The Return of Superman – Transmitting a New Ideal of South Korean Fatherhood through Structures of Double Narration

In der südkoreanischen Reality-TV-Serie The Return of Superman kümmern sich prominente Väter 48 Stunden lang alleine um ihre Kinder, während die Mütter entweder arbeiten oder einen Kurzurlaub machen. Die südkoreanische Kultur ist stark konfuzianisch geprägt und damit traditionell paternalistisch, sodass Väter primär Versorger und nur sekundär Vater sind und dadurch quantitativ und qualitativ wenig Zeit in der Familie und mit ihren Kindern verbringen. Die Väter in der Serie entgegnen dieser traditionellen Vaterrolle eine neue, moderne Rolle. Sie verbringen viel Zeit mit ihren Kindern, sind ihnen physisch und emotional sehr nahe und vermitteln über die Sendung ihren Erfahrungszuwachs, ihre Freude und Erziehungsratschläge. Diese widersprüchlichen Vaterrollen werden aus einer kulturtheoretischen Perspektive diskutiert und anhand ausgewählter Szenen der Serie kontrastiert, um die Generierung serieller Narrationsstrukturen auf ihre Serialisierungslogik zu prüfen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass sich die Lebenswelt ‹normaler› südkoreanischen Familien stark von der vorgelebten Lebenswelt der ‹Supermänner› unterscheidet und sie damit die Ausnahme von der Regel sind, wenngleich sie als Vorreiter für einen möglichen Wertewandel in der südkoreanischen Gesellschaft angesehen werden können. Für die Serienforschung werden kulturspezifische Analysestrukturen und innovative Elemente serieller Darstellungen benannt, sowie das Spezifikum dieses Serienformats in der doppelten Narrationsstruktur einer Unterhaltungs- und Dokumentationsnarration aufgezeigt.The South Korean reality-TV show The Return of Superman features celebrity Dads who take care of their children for 48 hours all by themselves, while their wives are either working or on vacation. The South Korean culture is mainly confucianistic and therefore paternalistic in its principles, making the fathers primarily the earner of the family and only secondarily the father, preventing them from spending qualitative time with their family, let alone their children. The fathers of the show however defy this traditional view of the fathers’ role and show a new and modern interpretation on how to be a good father. They spend a lot of time with their children, are both physically and emotionally close to them and transmit their increase of experience, their joy and their educational advice through the show. These contradictory ideals of fatherhood are discussed from a cultural perspective as well as contrasted with selected scenes from the show, in order to outline the genesis of serial structures of narration and its serial logic. This paper states that the living environment of ‹average› South Korean families varies extremely from the living environments of the ‹Superdads›, making them somewhat of an exotic exception, even though they may be regarded as the vanguard of a change of values in the South Korean society. When it comes to researching TV series, culture-specific structures of analysis and innovative elements of serial presentations are outlined for this TV-show, as well as the specific structure of double narration

Comments about the Significance of Operationalizations of basic terminology of media education from a critical-rationalistic point of view

Der hier dargestellte Entwurf einer kritisch-rationalen Medienbildung basiert auf dem Entwurf einer kritisch-rationalen Medienpädagogik. Die Medienpädagogik im Allgemeinen und die Medienbildung im Speziellen müssen sich in der Bestimmung ihrer Grundbegriffe auf allgemeinpädagogische Arbeiten rückbeziehen und sollten nicht versuchen, ihre Grundbegriffe komplett neu zu definieren. Dies wird in diesem Beitrag exemplarisch für die Grundbegriffe Erziehung, Sozialisation und Bildung getan. Der Bildungsbegriff wird ausführlicher behandelt und es wird dafür plädiert, zwischen einer Medienausbildung und Medienselbstbildung zu unterscheiden. Beide Aspekte sind gleichermassen relevant für die Medienbildung, daher werden in einem weiteren Schritt Operationalisierungen vorgenommen, um die empirische Erforschung dieser Phänomene zu ermöglichen: Für den Teilbereich Medienausbildung kurz im Zusammenhang mit Medienkompetenz, für den Teilbereich Medienselbstbildung ausführlicher im Zusammenhang mit Persönlichkeitsforschung. Die Persönlichkeit wird hier als zentraler Anknüpfungspunkt für die Operationalisierung von Selbstbildung im medialen Kontext gesehen. Dazu wird kurz auf das Konstrukt Persönlichkeit eingegangen, um mit Zielbestimmungen für die Medienbildung zu schliessen. Medienbildung kann auf dieser Grundlage als ein Anwendungsfach konzipiert werden, welches gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen in medialer Hinsicht beobachten, Lösungen für Probleme solcher Entwicklungen formulieren und Prognosen liefern kann.This paper is a proposal for a critical rationalistic conception of media education. Both the discipline and the research field media education should recur to the terminology of general educational sciences and not try to redefine this basic terminology. This paper aims to address this problem and gives an example on how the term education may be differentiated based on arguments that have been exhaustedly discussed in the field of general educational sciences. With focus on media education, this paper argues that research in personality traits may be the key to researching media education when it comes to self-education in terms of shaping one's personality in the sense of what Humboldt has proclaimed. The human personality is the center of this attempt to operationalize media education in this notion of personality shaping in contexts of media. The construct of personality will be introduced. Media education may be understood as a field of study, which aims to observe current developments of societal developments whenever it comes to contexts of media, give an outlook and find solutions whenever those developments meet problems

Experimental Observation of Four-Photon Entangled Dicke State with High Fidelity

We present the experimental observation of the symmetric four-photon entangled Dicke state with two excitations $|D_{4}^{(2)}>$. A simple experimental set-up allowed quantum state tomography yielding a fidelity as high as $0.844 \pm 0.008$. We study the entanglement persistency of the state using novel witness operators and focus on the demonstration of a remarkable property: depending on the orientation of a measurement on one photon, the remaining three photons are projected into both inequivalent classes of genuine tripartite entanglement, the GHZ and W class. Furthermore, we discuss possible applications of $|D_{4}^{(2)}>$ in quantum communication.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitte

Learning cultures and personality: Some reasons why MOOCs haven’t closed the educational divide

Digitale Medien sind in der modernen Bildungslandschaft stetiger Hoffnungsträger für die Aufhebung der Bildungsungleichheit. Im Fokus der 2010er Jahre standen Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), die spätestens seit dem grossen MOOC-Hype 2012 kontinuierlich und in stetig wechselnder Gestalt als Optimierungen der Hochschulbildung gehandelt werden und selbst in den vergangenen sieben Jahren zahlreiche Veränderungen durchlaufen haben. MOOCs haben in der deutschen Hochschulbildung zu kontroversen Diskussionen geführt, bisweilen nehmen MOOCs an deutschen Hochschulen jedoch keinen besonderen Stellenwert ein. Dabei gäbees durchaus Potenziale zur Weiterentwicklung (und damit auch Optimierung) der Hochschullehre, wenn man an internationale Entwicklungen der MOOC-Forschung anknüpfen würde. Dieser Beitrag bilanziert, ob MOOCs den Ansprüchen der Digitalisierung in Hochschulen und den gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen, der Bildungsungleichheit entgegenzuwirken, gerecht werden und stützt sich in der kritischen Einschätzung auf die Ergebnisse einer gross angelegten (N > 1000) und abgeschlossenen quantitativen Studie über vier internationale MOOCs. Die Forschungsergebnisse begründen, warum MOOCs in ihrer traditionellen Form nicht zwingend zu einer Optimierung der Hochschulbildung führen, geben jedoch Hinweise darauf, wie dies nach wie vor gelingen könnte.Society and educational experts have put a lot of faith into digital media, hoping to close the educational divide throughout the world. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have gained special attention during the past seven years and have been speculated to optimize digital education on a global scale while undergoing rapid changes at the same time. These courses led to controversial discussions in Germany, however MOOCs play only a little to no role in the German educational system, even though MOOCs bear the potential to improve upon the educational divide, especially when taking international developments into consideration. This paper aims to evaluate, whether MOOCs live up to these high expectations by reporting key findings from a large quantitative analysis (N>1000) of four international MOOCs. The results show why MOOCs in their traditional forms are not necessarily an optimization of our higher education system, but discuss ways of how to improve MOOCs to further their role in democratizing global education

QCD thermodynamics with continuum extrapolated Wilson fermions II

We continue our investigation of 2+1 flavor QCD thermodynamics using dynamical Wilson fermions in the fixed scale approach. Two additional pion masses, approximately 440 MeV and 285 MeV, are added to our previous work at 545 MeV. The simulations were performed at 3 or 4 lattice spacings at each pion mass. The renormalized chiral condensate, strange quark number susceptibility and Polyakov loop is obtained as a function of the temperature and we observe a decrease in the light chiral pseudo-critical temperature as the pion mass is lowered while the pseudo-critical temperature associated with the strange quark number susceptibility or the Polyakov loop is only mildly sensitive to the pion mass. These findings are in agreement with previous continuum results obtained in the staggered formulation.Comment: 19 pages, 13 figures, published versio

Charmonium spectral functions from 2+1 flavour lattice QCD

Finite temperature charmonium spectral functions in the pseudoscalar and vector channels are studied in lattice QCD with 2+1 flavours of dynamical Wilson quarks, on fine isotropic lattices (with a lattice spacing of 0.057 fm), with a non-physical pion mass of $m_{\pi} \approx$ 545 MeV. The highest temperature studied is approximately $1.4 T_c$. Up to this temperature no significant variation of the spectral function is seen in the pseudoscalar channel. The vector channel shows some temperature dependence, which seems to be consistent with a temperature dependent low frequency peak related to heavy quark transport, plus a temperature independent term at \omega>0. These results are in accord with previous calculations using the quenched approximation.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, 2 table

Revealing Grain Boundary Sliding from Textures of a Deformed Nanocrystalline Pd–Au Alloy

Employing a recent modeling scheme for grain boundary sliding [Zhao et al. Adv. Eng. Mater. 2017, doi:10.1002/adem.201700212], crystallographic textures were simulated for nanocrystalline fcc metals deformed in shear compression. It is shown that, as grain boundary sliding increases, the texture strength decreases while the signature of the texture type remains the same. Grain boundary sliding affects the texture components differently with respect to intensity and angular position. A comparison of a simulation and an experiment on a Pd–10 atom % Au alloy with a 15 nm grain size reveals that, at room temperature, the predominant deformation mode is grain boundary sliding contributing to strain by about 60%

Revealing Grain Boundary Sliding from Textures of a Deformed Nanocrystalline Pd–Au Alloy

Employing a recent modeling scheme for grain boundary sliding [Zhao et al. Adv. Eng. Mater. 2017, doi:10.1002/adem.201700212], crystallographic textures were simulated for nanocrystalline fcc metals deformed in shear compression. It is shown that, as grain boundary sliding increases, the texture strength decreases while the signature of the texture type remains the same. Grain boundary sliding affects the texture components differently with respect to intensity and angular position. A comparison of a simulation and an experiment on a Pd–10 atom % Au alloy with a 15 nm grain size reveals that, at room temperature, the predominant deformation mode is grain boundary sliding contributing to strain by about 60%

Experimental Comparison of Efficient Tomography Schemes for a Six-Qubit State

Quantum state tomography suffers from the measurement effort increasing exponentially with the number of qubits. Here, we demonstrate permutationally invariant tomography for which, contrary to conventional tomography, all resources scale polynomially with the number of qubits both in terms of the measurement effort as well as the computational power needed to process and store the recorded data. We demonstrate the benefits of combining permutationally invariant tomography with compressed sensing by studying the influence of the pump power on the noise present in a six-qubit symmetric Dicke state, a case where full tomography is possible only for very high pump powers.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure