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Laughter and collective awareness: The cinema auditorium as public space [PDF]

, 2014
This article looks at how the collective experience of laughter in the movie theater is related to the idea of the cinema as a public space. Through the non-verbal expression of laughter the audience ‘constructs’ a public space the viewers may not have ...
Hanich, Julian, Hanich, Julian; id_orcid, Julian Hanich   +2 more
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‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

Celebrating Laughter

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, 2017
We present a novel design idea to capture and preserve the laughter of ourselves, friends, and loved ones with tangible representations. With preliminary design explorations, we discuss interaction design opportunities for celebrating our positive affect through concrete reminders of our laughter.
Kimiko Ryokai, Elena Durán, Dina Bseiso, Noura Howell, Ji Won Jun   +4 more
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Beyond salaries: Teachers' experiences of navigating early years education amid economic instability in Türkiye

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of economic conditions and early years education has long been debated, particularly where financial constraints shape educational practice and professional realities. Türkiye, characterised by high inflation and structural vulnerabilities in purchasing power parity, provides a critical context for examining how economic ...
Ebru Aydın, Şerif Yüksel
wiley   +1 more source

social laughter is correlated with an elevated pain threshold [PDF]

, 2011
Although laughter forms an important part of human non-verbal communication, it has received rather less attention than it deserves in both the experimental and the observational literatures. Relaxed social (Duchenne) laughter is associated with feelings
Mark van Vugt, Barra, V, van Leeuwen, E.J.C., Dunbar, R. I. M., MacDonald, I., Dunbar, RI, R. I. M. Dunbar, Pearce, Eiluned, Partridge, G, MacDonald, I, Leeuwen, E.J.C. van, Partidge, G., Frangou, A, Rebecca Baron, Van Leeuwen, E., Stow, J., Barra, V., Julie Stow, Dunbar, R.I.M., van Vugt, M., Eiluned Pearce, van Leeuwen, EJ, Stow, J, Frangou, A., Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, Baron, R., Dunbar, R., Baron, R, Giselle Partridge, Vincent Barra, Ian MacDonald, Peirce, E., Pearce, E, Partridge, G., Pearce, E., van Vugt, M, Anna Frangou, Vugt, M. van   +37 more
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‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng, Charlotte Bagnall, Caroline Bond, Elizabeth Birchinall, Pamela Qualter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biographies, ontological security and the socio‐spatial politics shaping teachers' mobility in remote Australia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette, Reece Mills, Terri Bourke, Simone White, Martin Mills, Lisa van Leent   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of rivers on seabird foraging ecology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rivers act as vital arteries to the world's oceans, delivering fresh water and nutrients that sustain marine ecosystems. Globally, river flow increasingly is being altered by climate change and anthropogenic pressures; yet the significance of rivers to predatory marine species, such as seabirds, and the extent to which river‐related changes ...
Julia B. Morais, Andre Chiaradia, Richard D. Reina   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford, Roman Martin Wittig, Cedric Girard‐Buttoz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

HILDA HILST’S LAUGHTER AND LITERATURE: "THE SPIRAL HAS NO BEGINNING OR END"

Gragoatá, 2015
This article aims at discussing the category laughter as an attribute of Hilda Hilst’s literature. Process-effect, glimpse of a writing that places no beginning or end, because of the (dis)order of laughter in continuous and incessant scales, cyclical ...
Jo A-mi
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