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Trends in American Newspaper Coverage of Autism
The public\u27s understanding of disabilities is cultivated via several media resources, including news media. Disability scholars often cite negative representations of disabilities in mass media, yet analyses of newspaper journalists\u27 coverage of autism remain scarce. The present study explores the frames, stereotypes, stigmatizing cues, and individuals cited in news coverage of autism through a content analysis of The New York Times and USA Today coverage of autism from 2013-2016. The findings revealed that episodic frames are consistently utilized to discuss autism. References to abnormal social tendencies and coupling autism with adverse circumstances were the most common stereotypes in newspaper coverage. The studyâs results show that the presence of stigmatizing cues increased over time, with label references representing the most common stigmatizing cue. Episodic coverage was more stigmatizing than thematic news coverage. Medical professional and journalist sources were most present in news coverage. Theoretical and practical applications for media and disability scholars are discussed
ICT (WEB.DESIGN)AND JAVANESE LANGUAGE LEARNING IN INDONESIA: REVITALIZATION INDIGENOUS LANGUGES
In this paper, I would like to focus on Javanese language
as indigenous language in Indonesia that needs to preserve and
develop especially Javanese letters and naturalness conversation.
This paper also describes important areas in which technology
plays a role in language and culture revitalization and explores
efforts made by Indigenous communities to preserve, maintain and
revitalize their Indigenous language with the help of computer
technology. Why Javanese language?, The Javanese language is
becoming endangered, even though it is one of the compulsory
subjects taught at Javanese schools. Students become unmotivated
when they learn the language at school because of boring and
irrelevant teaching and learning materials. Furthermore, their
closest mentors such as teachers, parents and relatives cannot
provide motivating conditions to learn the Javanese language. In
order to preserve the Javanese language through education at
schools, ICT-Web Design is an approach proposed for Javanese
language learning. The students can learn the usage of Javanese
language at a proper Javanese letters, level of politeness through
a natural dialogue with ICT. An approach that is not new, but
which has been under-utilized and has yet to be proven useful in
Indigenous communities is the integration of technology to
supplement efforts in Indigenous language education,
revitalization and maintenance programs. Many Indigenous
communities have embraced technologies, such as audio, video,
multimedia, Internet and etc as a means to revitalize their
language. However, the language revitalization employs the
following categories: Indigenous language preservation; documentation and material
development; and building communicative community can be applied to other Indigenous
languages as well
Planetary Science Virtual Observatory architecture
In the framework of the Europlanet-RI program, a prototype of Virtual
Observatory dedicated to Planetary Science was defined. Most of the activity
was dedicated to the elaboration of standards to retrieve and visualize data in
this field, and to provide light procedures to teams who wish to contribute
with on-line data services. The architecture of this VO system and selected
solutions are presented here, together with existing demonstrators
SUSMETRO : Impact Assessment Tools for Food Planning in Metropolitan Regions : IA tools and serious gaming in support of sustainability targets for food planning, nature conservation and recreation
By offering a series of decision support tools for stakeholders of metropolitan regions, SUSMETRO facilitates and enables evidence-based decision making by means of âserious gamingâ. Making use of the Phase 1 thematic maps such as on agricultural competitiveness, nature conservation and recreational values, stakeholders can compare impacts of traditional versus innovative forms of agricultural production. The SUSMETRO Impact Assessment tool provides information on the expected effects of spatial planning with regard to the self-supportive capacities of the region (ecological footprint) and the share of recreational and nature conservation facilities (land use functions), offering cost-benefit calculations regarding the expected economic revenues. The whole process is embedded in a Landscape Character Assessment process and guided by Knowledge Brokerage procedures to strengthen the science-policy interface. In sum, the SUSMETRO approach allows a wide range of stakeholders to co-develop images for sustainable Metropolitan Agriculture
Referential and visual cues to structural choice in visually situated sentence production
We investigated how conceptually informative (referent preview) and conceptually uninformative (pointer to referentâs location) visual cues affect structural choice during production of English transitive sentences. Cueing the Agent or the Patient prior to presenting the target-event reliably predicted the likelihood of selecting this referent as the sentential Subject, triggering, correspondingly, the choice between active and passive voice. Importantly, there was no difference in the magnitude of the general Cueing effect between the informative and uninformative cueing conditions, suggesting that attentionally driven structural selection relies on a direct automatic mapping mechanism from attentional focus to the Subjectâs position in a sentence. This mechanism is, therefore, independent of accessing conceptual, and possibly lexical, information about the cued referent provided by referent preview
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