This study explores the effectiveness of media literacy-based activities on writing proficiency and affective domains in the EFL setting. A quasi-experiment was conducted during the 2021 academic ...year with 148 college EFL students selected as participants from three classes from a private university in Seoul, South Korea. Participants were divided into three groups based on proficiency levels: upper proficiency, intermediate proficiency, and lower proficiency. The assigned activities included four steps: (1) watching video clips made by a teacher, (2) group discussion, (3) individual presentation, and (4) individual writing. For these activities, participants used multimedia like YouTube, Fanfiction.net, Reddit discussion boards, and blogs to understand the topic, evaluate the content, and express their thoughts. Popular franchises, including the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the Potterverse, and the Twilight saga provided material for the activities. The study’s results reveal that students significantly increased their writing skills, regardless of proficiency level. Moreover, the higher the linguistic ability, the more the writing ability improved. In a survey, students also showed significant changes in all affective domains (anxiety, interest, confidence, and engagement), except for the lower proficiency group’s confidence domain. The study presents a detailed summary of the activities and derives meaningful implications.
Cognitive states, such as rest and task engagement, share an 'intrinsic' functional network organization that is subject to minimal variation over time and yields stable signatures within an ...individual. Importantly, there are also transient state-specific functional connectivity (FC) patterns that vary across neural states. Here, we examine functional brain organization differences that underlie distinct states in a cross-sectional developmental sample. We compare FC fMRI data acquired during naturalistic viewing (i.e., movie-watching) and resting-state paradigms in a large cohort of 157 children and young adults aged 6–20. Naturalistic paradigms are commonly implemented in pediatric research because they maintain the child's attention and contribute to reduced head motion. It remains unknown, however, to what extent the brain-wide functional network organization is comparable during movie-watching and rest across development. Here, we identify a widespread FC pattern that predicts whether individuals are watching a movie or resting. Specifically, we develop a model for prediction of multilevel neural effects (termed PrimeNet), which can with high reliability distinguish between movie-watching and rest irrespective of age and that generalizes across movies. In turn, we characterize FC patterns in the most predictive functional networks for movie-watching versus rest and show that these patterns can indeed vary as a function of development. Collectively, these effects highlight a 'core' FC pattern that is robustly associated with naturalistic viewing, which also exhibits change across age. These results, focused here on naturalistic viewing, provide a roadmap for quantifying state-specific functional neural organization across development, which may reveal key variation in neurodevelopmental trajectories associated with behavioral phenotypes.
Transit Johnson, Nicholas K
Film & History,
12/2023, Letnik:
53, Številka:
2
Journal Article, Book Review
Recenzirano
In the course of his journey, he encounters Weidel's widow, Marie (Paula Beer), and begins to navigate the dilemma of living under a false identity while trying to secure passage for her and her ...lover Richard (Goedehard Giese). Georg does not flee from the kepi-clad Vichy gendarmerie ala Rick in Casablanca, but rather from riot police with assault rifles and body armor. Transit is obsessed with the minutiae and methods of flight: should the refugees book passage on another ship or should they cross the Pyrenees?
The events of our lives unfold over time. When remembering these events, we often reference information about when they occurred and their sequential unfolding. How does negative emotion affect our ...ability to reconstruct the elements of an event in the correct temporal order? This study explored this question using naturalistic film stimuli. Human participants (N = 276) saw video clips varying in emotion (high vs. low). Later, participants were asked to reconstruct the events in the encoded order. Participants' temporal-order memory was better in the high- versus low-emotion condition. Free-recall data showed that participants remembered the high-emotion video with greater vividness, though consistency of details did not differ, nor did spontaneous ordering of clips. Our findings shed light on the multifaceted effects of negative emotion on memory, suggesting that highly negative events are reconstructed with greater temporal fidelity when order is a task demand. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
General Audience Summary
The act of remembering often involves reconstructing the order in which an event originally occurred. This allows us to form coherent memories that are situated in a context in which we can visualize the unfolding of events across time. We rely upon this aspect of memory not only in day-to-day reminiscing, but also in legal settings, whereby witnesses are asked to recount their memory of how the event in question occurred. Studies, however, have identified that emotion has complex effects on memory, wherein emotion can enhance or impair certain elements of memory. This effect is less studied for dimensions of memory related to time (i.e., memory for temporal information), particularly that of temporal order. Considering the emotional nature of many of life's important events and those related to court cases and investigations, it is crucial to identify the exact relation between emotion and temporal-order memory. Hence in this study, we sought to elucidate the influence of negative emotion on our ability to reconstruct the temporal order of an event. We examined temporal-order memory for a film excerpt, comparing memory between participants exposed to a high- versus low-emotion cut of the film. We found that higher negative emotionality resulted in enhanced temporal-order memory. In an ancillary free-recall task, we found that the high-emotion film was remembered with more episodic detail, yet the proportion of accurate details provided and the fidelity of spontaneously provided order information did not differ between emotion conditions. Our results indicate that negative emotion can augment our ability to recall events in an accurate temporal order when order is a task requirement, and in doing so, allows one to recreate a timeline of salient life events.
With the rapid growth of the Internet, a wealth of movie resources are readily available on the major search engines. Still, it is unlikely that users will be able to find precisely the movies they ...are more interested in any time soon. Traditional recommendation algorithms, such as collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms only use the user’s rating information of the movie, without using the attribute information of the user and the movie, which has the problem of inaccurate recommendations. In order to achieve personalized accurate movie recommendations, a movie recommendation algorithm based on a multi-feature attention mechanism with deep neural networks and convolutional neural networks is proposed. In order to make the predicted movie ratings more accurate, user attribute information and movie attribute information are added, user network and movie network are presented to learn user features and movie features, respectively, and a feature attention mechanism is proposed so that different parts contribute differently to movie ratings. Text features are also extracted using convolutional neural networks, in which an attention mechanism is added to make the extracted text features more accurate, and finally, personalized movie accurate recommendations are achieved. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the algorithm. The user attribute features and movie attribute features have a good effect on the rating, the feature attention mechanism makes the features distinguish the degree of importance to the rating, and the convolutional neural network adding the attention mechanism makes the extracted text features more effective and achieves high accuracy in MSE, MAE, MAPE, R2, and RMSE indexes.
YouTube has been flooded with contents within a movie genre, mostly the products by junior creators. It is therefore important to appreciate their works to maintain their creativities and ...innovations. Positive responses to such literary works are also required to improve their quality writing. The current study was aimed at identifying and at the same time construing the implicatures found in each act of the movie entitled “Terlanjur Mencinta” directed by Alfatah Nando. George Yule’s pragmatic theory (1996) was used in relation to implicatures caused by conversational maxims (Grice, 1975) supported by linguistic evidence-based contextual interpretation, namely utterances and stage directions. Findings show that generalized conversational implicatures were identified, namely 12 implicatures in which 42% was due to violation of manner maxim, 33% attributed to that of relation maxim, 17% due to that of quantity maxim, and 8% due to that of quality maxim. In addition, 4 conventional implicatures were found in the monologue. The study concludes that the implicatures can be easily understood through the contexts of situations. It is recommended that future researchers can formulate the ideal proportion and distribution of implicatures in a particular text in terms of quality, employing comparative rhetoric and a special research instrument.
This study explored the costume evolution of the
Star Wars
film characters Padme Amidala and Leia Organa as romantic relationships were introduced and progressed and how this impacted their positions ...of power. The study aimed to investigate how female characters have their position of power minimized through the use of costume as their involvement in romantic relationships evolves throughout the films. Objectification theory was used as a theoretical framework under which the study was carried out. The researchers utilized a qualitative content analysis of the audio and visual content of the first six
Star Wars
films. The results indicated that both characters were objectified through costume. Before romantic relationships were introduced, both women were acknowledged for their positions of power which were emphasized by their costumes. It was observed that as both women progressed in their romantic relationships, their perceived power decreased, and an increase of objectification through greater skin exposure occurred.
This study explored movie transportation's role in the relationship between movie watching and tourism. Based on the transportation theory, the results indicated that movie transportation (i.e., ...movie immersion) had a significant impact on the viewers' affective place images, cognitive place images, and visitation interest. Regardless of movie content, the more the movie viewers were transported, the more favorable impressions they had for the featured tourism sites and consequently the more interested they were in traveling to the target place. Moreover, the results also demonstrated that movie transportation did weaken violent movie content's influence. Particularly, for the highly transported audience, there were no significant differences between the movie groups in terms of their perceptions of place images. However, significant differences were found among the audience that was not well transported. Finally, this study found that both affective place image and cognitive place image could enhance the viewers' visitation interest.
PDF
