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IDS-Neo2020+: A Novel Resource for New German Words in Use Int. J. Lexicogr. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Petra Storjohann
Researching and recording new lexical items and senses holds a well-established position within German linguistics. The first corpus-based online dictionary (the Neologism Dictionary 2006ff.) was introduced in 2006 and focused on collecting and describing neologisms which had emerged and become established over the three decades from 1900 to 2020. In 2022, a new concept was developed to elevate lexicographic
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Constraints on verse form and syntactic well-formedness in the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Calvin Quick
Poetry is often described as having ‘unusual syntax’. Based on a close study of nine cywydd poems by the fourteenth century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, I identify attributive adjectives and preverbal particles as the loci of substantial departures in poetic language from the ordinary grammar of contemporary Welsh, providing an optimality theoretic analysis of the interaction between the linguistic
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A taxonomy of artists’ postures to grasp the plurality of cultural production practices: Putting an end to the cicada and the ant Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Thierry Beaupré-Gateau, Joëlle Bissonnette
The rooted dichotomy between art and economy tends to simplify our understanding of the conditions under which makers of cultural products operate. The contingencies of the last decades, leading to a greater plurality of artists’ practices, urge us to create new conceptual tools to seize the effective cultural production structures. This paper aims to open this dichotomy - anchored in institutional
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Indonesian critiques of the new musical system Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Idhar Resmadi, Emma Baulch
This article explores Indonesian indie musicians’ critiques of the new system for distributing and listening to music, which is comprised of music streaming platforms, aggregator services, music in...
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‘Pioneers of culture’: Australian natural history and the German colonial imaginary Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-25 Anja Schwarz
Many contemporary efforts to attend to the coloniality of nineteenth-century natural collections rely on the reconceptualization of items held in these collections as cultural belongings. After des...
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‘Zero dollars and zero cents’: resourcefulness and DIY music scenes in rural and regional South Australia Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 James Boss
This article examines the role of ‘resourcefulness’ in small rural and regional music scenes. Drawing on case study fieldwork and ethnographic research in Port Lincoln, South Australia, I demonstra...
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The Nutbush Reframed: further analysis related to ‘Doing the Nutbush’ Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Jon Stratton, Panizza Allmark
This article supplements our earlier article on the Nutbush dance, ‘Doing the Nutbush’. After that was published, there was a media frenzy which resulted in many comments on The Guardian site and o...
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A review of Leech and Short’s norms of speech and thought presentation Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Reiko Ikeo, Aika Miura
This paper discusses how the concept of norms of speech and thought presentation relates to speech and thought presentation in actual texts with reference to the examination of two corpora, Semino and Short’s discourse presentation corpus, and a corpus of contemporary present-tense fiction. Through this approach, we review the meanings of the norms in each kind of discourse presentation. Leech and
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French universalist disparities: A racial capitalist reading of French universalism French Cultural Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Daniel N. Maroun
This article unveils how the French political ideology of universalism benefits from the perpetual racialization of others. Drawing from various definitions and understandings of racial capitalism, I demonstrate how the success of universalism relies on the racialization of French society to strengthen its homogenizing cultural hegemony. Cedric Robinson notes that European civilization has historically
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Revaluing the Eros Collection for Australian cultural histories Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Claire Henry, Julia Erhart
The Eros Collection at Flinders University is the largest collection of materials produced by the sex industry and its affiliates in Australia. Acquired in 1997 and added to over the years, the var...
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The year’s work in stylistics 2022 Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Hazel Price
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The practices of care: extinction and de-colonization in the natural history museum Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Katrina Schlunke
The practices of care of extinct animal specimens and other materials in natural history museums are many and varied. This article focuses upon two extinct animal examples from the Berlin Museum of...
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Structural predictors of private museum founding Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Johannes Aengenheyster
In the last decades a new organizational population of private museums has seen substantial proliferation. While multiple hypotheses for the spread of this new form have been raised, systematic analyses of these have been lacking. In particular, the rise of private museums has been hypothesized to stem from tax incentives, reductions in government spending, increasing inequality and increasing elite
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Book Review: Linguistics and English Literature: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language) Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Urszula Kizelbach
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Book Review: Translation and style Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Wen Yongchao, Guo Qi
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Book Review: The Language of Dystopia Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Xu Xiao
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Book Review: Surprised by sound: Rhyme’s inner workings Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 David West
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Book Review: Disnarration and the unmentioned in fact and fiction Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Chloe Harrison
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Book Review: Poetry in the Mind Language and Literature (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Polina Gavins
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A queer feast of memories: using archives in festival research Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Jessica Pacella, Stuart Richards
Founded in 1997 by arts and community workers, the Feast Festival in Adelaide is one of the major LGBTQIA+ festivals held in Australia. 2022 marked the 25th year of the Feast Festival and, as such,...
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In pursuit of happiness: motivations for urban to rural migration in Turkey Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Ture Sahin
In recent years, there has been a growing global trend in which people seek to establish a simpler, slower, and more sustainable lifestyle away from the pressures of city life. This research analys...
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Year zero of tomorrow’s pasts Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Tony Briggs, David Pledger
We will discuss the impact of AI on storytelling, particularly in the context of Indigenous media-making. We will do this broadly in reference to our own practices and artistic processes and our cu...
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Performing whiteface in contemporary Senegal: mimicry, self-censorship and the disruption of postcolonial whiteness Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Charlotte Okkes-Sane
Whiteface is a staged embodiment of whiteness; it is the act of ‘dressing up’ as whiteness/a white person. For the Senegalese artist Samba Sine, this means painting himself white and putting on a F...
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Modifications of R: how the virtual comes to matter in VR, XR and MR art and performance Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Robert Ellis Walton
The work of 1930s writers Antonin Artaud, Stanley Weinbaum, and Max Herrmann, reveals an early history of Virtual Reality and a burgeoning interest in how the virtual can be concretized through exp...
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‘The queer pedagogical encounter: a continuum of futures’, introduction to ‘In Queer Minds’ special issue Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Baden Offord
This article introduces the special issue of ’In Queer Minds’ by discussing the conceptual impact of queer in formal educational institutions and the importance of developing and sustaining the que...
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“Original sufferhead”: The boy-child and masculine sufferings in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé and Les Soleils des Indépendances French Cultural Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Omotayo Ajileye Jemiluyi
Revered as one of the principal figures of contemporary African literature and one of the greatest francophone writers, the celebrated Ivorian author; Ahmadou Kourouma, is renowned for his criticism of colonial machination, Africa's political and social structure, and satirical writings. In his selected works for this study—“Allah n’est pas obligé” and “Soleils des indépendances,” he profoundly explores
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Creepypasta and “the Fabrègues Affair”: Imitation and aggression in a recent case of youth violence French Cultural Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Ian Williams Curtis
This article offers a critical analysis of “the Fabrègues Affair” (2022), a case of youth violence in which two twelve-year-old girls carried out a series of stabbings, resulting in the death of one of their fathers. What was initially viewed as a simple “family tragedy [ drame intrafamilial]” ballooned into a national conversation when the girls claimed, after their arrest, that their violent act
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Misadventure in Little Lon: augmented reality and the question of historical ’presence’ Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Victoria Duckett
True Crime Games is an award winning Melbourne-based game company headed by artist and designers Andy Yong and Emma Ramsay. This paper explores the first of their games–Misadventure in Little Lon –...
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The relational forms of cultural-creative crowdfunding: A typology of practices through mapping platforms in Europe and Latin America Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Alice Demattos Guimarães, Natalia Maehle, Lluís Bonet
Cultural-creative crowdfunding (CCCF) intersects the culture sector production chain and alternative finance technology as a global web-enabled phenomenon for funding cultural-creative activities. Yet, busking or aspects of patronage are not new to artists and cultural-creative agents; the novelty is doing so through a virtual intermediator space, a crowdfunding platform (CFP). CFPs have proliferated
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Symbolism, purpose, identity, relation, emotion: Unpacking the SPIREs of sense of place across digital and physical spaces Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman
When personal meaning and knowing emerge for a space, that space moves beyond a labeled locale to become a such that one develops an idiosyncratic knowing or Sense of Place (SoP). Decades of scholarship have animated understandings of SoP for locales, however that work is inconsistent in operationalizing the construct and largely limited to positively valenced, physical spaces. To begin addressing
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Multilingualism and mismatching: Spanish language usage in college admissions essays Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 AJ Alvero, Rebecca Pattichis
In US K-12 education, the Spanish language is subject to practices and policies that limit its expression, especially among racialized Latinx students. However, higher education claims to view Spanish as a positive form of diversity. We therefore examine college admissions essays to analyze how students strategically deploy Spanish in light of these contradictions. We use two years of undergraduate
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The meaning of autonomy: How artists justify career paths Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Yucheng Liu
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From rhymes to revelation:A qualitative study of listeners’ meaning-making of hip-hop music Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Cedra van Erp, Danielle N.M. Bleize, Serena Daalmans
Hip-Hop as a music genre is a popular music genre both in commercial success and global impact and there is a variety of academic studies on the origins, creation, effects, and uses of hip-hop. What remains understudied, yet fundamentally important, is a perspective that takes hip-hop consumers and the way they give meaning to hip-hop as a musical genre. The current in-depth interview study (N = 20)
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Describing, knotting, tying: developing emerging media documentary in a creative accelerator context Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-23 Ben Joseph Andrews, Reanna Browne, Isobel Knowles, Emma Roberts, Van Sowerwine, Ana Tiquia, Katy Morrison
This article discusses the experiences of six artists participating in a new Australian creative accelerator programme for emerging media documentary. Attending to the processes, perspectives and f...
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‘Every entry should be the last’: archiving the war and producing implicated publics in Yevgenia Belorusets’ A wartime diary (2022) Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Ksenia Robbe, Dorine Schellens
The media discourse on Russia’s war in Ukraine heavily focuses on geopolitical and military explanations of this conflict, with Ukraine often serving as a metaphor for preserving European values. H...
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Adapting European heritage: Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists (2005) and Omar Victor Diop’s Project Diaspora (2014) Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-23 Astrid Van Weyenberg
This article considers how the novel Soul Tourists (2005) by the British writer Bernardine Evaristo and the series Project Diaspora: a Journey through Time (2014) by the Senegalese photographer Oma...
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Reading culture as shared ethos: A study of Finnish self-identified readers Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Pirjo Hiidenmaa, Ilona Lindh, Maaria Linko, Roosa Suomalainen, Timo Tossavainen
This article advances understanding about book reading as a sociocultural phenomenon in the 2020s. We make a contribution to the cultural sociology of reading by investigating Finnish self-identified book readers by analysing the significance of sociodemographic variables (gender, education, age, and place of residence) in terms of reading activity and access to books. Our study is placed in the context
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XR support in the frame: the creative extended reality ecosystem in Australia Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Katy Morrison, Alice Burgin
Extended Reality (XR) is an emerging creative industry in Australia, and practitioners have had broad success in the international film festival circuit. This paper presents the results of a sector...
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Representing Aboriginal Childhood: The politics of memory and forgetting in Australia Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Julia Garas
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2024)
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Blurred Authorities: How Exposure to Conflicting Accounts Increases Strong Democrats’ Openness to Partisan Conspiracy Narratives Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Marcus Mann
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Towards a sociology of recurrent events. Constellations of cultural change around Eurovision in 18 countries (1981–2021) Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Luca Carbone, Jonathan Mijs, Thijs van Dooremalen, Stijn Daenekindt
Sociologists usually conceptualize events as unexpected occurrences bringing about long-lasting transformations of social structures. Following this definition, most empirical studies of events focus on pre/post-measurement strategies. Yet not all events are unexpected (e.g., Eurovision, Oscar nominations, the Olympics). Moreover, pre/post-measurements cannot capture the temporality in which meaning-making
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Youth's experiences with books: Orientations towards digital spaces of literary socialisation Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Luz Santa María, Kris Rutten, Cristina Aliagas-Marín
This article reports the findings of an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of ten interviews with participants aged 13 to 23 from international contexts on youths’ experiences of literary socialisation. Guided by affect theory and cultural geographies, the research examines the affective intensities arising from those experiences that render possible digital participation around books,
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Creative industries in transition: A study of Santiago de Chile's autopoietic cultural transformation Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Christian Morgner, Tomás Peters
Much of the research on cultural and creative industries has been ‘Western-centric’, but recent interest into cultural and creative industries in the Global South confirms that this conceptual frame is not always directly transferable. This first comprehensive analysis of the last three decades of cultural and creative industries in Santiago de Chile is based on detailed participant observations and
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Contested Spaces: an interdisciplinary collaboration Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Lyndall Adams, Nicola Kaye, Marcella Polain, Emma Jayakumar
The world in 2020 presented Australia with a world on fire, in lock down, and in environmental ruin, with potentially unprecedented social dislocation, homelessness, unemployment and mental health ...
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Playing with misinformation, lying with truth: satirical conspiracy theories and sacred seriousness of play in online imageboard cultures Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Lukas Mozdeika
Knowingly re-circulated misinformation online is a widespread phenomenon that is increasingly met with suspicion or even condemnation in spite of the sharer’s intent. The article recasts misinforma...
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Flipping the heterosexual script: representing girls’ positive sexual health on Netflix Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Emily D. Ryalls, Sharon R. Mazzarella
Studies have documented how U.S. teen television programmes perpetuate a dominant heterosexual script in which girls are instructed to deny their sexual desire and to passively wait to be chosen by...
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A moving view: an introduction to Our Sentimental Natures Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Ian Collinson, Nicole Matthews
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)
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Fear of the bear? Rewilding, rural agencies and politics in two documentaries in Trentino and the Pyrenees Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Carlo Berti, Enric Castelló
In Trentino and the Pyrenees, the population of bears has grown since the 1990s, when new specimens were released into the wild to recover this endangered species. The reintroduction generated a conflictive cohabitation with village dwellers, the shepherding sector, and rural initiatives in both areas. The aim of this research is to evaluate how local media and two audiovisual documentaries covered
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Living ghosts and the Laapata: the episode of genocide continuum in Pakistani art Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Azam Sarwar
The systematic disappearance of individuals is very much a global phenomenon. In Pakistan, this phenomenon re-emerged after Pakistan decided to get involved in the U.S.-led ‘war on terror’ in the w...
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Communities, connections, and careers: building personal and professional networks through community media work Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Bridget Backhaus, Heather Anderson, Charlotte Bedford
Community broadcasting is anecdotally considered a ‘training ground’ for the mainstream media. However, there is little empirical research that supports these claims around skill development and ca...
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Borrowed soundtracks: adopting the global history approach to the study of connectedness in film history Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Serkan Şavk
In this article, my goal is to reveal the importance and potential of global history, an approach that is generally neglected in media and film history literature. The main characteristics of globa...
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Our America: migratory dreams in Pajtim Statovci’s My Cat Yugoslavia and crossing Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jesse van Amelsvoort, Enrico Dal Bosco
‘Europe was our America,’ the protagonist of Pajtim Statovci’s novel Crossing (2016) remarks as he prepares to leave Albania. In this novel and Statovci’s début, My Cat Yugoslavia (2014), character...
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The bookshelf's ‘magic circle’: An ethnographic study of classificatory encounters in library spaces Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Katherine Quinn
This article analyses classificatory encounters in a unique library with integrated academic and public book collections. Employing Walter Benjamin's image of the organised bookshelf as a ‘magic circle’ of independently relating items, I follow the choreography of classification in library spaces: from the formality of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) through which books are organised, to their
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Laughter and civil repair: A stage-audience encounter Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Anna Lund
A world in movement is visible in the arena of the performing arts. Since the “long summer of migration” (also known as the 2015 “refugee crisis”), the field of performing arts for a young audience in Sweden has shown a growing interest in staging migration while elaborating new artistic strategies and modes of participation. Migrant/non-white youth share the stage-audience encounter with a white audience
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Shaping pathways of the Musang King and Black Thorn in the Penang Island durian industry Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Penny Wong Pui Yan
A quick Google search about Penang durians will immediately showcase a diversity of durian varieties like Red Prawn, Green Skin, and Khun Poh, in the Penang durio-tourism industry. Durio-tourism at...
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Engendering ethics: recognition and inclusion of intersectional identities in queer communities when conducting population survey research Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Kim Andreassen, Leanda Denise Mason, Julian Chen
This paper delves into the critical importance of ethical considerations in research, with a primary focus on gender, sex, and sexual orientation. Recognizing the vulnerabilities and complexities i...
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Artistic referencing and emergent standards of peer recognition in Hollywood, 1930–2000 Poetics (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Katharina Burgdorf
How does an artwork's referencing of creative content affect its peer recognition? Artists constantly seek to balance the tension between originality and conformity. Previous research argues that peers tend to reward socially well-embedded artists that signal community involvement and literacy of established conventions. Another stream of sociological research argues that the criteria for peer recognition
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Print Dictionaries Are Still in Use: A Survey of Source Preferences by Polish Translators Int. J. Lexicogr. (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Joanna Sycz-Opoń
The study aimed to investigate the sources used by modern translators, specifically whether they use traditional lexicographic tools or diverted their preferences to newer sources of information. Data was collected via an online survey. The sample consisted of 229 mainly Polish translators of various languages and specialisations. It was found that the most frequently used source was the search engine
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Freak out! At the acousmonium: François Bayle and the dynamics of the subject French Cultural Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Sam Ridout
French electroacoustic music in the post-war decades has typically been associated with a high modernism that spurned popular or mass culture. This article situates electroacoustic music in the late 1960s and 1970s in relation to the transformation of the cultural field in this period, which unsettled clear divisions between high and low cultures. Attending in particular to the question of subjectivity
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On becoming a queer educator: reflections on queer perspectives and approaches in initial teacher education Continuum (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Siobhan Unwin, River Starcevich, Svarah Lembo, Madeleine Dobson
This paper will explores the experiences of embedding queer perspectives and approaches into Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Initial teacher education is a topic of great interest; however, little...