A future for game histories?

Recent years have seen an efflorescence of writing and curatorial work focused upon the past of video games. However, this work has tended to concentrate on particular forms of analysis, and privileged certain kinds of discourse. This article argues that these approaches limit our capacity to produce effective histories of and around games, and proposes more nuanced histories, informed by Foucauldian ideas of a genealogical approach to historical work, and a clear sense of the voices that present histories fail to represent. Broader, cultural game histories, we contend, offer us a clearer understanding of games’ past, and can move us away from the teleological, deterministic, and “great man” histories which dominate the present landscape. Reflecting on the past in this way also suggests an agenda for the future, in encouraging us to consider how and to what end we preserve video game culture

Erratum to: 36th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s13054-016-1208-6.]

Review of solar energetic particle models

Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events are interesting from a scientific perspective as they are the product of a broad set of physical processes from the corona out through the extent of the heliosphere, and provide insight into processes of particle acceleration and transport that are widely applicable in astrophysics. From the operations perspective, SEP events pose a radiation hazard for aviation, electronics in space, and human space exploration, in particular for missions outside of the Earth’s protective magnetosphere including to the Moon and Mars. Thus, it is critical to improve the scientific understanding of SEP events and use this understanding to develop and improve SEP forecasting capabilities to support operations. Many SEP models exist or are in development using a wide variety of approaches and with differing goals. These include computationally intensive physics-based models, fast and light empirical models, machine learning-based models, and mixed-model approaches. The aim of this paper is to summarize all of the SEP models currently developed in the scientific community, including a description of model approach, inputs and outputs, free parameters, and any published validations or comparisons with data.</p

Change my mind: The moderating impact of scepticism and cynicism on perceived source credibility and informational claims in social advertising

Government, non-profit and commercial sectors all engage in social advertising, while an increasing cross-pollination of their marketing styles has resulted in a reliance on heuristics over informational claims to encourage behaviour change. Consumer scepticism and cynicism are also rising, but their impact on social advertising effectiveness is unknown. This experimental study found the Australian Government was a less credible social advertiser than commercial and non-profit organisations, while informational claims improved social advertising outcomes for all sectors. Consumer scepticism and consumer cynicism both moderated this relationship, reducing the effectiveness of perceived source credibility and informational claims on social advertising

Compounding the impact of teaching development programs in China and Hong Kong SAR: using the Professional Standards Framework to deepen learning and improve teaching self-efficacy

Globalisation and massification are creating significant expansion in the higher education sector in Asia and forcing institutions to professionalise their teaching. Merely implementing academic development, however, does not ensure improvement in teaching quality. We report an action research project, which demonstrated that the combination of teaching development through Teaching Advantage Global, alongside professional recognition through fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, significantly improved the teaching self-efficacy of academics in China and Hong Kong SAR. The results of this research demonstrate that professional development and recognition can support and evidence sector-wide strategic change.</p