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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...attention to seriously social, political and economic issues. Concerts such as Live Aid or the creation of Product Red help to bring funds and public exposure to problems of African famine and HIV/AIDS, respectively. It also reverses the established sponsorship relation – where now it is celebrities who are using their “brand” to further social justice. Yet these...
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How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?
Digital & Computing

How are Snapchat filters allowing survivors of sexual assault tell their stories?

...attention. In an interview with Global Voices, Omar, who is the mobile editor for newspaper Hindustan Times, explained: The filters were the only reason they shared their story. In India it’s both illegal to show the identity of rape survivors in the media, but there’s also the question of stigma- a society where they risked being alienated from friends of family and...
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TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem
Nature & Environment

TOTEM LATAMAT: an Indigenous reminder we are all part of the ecosystem

...attention to colonial histories, seemed particularly painful. Our response has been to initiate a series of projects to engage UK audiences with Indigenous worldviews, either through participation in Indigenous music projects, walks at sites of Indigenous significance, or encounters with Indigenous artworks. The most important of these is TOTEM LATAMAT, carved by Totonac...
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How can digital books support children’s learning?
Education & Development

How can digital books support children’s learning?

...attention needs to be paid to the way children’s progress is monitored and used for supporting their learning. Another key issue is the quality of texts available for children’s digital reading. Quality of children’s e-books The average quality of current children’s digital books is, when judged using research-based criteria, lower than that on paper. This has...
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Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Occupying spaces in Hong Kong and London

...attention or not, staring into space, starting separate conversations, sharing words or not, pauses, glances and knowing and unknowing asides. These different modes through which I got access to the participants of the Hong Kong Occupy camp were linked to their very different conceptions of politics: Left 21 is a conventional political pressure group that seeks to...
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...attention. The two hair colours suggest conflicting emotions – safety and danger, disease and health. The self-portrait is surrounded by an invisible energy and sense of threat, that cannot be seen but are nevertheless conveyed. Transcript This beautiful, evocative video film, created by a group of Syrian refugees living in Malaysia, is framed around Mwaffaq’s poem to...
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Danielle Martin
Education & Development

Danielle Martin

...attention. You may just discover a whole new path for yourself, just as I did. And best of all… it’s completely free – you’ve got nothing to lose!’ ‘With new courses being added all the time, I know I will keep using OpenLearn during my degree and beyond. The sense of achievement when you complete a course is fantastic and has definitely encouraged me to see...
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How do musical instruments produce sound?
History & The Arts

How do musical instruments produce sound?

...above represent sine waves which have a very pure and artificial sound). Any single sound we hear also contains many additional waves and pitches. Sound, then, is a truly interesting and complex phenomenon. An instrument’s unique timbre is the product of a set of different pitches competing for your attention. Think about that next time you play or listen to some music....
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