The rapid development of generative AI technology challenges traditional ideas of authorship. This thesis investigates the concept of authorship in AI cinema, an emerging approach to filmmaking where advanced AI technology is used in the film production process. The study is focused on the AI film The Frost (Josh Rubin, 2023). It is a short film that stands apart as one of the first films to heavily utilize generative AI to create visuals for the film. Through the critical lens of Walter Benjamin’s theories of authorship, this study examines the effects of the usage of AI technology on the creative process in the film The Frost. The study analyzes how the usage of generative AI affects authorship in cinema. To address the presence of AI in the art creation process, Walter Benjamin’s theories on authorship from his works The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and The Author as Producer are extended by introducing the concept of “orderer,” a person that prompts the AI system to generate content.

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[pt] O presente trabalho pretende investigar algumas formas de participação de autores, leitores e críticos em mídias digitais, especialmente em redes sociais, nesse processo de construção de visibilidade, e as possíveis consequências dessas participações. Para tal, analisaremos tanto a fortuna crítica referente aos tópicos apresentados, bem como publicações que circulam no âmbito virtual, além da análise de perfis no YouTube, Instagram, participações em clubes de leitura, entre outros. A curiosidade sobre a vida de um autor, como afirma Phillip Lejeune, não é algo novo dentro dos estudos literários. No entanto, na contemporaneidade, muitas vezes podemos confundir a vida do autor com o que ele publica em mídias sociais, especialmente as digitais, confundir a função autor com o sujeito empírico. A forma como o autor aparece em mídias digitais pode ser crucial para aumentar sua visibilidade, assim como a da obra que está sendo lançada. No entanto, o autor não é o único ator nesse processo de construção de visibilidade (e nem o único que aparece) em tempos de redes sociais. Junto com ele, temos também o leitor, que cada vez se torna mais presente nesse processo de visibilidade. Com a participação mais acentuada do leitor, resta-nos refletir sobre o papel da crítica nessa transformação das relações, decorrentes do advento das novas tecnologias. / [en] This work intends to investigate some forms of participation of authors, readers and critics in digital media, especially on social network media, as part of the process of gaining visibility, and the consequences of this participation. In order to consider these instances of participation, we will analyze both the theorical concepts related to our inquiry as well as publications that may be found in cyberspace, analyses of social network profiles from YouTube, Instagram, participation in book clubs, among others. The curiosity about an author s life, as proposed by Philp Lejeune, is not a new concept in the area of literature studies. However, nowadays, sometimes we may confuse an author s life with what he/she publishes in his/her social media or mix up the authorship with the person itself. The way that the author presents himself/ herself in cyberspace can be crucial for his/her visibility beyond his work. Authors, however, are not the only actors that we may find in play in cyberspace: along, we may also consider the arising of reader s presence. In the context of reader s presence alongside the author in this environment, we still need to ask ourselves the role of the criticism in these transformations that are a consequence of the emergence of these technologies.

Det huvudsakliga syftet med projektet är att belysa utställningen och de strukturer som densamma innefattar. Specifikt för detta projekt är att jag har valt att titta på utställningarna på kulturcentret Astrid Lindgrens Näs. Metoden för projektet innebär att blanda empiri med teori vilket resulterat i att jag dels besökt Astrid Lindgrens Näs samt arbetat med teori som beskriver förhållandet mellan besökare och museum, författare och författarskap. Radioverkets syfte är ett ge en viss insikt i hur arbetet på museet genomförs, på ett praktiskt plan. Projektet visar att konventionerna i museet är närvarande och vad som bibehåller dem är rädslan för att besökarna skall missförstå. Jag upptäckte även att den författarroll som bland andra Michel Foucault beskriver är nödvändig för Astrid Lindgrens Näs. / The main purpose with the project is to put light on exhibitions and their inner structures. For this project I have specifically chosen to look at the exhibitions at Astrid Lindgrens Näs. The method for the project is to mix empiricism with theory which resulted in me visiting Astrid Lindgrens Näs and working with theory which describes the relationship between visitors and the museum, the author and the authorship. The radio piece’s purpose is to give an hint of how the museum works, in a practical way. The project shows that the conventions in the museum is present and what maintains the conventions is the fear of the visitors misunderstanding. I also discovered that the role of the author, who among others Foucault describes, is necessary for Astrid Lindgrens Näs.

[pt] Na perspectiva da pedagogia sócio-histórica, o homem é um ser autoral, autônomo e social. Em termos atuais, as habilidades voltadas para os multiletramentos podem potencializar essas características. Procuramos, pois, ao longo desta pesquisa, perceber como a escola tem se relacionado com o ensino e aprendizagem dessas habilidades. Investigamos as atividades que professores de Ensino Fundamental de oito escolas da Rede Municipal do Rio de Janeiro propõem em sala de aula para realizar essa ponte. Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados foram: i) entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas, com o apoio do grupo de pesquisa, com 64 professores; ii) observação participante de práticas de quatro professores de duas escolas. Notamos que os professores entendem, de modo geral, o uso das tecnologias apenas como uma ferramenta facilitadora de suas práticas tradicionais e que apenas nove professores apresentaram familiaridade com o termo letramento. Uma minoria traz em suas falas experiências visando desenvolver atividades voltadas para os multiletramentos. Também, com as observações, verificamos o uso pouco frequente das tecnologias em sala de aula. Há, porém, uma intuição, por parte dos professores, da importância de seu uso, mas, na maioria dos casos, o professor encontra muitas dificuldades (a ausência da internet, a questão do tempo e a sua própria formação) em incorporar o ensino de habilidades em torno do uso das tecnologias digitais de forma intencional a suas práticas e objetivos de ensino. Por fim, trazemos os relatos de intervenções voltadas para os multiletramentos que ocorreram, ao longo do último ano da pesquisa. / [en] From the perspective of socio-historical pedagogy, the man is a being which is characterized by authorship, autonomy and sociality. Nowadays, the skills comprised in the development of multiliteracies can enhance these features. In this research, we analyze how the school has been involved into the teaching and learning of these skills. We investigate the activities of elementary school teachers from eight public schools of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The methodology is based on a qualitative approach, with the use of the following tools: i) semi-structured interviews conducted with 64 teachers; ii) participant observation of four teachers from two schools. Overall, our findings suggest that the teachers understand the use of technologies, merely, as a facilitating tool for their traditional practices. Main evidence comes from the fact that only nine teachers showed familiarity with the term literacy. A minority of participants indicated experiences and activities aimed at developing the multiliteracies skills. Moreover, almost no use of technology was observed in the classrooms, although a recurrent theme in the interviews was a clear intuition of the importance of its use. The teachers reported about their difficulties, due to the lack of a good connection to the Internet, the shortage of time and their own training, which did not provide them with skills for the use of digital technologies. These results give important insights into the general lack of intentionality of their practices and objectives. Finally, we report the interventions focused on the multiliteracies that have occurred over the last year of the survey, both with teachers and students.

This dissertation explores the life and works of eighteenth-century labouring-class poet Mary Leapor. Leapor’s ability to use everyday objects to write poetry that speaks to important social and cultural transformations of the period is one of the most remarkable and interesting aspects of her poetry, and it sets her apart from other labouring-class writers. Therefore, while this dissertation situates Leapor as a female laborer who writes poetry about the labour she performs, it is more interested in how she uses her poetry about the labour she performs—and particularly how she offers her own version of “thing theory”—in order to speak to a number of problems of which labour is just one. By spotlighting the complex role of objects in Leapor’s poetry, this dissertation shows how she uses those objects to articulate new conceptions of the labouring body’s relationship to authorship and authority, claim authorship as a form of useful labour, and legitimize her own gendered and class-inflected authority as a subject in literary and intellectual discourse. While acknowledging the context of material history, I focus on the ways Leapor uses particular things to rethink the possibilities of labouring-class life, identity, literary expression, and what it might have meant for her to imagine a new kind of human subjectivity that is itself inseparable from the concept of labour. Moreover, Leapor’s work shows that she identifies labouring individuals as part of a community whose experience is heavily organized socially around labour but argues that their lived experience has provided them with a particular identity and perspective. Ultimately, this dissertation works to decenter our own moment in the history of ideas by showing how Leapor was theorizing about forms of situated knowledge over two hundred years before it entered academic discourse in the 20th century through feminist theories of embodied ways of knowing. Leapor’s poetry is not just an object that should be studied through a theoretical lens; it should be understood as a theory of situated knowledge transmitting ideas from its own materially embedded position. Leapor’s poetry lives on as a labouring thing—changing, growing, and theorizing as living humans do—inviting its readers to contemplate the complex components of being an embodied thinker. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This dissertation focuses on the life and works of Mary Leapor (1722-1746) and builds upon recent interest in the cultural work of particular literary forms by examining the emergence of the labouring-class writer and the rise of a new poetic mode, the labour poem. Existing scholarship has begun to explore the many ways these texts represent class-based and gendered oppression, hardship, and work, and how these writers were able to combine several literary traditions to speak out against adverse conditions. By emphasising the material history of inanimate objects and nonhuman animals found within labouring-class writing, my project seeks to demonstrate how Leapor and other labouring-class writers used their poetry about the labours they performed in order to speak to something more than labour, such as what it means to be a subject in a world that is circumscribed by things like status, class and gender.

Yes / In recent years, there has been a focus in social psychology on efforts to improve the robustness, rigour, transparency and openness of psychological research. This has led to a plethora of new tools, practices and initiatives that each aim to combat questionable research practices and improve the credibility of social psychological scholarship. However, the majority of these efforts derive from quantitative, deductive, hypothesis-testing methodologies, and there has been a notable lack of in-depth exploration about what the tools, practices and values may mean for research that uses qualitative methodologies. Here, we introduce a Special Section of BJSP: Open Science, Qualitative Methods and Social Psychology: Possibilities and Tensions. The authors critically discuss a range of issues, including authorship, data sharing and broader research practices. Taken together, these papers urge the discipline to carefully consider the ontological, epistemological and methodological underpinnings of efforts to improve psychological science, and advocate for a critical appreciation of how mainstream open science discourse may (or may not) be compatible with the goals of qualitative research.

While the number of individuals in the United States between the ages of 25-44 with a bachelor’s degree has been increasing, so too has the number of individuals who have started college and dropped out. Higher education has numerous societal and individual benefits that are not being actualized because there are simply not enough individuals with bachelor’s degrees in this country. Nontraditional students (NTS) are entering higher education at increasing rates but at higher risk for drop-out; therefore, it is essential to learn more about this population to improve their rates of persistence. This study examines the life experiences of 35 NTS accepted to a bachelor’s degree program in a college of continuing education. This is a bounded case study of a specific group of students that utilized a content analysis of their application essays to understand their sentiments when (re)entering higher education. Themes stemming from the research questions, essay prompt, and theoretical lens were explored but allowed for others to emerge as well. Applicants shared many personal life experiences that contributed to their goals and motivations for achieving a bachelor's degree. Ambitions for earning a bachelor’s degree were spread across the personal and professional realms, including both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Most applicants had previously attended college prior to applying to CCE while two were applying to college for the first time. Twenty-one of the 35 applicants demonstrated a clear progression to self-authorship. This study has numerous implications for practice for admissions and various student support departments on campus. Through the collaboration of these offices, institutions can create a continuity of care surrounding these students and champion them to a degree. / Educational Administration

This dissertation offers an examination of Delany's critical trajectory from structuralism to poststructuralism and postmodernism across a gamut of genres from SF to sword-and-sorcery, pornography, autobiography and literary criticism. Delany's engagement with semiotics, Foucault and deconstruction form the theoretical focus, together with his own theories of how SF functions as a literary genre, and its standing and reception within the greater realm of literature. The impact of Delany as a gay, black SF writer is also examined against the backdrop of his varied output. I have used the term 'dislocation' to describe Delany's tackling of traditional subjects and genres, and opening them up to further possibilities through critical engagement. Lastly, Delany is also examined as a postmodern icon. A frequent participant in his own texts, as well using pseudonyms that have developed into fully-fledged characters, Delany has become a critical signifier in his own work. / English Studies / M. A. (English)