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Bihari, A., I. Nahal, K. Chappell, et al. "P481 "I’ve been told to drop out of school because I need to focus on my health and that was just devastating to hear.": Experiences of Western Canadian young adults with inflammatory bowel disease transitioning from paediatric to adult care." Journal of Crohn's and Colitis 18, Supplement_1 (2024): i964—i965. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjad212.0611.

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Abstract Background The incidence of patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in childhood/adolescence is increasing worldwide; therefore, in the upcoming years, more patients will need to transition from paediatric to adult care. A smooth transition is essential to ensure continuity of care; however, transition is a difficult time for patients, when increasing responsibility for disease management needs to be balanced with full-time employment or schooling. This study explores the transition experience of young adults with IBD who have transitioned from paediatric to adult car

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Kirkman, Anna Obergfell, Jane A. Hartsock, and Alexia M. Torke. "HowThe Fault in Our Starsilluminates four themes of the Adolescent End of Life Narrative." Medical Humanities 45, no. 3 (2018): 240–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2017-011400.

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Adolescents who face life-limiting illness have unique developmental features and strong personal preferences around end of life (EOL) care. Understanding and documenting those preferences can be enhanced by practising narrative medicine. This paper aims to identify a new form of narrative, the Adolescent End of Life Narrative, and recognise four central themes. The Adolescent EOL Narrative can be observed in young adult fiction,The Fault in Our Stars, which elucidates the notion that terminally ill adolescents have authentic preferences about their life and death. Attaining narrative competen

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Devendar Sandhu. "Self-fulfilling Prophecy of The Arabian Nights As Reflected in Feminist Young Adult Literature." Creative Saplings 3, no. 10 (2024): 47–59. https://doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2024.3.10.780.

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This paper analyzes the social-psychological phenomenon of Self-fulfilling Prophecy (SFP) through The Arabian Nights, and the feminist Young Adult (YA) literature. Significantly, the literature of two extreme ages and cultures provides universal messages. Application of Social- Neuroscience concept of Predictive Processing (PP) simplifies the understanding of SFP. In the troubled age of One Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade narrated strange and intriguing tales to King Shahryar. The folktales provided a unique insight towards peacefully resolving a dreadful conflict. Ignorant of the suppos

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Groennestad, Hanne, and Wenche Malmedal. "Having a Parent with Early-Onset Dementia: A Qualitative Study of Young Adult Children." Nursing Research and Practice 2022 (July 31, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7945773.

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Background. Children of a parent with early-onset dementia (EOD) are confronted with losing a parent to a progressive neurodegenerative illness, usually perceived as an older adult illness, which may have a great impact on their lives at a time that is usually preserved for self-development. Objective. The objective of this study is to explore the experiences and perceptions of young adult children of a parent with EOD, with specific focus on personal lives and family and social relationships in a Norwegian context. Methods. Semistructured interviews with 10 young adult children between the ag

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Pavlenko, Yuliia. "A STORY BEYOND CHILDHOOD: THE IMAGE OF A CHILD MIGRANT IN CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN’S LITERATURE." CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES, no. 21 (March 6, 2025): 47–52. https://doi.org/10.32589/2411-3883.21.2024.321287.

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This article explores how contemporary children’s and young adult literature reflects the complex experiences of forced migration. It analyzes how the image of a child migrant functions within literary texts, the themes it raises, and its impact on readers. Particular attention is paid to how literature helps children process the traumatic experiences of losing their homes, being separated from loved ones, and adapting to new living conditions. By analyzing works by contemporary Ukrainian authors and English literature, the article demonstrates how the image of a child migrant becomes a symbol

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Koris, Andrea L., Kearsley A. Stewart, Tiarney D. Ritchwood, et al. "Youth-friendly HIV self-testing: Acceptability of campus-based oral HIV self-testing among young adult students in Zimbabwe." PLOS ONE 16, no. 6 (2021): e0253745. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253745.

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Background Targeted HIV testing strategies are needed to reach remaining undiagnosed people living with HIV and achieve the UNAIDS’ 95-95-95 goals for 2030. HIV self-testing (HIVST) can increase uptake of HIV testing among young people, but user perspectives on novel distribution methods are uncertain. We assess the acceptability, perceived challenges, and recommendations of young adult lay counselor-led campus-based HIVST delivery among tertiary school students aged 18–24 years in Zimbabwe. Methods We purposively sampled participants from an intervention involving campus-based HIVST using lay

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Yocheva, Kalina. "Words, Characters and Messages in the Queer Romance of Generation Z." Rhetoric and Communications, no. 61 (October 30, 2024): 89–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.55206/dibs1740.

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Abstract: This article presents an attempt to analyze the structural elements and characters that make Casey McQuiston's debut novel Red, White & Royal Blue so popular with readers, as well as the challenges posed to viewers by director Matthew Lopez and the creative team of the eponymous film, which immediately became a cultural phenomenon with many fans among viewers. The novel and its film adaptation follow the relationship between two young men from prominent families against the constraints of a heteronormative society. The article investigates a pertinent and contemporary issue from

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Hiller, Rachel M., Sarah L. Halligan, Richard Meiser-Stedman, Elizabeth Elliott, and Emily Rutter-Eley. "Supporting the emotional needs of young people in care: a qualitative study of foster carer perspectives." BMJ Open 10, no. 3 (2020): e033317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033317.

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ObjectivesYoung people who have been removed from their family home and placed in care have often experienced maltreatment and there is well-developed evidence of poor psychological outcomes. Once in care, foster carers often become the adult who provides day-to-day support, yet we know little about how they provide this support or the challenges to and facilitators of promoting better quality carer–child relationships. The aim of this study was to understand how carers support the emotional needs of the young people in their care and their views on barriers and opportunities for support.Desig

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Pajka-West, Sharon. "Representations of Deafness and Deaf People in Young Adult Fiction." M/C Journal 13, no. 3 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.261.

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What began as a simple request for a book by one of my former students, at times, has not been so simple. The student, whom I refer to as Carla (name changed), hoped to read about characters similar to herself and her friends. As a teacher, I have often tried to hook my students on reading by presenting books with characters to which they can relate. These books can help increase their overall knowledge of the world, open their minds to multiple realities and variations of the human experience and provide scenarios in which they can live vicariously. Carla’s request was a bit more complicated

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"Robert Heinlein's Space Cadet and the Young Adult Reader: Understanding the Real World through Narrative Transportation Approach." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 20, no. 1 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.20.1.5.

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Young Adult science fiction is a growing body of work in the science fiction genre that encourages its readers to envision, evaluate, and question contemporary and future real-world incidents. This paper explores the effect of narrative transportation on young adult readers of Robert Heinlein's Space Cadet, a YA science fiction novel. One of the main aspects narrative transportation theory examines is how literature fosters teens' understanding and awareness of themselves and of issues important to them. In this sense, Space Cadet engages the young adult reader with its narrative, its characte

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Chaloupka, Evan, and Bora Pajo. "Experiencing the Craft and Ethical Impact of Young Adult Disability Fiction." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, October 21, 2024, 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2024.31.

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Scholars like Ria Cheyne and Sami Schalk have argued that the imaginative and ethical structures of fiction can, if effectively leveraged, provide readers a new orientation to, or understanding of, difference. Advancing recent work that identifies methods to assess the material reception of disability literature, the article demonstrates how general audiences perceive both the craft and ethical import of fiction. Beverly Butler’s 1962 novel Light a Single Candle is one example of young adult literature that has resonated with audiences over time. Literary disability studies and narrative theor

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Joseph, Kaela, and Ruby McCoy. "Personalised Progressive Porno." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3075.

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Introduction The year 2018 saw drastic shifts in fan spaces where fan works, such as art, fiction, and videos, were once widely, openly shared, including those containing sexually explicit content, a.k.a. porno. Major catalysts were the highly contested United States legislations Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which addressed the liability of host sites for content shared by users. Shortly after, similar legislation appeared around the world, including Australia’s Online Safety Act 2021. In response, Websites once popular with adolescent

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Currie, Gillian R., M. Harris, L. McClinton, et al. "Transitions from pediatric to adult rheumatology care for juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a patient led qualitative study." BMC Rheumatology 6, no. 1 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41927-022-00316-5.

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Abstract Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a childhood autoimmune disease that causes swelling and pain in at least one joint. Young people with JIA experience symptoms that persist into adulthood, and thus will undergo a transition including the o transfer of care from a pediatric rheumatologist an adult rheumatologist. Missing from the literature is research that centres the transition experience of young people with JIA in Canada. This goal of this patient-led research was to explore the experience young people with JIA through the process of transition. Methods Qualitative

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Rhodes, Amelia Jane, and Nichola Tyler. "Understanding fire learning experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand." Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, January 4, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcrpp-06-2021-0027.

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Purpose This paper aims to present exploratory research on how people in Aotearoa New Zealand experience and learn about fire, and how they think and feel about fire as adults. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative survey with a sample of 40 young adults aged 18–23 years in Aotearoa New Zealand were recruited through Prolific Academic. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to construct themes across participants experiences. Findings Four themes were constructed that described participants’ learning about fire and were named influence of context and internal responses to fire, development o

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Jones, Katie. "Representing young men’s experience of anorexia nervosa: a French-language case study." Medical Humanities, October 9, 2020, medhum—2020–011847. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2020-011847.

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This article analyses two young adult (YA) novels about young men’s experience of anorexia nervosa (AN), within the dual contexts of medical humanities research into literary depictions of illness, and the broader field of YA literature about AN. While emphasising the importance of diverse literary narratives in order to raise awareness of the prevalence of AN in men and boys, and to contribute to the reduction of stigma, it also considers current research into the potentially harmful triggering effects of AN literature on vulnerable readers. It identifies Anne Percin’s Point de côté (Side Sti

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Wall, Erika, Sven Svensson, and Anna Berg Jansson. "Sense of security when new at work: a thematic analysis of interviews with young adult retail workers in Sweden." International Journal of Workplace Health Management ahead-of-print, ahead-of-print (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijwhm-03-2021-0049.

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PurposePositive examples of situations in which young adults new at work experience feeling secure in the role as novice in the work force are here focused. The aim is to analyze how young adults who are new to the labor market express having a sense of security in the workplace. The long-term goal is to strengthen the conditions for the health and wellbeing of workers entering the retail labor market.Design/methodology/approachThirteen individual in-depth telephone/video-interviews were conducted with young adults (aged 18–28) working within the retail sector in Sweden. Using a thematic inter

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Lötscher, Christine. "Ökopassionen." Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung, December 1, 2022, 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/gkjf-jb.85.

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[English title and abstract below] Die environmental humanities florieren auch im deutschsprachigen Raum, und Konzepte der neomaterialistischen Theorie finden mehr und mehr Eingang in populäre Narrative rund um Klimawandel und Ökologie. Das zeigt sich in Genres wie Nature Writing und Climate Fiction, die mit Metaphern von Verwobenheit (entanglement) operieren, ebenso wie in den zahllosen Kinder- und Jugendbüchern, die ökologische Themen aufgreifen und Geschichten erzählen, in denen es um eine besondere Affinität zwischen Kindern und nichtmenschlichen Wesen geht. Dabei stehen oft die Emotionen

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Wilson, Claire A., Deanna Walker, and Donald H. Saklofske. "Developing a model of resilience in older adulthood: a qualitative meta-synthesis." Ageing and Society, February 20, 2020, 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x20000112.

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Abstract The study of resilience in an older adult population is expanding rapidly. However, most theoretical models of resilience have been developed with children or young to middle-aged adults. The objective of the present study was to review systematically the qualitative literature examining resilience in older adults, and to develop a comprehensive model of resilience in older adulthood. A qualitative meta-synthesis was conducted to review the qualitative literature examining resilience from older adults’ perspectives. An exhaustive search of the literature revealed 1,752 articles. From

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Staite, Sophia. "Kamen Rider." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2834.

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2021 is the fiftieth anniversary year for Japanese live-action superhero franchise Kamen Rider. For half a century, heroes bearing the name Kamen Rider have battled rubber suited monsters and defended the smiles of children. Unlike many superheroes, however, the Kamen Riders are grotesque heroes, usually drawing their powers from the same source as the villains they battle. Grotesque human-machine-animal hybrids, they differ from their opponents only in the kindness of their hearts and the strength of their spirits. Although the Kamen Rider franchise includes a variety of texts including manga

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Mac Eochagain, Bridget. "“Something has to change”." M/C Journal 26, no. 4 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2978.

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In April 2022, I found myself in the Harold Pinter Theatre on the West End, waiting to watch Jodie Comer star as protagonist Tessa Ensler in Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie. Surprised that after two years of on-and-off-again lockdowns due to COVID-19, I had finally made it all the way overseas to see this Australian play on the British stage, I asked the person next to me if they were excited to see the show. She was a young, twenty-something woman who smiled and said, “I can’t wait to see Jodie Comer in the flesh”. I asked what she knew about the play, and she told me a friend had given her a tick

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Morton, Kimberley. "PANIC by S. Draper." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 5, no. 1 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g28c8z.

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Draper, Sharon M. PANIC. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013. Print.Imagine ... waking up, tied to a bed, groggy, naked, and alone. What would you do?PANIC is a gripping tale of two teenage girls and their experience with manipulation, abduction, and abuse. After meeting Thane, the handsome Hollywood movie director, 15-year-old Diamond is easily persuaded to accompany him back to his family's home to audition for an exciting part in upcoming movie. It's a dream come true for the aspiring dancer! Diamond ignores everything she's been taught since she was a little girl, and willingl

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Mayberry, John F. "A critical analysis of the impact of early marriage on girls based on published autobiographies and a contemporary scholarly text – Īḍāḥ al-bayān fī nikāḥ al-ṣibyān". Medico-Legal Journal, 8 лютого 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/00258172241286642.

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Background This work emerged from a need to better understand the “lived experience” of early marriage for girls and how it should impact on contemporary attitudes in the Muslim community and encourage it to support the international movement with the aim of a minimum common age of 18 years for marriage of young people. Objective To identify from contemporary published literature, including autobiographies and religious texts dealing specifically with early marriage, the effects of early marriage on individuals and to set this as a background to the extensive literature on its medical, psychol

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Herb, Annika. "Non-Linear Modes of Narrative in the Disruption of Time and Genre in Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf." M/C Journal 22, no. 6 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1607.

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While Young Adult dystopian texts commonly manipulate expectations of time and space, it is largely in a linear sense—projecting futuristic scenarios, shifting the contemporary reader into a speculative space sometimes only slightly removed from contemporary social, political, or environmental concerns (Booker 3; McDonough and Wagner 157). These concerns are projected into the future, having followed their natural trajectory and come to a dystopian present. Authors write words and worlds of warning in a postapocalyptic landscape, drawing from and confirming established dystopian tropes, and af

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Wegner, Juliane, and Julia Stüwe. "Young Cancer on Instagram." M/C Journal 23, no. 6 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2724.

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Introduction Although our postmodern (media) society should provide room for diversity and otherness (Greer and Jewkes), some people are not integrated but rather excluded. Social exclusion can be defined as the discrepancy of the wish of being part of a society and its possibilities to be part of it and contains feelings or experiences of physically or emotionally exclusion from others (Burchardt et al.; Riva and Eck). It is not really known what or who is responsible for social exclusion (Hills et al.), but it is certain that it is not that rare phenomenon — especially in social media. Here,

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Rattray, Chloe T., and Katie Ellis. ""I Love Every Part of You"." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2997.

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Introduction The Owl House is an animated television series that aired on the Disney Channel from 2020 to 2023. The series follows Luz, a teenage Dominican-American human who finds a portal to the Demon Realm. She lands on the Boiling Isles, an island archipelago populated with magical creatures. There, Luz befriends a middle-aged witch named Edalyn “Eda” Clawthorne (also known as Eda the Owl Lady), and her housemate/adoptive son King, a cute dog-like demon with a skull for a head. Eda agrees to teach Luz magic. Magic is then used as a narrative prosthesis (McReynolds) to explore themes of inc

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Burgers, Vivian W. G., Martin J. van den Bent, Linda Dirven, et al. "“Finding my way in a maze while the clock is ticking”: The daily life challenges of adolescents and young adults with an uncertain or poor cancer prognosis." Frontiers in Oncology 12 (November 15, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.994934.

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IntroductionIncreasingly more adolescent and young adult (AYA, aged 18–39 years) patients with an uncertain and/or poor cancer prognosis (UPCP) are gaining life-years because of novel treatments or refinement of established therapies, and sometimes even face the prospect of long-term disease control. This study aims to examine the challenges of AYAs with a UPCP in daily life to inform the development of AYA care programs.MethodsSemi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted among AYAs with a UPCP. Since we expected differences in experiences between three AYA subgroups, we interviewed pati

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Döring, Nicola, and Dan J. Miller. "Conceptual Overview (Portrayals of Sexuality in Pornography)." DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis, October 24, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34778/5k.

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Pornography is neither a documentary media genre that documents what real sex in everyday life looks like, nor is it a pedagogical or moral media genre aimed at showing what ideal sex (in terms of health or morality) should look like. Instead, pornography is a fictional media genre that depicts sexual fantasies and explicitly presents naked bodies and sexual activities for the purpose of sexual arousal (Williams, 1989; McKee et al., 2020). Regarding media ethics and media effects, pornography has traditionally been viewed as highly problematic. Pornographic material has been accused of portray

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Phillipov, Michelle. "“Just Emotional People”? Emo Culture and the Anxieties of Disclosure." M/C Journal 12, no. 5 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.181.

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In an article in the Sunday Tasmanian shortly after the deaths of Melbourne teenagers Jodie Gater and Stephanie Gestier in 2007, Tasmanian Catholic Schools Parents and Friends Federation president Bill Button claimed: “Parents are concerned because all of a sudden their child, if they have access to a computer, can turn into an Emo” (qtd. in Vowles 1).For a few months in 2007, the dangers of emo and computer use were significant themes in Australian newspaper coverage. Emo, an abbreviation of the terms “emocore” or “emotional hardcore”, is a melodic subgenre of punk rock music, characterised b

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Franks, Rachel. "Cooking in the Books: Cookbooks and Cookery in Popular Fiction." M/C Journal 16, no. 3 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.614.

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Introduction Food has always been an essential component of daily life. Today, thinking about food is a much more complicated pursuit than planning the next meal, with food studies scholars devoting their efforts to researching “anything pertaining to food and eating, from how food is grown to when and how it is eaten, to who eats it and with whom, and the nutritional quality” (Duran and MacDonald 234). This is in addition to the work undertaken by an increasingly wide variety of popular culture researchers who explore all aspects of food (Risson and Brien 3): including food advertising, food

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Rocavert, Carla. "Aspiring to the Creative Class: Reality Television and the Role of the Mentor." M/C Journal 19, no. 2 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1086.

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Introduction Mentors play a role in real life, just as they do in fiction. They also feature in reality television, which sits somewhere between the two. In fiction, mentors contribute to the narrative arc by providing guidance and assistance (Vogler 12) to a mentee in his or her life or professional pursuits. These exchanges are usually characterized by reciprocity, the need for mutual recognition (Gadamer 353) and involve some kind of moral question. They dramatise the possibilities of mentoring in reality, to provide us with a greater understanding of the world, and our human interaction wi

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Papier, Joy. "JOVACET Volume 2 Issue 2 (2019)." Journal of Vocational, Adult and Continuing Education and Training 2, no. 2 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.14426/jovacet.v2i2.91.

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This third publication of JOVACET follows the Special Issue which emanated from our 2018 conference on adult learning and education. While the Special Issue was focused on papers presented on the theme of the conference, the conference call for papers also yielded additional submissions outside the scope of the Special Issue, which contributed to this subsequent volume. Articles in this issue are situated in the vocational education and workplace training domains and constitute research at the level of practice as well as at the macro-policy level. Our first article herein, authored by B

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Hawley, Erin. "Re-imagining Horror in Children's Animated Film." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1033.

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Introduction It is very common for children’s films to adapt, rework, or otherwise re-imagine existing cultural material. Such re-imaginings are potential candidates for fidelity criticism: a mode of analysis whereby an adaptation is judged according to its degree of faithfulness to the source text. Indeed, it is interesting that while fidelity criticism is now considered outdated and problematic by adaptation theorists (see Stam; Leitch; and Whelehan) the issue of fidelity has tended to linger in the discussions that form around material adapted for children. In particular, it is often assume

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Pinder, Morgan. "Mouldy Matriarchs and Dangerous Daughters." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2832.

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The Resident Evil video game series is especially notable for engaging with uncanny nature and monstrous reproduction, often facilitated through viral contamination. These third-person games usually feature an outbreak of some kind, instigated by a shadowy organisation, and star a member of law enforcement or the military as the protagonist. However, the seventh and eighth games of the franchise were different. While they explored many of the same themes and conventions as their predecessors, the technologies by which they evoked fear and suspense had become further immersed in the survival ho

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Dudek, Debra, Madalena Grobbelaar, and Elizabeth Reid Boyd. "Wondering about a Love Literacy." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3073.

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Romancing the Fantasy: #Booklove TikTok has been credited with encouraging young readers to #booklove through its BookTok community. However, the BookTok “trend for ‘spicy’ (i.e. sexy) books has led to fears children may be reading titles with adult content” (Knight). To ascertain the tenor of the adult content in these sexy books, we analyse a popular BookTok novel known for its spicy sex scenes: A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOMAF), a novel by Sarah J. Maas, the “reigning queen of romantasy” (Grady) and “mortal queen of faerie smut” (VanArendonk). Positively, Maas’s novel includes extended erot

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Gildersleeve, Jessica. "“Weird Melancholy” and the Modern Television Outback: Rage, Shame, and Violence in Wake in Fright and Mystery Road." M/C Journal 22, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1500.

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, Marcus Clarke famously described the Australian outback as displaying a “Weird Melancholy” (qtd. in Gelder 116). The strange sights, sounds, and experiences of Australia’s rural locations made them ripe for the development of the European genre of the Gothic in a new location, a mutation which has continued over the past two centuries. But what does it mean for Australia’s Gothic landscapes to be associated with the affective qualities of the melancholy? And more particularly, how and why does this Gothic effect (and affect) appear in the most accessibl

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Rutherford, Leonie Margaret. "Re-imagining the Literary Brand." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1037.

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IntroductionThis paper argues that the industrial contexts of re-imagining, or transforming, literary icons deploy the promotional strategies that are associated with what are usually seen as lesser, or purely commercial, genres. Promotional paratexts (Genette Paratexts; Gray; Hills) reveal transformations of content that position audiences to receive them as creative innovations, superior in many senses to their literary precursors due to the distinctive expertise of creative professionals. This interpretation leverages Matt Hills’ argument that certain kinds of “quality” screened drama are d

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Wise, Jenny, and Lesley McLean. "Making Light of Convicts." M/C Journal 24, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2737.

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Introduction The social roles of alcohol consumption are rich and varied, with different types of alcoholic beverages reflecting important symbolic and cultural meanings. Sparkling wine is especially notable for its association with secular and sacred celebrations. Indeed, sparkling wine is rarely drunk as a matter of routine; bottles of such wine signal special occasions, heightened by the formality and excitement associated with opening the bottle and controlling (or not!) the resultant fizz (Faith). Originating in England and France in the late 1600s, sparkling wine marked a dramatic shift

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Rose, Megan Catherine, and Patrick W. Galbraith. "Mutating Hyperfemininity in <em>Bishōjo</em>-Inspired Art." M/C Journal 28, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3168.

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Introduction “With most people, you cannot tell just from looking at them that they are fighting a silent, unseen battle”, says Sugary Symbiote, a Black, disabled, and sapphic artist in the United States. “That is what a lot of my illustrations represent. The girl is surrounded by cute things that make her happy, but she still feels alone and sad” (Sugary Symbiote). Central to her work is the bishōjo, or “cute girl”, drawn from manga, anime, and related media. While scholarship has largely treated bishōjo as objects produced for and by men (Galbraith; Galbraith and Rose), artists such as Sugar

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Russell, Keith. "Loops and and Illusions." M/C Journal 5, no. 4 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1976.

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Playing in childhood we are presented with foundational puzzles. Many of these arise directly from our negotiations with the laws of physics; others arise from the deliberate activities of our elders, teachers and siblings. As we sit on our grandmotherâ€™s knee we are presented with a range of playful and deceptive games. Something as simple as a loop of wool can initiate this play: now it is a straight thread; now it is a loop. Something as simple as the opening hand is the potential source of a problem that may stay with us for a lifetime: now it is a hand with open palm; now it is a fist th

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"Reading and writing." Language Teaching 38, no. 3 (2005): 132–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444805232998.

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05–267Aitchison, Claire (U of Western Sydney, Australia), Thesis writing circles. Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics (Hong Kong, China) 8.2 (2003), 97–115.05–268Allison, Desmond (The National U of Singapore), Authority and accommodation in higher degree research proposals. Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics (Hong Kong, China) 8.2 (2003), 155–180.05–269Bazerman, Charles (U of California, Santa Barbara, USA), An essay on pedagogy by Mikhail M. Bakhtin. Written Communication (Thousand Oaks, CA, USA) 22.3 (2005), 333–338.05–270Belanger, Joe (U of British Columbia, USA), ‘When will we e

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Apple, Jacki. "Some Speculation on the Future of the Body and Soul." M/C Journal 2, no. 9 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1821.

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It's the beginning of 2000 and the 21st century is all mapped out. Since we've just had that time at the end of a decade (not to mention the end of the century, as well as the Christian calendar "millennium"), when all the pundits came out to review where we had been and forecast where we are going, we should have expected a profundity of future-casting. But neither the familiar prognostications of the coming apocalypse spewing forth from the Religious Right, nor the usual statistical projections made by "experts" on such things as population growth, world politics, economic cycles, new produc

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Temel, Anna. "To Be a Barbie Is to Perform." M/C Journal 27, no. 3 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3055.

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Historically, the Barbie doll has embodied all things stereotypically feminine, ranging from fashion trends to societal roles, and reflected the contemporary image of “the perfect woman”. However, beneath the surface of Barbie’s seemingly innocent portrayal of femininity lies a complex web of societal expectations and norms, and the toy’s potential for instilling such norms within young girls. This function of the doll ties into Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity, in which gender is masked as a pre-existing condition while being a construct constantly produced and reproduced by s

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Brien, Donna Lee. "Demon Monsters or Misunderstood Casualties?" M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2845.

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Over the past century, many books for general readers have styled sharks as “monsters of the deep” (Steele). In recent decades, however, at least some writers have also turned to representing how sharks are seriously threatened by human activities. At a time when media coverage of shark sightings seems ever increasing in Australia, scholarship has begun to consider people’s attitudes to sharks and how these are formed, investigating the representation of sharks (Peschak; Ostrovski et al.) in films (Le Busque and Litchfield; Neff; Schwanebeck), newspaper reports (Muter et al.), and social media

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Altiok, Revna. "Unveiling Ken." M/C Journal 27, no. 3 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3067.

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Introduction "Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him", states the narrator in Barbie (2023). Directed by Greta Gerwig, the film not only claimed the title of the highest-grossing film of the year but also prompted its audience to reconsider a character they had previously mostly overlooked; another one of Barbie’s many accessories: Ken. Ken's identity as Barbie's companion is fundamentally dependent upon the presence and recognition of his more prominent female counterpart. This highlights Ken's secondary role, where he serves as a supporting figu

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Brien, Donna Lee. "“Porky Times”: A Brief Gastrobiography of New York’s The Spotted Pig." M/C Journal 13, no. 5 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.290.

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Introduction With a deluge of mouthwatering pre-publicity, the opening of The Spotted Pig, the USA’s first self-identified British-styled gastropub, in Manhattan in February 2004 was much anticipated. The late Australian chef, food writer and restauranteur Mietta O’Donnell has noted how “taking over a building or business which has a long established reputation can be a mixed blessing” because of the way that memories “can enrich the experience of being in a place or they can just make people nostalgic”. Bistro Le Zoo, the previous eatery on the site, had been very popular when it opened almos

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Roemhild, Juliane, and Melinda Turner. "Reading in Uncertain Times." M/C Journal 26, no. 4 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2983.

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We are living in uncertain times. Recent and ongoing crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and natural disasters, and increasing geopolitical and economic instability, have arguably led to a growing awareness of our existential precarity. Recent studies suggest that mental health is poor: among the general population, 24.4% experience anxiety and 22.9% suffer from symptoms of depression. These figures rise to an alarming 41.1% and 32.5% respectively in vulnerable populations (Bower et al.). As Maree Teesson, Director of the University of Sydney’s Matilda Centre for Research in

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Fowles, Jib. "Television Violence and You." M/C Journal 3, no. 1 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1828.

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Introduction Television has become more and more restricted within the past few years. Rating systems and "family programming" have taken over the broadcast networks, relegating violent programming, often some of the most cutting edge work in television, to pay channels. There are very few people willing to stand up and say that viewers -- even young children -- should be able to watch whatever they want, and that viewing acts of violence can actually result in more mature, balanced adults. Jib Fowles is one of those people. His book, The Case For Television Violence, explores the long history

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Lorenzetti, Diane L., Bonnie Lashewicz, and Tanya Beran. "Mentorship in the 21st Century: Celebrating Uptake or Lamenting Lost Meaning?" M/C Journal 19, no. 2 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1079.

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BackgroundIn the centuries since Odysseus entrusted his son Telemachus to Athena, biographical, literary, and historical accounts have cemented the concept of mentorship into our collective consciousness. Early foundational research characterised mentors as individuals who help us transition through different phases of our lives. Chief among these phases is the progression from adolescence to adulthood, during which we “imagine exciting possibilities for [our lives] and [struggle] to attain the ‘I am’ feeling in this dreamed-of self and world” (Levinson 93). Previous research suggests that men

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Stewart, Jon. "Oh Blessed Holy Caffeine Tree: Coffee in Popular Music." M/C Journal 15, no. 2 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.462.

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Introduction This paper offers a survey of familiar popular music performers and songwriters who reference coffee in their work. It examines three areas of discourse: the psychoactive effects of caffeine, coffee and courtship rituals, and the politics of coffee consumption. I claim that coffee carries a cultural and musicological significance comparable to that of the chemical stimulants and consumer goods more readily associated with popular music. Songs about coffee may not be as potent as those featuring drugs and alcohol (Primack; Schapiro), or as common as those referencing commodities li

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Nairn, Angelique. "Crafting the Grotesque." M/C Journal 28, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3164.

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Introduction Special effects (SFX) makeup has long been a powerful tool in the world of performance, used to transform, distort, and reimagine the human form in service of storytelling. From the eerie creatures of horror to the fantastical beings of science fiction, prosthetic makeup plays a crucial role in shaping the visual language of genre media. The American television show Face Off (2011-2018) brought this behind-the-scenes artistry to the forefront, offering viewers an in-depth look at the creative processes of professional special effects and prosthetic makeup artists. Running for 13 s

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