightly elevated pulmonary artery pressure. Treatment included hypertonic saline, tolvaptan, potassium supplementation, antibiotics, and supportive care. Serial monitoring of electrolyte levels showed gradual improvement, with sodium levels normalizing to 138 mEq/L by day three. The patient's symptoms resolved significantly, leading to discharge on day four with appropriate follow-up recommendations. This case shows the importance of prompt recognition and appropriate intervention in managing dyselectrolytemia in elderly patients with multiple comorbidities. The successful outcome was achieved through a multidisciplinary approach involving physicians, clinical pharmacists, and nursing staff
USO DA FIBRA DE POLIETILENO EM RESTAURAÇÃO SEMI-DIRETA APÓS O TRATAMENTO ENDODÔNTICO: RELATO DE CASO CLÍNICO
Authors: Meireles Vitória Brenda Gonçalves Guerra , Gonçalves Gabriel Meireles dos Santos , Cardoso Ana Paula Oliveira , Melo Tiago Teixeira , Nadai David Souza de Jesus , Leite Leslie Cristine Fiori , Folly Márcia Mika Nakaoka , Camargo Ilza Caixeta e Silva , Relva João Bosco Formiga
Published: November 2024

Extensive crown destruction, whether due to caries, endodontic treatment or even fractures, causes weakening of the tooth structure. Therefore, when referring to the treatment and rehabilitation of these elements, longevity is considered. The most commonly used treatment option is the manufacture and installation of intraradicular pins and crowns. However, adopting biomimetic approaches in the restoration of these teeth, better results are obtained. This study aimed to present a clinical case report showing the measures taken for the rehabilitation of a tooth that presented pulp pathology and extensive crown destruction, requiring crown lengthening surgery, endodontic treatment of the element and restoration using polyethylene fiber, based on the concepts and properties of biomimetic restorative dentistry. To carry out the bibliographic survey, research was carried out on articles from the last 5 years in the following scientific search sites: National Library of Medicine (PUBMED), Virtual Health Library (BVS), Brasil Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), using the following descriptors: Portuguese: Endodontics, Biomimetics and Dental Esthetics as the main research sources. And descriptors in English: Endodontics, Biomimetics and Dental Esthetics. Based on the completion of this project, it is expected to be possible to conclude that the use of polyethylene fiber in biomimetic restorations is effective in resolving cases with extreme coronal destruction. These findings highlight the efficacy and clinical relevance of polyethylene fibers as a promising option in biomimetic restorative procedures.
EXPLORANDO AS DIMENSÕES PSICOLÓGICAS DA DANÇA DO VENTRE: UMA ANÁLISE INICIAL DESSA EXPRESSÃO ARTÍSTICA E SEUS EFEITOS PSICOLÓGICOS
Authors: Leite Jéssica Pinheiro , Lima Eunara Eugênia Lopes , Diniz Daniel Rocha , Lima Emirlan Melo de , Ferreira Samira Borges , Moraes Fabrício da Cunha , Pinheiro Weider Silva , Bomtempo Paulo Wuesley Barbosa , Ferreira Liz Marina Corrêa , Rosa Sara Lourenço Ramos , Junqueira Paula Jaqueline Peixoto , Lima Camila Mendonça , Kruk Lavínia Bianca Lima
Published: November 2024

A prática da dança do ventre tem sido objeto de estudo, revelando uma gama diversificada de benefícios em suas dimensões psicológicas, emocionais e sociais. Este estudo busca integrar teorias psicológicas, estudos culturais e perspectivas acadêmicas, proporcionando uma compreensão abrangente dos efeitos transformadores dessa forma artística de expressão. Dessa forma, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo aprofundar a compreensão dos impactos psicológicos da dança do ventre, destacando-a como um catalisador de empoderamento pessoal. A mesma emprega uma abordagem qualitativa, empregando métodos mistos para a coleta e análise de dados. Durante minha jornada na dança do ventre, deparei-me com narrativas enriquecedoras que destacam seus benefícios emocionais, físicos e sociais. A prática transcende estigmas iniciais e proporciona transformações profundas, como observei ao acompanhar alunas maduras superando preconceitos. A dança do ventre emerge como ferramenta de empoderamento, promovendo bem-estar emocional e autoconfiança, conforme evidenciado em relatos que ressaltam sua influência positiva na percepção do corpo. Apesar de reconhecer as experiências individuais, é crucial abordar criticamente a generalização dessas vivências, enquanto exploramos a relação única entre a dança, a sensualidade e a expressão corporal, conforme exemplificado por uma instrutora que buscou desvincular a prática de estereótipos, promovendo uma compreensão mais profunda e respeitosa dessa forma de arte. Em suma, a análise aprofundada dos impactos psicológicos da dança do ventre revela sua natureza transformadora e empoderadora, superando estigmas iniciais. A integração de teorias psicológicas, estudos culturais e perspectivas acadêmicas oferece uma compreensão abrangente dos efeitos dessa prática única, evidenciando-a como uma ferramenta poderosa de transformação pessoal.
ATUAÇÃO DA FISIOTERAPIA NA PREVENÇÃO EM DEFORMIDADES EM PÉ EQUINO NOS PACIENTES ACOMETIDOS POR DISTROFIA MUSCULAR DE DUCHENNE.
Authors: Silvestre Beatriz Serdeira , Santos Maria Luiza Ferreira , Ribeiro Qendra Gabriele dos Santos , Fernandes Thayna Lima , Silva Leandro Teodoro da
Published: November 2024

A Distrofia Muscular de Duchenne (DMD) foi inicialmente descrita pelo Dr. Charles Bell  em 1830 e mais detalhadamente por Dr. Meryon em 1851. A condição, nomeada a partir  do termo grego "dys-trophen" (má nutrição), foi caracterizada como uma doença genética hereditária que afeta predominantemente homens, levando a fraqueza muscular  progressiva e eventual morte. Dr. Guillaume Duchenne, em 1868, ampliou a descrição da  doença, destacando a perda progressiva de movimentos e a hipertrofia muscular falsa. No  Brasil, os estudos avançaram a partir de 1989 com a pesquisa de Maria Rita Passos Bueno  sobre a distrofina.  A DMD é uma das maiores patologias genéticas humanas, causada por mutações no gene  da distrofina localizado no cromossomo X. A falta dessa proteína essencial resulta em  deterioração progressiva das fibras musculares devido ao aumento do cálcio intracelular e à degradação das proteínas musculares. A condição é diagnosticada através de biópsia  muscular, eletromiografia, e testes de creatinofosfoquinase (CPK).  Clinicamente, a DMD se manifesta com atraso motor, fraqueza muscular, e pode levar a  deformidades como o pé equino, caracterizado por flexão plantar e elevação do calcanhar,  o que deixa o pé semelhante ao de um cavalo. O controle da DMD inclui tratamento  farmacológico e tratamentos fisioterapêuticos, como cinesioterapia e fisioterapia  aquática. A utilização de órteses é fundamental para prevenir deformidades e melhorar a  funcionalidade. Além disso, a reabilitação contínua e o acompanhamento de uma equipe  multidisciplinar são essenciais para manter a qualidade de vida e retardar a progressão da  doença.
BIOSSEGURANÇA EM CONSULTÓRIO ODONTOLÓGICO: PROTOCOLOS DURANTE E APÓS A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19
Authors: Vasconcelos Artur Humberto De , Montelo Aline Thays Pinheiro , Reis Djanne Lopes Rego , Ferreira José Emmanoell , Duarte Karlinne Maria Martins , Vasconcelos Letícia Samara De , Calvet Clélea De Oliveira
Published: November 2024

Esta revisão bibliográfica tem o objetivo de descrever as aplicações  dos protocolos de biossegurança em consultório odontológico durante e após a pandemia de COVID-19. A pandemia do vírus prejudicou milhões de pessoas e deixou registros negativos, na odontologia não foi diferente, fechando diversas clínicas odontológicas, mesmo ainda após quatro anos de seu início na China. Sendo que a principal forma de transmissão do vírus é por gotículas respiratórias, quando uma pessoa infectada pelo vírus tosse ou espirra. O cirurgião dentista é um dos profissionais dentro da área da saúde que mais tem risco de contaminação cruzada pelo seu íntimo contato com as vias aéreas do paciente diariamente. O estudo se caracteriza por uma revisão bibliográfica integrativa, com apoio da utilização das bases de dados: Google Acadêmico, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS). Os artigos analisados foram do ano de 2020 a 2023, artigos escritos na língua inglesa e portuguesa. Observou-se mudança expressiva na biossegurança em consultório odontológico no período pandêmico da COVID-19, com a utilização de diversos equipamentos de proteção individual, medidas cautelares em relação a quantidade de acompanhantes e o motivo do atendimento por dia, lavagem das mãos e desinfecção dos equipamentos e materiais utilizados por atendimento, proporcionando assim um consultório odontológico mais seguro para os profissionais e pacientes.
RESENHA CRÍTICA: O DIREITO FUNDAMENTAL À PRODUÇÃO DA PROVA NA INVESTIGAÇÃO CRIMINAL DEFENSIVA
Authors: Brito Cristovão de Souza
Published: November 2024

O objetivo desta resenha é apresentar a obra de Alexandre Cesar dos Santos, o qual traz como resultados de sua pesquisa a confirmação da existência do direito fundamental à produção da prova na investigação criminal pelo investigado, sob a ótica da teoria do Garantismo Penal e de princípios constitucionais como a ampla defesa, contraditório, direito de não se autoincriminar e paridade de armas. Em que pese ser delegado de polícia, a função não o desincumbiu da quebra de paradigmas e preconceitos em torno do reconhecimento deste direito fundamental ao imputado por agente integrante do quadro persecutório do Estado. O autor apresenta o conceito de investigação criminal defensiva, análise de normas estrangeiras, dificuldades de concretização prática no direito interno e as perspectivas futuras do instituto.
A PALAVRA DA VÍTIMA É OS RISCOS DA CONDENAÇÃO
Authors: Nascimento Márcia Cristina Freitas
Published: November 2024

Rape is undoubtedly a crime that has a profound impact on the lives of many people, especially when it comes to rape of vulnerable people, which is considered even more serious. This type of crime is aimed at minors under the age of 14 or individuals with disabilities who do not have the capacity to consciously consent to sexual acts. This condition of vulnerability makes the issue of evidence even more complex, as situations of abuse often occur without witnesses and in private settings, making it difficult to collect material evidence. Given this scenario, many convictions end up being based predominantly on the victim's word. Although the word of the vulnerable victim can be considered a form of evidence, its credibility can be questioned, and this raises concerns about the possibility of unfair convictions. The risk of miscarriages of justice is high, especially in a context where social pressure and the seriousness of the crime can influence decisions. The objective of the aforementioned monograph is to analyze the evolution of the crime of rape throughout history, as well as to discuss the crime of rape of vulnerable people and the challenges associated with convictions based solely on the victim's testimony. The qualitative research, based on deductive methods and bibliographic and documentary technical procedures, carried out a critical review of the issue. The findings indicate that, although the victim's word has significant evidentiary value, it can be subject to interpretations and circumstances that can compromise its veracity. Investigations, even when carried out rigorously, can result in wrongful convictions, which not only affect the lives of innocent people, but can also leave permanent scars on the lives of everyone involved, including the victims themselves. Therefore, it is essential that the justice system seeks a balance between protecting victims and guaranteeing the rights of the accused, adopting methods that reduce the risk of errors and promote more equitable justice. Implementing rigorous investigation protocols and considering multiple sources of evidence are important steps to avoid convictions based solely on the victim's word, ensuring that justice is served fairly and effectively.
A INFLUÊNCIA DAS REDES SOCIAIS NA AUTOESTIMA E AUTOIMAGEM CORPORAL DA MULHER
Authors: Barros Anna Beatriz Costa , Ribeiro Thalita Nascimento , Paquiela Larissa Cristina Kremer dos Santos
Published: November 2024

A imagem corporal é uma construção complexa, influenciada tanto por aspectos internos quanto externos, refletindo percepções sensoriais e representações imaginárias. Na sociedade contemporânea, a autoimagem, que está diretamente ligada à autoestima, é profundamente afetada pelas redes sociais, que podem promover padrões de beleza irrealistas e uma cultura de comparação constante, levando à insatisfação com a própria aparência. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo geral realizar uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o impacto das redes sociais na autoestima e na autoimagem corporal feminina, investigando os efeitos dessa influência na saúde mental das mulheres. A metodologia utilizada foi uma revisão narrativa da literatura, na qual foram selecionados estudos que abordam a relação entre redes sociais, autoestima e autoimagem. As redes sociais afetam a autoimagem e o bem-estar psicológico das mulheres, com o Instagram destacando-se nesse processo. A utilização intensiva das redes sociais está associada a impactos negativos na saúde mental, como insatisfação corporal e baixa autoestima, particularmente entre mulheres. A comparação social com imagens idealizadas nessas plataformas alimenta a insatisfação corporal e o desejo de magreza, potencializando problemas como distúrbios alimentares e autoimagem distorcida. A representação de padrões de beleza irrealistas na mídia promove uma visão superficial da atratividade, afetando relacionamentos interpessoais e decisões profissionais. A influência das redes sociais é complexa, trazendo tanto motivação quanto desafios, destacando a importância de um uso consciente para minimizar seus efeitos prejudiciais. A exposição constante a esses padrões compromete a privacidade e gera insegurança, enquanto o uso excessivo das plataformas está associado a transtornos como depressão e ansiedade. A comparação social promovida por essas redes resulta em distorções de autoimagem e possíveis distúrbios psicológicos. Pausas nas mídias sociais podem melhorar a autoestima, bem como outras intervenções de saúde pública para promover uma autoimagem positiva.
Case Study of the Role of Health Education in Raising Public Awareness of the Importance of Preventing Infectious Diseases
Authors: Eni Efanti  , Yunita Kristina  , Fauziah Botutihe  , Ari Pebru Nurlaily  , Putri Erlyn
Published: November 2024

One of the main factors leading to the high incidence of infectious diseases is the low knowledge and preventive behaviour among the community (Alodokter, 2018; Hellosehat Kemenkes, 2022). This study aims to examine the role of health education in increasing public awareness of the importance of infectious disease prevention, and to analyse the effectiveness of educational methods used in various health programmes. This research uses a case study method with a qualitative approach. Case studies were chosen because they allow researchers to explore in depth the phenomenon of the role of health education in increasing community awareness of the importance of preventing infectious diseases (Ismadi, 2023). The focus of this study was to holistically understand health education interventions in a particular community and their impact on behaviour change and community awareness From the results shown in Table 1, the attitudes of subjects I and II before being given health counselling related to infectious diseases were in the less category with a percentage of 60%. Table 2 shows that after being given health counselling to improve family attitudes in preventing infectious diseases in adolescents. Subject I where the pre-test results were 60% and post-test results were 90%. The importance of health education in preventive interventions, which has a tangible impact on behaviour change and reduced risk of disease transmission.
Contiguity and Interval: Opening Media Theory
Authors: Vallee Mickey
Published: November 2024

Mickey Vallee's manifesto for Media Theory
What Are the Theoretical Lessons when Agnostic Hacker Politics Turn to the Right?
Authors: Soderberg Johan
Published: November 2024

Johan Soderberg's manifesto for Media Theory
Media Theory 2017
Authors: McQuire Scott
Published: November 2024

Scott McQuire's manifesto for Media Theory
Ruts of Gentrification: Breaking the Surface of Vienna's Changing Cityscape
Authors: Reisenleitner Markus
Published: November 2024

Last year, the city of Vienna celebrated the 150-year anniversary of the opening of the Ringstrasse, the central ring road that stands as symbol of the huge structural renewal that accompanied the transformation of the Habsburg empire’s capital into a rapidly growing modern city. The anniversary acquired poignancy on account of the way Vienna’s population is once again growing rapidly, with an estimated ¼ million people to be added to the city’s population over the next decade. While accommodating urban migrants was not a priority in Ringstrasse Vienna, and working class districts are not part of iconic mapped mediations, the current city council, a coalition of Social Democrats and the Green Party, studiously tries to avoid 19th-century urban modernity’s “mistakes” in their efforts to accommodate the growing population, and they let the Viennese, and the world, know. This time, GIS and digital mapping are mobilized for planning, mediating and communicating large-scale development and renewal projects.
This paper looks at the mediations of three crucial sites of contemporary urban transformation in Vienna that mobilize the affordances of new technologies: “Loftcity,” a loft development cum cultural centre on the site of one of Vienna’s largest factories, the Ankerbrotfabrik; the transformation of the district surrounding Vienna’s new Hauptbahnhof; and Aspern, “Vienna’s Urban Lakeside,” a new satellite town promoted as a city of the future. By comparing the historical traces that remain in the mediations of these sites with their 19th-century counterparts, a geocritical reading of Vienna’s gentrification emerges that situates spatial practices in historically grown lines of connectivity, presaging and transcending traditional forms of classification, such as national divides or urban/suburban dichotomies.
Memory, Movement, Mobility: Affect-full Encounters with Memory in Singapore
Authors: Drozdzewski Danielle
Published: November 2024

Memory, movement and mobility characterise our everyday being. Our bodies are in constant processes of motion: our body remembers movement. Memory of movement, of and in the body, is key to our capacity to move, even if we are not aware that we are remembering movement. Mobility with, from, and in the body is (re)produced and performed by a repertoire of movements, orchestrated (for the most part) synchronously. While studies of mobility have received much recent scholarly attention, the interlinkages between memory, movement and mobility have received far less attention (see Anderson, 2004 and Casey, 2000 for notable exceptions). In redressing this omission, this paper delves into the relationship between memory, movement and mobility by directing its lens on two themes: body memory, that is memory of and in the body felt through movement, and movement and mobility, that is how mobility influences our capacities to remember, what we remember while mobile, and how specific sites of memory are designed with mobility in mind. 
I consider intersections of mobility and memory in the context of empirical work undertaken at sites of Singaporean World War II commemoration. I used my body as a tool for this research; I felt and read memory at the memorial sites. I also used movement through the sites. Being mobile prompted consideration of how movement, spontaneous and along designed pathways, at/through/with these memory sites, influenced memory, its (re)production, transmission and/or performance.
Socially Engaged Archive: Art, Media and Public Memory in East Asia
Authors: Pan Lu
Published: November 2024

Since the 2000s, visual archives related to social movements, activism, community activities, and alternative cultural practices in East Asia have rapidly emerged. This â€œarchival turnâ€ reveals a search for new ways of defining social and communal forms and images beyond official narratives and mass media. In this paper, I use three cases of socially engaged art archival practices â€“ namely, Archive for Human Activities (AHA!), â€œThe Day Afterâ€ and â€œSocially Engaged Art (SEA) CHINAâ€ â€“ to illustrate how artists in East Asia utilize archives as a means of social and individual articulation and conversation. The three cases of archiving practices illustrate new trends in the way archives engage in producing new knowledge and narratives for art and social/cultural practices in East Asia.
Looking for "in-between" Places
Authors: Portela Manuel , Acedo Albert , Granell-Canut Carlos
Published: November 2024

This article develops the concept of "in-between" places in relation to the study of language, perceptions and memories within the broader mediation of cartography. We held an empirical qualitative study in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, where a group of participants (1) performed a web map-survey to identify the spatial dimensions of their sense of place, (2) had a joint discussion about the representations and memories associated with their chosen places, and, finally, (3) took a go-along walk to obtain a deeper definition and characterization of them. Results suggest that analog and digital maps generate different virtual images of space, while the navigational use of digital maps in particular generates multiple representations of the territory. The mediation of different narrations and the description of encounters within the Person-Place-Process triad helped us to establish the importance of in-between places for a complete conceptualization of place.
Between Landscape and the Screen: Locative Media, Transitive Reading, and Environmental Storytelling
Authors: Didur Jill , Fan Lai-Tze
Published: November 2024

In what ways can the everyday citizen encourage sustainability and promote biodiversity in spaces that are as fragmented, industrial, and toxic as the city? This paper investigates how GPS-enabled platforms afford user experiences of what we call â€œembodied knowingâ€ â€“ learning through encounter, awareness through physicality â€“ in urban wilds, which represent informal greenspaces on the edges of urban development. The locative mobile application that we have produced, Global Urban Wilds, complicates notions of time, space, and preservation in ruderal landscapes that survive in city spaces, demonstrating that they come into tension with layers of biodiversity, technological development, and settler culture in urban contexts such as MontrÃ©al, Canada. As such, we show how the appâ€™s mediation of these layers through a method of transitive reading promotes a userâ€™s critical negotiation and awareness of urban ecosystems in relation to todayâ€™s â€œsmartâ€ city.
BATTERCTRAX: Observations of Sensory Dissonance, 'Doubling' and other Residual Effects of Locative Media
Authors: Flintham Matthew
Published: November 2024

This paper will describe BATTERCTRAX, an experimental geolocative media project undertaken during 2014. It examines the possibility that cinematic media (in this case audio from films) can be repurposed within an immersive, mobile heritage guide. The paper will describe the project in broad terms but will focus on certain unexpected and unusual perceptual effects generated during the test phase of the project. BATTERCTRAX began as an adjunct to a larger academic initiative called Cinematic Geographies of Battersea: Urban Interface and Site-Specific Spatial Knowledge, a collaboration between Liverpool, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities and English Heritage. Amongst many outcomes, Cinematic Geographies built a comprehensive database of films shot in the London district of Battersea, which created ways to mobilise historic moving images for the analysis of social and material change in cities. As a tangential outcome of this project, BATTERCTRAX was a mobile phone app that played audio content from feature films, documentaries and TV shows at the places where they were originally recorded. The user would walk through clusters of GPS-enabled geofences in the test zone of Battersea Park, triggering a succession of historic cinematic sounds from across the 20th century. However, by anchoring fictional audio content to the places of their origin, BATTERCTRAX appeared to create a sense of dissonance between sensory stimulants, destabilising a sense of perceptual cohesion in the user. These novel effects lead the researchers to speculate that such technology could not only be used to construct highly immersive, location-based urban experiences, but that it could also trigger psychoactive effects in ways that media developers and users had not anticipated. This paper will propose that geolocative media has the ability to tap into unexplored realms of "collective" cultural memory, but can also elicit unexpected psychological and perceptual responses.
Downgrading Data and Opening Up the Democratic Party
Authors: Remensperger John
Published: November 2024

The U.S. Democratic Partyâ€™s over-reliance on consultants and technocrats over the last several decades has created a chasm between the partyâ€™s leadership and its voters, the consequences of which have only begun to be revealed via the 2016 election. Through the adoption of digital technologies and fetishization of data above all, it has centralized its strategies in the hands of an elite class of overconfident political experts and number-crunchers whose practices are characterized by the rapid platformization and professionalization of party processes. Placing these changes in the context of the partyâ€™s long history of control, this manifesto critiques these practices, particularly the use of predictive analytics and the inability to see volunteers beyond tools to gather and input data. It argues that the party needs to focus on collaborative, grassroots party-building activities and leadership development of local volunteers. Its focus must shift from one of control to one that encourages and emphasizes contention and pluralism as positive aspects of democracy rather than as problems to be obscured or controlled.
No More English Medium-Hindi Medium: Getting Hindi and English Journalism on the Same Page
Authors: Prasad Revati
Published: November 2024

English-language media in India retains and exercises an outsized power that not only carries forward a colonial legacy, but also contributes to a balkanized media sphere. This manifesto argues for and imagines a way out of the entrenched language divides within Indian media, calling for at the very least a merger of English and Hindi language news media online. I argue that establishing parity between languages within newsrooms and on news websites will open a third space that unburdens English of some of its immense privilege in the production and distribution of news. Language is how we traverse the world, and multilingual news could speak to and for a wider group of Indians, transcending some boundaries and creating more common ground.
Introduction to Revolting Media: Why manifestos?
Authors: Freedman Des
Published: November 2024

This article introduces a special section of manifestos on Revolting Media by graduate students at the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania.
The Legacy of Edward Herman
Authors: Mills Tom
Published: November 2024

This article reflects on the legacy of the American media critic and political economist Edward Herman; his influence on the field of media scholarship, and on the authorâ€™s own work. Its notes that Hermanâ€™s contribution has often been underappreciated due to Chomskyâ€™s enormous stature as a public intellectual, and argues that as the principal author of the â€˜propaganda modelâ€™ Herman made a significant contribution to scholarly and public understanding of the private news media. It notes a number of weaknesses in Manufacturing Consent, some of which are well known and have been addressed by the authors: an overemphasis on â€˜closureâ€™ and homogeneity in media systems, and a related â€˜media centrismâ€™ that may engender a certain political fatalism; an underdeveloped conception of the role of ideology; and a lack of empirical evidence on the operation of the five â€˜filtersâ€™ as casual mechanisms giving rise to media content. It concludes that such weaknesses notwithstanding, Hermanâ€™s model is an exemplary piece of sociological theorising, and is only deterministic or simplistic insofar as it is ambitious and schematic.
Reframing the Networked Capacities of Ubiquitous Media
Authors: Marcinkowski Michael
Published: November 2024

James J. Gibsonâ€™s concept of perceptual affordances has a long history, particularly within the field of human computer interaction (HCI) where the concept has been used in various ways to address both the material and cultural requirements of interactive systems. New modes of digital media which look to engage a range of affordances as present in contemporary smartphone platforms offer an opportunity to rethink this critical divide within the use of the concept of affordances. Defining a concordance between Gibsonâ€™s use of the term and Manuel DeLandaâ€™s theory of assemblages, it becomes possible to chart the networks of affordances present in the interaction with and function of these new media forms. Through an analysis of Kate Pullingerâ€™s Breathe, a redefined understanding of the possibilities of affordances is developed, one that is concerned with both the materiality of the system itself and the speculative frame that is developed.
Paul Virilio: Clinical Theory
Authors: Morrow Jim , Shields Rob
Published: November 2024

We characterize Paul Virilio as a «clinical» thinker who diagnoses systemic problems of modernity in accidents and unusual incidents. Virilio’s method of clinical theoretical diagnosis is illustrated through an examination of common elements in his writing, including the German ‘Atlantic Wall’ fortifications of the Second World War, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, consumers’ widespread use of household products emitting volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and the global leisure tourism industry. All illustrate an apocalyptic thinking and a legacy of catastrophe that Virilio refers to as an expansive ‘war machine’ that colonizes all places and flattens difference in the name of normative governance.
Introduction: Michel Serres and Media Theory
Authors: Dawes Simon
Published: November 2024

This short article introduces the special section, ‘Michel Serres and Media Theory’.
Figuring Covid
Authors: Corner John
Published: November 2024

This note examines the ways in which statistics have been an important and controversial aspect of public information concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. The profile has varied internationally but some schematic observations about lines of flow, the distinctive role played by figures and the patterns of debate surrounding them can be made. Issues of comprehension and contestability are foregrounded in ways which, while they have their precedents, indicate broader issues for the character and direction of public communication.
Reappraising the Notion of Medium through an Interpretation of the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars
Authors: Mollicchi Silvia
Published: November 2024

This article argues that Wilfrid Sellars’ work has implications for the notion of medium (and media) and how we discuss it in cultural and media theory. The research introduces Sellarsian materialism, which is both non-dualist and non-reductionist with respect to conception, in the context of Media Theory and traces within it an otherwise implicit articulation of the notion of medium that, is argued, becomes necessary when accounting for the working of rules of validity in a manner that does not naturalise the normative. The article, which begins by putting Sellars in dialogue with authors influenced by Kittler’s work, mobilizes Sellars’ writings on language acquisition and epistemology to show how a notion of medium emerges in Sellarsian philosophy of language, as a consequence of a non-dualist account of validity in linguistic behaviour. This notion explains the relation between language and conception: language can be described as the medium of conception, as opposed to being its means of expression or identified with conception.
Cosmomedia: Natural Dyes in Japan
Authors: Langlois Ganaele
Published: November 2024

This article explores John Durham Peters’ concepts of ‘communication as (impossible) communion’ and ‘elemental media’ by turning to the Japanese traditions of naturally dyed textiles. The article explores the politics of encounter that naturally-dyed textiles enable and links them to the question of world-making. It further examines how the extraction and application of color from the environment engages not only with humans and culture, but with non-human agencies and environmental politics as well. It links John Durham Peters’ work with that of Yuk Hui, particularly through elaborating on cosmotechnics as the ethics of technics, understood here as transformative modes of relations to the world, to non-humans and to more-than-humans.
Stupidity
Authors: Lushetich Natasha
Published: November 2024

In this brief commentary, I trace the ‘development’ of stupidity from human (individual and social) stupidity, via technologically and heteronomically facilitated stupidity, to the more recent human-artificial variant in an attempt to define the difference between human-artificial stupidity, ‘milintelligence’, and artificial intelligence.
New Media, The Information Bomb, and The Overexposed City
Authors: Armitage John
Published: November 2024

New media, defined by the internet and other postindustrial forms of telecommunication, is one of the best-known and most wide-ranging contemporary cultural and critical concepts. This article provides an accessible introduction to the French critic of the art of technology Paul Virilio’s writings on the new media of what Virilio calls ‘the information bomb’ and ‘the overexposed city’. Steering the reader through this crucial thinker’s often challenging work, the article considers Virilio’s ongoing impact on present-day critical new media theory by contrasting it with that of the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. With extensive discussion of Virilio’s and Stiegler’s very different technological and spatial viewpoints and careful appreciation for questions concerning contemporary temporality, the article guides the reader through part of the electronic labyrinth that is new media.
A Media Pharmacology of Face Masks
Authors: Soncul Yigit
Published: November 2024

During WWII a particular type of face mask was designed for and distributed to children, referred to as ‘Mickey Mouse’ respirators due to their distinctive form and colour. Some of these masks contained asbestos in their filters. Asbestos is a toxic substance that is now banned in over 50 countries. Here we have a case in which a material used for protection from toxicity proves itself to be toxic. In other words, asbestos-filter gas masks function as both remedy and poison – a pharmakon. As such, these masks embody the double logic of the materiality of the media condition, which is advanced in this article through a discussion of the materiality of masks from what I call a media-pharmacological perspective. The article takes asbestos and plastic as key substances that mediate the relationship between the body and its environment in the form of masks. This translates into a discussion of harm and protection within this material register. The substances here provide a link between the material use and politics of masking with its aesthetics.
The Environment and Frictionless Technology
Authors: Kemper Jakko
Published: November 2024

This article aims to contribute to the burgeoning exchange between media theory and the environmental humanities by considering the ecological implications of contemporary digital technology in relation to user experience. It does so by arguing for a reconceptualization of the classic philosophical concept of the pharmakon. This concept, which underlines how technology is always simultaneously poison and cure, has been mobilized to assess how human perceptual and sensory capacities are both augmented and curtailed by technology. However, as this article demonstrates through a reorientation of the work of pharmacology’s prime philosopher Bernard Stiegler, familiar interpretations of the pharmakon exhibit an important shortcoming: such interpretations fail to consider how the ostensibly curative perceptual effects of technology may be supported by the propagation of poison elsewhere. This quandary is argued to be especially pressing in light of the dominant digital design philosophy of frictionlessness: in order to facilitate increasingly convenient user experiences, contemporary technology exploits but also increasingly hides its material conditions of production from view. Underlining the pharmacological ramifications of frictionlessness, the article concludes by suggesting that an environmentally sustainable pharmacology would mean appending the common definition of the digital user with a second definition: the user as a usurping subject whose supposedly frictionless experience is pharmacologically facilitated by and perceptually divested of vast networks of exploitation and environmental destruction.
Postcritique
Authors: Felski Rita
Published: November 2024

This paper briefly surveys a history of reckoning with the limits of critique in cultural studies and sociology. It highlights affinities between the turn to postcritique in literary studies and the present generation of Frankfurt School thought, including a heightened attention to everyday life worlds and an interest in developing a more expansive affirmative vocabulary beyond existing theories of utopia. It then raises questions about the political effects of critique in contemporary culture and its potential to trigger counter-productive or unwanted results. In some contexts, it may be strategically wise to rein in the impulse to judge or condemn in the interests of fostering solidarity, empathy, and the building of cross-class coalitions.
Critiquing the Vocabularies of the Marketized University
Authors: Fenton Natalie , Freedman Des , Khiabany Gholam , Williamson Milly
Published: November 2024

Critique is in crisis. Spaces in the university, where critique once flourished under the banner of academic freedom, have been appropriated and hollowed out of meaning. External pressures from the failed project of privatisation of higher education in the UK result in internal pressures from a marketized model of university management that sees critical thinking as branding content to influence market share, rather than relevance for (social) science. This paper considers how the deeds and vocabularies of neoliberalism and the market operate in academic institutions to shape the context in which critical scholarship takes place – a context in which alternative possibilities of what education should or could be for outside of “growth”, “choice” “value for money” and preparation for work, are becoming increasingly rarely envisioned. Simultaneously, academic institutions have appropriated some of the vocabulary of critique, hollowing it out so that it can be consumed without challenging the business objectives that now structure higher education. The thoroughgoing renaming of institutional practices and their sanctioned practice and operation in the context of the ongoing destruction of the university as a public good are tied to the new institutional practices, in an effort to pressurise those who work in higher education to accept that there is no alternative.  We consider the consequences of these practices and argue that, in this context, critical scholarship must also be tied to resistance, both to the vocabularies of the neoliberal university, as well as to its actions. Critique ought to expand our understanding of the possible while demonstrating that existing reality in academia and beyond can be contested in practice.
Reading in Dark Times
Authors: Kalinka Irina
Published: November 2024

The essay ‘Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You’ by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1997; 2003) has been frequently cited as a foundational text of post-critique, especially in literary and queer theory. In this article, I will make the case for reparative reading as a consciously political project, inspired by Sedgwick’s deep commitment to making oppositional strategy, and bring this understanding in critical conversation with some examples of its uptake during the post-critical “reparative turn” in the Humanities. I further posit that Sedgwick was already engaging in such reparative projects even before she explicitly theorized this practice through a close-reading of her 1991 article ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl.’ My overarching argument is that reparative reading, while at times misappropriated, can still provide the foundation for a larger project of queer repair – a prefigurative politics of the imagination.