Introduction To The Special Issue: The Hidden Queer: Queer Approaches To Fairy-Tale Disney Films, Francesca Arnavas, Sara Upstone

Marvels & Tales

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Review Of Supernatural: A History Of Television’S Unearthly Road Trip By Erin Giannini, Duane Ebesu

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

No abstract (book review)

Fostering Responsible Ai Use In Communication: An Integrated Approach To Digital Literacy Education, Omer Keynan, Liron Mishkin Drezner, Yuval Gozansky

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The paper presents an innovative approach to teaching digital literacy to eighty-two B.A. communication students, focusing on artificial intelligence (AI). Over a semester, students developed proficiency in using AI tools for content creation while exploring their ethical implications. The course integrated practical skills with ethical considerations, providing hands-on experience with AI platforms and facilitating critical discussions on issues such as AI biases. For their final projects, students created social media campaigns using AI tools, accompanied by introspective reports on their creative process and ethical reflections. We aimed to equip future communication professionals with skills to navigate AI-driven content creation responsibly. …

Mapping Media Literacy Assessment: A Systematic Review To Connect The Dots, Lara Azar, Casey Frechette, Hafsa Zia, Joy Amulya

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The goal of this study was to address persistent challenges in assessing media literacy by reviewing assessments developed between 2011 and 2020. We combined landscape analysis, research synthesis, and grounded theory to select assessments, identify key attributes, iteratively code, analyze, and create an integrated synthesis of approaches to media literacy assessments. The analysis classified media literacy constructs by learning dimension (knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors) and participation mode (consumption, engagement, creation). The results showed that while most assessments focused on consumption-oriented constructs, engagement- and creation-oriented constructs were also included. Assessments primarily served three research purposes: evaluating media literacy levels in populations, …

How To Incorporate Media Literacy Into General Education Curricula, Dennis O. Frohlich, David Magolis

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Media literacy scholars have long championed the inclusion of media literacy courses in all levels of education, from K-12 to collegiate levels. Universities’ general education curricula are one possible site for inclusion of a media literacy course. However, with each discipline vying for a spot in a university’s general education system, a course in media literacy can easily be overlooked or excluded. In this paper, we detail our efforts to successfully incorporate several media literacy courses into our university’s general education curriculum. This is a process we went through twice under two different general education systems. This paper will detail …

Too Close For Comfort: Indigenous ‘Genre’ Film As Impactful In Pedagogies Of Reconciliation, Brendan M. Burrows

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article examines the pedagogical potential of Indigenous-created genre film—specifically, Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Barnaby, 2013)—in promoting critical engagement with the legacies of colonial violence in Canada. Drawing on Susan Dion’s (2009) concept of the perfect stranger and film activist Ariel Smith’s analysis of Indigenous horror cinema, the study examines how three educators responded to the film and reflected on its curricular applications. Using constructivist grounded theory and cultural studies frameworks, the research reveals both the transformative promise and institutional constraints of integrating emotionally intense media into classroom settings. Findings suggest that while the film evokes affective responses …

Integrating Ai Into Media Analysis Projects: Students’ Insights On Using Chatgpt, Serpil Yalcinalp, Hacer Turkoglu

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This research aims to explore students’ perspectives on their use of ChatGPT during a media analysis project in a media literacy (ML) course. Additionally, it investigates what the assigned media literacy project has contributed to them. Qualitative analysis results from 48 students indicated that they believed their media analysis positively contributed to their media awareness of messages, media genres, social justice, technical aspects, and analytical skills, such as inquiry and creativity. Many students appreciate ChatGPT, noting that it encourages learning across disciplines through deep searches and dialogues with the tool. They especially appreciate its contribution when they compare the results …

Demographic Context Of Media And Information Literacy (Mil) Skills Among Senior High School Students In Ghana, Patience Emefa Dzandza Ocloo, Aurelia Ayisi, Abena Animwaa Yeboah-Banin, Annie Oye

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This paper explores the media and information literacy (MIL) competencies of young Ghanaians in senior high schools. It is premised on the rising spate of misinformation, online security breaches, and the avalanche of content young people must navigate. Together, these factors demand young persons to be new media savvy in order to use the affordances of the current media ecology to their benefit. To advocate for comprehensive MIL education in senior high schools in Ghana, the study adopts a comparative analysis logic to examine demographic differences that attend young people’s media and information literacy. A nationwide survey of 1200 senior …

Fact-Checking In The University: The Experience Of The ‘Verificatón Electoral’ As A Model Of Teaching Innovation, Irene Larraz, Samuel Toledano, Jordi Rodríguez-Virgili, Félix Arias Robles, Ángeles Durán, Marta Pérez-Escolar, Rocío Zamora Medina, Rubén Ramos Antón, Óscar Espíritusanto Nicolás, Miguel Ángel Esteban Navarro, Marcos Bermejo Gil

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This article analyzes the experience of Verificatón, a teaching innovation project based on a live fact-checking hackathon aimed at identifying and combating disinformation in the electoral context. The initiative, developed by the fact-checking media outlet Newtral in collaboration with nine Spanish universities, brought together a hundred journalism students. The results show that this experience facilitates the adoption of the fact-checking methodology in the students' professional practice and contributes to overcoming the competency gap in university journalism education. The case study validates this training proposal, which, framed within an electoral scenario, reinforces students’ learning of the role of critical thinking in …

Content Literacy In The Digital Age: Integrating The Development Of Digital Language Skills Into Civic Education, Cedric Lawida, Ina-Maria Maahs

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The digital transformation creates new demands on reading and writing. This entails the expansion of the goals of content literacy to explicitly include the development of digital reading and writing skills. The study explores how a social media project at a school in Germany supports students in developing digital language competencies. In the civics education project politik.informiert (informed politics), students create and share political content via an Instagram channel. The qualitative case study, based on observations and interviews, finds that the project offers rich opportunities for digital reading and writing, especially in researching information, evaluating sources, and producing audience oriented …

The Role Of Media Literacy In Shaping Campus Student Leaders’ Perceptions Of Media Activism, Online Risks, And Social Support, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Minnie S. Mcmillian, Shumaila J. Bhatti, Shannon Burth, Julius Matthew Riles, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, Melody Wilson

Journal of Media Literacy Education

in social movements. Within contemporary contexts, media is an important site through which campus student leaders raise awareness, share relevant information, distribute online petitions, and shape public discourses on various social issues. Media literacy is an essential skill for student leaders to be effective in their activist initiatives and be able to cope with the inevitable pushback through trolling and cyberbullying that such activism would likely bring up. This survey (N = 855) with college student leaders across three universities explores how they rate themselves on media literacy skills, how well they understand the risks involved with media activism, and …

Empowerment Or Oppression? College Students’ Interpretations Of Sex And Relationships In The Popular Media, Nicola Mcclung, Riana Pella

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Scholars have long emphasized the harmful effects of overtly sexist and oppressive media images on young people’s understandings of sex and relationships. Yet, this emphasis on explicit harm leaves a gap in understanding how college students interpret subtle, hidden, and ambiguous media messages. To address this gap, we asked 196 California college students at a large public university to critique a range of mainstream media content— from overtly oppressive, to affirming of nondominant gender identities, to containing mixed messages about empowerment and oppression. Responses were coded using our media literacy scoring guide for assessing students’ ability to critically analyze media …

Automated Media: Challenges And Opportunities For Media Literacy Education, Arnaud Claes, Jerry Jacques, Antonin Descampe, Victor Wiard

Journal of Media Literacy Education

This paper offers a theoretical reflection on the evolving landscape of automated media, focusing on how automation and so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) are reshaping traditional media-related practices and the competences required for media literacy. It examines how automated media technologies, such as recommendation algorithms and generative AI, might reshape the critical skills necessary to navigate a complex digital ecosystem. By framing AI-driven media practices through a social-action perspective and treating media as human activities, we argue that media literacy models should encompass competences related to the operation of computational automata, particularly through the management of inbound and outbound information flows. …

Eschatological Echoes: Reading The Bible And The Harry Potter Series, Athira Mohan Dr

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Death has been a major topic in children’s and adolescent literature , which has invited scholarly discourse over different ages. While death was very commonly featured in the puritanical texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was also deemed to be a subject too sensitive for the genre of children’s literature in the early twentieth century(Aries 1975), due to a combination of factors such as lowered child mortality rate and heightened concern for childhood as a special social category. However, contemporary children’s and adolescent literature focuses on death as an important part of human life, and invites discussions on …

Factors Associated With Health Literacy And Chronic Disease Services Performance Among Village Health Volunteers In Chiang Rai, Thailand: A Cross-Sectional Study, Sunaree Tanapek, Saroj Nakju

Journal of Health Research

Background: The growing burden of NCDs in Thailand highlights the need for effective community management by Village Health Volunteers (VHVs). This study investigated factors associated with health literacy and chronic disease service performance among VHVs in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 325 VHVs via two-stage cluster sampling between June and July 2023. Data were collected using a validated five-part questionnaire (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.93–0.98). Data analysis included descriptive statistics, content analysis, Chi-square tests, and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

Results:VHVs demonstrated good health literacy (41.8%) and a high level of chronic disease service performance …

Tdc Disclosure #1 — Mobile Processing Unit (Mpu‑1.0) Caldwell Mobile Processing Unit (Mpu‑1.0) A Unified Open‑Hardware Mobile Debris‑To‑Resource Engine For Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Earthquakes, And Climate‑Driven Disasters, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell Mobile Processing Unit (MPU‑1.0) is a skid‑mounted or truck‑mounted open‑hardware system designed to process disaster debris on‑site, eliminating the need for hauling debris to landfills. Using vortex‑acoustic, cavitation‑plasma, molten‑salt, and gyroid‑structural technologies, MPU‑1.0 converts mixed debris into:

• Premium gasoline (91–98 RON)

• Bio‑oil and bio‑char

• Structural gyroid blocks

• Composite lumber

• Fertilizer pellets

• Clean water

• Soil amendments

MPU‑1.0 is compatible with garbage trucks (PTO), military 6×6 trucks, water tenders, semi‑trailers, and skid platforms.

Caldwell National Disaster‑Recovery & Materials‑Reclamation Engine (Cn‑Drmr‑1.0) Unified Open‑Hardware Architecture For On‑Site Debris Processing, Fuel Production, Water Purification, And Structural Material Manufacturing In Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Earthquakes, And Climate‑Driven Disasters No Patents. No Secrets. Free For Humanity. Builder‑Ready., Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

The Caldwell National Disaster‑Recovery & Materials‑Reclamation Engine (CN‑DRMR‑1.0) is a unified, open‑hardware, mobile + fixed industrial architecture designed to transform disaster debris into usable resources on‑site, eliminating the outdated “haul and dump” model currently used worldwide.

Using the inventor’s existing open‑hardware portfolio — including SPVTS‑1.1, GCI‑v3.1.2, VMR Titan‑2.0, Sentinel‑AV‑1, VABR‑2.0, CVNR‑F1.5, Phoenix‑Water Engine, Sanitized Block‑2.0, Mechanic’s Battery, and GCI Vortex Spine — this system converts mixed disaster debris into:

• Premium gasoline (91–98 RON)

• Bio‑oil and bio‑char

• Structural gyroid blocks

• Composite lumber

• Fertilizer pellets

• Clean water

• Soil amendments

• Metal‑glass composites

The system is designed for rapid deployment, off‑grid operation, military compatibility, …

Post-Quantum Ready, Offline-Verifiable Digital Identity Credential: Hybrid Ecdsa P-256 And Ml-Dsa-65 Signing With Embedded Offline Verification Engine, Crypto-Agile Suite Registry, And Deterministic Build In A Self-Contained Single-File Document, Michael Benaudis

Defensive Publications Series

A self-contained, single-file digital identity credential that can be generated, stored, and verified entirely offline — integrating hybrid classical and post-quantum signing (ECDSA P-256 combined with ML-DSA-65, FIPS 204), AES-256-GCM payload encryption under Argon2id-derived keys, SHA-256 self-integrity verification, an embedded offline verification engine, a crypto-agile suite registry with backward-compatible hybrid receipts, and a deterministic modular build — all in a single HTML file requiring no server, no account, no network, and no installed software at any stage. Release artefacts (generator and documentation) are independently timestamped on public blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum) via a blockchain timestamping service — an issuer-performed, per-release, online …

A Novel Process For The Preparation Of 4-[(2r,3s,4s,5r)-3-(3,4-Difluoro-2- Methoxyphenyl)-4,5-Dimethyl-5-(Trifluoromethyl)Oxolane-2-Amido]Pyridine -2- Carboxamide, Msn Laboratories Private Limited, R&D Center, Hyderabad, India, Srinivasan Thirumalai Rajan, Sagyam Rajeshwar Reddy, Keshavareddy Navin Kumar Reddy, Krishnaiah Kootikanti, Baddipally Ramesh Reddy.

Defensive Publications Series

The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of 4- [(2R,3S,4S,5R)-3-(3,4-difluoro-2-methoxyphenyl)-4,5-dimethyl-5-(trifluoromethyl)oxolane- 2-amido]pyridine -2-carboxamide represented by the following structural Formula-1, which is referred to as Suzetrigine.

Formula-1

Caf‑100 V2.0 “Phoenix‑Eco” Open‑Hardware Water‑Derived Synthetic Fuel Engine & Modular Refinery Drop‑In Replacement For Gasoline & Diesel — No Patents, No Secrets, Free For Humanity, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

CAF‑100 v2.0 “Phoenix‑Eco” is a fully open‑hardware synthetic fuel system that converts water + atmospheric CO₂ + renewable electricity into drop‑in liquid hydrocarbon fuels compatible with all existing gasoline and diesel infrastructure.

This version integrates:

• Phoenix‑Cracker v2.0 hydrodynamic cavitation reactor

• VMR Titan v2.5‑T plasma‑acoustic microbubble refiner

• Solar‑Thermal Direct Air Capture (DAC) using Water System #30

• Arachne Gen‑3 v3.4.1 “FORTRESS” thermal recycling loop

• Single‑Atom Iron (Fe‑N‑C) or Fe‑Co catalysts

• CVNR‑F1.5 molten‑salt fuel conditioning

• Hydrocarbon Normalization Platform v1.5

This architecture achieves:

• Fuel cost target: ~$1.20 per liter

• Yield: ~3× industry standard

• CO₂ capture cost: –$47/ton

• Reaction speed: minutes

• Thermal efficiency: >60%

• Octane: …

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Point-Of-Generation Pfas Capture And Destruction For Manufacturing Emissions: An Open Technical Disclosure For Industry, Ernest N. Sumrall

Defensive Publications Series

This defensive publication discloses an integrated system for capturing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at their point of generation in manufacturing processes and destroying them on site. Process emissions containing PFCAs, PFSAs, perfluoroalkane sulfonamides, and functionalized perfluoropolyethers are captured under negative pressure and transferred into a circulating water loop by fine-bubble scrubbing, exploiting the surfactant character of PFAS; foam fractionation concentrates the compounds into a minimal liquid volume. The concentrate is pre-treated in a closed-loop hydrodynamic cavitation stage — high-to-low pressure nozzle transitions into a low-pressure collision chamber, with a pump drawing suction from the low-pressure chamber and discharging into …

Ers‑Ω20 V5.2 — Gyroid‑Stabilized Multi‑Modal Emergency‑Response Coordination, Hazard‑Mapping & Field‑Stability Engine, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

ERS‑Ω20 v5.2 is a mobile emergency‑response coordination engine designed for:

• Wildfire zones

• Collapse zones

• Disaster sites

• Medical‑triage fields

• Off‑grid and unstable environmental conditions

It integrates:

• Gyroid structural damping (Sanitized Block‑2.0)

• Atmospheric hazard‑mapping (ARPN‑2.0 + ARG‑CM‑2.0)

• Environmental‑resilience modeling (CIFRS‑N + CWRE‑1.0)

• Resonance stabilization (CMRS‑1 + APR AI)

• Smart‑skin telemetry (Arachne‑Chip‑2.0)

• Thermal buffering (Forgecell Prime‑2.0)

• Off‑grid power (Mechanic’s Battery‑2.0)

• Optional robotics integration (RBT‑Ω16)

ERS‑Ω20 v5.2 is fully grounded in posted Caldwell TDC inventions and is designed to be builder‑ready, test‑ready, and deploy‑ready for real‑world emergency‑response scenarios.

CORE SUBSYSTEMS (All Posted on TDC)

• Sanitized Block‑2.0 — Gyroid Structural Panel System

• UGCRM‑1.0 — Universal …

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Paired Price-Vs-Departure-Duration Charts As A Direct Selection Surface For Round-Trip Flight Itineraries, Laurent Tran

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a user-interface technique for selecting the two legs of a round-trip (or, more generally, a multi-leg) air itinerary directly from data-visualization charts rather than from a ranked textual list. Two coordinated charts — one for the outbound leg and one for the return leg — each plot every candidate flight offer at a position determined by its price along one axis and its departure time along the other axis, and each chart serves as the primary selection control: a traveler chooses a leg by activating the graphical mark that represents a flight. The two charts are coupled, …

Reinforcement Learning-Based Anti-False Triggering Onlooker Detection System And Method, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

A reinforcement learning-based anti-false triggering onlooker detection system and method for intelligent laptops are disclosed to mitigate alert fatigue and accidental lockouts caused by dynamic environments. The system continuously captures multi-modal environmental status information via a sensor module. When the status satisfies a low-power threshold, a primary trigger processor awakens a backend reinforcement learning decision engine, which outputs a graded defense action based on a dynamic confidence threshold. Within a predefined observation window following the action, the system captures implicit user feedback to calculate a reward signal, updating policy network parameters in real time. The invention significantly improves triggering accuracy, …

Vision-Centric Multimodal System For False-Positive Mitigation Via Lightweight Wireless-Acoustic Verification, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure details a vision-centric multimodal system for mitigating false-positive face detections on portable computing devices. The system distinguishes physical human users from 2D media displays—including high-resolution photographs and digital screens—by cross-referencing a primary computer vision module with lightweight acoustic source localization and Wi-Fi channel state analysis. By evaluating the spatiotemporal synchronization among visual facial features, auditory signals, and wireless ambient micro-movements, the system identifies and suppresses non-physical facial entities in real-time. Crucially, this multi-modal pipeline operates locally on low-power edge hardware without invoking the primary application processor or relying on neural network acceleration, thereby maximizing energy efficiency and ensuring …

Recessed Platen Parking Zone For Media Edge Holders In Large‑Format Printing Devices, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This device relates to a platen configuration for large‑format printers that include removable media edge holders. The device introduces a dedicated parking zone in which a portion of the platen surface is recessed by several millimeters. This defined zone allows edge holders to be positioned below the operational envelope of the carriage when not in use. As a result, mechanical interference and collision risks are significantly reduced.

1 Step Isolation Of Bad Pens Via Probability Algo, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

1 step isolation of bad pens via probability algo is a scalable solution to isolate bad pen for printers that share a common Vpp power to 2 or more pens via a simple firmware(FW) upgrade or FW upgrade with additional 2 simple passive component(s).

Low cost printers uses common Vpp(32V power to the pen) and Vdd(5-5.5V) for both pens, with no additional switch to isolate power to K(Black) and CMY(Cyan Magenta Yellow) pen

Thus when Vpp(32V) or Vdd short happens, ink short test is unable to isolate which pen is shorted, the printer needs to reject both pens.

This paper …

Interaction-Aware Mixed-Precision Quantization Profiling For Neural Networks, Sergiu Calmic, Joseph Demian

Defensive Publications Series

Large artificial intelligence (AI) models consume substantial memory. Although reducing the numerical precision of model weights through quantization can help, choosing the appropriate precision for each layer is an exponentially complex problem complicated by unpredictable interactions between layers. Proposed herein is a profiling framework that explicitly measures cross-layer interactions and uses a multi-stage search pipeline to reduce trillions of candidate configurations to a few hundred targeted evaluations. Built-in safety margins and repair mechanisms help ensure that the final quantization plan meets a user-specified quality threshold. Experiments across multiple architectures demonstrated memory savings of 29-75% while maintaining strict quality limits and …

Wh‑E5 — Lunar Edition (Regolith Water Conditioning) Water Extraction & Purification Engine For Lunar Regolith Ice, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

WH‑E5 Lunar Edition is a non‑atmospheric adaptation of WH‑E5 designed for the Moon, where water exists not in air but in regolith ice. This edition replaces atmospheric harvesting with:

• Regolith ice heating / microwave extraction

• Condensate capture

• Phoenix‑Water Engine‑2.0 purification

• VMR Titan‑2.0 PFAS/microplastic destruction

• Forgecell + CRFG‑1R thermal stabilization

• Arachne‑Chip telemetry + CIFRS‑N dust logic

WH‑E5 Lunar Edition is a post‑extraction water conditioning engine, not an atmospheric harvester.

Wh‑E5 — Interplanetary Survival Kit Edition Compact, Rugged, Multi‑Environment Water Engine For Space Missions, Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

WH‑E5 Interplanetary Survival Kit Edition is a portable, ruggedized, multi‑environment water engine designed for:

• Mars

• Lunar habitats

• Deep‑space stations

• Asteroid bases

• Emergency landers

• Off‑grid survival modules

It combines:

• Mg‑Gallate + MOF‑303@LiCl sorption

• Ultrasonic desorption

• Phoenix‑Water purification

• VMR Titan PFAS destruction

• Forgecell thermal buffering

• Mechanic’s Battery off‑grid power

• URES‑2.0 micro‑power harvesting

• Arachne‑Chip telemetry

All in a portable case.