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Browsing Faculty of Information and Communication Studies by Subject "Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects::Aesthetics"
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    Courtship in Pixels: Examining Romantic Expressions in Digital Photography Through a Mixed-Method Approach
    ( 2024) Maningo, Joshua
    This exploratory research sought to address gaps in understanding the role of digital photography in modern courtship. The study was motivated by the evolving landscape of romantic expression in the digital era and aimed to investigate how digital photography influences romantic interactions. This research employed a mixed-method approach which encompassed quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews. The analysis of observed romantic photographs revealed the prevalent use of techniques such as selfies, candid shots, and symbolic elements to convey romantic emotions. Findings indicated that 75.4% of participants used digital photography for romantic expression during the courtship process, leveraging platforms like Facebook and Instagram for "flexing" relationships and preserving memories. It was reported that emotional engagement with these photos was significant, evoking feelings of “kilig” and nostalgia among viewers. Digital photography's role in the courtship process was emphasized as an enhancement to modern courtship dynamics, blending traditional sentiment with contemporary visual storytelling on social media.
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    Expressing technological metaphors in dance using structural illusion from embodied motion
    (ACM, 2013-06) Maranan, Diego S. ; Schiphorst, Thecla ; Hwang, Albert ; Hwang, Albert
    We illustrate how technology has influenced creative, embodied practices in urban dance styles by analyzing how technological metaphors underlie conceptual representations of the body, space, and movement in three related styles of urban dance: liquid, digitz, and finger tutting. The creative and technical embodied practices of urban dancers are not well understood in either the ethnographic or creative movement scholarly literature. Following an exploratory netnography of movement practitioners, we claim that unlike most dancers of traditional genres or other urban dance styles, dancers of these three styles frequently employ representations of the body and of space that are geometrical, mathematical, mechanical, or digital. To explain how viewers perceive and understand these metaphors, we extend the perceptual theory of structure from motion in order to apply dance performance reception theory to a model we call 'Structural Illusion from Embodied Motion' (SIEM). Our analysis of performance techniques of these styles suggests that during performance, dancers leverage SIEM to represent two types of 'illusions' to viewers: a) the dancer's body has a reconfigurable structure; and b) the dancer is immersed in a virtual environment that contains invisible, mutable objects and structures that are revealed only through the dancer's movement. The three dance styles exemplify a trend in popular dance in which body, space, and time are understood in the language of technology.