Tutorial Tasks Week 3

Week 3; Post 2

What was Stephen Stockwell's first article in an academic journal? What year?  

The Brisbane Model: Considering A Unique Experiment, 1995

Provide a full citation.

Stockwell, S 1995, 'The Brisbane Model: Considering A Unique Experiment', 

Urban Policy and Research, Vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 89-96, viewed 9th August 2011, via Taylor and Francis online.

What database did you use?

Taylor and Francis Online

In which comic did Governor Slugwell appear?

Flaming Carrot Comics

Which Issues? 

7, 10, 11

Give their full citation for the earliest. 

Burden, B 1985, "When the Shoes Aren't Worth the Shine", Flaming Carrot Comics, Vol. 7, pp. 3-31, viewed 9th August 2011, via Underground and Independent Comics.

Where did you find this information? What database did you use?

I found this information in the 'Underground and Independent Comics' database, under the characters section, listed by name in alphabetical order.

What is the latest medical thinking on the dangers of mobile phones? 

"A close examination of the protocols and results from all case-control and cohort studies, pooled- and meta-analyses on head tumour risk for mobile phone users was carried out, and for each study the elements necessary for evaluating its reliability were identified....Results: Blind protocols, free from errors, bias, and financial conditioning factors, give positive results that reveal a cause-effect relationship between long-term mobile phone use or latency and statistically significant increase of ipsilateral head tumour risk, with biological plausibility." (Levis, A et al., 2011)

Provide a full citation.

Levis, A., Minicuci, N., Ricci, P., Gennaro, V., & Garbisa, S. (2011). Mobile phones and head tumours. The discrepancies in cause-effect relationships in the epidemiological studies - how do they arise?. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, 1059. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.

In Bladerunner, what is Leon's reaction when Holden asks him about his mother? Quote the 1982 draft script and provide a full reference.

"HOLDEN

Describe in single words. Only the good things that come into your mind. About your mother.

LEON

My...

Leon looks shocked, surprised. But the needles in the computer barely move. Holden goes for the inside of his coat. But big Leon is faster. His laser burns a hole the size of a nickel through Holden's stomach. Unlike a bullet, a laser causes no impact. It goes through Holden's shoulder and comes out of his back, clean as a whistle. Like a rag doll he falls back into the seat. Big slow Leon is already walking away, but he stops, turns, and with a little smile of satisfaction fires through the back of the seat.
As Leon walks out of the room the Voight-Kampff begins to blink, faint but steady."

Blade Runner (1982): Draft script. Screenplay by: Fancher, Hampton, 1938-; Peoples, David Webb, 1940-; Kibbee, Roland, 1914-1984.Electronic Edition by Alexander Street Press, L.L. C., 2009.Copyright © 1982.

What does Paul Soukup say Walter Ong saw as the main paradox in 20th century communication? 

"Its science and ways of knowing rest on “the use of diagrams and . . . the maneuvering of objects in space,” but it has developed communication forms that “specialize not in sight but in sound”"

Cite your source.

Soukup, A (2005). Looking Is Not Enough: Reflections on Walter J. Ong and Media Ecology, Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association, Vol. 6, p. 6, viewed 9th August 2011