The Paralympic Games is the largest sporting competition for athletes with an impairment. This competition has, however, had limited news coverage in the past particularly compared to the Olympic Games. This study ana...
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The Paralympic Games is the largest sporting competition for athletes with an impairment. This competition has, however, had limited news coverage in the past particularly compared to the Olympic Games. This study analyzes newspaper coverage of the 2016 Paralympic Games by two newspapers in 11 countries (China, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom). The coverage period spanned 7-19 September 2016. Text and pictures were coded according to page number, content, gender, sport, and nationality of person. Media content analysis was used to extract coverage of themes. Results are presented using descriptive statistics and frequency counts. Of the 623 articles and 541 photographs analysed, a small percentage (7.3%) were on the front pages of newspapers. Most articles and photographs (78.7%) were about athletes or teams. There was more coverage of male athletes (53.2%) and local athletes (71.6%). Points of interest The Paralympic Games has historically received less newspaper coverage than the Olympic Games. This study examined newspaper coverage of the 2016 Paralympic Games from 11 countries. For the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, newspaper coverage in most countries was good, lasting nearly the whole duration, and this also included a number of front page reports. The type of coverage and number of reports differ between countries. Generally, the highest medal winning countries gave more media attention to the Games. The news reports focused primarily on their local athletes and teams. Moreover, males had more news coverage than females overall.
Including children in the design of technologies that will have an impact on their daily lives is one of the pillars of user-centered design. Educational robots are an example of such a technology where children's...
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Including children in the design of technologies that will have an impact on their daily lives is one of the pillars of user-centered design. Educational robots are an example of such a technology where children's involvement is important. However, the form in which this involvement should take place is still unclear. Children do not have a lot of experience with educational robots yet, while they do have some ideas of what robot could be like from popular media, such as BayMax from the Big Hero 6 movie. In this paper we describe two pilot studies to inform the development of an elicitation method focusing on form factors;a first study in which we have asked children between 8 and 15 years old to design their own classroom robot using a toolkit, the Robo2Box, and a second study where we have compared the use of the Robo2Box toolkit and clay as elicitation methods. We present the results of the two studies, and discuss the implications of the outcomes to inform further development of the Robo2Box for prototyping classroom robots by children.
There is a large body of study concerning primary school teachers' technology integration, and their web-based professional development self-efficacy and attitudes. However, little research has been particularly c...
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There is a large body of study concerning primary school teachers' technology integration, and their web-based professional development self-efficacy and attitudes. However, little research has been particularly conducted to investigate the effects of self-efficacy and attitudes toward professional development on teachers' intention to integrate technologies in their teaching activities. Using a sample of 368 primary school teachers, we empirically investigate how teachers' technology integration is affected by their self-efficacy and attitudes toward web-based professional development. Factor analysis, correlation analysis, and stepwise regression were adopted in this study. Results show that the primary school teachers' self-efficacy and attitudes toward web-based professional development are the important predictors of their perceptions of integrating technology into their teaching. The results indicate that improving the primary school teachers' learning attitudes and cultivating their self-efficacy are conducive to the intention to integrate technology with their teaching activities, which may strengthen the teaching effectiveness through the aid of web-based technologies. Besides, Internet experience may help teachers feel confident about their own ability to participate teachers' web-based professional development programs, and will lead to more positive teaching conceptions of technology integration.
The aims of the study were to investigate the effects of race gaming experience in playing racing video games on gaze behaviour and performance of drivers and the effects of natural driving experience on gaze behaviou...
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The aims of the study were to investigate the effects of race gaming experience in playing racing video games on gaze behaviour and performance of drivers and the effects of natural driving experience on gaze behaviour and performance of gamers. Thirty participants, divided into drivers-gamers, drivers-non-gamers and non-drivers-gamers, were asked to drive in a race circuit as fast as possible while their eye movements were recorded. Drivers-gamers spent more time looking at the lane than non-drivers-gamers. Furthermore, drivers-gamers performed greater number of fixations towards the speedometer and showed faster performance in the racing task than the drivers-non-gamers. Combining natural driving and race gaming experiences changed the gaze location strategy of drivers. Practitioner summary: Racing video games practitioners have high propensity to exhibit attitudes and intentions of risky driving behaviour. Combining natural driving and race gaming experiences affects gaze behaviour strategy of drivers.
Pooja Rangan'sImmediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentaryis a provocative, polemical, and vital book for thinking through the often-problematic humanitarian impulse to give the camera to the Other. Tradi...
Pooja Rangan'sImmediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentaryis a provocative, polemical, and vital book for thinking through the often-problematic humanitarian impulse to give the camera to the Other. Traditionally, this act is located within the benevolent discourse of "giving a voice to the voiceless." Rangan argues the opposite, namely that "giving the camera to the other invents the very disenfranchised humanity that it claims to redeem." While the book concentrates on a range of non-fiction examples that fall broadly into the subgenre of "participatory documentary," Rangan's critical orientation does not rest firmly in the methods and concerns of documentary studies or media studies more generally. Rather, she works "diagonally" across those disciplines as well as disability studies, childhood studies, and animal studies using a methodology informed by the work of feminist and postcolonial scholars and the close textual analysis of deconstruction and semiotics.1This intellectually expansive approach enables Rangan to trenchantly interrogate essential questions about documentary ethics, human rights, representation, authorship, spectatorship, and ***, Rangan sets out to explore "the reality effects of participatory documentary," especially when they operate in the mode of emergency, offering the concept of "immediations," which she defines as "the documentary tropes of evidencing … attributes of humanity in all their immediacy." In other words,Immediationsanalyzes how "humanist tropes of documentary immediacy" exploit the "circumstance of labors of disenfranchised individuals" that simply work to "reinforce their status as other" while fulfilling British documentary pioneer John Grierson's vision for the humanitarian mission of realist[End Page 170]documentary.2For Rangan, those disenfranchised individuals, largely illegible to documentary tropes that signify "humanity," are represented in the figures of the child, the refugee, the person
Spatial skills are essential for everyday tasks, and technology blends seamlessly into children's everyday environment. Since spatiality as a term is ubiquitous in experience this paper bridges literature in two f...
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A popular and intuitive way to capture the quality of life in cities is by evaluating ‘livability.’ This study aims to gain insight on the types, importance, and availability of skills needed to develop livable citi...
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Development of retinal structure and function is controlled by cell type-specific transcription factors and widely expressed co-regulators. The latter includes the mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) family of histone methyl...
Development of retinal structure and function is controlled by cell type-specific transcription factors and widely expressed co-regulators. The latter includes the mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) family of histone methyltransferases that catalyze histone H3 lysine 4 di- and tri-methylation associated with gene activation. One such member, MLL1, is widely expressed in the central nervous system including the retina. However, its role in retinal development is unknown. To address this question, we knocked out Mll1 in mouse retinal progenitors, and discovered that MLL1 plays multiple roles in retinal development by regulating progenitor cell proliferation, cell type composition and neuron-glia balance, maintenance of horizontal neurons, and formation of functional synapses between neuronal layers required for visual signal transmission and processing. Altogether, our results suggest that MLL1 is indispensable for retinal neurogenesis and function development, providing a new paradigm for cell type-specific roles of known histone modifying enzymes during CNS tissue development.
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