Pictures are necessary but not sufficient: Using a range of visual methods to engage users about school design

It has been argued by both educationalists and social researchers that visual methods are particularly appropriate for the investigation of people's experiences of the school environment. The current and expected building work taking place in British schools provides an opportunity for exploration of methods, as well as a need to establish ways to achieve this involvement of a range of school users, including students. This article describes a consultation that was undertaken in a UK secondary school as part of a participatory design process centred on the rebuilding of the school. A range of visual methods, based on photographs and maps, was used to investigate the views of a diverse sample of school users, including students, teachers, technical and support staff and the wider community. Reported here is the experience of using these tools, considering the success of different visually-based methods in engaging a broad cross section of the school community and revealing useful information. Using a range of visual methods allows a complex, but coherent, understanding of the particular school environment to be constructed and developed. It is further argued that such a range of visual and spatial methods is needed to develop appropriate understanding. The study, therefore, contributes to knowledge about specific visual research methods, appreciation of the relationship between tools, and a general methodological understanding of visual methods' utility for developing understanding of the learning environment

Judith Butler's Critique of Binary Gender Opposition in Gender Trouble: A Task-Based Lesson Sequence

This chapter presents a task-based lesson sequence based on Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. Gender Trouble is a great piece of philosophical literature. However, as philosophical literature is a genre rarely found in EFL teaching, this chapter first demonstrates in detail the merits of this genre for the teaching ofEnglish for Academic Purposes. After a brief analysis of the source text, which deconstructs the entire sex-gender link and presents both sex and gender as free-floating, this chapter presents task-based methodology and how it is utilized in a lesson aimed at building gender awareness and acceptance. In the target task students are asked to take the role of an ethics teacher at an Irish high school, in which the discussion arose whether the school should introduce unisex toilets and changing rooms in order to not discriminate against transsexual students. Tue study of Butler's philosophy will provide students with both the knowledge and language to accomplish this task. Open follow-up discussions often lead to powerful ethical insights in the context of gender, homo- and transsexuality

Unreal memories. La imagen colectiva de la arquitectura en redes sociales visuales

[Abstract] Images of architecture spread quickly on visual social networks that gain interest to disseminate and communicate architecture. For this reason, it is a must to diagnose the social construction of the image of architecture, to explore the restrictions and publication formats of the platform, to identify the reaction and dissemination habits in relation to the visual features of photography and to delve into the possibilities and the risks introduced by artificial intelligence systems. The research method follows a cognitive association approach through various graphic case studies on Instagram. The exploratory design to approach the role of the image to communicate architecture in visual social media arises from the concept of the fragment and the biased vision, a division required due to the nature of related image suggestions as a browsing method on Instagram. The findings identify opportunities and action strategies to complement the contents that build the collective image of architecture adapted to the logic of the new scenario.[Resumen] Las imágenes de arquitectura se propagan rápidamente en las redes sociales visuales que ganan interés para difundir y comunicar la arquitectura. Por ello, es imprescindible diagnosticar el proceso de la construcción social de la imagen de la arquitectura, explorar las restricciones y formatos de publicación de la plataforma, identificar los hábitos de reacción y difusión con relación a los rasgos visuales de la fotografía y ahondar en las posibilidades y los riesgos que introducen los sistemas de inteligencia artificial (IA). El método de investigación sigue un enfoque de asociación cognitiva a través del análisis de varios estudios de casos gráficos en Instagram. El diseño exploratorio para abordar el papel de la imagen para comunicar la arquitectura en las redes sociales visuales surge del concepto de fragmento y de la visión sesgada, división requerida por la naturaleza de las sugerencias de imágenes relacionadas como método de navegación en Instagram. Los hallazgos identifican oportunidades y estrategias de acción para complementar los contenidos que construyen la imagen colectiva de la arquitectura adaptados a la lógica del nuevo escenario

January 25, 2023

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Dynamic Characteristic of Consumer Attention in Online Reviews —Empirical Research Based on Mobile Store Reviews

Nowadays consumer online reviews are becoming more and more important for enterprise decision-making. While the existing research seldom discussed review data from a dynamic perspective, especially ignored consumers\u27 attention change during the product life cycle. To study whether there are dynamic changes and the characteristics of changes in the attention degree of consumers in each phase of the product life cycle, this paper coded a specific node program to collect the online reviews data of the four mobile phones in the entire product life cycle and used python\u27s Chinese automatic word segmentation tool library to segment each word and count word frequency, and then a stepwise regression method was used to analyze the dynamic changes of consumer attention. The paper finds that consumers’ attention on logistics and products presented in online reviews show a downward trend, and the attention on brands shows an upward trend; There is no obvious change in the attention degree on services, prices, and promotion; On the different dimensions of products, there is a significant difference in the attention degree. The research results broad the research ideas of online reviews, provide decision-making basis for enterprises to grasp the characteristics of consumers at different stages and to formulate production and marketing strategies

The New Hampshire, Vol. 73, No. 28 (Feb. 4, 1983)

The student publication of the University of New Hampshire

Nõukogudeaegsete perekonnasidemete uurimine maapiirkondades ja perekondade vaheliste sidemete kohaseotus potentsiaaliga nõukogude järgse kultuurmaastiku arendamisel

Master’s thesis of Landscape ArchitectureThis master's thesis is a case study carried out researching the Luunja sovkhoz and surrounding kolkhoz areas. Therefore, finding people with connections and family-ties connecting to the case study area. The focus of this master thesis was to capture and understand the human perception interacting with rural areas which were shaped throughout collectivisation era. The given research is using methods of the Modscapes project. With collected data and the possibility to capture the distinctive characteristics and connections between places can help us to understand the spatial connections that people have with the case study area.Antud magistritöö on juhtumiuuring, mis on läbiviidud Luunja sovhoosi ja selle ümbritsevatel endistel kolhoosi aladel. Antud uurimuse eesmärk on mõista uuritava maapiirkonna maastikke, mis on seotud kollektiviseerimisega ja selle ajastuga. Sellest lähtuvalt otsiti inimesi, kes on kollektiviseerimise ajaperioodiga seotud ning omavad peresuhteid, kes uuritaval ajaperioodil elasind ning töötasid antud piirkonnas. Antud uurimus kasutab Modscapes uurimismeetodeid. Uurimuse tulemus on leida seosed inimeste ja neid ümbritsevate maastike vahel. Uurimuse teostamiseks viidi läbi välja valitud inimestega kvalitatiivsed intervjuud, et mõista antud inimeste arusaamist neid ümbritsevast maastikust ja kuidas nad seda tajuvad

GAUGING PUBLIC INTEREST FROM SERVER LOGS, SURVEYS AND INLINKS A Multi-Method Approach to Analyze News Websites

As the World Wide Web (the Web) has turned into a full-fledged medium to disseminate news, it is very important for journalism and information science researchers to investigate how Web users access online news reports and how to interpret such usage patterns. This doctoral thesis collected and analyzed Web server log statistics, online surveys results, online reprints of the top 50 news reports, as well as external inlinks data of a leading comprehensive online newspaper (the People\u27s Daily Online) in China, one of the biggest Web/information markets in today\u27s world. The aim of the thesis was to explore various methods to gauge the public interest from a Webometrics perspective. A total of 129 days of Web server log statistics, including the top 50 Chinese and English news stories with the highest daily pageview numbers, the comments attracted by these news items and the emailed frequencies of the same stories were collected from October 2007 to September 2008. These top 50 news items’positions on the Chinese and English homepages and the top 50 queries submitted to the website search engine of the People’s Daily Online were also retrieved. Results of the two online surveys launched in March 2008 and March 2009 were collected after their respective closing dates. The external inlinks to the People’s Daily Online were retrieved by Yahoo! (Chinese and English versions), and the online reprints were retrieved by Google. Besides the general usage patterns identified from the top 50 news stories, this study, by conducting statistical tests on the data sets, also reveals the following findings. First, the editors’ choices and the readers’ favorites do not always match each other; thus content of news title is more important than its homepage position in attracting online visits. Second, the Chinese and English readers’ interests in the same events are different. Third, the pageview numbers and comments posted to the news items reflect the unfavorable attitudes of the Chinese people toward the United States and Japan, which might offer us a method to investigate the public interest in some other issues or nations after necessary modifications. More importantly, some publicly available data, such as the comments posted to the news stories and online survey results, further show that the pageview measure does reflect readers’ interests/needs truthfully, as proved by the strong correlations between the top news reports and relevant top queries. The external ininks to the news websites and the online reprints of the top news items help us examine readers\u27 interests from other perspectives, as well as establish online profiles of the news websites. Such publicly accessible information could be an alternative data source for researchers to study readers\u27 interests when the Web server log data are not available. This doctoral thesis not only shows the usefulness of Web server log statistics, survey results, and other publicly accessible data in studying Web user’s information needs, but also offers practical suggestions for online news sites to improve their contents and homepage designs. However, no single method can draw a complete picture of the online news readers’ interests. The above mentioned research methodologies should be employed together, in order to make more comprehensive conclusions. Future research is especially needed to investigate the continuously rapid growth of the “Mobile News Readers,” which poses both challenges and opportunities to the press industry in the 21st century