SELLING TRUE STORIES: A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF MANUFACTURED REALISM IN THE DOCUDRAMA CRIME FILM

This paper examines the cultural function of docudrama crime films. The docudrama is a hybrid of the conventional Hollywood fiction film and the documentary. Blurring fact and fiction, these films manufacture an illusion of realism around the framework of the standard feature film using visual and narrative appeals to real life and real events. By asserting that they are based on a true story, these films are able to shape and enhance a desired reading of the text in order to convey a particular social message to audiences. To understand the initial development of the docudrama crime form and how it changes to reflect shifts in culture, I analyize the following films: Boomerang and Call Northside 777, justice docudramas from the 1940s, and The Captive City and The Phenix City Story, syndicate fiims from the 1950s

High fidelity measurement of singlet-triplet states in a quantum dot

We demonstrate experimentally a read-out method that distinguishes between two-electron spin states in a quantum dot. This scheme combines the advantages of the two existing mechanisms for spin-to-charge conversion with single-shot charge detection: a large difference in energy between the two states and a large difference in tunnel rate between the states and a reservoir. As a result, a spin measurement fidelity of 97% was achieved, which is much higher than previously reported fidelities.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur

Mobile-mentory mobile documentaries in the mediascape

This thesis investigates the potential of and prospects for mobile documentary filmmaking. As a result of practice-led research, the city film Max with a Keitai was produced on mobile camera phones for cinematic projection. The feature-length documentary portrays the contemporary Japanese megalopolis through the lens of a mobile phone and records the mobile filmmaking process. Simultaneously, the project experimented with mobile phones as viewing devices for ‘micro-movies’. Through curating an international mobile art exhibition and mobile feature film screening, the research explored the new mobile aesthetic from 2004 onwards, which is presented as the Keitai Aesthetic in this thesis. In the first chapters the thesis maps out the early mobile mediascape in the years 2004 to 2007 and analyses cinematic technology through user-based histories. Furthermore, the theoretical framework explores the city films of the 1920s and the concept of motion in film. Mobile filmmaking in the years 2004 to 2007 constitutes a return to non-linear documentary practices, such as interval theory (Dziga Vertov) and Ur-Kino (Hans Richter). The final chapters examine the new emerging mobile aesthetic in the research timeframe from 2004 to 2007 and further develop the argument that innovation in mobile filmmaking occurred, both in the domain of the gallery and the film-festival context before the media industry realized the potential of mobile media. The particular mobile resolution adds new elements to the emerging Keitai Aesthetic: the experience of location, notions of personal, immediate and intimate qualities. This research documents the alternative approach offered by the mobile-mentary (mobile documentary) and explores its potential as an intervention into the industry dominated discourse

Finite bias charge detection in a quantum dot

We present finite bias measurements on a quantum dot coupled capacitively to a quantum point contact used as a charge detector. The transconductance signal measured in the quantum point contact at finite dot bias shows structure which allows us to determine the time-averaged charge on the dot in the non-blockaded regime and to estimate the coupling of the dot to the leads.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure

Time-Resolved Detection of Individual Electrons in a Quantum Dot

We present measurements on a quantum dot and a nearby, capacitively coupled, quantum point contact used as a charge detector. With the dot being weakly coupled to only a single reservoir, the transfer of individual electrons onto and off the dot can be observed in real time in the current signal from the quantum point contact. From these time-dependent traces, the quantum mechanical coupling between dot and reservoir can be extracted quantitatively. A similar analysis allows the determination of the occupation probability of the dot states.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure

Creditos a PyMEs en Argentina: Racionamiento crediticio con oferta ilimitada de dinero

El sistema financiero argentino experimentó fuertes cambios durante la década de los noventa. Las nuevas reglas de la economía transformaron un sistema caracterizado por la “represión financiera” en otro, regido por el mercado y la competencia. Como resultado, aumentó la magnitud de los fondos intermediados, en un contexto de tasas de interés reales positivas e internacionalización de los flujos de capitales. La creciente articulación con las finanzas internacionales y la enunciación de nuevas modalidades de funcionamiento del sistema financiero hacían presagiar cambios significativos, tanto cuantitativos como cualitativos en la asignación de crédito al sector privado. Con el objetivo de examinar las condiciones de accesibilidad al crédito por parte de las empresas argentinas, este estudio avanzó en dos direcciones. Por un lado, fueron analizados los procesos de asignación de créditos que siguen los bancos comerciales. Por el otro, se estudiaron econométricamente las características de las empresas, a fin de detectar aquéllas que son exitosas en términos de acceso al crédito. Entre las conclusiones de este estudio, se muestra que el contexto de oferta casi ilimitada de dinero generado por las nuevas condiciones no fue acompañado de una mejor asignación del crédito a las empresas de menor tamaño relativo. Parecen ser válidos en el caso argentino, los criterios de racionamiento crediticio, descritos por la literatura económica.firm loans, employment, crisis, Argentina, banks

60+ Online:: Enhancing digital inclusion of seniors via mobile digital stories and social media participation

Seniors are amongst the most digitally excluded in Australia. Despite the increasing popularity of social media, seniors often lack access to technology and to basic digital skills. Thus many seniors do not derive the social benefits and service realisation that arise from online forms of communication and engagement. One barrier to digital inclusion for seniors is learning how to make use of digital and online tools in a way that incorporates their specific needs, interests and capabilities. The 60+ Online project fostered digital inclusion amongst 22 Australian seniors with varied digital skills and from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Within workshops, researchers encouraged seniors to learn basic digital skills, addressed seniors’ concerns about confidentiality and privacy, and introduced them to safe and regulated online social media platforms. Seniors were encouraged to draw upon personal and community interests to inform storyboarding and digital story development. Digital stories were generated and edited using personal mobile technology. Social media sites (a closed Facebook page and personal Instagram accounts) facilitated sharing of digital skills development and experiences outside the workshops. Regardless of digital skill levels at outset, every senior who completed the workshops ‘graduated’, and produced their own digital story. These digital stories were showcased at festivals, City Council events, and hosted on YouTube. This article outlines the framework used for this project, from the first co-design workshop to YouTube dissemination. We provide links to workshop resources and tools (iPads, smartphones and apps used) in order to provide a model for digital inclusion that may be replicated for other disadvantaged or vulnerable groups in diverse community-based settings

Imaging a Coupled Quantum Dot - Quantum Point Contact System

We performed measurements on a quantum dot and a capacitively coupled quantum point contact by using the sharp metallic tip of a low-temperature scanning force microscope as a scanned gate. The quantum point contact served as a detector for charges on the dot or nearby. It allowed us to distinguish single electron charging events in several charge traps from charging events on the dot. We analyzed the tip-induced potential quantitatively and found its shape to be independent of the voltage applied to the tip within a certain range of parameters. We estimate that the trap density is below 0.1% of the doping density and that the interaction energy between the quantum dot and a trap is a significant portion of the dot's charging energy. Possibly, such charge traps are the reason for frequently observed parametric charge rearrangements.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure