Media Objects Research Articles

Magnetorheological and magnetic actuation behaviour of solvent cast 4D printed styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene block copolymer based magnetorheological elastomeric materials

In this work styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) block copolymer based smart magnetorheological elastomeric (MREs) materials have been additively manufactured using solvent-cast 4D Printing (SC-4DP) technique. The effect of carbonyl iron powder (CIP) content on the particle distribution, particle–matrix adhesion, surface and layer morphology of the 4D Printed MRE sample was investigated. CIP particles were observed to be well embedded and dispersed up to 60 wt% content. However, at higher CIP content the tendency of the particles to agglomerate increased significantly. Furthermore, samples with CIP content ≥70 wt% showed poor particle–matrix adhesion and possessed inter-layer coalescence defects. Investigations were also performed to evaluate the magnetic properties of MREs at room temperature. Magnetorheological behaviour was studied to evaluate the effect of varying magnetic field on dynamic viscoelastic properties. Magnetorheological effect increased from ∼79 % to ∼211 % with an increase in CIP content. However, the particle–matrix adhesion also significantly affected the magnetorheological effect for higher CIP content samples. Magnetic actuation capability of flexible MRE samples was evaluated for gripper-based application. SC-4D Printed flexible grippers were able to successfully grip, lift, and drop both the soft deformable and rigid freeform profile objects in different media (air and sodium hydroxide solution) suggesting suitability for remotely actuated gripper-based applications.

The cloth pass and soft glitch

In this article, sound artist Julie Rose Bower examines the relationship between the Foley ‘cloth pass’ and the ‘fabric sounds’ autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) trigger. Starting with Serres’s sensory appraisal that ‘the world is a mass of laundry’ the tactile qualities of cloth are proposed as a key component in accounting for the ‘felt rather than heard’ status of Foley sound. Writing from a practitioner perspective, Bower argues for textile manipulation as a form of embodied sound design and cloth sounds as a curiously generative media object. Through theorizing developments in the scope of attention within screen cultures, Bower develops a speculative ontology of soft glitch and conceptualizes a politics of folded listening. Alongside accounts of sound practice from industry Foley artists Vanessa Theme Ament (Die Hard, Edward Scissorhands), Joanna Fang (Sony PlayStation) and from her own ASMR work using costume and textiles (ASMR at the Museum for the Victoria and Albert Museum [V&A]), Bower argues for cloth sounds as transcendent cyberfeminist technique.

Evaluation Method of Intelligent Teaching in Physical Training Classrooms Based on Multimedia Information Retrieval Technology

In different historical periods, people have different demands for Physical Education (PE), and the educational goal of school PE will also change, and the teaching mode and requirements of school PE will also be different. Multimedia information retrieval (IR) technology refers to searching in a large-scale multimedia database according to the content and context of media and media objects. In this paper, the Back Propagation instructional level of physical training class, and model is established. The BPNN is used to analyze the Multimedia IR data, and the simulation and experiment show the effectiveness of the assessment model, which provides a new method for comprehensively, fairly and scientifically evaluating the teaching work. This method is improved by 11.85% compared with the comparative assessment algorithms. The method of using BPNN to evaluate instructional level is easy to operate, which can overcome the shortcomings of traditional assessment methods, and avoid the complicated process of traditional assessment of instructional level.

Conceptual Study of The Phenomenon of Celebrity Private Life in The Perspective of Media Audiences

Audiences in the media are viewed through two perspectives, namely passive audiences, and active audiences. Through the following conceptual paper, the author reviews the two perspectives of the media audience with the personal life cases of celebrity couples who are consumed by the media and the activeness of the audience in responding to the formation of fandom of the couple. the active one. The media audience is considered a commodity that is carried out by the media for news or TV programs regarding the pair Lesti Kejora and Rizky Billar. The audience in this phenomenon also contributes to the formation of the personal image of celebrities Lesti Kejora and Rizky Billar as audience objects in the mass media, the phenomenon that occurs is a communication strategy that appears to build public opinion. In contrast to these assumptions, there is an idea that the audience has the authority to choose the media regarding the couple and the authority to join a virtual community of Leslar fandom. Active audiences can provide interpretive and respond to the media content they choose. If it is examined more deeply, this can also be a criticism of the media because it raises anti-mainstream phenomena for public consumption, especially when viewed from the perspective of uses and gratification. This study is expected to be able to contribute knowledge about the perspective of media audiences in more depth, especially how the audience's perspective on the phenomenon of celebrity personal life. Further research on the two perspectives of the media audience in other research methodologies using interpretive or scientific can also enrich the study of media audiences.

On Splits, Big and Little: Towards an Intensive Model of Media and Mediation

This essay forwards an intensive model of mediation contrasted with the extensive model implicit in much of media theory, which conceives of communication media as an extension of human faculties. An intensive model, instead, conceives of mediation as a phenomenological process of splitting or folding affective capacities. An extensive model results in a dualistic, essentialist theory of communication media and unresolvable normative debates about the connecting or disconnecting consequences of media. An intensive model avoids these limitations by diagramming various modes of mediation and illustrating how their consequences stem from alterations to intensive properties, thereby helping constitute subjects and media objects alike rather than presuming a media bridge between pre-existing subjects and objects. The essay employs a number of examples to illustrate the extensive model, including telephone conversations, cinema, animation, and social media. The essay concludes with the division of families over QAnon conspiracies to illustrate the analytic gain from an intensive model.

Melukis Kembali Penggambaran Citra Gender dalam Media Massa

In Netflix’s 'Ice Cold,' which delves into the murder of Jessica by Mirna, she is often praised and forgiven for her beauty. The documentary even states that the killer is a handsome figure. Women seem to be forced to conform to the image of modern women, who should hold feminist paradigms. Digital television content, as one of the mass media platforms, often portrays women as limited to the role of 'subordinates.' The existence of women is frequently reduced solely to their physical dimensions. It is as if advertisements and television programs would feel empty without the presence of women celebrated as objects. This perspective eventually becomes ingrained in the minds of modern women, largely through the influence of mass media, while commercial demands and the race for the highest ratings are the primary reasons why women continue to be used as complementary objects in various media content.This research employs Roland Barthes' Semiotics to explore how religious education, the male gaze, mass media, and societal views interact in shaping the contemporary perception of the female body. Ironically, the excessive use of patriarchal media has made women feel more liberated to express themselves and actualize their potential in various aspects of life. In this context, elements of religious education play a crucial role, as some Abrahamic religious teachings promote gender hierarchies that can influence society's perception of women and result in gender inequality. The concept of the male gaze is also relevant in this analysis, as it refers to how the male perspective dominates the understanding and representation of women in media, often reducing women to objects of male sexual desire. This research can offer valuable insights into the interconnection of these perspectives and women's potential for increased self-expression within patriarchal-dominated environments.

Wave-momentum shaping for moving objects in heterogeneous and dynamic media

Light and sound waves can move objects through the transfer of linear or angular momentum, which has led to the development of optical and acoustic tweezers, with applications ranging from biomedical engineering to quantum optics. Although impressive manipulation results have been achieved, the stringent requirement for a highly controlled, low-reverberant and static environment still hinders the applicability of these techniques in many scenarios. Here we overcome this challenge and demonstrate the manipulation of objects in disordered and dynamic media by optimally tailoring the momentum of sound waves iteratively in the far field. The method does not require information about the object’s physical properties or the spatial structure of the surrounding medium but relies only on a real-time scattering matrix measurement and a positional guide-star. Our experiment demonstrates the possibility of optimally moving and rotating objects to extend the reach of wave-based object manipulation to complex and dynamic scattering media. We envision new opportunities for biomedical applications, sensing and manufacturing.

Social Life of Zines and Other DIY Micro-Media Constituting American DIY Communities and Scenes

The primary function of zines is often considered to be creative and expressive, and the function of other types of DIY (“do-it-yourself”) micro-media as utilitarian (e.g., flyers as promotion), but all of these media also perform important social roles. DIY micro-media (e.g., zines, flyers, Internet pages, graffiti, wall signs, and “thank you” notes) are in this way embroiled in social lives of their makers and help them constitute themselves culturally and socially. DIY micro-media in this way also acquire their own social lives. Inspired by my ethnographic observations of the social lives of DIY micro-media within particular American DIY houses and music scenes, I examine in this article not only the content of DIY zines and micro-media (i.e., to study them as texts), but primarily the social role of zines and other DIY micro-media in the material, social, and affective constitution of DIY and music communities and scenes (i.e., to study them as social agents). Therefore, I show how these micro-media operate as material and media objects that are simultaneously shaped by and shaping human and social relations. By combining zine and micro-media studies with anthropology and material culture studies, I offer in this article a nuanced micro perspective, both ethnographic and emic, of the social processes implicated in the social and economic mutual constitution between media objects and music/art communities and scenes.

Communicating overpopulation to a global audience: Disney’s Family Planning (1968)

Abstract Family Planning (1968), a short, animated film featuring Donald Duck, was translated into at least twenty-four languages and viewed in the span of two years by nearly 1.4 million people around the world. Commissioned by the Rockefeller’s Population Council and expensively produced by Disney, the movie represents the international family planning industry’s single largest investment in a media object. It has since been perceived as largely effective in achieving its goal of promoting contraception to culturally diverse audiences. Using an unusually rich collection of archival records and other previously neglected sources, we demonstrate how Family Planning failed to connect with local viewerships. Our historical analysis recovers the Population Council’s homogenizing and infantilizing view of the global poor and critiques of this view that emanated from the Global South – not just with the benefit of hindsight but at the time. We conclude that the Rockefeller–Disney collaboration was ill-suited for communicating to a heterogeneous, global audience, and that a misplaced optimism in animation as a universal language all but guaranteed failure.

Learning Media "ARASIK" in Understanding the Meaning of Nouns for SDLB Deaf Students at SLB Negeri Bogor

Deaf children experience speech and language difficulties due to hearing loss. Children with hearing loss experience delays and communication difficulties due to delays in speech and language development. The main problem in language acquisition for deaf children is that they have difficulty understanding the meaning of words. The problem is that children can read, but they do not understand what they read. The title of this article is ``The learning media "ARASIK" in understanding the meaning of nouns in SDLB Deaf students at SLB Negeri Bogor" The theoretical foundations used in this study are: (1) understanding the meaning of words, as stated by Nurbeiti Jamalus that the meaning of a word is the relationship between the sound (language) of the word spoken or written with the object concerned; (2) Augmented Realitiy learning media promoted by scientists, that AR can visualize abstract concepts for understanding and the structure of an object model allows AR as a more effective media in accordance with the objectives of learning media. This research uses a descriptive-qualitative approach, with data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation studies. The data analysis technique used refers to Miles and Huberman (1994) which includes three activities, namely: (1) data reduction, (2) data presentation, and (3) conclusion drawing from the application of "ARASIK" media. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that the "ARASIK" media can help facilitate SDLB Deaf students in understanding the meaning of nouns.

Framing of Hamas Attacks on Israel in Al-Jazeera and BBCCoverage

Abstract. Digital media provides the latest news on global issues, particularly in the realm of religion, attracting a broad audience. This research explores how international mass media outlets Al-Jazeera and BBC frame their coverage of Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7. Utilizing a qualitative descriptive research method, the study aims to comprehensively depict the framing processes employed by Al-Jazeera and BBC in reporting on the Hamas-Israel conflict. Primary data includes Al-Jazeera's article "Why the Palestinian group Hamas launched an attack on Israel? All to know" and BBC News Indonesia's piece titled "What is Hamas and why is it fighting with Israel in Gaza?" Secondary data from relevant scholarly studies supports the research. Data collection involves reading and note-taking, while data analysis follows Miles and Huberman's model—data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. Findings reveal that Al-Jazeera defines Hamas' attack on Israel as a defensive measure, emphasizing its causes and making moral judgments by comparing Hamas' damage to Israel's actions. Al-Jazeera recommends characterizing Israel's actions against Palestine as genocide. On the other hand, BBC portrays Hamas' assault as sudden terrorism, neglecting Israel's criminal history. In its moral assessment, BBC focuses on Hamas' crimes to support a terrorist narrative. Treatment recommendations by BBC attempt to legitimize Israel's colonization efforts by highlighting that Palestine lacks recognition as an independent state by the UN. Differences in framing in the reporting of the Hamas-Israel conflict can affect diplomacy and peace efforts in the region as well as international support for one of the parties. International mass media are not always objective in reporting conflicts because they are influenced by political and ideological interests. This can lead to criticism of media objectivity and fairness and raises questions about the media's responsibility in shaping public opinion that can influence the development of conflicts.Keywords: Framing, Mass Media, Hamas Attack, Israel, Robert Entman

Materializing the public sphere in American religious history

AbstractThis article reviews scholarship in American religious history around the concept of the public sphere. Considering that the public sphere was readily aligned with the productions of the printing press, ‘materializing’ surveys works that have relied upon, expanded, and critiqued print's centraility to early American religious public culture. Recent attention to materiality has also encouraged greater attention to contingencies, locality of circulation, and specificity of audiences in our studies of public texts that would trouble technological determinisms that readily aligned Protestant ascendance, secular modernity, and print publishing with democratization. The essay concludes with new questions regarding print culture, calls for greater multimedia approaches to our study of media objects, and posits the importance of critically evaluating what we count as public or private in our historical narratives about religious communities.

A multi-responsive actuator with sensing capability based on poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide)/poly (sodium acrylate) Janus hydrogels

A Janus hydrogel composed of temperature-responsive poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAM) and pH-responsive poly (sodium acrylate) (PSA) was fabricated from inexpensive monomers using a facile synthesis route. The asymmetric swelling between PNIPAM and PSA in different media and at different temperatures makes the Janus hydrogels have a multi-stimuli response, meanwhile, the interpenetrating layer between PNIPAM and PSA indicated a good interfacial adhesion for easy transfer of internal stress and deformation. Thus, the Janus hydrogels exhibited excellent advantages in actuator/sensor engineering, demonstrating the potential to grip and release objects in toxic media, encrypt, monitor and control safety in chemical production, and alert temperature of flammable and explosive solvents. In addition, the features of the Janus hydrogels incorporated with carbon nanotubes, such as the high sensitivity, large stretchability, and rapid and linear response, enabled their application as strain sensors for wearable technologies in the recognition of body movement and health detection.

Monsieur Mosse

Raimo Jääskeläinen, better known as Monsieur Mosse (1932–1992), was a hairdresser, makeup artist, gossip columnist, convicted blackmailer, and Finland’s first out gay male celebrity. The topic of endless articles, befriending and falling out with beauty queens and fashion models, publishing a tell-all memoir elaborating on his taste for luxury, working for straight porn magazines and briefly editing one, Mosse was both the subject and object of popular media and, in his flamboyance, a key domestic celebrity figure of the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhile, his relationship with the gay rights movement was frictional at best in that his brand was considered “dishonorable” vis-à-vis liberatory politics. Building on media historical inquiry and taking cue from Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller’s (2022) popular argument for studying “bad gays” – historical figures not fitting aspirational and inspirational narratives of queer activism and agency – this article examines Mosse’s trajectory as a celebrity, focusing especially on his 1980s collaborations with the sex press. We argue that Mosse’s particular brand of shameless extravagance and candid gossiping knowingly operationalized “badness” as a vehicle of distinction and visibility in a largely homophobic national context.

3D Media in the Transversal Era

Transversal media move. They move with ease across a variety of interfaces, formats, materials, software, hardware, uses, and communities of practice.1 In this article, transversal media is an umbrella term used to classify media objects with the same underlying form that takes shape across a variety of materialities through freeze and flow states. Specific to 3D data, 3D transversal media are a distinct media type that have emerged from the development and proliferation of 3D media technologies, specifically the 3D printer, 3D scanner, and extended reality (XR) devices. The central characteristic of 3D transversal media is the ability to move back and forth across digital and atomic forms. Transversality offers an alternative to understanding and speaking of the digital and atomic as opposites, while also acknowledging the differences and similarities across those material transmutations. For instance, the same 3D transversal media object can be many things simultaneously: an animation on a screen, an object inside a virtual reality experience, a 3D-printed plastic figurine, a projected hologram, and more. This article tracks the complexities of 3D transversal media when they move across their individual and networked states, and moreover, the linked cultural and technological significance of that movement. This approach reveals how technology and media can inherit and reproduce hegemonic cultural ideologies and practices—whether intentional or not. To concretize this, the article concludes with a case study on Thutmose’s well-known bust of Nefertiti, now a 3D transversal object, and how its transversal affordances converge and interact with global cultural politics—specifically in this case, those related to colonialism and imperialism.

Analisis Kondisi Kran Kapal, Jumlah Trucking dan Waktu Kerja di Gudang Penerima terhadap Tingginya Berthing Time Kapal

The Influence of Ship Crane Conditions, Number of Trucking and Number of Trucking on the High Berthing Time of Ships. is a scientific article on library research within the scope of the field of science. The aim of this article is to build a hypothesis of influence between variables that will be used in further research. Research objects in online libraries, Google Scholar, Mendeley and other academic online media. The research method using the research library comes from e-books and open access e-journals. Qualitative descriptive analysis. The results of this article: 1) The influence of the condition of the ship's cranes on the high berthing time of the ship; 2) The amount of trucking influences the ship's berthing time; and 3) Working Time in the Receiving Warehouse influences the High Berthing Time of the Ship.

The Media Offsprings of the Romanian Revolution: A comparative analysis

The Romanian revolution of December 1989 was a political event, a media event and a media-theoretical event. It provoked an impressive amount of speculation on the mere possibility of history under the new mediatic conditions, which reduced its images to a parade of symptoms of the ever-growing tendency of politics towards spectacularization and even self-annihilation. Instead of trying to develop a similarly encompassing theory on the audiovisual representation of the revolutionary fact, the present article concentrates on three different media objects made after 1989: (1) Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică’s documentary essay Videograms from a Revolution; (2) the YouTube clip December 22, 1989 Romanian Revolution Uncut; and (3) Corneliu Porumboiu’s fiction feature 12:08 East of Bucharest. These objects are analysed transversally and in shifting pairs, with a focus on their concrete audiovisual language, in connection with issues such as discursive and manipulation strategies, historical legitimation attempts and hierarchical media models. The aim is to transform these works into oblique, yet more empirical access points to the implications of the status of the events of December 1989 as the first full-fledged “televised revolution” for the collective memory, as well as for later audiovisual reworkings of that historical moment.

The making of critical data center studies

In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. While the data center is a fabrication of engineering, computer science, and cognate fields, it has been the critical gaze of scholars outside of those industries. Together, this scholarship has established the field of Critical Data Center Studies. Critiques of the data center – often thought of more generally as ‘internet infrastructure’, and more evocatively as ‘the cloud’ – have emerged from the social sciences, humanities, journalism, and the arts. The authors do this by answering questions about the current social, cultural, political, and environmental landscapes of the data center. Scrutiny of the foundational imaginaries of the internet, real estate deals by Big Tech, the industry’s enabling policies, their connections to energy and other public infrastructure – among many other factors – serves, at the very least, to situate the data center as a media object, as more than simply a material infrastructure, as more than data warehouse, and as more than ‘the cloud’. Further to this, the authors reflect on how the data center has been and continues to be studied, and why critical interventions have been so fruitful within a vast array of disciplines – from history and anthropology, to media studies, information studies, and science & technology studies – for shifting the focus from questions of infrastructural visibility to questions that weave together concerns of efficiency, policy, popular culture, and planetary devastation.

Dick pics and the shifty meanings of porn

ABSTRACT Dick pics are ubiquitous objects in social media shared for the purposes of harassment, flirtation, suggestion, amusement, and titillation alike. Starting with the question of how dick pics are, or are not classifiable as porn, this article opens up lines of inquiry on the possibilities and limitations of porn as a genre marker, content classifier, and reference point in and for understanding sexual content distributed through networked means. In the contemporary moment when sexual content continues to multiply online even as most social media platforms vigilantly moderate and remove it, scholarly vocabularies risk either lagging behind or posing normative categorisation on the things published and shared, from dick pics to webcam shows and OnlyFans content. This article calls for contextual care in how the notion of porn becomes applied to networked sexual media, the shapes of continue to morph, as well as in how dick pics are made sense of as communication devices and cultural symbols.

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO, GUSTAV KLUTSIS, EL LISSITZKY. SPATIAL PHOTOMONTAGE AS AN ANALOGUE OF MODERN MEDIA

The article examines both The history of The photomontage technique and The process of The emergence of new forms of information transmission based on media that were relevant for The 1920s — cinema and photography. Various design objects are analyzed — from printing to a new class of «media objects». Creation of synthetic forms of art, built on The combination of various communication channels — newsreels, audio broadcasts, photography and typography — a distinctive feature of The post-revolutionary era, a reflection of The theory of «mass action», a new concept of theatrical art, a different social reality, where a slogan, a debate, a rally become a key form of transmitting information. Such types of art and innovative approaches to creating a visual form of communication resonate with modern multimedia challenges.