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Collective achievement of making in cosplay culture [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 This paper analyzes peer-based learning and the concept of Scaffolding represented in ethnographic case studies of ten female informants aged 20-25 participating in the cosplay community. Cosplay is a female-dominated niche subculture of extreme fans and mavens, who are devoted to dressing up as characters from manga, games, and anime.
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Research Ethics and Fieldwork at New Consumption Communities [PDF]
, 2005 It is hard to deny that marketing practice has changed considerably during recent years. This is reflected in its increased focus on customisation, coproduction and interactive marketing, much of which has been enabled by new information technologies ...
Bekin, C
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, 2021 The article reflects on the reliance of fieldwork-based research on remote data acquisition. It mentions that repositories and databases are filled with terabytes of information amenable of being shuffled and managed to produce something publishable, less and less biologists get in touch with the real thing.
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Automated Tone Transcription and Clustering with Tone2Vec [PDF]
arXivLexical tones play a crucial role in Sino-Tibetan languages. However, current phonetic fieldwork relies on manual effort, resulting in substantial time and financial costs. This is especially challenging for the numerous endangered languages that are rapidly disappearing, often compounded by limited funding.
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Reconstructing the Star Knowledge of Aboriginal Tasmanians [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 The canopy of stars is a central presence in the daily and spiritual lives of Aboriginal Tasmanians. With the arrival of European colonists, Tasmanian astronomical knowledge and traditions were interrupted and dispersed. Fragments can be found scattered in the ethnographic and historical record throughout the nineteenth century.
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Understanding, embracing and reflecting upon the messiness of doctoral fieldwork
, 2017 This Forum issue discusses the centrality of the fieldwork in doctoral research. The inevitability of researchers’ influence and of their values apparent during and after their fieldwork calls for a high degree of reflexivity.
A. Naveed +4 more
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Community-Working Occupational Therapists Serving as Fieldwork Supervisors: Characteristics and Associated Factors [PDF]
, 2019 As enrollment numbers grow in occupational therapy academic programs in Norway, the need for more fieldwork placements and supervisors increases. More knowledge about factors of importance for occupational therapists’ decisions to take on the role of ...
Arntzen, Cathrine +5 more
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Landscape Review, 2018 This paper presents a series of design experiments that are used to introduce and prototype a form of research I call design fieldwork. Design fieldwork is a hybrid practice of fieldwork and design intervention in which each informs and is embedded in the other.
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The Planets in Indigenous Australian Traditions [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Studies in Australian Indigenous astronomical knowledge reveal few accounts of the visible planets in the sky. However, what information we do have tells us that Aboriginal people were close observers of planets and their motions, noting the relative brightness of the planets, their motions along the ecliptic, retrograde motion, the relationship ...
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