Mapping Cultural Participation in Chicago

Charts the household income, educational level, race, and ethnicity of all neighborhoods in Chicago's metropolitan area and explores whether smaller, ethnic, and diverse organizations reach a different audience than the larger institutions

Reggae to Rachmaninoff: How and Why People Participate in Arts and Culture

Provides the results of a telephone survey conducted to help inform those whose aim is to broaden and diversify cultural participation, and promote the role of arts and culture in strengthening American communities

Extra-Curricular Activities: creating graduates with impact in education

Staff from the Carnegie Faculty’s Centre for Social and Educational Research across the Life-course (SERL) have completed a project for the Higher Education Academy subject group for education, ESCalate, into ‘Creating Graduates with Impact in Education’. Jacqueline Stevenson, Professor Sue Clegg and Paula Sealey undertook research with students and staff across a range of education-related courses as well as with employers from schools, local authorities and other education settings

"I make films to be seen": the narrative issue of Flora Gomes

The feature films by Flora Gomes: Mortu nega (1988), Udju azul di Yonta (1992), Po di sangui (1996), Nha fala (2002) and Republica di mininus (2012) narrate stories that speak of transits, music, woman, children, war, (neo) colonialism, cosmogony, life, death, love, birth, migration, tradition, modernity, collectivity; taking place in the countryside, or outdoors generally, in an ironic, critical and metaphorical tone of speech. In this sense, the present abstract "I make films to be seen": an analysis of the film narrative of Flora Gomes" proposes to shed light on the elements of narrative cinematography of the fiction films of Flora Gomes which are present in the speech, themes, soundtrack, orality, time, duration, space, camera movements, actors' preparation, the work of illumination of the black body, the scenery, and the visual metaphors of this director. Note that the present text is an extract of some of Gomes's trademarks from doctoral thesis defended in 2018.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The Image as a Communication Tool for Virtual Museums. Narration and the Enjoyment of Cultural Heritage

The challenge of contemporary museums is to make content accessible to a wider audience; in this way information related to the good becomes more communicative and usable in order to enhance its uniqueness. Accessibility goes through an innovative communication of content: the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that are increasingly part of people’s daily lives. Communication in most cases occurs visually, so ICTs are increasingly focusing on a rethinking of this expressive form; images become a better support for high-quality data transfer