This paper is based on the teachers’ low creativity at SMP Negeri 4 Dumai. Therefore, it is necessary to take an action to overcome this problem through the implementation of audio-visual media. ...Based on the description regarding the identification and limitation of the problem, this paper is focused on increasing teacher creativity. Hence, the formulation of the problem is whether there is an improvement in teacher creativity through the implementation of audio-visual media at SMP Negeri 4 Dumai. In accordance with the background and formulation of the problem, this paper aims to increase the creativity of teachers in SMP Negeri 4 Dumai through the implementation of audio-visual media. This type of research is school action research (PTS) which aims to determine the success of teachers’ creativity improvement in teaching through the use of audio-visual media at SMP Negeri 4 Dumai. Based on the results of the analysis and discussion, it can be concluded that teacher creativity in teaching at SMP Negeri 4 Dumai can be increased through the use of audio-visual media. Thus, the teacher acceptance rate increased. Comparison of teacher creativity in teaching in cycle I increased in cycle II. If cycle I that achieved 65% was increased to 71.5% in cycle II.
Images that tell a powerful story are critical for the success of public service advertisements. This research aims to demonstrate when photographs versus illustrations in visual media are most ...effective in motivating consumer prosocial behavior. The moderating role of construal level (i.e., how abstractly or concretely people represent information) is examined. Results of three lab experiments and one field study show that, in motivating prosocial response toward public service advertisements, photograph visuals are more effective when paired with concrete mindsets, whereas illustration visuals are more effective when paired with abstract mindsets. This matching effect leads to enhanced processing fluency and subsequent empathic response, which motivates prosocial behavior. The matching effect is reversed, however, when the public service advertisement's social issue is directly relevant to the viewer's identity.
This article examines how racism and nationalism flourish in participatory media spaces by analyzing user comments and images posted on the reddit community r/ImGoingToHellForThis in the week ...following widespread news coverage of the photograph of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy whose dead body was photographed on a beach in Turkey. The community is dominated by racist nationalist discourse that combines textual commentary with photographs and other visual media that have been remediated into offensive visual jokes, which “cloak” the racism. Through an in-depth study of user-submitted comments and visual jokes, this article argues that the “cloaks” that obscure online racism can be at once highly obvious and highly effective. Rather than unmasking obscured racist online ideologies, scholars must also examine how racism flourishes while hiding in plain sight by tracing how racist discourses assemble in participatory media communities.
This article examines how and why elementary and lower secondary school teachers in Switzerland constructed audio-visual media as educational devices. The new technical solutions had to be ...interpreted and adapted so that they could be considered educational. The educational press and internal minutes of the Swiss Teachers’ Association SLV show the public discussions as well as internal conflicts. They allow conclusions to be drawn about the role of the teacher association in constructing educational media. They also show the part played by political and practical issues in the evaluation and development of educational media. The article ends with a conclusion that outlines the different ways in which Swiss elementary and lower secondary school teachers dealt with new teaching media.
Counter accounts are hoped to present a counterforce to hegemonic discourses and bring about emancipatory change in societies. While the political potential of counter accounts has, to an extent, ...been examined in prior accounting literature, there is a need to analyse the associated moral dimension. Our purpose in this paper is to advance theoretical understanding of the transformative potential of counter accounts by examining how they mediate the suffering of oppressed groups and how that mediation could lead to public action. Through a conceptual lens combining media studies and critical discourse analysis, we analyse counter accounts of animal production created by social movement activists in Finland. We find that, in general terms, the transformative potential of counter accounts is associated with their ability to act as a form of moral and political education, by repeatedly suggesting to their audiences how to feel about, and act publicly on, the suffering of an oppressed group. The moral engagement of the counter accounts’ audiences takes place through a combination of semiotic cues that simultaneously present the suffering as an objective fact, evoke sympathy towards the oppressed group and present practical options on how to act on the suffering. We also note that counter accounts can give rise to different ethical discourses and practical engagement options depending on the media and semiotic cues employed in their construction. This leaves room for discourses that acknowledge some of the concerns presented in the counter accounts but point towards actions that do not threaten the status quo.
Contemporary research on media reporting about migrants and refugees has been intensified since the 2015 European migrant crisis. However, only a limited number of authors focus on the visual ...representation of female migrants, which has been recognised to lead to more positive citizens' perceptions and the development of the "culture of hospitality" (Bleiker et al., 2014). The main objective of this paper is to identify dominant visual frame in which female migrants appear in the Serbian print and online media. The mixed-method analysis of 54 images captured from 2015 until 2020 is based on the theoretical concept of visual media frames. The main results show that female migrants have been dominantly visually represented as a threat to border security and public health and that they are usually captured in long shots, deprived of identity and voice in the overall media coverage.
Une Europe des images ? Joyeux-Prunel, Béatrice
Hermès (Paris, France : 1988),
01/2022, Letnik:
90, Številka:
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Journal Article
Avons-nous manqué d'une culture commune pour construire l'Europe ? Les images du passé ne le confirment pas. Le projet Visual Contagions (Université de Genève et Centre d'excellence européen Jean ...Monnet, École normale supérieure, Paris) étudie la presse illustrée du xxe siècle. L'approche computationnelle met en évidence un patrimoine visuel conséquent (philosophique, social, chrétien, artistique et publicitaire), peu séparé des logiques économiques souvent accusées d'avoir biaisé l'Europe.
Listening is a basic ability required in mastering English. The purpose of this article is to describe the utilization of audio visual media in improving listening skills of students majoring in ...STKIP Language BBG Banda Aceh. The main purpose of this research is 1) to know the application of learning development of audio-visual media in improving listening ability of first year English students of STKIP BBBG. 2) to know the increasing of listening ability of English student of second year students of STKIP BBBG after getting learning using audio visual media. This research is quantitative study. To achieve these objectives, purposive sampling is used which is focused on the first year student students semester II are taken as the subject of this research. Regarding the data analysis, mean, percentageandt-test scores for the dependent sample were employed. There sultindi cated that 1)thestudents’ English listening comprehension ability increased significantly after learning with video sand 2) students had positive attitude stoward susing video sin teaching listening skills.
•We describe the dose–response curve for the impact of tree cover density on stress reduction.•We employed 6-min, 3-D videos of community street scenes as the nature treatment.•We measured skin ...conductance and salivary cortisol levels as measures of participants’ stress.•For men, the dose–response curve was an inverted-U shape.•For women, we found no relationship between tree cover density and stress reduction.
Although it is well established that exposure to nearby nature can help reduce stress in individuals, the shape of the dose–response curve is entirely unclear. To establish this dose–response curve, we recruited 160 individuals for a laboratory experiment. Participants engaged in the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) to induce psychological stress, and were then randomly assigned to view one of ten, 6-min, 3-D videos of neighborhood streets. The density of tree cover in the videos varied from 1.7% to 62.0%. We measured their stress reactions by assessing salivary cortisol and skin conductance levels. Results show a clear disparity between women and men. For women, we found no relationship between varying densities of tree cover and stress recovery. For men, the dose–response curve was an inverted-U shape: as tree cover density increased from 1.7% to 24%, stress recovery increased. Tree density between 24% to 34% resulted in no change in stress recovery. Tree densities above 34% were associated with slower recovery times. A quadratic regression using tree cover density as the independent variable and a summary stress index as the dependent variable substantiated these results R2=.22, F (2, 68)=9.70, p<.001. The implications for our understanding of the impacts of nearby nature, and for the practice of planning and landscape architecture are discussed.
Previous research on verbal representations shows how the news media consistently depicts young people’s uses of digital media in a narrow, negative light. In this article, we present an innovative ...methodology for demonstrating how young people and their digital practices are visually depicted. We focus on stock photography produced by the commercial image banks which source the news media with much of its imagery. Following an indicative analysis of news media images, we present a social semiotic analysis (grounded also in a descriptive content analysis) of a dataset of 600 stock photos top-sliced from three major image banks. By pinpointing dominant representational, compositional and interpersonal meanings, we show how image banks and, in turn, the news media produce a rather pessimistic metadiscursive framing of ‘teens and technology’. These influential visualizations are often reductionistic – consistently centering technologies over relationships; they are also problematic in, for example, their inexplicably gendered and classist assumptions.
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