Shared Photography: (Photo)journalism and political mobilisation in Rio de Janeiro's favelas

One of the most important civic phenomena emerging from favelas in Rio de Janeiro today is “community (photo)journalism”, which is practised by favela residents who are trained in journalistic and artistic techniques to raise critical awareness and promote political mobilisation in- and outside favelas. This paper looks at some of the work produced at one training place for community photographers, the agency-school Imagens do Povo (“Images of the People”) in Nova Holanda, a favela located in Rio’s North Zone. Using an ethnographic approach, this article first provides an account of the working practices of the School and its photographers. This is followed by a discussion of a small sample of their photographic work, for which we employ a social semiotic paradigm of image analysis. This methodological synergy provides insights into how these journalists document long-term structural as well as “spectacular” violence in favelas, while at the same time striving to capture some of the “beauty” of these communities. The paper concludes that this form of photographic work constitutes an important step towards a more analytical brand of journalism with different news values that encourage a more context-sensitive approach to covering urban violence and favela life.

KEYWORDS: alternative media, Imagens do Povo, multimodality, news values, photojournalism.

Future Print Story

Research trip for 5 academics associated with the RCA to give talks and convene workshops at Tokyo University of the Arts and Kyoto City University of the Arts.

Playing popular science

This was a peer-reviewed event that took place at the DiGRA-FDG conference in August 2016. While it has a paper component (the attached proposal), the output was a demonstration of games rather than a conference paper. As such, this entry should be considered an Event or Exhibition.

Creating institutional e-print repositories

This article aims to address three questions: What are �institutional e-print repositories�? Why create them? How can they be created?

Modeling the Network of Dutch and Flemish Print Production, 1550-1750

The production of artistic prints in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlands was an inherently social process. Turning out prints at any reasonable scale depended on the fluid coordination between designers, platecutters, and publishers; roles that, by the sixteenth century, were considered distinguished enough to merit distinct credits engraved on the plates themselves: invenit, fecit/sculpsit, and excudit. While any one designer, plate cutter, and publisher could potentially exercise a great deal of influence over the production of a single print, their individual decisions (Whom to select as an engraver? What subjects to create for a print design? What market to sell to?) would have been variously constrained or encouraged by their position in this larger network (Who do they already know? And who, in turn, do their contacts know?) This dissertation addresses the impact of these constraints and affordances through the novel application of computational social network analysis to major databases of surviving prints from this period. This approach is used to evaluate several questions about trends in early modern print production practices that have not been satisfactorily addressed by traditional literature based on case studies alone: Did the social capital demanded by print production result in centralized, or distributed production of prints? When, and to what extent, did printmakers and publishers in the Low countries favor international versus domestic collaborators? And were printmakers under the same pressure as painters to specialize in particular artistic genres? This dissertation ultimately suggests how simple professional incentives endemic to the practice of printmaking may, at large scales, have resulted in quite complex patterns of collaboration and production. The framework of network analysis surfaces the role of certain printmakers who tend to be neglected in aesthetically-focused histories of art. This approach also highlights important issues concerning art historians’ balancing of individual influence versus the impact of longue durée trends. Finally, this dissertation also raises questions about the current limitations and future possibilities of combining computational methods with cultural heritage datasets in the pursuit of historical research.

How valuable is web 2.0 to music criticism? An investigation into the role of web 2.0 and social media in the reception of Benjamin Britten's operas

The internet is deeply integrated with many people's day to day lives, including that of musicians and musicologists. In this thesis, the impact of the internet on classical music criticism in the Web 2.0 age is examined. Using the examples of Britten's operas, Gloriana and Peter Grimes, an overview of their critical reception is examined, using printed reviews found in The Times since their premières, internet based reviews of two specific performances, and the reactions to these performances on Twitter. Theories of media behaviour including de Mul's view of the 'ludic self' are used in order to explain the content found in reviews in conjunction with citizen journalism, of which blogging is an extension. While there are some consistencies between the print reviews and those online, there are stylistic differences, and wider repercussions for the world of criticism in the wake of the democratisation of culture, as critics find their previously regarded authority obsolete to some. Music criticism is no longer the reserve of the musicologists

Blogósfera periodística en Ecuador La opinión deliberada ¿Quiénes son y qué escriben?

El uso de blog por los periodistas ecuatorianos es un proceso relativamente nuevo; es utilizado como una alternativa de comunicación libre y vía de escape de las presiones internas y externas que existen en el sector de medios en el país desde la aprobación de la Ley de Comunicación. Este estudio evidencia la existencia de 91 blogs divididos en tres categorías: 64 blogs personales alimentados por periodistas, 24 asociados a los grandes medios impresos en Ecuador y 3 blogs grupales dedicados a la distribución de noticias.Se analizan los lugares de procedencia de los blogs y su relación con los niveles de acceso a la Red, temas tratados, la difusión que tienen en Facebook y Twitter, los tipos de blogs (personales, adjuntos a medios y grupales) y, por último, su índice de abandono y mortandad, usando la técnica de rastreo digital de evidencias (Roger, 2009). En Ecuador los blogs no son monotemáticos; tratan varias ramas siendo el periodismo, la comunicación y la política los temas preferidos.

A Grand Tour: A Catalogue of Eighteenth-Century Print Works at Memorial University Libraries

This catalogue highlights forty-seven of the 1,180 eighteenth-century imprints held by Memorial University Libraries. Intended as a general introduction to eighteenth-century literature in its original formats, the work is aimed at students and teachers of book history and bibliography, as well as at the general reader. Consequently, the focus is broad, highlighting the emerging free press, imaginative literature—particularly the novel—travel literature, street literature, illustration, as well as works of religion, philosophy, science, and medicine. The introduction discusses each of the works presented in the catalogue and makes a case for the collection as a whole as representing a range of developments both in eighteenth-century literature and in the book trade. Catalogue entries highlight the physical artifact, offering both description and photographic evidence. Each entry contains information about the author and the content of the work, and attempts to place the work in its literary context.

Re-assessing the 'public's right to know' - the shift from journalism to political PR

Plan of the siege of Plattsburg and capture of the British fleet on Lake Champlain the 11th Sptr. 1814 : to accompany B. Tanner's print of Macdonough's victory.

Relief shown by hachures.

El papel de la investigación en la prensa escrita cuencana, un estudio sobre las prácticas periodísticas habituales en relación a la utilización de técnicas de investigación y manejo de fuentes. Casos diario El Tiempo y el Mercurio – mayo 2014

EL PAPEL DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN EN LA PRENSA ESCRITA CUENCANA es un estudio sobre las prácticas periodísticas habituales en relación a la utilización de técnicas de investigación y manejo de fuentes, en los diarios El Tiempo y El Mercurio durante Mayo del 2014. El primer capítulo describe el origen y la importancia del periodismo de investigación, así como los casos más representativos de investigaciones realizadas en el Ecuador y la aplicación de las técnicas y fuentes para su ejecución. El capítulo dos ofrece el análisis de contenido que se hizo durante un mes a los dos medios impresos escogidos como objeto de estudio, así como las entrevistas y encuestas realizadas a editores, reporteros y periodistas de investigación a nivel país. El capítulo tres explica la relación actual entre el oficio periodístico y la vigente Ley Orgánica de Comunicación. Finalmente en el capítulo cuatro, se evidencian las conclusiones y recomendaciones sobre la ética y la formación de los profesionales del Periodismo, a la vez que se presentan los resultados de la investigación.

Comparing reading processes on e-ink displays and print

E-book reading devices open new possibilities in the field of reading. More activities than just reading a book can be performed with a single electronic device. For a long time, electronic reading devices have not been favored because their active LCD displays used to have a relatively low contrast. The new generation of electronic reading devices differs from earlier ones in the nature of the display: active LCD displays have been replaced with displays based on e-ink technology, which has display properties closer to that of printed paper. Moreover, e-ink technology has higher power efficiency, thereby increasing battery life and reducing weight. At first sight, the display looks similar to paper print, but the question remains whether the reading behavior also is equal to that of reading a printed book. In the present study, we analyzed and compared reading behavior on e-reader displays and on printed paper. The results suggest that the reading behavior on e-readers is indeed very similar to the reading behavior on print. Participants shared similar proportions of regressive saccades while reading on e-readers and print. Significant differences in fixation duration suggest that e-readers, in some situations, may even provide better legibility.