What does it mean to consume and produce images non-stop in the new media economy? Images can be captured, uploaded, downloaded, and disseminated with ease in digital platforms, raising the need to understand how these acts of image capture and circulation are embedded into the familiar and everyday as well as the extraordinary where images can re-negotiate cognitive realities and re-frame noti...

Ocarina, created in 2008 for the iPhone, is one of the first musical artifacts in the age of pervasive, app-based mobile computing. It presents a flute-like physical interaction using microphone input, multi-touch, and accelerometers—and a social dimension that allows users to listen in to each other around the world. This article chronicles Smule’s Ocarina as a mobile musical experiment for th...

ED FROM Alden A, Brennan P, Hodgins S, et al. Psychotic disorders and sex offending in a Danish birth cohort. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2007;64:1251–8. Correspondence to: Amanda Alden, MA, Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 N Kilgo Cir, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; [email protected] Source of funding: Research supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Inst...

Since the late 1990s there has been an increasing discussion over the ‘rights of the dead’ and the ethics of storing and displaying human remains in British museums, and academics and museum professionals have questioned what should be done with them when they are discovered (e.g. Bahn 1984; Parker Pearson 1999, ch. 8; Swain 2002; Curtis 2003; Sanders 2009, 183–7; Alberti et al. 2009; Sayer 201...

This study compares the disclosure performance of sex offenders under two polygraph modalities: first, the traditional single examiner mode, and second the collaborative multidisciplinary team approach. Its asks whether under the team approach offender disclosure rates increase, thus enabling rehabilitative processes to operate more effectively and at the same time offer assurance of increased ...

As audience members shuffled past each other in masks and took their seats at the Minetta Lane Theatre New York City’s West Village during short, frigid days of early 2022, an on-stage monitor playing CNN placed us foment summer 2020. The glowed with footage former president refusing to condemn white teen shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. Before was living room Tyrones’ home, strewn Amazon boxes clutte...

This article investigates the multiform, multiscreen interactive film installation, Crossed Lines (20022007, Dir: Sarah Atkinson). Crossed Lines amalgamates multiform plots, multiscreen viewing environments, interactive interfaces and interactive story navigation forms into one storytelling paradigm. My research probes the challenges of designing, authoring and scripting such an ambitious piece...

In our society adults who are guilty of having sex with prepubescent children often have a paedophile disposition. This paper first criticises the justifications that are given by paedophiles for having sex with children. Part of this criticism is a brief analysis of "sexual desire" and "erotic". Next, the question is raised whether paedophile activities can ever be morally permissible. Using t...

This paper addresses the thorny issues of teaching the history of sexuality from a feminist, sex-positive, anti-racist framework. The author relates her own pedagogical strategies in an effort to claim legitimacy for "sex history," in opposition to historians who maintain that sex has no place in the construction of the Canadian nation and its citizens. RESUME Cet article adresse la question ep...

Cultural producers, including screenwriters and film directors, create fictional and imagined spaces as the locations – and sometimes subjects – of the stories they tell. Through the depiction of characters interacting with fictional spaces, storytellers illuminate the significance of spatial relationships in the real world. An examination of spaces in fictional narratives can therefore reveal ...