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Collectors, Storytellers, and Web Pros: Making Comics and Building Community During the Pandemic
In this article, I profile three online communities for comic creators that I began participating in during the COVID-19 pandemic, namely Cartoonist Kayfabe, the Sequential Artists Workshop, and Comic Lab.
Donald Unger
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Readapting Pandemic Premediation and Propaganda: Soderbergh’s Contagion amid COVID-19
Steven Soderbergh’s pandemic thriller Contagion (2011) was trending strongly on streaming services in the US in the early days of COVID-19 restrictions, where the fiction took on an unforeseen afterlife amid a real pandemic.
Kevin C. Moore
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ABSTRACT Open‐source artificial intelligence is widely promoted as a democratising pathway to digital sovereignty for African states, offering access to frontier architectures without prohibitive capital investment. This paper investigates whether open‐source AI represents a credible route to autonomy or generates a new form of structural dependency ...
Ololade A. Shonubi
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Adoption and adaptation of rhetorical devices in South African Pentecostal churches
Adoption of rhetorical devices is evident in the preaching of contemporary Pentecostal churches in Durban, South Africa. Rhetorical devices and shrewd unconventionality, which place a twist on those devices adopted, are frequently found in contemporary ...
Adebayo, Rufus Olufemi
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Utterer Meaning, Misunderstanding, and Cultural Knowledge
All versions of Grice’s theory of utterer meaning couch success in terms of stressing the hearer’s ability to recognize what is intended. This ties naturally to the cooperative principle and the maxims of conversation.
Christopher W. Tindale
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ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington +2 more
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Hero Place and Graphic Space In novel (Body's memory) and (Sensory mess) for Ahlam Mostaghanammy
Visiual Arts is considered one of important tributaries which is hired by the Current Arab novel to Technical dimensions ,and this as the technical interference between Art and Literary types .This search attempts to approach how to express the special ...
Tamer Abdel Aziz
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ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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"This is your brain on rhetoric": Research directions for neurorhetorics
Neuroscience research findings yield fascinating new insights into human cognition and communication. Rhetoricians may be attracted to neuroscience research that uses imaging tools (such as fMRI) to draw inferences about rhetorical concepts, such as ...
Jack, J +3 more
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