Multimedia Text Research Articles

Sudoku Solver – A Novel Approach Using Recognition of Printed Text Image

Detecting and analyzing text in multimedia is required for recognition of characters which can be used for performing multi-objectives in numerous research areas and applications. Characters or numbers in images can be hand-written, printed document, typewritten or artificially added for the purpose of searching or indexing, editing or image understanding. Various applications such as License Plate Detection, Handwritten documents recognition, Sudoku Solving, multi-oriented recognition focuses on character recognition. Image Sudoku solver works on Sudoku puzzle images. In this paper, the printed text Sudoku image is used as the input. The image is enhanced by filling the horizontal and vertical gaps in the grids that may occur due to shadow or distortion of the scanned image such that all the 81 grids are extracted. Secondly, the numbers and grids in the enhanced image are extracted and a dancing link approach using Algorithm X is adopted to solve the Sudoku. The proposed work is compared with a backtracking approach and dancing link approach without enhancing the image and its computation time for various ranks of difficulty of a puzzle taken. The Sudoku puzzle can be used to secure information stored in an image as the number of solutions to solve a Sudoku puzzle is very large, allowing it to be used as a security tool resistant to brute force attacks.

Διερεύνηση απόψεων ξενόγλωσσων εκπαιδευτικών Α΄ θμιας Εκπαίδευσης για τον ρόλο των ψηφιακών τεχνολογιών στη διδασκαλία της ξένης γλώσσας

In recent years, digital technologies have penetrated all areas of human activity. The foreign language teacher has access to multimodal, multimedia texts that contribute to the development of language and communication skills, while using tools that provide the opportunity for interaction in authentic learning environments. This quantitative research aims to explore the views of foreign language teachers serving in public and private sector primary schools on the role of digital technologies in foreign language teaching. 80 foreign language teachers participated in the survey and an electronic questionnaire was used as a research tool. The main aspects of the survey are related to the extent to which digital tools are used in foreign language teaching and assessment, the technical equipment of classrooms, the identification of obstacles in the pedagogical use of digital media and, finally, the development of specific language skills in foreign language teaching. It emerged that issues of technical support and lack of equipment are of concern to teachers, the need for continuous training was highlighted and difficulties related to classroom management and the formation of a digital culture for students were recorded.

Blurring borders in intralingual translation research: the case of journalistic translation

ABSTRACT Intralingual translation research is on the rise, as evidenced by the numerous recent publications and academic events on this subject. Some scholars have (re)defined and typologized intralingual translation, attempting to shed light on an otherwise seemingly nebulous concept. However, in view of the complexity and diversity of the practices that can be studied under the umbrella term of intralingual translation, a blurred borders approach might be preferable. In the present paper, this position is supported by means of two case studies on (intralingual and intersemiotic) journalistic translations or remediations for social media. The two objects of study are an infographic by Mexican information design company Pictoline and a video by British science magazine New Scientist. A comparative analysis of these multimodal and multimedia texts and their news sources illustrates the fuzzy borders between intralingual and intersemiotic translation, as well as between the different types of the former. If we wish to describe intralingual translation separately from the other Jakobsonian types, this can be done on the basis of its aim or purpose, its target users, its text type or field, or its use of different media or technologies.

Умения визуализации учебного материала как компонент профессионально-коммуникативной компетенции учителя иностранного языка

The aim of this study is to describe the typology and content of future foreign language teachers’ mediation and communicative-interactive skills to visualize the educational material in a foreign language lesson at school. The work presents the definitions of the concept of ‘visualization of educational material’ and related concepts of ‘non-continuous text’, ‘multimedia text’, and ‘multimodal text’. The visualization of the educational material is considered in the framework of professional and communicative competence of a foreign language teacher. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the typology of mediation and communicative-interactive skills to visualize educational material in accordance with mediation and presentation strategies, a description of communicative tasks solved in terms of visualization of educational material, and the main mistakes of teachers in the implementation of these tasks. As a result, we assume that the skills of visualizing linguistic material correlate with professional and communicative strategies of mediation and explanation of educational material and require purposeful development, taking into account the key principles of competence-based, communicative, and sociocultural approaches, solved educational tasks, level and age needs of learners, principles of selection of material, cultural value of the visual sources used, and other parameters.

MODERN ONLINE CONSTRUCTORS OF CROSS-MEDIA STORIES: VARIETIES, TOOLS AND APPLICATION FEATURES

The phenomenon of storytelling is not new in the global information environment, but it has significantly evolved in the era of digital transformation. Moreover, the rapid development of network technologies, alongside the total digitization of society, has transformed storytelling into a unique media formation with a powerful synergistic effect achieved through the merger of cross-media components. This study focuses on the toolkit of modern storytelling, particularly on online resources for creating cross-media stories. Various types of such constructors are considered, specifically in the context of the functioning of the Ukrainian media sphere. The features of using certain popular multifunctional online storytelling tools are described in a journalistic dimension, to create such cross-media products as longreads, multimedia texts, and more. The level of presence of the issue of constructing cross-media stories in the research field of contemporary scholars is reflected.

TV Series in a Big City: Geo-Poetics of Telenovelas 1980s—2020s

The article explores the influence of toponymic images on the aesthetics of popular foreign and Russian television Series. The television series is a specific artistic model, the transformation and functioning of which is the result of significant television influence on the audience. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that, being a key genre of contemporary mass culture on one hand, and a multimedia text on the other, the series allows visual content to displace verbal content and constructs a certain reality in the minds of viewers. Within the framework of the geopoetic approach, the authors of the article examine the image of the city in television projects from different years, analyze the functions of urban signs and symbols, and identify various artistic techniques used to characterize characters and represent national-cultural spaces. Special attention is given to the role of the city as a setting and a tool for plot development in TV shows. The result of the study is the identification of the dynamics of the city image in television projects from the 1980s to the 2020s, which allows us to characterize television Series not only as a source of entertainment, but also as a social and national project that claims one of the dominant positions in contemporary culture.

Interactive map «Patient Enquiry» as a teaching method for medical students

The need for a serious theoretical understanding of dynamically developing types of visual media content, which include interactive infographics has determined the relevance of the research. Medical students must structure, present and remember the algorithm for questioning the patient. The creation of such texts provides favorable conditions for the implementation of the principles of visibility and communication. One of the practical methods of such a multimedia text can be an educational and methodological cluster on the topic «Angina pectoris», designed to train foreign students of medical universities, which helps to form and develop the necessary skills and competencies of future medical students. The problem of the research is to substantiate the interactive map “Patient Enquiry” as a method of teaching medical students.The purpose of the research is to create interactive infographics aimed at systematizing and consolidating the knowledge of medical students in the «Patient Enquiry» section.The research methods. The article describes practical experience of creating interactive infographics of the «Patient Enquiry» section (on the example of Angina pectoris) for 2d and 3d year medical students.The research results. The first information block is a list of information requested by a doctor from a patient. Block II is a cluster of lexical and grammatical information materials. Block III includes interrogative constructions for each thematic block and options for the patient’s answers.Key findings. The dominance of visual information has a meaningful and structural impact on both the educational sphere and psychology of a student. A doctor with communication technologies is able to create an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect that is comfortable for a patient, to solve his professional task - to effectively diagnose the disease. The result of teaching the language of the specialty should be stable knowledge, skills and communication skills in the educational, scientific and professional fields with further access to a doctor’s professional speech.

Statement of Purpose

LEARNing LandscapesTM Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online education journal supported by LEARN (Leading English Education and Resource Network). Published in the spring of each year, it attempts to make links between theory and practice and is built upon the principles of partnership, collaboration, inclusion, and attention to multiple perspectives and voices. The material in each publication attempts to share and showcase leading educational ideas, research, and practices in Quebec, and beyond. We welcome articles, interviews, visual representations, arts-informed work, and multimedia texts to inspire teachers, administrators, and other educators to reflect upon and develop innovative possibilities within their own practices.

American Girl Dolls as Professionals

American Girl Dolls as Professionals

The Attractiveness of the Multimedia Text of the TV Series "Symphonic Novel": Verbal-Nonverbal Ambivalence

Modern multimedia text has been widely studied from the point of view of its formation, but the role, place and significance of its individual components in the implementation of various functions has not yet been sufficiently studied. The article is devoted to the problem of the attractiveness of polycode multimedia text, which is formed in the content of the Chinese television series "Symphonic Novel". The author considers the specifics of the combination of oral verbal text, visual series and audio components in the multimedia text, in which various formats are used: the joint sound of verbal text and non-verbal elements (classical music, background soundtracks, nature sounds, etc.). The author believes that, in general, multimedia text becomes a potentially effective factor in the attractiveness of a television series, which makes it possible to evaluate it the image potential is very high. In the process of analyzing the multimedia text of the TV series, the author reaches the conclusion that thanks to classical music, the realization of both educational and influencing functions is enhanced, and the plot and the characters of the TV series become more attractive, and comes to understand that the realization of the category of attractiveness plays a fundamental role, since it is included in the illocutionary dominant (the main communicative super-task) media content, which consists in the widest possible coverage of the audience of the TV series "Symphonic Novel". Thus, the author proves that the attractiveness of the TV series is formed due to an ambivalent combination of verbal and nonverbal components with the leading role of the audio format.

USER PERSONAS TO GUIDE TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTION DESIGN TO SUPPORT CAREGIVER-ASSISTED MEDICATION MANAGEMENT

Abstract Informal caregivers often help manage medications for people with ADRD. Caregiver-assisted medication management has the potential to optimize outcomes for caregivers and people with ADRD, but is often associated with suboptimal outcomes. We used the user-centered design persona method to represent the needs of ADRD caregivers who manage medications for people with ADRD to guide future design decisions for technology interventions. Data were collected through virtual contextual inquiry in which caregivers (Nf24) sent daily multimedia text messages depicting medication management activities for seven days each, followed by an interview that used the messages as prompts to understand medication management needs. We applied the persona development method to the data to identify distinct caregiver personas, i.e., evidence-derived groups of prospective users of a future intervention. We used team-based affinity diagramming to organize information about participants based on intragroup (dis)similarities, to create meaningful clusters representing intervention-relevant attributes. We then used group consensus discussion to create personas based on attribute clusters. The six identified attributes differentiating personas were: 1. medication acquisition, 2. medication organization, 3. medication administration, 4. monitoring symptoms, 5. care network, 6. technology preferences. Three personas were identified based on differences on those attributes: Regimented Ruth (independent, proactive, tech savvy, controls all medications), Intuitive Ian (collaborative, uses own judgment, some technology, provides some medication autonomy), Passive Pamela (reactive, easy going, technology novice, provides full medication autonomy). These personas can be used to guide technology intervention design by evaluating how well intervention designs support each of them.

Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between

Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline, and In Between

Retraction Note: Multimedia text classification algorithm using potential Dirichlet distribution in mobile cloud computing environment

Retraction Note: Multimedia text classification algorithm using potential Dirichlet distribution in mobile cloud computing environment

Covid-19 fake news sentiment analysis

’Fake news’ refers to the misinformation presented about issues or events, such as COVID-19. Meanwhile, social media giants claimed to take COVID-19 related misinformation seriously, however, they have been ineffectual. This research uses Information Fusion to obtain real news data from News Broadcasting, Health, and Government websites, while fake news data are collected from social media sites. 39 features were created from multimedia texts and used to detect fake news regarding COVID-19 using state-of-the-art deep learning models. Our model’s fake news feature extraction improved accuracy from 59.20% to 86.12%. Overall high precision is 85% using the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) model; our best recall and F1-Measure for fake news were 83% using the Gated Recurrent Units (GRU) model. Similarly, precision, recall, and F1-Measure for real news are 88%, 90%, and 88% using the GRU, RNN, and Long short-term memory (LSTM) model, respectively. Our model outperformed standard machine learning algorithms.

Electronic Corpus of Linguaculture of the Northern Angara Region: Foundations, Structure, and Application

Linguaculture is a heterogeneous linguacognitive phenomenon that depends on the local area, values, and community, as well as on national and ethno-specifics cultural codes and subcodes of mythology, theology, anthropomorphism, biomorphism, household, commerce, etc. The article introduces the linguacultural corpus of the Northern Angara Region that unites oral and multimedia (polycode) texts of traditional regional linguaculture. The corpus is being developed at the Siberian Federal University and includes empirical material of complex folklore, dialectological, and ethnographic expeditions to Kezhemskiy, Boguchany and Motygino areas. The article describes the basic principles of the corpus, i.e. representativeness, synchronism, and regionality, as well as the thematic, genre, functional, and semantic diversity of oral and polycode texts. Culturally marked oral texts are included in the corpus based on their linguistic and cultural informativeness. The corpus is divided into dialect, folklore, and multimedia subcorpuses of valuable information, which can solve various issues of Russian studies, as well as practical issues of linguacultural ecology. The information search process depends on several parameters: speech and folklore genre, topic, basic concept, and word. The article also contains a comparative analysis with other specialized corpora of oral speech, which revealed prospects for further development and application. The linguacultural corpus of the Northern Angara Region contributes to regional lexicography and other branches of Russian studies, e.g. Siberian linguaculture, language and culture, language and mentality, etc.

The Reader and Reading Culture from the Perspective of Student Teachers

This study aimed at discovering the characteristics of non/traditional readers that can be used to formulate a typology and identify students’ attitudes towards reading for pleasure. It also deals with the social context influencing students’ reading culture. The questionnaire survey was conducted on 381 students at the Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava. The results showed that students who read for more than one hour a day prefer to read books in paper form, including textbooks, over reading electronic books, multimedia texts or playing on computers and consider themselves traditional readers. Non-traditional readers use critical thinking methods to understand texts and prefer a multimedia format for texts when reading for pleasure over playing computer games, reading e-books, and reading paper-based books. The study also points to the growing importance of the evolving multimedia reading culture in the era of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution.

Comic Memes and Sexist Humor in India: Tools for Reinforcement of Female Body-Image Stereotypes

Memes have been described as communicative and aesthetic practices that serve cultural, social, political purposes on a digital platform. Several studies, in the last decade, have attempted to study this digital aesthetic knowledge production as a powerful tool for political, racial, and gender-related discourses. Most often this knowledge is produced through comic multi-media texts. Many theorists believe that, digital media reinforces inequality, marginalization and such other social issues through the audio-visual-textual medium as much as it establishes the counter-discourses for equality, body activism, racial activism and the like. Speed and lack of censorship can be the cardinal reasons for the popularity of these memes. Among the mass-influencing gender-related memes are those encouraging fat-talk and body-image stereotypes. In the Indian context, ‘Tag a Friend’ memes is one such widely circulated meme which communicates body-shaming messages through sexist humor. It mainly targets the fat/colored/transgender women. The current study examines these memes using multimodal discourse analysis methodology. The paper attempts to investigate the revival/reproduction potential of color-shaming and body-shaming stereotypes via comic memes through Shiffman’s memetic dimensions. The analysis establishes that memes can be a prominent site for the re-production of the problematic ideology of body/color shaming even in the 21st century.

Using Multimedia Materials in the Teaching of Scientific and Technical Translation

Information technology has changed the professional environment of scientific and technical translators, who must work with new formats and channels of information. To meet these new challenges, translation teachers must place special emphasis on the importance of the non-textual information evolving around multimedia texts and adopt a more dynamic approach towards audiovisual translation (A VT). In this paper, we argue for the inclusion of graphic information as a new focus for A VT, and present the results of a research project aimed at designing teaching materials for audiovisual, scientific and technical translation. These materials highlight the potential benefits of audiovisual resources for all users in the acquisition of subject field knowledge and terminology and the constraints imposed on translation by visual and acoustic material.

Statement of Purpose

LEARNing LandscapesTM Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online education journal supported by LEARN (Leading English Education and Resource Network). Published in the spring and autumn of each year, it attempts to make links between theory and practice and is built upon the principles of partnership, collaboration, inclusion, and attention to multiple perspectives and voices. The material in each publication attempts to share and showcase leading educational ideas, research, and practices in Quebec and beyond. We welcome articles, interviews, visual representations, arts-informed work, and multimedia texts to inspire teachers, administrators, and other educators to reflect upon and develop innovative possibilities within their own practices.

"Writing into the Rupture": Visual Selves in Mary-Kim Arnold’s Litany for the Long Moment

Multimedia texts are gaining more footing in the Asian American literary world, especially following Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s pre-eminent Dictee (1982). While lesser known, Mary-Kim Arnold’s Litany for the Long Moment (2018) is a highly referential lyric essay that employs visual elements, including personal ephemera, to consider the unrelenting complexities of Asian American identity. Analyzing Arnold’s formal intervention into Asian American literature through Francesca Woodman’s photography and Roland Barthes’ photography theory reveals that visual subjects are evasive and unknowable. Paradoxically, memorabilia has the power to rupture linear notions of time and cast into doubt what we know about past and present selves. Arnold’s engagement with the visual also extends to the body, and throughout the text she unsettles hegemonic constructions of gender and racial signification. Ultimately, an analysis of Litany for the Long Moment reveals that visual subjects rupture the concept of a stable self. Throughout this thesis, I draw from the fields of photography, poststructuralism, and critical race studies to argue that visual representation is not a sufficient mode of racial empowerment. Building off of Arnold’s claims about “writing into the rupture,” lack is not a closure, but an opening through which we can interrogate what it means to be a self.