Expanding Dance Archives: Access, Legibility, and Archival Participation

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-229
Author(s):  
Timmy De Laet
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
Archival Practice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Participatory Archives

The ample attention the archivisation of dance has received in recent years primarily focused on new archival formats that often rely on digital technologies or which relocate the archive into choreography and the dancing body. Even though these more experimental approaches are vital in broaching new avenues for dance archivisation, this article takes a step back by considering how existing archival structures can be expanded in order to increase both the accessibility and legibility of archive materials. Interweaving a personal account of doing archival research with a discussion of recent debates within both dance studies and archival science, the aim is to set up an interdisciplinary dialogue between two domains that have been operating in a remarkably isolated manner despite their mutual interests. Taking my cue from how the notion of ‘participatory archives’ is gaining prominence in archival practice and scholarship, I argue that enlarging the input of archival information may lead to a greater output with regard to both archival research and community outreach.

Improving school administration through information technology? How digitalisation changes the bureaucratic features of public school administration

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Dormann ◽  
Stefan Hinz ◽  
Eveline Wittmann
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
Digital Data Processing ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Technology Enactment ◽  
Public School Administration ◽  
School Organisation

Digital media and digital data processing have substantially influenced public institutions in recent years and changed their efficiency, effectiveness and organisational set-up (nature of organisations). Based on Fountain’s Technology Enactment Framework (TEF), this paper argues that, firstly, in a circular process, digital requirements transform the bureaucratic features of school organisation, and that the effects of digital technologies on the performance and efficiency of schools as bureaucratic organisations are ambivalent. We use interview data from a sample of 51% of the head teachers of vocational school centres in the jurisdiction of Bavaria in order to substantiate these assumptions by means of structured qualitative analysis. Email technology seems particularly significant from a quantitative perspective. Indications for the transformative nature of objective digital technologies with regard to the school bureaucracies can be found for all bureaucratic categories under consideration in this analysis, particularly for the feature ‘standardisation’. The examples presented here seem to highlight that gains in efficiency or reductions of losses in efficiency caused by digitalisation are mostly caused by the concrete use of digital technology within the respective school organisation.

Practicing Art in Revolutionary Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (46) ◽  
pp. 168-178
Author(s):  
Bahia Shehab
Keyword(s):  
Music Videos ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Screen Shot ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Revolution

The article highlights the dialogue that took place in 2011–13 between the street and cyberspace and the government and the revolutionaries during the first wave of the Egyptian revolution. In this personal account of the Egyptian uprising, the author describes the unfolding political and social events and climate during the revolution, highlighting key factions at play and taking into account the reactions of protestors online and on the street. Examples of how the revolution was driven online by archival research, music videos, comedians, memes, graffiti, and symbols of martyrdom are paralleled with an account of the protests on the street and events that were unfolding at the time. Describing the environment of censorship and strategies used by the government to block dissent, the author provides stories of how different groups who were part of the revolution retaliated. The article can be considered a screen shot of a revolution that inspired the world but met an expected end.

scholarly journals User Experience on BM Year 2 Mobile-based Learning Application for Alpha Generation

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (06) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Azizah Che Omar ◽  
Nurulnadwan Aziz ◽  
Mohd Adib Abd Muin
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
International School ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Conventional Teaching ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Ongoing Project

<p>This paper reports the ongoing project related to the development of mobile-based learning application particularly for Alpha Generations who studies in international school. Due to the advancement of digital technologies, Alpha Generations tend to interact with mobile device compared to conventional environment as they were born in the century of digital age. This includes their learning activities. In Malaysia, expert in language literacy particularly Malay language is compulsory for all including foreigner students who learn in international school. As the mobile-based learning application could provide attractive and interactive interaction compared to conventional teaching method, providing children with additional mobile-based learning tool could facilitates them to have their own active learning experience. This study found that this is the research gap that should be fill in to ensure children in international school able to literate in Malay Language similar to mainstream student. Therefore, mobile-based learning application called BM Year 2 has been developed and evaluated. The proposed application also has been discussed in the previous paper which involves expert evaluation. To ensure the proposed application could fulfill the actual users’ needs, user experience testing has been carried out and discusses in this paper.They are tested in terms of layout and design, functionality, and user’s satisfaction. A set of questionnaires has been set up and distributed to the actual users upon they use the proposed mobile-based learning application BM Year 2. Overall, the empirical findings found that theBM Year 2 able to evokepositive learning experience to the actual users.  <strong></strong></p>

scholarly journals Blended learning as a modern educational technology for integrating the learning process in education institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-177
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Mizyuk
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Methods Of Learning ◽  
The Impact

Digital technologies increase the impact on society, economy and education every day. Schools gradually penetrate the technologies of virtuality and complemented reality; teachers must be prepared not only for their understanding, but also for their use. Currently, mixed learning becomes more popular in educational institutions, but not all teachers understand the essence of this concept. A generalized analysis of domestic scholars has shown that the notion of "mixed learning" relates to such concepts as "learning process", "learning system", "educational technology", "educational methodology", "combination of methods", "modernization tool", etc. On the basis of the analysis of literature on the concept of "mixed learning" in foreign and domestic researchers, the author presents her own definition, discloses the main components of mixed learning and its benefits in organizing educational activities in institutions of general secondary education; a scheme of combining traditional and e-learning in a mixed one is prepared. Digital technologies have a significant impact on the nature, the form of training, the kind of activity of students, allow the implementation of fundamentally new forms and methods of learning, and, as a consequence, increase the efficiency of educational process in a digital society. Before higher education there is the task of training specialists who can use a computer for the organization of interactive training and testing, video conferencing, participation in telecommunication projects, webinars, forums, etc. It is noted that modern teacher has to develop independently educational content in text, video, multimedia and hypermedia format, to use digital and educational resources, to set up educational content management systems and to organize training with the use of the Internet and its services.

Shakespeare’s Rebirth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony R. Guneratne
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Giuseppe Verdi ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
George Balanchine ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Contemporary Media

Shakespeare adaptations are uniquely suited to chart the historical reciprocity between performance traditions and emerging mediascapes. Reframing a classical essay of Walter Benjamin’s within the context of contemporary media theory, this chapter draws together archival research, interviews, and observations of performances in related aesthetic forms that have engaged with Shakespeare’s texts, including those by such key figures as Giuseppe Verdi, George Balanchine, and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. By focusing on connections between the inventors of audiovisual technologies (from early audio recordings to ‘live’ HD broadcasts) and key performances by actors, singers, and dancers, and by examining how contemporary performers respond to today’s digital technologies in the light of the traditions of performance established by their predecessors, it attempts to resituate the study of adaptations of Shakespeare within broader historical and cultural contexts.

Experimental Study of Viscous Cargo Behaviour and Investigation on Global Loads Exerted on Ship Tanks

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Baudry ◽  
Jean-Marc Rousset
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Free Surface ◽  
Filling Ratio ◽  
Viscous Fluids ◽  
Ship Motions ◽  
Fluid Viscosity ◽  
Bulk Carrier ◽  
Forced Motion ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Set Up

The LiquefAction project is dedicated to the study of cargo liquefaction, especially to understand the inception of this phenomenon and its effects on bulk carrier stability. Both numerical and experimental approaches are set-up to simulate the behaviour of specific ores in various modes of motions. This paper is dealing with forced motion tests of a tank filled with two highly viscous fluids. The tank is a bulk carrier hold model and a hexapod platform is reproducing the ship motions. Free surface evolutions as well as global loads are analysed. Some preliminary conclusions are given with respect to the filling ratio, the fluid viscosity and type of motions.

scholarly journals A Methodological Approach for the Study of Domes

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 983-1013
Author(s):  
Carlo Bianchini
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Geometric Properties ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Operational Issues ◽  
University Of Rome

AbstractDomes still represents a prickly subject, large dimensions coupled with a limited accessibility making their study difficult and time-consuming. Although throughout history this problem has been tackled in different ways, relevant methodological and operational issues have until now limited the success of these efforts. Digital technologies have radically changed this scenario. 3D active and passive capturing systems currently allow for a dense and accurate surveying while modelling software provides powerful tools to build virtual counterparts of surfaces and to investigate their geometric properties. The aim of this paper is to present three different projects developed by a research group in the Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture—Sapienza University of Rome. Based on their results, the group has set up and tested a protocol that can guide users from acquisition through modelling and, finally, to the reading of the geometric properties of domes.

scholarly journals Digital technologies in modern historical and archival research and education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hiarnovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Main Trend ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The article discusses the main vectors of the application of digital technologies in the archival field. It is noted that the digitization of documents and the development of open access technologies have created favorable conditions for the use and preservation of archival documents. The creation of popular science projects contributes to the expansion of the audience of archive users and forms a respectful attitude towards documentary heritage in society. The main trend in the application of digital technologies in scientific research remains the improvement of methods for creating digital editions.

As Luck Would Have It

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deb Verhoeven
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Digital Research

This essay explores the ways in which new developments in digital research infrastructure change our expectations of archival research and offer opportunities for a newly energized feminist approach to the archive. A specific platform, the Humanities Networked Infrastructure, is explored as an example of how digital technologies enable the coproduction of the archive and at the same time extend the possibilities for serendipitous discovery.

Research on the Integrated System of Digital Design/Manufacturing/Management in Aeroplane Process Equipments

2009 ◽  
Vol 626-627 ◽  
pp. 635-638
Author(s):  
W. Li ◽  
C.F. Guo ◽  
X.Q. Tang
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Integration Scheme ◽  
Application System ◽  
Manufacturing Management ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
Set Up

Aiming at the existed deficiency of integrated application of digital technologies, the integration scheme of digital design/manufacturing/management in aeroplane process equipments is proposed. Its collective technologies and practical research items are analyzed, together with existed CAX systems and their data transfer relationship with MES/PDM. The united information model and knowledge reuse technologies are studied to ensure the successful product development. Based on the above researches, an integrated application system is set up, which is composed of seven sub-systems, like management of process equipments orders etc. Therefore, “paperless” manufacturing in the Hafei Aviation Company has finally come true.

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