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Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World
- 2016
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This volume takes a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality. Contributions from 19 authors and specialists, of almost as many diverse origins, grapple with this concept, each in their own way. How can transculturality be described? How can it help us understand our world? Many of the chapters deal with literary texts, others with the stories told in movies, drama, and visual art. There are texts about the complexity of the European Burqa-Ban debate, the negative aspects of Portuguese multiculturalism, or the border-crossing experiences of Filipino immigrants in Ireland. Several chapters examine stereotypes, the idea of movement, the dissolution of cultural borders, or the nature of bilingual writing. It is a unique contribution to the field, on a virtually global scale.
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Waltz after Werkmästers Hans Olsson with dancer Dlsher Jabo and Bullermyren Band
- 2018
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Konstnärligt arbete (film/video)abstract
- This multimodal and interdisciplinary artistic research project fuses Kurdish-Swedish dancer Dlsher Jabo’s embodied interpretation of a traditional Swedish folk tune with experimental documentary and music video filmmaking practices.Filmed in the historic village of Bingsjö in Dalarna Province, Sweden, the project re-imagines the contemporary refugee experience by engaging in several layers of audiovisual and intercultural collaboration.Prior to production, the traditional song Waltz after Werkmästers Hans Olsson was recorded and re-arranged by Swedish-Kurdish folk band Bullermyren. Audio interviews were conducted with dancer Dlsher Jabo, in which he shared stories of his life as krump/street dancer in Syria and his subsequent displacement as a refugee. During principal photography, a Swedish folk dance troupe, led by choreographer Jenny Franke, was invited to perform alongside Mr Jabo and Bullermyren, resulting in a unique juxtaposition of traditional and contemporary dance styles.Due to the extreme physical nature of Mr Jabo’s performance and the limited availability of the filming location, the shoot was conducted in a highly improvised manner in a barn dance hall. Consequently, the film’s narrative structure and visual rhythm needed to be composed through judicious and precise film editing practice.This film project was presented at the 2018 MIRAC Conference at Sweden’s Royal College of Music and disseminated at a 2018 audiovisual research seminar at Dalarna University before being made widely available on YouTube.The research was conducted as part of Dalarna University’s research initiative DAVA intercultural sessions and produced in collaboration with Faraway Productions Pty Ltd (Australia), Bingsjöstämman and Folkmusikens Hus.
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- Eriksson, Per Erik, et al.
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How gaze time on screen impacts the efficacy of visual instructions
- 2018
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Ingår i: Heliyon. - : Elsevier BV. - 2405-8440. ; 4:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores whether GTS (gaze time on screen) can be useful as an engagement measure in the screen mediated learning context. Research that exemplifies ways of measuring engagement in the on-line education context usually does not address engagement metrics and engagement evaluation methods that are unique to the diverse contemporary instructional media landscape. Nevertheless, unambiguous construct definitions of engagement and standardized engagement evaluation methods are needed to leverage instructional media's efficacy. By analyzing the results from a mixed methods eye-tracking study of fifty-seven participants evaluating their visual and assembly performance levels in relation to three visual, procedural instructions that are versions of the same procedural instruction, we found that the mean GTS-values in each group were rather similar. However, the original GTS-values outputted from the ET-computer were not entirely correct and needed to be manually checked and cross validated. Thus, GTS appears not to be a reliable, universally applicable automatic engagement measure in screen-based instructional efforts. Still, we could establish that the overall performance of learners was somewhat negatively impacted by lower than mean GTS-scores, when checking the performance levels of the entire group (N = 57). When checking the stimuli groups individually (N = 17, 20, 20), the structural diagram group's assembly time durations were positively influenced by higher than mean GTS-scores.
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- Hermansson, Joakim
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Characters as fictional migrants : Atonement, adaptation and the screenplay process
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Screenwriting. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1759-7137 .- 1759-7145. ; 11:1, s. 81-97
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The migration metaphor has been widely used in connection with media adaptions, but the metaphor has remained an abstract figure of speech. Yet, to understand characters as migrants who go through journeys of acculturation when they are adapted for the screen may enhance understanding of both the characters' potential and problems that may arise during the development process. This article proposes that the development of characters and their processes - as fictional beings - can be understood through the use of models that describe real migrants' adaptation processes. Using Christopher Hampton's screenplay drafts for the film Atonement (2001), it outlines how such migratory journeys go hand in hand with screenwriters' problem-solving processes. The article thus develops the idea that migrating characters, in their capacity as fictional beings and the thematic issues that they represent, both adapt to and appropriate their new media environments; simultaneously, they are appropriated by new creative forces and by the conventions of those new media environments, who in turn must adapt to the characters in this process of bi-directional acculturation.
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- Häggström, Margaretha, 1962
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This is me! Visual Art as a Means to Identify Self and the “Bigger Picture”
- 2022
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Ingår i: Learning through Art #3 INTERNATIONAL PICTURES OF PRACTICE. - Quinta da Cruz : Insea Publications. - 9789895360024 ; , s. 370-377
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This essay shows art-works of young students diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Through a six-week long theme, the students worked with self-portraits, through three phases. First, they made a sketch without any special instructions. Second, they used a grid-method. Third, they created personal, innovative, and original images. The grid method was a way to meet the AS students’ needs for clear instructions. The third phase was quite challenging for the student. However, when they overcame the obstacles, they made creative and personal portraits. It was crucial for the students to start in the known before entering the unknown.
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- Häggström, Margaretha, 1962
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Visual Genealogy of Portraits, Self-Portraits, and Selfies: Same Phenomenon, Different Phase of History
- 2020
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Ingår i: In Danilo M. Baylen (Ed.), Dreams and Inspirations: The book of Selected Readings 2018. - Georgia : International Visual Literacy Association. ; , s. 66-85
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book chapter explores how the use of portraits has developed over the years. The purpose is to examine the genealogy of three types of portraits --- portraits, self-portraits, and selfies --- and to reveal similarities and diversity between these. A sample of portraits and self-portraits by painters, and selfies by amateur photographers, are analyzed through the four resources model by Freebody and Luke (1999). In this study, this model contains four theoretical concepts: visual code-breaking, visual meaning-making, visual use and visual analysis. The result shows that both professional artists, such as painters and photographers, and amateur photographers, are visual literate, but on different levels. Visual literacy ability is needed in all these types of portraits, and is always culturally grounded. The images included in this study, show the creators’ awareness of how to express specific personalities. Although, there are differences between the older paintings and today’s selfies, the similarities are more connected than might be thought.
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- Jönsson, Mats, et al.
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Självbilder : filmer från Västmanland
- 2006. - 1
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Boken är resultatet av ett samarbete mellan Svenska Filminstitutet och forskare inom det regionala nätverket Penta Plus. Den inleder en förlagsserie om forskning vid SFI:s arkiv i Grängesberg för icke-biografdistribuerad film. En kort redogörelse för projektets bakgrund, uformning och syfte följs av två delstudier. Uifrån begreppen kulturarv och identitet jämför den första bilder av Västmanland i filmen Salabygd (1953) med nutida länslanseringar. Den andra delstudien analyserar ett stort antal privatfilmer från 1960- 70- och 80-talen. I detta digra material studeras i synnerhet individers förhållande till kamera och motiv.
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- Swenberg, Thorbjörn
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Visual intention in moving image editing and eye-tracking methodology : an exploratory study
- 2010
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Ingår i: Proceedings, Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference. - London. - 9780769541655 ; , s. 381-387
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Moving images production teams’ skills in directing the visual perception of viewers have been confirmed lately through eye-tracking methodology. One interest lies in explaining the use of different techniques by the production team for its realization of visual intentions. These intentions are however many in most moving images. This paper undertakes the development of a method for grasping the film or video editors’ intentions with the editing of moving images, and has been carried out as an exploratory study. The method suggested considers conventions of the trade, observational study with running screen-dump and proximate interviews with editors on specific edits, as well as the testing of moving image sequences where the intention of each edit point is known. The test is conducted on viewers, with the use of eye-tracking techniques. The findings are that the method should be useful in distinguishing between when the editors’ grip on the audience is firm, and when it is rather vague. But the method also suggests new aspects of understanding the viewers’ gazes when watching moving images.
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- Swenberg, Thorbjörn, 1968-
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Editorial intentions and viewer perceptions : An audiovisual methodology for studying film editing and eye movements
- 2016
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Ingår i: Visual Methodologies. - Neuchâtel. - 2040-5456. ; 4:2, s. 13-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents an audio-visual methodology, VOSMET, designed to address activities of the craft of film editing, with a focus on the use of perception, and its implications. The methodology employs 13 different visual aspects and five different audio aspects, starting with video-recording observations of an editor, and ending with the analysis of eye-tracking data from film viewers. Craft research needs methodologies that address craft activities and cognitive approaches. Design practices share a similar need for reaching deeper understanding. It is neither established how film editors achieve perceptual precision in continuity editing in practice. The VOSMET methodology simultaneously captures bodily actions, utterances, software events, and keystrokes, along with the audiovisual material under processing, and uses graphics to distinguish between what takes place. The methodology also contributes by grasping what a film editor attends to, how this attention functions, as well as how perceptual factors are handled by the film editor. Finally, the methodology can evaluate editorial intentions against film viewer perceptions.
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