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Blurring boundaries: Researching self‐tracking and body size through auto‐netnography

open access: yesArea, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 481-488, December 2023., 2023
Short Abstract This paper explores the ways in which doing an auto‐netnography through self‐tracking technology led to intensified surveillance of my body size. To understand this, I discuss my experiences of the materiality of self‐tracking, where the blurring of the boundaries between online and offline impacted my feelings around my body size and my
Olivia Fletcher
wiley   +1 more source

The Eurovision St Andrews collection of photographs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This report describes the Eurovision image collection compiled for the ImageCLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) evaluation exercise. The image collection consists of around 30,000 photographs from the collection provided by the University of St ...
Clough P.   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Cultural Voting: The Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
We analyze the voting behavior and ratings of judges in a popular song contest held every year in Europe. The dataset makes it possible to analyze the determinants of success, and gives a rare opportunity to run a direct test of vote trading, or logrolling.
Ginsburgh, Victor, Noury, Abdul Ghafar
openaire   +3 more sources

Identifying the underlying structure and dynamic interactions in a voting network [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We analyse the structure and behaviour of a specific voting network using a dynamic structure-based methodology which draws on Q-Analysis and social network theory. Our empirical focus is on the Eurovision Song Contest over a period of 20 years.
Albert   +32 more
core   +2 more sources

Spain Was Not Living a Celebration

open access: yesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 2012
Franco’s Dictatorship (1939-1975) used Spanish Television (TVE) as a key element in the political propaganda of its apparent ‘openness’ during the 1960s. The propaganda co-existed with political interest in
Gutiérrez Lozano, Juan Francisco
doaj   +1 more source

Colours of the new face of Serbia: National symbols and popular music [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2009
In this paper I address nationalist iconography in Serbian popular music especially the role of women as the symbols of nation building. Case in point is the victory of Serbian representative Marija Serifovic in Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. I analyze
Mitrović Marijana
doaj   +1 more source

Do songs in English do better? Studying linguistic diversity within Eurovision Song Contest entries

open access: yesDiacrítica
Languages at Eurovision have long been a source of debate. The frequent use of English as the primary singing language has raised questions about whether performing in English rather than a national language improves a song’s chances of winning. Studies
Francisco Javier Palacios-Hidalgo   +1 more
doaj   +5 more sources

»In corpore sano«

open access: yesAnnales, Series Historia et Sociologia
Serbian cultural diplomacy at the Eurovision Song Contest includes both the presentation of elements of the Serbian musical idiom and the effective use of dominant trends in European popular music.
Marko Aleksić
doaj   +1 more source

A Message for Peace or a Tool for Oppression? Israeli Jewish-Arab duo Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad’s Representation of Israel at Eurovision 2009

open access: yesCurrent Musicology, 2010
Israel’s contenders for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest (known as the ESC or, as here, Eurovision) were the Israeli Jewish-Arab duo Achinoam Nini and Mira Awad.
Nili Belkind
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence of bias in the Eurovision song contest: modelling the votes using Bayesian hierarchical models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual musical competition held among active members of the European Broadcasting Union since 1956. The event is televised live across Europe.
Baio, Gianluca, Blangiardo, Marta
core   +2 more sources

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