Audiovisual Documentation Research Articles

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This publication is the second part of the article systematizing the practical aspects of conducting inspections of workplace accidents. It presents issues related to the general principles of site inspection, as well as documenting the course of this evidentiary activity. The rules of conducting the inspection of the scene of the accident were analyzed. Then, the issues of documenting the inspection of the scene of the event were subjected to a detailed analysis, presenting the issues related to the protocol of the inspection of the scene, photographs and forensic sketches, as well as audiovisual documentation.

The Intricate Tapestry of Toraja Spirituality: An Exploration of Animism, Ancestor Veneration, and Symbolic Rituals

This study aims to explore the complex spiritual belief system and ritual practices of the Toraja people through a qualitative research design. Aligned with the study's objective of unraveling the multifaceted layers of ritual and understanding the connections between tradition and modernity, an ethnographic approach is employed. Researchers immerse themselves in the Toraja community to gain a deep understanding of cultural practices, beliefs, and values. This immersive experience involves participant observation and engagement with community members. In-depth interviews with key informants, such as elders or individuals knowledgeable about the ma’nene’ or corpse preservation tradition, provide insights into cultural nuances, symbolism, and changes over time. Audio-visual documentation, including recording rituals, interviews, and cultural events, enriches the study's depth and authenticity. Thematic analysis identifies and analyzes themes related to the ma’nene’ tradition, such as cultural preservation and the role of ritual in shaping collective identity. The discourse surrounding the ma’nene’ tradition reflects a complex spiritual belief system and ritual practices of the Toraja people, blending elements of animism, ancestor veneration, and a deep connection to the natural landscape. Specific items in offerings and their ritualistic consumption highlight the importance of symbolic actions in religious ceremonies. These findings extend beyond academic curiosity, impacting cultural appreciation, academic research, interfaith relations, and cultural heritage preservation positively. Through this comprehensive exploration, the study contributes to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Toraja spirituality and culture.

Soberania alimentar indígena em tempos de covid-19: estudo de caso em Santa Catarina Minas, Oaxaca, México

The information presented in this article derives from ethnographic research conducted with members of the Zapotec Indigenous community of Santa Catarina Minas (Oaxaca, Mexico) on their experiences, achievements, and challenges associated with food sovereignty practices in their community during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to identify and analyze the relationships present between cultural traditions, food, and disease and how these have influenced the social perceptions and practices experienced during the pandemic and up to the present. The methodology employed for the project included qualitative research techniques such as participant observation, interviews, audiovisual documentation, and surveys based on three fieldwork stays in the study community for a total of approximately forty days. The main research findings focus on the exploration of the dichotomy between gastronomic practices and what I classify here as symbolic food, both being essential for health, social well-being, and cultural identity in this community during and after the pandemic. The main conclusion consists of evidencing the preexistence of a relevant link between food sovereignty practices in the community that directly helped the residents of Santa Catarina Minas to cope with the challenges of COVID-19—a link that has also provided new socioeconomic opportunities after the pandemic. This article is relevant due to its novel contributions to the field of anthropological knowledge on indigenous experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, as well as its original analysis of food sovereignty practices in these communities in the contemporary context.

The Application of Moderate Politeness into School Practices of An Urban Muhammadiyah Primary Students in The Era of Global Communication

Language politeness is considered one of the defining characteristics of Indonesian society. In the age of global communication and computing, moderate politeness, centered on politeness of opinion, politeness in deliberation, and politeness in respecting the opinions of others, is an important factor. However, progressive politeness in Urban Muhammadiyah Primary School is becoming a growing concern that requires special attention. The purpose of this study was to examine this violation in the interactions between learners, teachers, and principals in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This study adopts a qualitative approach with a case study design. The data were collected from interviews, observations, and documentation. Interviews were conducted with classroom teachers, principals, and learners, while observations were recorded through field notes and reflections. Moreover, audio-visual documentation in the form of photographs, videos, and recordings during the learning processes and interactions between learners or teachers were utilized. Data collection was based on four strategies: observation, interview, documents, and audio-visual, as outlined in Creswell's theory. Validity was examined using data triangulation, member checking, prolonged duration of data collection, repeated observations in the study location, and peer examination. The findings of the study include a) There was a violation of the politeness through bullying, body shaming, and verbal abuse, which violated the principles of appreciation and sympathy. b) Urban Muhammadiyah Primary School helped promote language politeness through several methods, including performing Duha prayers, morning recitation with assistance from the teacher and principal, and teacher role modelling by arriving at school at 06.15 and reciting Asmaul Husna together. Importantly, these efforts positively affected the politeness of the learners. This study provides an update on the assistance given to learners to address impoliteness, including Duha prayers, morning recitation, and memorization of Al-Qur'an and Asmaul Husna assisted by teachers. Moreover, the school has a well-equipped School Health Unit (SHU) to promote a healthy, clean, disciplined, and polite lifestyle. Appeals are made through persuasive and affectionate books and direct assistance from teachers as role models. The study of the Quran and Asmaul Husna demonstrates children's moderate politeness in expressing their opinions. The agreement to develop a joint discipline demonstrates the children's moderate politeness in deliberation.

Preservasi Pengetahuan Budaya Dan Kearifan Lokal Sebagai Program Berkelanjutan Di Perpustakaan Kampung Budaya Polowijen

Polowijen Village is one of the villages that has historical heritage in Malang City. The local wisdom and traditional culture maintained today have made the Polowijen sub-district designated as the thematic village by the Mayor of Malang in 2017 with the name Kampung Budaya Polowijen. Its research helps preserve and promote the Polowijen cultural village so that global influences and foreign culture do not erode it. It is necessary to encourage this existing culture in various media, guide residents, and conduct audio-visual documentation, which can later be utilized for the next generation. This writing uses a descriptive method that describes the implementation of the best practice concept that has been carried out to save and preserve the cultural and indigenous knowledge in the Kampung Budaya Polowijen. The results of this writing activity are in the form of documentation relating to cultural activities and local wisdom in the Kampung Budaya Polowijen. The preservation activities' output was quite diverse: first, an online knowledge directory; second, a collection of cultural objects on Android application-based; third, repackaging the video documentation in a CD Drive and a pocketbook.

Pengembangan Ide "Point of View" dalam Dokumenter Televisi “Teduh Pelita” Edisi “Ruang Mimpi, Rumah Singgah”

Health is a very important aspect in the life of everyone. Treatment of chronic diseases requires expensive medication costs and special handling. Based on this, Valencia Mieke Randa built a halfway house named Rumah Harapan Indonesia. Through Rumah Harapan Indonesia, she helps children and parents from various areas who do not haveplaces to live in Jakarta while undergoing treatment. All their needs, both materially and morally, are fully supported. Motivated by this story then the author decided to make a television documentary with the title "Ruang Mimpi, Rumah Singgah" with the aim to motivate and inspire people to do good and not hesitate to help others. The methods used by the author in this production are: field observations, approaches, and interviews with relevant sources, as well as audio-visual documentation. The author has a role as the producer, then the producer implemented producer’s idea in creating this documentary program “Teduh Pelita” Edition of “Ruang Mimpi, Rumah Singgah”. It could be concluded, first, that the writer as a producer has maximized the development of good ideas that can be seen in all sequences. The author optimized efforts to develop ideas, both point of view, motion graphics, and documentation photo frames in each sequence. Second, the producer applied conceptual planning after this documentary production was finished by combining good thoughts from the producer's idea development, visual development through the shot list by the program director, and scripts that support the language style by the script writer to make it easier to convey messages to the audience.

Contemporary Ibaloi Ba’diw: Defining Conventions through Formalistic and Sociolinguistic Standpoints

Abstract The study generally determined the literary conventions in contemporary Ibaloi ba’diw as a genre. It aimed to draw the figurative language and theme reflected in the ba’diw text; and, classify valuable insights contained by the select ba’diw pieces by occasion. It employed a qualitative approach to research specifically the text analysis method highlighting formalistic and sociolinguistic approaches in literary criticism. The pieces were found to be replete with the following figurative language: character, symbolism, connotation, repetition, personification, apostrophe, and family-name wording. Themes considered the occasion where these are chanted. Alongside these are valuable insights on “adivay” or social gathering, high regard for elders and the spirit of the dead, sacredness of marriage and family life, and the group’s daily activities. It is recommended that audio-visual documentation on the ba’diw may be designed purposely for information, persuasion, and entertainment; studies to determine the foreign influence on Ibaloi ba’diw in pursuit of discovering the Ibaloi poetics may be conducted; a center on Ibaloi language may be established; and, further research like ways of documenting oral literature, in general, may be further explored.

Applying bag of words approach to determine remote sensing technology acceptance among smallholder plantations

PurposeTechnology acceptance is a measure of that technology’s usefulness. Oil palm is one of the biggest contributors to Indonesia’s revenues, thus fueling its economy. Using remote sensing would allow a plantation to monitor and forecast its production and the amount of fertilizer used. This review aims to provide a policy recommendation in the form of a strategy to improve the added value of Indonesia’s oil palm and support the government in increasing oil palm production. This recommendation needs to be formulated by determining the users’ acceptance of remote sensing technology (state-owned plantations, private plantation companies and smallholder plantations).Design/methodology/approachThis review’s methodology used sentiment analysis through text mining (bag of words model). The study’s primary data were from focus group discussions (FGDs), questionnaires, observations on participants, audio-visual documentation and focused discussions based on group category. The results of interviews and FGDs were transcribed into text and analyzed to 1) find words that can represent the content of the document; 2) classify and determine the frequency (word cloud); and finally 3) analyze the sentiment.FindingsThe result showed that private plantation companies and state-owned plantations had extremely high positive sentiments toward using remote sensing in their oil palm plantations, whereas smallholders had a 60% resistance. However, there is still a possibility for this technology’s adoption by smallholders, provided it is free and easily applied.Research limitations/implicationsBasically, technology is applied to make work easier. However, not everyone is tech-savvy, especially the older generations. One dimension of technology acceptance is user/customer retention. New technology would not be immediately accepted, but there would be user perceptions about its uses and ease. At first, people might be reluctant to accept a new technology due to the perception that it is useless and difficult. Technology acceptance is the gauge of how useful technology is in making work easier compared to conventional ways.Practical implicationsTherefore, technology acceptance needs to be improved among smallholders by intensively socializing the policies, and through dissemination and dedication by academics and the government.Social implicationsThe social implications of using technology are reducing the workforce, but the company will be more profitable and efficient.Originality/valueRemote sensing is one of the topics that people have not taken up in a large way, especially sentiment analysis. Acceptance of technology that utilizes remote sensing for plantations is very useful and efficient. In the end, company profits can be allocated more toward empowering the community and the environment.

Ethnobotanical research under the COVID-19 pandemic: assessing a remote method for documenting Indigenous plant-related knowledge

Background: In response to the limitations on fieldwork imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we describe and assess a remote method for documenting plant-related knowledge, using smartphones that requires no in-person interaction between an on-site Indigenous community and off-site researchers. Methods: The on-site team identified the Indigenous taxa, created equivalents of photo vouchers, and recorded their names and uses as voice messages using a smartphone, thereby learning about plants from one another. They then sent the data using WhatsApp messages to the off-site team, who identified the botanical names of the taxa, and analyzed the plant-related knowledge. Results: We assess the remote, collaborative, and transdisciplinary quality of the method, factoring in communication, audiovisual documentation, species identification, knowledge exchange, logistics, and ethics. Despite the problems we experienced with identifying taxa growing in high forest and translation issues that complicated the documentation of plant uses, the method was on the whole a success. It allowed the on-site team to activate their passive knowledge of their language and share their knowledge with their relatives. The off-site team identified 57% of the recorded 54 taxa to species level and documented their names and uses as primary audio data, which keep on enhancing the quality of the documentation. Conclusions: Smartphones can be used as research tools during periods of restricted physical access, but also to extend research beyond the fleeting field visits and to elevate the empirical standard of ethnobotany when it comes to language data. We see such remote research solutions not as replacements for in-person collaborations, but as valid and dynamically evolving research methods in their own right. Keywords: smartphones, empiricism, photo vouchers, Taruma, Wapichan, Guyana

Upright Men Seeking Upright Man: Pithecanthropus Erectus, Tokyo, Japan

Upright Men Seeking Upright Man: Pithecanthropus Erectus, Tokyo, Japan

LATVIAN AMATEUR DOCUMENTARY FILM, 1970s–1980s: FAMILY, COMMUNITY, TRAVEL, AND POLITICS IN THE FILMS OF ULDIS LAPIŅŠ, INGVARS LEITIS, AND ZIGURDS VIDIŅŠ

In the 1950s, amateur filmmaking had become a well-established feature of everyday life in the Soviets Union. However, in contrast to the state film industry, no centralized governmental body existed to control amateur filmmakers. As a result, state ideology was not always the primary motivation for making amateur films. The works that dared to experiment invariably emerged from the periphery, and the Latvian SSR became one of the citadels of the Soviet amateur film movement. Drawing upon the amateur film collection held at the Latvian State Archive of Audiovisual Documents, this paper will identify and analyse the various functions that amateur documentary filmmaking performed beyond its ostensible mission of transmitting Soviet ideology, and examine its role in creating alternative political, social, and cultural meanings, and prospects for national identity development and heritage preservation. It will primarily focus on the documentaries by Uldis Lapiņš, Zigurds Vidiņš, and Ingvars Leitis made in the 1970 and the 1980s, and look at how they used everyday matters – such as family, community, and travel – to express artistically as well as to address broader social and political issues of life in the post-war Soviet society.

System for Digitizing Audiovisual Documents in the Recordings and Videos Department of the State Information Service “Analytical evaluation study”

System for Digitizing Audiovisual Documents in the Recordings and Videos Department of the State Information Service “Analytical evaluation study”

Hybrid Performance as The Behavior of Singing Folk Songs Chorally in Indonesia Choir Competition in 2019

The artistic contestation between choral culture and folk song is an important concern in the study of musicology. The problem that is of concern in this study focuses on singing behavior in singing hybrid vocal music. Choir singing behavior has standard vocal techniques, on the other hand the context of understanding folk songs includes natural singing expressions from an ethnicity without being overshadowed by good vocal techniques. The study aims to reconstruct the practice of artistic requirements in Indonesian folksong choir competitions. The study is important because there is artistic contestation between choir culture and folk songs culture leading to a good hybrid performance in the Folklore category. This research method takes material from singing events through observations and studies of audio-visual documentation that are observed repeatedly. This study uses a performance centered approach study that concentrates on the choir's performance. Descriptive-analytic analysis is used as a consequence of the material of the event‘s that relies on careful descriptions. The results of this study indicate, firstly the choirs which sang folk song repertoire are a hybrid performance characteristic. Second, the relationship that occurs between artistic requirement and the reality of performances on stage occurs in a multidimensional manner. It was found that there was an adjustment to standardization in the perspective of the coral setting. Third, an understanding of the performance practice as multidimentional and hybrid with artistic requirements shows that a small portion is given to other dimensions (kinesthetic & visual).The findings can be used to reformulate artistic requirements entailing a bigger cultural aspect of folk songs.

SAFEGUARDING FOLKLORE: ENGAGING WITH THE ISSUES OF ACCESSIONING, CATALOGUING, DOCUMENTATION, STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL IN INDIAN ARTS

This paper proposes to look at the issues of accessioning, cataloguing, audio-visual documentation, storage and retrieval of Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) from the perspective of policy-making as well as implementation of the same with respect to the performance domain of Indian Arts. It also intends to look at the evolving character of living folklore through a contribution in understanding the process through which tradition changes rather than fixating on tangible forms as well as representation of the same in matters associated with cataloguing. The article would also reflect at the personal experience of working with audio-visual material in a music archive for the last ten years, ascertaining the fact that in spite of best of efforts to uphold the community in matters of safeguarding ICH, often rigidness of metadata structures may fall short to our intentions. Hence, the research will also devise ways in which the metadata may propose a scheme in incorporating a space not only for information but an excavation of those layers of experience from which the recorded artifact travels to the act of archiving.

Teknik Permainan Beatbox Flute Dalam Box Karya Christopher Kuhns

The composition of solo flute created by Christopher Kuhns entitled ‘BOX’ is interesting because it uses beatbox tecnique in playing the flute. beatbox technique in flute is not a new technique for flute, Greg Pattillo is one of the flutist has introduced this technique in 2009. This research aims to describe the beatbox flute technique used in Box coposition and how to produce beatbox technique through articulation and tonguing in flute. The method used by researcher is a qualitative descriptive research methode with a analysis approach. The data obtained though literature studies, music score of Box, collecting audio-visual documentation in the form of performing Box composition through the internet and interview with Christopher Kuhns, Greg Pattillo, and Willem Carolus Cristopherson Tamnge. The result of this research show that the flute not only can produce melodic sounds, but also can produce percussive sounds with many sound colors. Beatbox technique was imitating percussion sound such as; bass drum, hi-hat, and snare. In Box Composition, there are seven beatbox articulation techniques, such as classic kick, closed k hi-hat, closed t hi-hat, meshed snare, open t hi-hat, shaker, and classic inward snare. The flute articulation techniques are accent, legato, staccato, and slur, also tonguing techniques used in Box composition are single tonguing and double tonguing. The application of articulation and tonguing influence each other in beatbox flute palying to produce clear melody and rhythm.

Visual communication in research: a third space between science and art

Abstract Ample scientific literature recognises the role of visual thinking in the constructive process of ideas and mental images and the function of visual intelligence in the communicative processes. Starting from the sectoral studies, we have turned our attention to the visual communication of the results of scientific research, relating it to some characteristics of artistic communication to find a shared ground, that is, a third space inhabited by common languages and competencies. In so doing, we have overcome the traditional antinomy between humanists and scientists, starting instead from the results of a recent study that has shown how such an opposition does not find real confirmation in the sector of science communication. We have thus analysed three case studies (graphical abstract, augmented reality, audiovisual documentation) on the grounds of a 10-year long experience of research in the field of visual communication (iconography and iconology, art teaching, video research) to acknowledge visual thinking and graphical/artistic competencies, situated in the third space between didactics and art, a fundamental role in the formation of a scientist and a researcher.

Prácticas etnográficas reinventadas. El quehacer textil y audiovisual como narrativas de la memoria

Two different ethnographic methodologies are interwoven in this text: the textile art and the audiovisual documentation, both of them as aesthetic experiences that call forth social organization and collective action within contexts of violence. The exercising of memory and the bodily work that these ethnographic proposals simply, have allowed me to conduct research on such dreadful subjects as forced disappearance from a perspective of affection, sensitivity and full commitment. It was through the art of weaving that I got to know the People-Searching Collective from the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Meeting this collective encouraged me to create an audiovisual document from the Fifth Searching-for-the-Disappeared Caravan, which took place in the above-mentioned state, in May 2019. This experience shows the importance of interdisciplinary methodologies to document memory. The valuation of textile and audiovisual testimonies contributes to the recognition of the victims as creators and agents of social chance.

"IT LOOKS BETTER ON INSTAGRAM": NETWORKED PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC ART IN MUMBAI

In this paper, I discuss networked photography practices and selfie cultures at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, an annual cultural festival in Mumbai, to demonstrate how global digital visual cultures are translated in the urban Indian context, and offer new ways of thinking about the conceptualisation and experience of art, the city and the resident. I argue that the desire for networked photography that animates the assemblage of installations, artists, visitors, curators, camera technologies and social networking sites, alters ideas of space and place, and object production and meaning making. I approach the selfie and everyday networked photography as a form of self-expression, labour (Abidin 2016), locative media (Hess 2015), embodied socialisation (Frosh 2015) and a mode of photography that collapses binaries of subject/object, spectator/operator and curated image/curator (Frosh 2015, Senft and Baym 2015). I use qualitative digital methods, interviews, audiovisual documentation and autoethnography. Through visuals recorded in the exhibition area at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in 2020, I demonstrate how the unique sense of intimacy and limited field of vision offered by the lens and screen of the camera phone, turn the exhibition space into a space of embodied interdependence and collaboration. At the same time, as a result of the neoliberal logic of commodification of the algorithms of social networking sites, postcolonial place is rendered ahistorical and reinterpreted as a space for creative photography and the visual production of a global digital identity.

Writing in Their Time: A Queer and Feminist Analysis of Vancouver’s 1979 Writing in Our Time Series

The 1979 Writing in Our Time series became Vancouver’s most attended reading series, bringing light to the viability and international status of the city’s literary scene. While it has largely been remembered as a celebration of Vancouver’s literary culture, more marginalized voices of Vancouver’s literary communities have highlighted the series’ implications for gay male and female writers in the city. This article considers whose time was actually represented by the Writing in Our Time series. I suggest that while it gave gay men the opportunity to be onstage and speak about their concerns, including the homophobic attacks against bill bissett in the House of Commons that prompted the series, Writing in Our Time provided women limited opportunities to publicly share their work while relying upon their invisible labour to succeed. Through the production of a new socio-cultural history of the series, including an analysis of printed publications, oral histories, and audiovisual documentation of the events, this article demonstrates that Writing in Our Time was catalyzed by attacks on a gay writer, relied on women’s invisible labour, showcased the androcentric relations of Vancouver’s literary scene, and sparked resistance from feminists to women’s peripheral position in the series. I argue that, due to their proximity to or distance from heterosexual white males in power within the scene, the series simultaneously supported gay writers in Vancouver’s literary scene and further marginalized women by reinforcing sexist social hierarchies. The effects of these androcentric relations led to greater dialogue about issues affecting gay men within the series and by women about sexism within and outside of the series at that time.

A study in grayscale. Review of the book by Yu.Yu. Yumasheva "Digital transformation of audiovisual archives. Audiovisual archives online".

This review is devoted to the monograph by Yu.Yu.Yumasheva, published in DirectMedia publishing house in 2020. The monograph is the result of a comprehensive study, within the framework of which the author carried out a source and historiographical analysis of the problems of audiovisual documentation and its digital transformation based on open data sets over the past 15 years. The 600-page book was announced as a textbook for students, employees of government bodies and specialists in the field of archival affairs. A detailed acquaintance with the text makes it possible to come to a conclusion as to how fully the claimed research has been completed, and whether the proposed form corresponds to its purpose. Starting with the formal characteristics of the book: the cover design, the quality of the illustrations and the structure of the publication, the reviewer proceeds to discuss the content of the published materials. The monograph is devoted to the problems of digital transformation of traditional audiovisual archives, the translation of audio, photo, and film documents into digital form, the creation of electronic resources based on created copies and their presentation on the Internet. The author has accumulated a knowledge bank, which presents information resources available on the world Wide Web, based on digitized bibliographic catalogs, scientific reference apparatus of archives and museum records, as well as electronic copies of objects of historical and cultural heritage. In total, the monograph mentions more than 2.5 thousand such resources created by 29 international organizations and 68 countries. The issues of traditional source criticism of audiovisual sources, methods of their digitization and description of the received electronic copies are analyzed by the author along with computer methods of studying audiovisual documentation converted into digital format. Despite the limited circulation, the monograph should be recommended not as a textbook, but as a reference guide and to a wider range of specialties.