Multimedia Project Research Articles

Home is where the heart is: Latinx youth expression and identity in a critical maker project

ABSTRACTMaking has been touted for its potential to democratize STEM yet could be replicating issues of limited participation of persons from educationally underserved populations. This version of making could be problematic for young women of color, limiting participation and aspirations for STEM careers. We present a counterexample with Critical Making, an approach of action, reflection, and community dialog to promote social change. We examine a multimedia design and implementation project as an expression of seven young Latinx1 women’s experiences. Participants were tasked with creating a maker artifact to display data from a community survey and produced an interactive (touch capacitive) heart-shaped word cloud capturing positive qualities of their community. We utilized cultural-historical activity theory to focus on relations of the teen participants, meanings conveyed by the word cloud, and how digital tools interacted with norms, division of labor, and community relationships to mediate understanding. We report tensions between group versus community values and between possible design features and tool limitations. We also report how participants authored intersecting identities as makers, group members, and contributors to their community. Our results document the dynamics of a Critical Maker program and expand understanding of how young Latinx women experience making and STEM learning.

Post-pastoral Perspectives of Korean Environment in Contemporary Art and Literature

Mixrice, an art collective of artists Yang Ch’ŏlmo [Yang Chul Mo] and Cho Chiŭn [Cho Ji Eun] won the 2016 Korea Artist Prize for their provocative multimedia project that featured a two-channel video installation, titled “The Vine Chronicle.” Centrally documenting the various lives of trees, like a 450-year old Zelkova tree from the village of Kangdong-ri, the video portrays their itinerant lives as they are moved to various sites to fuel capitalist development schemes: camping resorts, apartment complexes and redevelopment sites. Using this exhibit and its unique post-pastoral perspective as a frame, this article explores contemporary perceptions of Korean environment in art and literature. In this study, I am interested in drawing connections among ecocritical artworks and literary works that highlight the dispossession of human and non-human life and the history of rapid South Korean development. These works seek to complicate notions of South Korean development, environmental degradation and migration through a post-pastoral frame.

Specificity of Audiovisual Culture in Multimedia Space: Sound Aspect

The purpose of the study is to identify the basic key properties of sound in audiovisual culture in a multimedia space, to determine how sound influences on the formation of this phenomenon. Methodology of the research. There were the scientific methods such as diachronic (presentation of the historical development of means for creating audio for a multimedia project), comparative (comparison and search of common and distinctive features in different properties and manifestations of audiovisual works in multimedia), analysis and synthesis (disclosure of separate components of audiovisual culture in the multimedia space, in particular audio, its characteristics related to multimedia, and the synthesis of the phenomenon from the positions of reached results) to accomplish the article purposes. Scientific novelty. The article presents a new view on the definition of the concepts of a multimedia product as a digital file that determines the specificity of working with it, the multimedia space as a set of computer tools and projects that combine several types of data such as text, graphics, video, sound, etc. The use of sound in multimedia products, the influence of the work features with sound on the artistic component of the multimedia product and on the audiovisual culture in general have been analyzed in a new way. Conclusions. The work outlines the general characteristics of audiovisual culture of the multimedia space. In particular, various types of multimedia works have been identified; their features, which are related to their nature – that is, a complex synthesis of the types of information available in the projects, have been given. The aesthetic component of multimedia space, transformed due to specific artistic and technological dynamics, in particular the emergence of new examples of audiovisual content in multimedia space, has been analyzed. The main stages of the development of methods and tools for creating background in multimedia are described. The basic characteristics of sound and its role in the audiovisual culture works in the multimedia are shown.

Multilingualism, collaboration and experiential learning with multiple modalities: the case of Mondovision

ABSTRACT The paper documents the final project in an undergraduate seminar on multilingualism at the University of Toronto from a pedagogical perspective. The multimodal and multimedia project – centered on the idea of a fictitious festival of popular music, the Mondovision Song Contest – uses the genre of pseudo-documentary as a channel for collaborative and experiential learning. The students get engaged in multiple roles: script writer, graphic designer, film editor, actor/actress, and dancer, to mention a few. The Mondovision project serves as a medium to not only master subject matter content that focuses on multilingualism across continents, but also gives the students an opportunity to develop interpersonal and collaboration skills and to acquire multimedia and multimodal literacies. The paper provides both student and instructor perspectives on the experience, focusing on their respective roles and exemplifying what is here referred to as affirmative pedagogy of multilingualism.

Sense and Nonsense: Teaching Journalism and Science Students to Be Advocates for Science and Information Literacy

Long before “fake news” became a catchphrase, misguided beliefs about scientific truths undermined the free exercise of democracy and personal decision-making. Journalistic norms such as providing false balance in the name of “objectivity,” deliberate manipulation by vested interests, and the human tendency toward confirmation bias combined to enable the dissemination of damaging misinformation about tobacco, climate change, vaccines, nuclear power, genetically modified foods, and other topics critical to the health and welfare of the modern world. This article examines an innovative new course designed to teach a mixed group of journalism and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors to evaluate expertise and bias, examine data and misrepresentation, and develop evidence-based communication on complex scientific topics. The course covered concepts such as fact-checking, validation, fraud, the “backfire effect,” confirmation bias, limitations of the scientific method, conspiracy theories, misuse of statistics, and the role of journalists and scientists as truth-tellers in society. Journalism and science students learned to communicate with each other and with their respective audiences. A series of critical thinking assignments culminated in a final project where students, working in mixed teams, developed an interactive multimedia project communicating a controversial science topic to the public. This interdisciplinary course is offered as one model for teaching science literacy and information literacy to journalism and STEM students.

Queer As a Verb: Critical Reflections on the Explode! queer dance festival

The Explode! queer dance festival was a continuation of the ongoing multimedia project that is Queer Dance, comprising a 2012 conference, the 2015 Confetti Sunrise dance series in Ann Arbor, MI, and the 2017 volume Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings with its associated video archive. The festival of 12 performances by 9 artists or groups revealed queer dance as embodied action, at once opaque, evocative, and deeply imbricated in the social.

Subject and Thematic Field of Gastronomic Journalism: from Entertaining Content to the Issues of Russian National Policy

Bringing up to date the issue of mass media typology, the authors of the article research such line of modern journalism as gastronomic journalism. As far as this topic has not been studied well enough yet, journalistic periodicals (social and political, business, geographical, gastronomic magazines, tabloids for men and women), television programs (“Rare People” at the channel “My Planet”, “Russia, My Love!” at the channel ‘Russia-Culture”, the content of breakfast broadcasting of “the First Channel”) and the multimedia project of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union “This is Caucasus” (section “A Good Taste”) are analyzed. The objective of the article is to determine the subject thematic range of gastronomic journalism, by studying the gastronomic content of mass media, and also to consider the functions of gastronomic journalism in the context of Media representations of peoples’ ethnic culture, namely of the indigenous minorities of Russia and of the North Caucasus peoples. In the course of the analysis, the features of the gastronomic topic in the representation context of the Russia peoples’ ethnic culture are revealed, the role of gastronomic journalism in terms of implementation of the strategy objectives of the Russian Federation State National Policy for the period up to 2025 as far as spreading knowledge about the peoples’ history and culture is concerned. To determine the effective resources of gastronomic journalism such methods and approaches as system, semiotic, cultural, typological and content analysis are used. A definition of gastronomic journalism, which determines the direction of studies of mass media and media in general, is given in this article. The authors come to the conclusion that not only recreational, advertising and informative but also cultural and educational functions of journalism are implemented through the gastronomic topic. Moreover, the importance of studying gastronomic journalism for education of journalism students and future caterers is considered in the article. A topical issue of gastronomic journalism development in Russian regions is emphasized.

Ансамбль «Театр новой музыки»: история, деятельность, новые формы

The article traces the history of the ensemble “Theater of New Music” from 2010 and 2019 and defines the main stages of the ensemble’s development: the first stage is the period of the ensemble’s formation (2010–2012), the second stage is the period of concerts in the form of theatrical performances and the quest for new forms of presentation of academic music (2012–2015), the third is the search for new forms of interaction between music and the other arts (2015–2018), and the fourth is the period of multimedia projects (since 2018). The main forms of presentation of academic music which were developed during the development of the “Theater of New Music” are highlighted. They include concerts merged with theatrical performances, as well as multimedia projects. The ensemble’s most significant projects during the period between 2010 and 2019 are defined and described in detail: the series of concerts in the form of theatrical performances featuring protagonists of the “Travel through Time” arguing about music of various epochs, styles and directions; the cycle of two concerts in the form of theatrical performances “They Met. A wave and a stone, poetry and prose, ice and fire,” where the protagonists dispute about what is the primary element in music – intellect or emotion”; the musical performance “Early Musical Saratov” comprised of works by 19th and 20th century Saratov-based composers; the international composers’ competition “Call for Scores – 2016”, the multimedia project “A Person with Earphones.” The ensemble “Theater of New Music is the only ensemble in Saratov which specializes in performance of 20th and early 21st century music.

Archaeology and Audience Development digital strategies: a research conducted with the team of Archeologia e Calcolatori

An internship at the CNR-ISMA was the starting point for the Master’s Graduation thesis ‘Audience Development in Archaeology: Strategies Based on Digital Innovation’ (Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi). The three-month internship was linked to several different educational initiatives carried out by the Institute. A series of activities was designed expressly: namely, analysis of the database of the scholarly journal ‘Archeologia e Calcolatori’, with a special focus on the articles related to data dissemination and education in archaeology, as well as Virtual Reality and multimedia projects; field observation of Audience Development initiatives in archaeology through on-site multimedia projects, presented in the cultural itinerary for the Virtual Museum of Archaeological Computing (Virtual Journey at ‘Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini’); and finally focus-group interviews both with high-school students, taking part to the Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro (ASL) program, and with expert scholars.

Econ FilmMaking: an experiential, problem-based, multimedia project for microeconomics

Econ FilmMaking projects are short, entertaining videos created by students to illustrate an economic concept. While the projects can be on any topic, this article focuses on an assignment that requires students to explain a firm's average cost of production. In this assignment, students gather background information on a firm's production process, build a spreadsheet cost model, and then work in teams to create a brief, educational and entertaining video summarising their results. The project is problem-based, experiential, and fun. The project is suitable for upper-level economics classes, and the resulting videos are useful in teaching cost theory to principles students.

“¡Se Bota El Tanque!”: housing, infrastructure, and the sounds of water in Havana’s domestic spaces

ABSTRACTAn enduring dimension of everyday life in Havana is the city’s architectural and infrastructural precarity. More than half the water supply is lost before it reaches residents, the asphalt on the streets is crumbling, and a building collapses approximately every third day. Such conditions have prompted scholars to conceive of the city as “dystopian” [Coyula, M. 2011. “The Bitter Trinquennium and the Dystopian City: Autopsy of a Utopia.” In Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings After 1989, edited by A. Birkenmaier, and E. K. Whitfield, 31–52. Durham, NC: Duke University Press], a “non-city” [Redruello, L. 2011. “Touring Havana in the Work of Ronaldo Menéndez.” In Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings After 1989, edited by A. Birkenmaier and E. K. Whitfield, 229–245. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.] or a city of “fleeting dreams” [Porter, A. L. 2008. “Fleeting Dreams and Flowing Goods: Citizenship and Consumption in Havana Cuba.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31 (1): 134–149], whereby the disrepair of the physical environment is symbolic of the decaying political agency of the local population [Ponte, A. J. 2011. “La Habana: City and Archive.” In Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings After 1989, edited by A. Birkenmaier, and E. K. Whitfield, 249–269]. Yet, residents continue to inhabit the city through practices that are at once creative, spontaneous, and collective. Building on existing discussions of Latin American informality [Fischer, B. 2014. “Introduction.” In Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America, edited by B. Fischer, B. McCann, and J. Auyero, 1–8. Durham, N.C, London: Duke University Press], I argue that an overlooked dimension of Havana’s everyday life emerges through tacit, communicatory practices made possible through sound and listening. Through both ethnographic writing and audio media production, this multimedia project illustrates a neighborhood response to malfunctioning water delivery infrastructure. This localized episode offers a vivid example of what ethnomusicologist Ana María Ochoa-Gautier refers to as the “aural public sphere” [2012. “Social Transculturation, Epistemologies of Purification and the Aural Public Sphere in Latin America.” In The Sound Studies Reader, edited by J. Sterne, 388–404. London: Routledge.] while giving life to a story of resilience that can resonate in cities across Latin America.

Econ FilmMaking: an experiential, problem-based, multimedia project for microeconomics

Econ FilmMaking: an experiential, problem-based, multimedia project for microeconomics

El Scratch como estrategia didáctica para desarrollar la exploración del medio en la educación inicial - Fase I y II –

Objetivo. El Scratch es un entorno de programación visual que permite a los usuarios crear proyectos multimedia interactivos diseñados como medio de expresión para ayudar a niños y jóvenes a exponer sus ideas de forma creativa, al tiempo que desarrollan las habilidades de pensamiento lógico.
 Diseño. Este proceso indagó sobre ¿Cómo una estrategia didáctica diseñada desde el Scratch contribuye a desarrollar la exploración del medio en la educación inicial? en la Sede Obrero de la Institución Educativa Instituto Técnico Agroindustrial de la Amazonia. El marco conceptual aborda principios pedagógicos como: Exploración del Medio, TIC, Scratch, Educación inicial y Proyecto Pedagógico de Aula.
 Metodología. La investigación corresponde a un estudio de caso, en el cual se hace registro, interpretación y análisis de eventos de exploración en el aula escolar infantil.
 Resultados. El proceso de investigación se concluye que la exploración del medio es eje fundamental en la infancia para potenciar aspectos como la posibilidad de observar, preguntar, manipular y generar hipótesis alrededor de los centros de interés.
 Conclusión. A partir de los resultados encontrados, se establece que en la muestra participante a menor discapacidad mejor percepción de calidad de vida.

ВИКОРИСТАННЯ НОВІТНІХ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ 3D MAPPING В УКРАЇНІ

Мета дослідження – здійснити комплексний аналіз історії становлення технології 3D Mapping (відеомеппінг) в Україні та особливостей її використання. Застосовано такі методи дослідження: аналіз, синтез, історично-порівняльний (для висвітлення історії становлення 3D Mapping в Україні та вивчення українських і зарубіжних мультимедійних проектів), мистецтвознавчий (для розгляду особливостей використання 3D Mapping). Наукова новизна статті полягає у виявленні можливостей використання 3D Mapping як новітньої технології в різних культурно-мистецьких сферах. 3D Mapping досліджено як продовження технології “chromakey”, яка широко використовується в сучасному кінематографі. Здійснено прогноз стосовно перспектив використання 3D Mapping в мистецтві та рекламі. Висновки. Доведено, що еволюція екранного мистецтва з кінця ХХ ст. відбувається під впливом аудіовізуальних технологій, 3D Mapping. Сучасний етап його розвитку характеризується інтеграцією та синтезом різних засобів і технологій інформаційно-технічного прогресу в культурі і мистецтві. Використання художньо-технологічного аспекта в сценарно-режисерському вирішенні заходу є запорукою його успіху та глядацької симпатії, що знаходить відображення у художньо-естетичній свідомості.

ПРОФЕСІЙНО-МЕТОДИЧНА ПІДГОТОВКА МАЙБУТНЬОГО ВЧИТЕЛЯ ФІЗИКИ І ЗАСОБИ МЕДІАОСВІТИ

У статті здійснено аналіз засобів медіаосвіти в професійно-методичній діяльності учителя фізики. Особлива увага приділена медіапроектам як сучасній формі реалізації STEM-освіти. Навчальний мультимедійний проект – це можливість подавати навчальну інформацію за допомогою мас-медіа – ілюстрацій, звуку, відео і т.п. Такими видами проектів можуть бути – презентація, відеокліп, звукозапис, сайт та ін. Для того, щоб створити медіапроект, потрібно підготувати його сценарій. Зазвичай студенти чи учні вельми недооцінюють значимість роботи з підготовки сценаріїв медіапроектів. Звичайно, вільного часу у всіх замало і сподіватися, що всі медіапроекти можна зробити експромтом без всякого сценарію велика помилка. Половина успіху будь-якого фільму або постановки залежить саме від сценарію. Адже це творча діяльність, пов’язана з самовираженням особистості засобами сучасних інформаційних і психологічних технологій. Складаючи сценарій, студент здійснює роботу з аналізу та синтезу стосовно змісту навчального предмета, власним самовдосконалення та активізації резервних можливостей власної особистості.В статье сделан анализ профессионально-методической готовности учителя физики, в частности, рассмотрена компетентность медиаобразования. Учебный мультимедийный проект – это возможность подавать учебную информацию с помощью масс-медиа – иллюстраций, звука, видео и т.п. Такими видами проектов могут быть – презентация, видеоролик, звукозапись, сайт и др. Для того, чтобы создать медиапроект, нужно подготовить его сценарий. Обычно студенты или учащиеся весьма недооценивают значимость работы по подготовке сценариев медиапроектов. Конечно, свободного времени у всех мало и надеяться, что все медиапроекты можно сделать экспромтом без всякого сценария большая ошибка. Половина успеха любого фильма или постановки зависит именно от сценария. Ведь это творческая деятельность, связанная с самовыражением личности средствами современных информационных и психологических технологий. Составляя сценарий, студент осуществляет работу по анализу и синтезу относительно содержания учебного предмета,собственным самосовершенствования и активизации резервных возможностей собственной личности.The article analyses the media education in the professional methodology of the teacher of physics. Particular attention is paid to media projects as a modern form of implementation of STEMeducation. A training multimedia project is an opportunity to submit educational information through mass media – illustrations, sound, video, etc. Such kinds of projects can be – presentation, video clip, sound recording, site, etc. In order to create a media project, you need to prepare his script. Students or students usually underestimate the signifi cance of work on preparing media projects scenarios. Of course, there is not enough free time and hope that all media projects can be made impromptu without any script is a big mistake. Half the success of any movie or production depends on the scenario. It is a creative activity associated with the expression of personality through modern information and psychological technologies. When composing a script, the student carries out work on analysis and synthesis in relation to the content of the subject, self-improvement and activation of the reserve capabilities of his own personality.

The Multimedia Nature of Modern Literary Discourse

Today the convergence processes determine the most promising areas of modern science. This methodological setting in the field of journalism is implemented in a variety of multimedia forms, which has led to the creation of the fundamentally new information and communication environment and the emergence of a variety of multimedia projects. The question about the criteria and methods for creating a high-quality multimedia product remains open. The multimedia method of perception and presentation of materials require special philological preparation and mastering of the interdisciplinary technique of interpretation of the source materials, which would help to create its qualitative multimedia variation. To transfer the literary discourse into a multimedia projection, it is necessary to identify its semantic channels, contexts that can be implemented in the cross-media content using various technical means. In this regard, it is important to substantiate the basic principles of the contextual method of interpreting literary discourse. It is also proposed to highlight contexts that are present in the discourse and are actualized by the perceiving recipient including historical, biographical, literary, linguistic, philosophical, mythological, literary critical, as well as those of various types of art - painting, music, etc., and the scientific context. The structure-forming principle that allows comprehending these contexts as an integral system is the process of dialogic interaction of their intra- and extra-textual existence. The nature of the functioning of this context system is based on the implementation of the following factors: 1) the degree to which authorial/reader determinism manifests itself in the process of implementation of a specific context; 2) the degree of awareness/unconsciousness of the context embodiment in the work; 3) the degree of relative stiffness/probability of the context functioning; and 4) the degree of certainty/uncertainty of the implementation of the external context in the literary discourse. Considering an example of the story by Sholokhov, “The Fate of Man”, it is considered as the development of the context system in the form of a substantive basis for the further transfer of this text into a multimedia projection. It is revealed that the literary discourse is born at the junction of information and communication approaches to the text. The disclosure of the multimedia nature of literary discourse helps to restore the very process of its functioning and its dialogical nature. The contextual methodology for the interpretation of literary discourse also allows determining the dialogue channels - the context system that are the basis for the creation of high-quality multimedia content in the future. Since the multimedia method of material perception and presentation requires special preparation, it is advisable to develop the skills of multimedia thinking using the example of classical literature, based on the principles of contextual methodology. A philological literacy can also play an important role in the process of training future journalists.

Poetyckie remediacje Anety Kamińskiej

The article presents the works of Aneta Kamińska as an example of the phenomenon of remediation, it is the impact of digital media on poetry and literary communication. The authoress examines the subsequent volumes of poetry and forms of Kamińska’s online activity. She points at a specifically feminine approach to new technologies. The article describes changes in the structure of the poems, as well as the status of the authoress and the nature of her communication with readers. It discusses also the stages of Aneta Kamińska’s work. These are: the traditional volume, the volume imitating hypertext which has been partly digitized and is available online as an interactive poetic hypertext. Then discusses the impact of Internet communication on her poetry. Finally presents multimedia projects, in which words are combined with video, audio and animation. In the end we may ask the question: does the generator of poetry, used by the poet, open up the interaction between man and machines?

The Use of ICT Tools in E-Mentoring: A Case Study

This is a case study designed with qualitative research pattern. It investigated the use of information and communication technologies in the e-mentoring process. The study group consisted of 44 undergraduate students as mentees and 8 graduate students as mentors. The program was carried out in group mentoring model in which graduate students were appointed as e-mentors for the undergraduate students for developing multimedia projects. The study data were collected using the project reports prepared by mentors and mentee groups, system logs of the interaction areas, observational notes of the researcher, and written forms seeking opinions of the mentees about the process. The data collected with different instruments were analysed with separate content analysis. It was found out that e-mail, social networking, phone conversations, SMS, instant mobile messaging applications, online storage, online documents, blog, LMS and teleconference technologies were utilized to provide interaction in the e-mentoring process. Among those, instant messaging and social networking sites proved the most effectively used ones, which the participants are also accustomed to in their daily lives. Most of the participants found the ICT tools used sufficient for interaction in the process. Still, some mentors and mentees stated that face-to-face interactions should also take place in the e-mentoring process.

A Student-Generated Video Careers Project

This article describes how in recent years, the multimedia recording capabilities of mobile devices have been used increasingly to create a more active, learner-centred educational experience. Despite the proven value of student-generated multimedia projects, there are still gaps in our understanding of how students learn during them. This article reports on a project in which first-year information technology students interviewed IT professionals in their workplace and video-recorded the interview to enable sharing with their peers. In order to understand the statistically significant increases found in students' learning, student diaries and reflections were analyzed qualitatively. Factors found to contribute to learning included: the iterative nature of student activities; the multiple, evolving representations of knowledge as students proceeded through the project; the importance of the workplace context in engaging students and enhancing learning; the affordance of mobile technology for capturing and sharing this context; and the collaborative and metacognitive processes fostered by the project.

МУЛЬТИМЕДИЙНОЕ РЕШЕНИЕ ОРНАМЕНТАЛЬНОЙ КОМПОЗИЦИИ (НА ОСНОВЕ СЮИТЫ «РУССКИЕ ПОТЕШКИ» В. БИБЕРГАНА)

The article is devoted to ornament as one of the means of creating the dynamically changing, ordered space of the multimedia composition. The importance of studying scientific works in the field of music research, using the interdisciplinary research method in design for solving the problems of visual-sound synthesis creation in the multimedia composition is noted. The analysis of the musical work, which gives vivid examples of methods and techniques for transforming folklore material into the composer’s creativity, is carried out. It is emphasized that such an analysis activates the emotional and analytical thinking of the designer in the targeted search for new composite solutions for multimedia projects.