Crack Users: Life Stories and Subjectivity in Audiovisual Narratives

Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play

Narratives and Neurons: Stories of Damaged Brains

Stories register in human memory in special ways, and stories about neurological cases can entertain and move a reader while simultaneously being an important part of any neuroscience curriculum. Here we describe a course taught in the context of the liberal arts curriculum of Baldwin-Wallace College. Students from a variety of disciplines learned basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neuroch...

Crack across Canada: Comparing crack users and crack non-users in a Canadian multi-city cohort of illicit opioid users.

AIMS To examine possible differences between crack users and crack non-users across Canada. DESIGN Cohort study of illicit opioid and other drug users in five cities across Canada. SETTING Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Regular illicit opioid and other street drug users not in treatment at time of assessment. MEASUREMENTS Participants (n = 6...

New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age

Introduction In recent years developments in digital technology have played a signii-cant role in the transformation of narrative theory and practice. Stories that exploit the capacity of digital media (that is, those that necessitate the computer for their production and display) have provided vital new territory against which the tools of narrative analysis could be tested and reened. As such...

Subjectivity grouping: learning from users' rating behavior

Considering opinions of other users (called advisors) has become increasingly important for each user in open and dynamic online environments. However, users might be subjectively different or strategically dishonest. Previous approaches on this problem generally suffer from the issue of limited (especially shared) historic experience when tracking each individual advisor’s behavior. In this pa...