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ItemChanging climate impacts PNG highlands(ABC, 2024-02-03)People in the lush highlands of Papua New Guinea live a traditional lifestyle based on a reliable abundance of food and water. But the changing climate is bringing fierce droughts often associated with El Nino events. Now they are forced to adopt new practices including water storage and food preservation. Jo Chandler reports from the New Guinea highlands near Goroka where traditional people are being introduced to new ways of living.
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ItemCan ChatGPT Edit Fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job – and it ruined their short story(The Conversation Media Group, 2024-02-13)Writers have been using AI tools for years – from Microsoft Word’s spellcheck (which often makes unwanted corrections) to the passive-aggressive Grammarly. But ChatGPT is different. ChatGPT’s natural language processing enables a dialogue, much like a conversation – albeit with a slightly odd acquaintance. And it can generate vast amounts of copy, quickly, in response to queries posed in ordinary, everyday language. This suggests, at least superficially, it can do some of the work a book editor does. We are professional editors, with extensive experience in the Australian book publishing industry, who wanted to know how ChatGPT would perform when compared to a human editor. To find out, we decided to ask it to edit a short story that had already been worked on by human editors – and we compared the results.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRising Stars on AI( 2023-11-22)How do the publishing industry’s rising stars feel about AI? Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day are interested in how AI tools might work, or be made to work, for editorial, wondering if ‘perhaps editors are situated to be necessary gatekeepers for how we will use and detect AI in the publishing workflow into the future’. They spoke to 2022 APA Rising Star winner Emily Hart, a former commissioning editor at Hardie Grant, now freelance, and Bianca Jafari, development editor at Thames & Hudson, who was shortlisted for the Rising Star award in 2021, about how they approach AI.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAI: the next, best editorial tool?( 2023-11-22)Editors Rose Michael, Sharon Mullins, Renée Otmar and Katherine Day ask how AI tools might work, or be made to work, for editorial.
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ItemHachette has withdrawn a policeman’s memoir due to accuracy concerns. Should publishers do more fact checking?(The Conversation, 2023-07-11)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableEntrevista con Marianne Hougen-Moraga y Estephan Wagner – Songs of Repression (Chile, Dinamarca, 2020)( 2020)In this interview with Cristóbal Escobar, programmer at the Santiago International Documentary Festival (FIDOCS), the directors of "Cantos de represión", Estephan Wagner and Marianne Hougen-Moraga, comment on how they tried to transcend Manichean visions in their portrait of the settlers. “We always approach the people in the documentary with an open mind. Obviously we have our clear political positions, but to open up to dialogue we considered it necessary for the protagonists to be able to speak from their own logic”, she affirms. Recently awarded at the Valdivia International Film Festival, among several other festivals around the world, the film can be seen for free, online and throughout Chile, within the framework of the twenty-fourth edition of FIDOCS, to be held between November 25 and December 1.
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ItemElizabeth Pulman: New Zealand Photographer(University of Aberdeen and the University of Callifornia, Riverside, 2022)My paper examines the works of Elizabeth Pulman, New Zealand’s first known woman photographer. A nineteenth-century studio photographer, she is particularly renowned for her photographs of Māori. Born in 1836 in the small town of Lym, County Cheshire in the UK, Elizabeth emigrated to New Zealand with her husband George in 1861. In 1868 George Pulman opened a photographic studio in the rapidly growing settlement of Auckland. It was just after the fiercely fought Land Wars. and cartes de viste albumen photographs of the most famous Māori warriors were in strong demand among the public. Working alongside George, Elizabeth learnt the craft of photography while also raising nine children. Then when George died suddenly in 1871, she assumed management of the studio and kept it running until her death in 1901. Much of Pulman’s success can be attributed to her continuing to specialise in photographs of Māori. When George opened his studio it was not unusual for photographers to pay Māori to sit for their cameras, however when Elizabeth was managing the studio, many Māori were actively seeking out photographers for their ‘likenesses’ and Elizabeth’s was among the more popular studios answering to this demand. Where George’s photographs showed Māori much as they appeared before the arrival of Europeans – ie highly tattooed and draped in traditional feather cloaks, Elizabeth’s photographs showed them wearing a mix of Māori and western style clothing as a sign of their adaption to the Pakeha (European) world. At a time when most photographers were treating Māori as stereotypes, Elizabeth further distinguished herself by photographing Māori in a manner that captured their dignity and their individual personalities. Pulman’s photographs have special significance for present day Māori because of what they reveal of their ancestors, traditional Māori culture and the Māori way of life at an earlier moment in time.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAfter Years of Austerity, Revive Writes the Next Chapter in Australian Literary Culture(Melbourne, 2023-01-30)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableI guess she won't be writing the memoir( 2022-08-08)