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Shan, Siqing, Jihong Shi, and Qi Yan. "Blog Recommendation and Management Implications in an Emergency Context: An Information Entropy Perspective." Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research 34, no. 01 (2017): 1740007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217595917400073.
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A modeling methodology for blog recommendation and forecasting based on information entropy is presented. With the increasing popularity of smartphones and the rapid development of the mobile Internet, the amount of user-generated content such as blogs is increasing daily. Valuable information, such as bloggers’ opinions, feelings, and attitudes, is often part of this content. Particularly in the context of an emergency, this information should also be used to facilitate decision making. The current blog recommendation model examines primarily users’ interests or content similarity, whereas in this paper, the value of the blog is considered. The primary contribution of this paper is the proposal of an information-entropy-based blog recommendation model for finding valuable blogs to facilitate decision-making in an emergency context. A series of indicators for evaluating a blog in an emergency context are proposed. Using the method of information entropy, a blog recommendation model is developed. The model can also be used to forecast the value of emergency blogs in the future. The model has been tested and validated using crawled data from the Sina Blog, and the results have demonstrated that the proposed model can effectively determine the value of emergency-related blogs.
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Hull, Kimmelin, Kristen S. Montgomery, Pamela Vireday, and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett. "Maternal Obesity From All Sides." Journal of Perinatal Education 20, no. 4 (2011): 226–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1058-1243.20.4.226.
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This column features excerpts from a recent series of articles from the Lamaze International research blog, Science & Sensibility. The eight-part series examined the issue of maternal obesity from various perspectives, incorporating writings from Kimmelin Hull, a physician assistant, a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, and the community manager of Science & Sensibility; Kristen Montgomery, a nursing professor at the University of North Carolina‐Charlotte; Pamela Vireday, a childbirth educator and blogger; and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, a health psychologist, lactation consultant, and writer/speaker. The authors of the blog series, titled “Maternal Obesity from All Sides,” reviewed current research about risks associated with maternal obesity as well as the humanistic issues and lived experiences of pregnant women of size.
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Diego-González, Patricia, and Mónica Herrero-Subías. "The Development of Online Series Produced by End Users: The Case of Video Blog Fiction." Palabra Clave - Revista de Comunicación 13, no. 2 (2010): 325–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2010.13.2.6.
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Lin, Michelle, Nikita Joshi, Andrew Grock, et al. "Approved Instructional Resources Series: A National Initiative to Identify Quality Emergency Medicine Blog and Podcast Content for Resident Education." Journal of Graduate Medical Education 8, no. 2 (2016): 219–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4300/jgme-d-15-00388.1.
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ABSTRACT Emergency medicine (EM) residency programs can provide up to 20% of their planned didactic experiences asynchronously through the Individualized Interactive Instruction (III) initiative. Although blogs and podcasts provide potential material for III content, programs often struggle with identifying quality online content.Background To develop and implement a process to curate quality EM content on blogs and podcasts for resident education and III credit.Objective We developed the Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) Series on the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine website. Monthly, an editorial board identifies, peer reviews, and writes assessment questions for high-quality blog/podcast content. Eight educators rate each post using a standardized scoring instrument. Posts scoring ≥ 30 of 35 points are awarded an AIR badge and featured in the series. Enrolled residents can complete an assessment quiz for III credit. After 12 months of implementation, we report on program feasibility, enrollment rate, web analytics, and resident satisfaction scores.Methods As of June 2015, 65 EM residency programs are enrolled in the AIR Series, and 2140 AIR quizzes have been completed. A total of 96% (2064 of 2140) of participants agree or strongly agree that the activity would improve their clinical competency, 98% (2098 of 2140) plan to use the AIR Series for III credit, and 97% (2077 of 2140) plan to use it again in the future.Results The AIR Series is a national asynchronous EM curriculum featuring quality blogs and podcasts. It uses a national expert panel and novel scoring instrument to peer review web-based educational resources.Conclusions
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Simkin, Penny. "Pain, Suffering, and Trauma in Labor and Prevention of Subsequent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Journal of Perinatal Education 20, no. 3 (2011): 166–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1058-1243.20.3.166.
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In this column, Kimmelin Hull, community manager ofScience & Sensibility, Lamaze International’s research blog, reprints and discusses a recent blog post series by acclaimed writer, lecturer, doula, and normal birth advocate Penny Simkin. Examined here is the fruitful dialog that ensued—including testimonies from blog readers about their own experiences with traumatic birth and subsequent posttraumatic stress disorder. Hull further highlights the impact traumatic birth has not only on the birthing woman but also on the labor team—including doulas and childbirth educators—and the implied need for debriefing processes for birth workers. Succinct tools for assessing a laboring woman’s experience of pain versus suffering are offered by Simkin, along with Hull’s added suggestions for application during the labor and birth process.
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Shedrick, Dawn E. "Comments on the results of the survey of NSWM’s Monday Morning Manager blog series." Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance 42, no. 5 (2018): 435–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2018.1531210.
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Wang, Yinglin. "Stock market forecasting with financial micro-blog based on sentiment and time series analysis." Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Science) 22, no. 2 (2017): 173–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12204-017-1818-4.
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Huang, Yuan Hui. "Research on the Network Micro-Blog Public Welfare Communication System." Applied Mechanics and Materials 687-691 (November 2014): 4556–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.687-691.4556.
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Marketing is a series of market-related business activities in the business in a changing market environment and it is to adapt, to stimulate and satisfy consumer demand. It is not only important for enterprise business activities, but also the important basic business functions. On the one hand, companies can understand the market through marketing of consumer demand, contact a close relationship with target consumers, businesses and the market and to better meet the market needs of consumers; on the other hand, corporate prove product development through market, expanding demand and increase sales through marketing advertising, marketing and so on, so that improve consumer acceptance of new products, new technologies, and tap the potential demand, expanding the real needs and achieve business targets.
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Zhao, L., T. Maniuk, T. M. Chan, and B. Thoma. "P167: The spot the diagnosis! series: using fine art to teach observation skills and medical concepts on a medical education website." CJEM 20, S1 (2018): S116—S117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2018.365.
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Introduction: Fine art education increases the quality and quantity of observations that medical students make in both art and clinical reports. However, there are few free and accessible resources that teach art and observational skills to healthcare learners and providers. CanadiEM.org, a medical education blog, developed a new series called Spot the Diagnosis! to address this gap. The goals of the Spot the Diagnosis! series are to: 1) use art to explain medical concepts, 2) tie medical concepts to visual art, 3) hone observational skills, and 4) expose healthcare providers to art. Methods: Each piece of art for the Spot the Diagnosis! Series is selected based upon the author’s art history knowledge, resources found using an online search, and/or suggestions made by other healthcare professionals. The accompanying blog post is researched and written by a medical student in a question-and-answer style and peer-reviewed by another medical student and physician. Posts are uploaded monthly to CanadiEM.org and accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Promotion occurs on site, via email, word-of-mouth, and social media. Viewership is tracked using Google Analytics (GA). A survey for readers is planned to assess who, how, and why readers use the series, but results were not available prior to abstract submission. Results: Six Spot the Diagnosis! posts have been published, each of which begins with the selection of a piece of fine arts that showcases a potential medical diagnosis and a blog post outlining an interpretation of the work informed by observations, historical reports, and medical evidence. Each was published as a blog post on a Saturday and added to a page containing a list of all posts in the broader Arts PRN section on CanadiEM. All contained a single piece of art as the focus, 6 ± 2 (median ± IQR) questions, 638 ± 250 words, and 6 ± 3 references. The answers to questions are hidden under drop-down formatting to allow viewers to arrive at their own answers first. In the first 30 days of publication, each post in the series was viewed 1582 ± 401 times. Conclusion: The Spot the Diagnosis! series is an online educational resource published on CanadiEM.org that aims to improve learners medical knowledge and observational skills by featuring fine arts pieces with relevant question-and-answer style posts. This series fills the gap between art and medicine and has been well received by CanadiEM viewers. We look forward to analyzing responses in our survey to further understand how, why, and who uses this new and innovative resource.
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Angus, Emma. "Why Blog? Motivations for Blogging20107Sarah Pedersen. Why Blog? Motivations for Blogging. Oxford: Chandos Publishing 2010. 152 pp., ISBN: 9781843345831 £42.00 (soft cover) Chandos Information Professional Series." Online Information Review 34, no. 6 (2010): 989–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14684521011099504.
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Beaudoin, Joan E. "Describing Images: A Case Study of Visual Literacy among Library and Information Science Students." College & Research Libraries 77, no. 3 (2016): 376–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.77.3.376.
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This paper reports on a study that examined the development of pedagogical methods for increasing the visual literacy skills of a group of library and information science students. Through a series of three assignments, students were asked to provide descriptive information for a set of historical photographs and record reflections on their experiences via blog posts. The three separate versions of the image descriptions submitted by the students were analyzed to discern changes using descriptive statistics, and their blog posts were examined to identify recurrent themes using the constant comparative method. Findings associated with the image descriptions indicate that students’ skill in describing the photographs show a modest increase across the three versions. Analysis of the blog postings revealed an overarching theme of frustration associated with the experience of developing image descriptions among the students. The underlying reasons for their frustrations are examined, and suggestions are provided for further increasing students’ abilities to describe images.
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Rahayu, Rizki Anugrah Putri. "Effect of Collaborative Writing Combined with Blog Online Learning on Indonesian EFL Learners’ Writing Skill across Motivation." SALEE: Study of Applied Linguistics and English Education 2, no. 1 (2021): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.35961/salee.v2i01.219.
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Abstract:
 
 This study aims to investigate collaborative writing combined with blog online learning on the writing skill of Indonesian English foreign language (EFL) learners’ across their motivation. This research included a quasi experimental with the comparative time series. A quasi experimental study was employed by involving 61 learners of Senior High School. This research applied in into two groups: experimental and control. The treatment was conducted at 7 sessions, including the pre-test and post-test. The scores of pre-test and post-test in writing were used as a base of quantitative data analysis whereas the learners’ responses to motivation questionnaire were used to categorize their motivation. The result revealed that the collaborative writing combined with blog online learning on the writing was effective to enhance the learners’ writing skill. In addition, to apply the combination of collaborative writing and online blog learning, teacher should not worry about different levels of motivation among students where the students were motivated to use language.
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Hou, Huei-Tse, and Chun-Ching Ho. "Applying time series analysis to forecast learners' participation patterns in blog instructional activities: a preliminary study." British Journal of Educational Technology 42, no. 5 (2011): E91—E93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2011.01196.x.
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Chatterjea, Ipsita. "“Better get to know Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy”." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 44, no. 4 (2016): 46–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i4.29035.
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Part of a recurring series on the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, "Better get to know..." profiles the groups that groups and organizations that support the analysis of, teaching of, media covering analytical scholarship focused on religion. This installment profiles Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy, through a conversation Craig Martin and Brad Stoddard.
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Meraz, Sharon. "Using Time Series Analysis to Measure Intermedia Agenda-Setting Influence in Traditional Media and Political Blog Networks." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 88, no. 1 (2011): 176–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769901108800110.
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Chan, Teresa M., David Jo, Andrew W. Shih, et al. "The Massive Online Needs Assessment (MONA) to inform the development of an emergency haematology educational blog series." Perspectives on Medical Education 7, no. 3 (2018): 219–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40037-018-0406-0.
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Roller, Sarah A., Diona Cozzolino, Adrienne King, and Lory Schieler. "Making Time for Book Study." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 24, no. 4 (2019): 243–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.24.4.0243.
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NCTM has underscored the critical role of professional collaboration for instructional improvement (Larson 2017). Furthermore, collaborating on instruction is part of the Professionalism Principle in Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All (NCTM 2014). One blog entry in Matt Larson's President's Message (2017) challenged teachers to work in collaborative teams and advised them to explore one of NCTM's newly released series, Taking Action: Implementing Effective Teaching Practices.
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Sheedy, Matt. "NAASR Notes." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 44, no. 2 (2015): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i2.27303.
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NAASR Notes began as feature with the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, where we invite members of the North American Association for the Study of Religion to describe books they are reading and/or research and writing projects that will be of interests to scholars in the field. The following are the first five pieces in the series: by Sean Durbin, Jason Blum, Russell McCutcheon, Naomi Goldenberg, and Dennis LoRusso.
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Woo, Hyekyung, Hyeon Sung Cho, Eunyoung Shim, et al. "Identification of Keywords From Twitter and Web Blog Posts to Detect Influenza Epidemics in Korea." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 12, no. 3 (2017): 352–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2017.84.
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AbstractObjectiveSocial media data are a highly contextual health information source. The objective of this study was to identify Korean keywords for detecting influenza epidemics from social media data.MethodsWe included data from Twitter and online blog posts to obtain a sufficient number of candidate indicators and to represent a larger proportion of the Korean population. We performed the following steps: initial keyword selection; generation of a keyword time series using a preprocessing approach; optimal feature selection; model building and validation using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator, support vector machine (SVM), and random forest regression (RFR).ResultsA total of 15 keywords optimally detected the influenza epidemic, evenly distributed across Twitter and blog data sources. Model estimates generated using our SVM model were highly correlated with recent influenza incidence data.ConclusionsThe basic principles underpinning our approach could be applied to other countries, languages, infectious diseases, and social media sources. Social media monitoring using our approach may support and extend the capacity of traditional surveillance systems for detecting emerging influenza. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018; 12: 352–359)
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Li, Tim M. H., Michael Chau, Paul S. F. Yip, and Paul W. C. Wong. "Temporal and Computerized Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Blog of a Chinese Adolescent Suicide." Crisis 35, no. 3 (2014): 168–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000248.
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Background: Text analysis of personal documents provides insight into the cognition of those who complete suicide. Many personal documents are digitalized and easily found on the Internet, which can be used to advance suicide research. Aims: (1) To examine the temporal relationships between posting intensity and language use to sketch the suicidal process of a young man on the basis of his blog entries. (2) To investigate whether digitalized personal documents and paper documents of suicide cases have similar or different language patterns. Method: Firstly, 193 blog entries of a 13-year-old boy posted during the year prior to his suicide were analyzed using the Chinese Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (CLIWC) program. The temporal relationships between posting intensity and language use were illustrated by time series visualization. Secondly, the findings of this case study were compared with previous case studies from a systematic search of three Ovid databases. Results: Posting frequency and language use in the blog helped sketch the suicidal process of the young boy. In this case study, the ratio of positive to negative emotion words was associated with the posting trend. Progressive self-referencing appeared to be a primary predictive sign of suicide. However, the comparison did not show other clearly consistent patterns. Conclusion: Digitalized personal documents, when interpreted with other information of the individual, provide insight into the suicidal process of completed suicides. This study extends the findings of psycholinguistic analyses of suicides to the Chinese social context and online document form.
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Liang, Chunyang, Guangfa Lin, and Junchao Peng. "Discover the Spatio-temporal Process of Typhoon Disaster Using Micro blog Data." MATEC Web of Conferences 246 (2018): 03013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201824603013.
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When a disaster occurs, a large number of images and texts attached geographic information often flood the social network in the Internet quickly. All these information provide a new data source for timely awareness of disaster situations. However, due to the regional variation in the number of social media users and characteristics of information propagate in cyberspace, new problems arose in the pattern analysis of spatial point process represented by the check-in data, such as the correlation between check-in points density and disasters events density, the spatial relation between check-in points, the spatial heterogeneity of point pattern and associated influences. In this study, we took the No. 201614 Typhoon as an example and collected Sina Weibo data between September 14 and September 17, 2016 using keywords “Typhoon” and “Meranti”. We classified the Weibo texts using Support Vector Machine(SVM) algorithms, and constructed a disaster database containing relevant check-in information. In addition, considering the spatial heterogeneity of Weibo users, we proposed a weighted model based on user activity at the check-in points. Using Moran’s I of the global autocorrelation statistics, we compared the check-in data before and after adding weights and discovered obvious spatial autocorrelation of the check-in data in real geographical locations. We tested our model on Weibo data with keyword “rain” and “power failure”. The results show that series map generated by our model can reflect the typhoon disaster spatio-temporal process trends well.
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Grüters, Ruth, and Knut Ove Eliassen. "Medieøkologien i SKAM." Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling 6, no. 2 (2017): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ntik.v6i2.99078.
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AbstractTo understand the success of SKAM, the series’ innovative use of “social media” must be taken into consideration. The article follows two lines of argument, one diachronic, the other synchronic. The concept of remediation allows for a historical perspective that places the series in a longer tradition of “real time”-fictions and media practices that span from the epistolary novels of the 18th century by way of radio theatre and television serials to the new media of the 21st century. Framing the series within the current media ecology (marked by the connectivity logic of “social media”), the authors analyze how the choice of the blog as the drama’s media platform has formed the ways the series succeeded in affecting and mobilizing its audience. Given the long tradition of strong pedagogical premises in the teenager serials of publicly financed Norwegian television, the authors note the absence of any explicit media critical perspectives or didacticism. Nevertheless, the claim is that the media-practices of the series, as well as the actions and discourses of its followers (blogposts, facebook-groups, etc.), generate new insights and knowledge with regards to the series’ form, content, and practices.
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Hellsten, Iina, and Eleftheria Vasileiadou. "The creation of the climategate hype in blogs and newspapers: mixed methods approach." Internet Research 25, no. 4 (2015): 589–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/intr-05-2014-0130.
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Purpose – Research into the emergence of a hype requires a mixed methods approach that takes into account both the evolution over time and mutual influences across different types of media. The purpose of this paper is to present a methodological approach to detect an emerging hype in online communications. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) time series modelling and semantic co-word networks, and this combination of methods provides a view on the emergence and development of a hype at the level of mutual influences across a heterogeneous set of newspaper and blog data. The subject scope of the paper is the climategate hype. The climategate hype was triggered by the online publication of a set of hacked e-mails belonging to climate researchers at the East Anglia University in November 2009. Findings – The main findings show that the climategate hype was initiated in the blogs, and the newspapers were reacting to the blogs. At the level of semantics, the blogs and the newspapers framed the issue from opposite perspectives. Research limitations/implications – The combination of methods contributes theoretical insights to how blogs interact with more traditional media on hype generation and methodological insights to internet researchers investigating emergent online hypes. The method calls for further validation. Practical implications – Investigating the emergence and evolution of a hype, and the interaction of the two media is relevant for journalists in becoming more reflexive in their practices and the cues from the outside world. Originality/value – The paper is novel in its combination of the two specific methods, ARIMA time series modelling and co-word networks and its attempt to identify the media origins of a hype, and especially the interaction between blogs and newspapers.
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Räber, Stefan, and Lorenz Hurni. "Kaleidoscope of Swiss Cartography." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-305-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Motivation</p><p>In 2015/2016 the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (ZB, Zurich Central Library) and the Swiss Society of Cartography (SSC) presented a map blog to mark the 2015/16 International Map Year. In this weekly blog, cartographer and map librarian Markus Oehrli described and commented on 70 known and less-known Swiss map documents. In 2017, the map history journal Cartographica Helvetica published 58 of these 70 map documents in a special issue. In 2019, SSC will translate the blog into English, which will be published in its publication series to mark the 50th anniversary of the society.</p><p>During the 2015/16 International Map Year, which was initiated and proclaimed by the ICA, national cartographic societies were encouraged to organise various kinds of public activities and events as part of this worldwide celebration of maps. The SSC coordinated and organised more than 20 of these events within Switzerland. The “Karte der Woche” (Map of the week) blog, which was offered an in-depth and sometimes surprising look at Swiss cartography, was received with much enthusiasm by the general public and experts alike. During the 70-week map year (between August 2015 and December 2016), the blog provided a comprehensive profile of Swiss map-making on the website http://cartography.ch.</p><p>Map year blog: 70 maps in 70 weeks</p><p>The documents presented in the blog cover both current and historical productions evenly. The oldest map dates from before the year 900 and the most recent from 2016. The exhibits include traditional maps for which Swiss cartography is widely known and world-renowned, i.e. topographical maps, hiking maps, city maps, road maps, bird’s-eye views, statistical maps, and school maps. A relief model, a horizontal panorama, a pictorial map, an infographic and numerous thematic maps relating to folklore, navigation, archaeology, sport, etc. are also to be found. Furthermore, geo-media is also represented and includes such as maps produced by means of geographical information systems and web map mashups. In contrast, techniques that have almost been forgotten today, such as typometry and map printing on silk, are also presented. A very special historic piece is the 16th century globe by Abraham Gessner which can also be used as a drinking cup. There are even maps of subterranean and lunar worlds or maps of imaginary places. Some of the authors or producers of the presented documents are well-known cartographic publishers and federal institutions, but some are little known individuals working away on their own. Besides trained cartographers, the blog also features work by a priest, a spy and an artist.</p><p>For the purpose of this blog, only maps created by Swiss authors or published by a Swiss publishing house were selected. Another selection criterion was the fair balance among the different regions in Switzerland. All parts of the country and almost all cantons feature at least once. In order to document the global network of Swiss cartography, about a third of the presented documents also show areas outside of the country’s borders.</p><p>The blog offers plenty of background information and is spiced with a pinch of humour, without ever losing sight of the central theme – Swiss cartography. The individual blog texts were researched and written by Markus Oehrli who is a long-standing SSC member. The pictures have been published with the consent of the copyright holders. Where possible, a link within the blog refers to a high-resolution image or to an interactive map application on the Internet. The first blog entry was published on 4 September 2015 and each further blog was released every Friday until 30 December 2016.</p><p>Special issue – Kaleidoskop der Schweizer Kartografie (Kaleidoscope of Swiss Cartography) in German</p><p>In 2017, Cartographica Helvetica, the leading German-language journal for map history, devoted a 64-page special issue to the map blog. Under the title “Kaleidoskop der Schweizer Kartografie” (“Kaleidoscope of Swiss Cartography”), a selection of 58 documents from the blog were printed in the issue in a new, innovative way, both in terms of graphics and content. In addition, this edition of Cartographica Helvetica was published in digitized form on the Swiss journal repository e-periodica.ch. It is free to access and offers features such as full text search, an advanced search using various filters, the ability to browse page by page, the enlargement of pages up to about 600%, download possibility for all pages and all articles as PDF documents. The repository navigation is trilingual, in German, English and French.</p><p>English edition part of SSC’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 2019</p><p>In order to meet the great demand for the widely acclaimed map blog and the “Kaleidoskop der Schweizer Kartografie” special issue – which sold very well – SSC decided to publish the blog also in English to help commemorate its 50th anniversary in 2019. This will make the content accessible to an even wider public. With this contribution we propose to announce and publish the English version during a presentation to an international audience of experts at ICC 2019 in Tokyo. We will give insight how the 70 artefacts were chosen according to the scientific, geographic and thematic selection criteria. The composition of the accompanying texts is based upon the thorough scientific research especially carried out for this project. We hope that this approach may serve as a model for similar projects showing the richness of excellent cartographic artefacts all over the world!</p>
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Zaver, F., and M. Lin. "LO102: ALiEM AIR-Pro Series: identifying quality content from blogs and podcasts for the senior emergency medicine resident." CJEM 18, S1 (2016): S65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2016.139.
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Introduction / Innovation Concept: In 2008, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education endorsed a change such that EM residency programs can decrease their synchronous conference experiences by up to 20% in exchange for asynchronous learning - Individualized Interactive Instruction (III). Identifying quality online resources that would also fulfill III’s reporting criteria (program director monitoring, evaluation component, faculty oversight, program effectiveness) is challenging. Using crowdsourced expertise, the Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) series from Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) was created in 2014 to provide a credible method to identify quality educational blogs and podcasts. The identified resources, however, focused on basic content with limited utility for more senior residents. We thus created the AIR-Pro series in 2015, aimed to cover more advanced concepts. Methods: The AIR-Pro series is a continuously building curriculum covering a new subject area every 2 months. For each area, 6 EM Chief Residents identify 3-5 advanced clinical questions. Using FOAMsearch.net to search blogs and podcasts, relevant posts are scored by 8 reviewers from the AIR-Pro Board (faculty and chief residents at various institutions). The scoring instrument contains 5 measurement outcomes (7-point Likert scale): recency, accuracy, educational utility, evidence based, and references. The AIR-Pro Approved label is given to posts with a score of ≥28 (out of 35) points and these are featured in the blog posting. For scores of 26-27, an Honorable Mention label is given if Board members collectively felt that they were valuable. For each AIR-Pro subject area, a multiple choice quiz is written based on the featured posts. Educator dashboard access of the Google Drive quizzes is given to program directors for monitoring. If approved by their program director, EM residents receive official III credit upon completion of each quiz. Curriculum, Tool, or Material: As of Jan 1, 2016, there have been 2 modules published on ALiEM with 1,220 (Cardiovascular) and 1,059 (Trauma) pageviews worldwide. Although early in development, 21 different institutions are using the AIR-Pro Series with over 150 residents completed the cardiovascular and trauma quizzes. We anticipate more because the original AIR Series has over 73 programs using it for III credit. Conclusion: The AIR-Pro series is a novel, objective, crowdsourced approach towards identifying quality, educational, social media content for the advanced EM resident.
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Staniforth, Mark. "Anti-sonnets." Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 13, no. 1 (2020): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.13.1.47_3.
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The following article selects twelve works from Mark Staniforth’s year-long ‘Anti-sonnets’ series, for which Staniforth created an experimental sonnet for each day of the year. The project forms part of a broader investigation into the potential exploitation of subjectivity in modern, multi-media-inspired praxis. The sonnets recognize the inevitable failure of the pursuit of absolute objectivity: that authorial influence can never entirely be purged. Therefore it was appropriate that the sonnets were created for and shared on a blog – one of the earliest examples of Web 2.0 user-generated content-driven web design (<uri href="https://antisonnets.wordpress.com/">https://antisonnets.wordpress.com/</uri>).
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Purdy, Eve, Brent Thoma, Ken Milne, and Chris Bond. "SGEM Hot Off the Press: hypertonic saline in severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials." CJEM 18, no. 5 (2016): 379–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2016.374.
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AbstractAs part of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine’s (CJEM) developing social media strategy,1 we are collaborating with the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) to summarize and critically appraise the current emergency medicine (EM) literature using evidence-based medicine principles. In the “Hot Off the Press” series, we select original research manuscripts published in CJEM to be featured on the SGEM website/podcast and discussed by the study authors and the online EM community. A similar collaboration is under way between the SGEM and Academic Emergency Medicine. What follows is a summary of the selected article, the immediate post-publication synthesis from the SGEM podcast, commentary by the first author, and the subsequent discussion from the SGEM blog and other social media. Through this series, we hope to enhance the value, accessibility, and application of important, clinically relevant EM research. In this, the second SGEM HOP hosted collaboratively with CJEM, we discuss a systematic review evaluating the use of hypertonic saline in the treatment of severe traumatic brain injury.2
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McKenna, Paul, Brent Thoma, Ken Milne, and Chris Bond. "SGEM Hot Off the Press: ultrasound during critical care simulation: a randomized crossover study." CJEM 19, no. 1 (2016): 50–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2016.380.
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AbstractAs part of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine’s (CJEM) developing social media strategy,1 we are collaborating with the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) to summarize and critically appraise the current emergency medicine (EM) literature using evidence-based medicine principles. In the “Hot Off the Press” series, we select original research manuscripts published in CJEM to be featured on the SGEM website/podcast2 and discussed by the study authors and the online EM community. A similar collaboration is underway between the SGEM and Academic Emergency Medicine. What follows is a summary of the selected article the immediate post-publication synthesis from the SGEM podcast, commentary by the first author, and the subsequent discussion from the SGEM blog and other social media. Through this series, we hope to enhance the value, accessibility, and application of important, clinically relevant EM research. In this, the third SGEM HOP hosted collaboratively with CJEM, we discuss Olszynski et al.’s randomized crossover study evaluating the use of ultrasound simulator devices during critical care simulation.3
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Blutman, László. "Red Signal from Karlsruhe: Towards a New Equilibrium or New Level of Conflict?" Central European Journal of Comparative Law 1, no. 2 (2020): 33–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.47078/2020.2.33-48.
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In its PSPP decision, the German Constitutional Court for the first time declared an EU act ultra vires. The decision resulted in a flood of studies, blog posts, and comments. Most criticised the verdict raising a series of objections. We agree with some objections. However, the present study approaches the judgment from the other side. It seeks to understand the situation of the constitutional courts of Member States in the EU legal system, to examine their main dilemmas in relation to EU law, and to explore their possibilities regarding their main task, which is the protection of constitutions. The study highlights the fundamental structural tension that currently characterises the EU legal system concerning Member States’ sovereignty and examines how a balance can be struck in addressing this tension.
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Valentine, Keri Duncan, and J. Kopcha Theodore. "Manifestations of Middle School Learners’ Problematization Activity as an Embodied Phenomenon." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 51, no. 5 (2020): 541–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc-2020-0162.
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Current reforms in geometry seek to challenge prevailing ideas about “what it means to do mathematics” (Stephan et al., 2015, p. 139) by engaging learners in “the grasping of space” (Freudenthal, 1973; Hansen et al., 1998, p. 241). This study takes up this challenge by investigating problematizing activity as an embodied phenomenon among 21 eighth-grade learners who engaged with spatial and dimensional concepts during a series of investigations around Flatland. Using a phenomenological research approach, we examined classroom discourse as well as learners’ blog postings, lived-experience descriptions, and interviews. The analysis revealed three manifestations of problematizing activity—provocation, impasse, and questioning and conjecturing activity. Embodiment was evidenced through perceptuo-motor-imaginary activity as learners juxtaposed naturally continuous space with discrete notions of space emphasized in K−12 settings.
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Zhang, Jianwei, Seiya Tomonaga, Shinsuke Nakajima, Yoichi Inagaki, and Reyn Nakamoto. "Prophetic blogger identification based on buzzword prediction ability." International Journal of Web Information Systems 12, no. 3 (2016): 267–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijwis-03-2016-0013.
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Purpose Identifying important users from social media has recently attracted much attention in the information and knowledge management community. Although researchers have focused on users’ knowledge levels on certain topics or influence degrees on other users in social networks, previous works have not studied users’ prediction ability on future popularity. This paper aims to propose a novel approach to find prophetic bloggers based on their buzzword prediction ability. Design/methodology/approach The main approach is to conduct a time-series analysis in the blogosphere considering four factors: post earliness, content similarity, entry frequency and buzzword coverage. Our method has four steps: categorizing a blogger into knowledgeable categories, identifying past buzzwords, analyzing a buzzword’s peak time content and growth period and, finally, evaluating a blogger’s prediction ability on a buzzword and on a category. Findings Experimental results on real-world blog data consisting of 150 million entries from 11 million bloggers demonstrate that the proposed approach can find prophetic bloggers and outperforms others that do not take temporal features into account. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, our approach is the first successful attempt to identify prophetic bloggers. Finding prophetic bloggers can bring great values for two reasons. First, as prophetic bloggers tend to post creative and insightful information, analysis on their blog entries may help find future buzzword candidates. Second, communication with prophetic bloggers can help understand future trends, gain insight into early adopters’ thoughts on new technology or even foresee things that will become popular.
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Masséglia, Jane. "Rome's Walking Dead: Resurrecting a Roman Funeral at the Ashmolean Museum." Journal of Classics Teaching 17, no. 33 (2016): 31–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2058631016000088.
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The Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project (AshLI) is a three-year collaboration between the universities of Warwick and Oxford, and the Ashmolean Museum. Its remit comprises, aside from photographing, cataloguing and translating the Museum's collection of more than 350 Latin-inscribed objects, a wide-ranging programme of public- and schools-engagement: as well as the epigraphers (inscriptions specialists), imaging experts and digital encoders, Professor Alison Cooley's team also includes a PGCE-qualified Classics teacher and blogger, and a trained podcast producer. Their aim is to tell stories of Roman life, using inscriptions as a starting point, through INSET days, free teaching resources, short films and regular podcasts made available through the project's blog ‘Reading, Writing, Romans’. In 2015, the team organised the first in a series of large-scale, direct public engagement events, when it staged a Roman funeral procession in the Ashmolean Museum.
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Fuechtner, Veronika, and Paul Lerner. "Babylon Berlin: Media, Spectacle, and History." Central European History 53, no. 4 (2020): 835–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938920000771.
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Babylon Berlin (henceforth BB) premiered in Germany on the pay channel Sky TV in October 2017 and in the United States on the streaming service Netflix in January 2018. It is based on Volker Kutscher's series of crime novels set in late Weimar Republic and early Nazi-era Berlin. At its center are the lives and investigations of the laconic and tormented police detective Gereon Rath and his charismatic and irrepressible assistant Charlotte (Lotte) Ritter. In anticipation of the series premiere on public television, marathon screenings took place in 150 cinemas across Germany, where audience members dressed up in 1920s fashion and enjoyed a Currywurst break. Its viewership in the Federal Republic was topped only by the global fantasy behemoth Game of Thrones. The series is clearly modeled on American series such as Mad Men (2007–2015) and The Wire (2002–2008) as it unfolds a complex web of characters and subplots with loving attention to the history and fashions of the time. Indeed, this collaboration of seasoned directors Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Henk Handloegten is the most expensive German TV series to date. The fact that BB premiered on pay TV while having been largely produced with public funds drew some ire. German reviewers questioned both the circumstances of its production and its creative ambition. While Der Spiegel called it “a masterpiece,” one much debated blog review went so far as to call it “pure crap,” which neither reflected historical truth nor carried artistic merit. Many critics faulted the series for trading in postcard clichés and creating a 1920s “Berlin Disneyland.” The weekly Die Zeit complained that there was a little too much cute dialect, such as “icke” and “kiek ma,” which made the critic sometimes feel like wiping the dirt makeup off the proletarian faces. (And indeed, one of the numerous intertexts of this series are Heinrich Zille's unflinching depictions of proletarian misery.)
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Vertoont, Susan. "Would you date ‘the undateables’? An analysis of the mediated public debate on the reality television show ‘The Undateables’." Sexualities 21, no. 5-6 (2017): 825–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717699782.
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This article examines the different discourses in the online public debate surrounding the television dating show ‘The Undateables’. The programme, which exclusively focuses on dates of disabled people, was launched in the UK in 2012, and local adaptations of the format were broadcast in Belgium and the Netherlands. The article applies the dis/ability approach of Goodley and Runswick-Cole (2014) to examine the way in which representations of disabled singles are evaluated online. As a perspective, dis/ability destabilizes notions of normativity and enables an inquiry into not just marginalized identities, but also dominant identities. The analysis of blog posts, tweets and online press reviews of the first series of the British, Flemish and Dutch version of ‘The Undateables’ provides more insights into hegemonic and resistant notions on disability, dating and romantic relationships. This article argues that prejudices, as already identified by Morris in 1991, are still very dominant today.
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Huang, S., K. Milne, L. J. Martin, et al. "MP22: The impact of collaborative social media promotion on the dissemination of CJEM articles." CJEM 19, S1 (2017): S72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2017.188.
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Introduction: The CJEM Social Media Team was created in 2014 to assist the journal with the dissemination of its research online. It consists of two Social Media Editors (Junior and Senior) and a team of volunteer medical students and residents to assist their work. Collaborative promotional agreements were developed to promote CJEM articles on the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine (SGEM) podcast through the ‘Hot off the Press’ (HOP) series and the CanadiEM blog through an infographic series. Methods: CJEM papers were selected for promotion by the Team based on their perceived interest to the online community of emergency physicians. Altmetric scores, which are a measure of online dissemination derived from a weighted algorithm of social media metrics, were collated for articles promoted using the SGEM HOP or CanadiEM blogs. A control group was created using the articles with the top two Altmetric scores in each CJEM issue in 2015 and 2016. Erratum, Letters, and articles written by the social media editors were excluded from the control groups. The success of the social media promotion was quantified through the measurement of Altmetric scores as of January 1, 2017. Unpaired two-tailed t-tests with unequal variance were used to test for significant differences. Results: 106 and 82 eligible articles were published in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Four articles in 2015 and two articles in 2016 were excluded from the control groups because they were written by the social media editors. SGEM HOP podcasts promoted one article in 2015 and five articles in 2016. CanadiEM infographics promoted three articles in 2015 and eight articles in 2016. No articles were promoted in both series. The average Altmetric score was higher for SGEM HOP (61.0) than CanadiEM Infographics (31.5, p&lt;0.04), 2015 controls (15.8, p&lt;0.01), and 2016 controls (13.6, p&lt;0.01). The average Altmetric score for CanadiEM Infographics was higher than 2015 controls (p&lt;0.04) and 2016 controls (p&lt;0.02). There was no significant difference between the control groups. Conclusion: The results suggest that collaborating with established social media websites to promote CJEM articles using podcasts and infographics increases their social media dissemination. Given the nonrandomized design of these results, causative conclusions cannot be drawn. A randomized study of the impact of social media promotion on readership is underway.
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Yamin, Moh. "Learning From Students’ Experiences in Writing Paragraph." Metathesis: Journal of English Language, Literature, and Teaching 3, no. 2 (2019): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.31002/metathesis.v3i2.1736.
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<p>This article aims to describe the students' ability in writing a paragraph. It is a descriptive qualitative in which the number of respondents is 60 students. All samples are taken from the guided writing class as the first subject series of a writing class. The data collection is obtained through a number of assignments they did and uploaded in a blog. From all assignments of writing task, only six assignments of writing task were taken and analyzed, based on top ones in writing quality starting from topic sentence, supporting sentences, and concluding sentence. Based on the analysis result, students’ ability is located on weakness in determining the topic sentence, starting the topic sentence, and writing supporting sentences. Their weakness appears because of the inability to formulate the topic, topic sentence, and difficulty to find the relevant supporting sentences to write for supporting the topic sentence. The inability of formulating topic, topic sentence, and supporting sentences contributes towards inability to apply the unity knowledge in making supporting sentences united.</p>
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Fry, Marie-Louise. "Rethinking social marketing: towards a sociality of consumption." Journal of Social Marketing 4, no. 3 (2014): 210–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jsocm-02-2014-0011.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how members of an online alcohol reduction community learn, construct and engage in alcohol reduction consumption consistencies. Design/methodology/approach – Blog data from 15 individuals participating in the online community of Hello Sunday Morning were collected and analysed. Informants also participated in a series of in-depth interviews to gain a self-reflective perspective of alcohol reduction action, activities and interactions. Findings – The findings indicate learning of new alcohol reduction consumption consistencies occurs through three modes or learning infrastructures: engagement, imagination and alignment, enabling a collective sense of connection in the creation of new alcohol-related rituals and traditions, competency of practices and transmission of values and norms beyond the community. Research limitations/implications – The results underscore the need for social marketers to recognise learning of alcohol reduction behaviour is continually negotiated and dynamically engendered through socially reproduced conditions, responses and relationships. Originality/value – This study contributes to the transformational potential of social marketing situating behaviour change as a social interaction between actors within a dynamic market system.
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Balestrini, Nassim Winnie. "“Writing Plays That Are Climate Change”." Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 8, no. 1 (2020): 34–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2020-0004.
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AbstractMontreal-born playwright, translator, and climate change theater activist Chantal Bilodeau is currently based in New York City. As a co-founder of the biennial Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA), which is a growing international initiative to foster climate change awareness through the performance of very short plays commissioned from playwrights in dozens of countries, she has been dividing her time between coordinating theater-based activism, publishing, and curating a blog series on HowlRound.com, and writing short plays as well as an eight-part series of full-length dramas. As she argues in her 2015 article “In Search of a New Aesthetic,” it is necessary “to move beyond writing plays about climate change to writing plays that are climate change – plays that embody, in form, content, and process, the essence of the issues we are facing. Plays where the concept of climate change is so integral to the work that the term doesn’t even need to be uttered. New problems cannot be solved with old solutions. A new consciousness requires new artistic constructs.” On the eve of the CDE conference, Chantal Bilodeau spoke about her research-based creative process at a public event in downtown Graz. At the conference, she presented a keynote on how her work in climate change theater addresses crisis as an ongoing condition. This interview provides detailed insights into Bilodeau’s artistic concepts, theater practices, and climate change activism.
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Dawkins, Monique D., Firas El Chaer, Leigh Boehmer, et al. "Education and Promotion of MRD Testing within the Multidisciplinary Cancer Care Team for Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in the Community Setting." Blood 134, Supplement_1 (2019): 5834. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2019-123461.
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Background: The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is an education and advocacy organization with a diverse membership, representing all cancer program types with the largest majority (75%) being community-based cancer programs and private practices. Beyond the academic setting, ACCC seeks to expand education on the advancements in all cancer care and since measurable residual disease (MRD) is the most important prognostic factor that guides the therapy for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), this project aimed to emphasize the importance of MRD testing for adult patients with ALL in the community oncology setting. Objective: The ACCC led a national initiative, in partnership with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), to improve the diagnosis, treatment and management of adult patients diagnosed with ALL in community oncology practices. This educational program focused on understanding the benefits of knowing patients' MRD testing and interpretation and the need to integrate this testing into standard of care practice in community oncology practice settings. Methods: This one-year programmatic initiative was designed by a group of multidisciplinary oncology faculty and structured around a peer-to-peer learning format that enabled ALL expert faculty to share effective practices for the treatment, care coordination and management of adult patients with ALL. An environmental scan was conducted to understand the landscape for utilization of MRD data in the community setting. Challenges and barriers identified in six key areas ((Initial Diagnostic Workup, Shared Decision Making, MRD Testing, Patient Access, Cost, and Reimbursement, Side-effect Management and Transitions in Care) were addressed by the development of healthcare professional-focused educational tools. Results: The educational material developed as part of the program include an environmental scan, blog series and webinar series that was viewed over 300 times by engaged ACCC members representing more than 75 cancer programs across 27 states. The four-part blog series covered a pathologist's perspective on the importance of MRD testing, a pharmacist's views on incorporating health literacy for patients, and social work and nursing perspectives on challenges with helping adult patients manage an ALL diagnosis. The three-part webinar series included an informative ASH 2018 update that included key abstracts and findings, a webinar that included a patient and care providers which shed light on the support needed along a patient's journey, and a webinar that explored critical insights for treating adult ALL from the perspective of a pharmacist, pathologist and oncologist. These enduring resources are available on-demand for the multidisciplinary care team. Conclusions: This program demonstrated the success of adopting a peer-to-peer educational learning platform to educate the multidisciplinary team providing care for adult patients diagnosed with ALL. Given rapid technological advances and emerging indications, the comprehensive educational materials developed were useful for the education of both the treating team and the patients in the community oncology setting. Disclosures Emadi: Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Research Funding; NewLink Genetics: Research Funding; Amgen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; KinaRx: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees, Other: Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, Patents & Royalties; Genentech: Consultancy, Honoraria. Jabbour:Takeda: Consultancy, Research Funding; BMS: Consultancy, Research Funding; Adaptive: Consultancy, Research Funding; Amgen: Consultancy, Research Funding; AbbVie: Consultancy, Research Funding; Pfizer: Consultancy, Research Funding; Cyclacel LTD: Research Funding. Kendall:Eli Lilly: Speakers Bureau; Novartis: Speakers Bureau; Pfizer: Speakers Bureau. Rogers:Teva: Speakers Bureau; Takeda: Honoraria; Genentech: Speakers Bureau; Seattle Genetics: Speakers Bureau; Abbvie: Speakers Bureau; Cardinal Health: Honoraria; Genentech: Honoraria; Mylan: Honoraria; Coherus: Speakers Bureau.
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Norledge, Jessica. "Building The Ark: Text World Theory and the evolution of dystopian epistolary." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 29, no. 1 (2020): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947019898379.
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Told through a series of interrelated documents (including emails, text messages, newspaper clippings and blog posts), Annabel Smith’s interactive digital novel The Ark epitomises the contemporary hybridity of the dystopian genre. Designed to be fully immersive, the story can be engaged with across media, enabling readers to ‘dive deeper into the world of the novel’ and challenge how they experience dystopian texts. Taking a Text World Theory perspective, I examine the implications of this challenge, investigating the impact of transmedial storytelling on world-building and exploring the creative evolution of dystopian epistolary more broadly. In analysing both the ebook element of The Ark and certain facets of its companion pieces (which take the form of a dynamic website and a smartphone app), I investigate the creation of the novel’s text-worlds, considering the process of multimodal meaning construction, examining the conceptual intricacies of the epistolary form and exploring the influence of paratextual matter on world-building and construal. In doing so, I offer new insights into the conceptualisation of ‘empty text-worlds’, extend Gibbons’ discussions of transmedial world-creation and argue for a more nuanced understanding of dystopian epistolary as framed within Text World Theory.
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David, Maya, and Prasannanshu Prasannanshu. "COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ENDANGERED LANGUAGES." IARS' International Research Journal 11, no. 1 (2021): 03–04. http://dx.doi.org/10.51611/iars.irj.v11i1.2021.148.
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This Special Issue of IARS International Research Journal contains eight articles which investigate diverse aspects of Endangered Languages and COVID-19. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has redefined the way we live, work, and think. Consequently, it has become necessary for leaders, specialists, scholars, and academics of various fields to re-examine their positions and research objectives and methodologies in the context of this pandemic. The field of endangered languages is no different: It was soon realised that the effect of the pandemic on endangered languages is far reaching.
 In many countries, government and non-government institutions and agencies have attempted to make information about the virus available in minority languages. Sebastian Drude (2020) in a Foundation of Endangered languages blog reports on the effort of Pakistani social activist Zubair Torwali, who worked with the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to produce a series of information videos in a number of local languages and also of Malaysian Rusaslina Idrus who has co-ordinated teams of translators, medical specialists and native speakers to make Covid-19 information posters available in a number of Malaysian indigenous languages.
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Alm, Antonie. "Language learning with Netflix: from extensive to intra-formal learning." EuroCALL Review 29, no. 1 (2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/eurocall.2021.14276.
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<p>This article introduces the concept of intra-formal learning. Building on approaches to extended learning (in reading, listening and viewing) it suggests that instead of extending learning from formal into personal learning spaces, learners should be encouraged to draw on informal learning experiences to extend learning opportunities in formal settings. The concept is illustrated through extended viewing. With the emergence of Netflix as a global provider of international and multi-lingual TV, language learners have unprecedented access to second language video. Mainstream media has picked up on the opportunities of this resource for language learning, as have many informal language learners who share their experiences on social media. The pilot study presented in this article examines the viewing behaviour of 12 intermediate German language students who engaged in out-of-class viewing of self-selected German TV series over a period of three weeks. Drawing parallels between principles of extensive learning and emerging patterns from the data analysis of the participants’ reflective blog entries, the findings suggest that the principles of variety and frequency apply similarly to extensive and intra-formal learning, and that appropriate use of learning strategies develop through reflective viewing.</p>
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Cecire, Natalia. "Everybody's Authority." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130, no. 2 (2015): 453–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.2.453.
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The incursion of the unwanted thus seems to be part of the risk of thinking with others, part of the vulnerability of opening oneself, one's words and one's thoughts, to anyone who might venture upon them.—Jodi Dean, “Blogging Theory”Ah, the peace and quiet that follows a “block” on twitter.—Saree Makdisi, TwitterOne day in 2012, while a presidential election campaign was in full swing, i wrote a blog post and hit “publish.” the post was pretty niche, I thought—the ninth in a series of posts that I had been tagging “puerility,” all incipient ideas for a future project that would draw on childhood studies, the history of statistics, and poetics. With “puerility,” I sought to describe a ludic epistemological mode that draws its power from its very willingness to disclaim power and embrace provisionality—an ambivalence often figured through, and associated with, boyhood. My previous blogging on puerility had mused over the Google N-gram Viewer and the widespread propensity to describe it as a “fun” “toy,” the foulmouthed parody Twitter account @MayorEmanuel, and Wes Anderson's 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom. The new post was about election predictions and a recent media flap around the statistician Nate Silver.
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Germic, Eloise R., Stine Eckert, and Fred Vultee. "The Impact of Instagram Mommy Blogger Content on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Mothers." Social Media + Society 7, no. 3 (2021): 205630512110416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051211041649.
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The prominence of social media in contemporary life has led more mothers to search for parenting information through various Internet and social media channels. The following study examines the impact that Instagram mommy blog content has on the perceived parenting skill of the typical American mother. In this experiment, participants were exposed to one of two types of Instagram motherhood blogger content. The first type of content did not address the struggles of motherhood (referred to as an “alpha-mom” blogger content), while the second type of content (referred to as a “realistic” blogger content) did. After reviewing the content, participants will be asked a series of Likert-type scale questions to gauge their perceived parenting skill. We hypothesized that participants who were exposed to the “alpha-mom” content would have a lower belief in their own parenting skill than those who were exposed to content from the “realistic” blogger. The hypothesis was not supported. However, we did find that participants who received some of their parenting information from Internet sources had a lower belief in their parenting skill than participants who did not receive their parenting information from online sources, regardless of the content to which they were exposed.
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Chou, J., Z. Poonja, M. Innes, et al. "LO42: How I stay healthy in emergency medicine: a qualitative analysis of a blog-based survey of expert emergency physicians and their methods to maintain and improve their wellness." CJEM 20, S1 (2018): S21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cem.2018.104.
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Introduction: Emergency medicine (EM) is a demanding specialty with high rates of physician burnout. As emergency physicians, we must stay healthy to promote healthy living, optimize our ability to care for our patients, extend our careers, and be there for our families. While we all desire a healthy lifestyle, maintaining one in practice can be difficult. We sought to investigate the strategies emergency physician employ to maintain and improve health and wellness while mitigating the professions stressors. Methods: From April 2015 to July 2017, forty-three wellness champions from Canada, the USA, and Australia were identified using a snowball sampling technique. Each participant answered 5 introductory questions and 8 productivity questions pertaining to health and wellness. These were transcribed and loaded to a publicly accessible blog, ALiEM.com, as part of the Healthy in EM series. Two investigators reviewed the transcripts using inductive methods and a grounded theory approach to generate themes and subthemes using coding software, NVivo (Burlington, Massachusetts), until saturation was achieved. Consensus between investigators (JC, ZP) established the master code and audit trail. An external audit by investigators (TC, BT) not involved with the initial analysis was performed to ensure reliability. Results: Major themes including diet, sleep, exercise and social activities were coded and further subcategorized along with perspectives, habits, personal philosophies, and career diversity. These themes translated across both professional and personal aspects of participants lives. For example, the pre-shift and post-shift strategies often included some form of regimented activities-of-daily-living that required discipline to adhere to at work and home. Conclusion: Our findings show the importance of homeostasis in the professional and personal realm among expert emergency medicine physicians. Among healthy emergency physicians, diet, sleep, and exercise patterns intertwined with perspectives, habits, personal philosophies, and social activities contributed to maintenance of wellness.
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Boumenir, Amin. "Blow up of series solutions." Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing 42, no. 1-2 (2013): 469–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12190-013-0644-6.
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Wang, Yan. "Brand crisis communication through social media." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 21, no. 1 (2016): 56–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-10-2014-0065.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how companies make use of social media communication to turn crises into opportunities and how consumers respond to this brand management strategy, and evaluate the effects of this kind of advertising campaign. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses the textual analysis method to examine the verbal fight between two brand competitors on Sina Weibo. An interpretative analysis approach is adopted to analyze a series of micro-blog messages and relevant responses and comments. A statistical analysis is conducted to reveal the public opinion on this case. Findings – The brand crisis due to trademark dispute has been successfully turned into an advertising campaign, which received eager and favorable responses from the consumers. In the name of making apologies, the company in crisis availed itself of the Weibo platform to make a veiled protest against the verdict of the Court. The technique “acting cute” was proved to be effective in diminishing the negative effect of a brand crisis and winning public sympathy and support. Research limitations/implications – The research findings may provide insights into the interplay between brand advertising and corporate crisis communication on the platform of social media. Practical implications – This study can inform practitioners of useful techniques to deal with brand crises via social media. Originality/value – The value of this study lies not only in its contribution to the body of knowledge on online crisis management with a case of Chinese companies, but also in its validation of the interplay between crisis communication and advertising.
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Tratnik, Polona. "Maja Smrekar’s Biopolitical Manifesto from a Philosophical Perspective." Monitor ISH 19, no. 2 (2017): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.19.2.65-80(2017).
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With her series K-9_topology, Maja Smrekar is challenging anthropocentrism by linking biology and culture, in particular addressing interaction between human and animal species. The artist builds upon the recent scientific findings that it is not only the dog species that has been domesticated; the domestication that took place during evolution is to be considered mutual. Not only has the dog been mastered by the human, but dogs have had an active role in “using” the human species for a more comfortable survival as well. Both species coexist. In the project Ecce Canis Maja Smrekar built upon the sense of smell as an interface used to trigger the emotional connection between the species.
 Hybrid Family is another project in the K-9_topology series. In this performance Smrekar nurtured a puppy. By submitting herself to two and a half months of physiological training, she achieved milk production in her breasts. The artist refers to this process as to the process of becoming, of becoming-animal, becoming-woman and becoming m(Other). She is deeply rooted in her own experience at the beginning of the 3rd millennium, when “liberal capitalism finally struck hard into the newborn Slovenian economy”, as she writes in her blog: her parents lost their business, house, cars, forests, meadows and vineyards, and her father committed suicide. She finds her own way of resisting, which is in submitting herself to a “dog-human kinship relationship as a radical intimate action of ‘returning home’”.
 In the present paper, the process of becoming mother is analysed in relation to the process of becoming animal. Furthermore, the process of becoming (m)Other is particularly examined with reference to the mother-and-child unity, applying the Umwelt notion and a Hegelian, existentialist feminist and post-structuralist discussion of identity and difference. The process of becoming (m)Other is finally examined as a biopolitical statement or intervention with the investment of the artist’s body. Its purpose is to re-gain the position of power, i.e. to perform an act of resistance to bio-power on and through bodies.
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Bychkova, E. F., and V. V. Zverevich. "Digital resources of the American Library Association for green and sustainable libraries." Scientific and Technical Libraries, no. 8 (August 30, 2021): 131–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2021-8-131-150.
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The experience of Russian libraries in educating ecological (ecological information) culture is widely discussed in domestic professional media. However, in Russia we feel the lack of information on relevant activities of foreign libraries and/or library associations. The authors offer their analysis of digital resources in sustainable development, green movement and ecological education of the population as provided by the American Library Association (ALA) and presented on ALA website. The resources comprise information on the efforts of ALA structural units related to organization of sustainable development activities at libraries; ALA politics and guiding materials; the interactive blog on libraries’ supporting sustainable communities; the catalog of new books in the “American Libraries” series within the subject scope “Sustainable development at the libraries”, and key international documents on sustainable development. The concept of three components of sustainable development of the society – Economy, Ecology and Equity – aka Three E, which ALA considers to be fundamental for sustainable libraries, is analyzed. Based on their analysis, the authors suggest that libraries will design and realize their own projects unifying all Three E. They conclude that further studies of the efforts of foreign libraries and/or library associations in ecological education and development of ecological (ecological information) culture, and, in particular, the study of relevant digital (electronic) resources are vitally important for Russian libraries and library science, including commencing digital (electronic) library science.Ecology and studying the related experience of libraries are among the major lines of activities of the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology (RNPLS&T). The paper is prepared within the framework of the State Order № 075-01300-20-00.
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Kazhberova, Varvara. "Public Health in Russian Medias Edit Programs: Results of an Experiment." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 8, no. 4 (2019): 704–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2019.8(4).704-718.
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The article is a part of a work series dealing with media studies of formation of the institute of public health. The concept of the institute includes public efforts intended to support and provide for the health of the population, which is impossible without the Media’s participation. However, due to various reasons, the Mass Media can’t currently be active participants in the field of public health. One of these reasons is that many media-agents don’t realize their opportunities, goals and objectives, which results in a lack of practical methods and algorithms of work. The purpose of the article is to report the pilot test of a specially designed theoretical model of the media’s operation as stakeholder of the institute of public health. This model in the present context is understood as a particular form of scholarly knowledge consisting of a number of constructs that meet the objectives of the study. With the opportunities of journalism in terms of systemic reporting public health issues previously studied by the author, the theoretical model is aimed at long-term EDIT programs that take into account the impact of the competitive environment. It also adds to the Media’s approaches to coverage of public health issues, and helps to find ways of solving strategic and tactic tasks related to covering the future information agenda. The method of pilot-testing chosen to check the efficiency of the model is one of the most complicated methods of empirical research. The pilot test itself was all-Russian contest of EDIT programs of the mass media and blog-sphere "Public health: its purpose, themes, and genres". The process and analyzed results of the pilot-testing prove the efficiency of the theoretical model, as well as provide practical propositions and demonstrate more opportunities for the mass media to cover the theme of public health.