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TEDified Islam : postsecular storytelling in new media
This text represents one of the initial comprehensive studies of TED Talks on Islam. It situates TED Talks on Islam as postsecular (secular's renewed interest in faith) discourse and asks how TED represents and narrates Islam. It also examines the perspectives of both Muslim and non-Muslim TED viewers about TED's storytelling strategies as well as on the platform. Finally, the book studies the features of the authority that both Muslim and non-Muslim TED speakers embody as 'spokespersons of Islam'. By doing so, this book offers an empirical and context-oriented understanding of postsecular storytelling by problematising the secular translations of Islam.
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Screenwriter Brittany Ashley on Researcher / Professor / Lecturer / Author Brené Brown
“Courage is contagious.” TED star Brené Brown has spent decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, giving us insight to a healthier, more joyful life. Screenwriter Brittany Ashley takes us on her own personal journey learning from Brené.
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Interview with Richard Ledgett, Jr., TED Moderator Chris Anderson
National Security Agency deputy director Richard Ledgett discusses effects of Edward Snowden leaks of classified information, Americans' right to privacy, and threat of terrorism.
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Stacking Fault Expansion from an Interfacial Dislocation in a 4H-SiC PIN Diode and Its Expansion Process
A stacking fault (SF) that expanded from an interfacial dislocation (ID), which was formed from a basal plane dislocation (BPD) during high-temperature annealing, and its expansion process were investigated by electroluminescence imaging during a current stress test, and by various crystal analyses. The SF was observed during electroluminescence observation of PIN diodes that had line-and-space anodes with open windows. The SF started to expand from the surface side of the ID at low current densities, changed its shape variously, and finally became a parallelogram. A dislocation line inside the expanded parallelogram-shaped SF indicated that the origin was not a single BPD. Cross-sectional high-resolution transmission electron microscopy revealed another SF that was a (3 2 1 2) stacking structure between two single Shockley stacking fault (1SSF) regions at that dislocation line. In addition, the tetrahedra of the two 1SSFs were face-to-face and were offset by two layers. This result means that the original structure of the 1SSFs was a BPD-threading edge dislocation (TED) structure with two BPD segments. The two BPD segments had rotational twin-like structures forming a dislocation loop with each other and the TED between them was present in only two layers. A crystallographic analysis to investigate the expansion mechanism showed consistent results, with the two types of dislocation loops and extinction of the same types of partial dislocations of the Si-core and the C-core.
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Discussing blockchain applications in TED Talks: A fashion wave approach to understanding the blockchain phenomenon
Since its first appearance as the infrastructure supporting Bitcoin, blockchain has received different waves of attention from practitioners and academics. Besides the degree of interest, the attention to blockchain has often focused not merely on its own potential and characteristics but on its applications field. However, looking at its application and deployment in domains other than cryptocurrency or the nascent non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain technology does not seem to be widely adopted or is still in its early stages. Given this, we are interested in how managers and the general public are informed about new technology other than through academic papers or the specialized press. In this paper, we analyze how blockchain has been presented by speakers invited to give TED and TEDx Talks to identify the most common terms used to present blockchain in these talks using a multi-methods approach (qualitative analysis and big data analysis) and see if the discourse surrounding blockchain has shifted over time. The results of this study show how the different perspectives brought by broadcasters like TED often overshadow a technological innovation like the blockchain in its evolution and application by the fact that the focus is instead shifted to products and services built on it. Also, this study shows how different degrees of attention and expertise are associated with each fashion wave of new or emergent technology innovations.
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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of TED Talks in Health Care
This paper aims to analyze the multimodal discourse of TED Talks in the healthcare domain. This analysis looks for opportunities for positive, negative, and neutral messages. The paper also offers ways to correct social inequalities and summarize best practices in health care. Studies examining verbal and nonverbal semiotics require a more fine-grained analysis since nonverbal parts play crucial roles in TED talks and cannot be neglected. The main features of the analysis are: to identify discourse patterns and message types, to overview the meanings of these patterns, and to propose ways to achieve social justice. With mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches, verbal and nonverbal elements are analyzed. They show a joint effort in meaning-making, which unravels how the speaker conveys ideas and affects the audience. The result shows the characteristics of different semiotic resources and ascertains how they generate meaning to reinforce the academic speaker’s message. It suggests that the adopted theoretical framework applies to the multimodal discourse analysis of public speaking. The speaker makes the speech more convincing and offers a comprehensive meaning delivered in public, academic speaking, establishing a rational and practical image.
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When Islam goes to TED: features of a postsecular storytelling on Islam in new media
New media studies on Islam are focused on investigating the characteristics of Islamic discourse or Muslim practices in digital landscape. Since there is increasing visibility of knowledge production on Islam by non-Islamic, secular middlebrow spaces such as TED, it is significant to examine their way of communicating Islamic ideas to a global audience. By conducting a discourse analysis of TED Talks on Islam, this study explores the dominant discursive strategies of TED Talks on Islam. By doing so, this study introduces how a more empirically and context-oriented understanding of the concept of the postsecular would benefit considerably from examining the discursive features of the contemporary nexus of Islam, new media, popular culture, and storytelling. Three main discourse features are found: (1) emphasis on a Judeo-Christian framework, (2) use of awe-inducing, personalized storytelling, and (3) secular translation of Islamic themes. While this emerging online-mediated discourse on Islam informs about new storytelling strategies, the language used adopts a highly attenuated perception of Islamic themes, and a great deal of traditional Islamic interpretation is replaced with excessively individualistic assumptions that are often tailored to cater to Western secular liberal mindsets.
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First Look
Washington Post Live’s “First Look” offers a smart, inside take on the day’s politics. Jonathan Capehart hosts a reporter debrief followed by a roundtable discussion with Washington Post opinions columnists. Tune in for news and analysis you can’t get anywhere else.
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TED talks: multimodal communicative affordances for EPS/ELF dissemination
Talks have been of interest for researchers who have compared different modes of scientific speeches such as traditional formal lectures, conferences and storyboarding technology, entertainment, and design (TED) talks. This article aims at exploring effective approaches to knowledge dissemination for non-native speakers in English Public Speaking (EPS) scenarios, a current challenge for international university students or academics, who need to adapt the format of the lecture or conference to a more persuasive and engaging public speech. TED Talks allow information consumers either in real time halls or in ubiquitous online performances to listen to well-explained verbal ideas that connect nonverbal language and emotions with the international audience. The hypothesis, therefore, is that TED Talks can serve as models of multimodal dissemination pitches to English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) speakers, who can be trained to improve their speech performance and convey their scientific notions and results successfully. After analysing the 10 most popular TED Talks, the findings suggest a set of strategies and techniques that can be useful for non-native learners in English Public Speaking contexts or for users of English as a Lingua Franca in their dissemination talks. The results provide some common pedagogical affordances for ELF dissemination talks, considering multimodal and nonverbal communication.
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CAN TED TALK TRANSCRIPTS SERVE AS EXTENSIVE READING MATERIAL FOR MID-FREQUENCY VOCABULARY LEARNING?
Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labeled the first 4000 to 9000 word families as mid-frequency words and stressed their importance based on Nation's (2006) estimate that for adequate comprehension of a variety of authentic texts, knowledge of the first 9000 word families is necessary. Subsequent to this vocabulary goal is to determine what can be read extensively to increase vocabulary progressively since most words cannot be mastered through only one exposure. This research aimed to investigate how much TED talk transcripts input is needed to encounter most of the first 9000 word families for learning to occur. It first measured the vocabulary levels of TED talks for their potential as extensive reading material for mid-frequency word learning. The results show that TED talks reached the 5th to 6th 1000-word-family level at 98% lexical coverage. Corpus sizes of 0.3 to 4.8 million words of TED transcripts provided an average of 12+ repetitions for most of the words from the first 4th to 9th 1000 word families. The figures may serve as a reference for learners in extensive reading programs to decide how much effort they should make to read TED talk transcripts voluminously to reach a certain vocabulary goal.
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