224 research outputs found
âUnboxingâ videos: co-construction of the child as cyberflĂąneur
This paper draws on data from a study of a four-year-old child, Gareth, in his first year of formal schooling in England. The aim of the study was to identify the nature of Gareth's literacy practices across home and school spaces. The focus for this paper is an analysis of one aspect of Gareth's home digital literacy practices: his repeated viewings at home of âunboxingâ videos on YouTube. These include videos that feature the unpacking of commercial products. It is argued that the child viewer/reader is co-constructed in these practices as cyberflĂąneur and that this mode of cultural transmission is a growing feature of online practices for this age group in the twenty-first century. The paper addresses issues concerning young children's online practices and their relationship to material culture before analysing the growth of interest in peer-to-peer textual production and consumption in the digital age
The effects of poetry-writing SANTEL on erotic body image in remission of cancer in women: a pilot study
International audienceAbstract Aim: Our pilot study aims to describe the effects ofa new specific and structured protocol focused on poetic/erotic writing (named SANTEL) on the (re)sexualization ofbody image in women, who have experienced cancer.Procedure: The protocol consists of four steps: to choose alist of erotic verses focused on the body parts, to fill a semistructuredpoetic text, to write sentences after target phraseson the body; and in the end, to write a free poem. Mrs V.suffered from breast cancer, and one breast was removed.She and her husband participated in this poetic writing protocol,separately. We analyzed the linguistic metaphors ofthe body by QSR Nvivo10 software.Results: Using this protocol, we showed discourse variationsof metaphors before and after the experience of writing.Patient V used âI feel like an alienâ as a starting metaphorto describe her cancer experience and after poetic writingsessions, she used other bodily metaphors like âMy body isa flowerâ and âMy sensual and white fleshâ.Conclusion: This poetic perspective promises a type ofâperceptive-literary surgeryâ, characterized by a sensualinvestment process after remission: a poetic reconstructionof erotic body image.Les effets d'un protocole d'Ă©criture poĂ©tique SANTEL sur l'image Ă©rotique du corps dans le traitement du cancer fĂ©minin : Ă©tude pilote The effects of poetry-writing SANTEL on erotic body image in remission of cancer in women: a pilot study A. Santarpia · J. TellĂšne · M. Carrier RĂ©sumĂ© Objectif : Cette Ă©tude pilote de type qualitative et exploratoire vise Ă dĂ©crire les effets d'un nouveau protocole d'Ă©criture poĂ©tico-Ă©rotique (nommĂ©e SANTEL) sur la rĂ©Ă©ro-tisation de l'image du corps chez une femme, ayant vĂ©cu un cancer. MatĂ©riel et mĂ©thodes : Il s'agit d'un protocole composĂ© de quatre Ă©tapes : une liste des phrases Ă caractĂšres poĂ©tiques et Ă©rotiques Ă choisir, un texte Ă trous Ă remplir, des amorces de phrases ciblĂ©es sur le corps et en fin un poĂšme libre. Madame V. a subi un cancer du sein nĂ©cessitant une ablation complĂšte. Madame V. et son conjoint exĂ©cutent le protocole d'Ă©criture sĂ©parĂ©ment. Nous montrons les variations discursives des mĂ©taphores utilisĂ©es avant et aprĂšs l'expĂ©rience de l'Ă©criture, Ă travers le logiciel d'analyse qualitative QSR NVivo10. RĂ©sultats : Madame V. passera de la mĂ©taphore initiale « je me sens une extraterrestre » vers la plus attĂ©nuĂ©e « Non. Je me dis qu'extraterrestre c'Ă©tait peut-ĂȘtre un peu Ă©norme ». En plus, elle utilisera de nouvelles mĂ©taphores linguistiques du corps pour raconter son image du corps telles que « ce corps de chair blanche » et « une fleur qui s'ouvre dĂ©licatement ». Conclusion : Cet exercice spĂ©cifique d'Ă©criture promet un type de « chirurgie perceptive-littĂ©raire » dans le processus d'investissement sensuel et affectif aprĂšs la rĂ©mission, une reconstruction perceptive et poĂ©tique de l'image Ă©rotique du corps. Mots clĂ©s MĂ©taphores perceptives · Image du corps · Cancer fĂ©minin · Corps Ă©rotique · Ăcriture poĂ©tique · Chirurgie perceptive-littĂ©raire · Logiciel QSR NVivo10. Abstract Aim: Our pilot study aims to describe the effects of a new specific and structured protocol focused on poetic/ erotic writing (named SANTEL) on the (re)sexualization of body image in women, who have experienced cancer. Procedure: The protocol consists of four steps: to choose a list of erotic verses focused on the body parts, to fill a semi-structured poetic text, to write sentences after target phrases on the body; and in the end, to write a free poem. Mrs V. suffered from breast cancer, and one breast was removed. She and her husband participated in this poetic writing protocol , separately. We analyzed the linguistic metaphors of the body by QSR Nvivo10 software. Results: Using this protocol, we showed discourse variations of metaphors before and after the experience of writing. Patient V used " I feel like an alien " as a starting metaphor to describe her cancer experience and after poetic writing sessions, she used other bodily metaphors like " My body is a flower " and " My sensual and white flesh ". Conclusion: This poetic perspective promises a type of " perceptive-literary surgery " , characterized by a sensual investment process after remission: a poetic reconstruction of erotic body image. Keywords Bodily metaphors · Body image · Feminine cancer · Erotic body · Poetry writing · Perceptive-literary surgery · QSR Nvivo10 software
The Football Supporter in a Cosmopolitan Epoch
Arguably, the later process of globalization served to reshape how socializations are fostered and maintained across time and space. Additionally, in the last fifteen years a new phenomenon that reinvigorated time and space compression has emerged: social media. Moreover, it is argued that the conjunction of those processes can be seen as taking place on a distinct Age - the Anthropocene or the cosmopolitan epoch. Arguably those processes have the capacity to alter the way individuals enact their football fandom In this light, this paper seeks to conceptualize one particular football support identity that takes into account this fragmented period. Based on an 18-month ethnographic research with supporters of one English Premier League, this paper conceptualizes the football fan in the Anthropocene as the cosmopolitan flĂąneur. I conclude by pointing out to some prospective avenues for future research based on a cosmopolitan imagination
Crime, media and the will-to-representation: Reconsidering relationships in the new media age
This paper considers the ways in which the rise of new media might challenge commonplace criminological assumptions about the crimeâmedia interface. Established debates around crime and media have long been based upon a fairly clear demarcation between production and consumption, between object and audience â the media generates and transmits representations of crime, and audiences engage with them. However, one of the most noticeable changes occurring in the wake of the development of new media is the proliferation of self-organised production by âordinary peopleâ â everything ranging from self-authored web pages and âblogsâ, to self-produced video created using hand-held camcorders, camera-phones and âwebcamsâ. Today we see the spectacle of people them, send them and upload them to the Internet. This kind of âwill to representationâ may be seen in itself as a new kind of causal inducement to law- and rule-breaking behaviour. It may be that, in the new media age, the terms of criminological questioning need to be sometimes reversed: instead of asking whether âmediaâ instigates crime or fear of crime, we must ask how the very possibility of bound up with the genesis of criminal behaviour.performing acts of crime and deviance in order to recordmediating oneself to an audience through self-representation might be bound up with the genesis of criminal behaviour
Benjaminâs âflĂąneurâ and serial murder: An ultra-realist literary case study of Levi Bellfield
This article seeks to develop criminological theory with the application of a literary device known as the âflĂąneurâ â an individual described as a âstrollerâ â to serial murderer Levi Bellfield. With this application of the âflĂąneurâ to the phenomenon of serial murder, this article provides a fresh theoretical âlensâ, and specifically sheds light on how particular serial murderers operate and evade detection in modern society. The importance of modernity to the phenomenon of serial murder is also considered utilizing Ultra-Realist theory, resulting in both a micro and macro examination into how the modern urban landscape has subsequently created an environment in which the serial killer both operates and comes to fruition. This synthesis between the application of literary devices, criminological theory and socio-cultural concepts not only raises important and previously neglected questions pertaining to serial murder, but also assists in forming the more sinister relative of the flĂąneur: the âdark flĂąneurâ
Provoked by Charlie Hebdo: visual satire and management studies
Satire, especially in visual form, has long played a significant role in balancing the powers of those in control of societies, communities or organizations. Focussing on the cover of the 'survirors' issue', the first publication of the French satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' following a deadly terror attack on its staff, we explore how incongruity, irony and caricature afford visual satire its potency to provoke readers to re- consider values and beliefs. Set in contrast with the seriousness of most management research, visual satire done well can resist fixed categorizations and binary oppositions to communicate and debate sophisticated knowledge claims. The mirror play of humor and tragedy in the cover of the 'surviror's issue' prompts us to reflect upon our own academic writing practice and the possibilities of incongruity, irony and caricature for management research. Atypically, we do not begin with a gap in knowledge, but commence with the tragedy
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