Rasa Kazlauskaite
Biographic Data
| ID | 102650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rasa Kazlauskaite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rasa |
| FAMILY NAME | Kazlauskaite |
| SIGNATURE | KAZLAUSKAITE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8766-8166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Framework for Qualitative Analysis of Non-fiction Virtual Reality Storyworlds
This article introduces a methodological framework for the qualitative analysis of immersive non-fiction virtual reality (VR) storyworlds, focusing on the unique features of VR as a medium for storyliving . In VR, users are not merely watching a story unfold on a screen-they are inside the experience, actively engaging with and storyliving the immersive narrative as it unfolds around them. VR is a spatial, embodied, interactive, multisensory, per…
Pictures in our heads: Politics of space, time, and memory in Polish virtual reality storyworlds
This article examines the entangled politics of space, time and memory in the virtual realm of extended reality (XR). The illiberal right-wing Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) has been investing in the creation and dissemination of virtual reality (VR) content centred on historical themes since 2018. By mapping out the experiential geography of populism in virtual places, the article aims to identify the main features of this new im…
Identifying the necessary capacities for the adaptation of a diabetes phenotyping algorithm in countries of differing economic development status
BACKGROUND: In 2019, the World Health Organization recognised diabetes as a clinically and pathophysiologically heterogeneous set of related diseases. Little is currently known about the diabetes phenotypes in the population of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet identifying their different risks and aetiology has great potential to guide the development of more effective, tailored prevention and treatment. OBJECTIVES: This study review…
Virtual reality as a technology of memory: Immersive presence in Polish politics of memory
Experiences that take place in virtual reality (VR) become part of users’ autobiographical memory. As memories can impact users’ self-perception, personal beliefs, and social interactions, storyliving in VR narratives can be used to manipulate memory and mould users’ self according to the preferences of the VR narrative creators. Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has, in recent years, generously invested in the production of VR f…
Mediating shame and pride: Countermedia coverage of Independence Day in Poland and the US
This article adopts a comparative qualitative approach to studying the rhetoric of injured pride in the coverage of Independence Day celebrations by the right-wing countermedia in Poland (wPolityce.pl) and the US (Breitbart News) from 2012 to 2018. In both countries, the number of countermedia articles on Independence Day proliferated in the aftermath of the election of the Law and Justice party (2015) and Donald Trump (2016). Based on the analys…
Knowing Is Seeing: Distance and proximity in affective virtual reality history
In this article, I examine perspective taking in virtual reality (VR) representations of the past, which could be regarded as one of the latest developments in the genre of reenactment and affective history. By building on Vanessa Agnew’s analysis of reenactment, I argue that some VR experiences, even though they reduce the distance between the knower and the known and adopt a strong emphasis on emotional engagement, can contribute to historical …
Embodyingressentimentfulvictimhood: Virtual reality re-enactment of the Warsaw uprising in the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk
This article examines how the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland, employs an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience ‘Postcard from the Uprising’ (Kartka z Powstania) in order to build an affective memory regime that prescribes an emotional repertoire for museum audiences. By engaging in a narrative inquiry of the VR experience, I demonstrate how it evokes the emotional dynamic of ressentiment, which has been identified as the aff…
Mediated emotions: Shame and pride in Polish right-wing media coverage of the 2019 European Parliament elections
This paper proposes that the emotion of shame is key to understanding the appeal of Poland’s ruling populist right-wing party, Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or PiS). PiS employs shame in its strategy of emotion regulation in mediated party communication in pro-government media outlets. We suggest that there are two pillars of shame that underpin support for PiS: (1) the collective shame that originates from the perceived cultural infer…
Perspective and the Past: Modeling Historical Representation from Camera Obscura to Virtual Reality
This article examines the concept of "perspective" as an embodied metaphor with ontological and epistemological implications for the modeling of historical understanding of contested pasts. The metaphors employed in modeling past reality shape how we make sense of the controversial past. In particular, I explore how perspectival metaphorical models conjure the notions of presence/proximity/engagement and absence/distance/detachment. To open this …
Empathy and history: Historical understanding in re-enactment, hermeneutics and education
Tyson Retz’s Empathy and History is an ambitious and well-researched book, which sheds light on the complex origins and development of empathy in the discipline of history, history education and th
Race/ethnic comparisons of waist‐to‐height ratio for cardiometabolic screening: The study of women's health across the nation
OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of waist-to-height ratio as a screening tool for cardiometabolic conditions - hypertension, prediabetes/diabetes, dyslipidemia, and subclinical inflammation - in 5 race/ethnic groups of mid-life women. METHODS: Waist-to-height ratio and 4 cardiometabolic conditions were assessed in 3033 premenopausal midlife women (249 Hispanic, 226 Chinese, 262 Japanese, 1435 European-American, and 861 African American). The…
Addressing linguistic diversity in the European Union: Strategies and dilemmas
In multilingual environments, respecting diverse linguistic identities is a requirement for recognizing the equal dignity of citizens. In the official discourse of the European Union, the approach to linguistic diversity has typically oscillated between two normative poles. On the one hand, linguistic diversity is seen as a central element of Europe's cultural inheritance, as an asset that is a pillar for achieving the intercultural understanding…
How well does the body adiposity index capture adiposity change in midlife women: The SWAN fat patterning study
Objectives: The body adiposity index (BAI) is a proposed alternative to the body mass index (BMI) that has shown good cross‐sectional agreement with percent body fat (%BF) in validation studies. The objective of this study was to examine the ability of BAI to track adiposity change over time in a biracial sample of midlife women. Methods: African‐American ( n = 159) and Caucasian ( n = 206) women, aged 42–60 years, at the Chicago site of the Stud…
Mediated emotions: Shame and pride in Polish right-wing media coverage of the 2019 European Parliament elections
This paper proposes that the emotion of shame is key to understanding the appeal of Poland’s ruling populist right-wing party, Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or PiS). PiS employs shame in its strategy of emotion regulation in mediated party communication in pro-government media outlets. We suggest that there are two pillars of shame that underpin support for PiS: (1) the collective shame that originates from the perceived cultural infer…
Addressing linguistic diversity in the European Union: Strategies and dilemmas
In multilingual environments, respecting diverse linguistic identities is a requirement for recognizing the equal dignity of citizens. In the official discourse of the European Union, the approach to linguistic diversity has typically oscillated between two normative poles. On the one hand, linguistic diversity is seen as a central element of Europe's cultural inheritance, as an asset that is a pillar for achieving the intercultural understanding…
Embodyingressentimentfulvictimhood: Virtual reality re-enactment of the Warsaw uprising in the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk
This article examines how the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland, employs an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience ‘Postcard from the Uprising’ (Kartka z Powstania) in order to build an affective memory regime that prescribes an emotional repertoire for museum audiences. By engaging in a narrative inquiry of the VR experience, I demonstrate how it evokes the emotional dynamic of ressentiment, which has been identified as the aff…
Knowing Is Seeing: Distance and proximity in affective virtual reality history
In this article, I examine perspective taking in virtual reality (VR) representations of the past, which could be regarded as one of the latest developments in the genre of reenactment and affective history. By building on Vanessa Agnew’s analysis of reenactment, I argue that some VR experiences, even though they reduce the distance between the knower and the known and adopt a strong emphasis on emotional engagement, can contribute to historical …
Perspective and the Past: Modeling Historical Representation from Camera Obscura to Virtual Reality
This article examines the concept of "perspective" as an embodied metaphor with ontological and epistemological implications for the modeling of historical understanding of contested pasts. The metaphors employed in modeling past reality shape how we make sense of the controversial past. In particular, I explore how perspectival metaphorical models conjure the notions of presence/proximity/engagement and absence/distance/detachment. To open this …
Pictures in our heads: Politics of space, time, and memory in Polish virtual reality storyworlds
This article examines the entangled politics of space, time and memory in the virtual realm of extended reality (XR). The illiberal right-wing Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) has been investing in the creation and dissemination of virtual reality (VR) content centred on historical themes since 2018. By mapping out the experiential geography of populism in virtual places, the article aims to identify the main features of this new im…
Virtual reality as a technology of memory: Immersive presence in Polish politics of memory
Experiences that take place in virtual reality (VR) become part of users’ autobiographical memory. As memories can impact users’ self-perception, personal beliefs, and social interactions, storyliving in VR narratives can be used to manipulate memory and mould users’ self according to the preferences of the VR narrative creators. Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has, in recent years, generously invested in the production of VR f…
Mediating shame and pride: Countermedia coverage of Independence Day in Poland and the US
This article adopts a comparative qualitative approach to studying the rhetoric of injured pride in the coverage of Independence Day celebrations by the right-wing countermedia in Poland (wPolityce.pl) and the US (Breitbart News) from 2012 to 2018. In both countries, the number of countermedia articles on Independence Day proliferated in the aftermath of the election of the Law and Justice party (2015) and Donald Trump (2016). Based on the analys…
How well does the body adiposity index capture adiposity change in midlife women: The SWAN fat patterning study
Objectives: The body adiposity index (BAI) is a proposed alternative to the body mass index (BMI) that has shown good cross‐sectional agreement with percent body fat (%BF) in validation studies. The objective of this study was to examine the ability of BAI to track adiposity change over time in a biracial sample of midlife women. Methods: African‐American ( n = 159) and Caucasian ( n = 206) women, aged 42–60 years, at the Chicago site of the Stud…
Addressing linguistic diversity in the European Union: Strategies and dilemmas
In multilingual environments, respecting diverse linguistic identities is a requirement for recognizing the equal dignity of citizens. In the official discourse of the European Union, the approach to linguistic diversity has typically oscillated between two normative poles. On the one hand, linguistic diversity is seen as a central element of Europe's cultural inheritance, as an asset that is a pillar for achieving the intercultural understanding…
Race/ethnic comparisons of waist‐to‐height ratio for cardiometabolic screening: The study of women's health across the nation
OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of waist-to-height ratio as a screening tool for cardiometabolic conditions - hypertension, prediabetes/diabetes, dyslipidemia, and subclinical inflammation - in 5 race/ethnic groups of mid-life women. METHODS: Waist-to-height ratio and 4 cardiometabolic conditions were assessed in 3033 premenopausal midlife women (249 Hispanic, 226 Chinese, 262 Japanese, 1435 European-American, and 861 African American). The…
Empathy and history: Historical understanding in re-enactment, hermeneutics and education
Tyson Retz’s Empathy and History is an ambitious and well-researched book, which sheds light on the complex origins and development of empathy in the discipline of history, history education and th
Mediated emotions: Shame and pride in Polish right-wing media coverage of the 2019 European Parliament elections
This paper proposes that the emotion of shame is key to understanding the appeal of Poland’s ruling populist right-wing party, Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or PiS). PiS employs shame in its strategy of emotion regulation in mediated party communication in pro-government media outlets. We suggest that there are two pillars of shame that underpin support for PiS: (1) the collective shame that originates from the perceived cultural infer…
Perspective and the Past: Modeling Historical Representation from Camera Obscura to Virtual Reality
This article examines the concept of "perspective" as an embodied metaphor with ontological and epistemological implications for the modeling of historical understanding of contested pasts. The metaphors employed in modeling past reality shape how we make sense of the controversial past. In particular, I explore how perspectival metaphorical models conjure the notions of presence/proximity/engagement and absence/distance/detachment. To open this …
Mediating shame and pride: Countermedia coverage of Independence Day in Poland and the US
This article adopts a comparative qualitative approach to studying the rhetoric of injured pride in the coverage of Independence Day celebrations by the right-wing countermedia in Poland (wPolityce.pl) and the US (Breitbart News) from 2012 to 2018. In both countries, the number of countermedia articles on Independence Day proliferated in the aftermath of the election of the Law and Justice party (2015) and Donald Trump (2016). Based on the analys…
Knowing Is Seeing: Distance and proximity in affective virtual reality history
In this article, I examine perspective taking in virtual reality (VR) representations of the past, which could be regarded as one of the latest developments in the genre of reenactment and affective history. By building on Vanessa Agnew’s analysis of reenactment, I argue that some VR experiences, even though they reduce the distance between the knower and the known and adopt a strong emphasis on emotional engagement, can contribute to historical …
Embodyingressentimentfulvictimhood: Virtual reality re-enactment of the Warsaw uprising in the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk
This article examines how the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland, employs an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience ‘Postcard from the Uprising’ (Kartka z Powstania) in order to build an affective memory regime that prescribes an emotional repertoire for museum audiences. By engaging in a narrative inquiry of the VR experience, I demonstrate how it evokes the emotional dynamic of ressentiment, which has been identified as the aff…
Identifying the necessary capacities for the adaptation of a diabetes phenotyping algorithm in countries of differing economic development status
BACKGROUND: In 2019, the World Health Organization recognised diabetes as a clinically and pathophysiologically heterogeneous set of related diseases. Little is currently known about the diabetes phenotypes in the population of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet identifying their different risks and aetiology has great potential to guide the development of more effective, tailored prevention and treatment. OBJECTIVES: This study review…
Virtual reality as a technology of memory: Immersive presence in Polish politics of memory
Experiences that take place in virtual reality (VR) become part of users’ autobiographical memory. As memories can impact users’ self-perception, personal beliefs, and social interactions, storyliving in VR narratives can be used to manipulate memory and mould users’ self according to the preferences of the VR narrative creators. Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has, in recent years, generously invested in the production of VR f…
Pictures in our heads: Politics of space, time, and memory in Polish virtual reality storyworlds
This article examines the entangled politics of space, time and memory in the virtual realm of extended reality (XR). The illiberal right-wing Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość) has been investing in the creation and dissemination of virtual reality (VR) content centred on historical themes since 2018. By mapping out the experiential geography of populism in virtual places, the article aims to identify the main features of this new im…
A Framework for Qualitative Analysis of Non-fiction Virtual Reality Storyworlds
This article introduces a methodological framework for the qualitative analysis of immersive non-fiction virtual reality (VR) storyworlds, focusing on the unique features of VR as a medium for storyliving . In VR, users are not merely watching a story unfold on a screen-they are inside the experience, actively engaging with and storyliving the immersive narrative as it unfolds around them. VR is a spatial, embodied, interactive, multisensory, per…
Sociology (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Human–computer interaction (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)