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Page, text and screen in the university: revisiting the Illich hypothesis KU Leuven
In the age of web 2.0, the university is constantly challenged to re-adapt its ‘old-fashioned’ pedagogies to the new possibilities opened up by digital technologies. This article proposes a rethinking of the relation between university and (digital) technologies by focusing not on how technologies function in the university, but on their constituting a meta-condition for the existence of the university pedagogy of inquiry. Following Ivan ...
Turkish diasporic film culture in the multicultural European city: a structural analysis of Turkish film screenings in Belgium Universiteit Antwerpen
Four Ways of Not Saying Something in Digital Kinshasa. Or, On the Substance of Shadow Conversations KU Leuven
Given that online communication is very much embedded in a pragmatics of everyday life, especially the management of social relationships, and that encoding and decoding are familiar practices to many, the main argument of this chapter then is that, if we want to grasp the social bearings of online communication such as Whatsapp status updates, Facebook Stories, and Instagram publications, we need to acknowledge and analyse the online exegesis ...
Computer-aided detection thresholds for digital chest radiography interpretation in tuberculosis diagnostic algorithms Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
OBJECTIVES: Use of computer-aided detection (CAD) software is recommended to improve tuberculosis screening and triage, but threshold determination is challenging if reference testing has not been performed in all individuals. We aimed to determine such thresholds through secondary analysis of the 2019 Lesotho national tuberculosis prevalence survey.
METHODS: Symptom screening and chest radiographs were performed in participants aged ...
Reconstrucción de los espacios públicos de exhibición cinematográfica de la ciudad de Santiago de Cuba (1906-1986) Universiteit Antwerpen
After the disappearance of most of the movie theaters that proliferated for eighty years, Santiago de Cuba today presents initiatives for the reuse and resignification of its former "leisure palaces", which are essentially based on their cultural functionality. Very little is known on the local cinema history of the second largest city in Cuba, as most academic research has focused on the capital Havana. Therefore, the arrival and ...
Soldiering the equipment or equipping the soldier? Emergent Forms of Belgian Military Life: Innovation, Corporality and Technology. A Comparative Ethnographic Study of the NATO Frigate Helicopter and the Pathfinder Detachment. KU Leuven
This PhD, embedded in the blossoming field of military anthropology, studies how Belgian soldiers deal with (new) military technology, and how technological innovations redefine and reshape social socio-professional structures and relationships in low- and high-tech military settings. The latter were represented by two ethnographic case studies: the NATO Frigate Helicopter (NFH) and the Pathfinder Detachment. Each military technology is embedded ...
Impact of Kinetic Typography on Readers' Attention Universiteit Hasselt
Surveys of visually impaired Braille readers show preferences for diierent technologies in diierent contexts: audio books for leisure reading; screen readers for on-line resources; Braille for digesting challenging content, while nding information in public spaces and packaging still lacks eeective reading supports. Braille in an evolving technological world implications for designing for the visually impaired Peterson et al. Eye-tracking ...
Exhibición y programación cinematográfica en Monterrey, México de 1922 a 1962 Universiteit Antwerpen
Inspired in the new cinema history perspective, and with the objective of providing a case study from a location outside of the United States and Europe to contrast findings and refine assertions about social, cultural and economic factors influencing the supply and consumption of films, this paper discusses the exhibition and programming of motion pictures from 1922 to 1962 in Monterrey, Mexico, the third largest city in the country. Through ...