AmbixPub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2419307
Rainer Werthmann
{"title":"Michael Maier's Medicament Coelidonia - A Possible Explanation of its Composition and Production.","authors":"Rainer Werthmann","doi":"10.1080/00026980.2024.2419307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2024.2419307","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The composition and way of production of Michael Maier's medicament Coelidonia, mentioned in his book <i>De Medicina Regia et verè Heroica, Coelidonia,</i> were inferred from indications in Maier's book <i>Viatorium, hoc est, de montibus planetarum septem eu Metallorum</i>. The substance was synthesized by the author in a modern laboratory. It is a lead oxychloride of brilliant yellow colour with a composition of approximately Pb<sub>7</sub>O<sub>6</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub>. The same substance was produced from the 1780s to at least 1825 as a pigment under the names of Patent Yellow, Turner's Yellow and Casseler Mineral-Gelb (Cassel Mineral Yellow).</p>","PeriodicalId":50963,"journal":{"name":"Ambix","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Darja Wischerath, Lukasz Piwek, Jonathan F. Roscoe, Brittany I. Davidson
{"title":"Rage Against the Machine: Exploring Violence and Emotion in Conspiracy Narratives on Parler","authors":"Darja Wischerath, Lukasz Piwek, Jonathan F. Roscoe, Brittany I. Davidson","doi":"10.1177/14614448241289905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241289905","url":null,"abstract":"The mainstreaming of conspiracy narratives has been associated with a rise in violent offline harms, from harassment, vandalism of communications infrastructure, assault, and in its most extreme form, terrorist attacks. Group-level emotions of anger, contempt, and disgust have been proposed as a pathway to legitimizing violence. Here, we examine expressions of anger, contempt, and disgust as well as violence, threat, hate, planning, grievance, and paranoia within various conspiracy narratives on Parler. We found significant differences between conspiracy narratives for all measures and narratives associated with higher levels of offline violence showing greater levels of expression.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Roussel, Léa Restivo, Thémistoklis Apostolidis
{"title":"‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context","authors":"Sarah Roussel, Léa Restivo, Thémistoklis Apostolidis","doi":"10.1177/14614448241291987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241291987","url":null,"abstract":"The gynaecological examination (GE) is a major public health issue, with bad experiences of this examination widely reported as a disincentive to cervical cancer screening. In France, a movement to denounce gynaecological and obstetrical violence is expressed through a massive publication of testimonies on social networks. Via a socio-representational approach and from a critical gender perspective, this article aims to explore how people use digital media to communicate about the GE, and to analyse the experiences related to the GE and the representation systems underlying them. Using an inductive strategy, a corpus of discussion from the Doctissimo forum, and testimonies and comments from the PayeTonGynéco Facebook pages and Tumblr was created and submitted to lexicographical analysis. Our results suggest that the GE is indicative of a broader social function. People seem to use digital media to cope with a form of social ignorance of women’s experience in gynaecology with a certain ambivalence regarding their liberating potential.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Power of Images: How Multimodal Hate Speech Shapes Prejudice and Prosocial Behavioral Intentions","authors":"Sai Wang","doi":"10.1177/20563051241292990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241292990","url":null,"abstract":"While online hate speech has become a serious problem in multimedia environments, most studies in this area have examined text-based hateful content, with less attention paid to its other visual aspects. From a multimodal perspective, we conducted an online experiment ( N = 799) to investigate how multimodal hate speech (i.e., text and images presented together to convey hateful meanings) on social media affected users’ prejudicial attitudes and prosocial behavioral intentions. The results showed that participants in the text-plus-image (vs. text-only) condition felt more sympathy, which led to less implicit prejudice toward the target group and more prosocial behavioral intentions. In addition, exposure to text-plus-image hate speech had an indirect effect on prosocial behavioral intentions through sympathy and implicit prejudice. The findings contribute to scholarship on online hate speech and provide insights into the affect heuristics that individuals rely on when processing multimodal information.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group-swinging as a strategic approach to curating multiple minority identities online: A study of lesbian gamers","authors":"Zizhong Zhang, Haixin Mu, Don Lok Tung Chui","doi":"10.1177/14614448241291990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241291990","url":null,"abstract":"Building upon platform-swinging, this study introduces the concept of identity-driven “group-swinging” within a single platform, focusing on how users with multiple minority identities strategically curate corresponding identities through this process. Collecting all created and engaged posts ( n = 31,084) from 102 lesbian gamers in both lesbian gamer and female gamer groups, this research utilizes structural topic modeling to delineate their productive and consumptive curation across different groups. The results indicate that lesbian gamers often prioritize discussions on women and queer issues within the female gamer community while presenting a more gamer-centric identity in the lesbian gamer community. Group-swinging emerges as an optimal strategy for exploring a balance between belongingness and distinctiveness, enabling lesbian gamers to navigate their multiple minority identities effectively. This study enriches the understanding of identity curation and optimal distinctiveness theory, offering plausible strategies for the online resilience of marginalized groups within the polymedia context.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LinguaPub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103834
Jia Li , Xianyao Hu
{"title":"A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers","authors":"Jia Li , Xianyao Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103834","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides a novel perspective on the distinction between human and machine translation by comparing the shining-through effect in English translations from Chinese across four different registers based on four comparable balanced corpora. By applying two multivariate techniques to multiple lexical, cohesive and syntactic features, this study identifies the following. (i) The shining-through effect is observable in human- and machine-translated English from Chinese; however, it is relatively limited. (ii) Machine translation exhibits a more distinct and persistent tendency towards shining through across different registers. (iii) The shining-through effect is register-dependent, with a stronger presence in general and academic texts than in journalistic and fictional translated texts. These findings confirm shining through as a potential translation universal in both human and machine translated texts. Furthermore, the results suggest that human translators are more sensitive to the social norms in different registers, further supporting the notion that human translators are more alert to contextual and communicative constraints in translation. The observed distinction offers valuable insights for translation educators in restructuring the curriculum for the human–machine collaborative translation model by considering translation norms, register constraints and interpersonal and intercultural factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142592997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AmbixPub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1080/00026980.2024.2418165
Anna Simmons
{"title":"SHAC Special ICHC14 Award Scheme - grants to support attendance at ICHC14 in Valencia, Spain, 11-14 June 2025.","authors":"Anna Simmons","doi":"10.1080/00026980.2024.2418165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2024.2418165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50963,"journal":{"name":"Ambix","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“PoV: You are reading an academic article.” The memetic performance of affiliation in TikTok’s platform vernacular","authors":"Tommaso Trillò","doi":"10.1177/14614448241290234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241290234","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the characteristics and communicative values of the popular PoV meme on TikTok to uncover mechanisms of community building on the platform. An analysis of the content, form, and stance of 250 videos revealed that creators of PoV memes lip-sync to audio remediated from pop culture and mimic how they imagine “you” would act in a given scenario. I offer the concept of “echoic affiliation” to describe how PoV memes leverage TikTok’s “use this sound” function to construct ephemeral bonds between users. Furthermore, PoV memes textually articulate multiple perspectives, producing intersubjective encounters that reflect a platform imaginary in which “the algorithm” efficiently clusters similar people on the same “side” of the app. In the conclusions, I present a novel definition of PoV memes and reflect on the pivotal role of affiliation for TikTok’s platform vernacular.","PeriodicalId":19149,"journal":{"name":"New Media & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language SciencesPub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101690
Sai MA , Michael Barlow
{"title":"A study of visual path expressions in Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of motion event typology","authors":"Sai MA , Michael Barlow","doi":"10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101690","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langsci.2024.101690","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Much attention has been paid to the typology of motion event expressions, and a recent focus is on whether the lexicalization pattern of motion event expressions is associated with other factors, such as event and construction types. This study made use of a Mandarin corpus to explore the extent to which the lexicalization pattern and associated linguistic features of motion event expressions transfer to one type of fictive motion event expressions, i.e., visual path expressions. Three types of visual path expressions were focused on, including the ones involving visual paths from the Experiencer to the Experienced entity with the person as the subject (Human-experiencer-subject visual paths), the ones of the same direction but with the eye-associated entity as the subject (Eye-experiencer-subject visual paths), and the ones from the Experienced entity to the Experiencer (Stimulus-subject visual paths). The results show that, in Mandarin, both Human-experiencer-subject and Stimulus-subject visual path expressions inherit the lexicalization pattern and associated linguistic features from motion event expressions, whereas Eye-experiencer-subject visual path expressions do not and they follow the pattern seen in a verb-framed language. Our results suggest that the lexicalization pattern of motion event expressions is associated with event and construction types.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51592,"journal":{"name":"Language Sciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142593671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michał B. Paradowski, Nicole Whitby, Michał Czuba, Piotr Bródka
{"title":"Peer Interaction Dynamics and Second Language Learning Trajectories During Study Abroad: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Dynamic Computational Social Network Analysis","authors":"Michał B. Paradowski, Nicole Whitby, Michał Czuba, Piotr Bródka","doi":"10.1111/lang.12681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12681","url":null,"abstract":"Using computational Social Network Analysis (SNA), this longitudinal study investigates the development of the interaction network and its influence on the second language (L2) gains of a complete cohort of 41 U.S. sojourners enrolled in a 3‐month intensive study‐abroad Arabic program in Jordan. Unlike extant research, our study focuses on students’ interactions with alma mater classmates, reconstructing their complete network, tracing the impact of individual students’ positions in the social graph using centrality metrics, and incorporating a developmental perspective with three measurement points. Objective proficiency gains were influenced by predeparture proficiency (negatively), multilingualism, perceived integration of the peer learner group (negatively), and the number of fellow learners speaking to the student. Analyses reveal relatively stable same‐gender cliques, but with changes in the patterns and strength of interaction. We also discuss interesting divergent trajectories of centrality metrics, L2 use, and progress; predictors of self‐perceived progress across skills; and the interplay of context and gender.","PeriodicalId":51371,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142594705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}