User talk:Nicola.georgiou/sandbox/Approaches to Knowledge/Seminar group 16/ Truth

=Introduction=

To the person who began our Introduction, thank you for contributing a great preface to our Truth sandbox! I think it was a really interesting choice to introduce the topic through the use of poetry. It was particularly thought provoking for me as I thought back to how truth within the humanities is typically seen as relative and constructivist in thinking, something that I think was highlighted. I think it also gave our contributors a wide tent to answer the ambiguous and daunting question of what is, or more so how we come to, truth? I added the theories of knowledge touched upon in our lectures on truth to help put in perspective where some disciplines may fall or overlap in their approaches to finding truth. --Caprithai (discuss • contribs) 01:45, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

I agree with the comment above. Really thank the writer who came up with the creative idea of using the poem “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson to start our “Truth” sandbox page. I really like this poem. It is like pun intended and ingeniously reveals the ambiguous nature of the concept “truth” itself. Lily0212 (discuss • contribs) 18:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the nice comments and the great additions. I'm glad you liked it.

=Truth in Music=

This contribution is great and interesting. I am curious how you managed to put the same reference twice as you did with reference [24]. I have tried to do it on wikimedia, but i cannot seem to make it work. I would love to get your help with that. OwlUwl (discuss • contribs) 11:19, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

I am also curious about that! How can we put the same reference twice when adding the references? It would be great if you can help with that. Thank you in advance! Lily0212 (discuss • contribs) 18:29, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response! Basically, you give your reference a "name" the first time you cite it, and then when you refer back to it, you just call it by its "name." Here is the article I used to help me on this. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to type the templates so that they show up in the 'Read' view, but you can find the templates in the article below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources (go to 4.1.5, repeated citations)

Purpledinosaur17 (discuss • contribs) 10:05, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I see! Thank you for providing this link. I believe it would be more of use when we start working on the Wikibooks Chapter. Lily0212 (discuss • contribs)

Thank you so much! I now managed to do this in my Power-sandbox and it works great! OwlUwl (discuss • contribs) 14:18, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

=Truth in Musicology=

To the author who wrote this section, I found the discipline and the topic you chose about Musicology very interesting. It lets me learn about the deep rational nature that music possesses despite that it is usually perceived by people as emotional works. It is really amazing that the perception of truth in Musicology varies in different times and cultures. Lily0212 (discuss • contribs) 18:21, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

I really enjoyed reading about the relationship between Mathematics and Music, as well as the effect of music on brain activity -- I think you displayed a very unique way of presenting interdisciplinarity. Although one comment I'd note is perhaps use a more formal syntax, for example changing "gonna" to "will". Beans2002 (discuss • contribs) 18:15, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

I have really enjoyed your contribution on truth within the discipline of musicology. We've all heard or read about the science and mathematics embedded in music to certain extents. However, you explored that relationship in a very unique way. Using it as an explanation of what accounts for the different experiences people have when listening to the music of different cultures was both really interesting and informative.

=Truth in Art and Literature=

I did enjoy your chosen topic and your approach, however, I feel like the two questions you posed in the beginning, while relevant, structure the contribution more as an essay, as your opinion, rather than you writing objectively about a topic, which would be the structure of a usual Wikipedia page. Maybe next time try to structure it more objectively? Other than that, great contribution! (I liked the way you structured your paragraphs) :)

JupiterJoyner (discuss • contribs)

Thanks a lot, happy to hear you liked it. I think you're right that they might make it sound more like an essay, but I only started with the questions to introduce the topic and not with any intentions to put forward any opinions. They're not my questions, but questions that are really central to the exploration of the topic. I feel that as long as there are no answers to them, they don't make the contribution subjective. Do you still think I should maybe erase the questions?

Perhaps not; they help the contribution in credibility! :) Maybe rephrase. JupiterJoyner (discuss • contribs)

=Truth in Film and TV studies=

You've touched on really important points that are often overlooked by everyone who watches movies and TV series. With the increasing availability of works of film and TV, the saying "You are what you eat" might as well become "You are what you watch." Each generation is spending more time watching movies, series, or videos than the one before them. The points you've mentioned also made me think of this week's issue of power. Who makes the movies, who writes the screenplay, who directs them, who rates them, who plays in them, who watches what kinds of movies, which movies win prizes, which actors, actresses, directors, screenwriters win awards? Do the lists of 100 greatest movies of all time or of a certain year really contain the greatest movies, or only the greatest movies when one looks through certain lenses? Although awareness on inclusion in the film industry is constantly increasing and many positive changes are being made, there are still a lot of questions around the issue of power. I've included a link to a research review I found called "Barriers to Diversity in Film," if you ever want to have a look.

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/uk-film-council-barriers-to-diversity-in-film-2007-08-20.pdf