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Collectors, Storytellers, and Web Pros: Making Comics and Building Community During the Pandemic

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
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

open access: yesArts, 2020
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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The Open‐Source Paradox: Africa's Digital Sovereignty and the Structural Limits of Artificial Intelligence Autonomy

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Adoption and adaptation of rhetorical devices in South African Pentecostal churches

open access: yes, 2018
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

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Utterer Meaning, Misunderstanding, and Cultural Knowledge

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
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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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Hero Place and Graphic Space In novel (Body's memory) and (Sensory mess) for Ahlam Mostaghanammy

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018
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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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

"This is your brain on rhetoric": Research directions for neurorhetorics

open access: yes, 2010
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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