Reading Models: Embedded Narrative and Ideology in "La goutte d'or"

1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Richard Shryock
Keyword(s):  
Reading Models ◽  
Embedded Narrative

What’s So Special about Video?

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-144
Author(s):  
Mary Angela Bock
Keyword(s):  
Court Case ◽  
Narrative Paradigm ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
The Way ◽  
Embedded Narrative

This chapter examines video’s epistemological trio of moving images, audio, and a timeline and their evidentiary affordances. Based on a single court case that blended video clips from a variety of perspectives, the project explores the evidentiary value of video and the way it’s used in testimonial narrative. Fisher’s narrative paradigm serves as the foundation for this chapter, which theorizes video as both an affordance and as a text with its own embedded narrative. In US courts, video cannot stand for itself but must accompany other testimony, and as testimonial affordance, video can explain or illustrate the order of action. Video is especially useful for refuting testimony that does not match what the video depicts. While its timeline affords a natural plot, the narrative that matters most is the discursive one crafted in court, offering what Fisher labeled coherence and fidelity—the moral or legal “point” of the story.

In Search of Taxonomies: The Relevance of Cognitive Reading Models in the Design of Electronic Text in Literary Studies

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant D. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Electronic Text ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Reading Models

Computing in the humanities has grown beyond its traditional roles; with the phenomenal growth of hypertext and hypermedia, scholars are learning to exploit the potential of these new media to reinvent the "scholarly edition" and to present literary works to the reader in radically new ways. Information studies research contains numerous insights that the literary scholar would find. . .

Visual word recognition models should also be constrained by knowledge about the visual system

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 287-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Gomez ◽  
Sarah Silins
Keyword(s):  
Object Recognition ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Visual System ◽  
Visual Word Recognition ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Visual Word ◽  
Universal Models ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Models Of Reading ◽  
Reading Models

AbstractFrost's article advocates for universal models of reading and critiques recent models that concentrate in what has been described as “cracking the orthographic code.” Although the challenge to develop models that can account for word recognition beyond Indo-European languages is welcomed, we argue that reading models should also be constrained by general principles of visual processing and object recognition.

Modellen en Metingen Van Taalvaardigheid

1998 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Kees de Glopper ◽  
Anne-Mieke Janssen-van Dieten
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
General Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Reading Models

This article contains a concise discussion of models and measurement of language ability. A general definition of the concept language ability is given, Subsequendy, psycholinguistic models of oral and written language production and comprehension are discussed. The nature and extent of individual differences in language ability are illustrated by means of a discussion of LI reading. Models of language ability are reviewed and areas in need of further research are identified. In conclusion, some tentative answers to pertinent questions on components, development and transfer of language ability are presented.

Parsimonious Reading Models: Identifying Teachable Subskills

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham F. Neuhaus ◽  
Luis W. Roldan ◽  
Regina Boulware-Gooden ◽  
Paul R. Swank
Keyword(s):  
Reading Models

scholarly journals Always Already Monsters—BioShock’s (2007) ‘Splicers’ as Computational Others

Nordlit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Švelch
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Computational Algorithms ◽  
First Person ◽  
First Person Shooter ◽  
Game Representation ◽  
Embedded Narrative

The article explores the manufacturing of monsters in video games, using the case of the influential 2007 first-person shooter BioShock, and ‘splicers’—its most numerous, zombie-like enemies. I combine two methodological perspectives on the ‘manufacturing’ of splicers by analyzing [a] the title’s developer commentary and other official paratexts to trace the design of splicers, and [b] the game’s embedded narrative to reconstruct the diegetic backstory of splicers. I argue that video game enemies, including splicers, are ‘computational others’, who may appear human on the level of representation, but whose behavior is machinic, and driven by computational algorithms. To justify the paradoxical relationship between their human-like representation and machinic behavior, BioShock includes an elaborate narrative that explains how the citizens of the underwater city of Rapture were dehumanized and transformed into hostile splicers. The narrative of dehumanization, explored following Haslam’s dehumanization theory (2006), includes [a] transforming splicers into atomized creatures by depriving them of political power and social bonds, [b] creating fungible and interchangeable enemies through splicers’ masks and bodily disintegration, [c] justifying splicers’ blindness to context and their simplistic behavior by portraying them as mentally unstable addicts. The article concludes that all video game enemies are inherently monstrous, and that critique of video game representation should focus on how games fail to make monsters human, rather than how games render humans monstrous or dehumanized.

scholarly journals Ways of Reading, Models for Text, and the Usefulness of Dead People

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Test Case ◽  
Textual Information ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Theories Of Reading ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Reading Models

The definition of text is still a live issue with important implications for emerging forms of digital textuality. This paper proposes that no single definition of text is sufficient to account for all manifestations of textuality. Medieval textuality is a test case: four different models for text are offered, corresponding to ways in which modern medievalists approach medieval texts. Studying medieval texts has value not only to support historically informed theories of reading and writing, but also to suggest alternative models of organizing, representing, and processing textual information.

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