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Student Presentations I: Popular Appreciation of Digital Culture
Student Presentations I: Popular Appreciation of Digital Culture
10:10AM to 11:10AM
10:10AM to 11:10AM
From ‘Shiny’ to ‘Bling-Bling’: A Computational Analysis of English to French Disney Song Translation
From ‘Shiny’ to ‘Bling-Bling’: A Computational Analysis of English to French Disney Song Translation
by Anna Sollazzo
Does Disney Moana’s Maui singing "Pour les hommes" (for mankind) really convey the same sarcasm and egoism as "You’re welcome" ? Does Pochontus asking John Smith “How can there be so much that you don’t know? ” or telling him “C’est que tes yeux sont remplis de nuages” (Your eyes are full of clouds) better convey his ignorance of indigenous ways of life?
Robert Frost is quoted as saying “poetry is what gets lost in translation”; by this assertion, surely songs — often having the same sort of reliance on rhythm, rhyme, and metaphor —should be similarly untranslatable. Yet, with every new musical film, Disney releases versions of their iconic songs in dozens of languages — frequently including both Québecois and “standard” French versions. Taking these children’s songs far too seriously, this presentation explores the nature of these translations through a comparative computational analysis augmented with dialect linguistics, identifying which dimensions are altered in translation, and investigating the key differences between the dialect specific versions in an attempt to understand and justify their parallel existence.
Intercultural Music in Media; Representations of Chinese Music History and Culture within Korra and Mulan
Intercultural Music in Media; Representations of Chinese Music History and Culture within Korra and Mulan
by Karen Vuong
Through a case study on “The Legend of Korra” and “Reflection,” the representative musical pieces within Nickelodeon's The Legend of Korra (henceforth Korra) and Disney’s Mulan (1998) respectively, I examine how different cultural traditions are combined to create a piece of intercultural media. In particular, I explore how orientalism has persisted in Western media through its superficial inclusion of ‘other’ cultural traditions. Contrasting these strains of orientalist thought however, Korra especially stands out as an example of interculturalism through its music. This is primarily because it draws on the nuanced level of cohesion established between Korra’s narrative elements such as world building and plot, as well as its cultural influences. Consequently, I argue that Korra stands as an ideal model for how to incorporate non-Western influences, and can serve to inform future narratives on the pressing issues of cultural appropriation and representation. With the upcoming live-action remake of Disney’s Mulan, it is imperative to address the cultural shortcomings of modern Western media, and by what standard we should be judging when accessing its incorporation of other cultures.
Representing Narrative Without Words
Representing Narrative Without Words
by Fia Friskie, Julia Guy, and Morgan Cselinacz
How can a game or interactive fiction tell a story without the use of words, language, or text? Our presentation will delve into the cultural and symbolic meanings used to represent a narrative to the player, what a narrative is and its different types, and how these narratives are told by the creator and received by the (w)reader.
NarativeWithoutLanguage.mp4Editing Wikipedia for Social Justice Workshop
Editing Wikipedia for Social Justice Workshop
11:20AM to 12:20PM
11:20AM to 12:20PM
with Erin O'Neil, UAL Wikipedian in Residence
Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not. Content is skewed by the makeup of the editor pool, which is largely white men. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.
Here's the cool part: anyone can change that! Join this workshop to learn how to edit and create Wikipedia entries on subjects related to feminism and social justice. This workshop will provide detailed steps for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and instruction.
Bring your laptop and ideas for entries that need updating or creation.
zoom_0.mp4Student Presentations II: Problematizing Public Perceptions
Student Presentations II: Problematizing Public Perceptions
1:00PM to 2:00PM
1:00PM to 2:00PM
Counting on Autistic Savage Savants as Heroes: A New Venue for Hollywood Action Movies
Counting on Autistic Savage Savants as Heroes: A New Venue for Hollywood Action Movies
by Adam Ashraf-Abadi
In this paper, which is grounded in critical disability studies that inspect the dominant cultural discourses about disability, I am scrutinizing "The Accountant" movie directed by Gavin O'Connor (2016) as an exemplar of the mainstream cinema to see how this film (consistent with the viewpoint of our ableist society toward the people with disability) propagates autism as a spectacle phenomenon (through a highly technical thriller) to fascinate the audience. In my discussion, I’ll be showing how The Accountant is isolating an autistic person “from the mainstream of human existence”, as Smith and Enns (2001) emphasize. I will also investigate how this film, on the other hand, prescribes that institutionalizing the children with autism is the best way to save them in favor of ableist society.
In second part of my discussion, I will also talk about "Keep the Change", an independent movie directed by Rachel Israel (2017), which I believe is an honest and effective narrative (in contrast to The Accountant) to inform – and even entertain – the viewers regarding the real life of people on the spectrum, because it is based on lived experiences of people with autism and performed by them. Finally, I argue that with the advance of digital audio/video technology and its accessibility which makes the filmmaking ventures for youth with disability more achievable, film and other multi-media productions can maintain possibilities for counter-narrative to mainstream media and self-advocacy.
A New Venue for Hollywood Action Movies_Adam Ashraf-Abadi.pdfThe Data Dilemma: Advancing the use of AI in Canadian Healthcare
The Data Dilemma: Advancing the use of AI in Canadian Healthcare
by Katrina Ingram
Artificial Intelligence promises to revolutionize healthcare. It holds the promise to prevent disease through early intervention, enable personalized treatment plans, reduce costs and better support clinicians. COVID-19 has added new urgency to the gathering and use of medical data as governments rush to implement new technologies in order to protect public health.
Medical records comprise some of the most carefully guarded and highly regulated data. Access to sensitive medical information at scale is required to achieve the promise of AI enabled-healthcare systems. How can we adequately address concerns while enabling the benefits of AI? This talk will review the ethical challenges in balancing the trade-offs, exploring the moral obligations on both sides of the issue.
DiHuCon Presentation_Final.mp4Private vs. Public Queer Intimacy; How With Those We Love Alive Demonstrates the Value of Private Intimacy
Private vs. Public Queer Intimacy; How With Those We Love Alive Demonstrates the Value of Private Intimacy
by Karen Vuong
I discuss the value of locating intimacy within the private sphere of life. This is contrary to scholars like Lauren Berlant and Jaspir K. Puar, who posits that it's privatization leads to the reproduction of normative expectations for relationships as well as state power. Through an examination of the game, "With Those We Love Alive," by Transgender game designer and writer of digital fiction, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, I demonstrate the fallibilty of solely relying on the public sphere and community culture to define personal relationships, because it ignores a fundamental reality for queer individuals surrounding personal security.
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