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- Germov, John, et al.
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Portrayal of the Slow Food movement in the Australian print media : conviviality, localism and romanticism
- 2011
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In: Journal of Sociology. - 0004-8690. ; 47:1, s. 89-106
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Slow Food movement promotes itself as supporting ethical modes of food production and consumption. This article reports on research that investigated the representations of the movement in the Australian print media, exploring the discourses relating to Slow Food and examining whether the media exposure is positively or negatively framed. A content and discourse analysis was undertaken of articles on Slow Food over a three-month period. The analysis aimed to provide a contextual basis for how Slow Food is perceived, the messages it conveys, and the activities it undertakes. Major themes arising from the data were ‘conviviality’ (social pleasures of sharing ‘good food’), ‘localism’ (social, health and environmental benefits of local produce), and ‘romanticism’ (of idyllic rural lifestyles as an antidote to the time-poverty of urban life). The findings shed light on the role played by the print media in reproducing and creating public understandings of the Slow Food movement.
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- Kjellin, Harald, 1951-, et al.
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Creating an artificial context based on video-recorded competitive games for supporting the learning of tacit skills
- 2011
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In: eL&mL 2011. ; , s. 68-71
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- It is easier for students to learn tacit skills if they get much feedback on their behavior. Extensive resources are required for providing students with enough quantities and qualities of a specific feedback that is directly related to the students’ skills or lack of skills. We demonstrate how the demand for extensive feedback resources can be decreased by allowing the students to review film-clips from situations when they and their fellow students received qualified feedback. We will demonstrate a strategy in which we can film students’ behaviors by using cost effective filming techniques. The films allowed the students to study their own behavior in detail. Our conclusions from the study is that the presented type of strategy for supporting learning works very well and we advise other researchers to test similar strategies when they need to mass-produce teaching of tacit skills.
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- Persson, Henrik, et al.
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B.E.A.C.O.N. - Beacon Emits Audio from Color, Or Not
- 2013
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- People who suffer from dementia are often isolated due to lack of ways of communication. In many cases verbal communication can be difficult to perform at all. We created Beacon with the goal to let people with dementia interact with a very simple and intuitive control interface to give them a means of non-verbal communication, and let them take control over the soundscapes that Beacon is capable of producing. In this paper we describe our concept Beacon, its physical form and how the design makes it possible for a person with dementia to control the software by moving around items of different colors and sizes on its surface to create synthesized and sampled sounds. We hope that Beacon will produce positive results among people with dementia, and that the interaction will be rewarding.
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- Faraon, Montathar, 1983-, et al.
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Much more to it : the relation between Facebook usage and self-esteem
- 2014
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In: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. - Piscataway, NJ, USA : IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC). - 9781479958801 ; , s. 87-92
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this study was to examine closer the conflicting results from previous studies concerning the relation- ship between Facebook use and self-esteem using the Facebook Intensity Scale and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (N = 107). In line with some previous studies, our data confirmed that there is a relationship between Facebook usage and self-esteem, but the applied scales allowed a more refined assessment of it. The results showed, after controlling for demographic variables, that participants with low Facebook intensity reported on average higher self-esteem than those who did not use Facebook or those with high Facebook intensity, while those with medium Facebook intensity had significantly higher self-esteem compared to the participants with high Facebook intensity. Future studies should address the underlying causal relations using a time-bound observation method.
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- Faraon, Montathar, 1983-, et al.
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Social media affordances in net-based higher education
- 2011
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In: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on International Higher Education (IHE 2011). - Shanghai, China : IADIS Press. - 9789728939564 ; , s. 11-37
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper explores the attitudes, conceptions and use of social media in net-based higher education. By using statistical and content analysis of data generated by two surveys directed to students (n = 109) and teachers (n = 77) involved in net-based higher education, we explore how social media influence the design of learning context in net-based higher education courses. By applying the affordance theory, we describe actual as well as preferred use of social media from an educational, social, and technical perspectives. The results showed that the potential use of social media have not yet been fully found in the context of net-based higher education. However, the perceived benefit of using social media differs in relation to educational topics. The potential use of social media in net-based higher education courses is discussed.
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- Keinonen, Tuula, et al.
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Environmental issues in the media : students' perceptions in the three Nordic-Baltic countries
- 2014
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In: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability. - 1691-4147 .- 1691-5534. ; 16:1, s. 32-53
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The media, as a source of information, is supposed to have a significant role in effecting people's environmental knowledge and attitudes. The purpose of this study was to find students' perceptions of environmental issues as presented in the media and how students in Finland, Lithuania and Sweden used these media sources in the matters related to environmental issues. The most important source of environmental knowledge was found to be the Internet, followed by newspapers, television, school and education. In their own lives, students discussed environmental issues every day and, to some extent, in social media, discussion forums and blogs. In Finland, newspapers represented the most important source of environmental knowledge; in Lithuania, environmental organisations were the most prevalent, and, in Sweden, it was in a school or educational context. Based on these results, it was concluded that, in order to reach both genders of students in different countries and to more greatly benefit from all sources of information, a variety of media should be used in education for sustainability.
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- Keinonen, Tuula, et al.
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Environmental issues in the media : students' perceptions in the three Nordic-Baltic countries
- 2014
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In: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability. - : De Gruyter Open Ltd.. - 1691-4147 .- 1691-5534. ; 16:1, s. 32-53
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The media, as a source of information, is supposed to have a significant role in effecting people's environmental knowledge and attitudes. The purpose of this study was to find students' perceptions of environmental issues as presented in the media and how students in Finland, Lithuania and Sweden used these media sources in the matters related to environmental issues. The most important source of environmental knowledge was found to be the Internet, followed by newspapers, television, school and education. In their own lives, students discussed environmental issues every day and, to some extent, in social media, discussion forums and blogs. In Finland, newspapers represented the most important source of environmental knowledge; in Lithuania, environmental organisations were the most prevalent, and, in Sweden, it was in a school or educational context. Based on these results, it was concluded that, in order to reach both genders of students in different countries and to more greatly benefit from all sources of information, a variety of media should be used in education for sustainability.
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