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Perdido en el tiempo y la tierra
Get PDFThis poem is written about the feeling of being unsure of where to go and who to be. Where a person is at the precipice of being their future self and they don't know who that is yet.  
Tutorial Booking and Tracking Application Interactivity: A Multimodal Social Semiotic Analysis Framework
Get PDFElectronic texts can be highly interactive. Forms of interactivity, such as hyperlinks, shortcuts or tags are not only signs to make meaning on the e-page but also space for actions and changing textual situations. Here, e-page interactivity and textual interaction become two different realms and make a gap between the text analysis and multimodal analysis. This case study aims to analyze the interactivity of the online tutorial booking and tracking application called ‘ ASP tutTrak’ by using a social semiotic multimodal framework for text and image analysis. The application is currently used in the Academic Success Center (ASC) of a tertiary level institution in the United Arab Emirates and was designed by the Information and Communication team of the same institution. The theoretical framework of the study presents multimodal social semiotics analysis of sites, signs and images of the ‘ASP tutTrak’ application through three metafunctions of communication (Halliday, 1978, Kress and Van Leeuwen, 1996, 2006). Since the application under consideration is in the academic domain, this study adapted Chou’s (2003) framework for interaction types for learner-interface and learner-content. Analysis of five sample pages indicate that the interactive meaning potentials of the digital text, interface and content are high and the application is interactive
An Investigation on the Relation Between Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Instagram Use
Get PDFThe impact of social networking sites on human functioning is growing immensely among the population of young adults. This study investigated whether Instagram use behaviours, such as posting, liking, commenting, and the amount of time spent on the platform would predict measures of self-esteem and narcissism in young adults. Participants were asked to complete three online self-report questionnaires assessing Instagram use, self-esteem levels, and narcissistic characteristics. Through two stepwise multiple linear regression analyses, spending time on Instagram was predictive of both self-esteem and narcissism scores, but the behaviours of posting, liking, and commenting were not. The limitations include a restricted sample, self-reported data, and a lack of a standardized measure assessing Instagram use in more depth. Future research could benefit from the assessment of various age groups and populations who use social media, as well as the creation of a reliable and valid measure to assess Instagram use behaviour
Amara
Get PDFLife can be hard when the person you love and share your life with keeps pushing you away. When love tastes like denial and lies we can easily lose our sense of reality, the only outcome of relationships like this is artificial love. 
HYBRIDITY, LAWFARE, AND UNLAWFARE IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN
Get PDFOn November 13, 2023, Dr. Ian Ralby presented Hybridity, Lawfare and Unlawfare in the Maritime Domain for this year’s West Coast Security Conference. The presentation was followed by a question-and-answer period with questions from the audience and CASIS Vancouver executives. The key points discussed were the strategic importance of the maritime domain, usage of hybrid maritime aggression by international antagonists such as China, Iran, and Russia, and strategies for countering these tactics.
Received: 01-14-2024
Revised: 01-26-202
Fireweed as a Gitxsan Clan!?
Get PDFThis paper was originally written for Instructor Robert Bandringa's Indigenous Studies 332 course Indigenous Ethnobotany. The assignment asked students to investigate how First Peoples live in respectful relationship with plants and place. The paper uses MLA citation style.
Exploring the culture and protocols of the Gitxsan Nation in regard to its Clan system leads to a discussion about the unique decision to include Fireweed—a plant—as one of its four Clan crests. This analysis delves into the ethnobiological relationship between the Gitxsan Nation and Fireweed, investigating the biology, ecology, and cultural uses of this plant.  
Analyzing Features of Messages to Old Friends & Peoples’ Willingness to Hit Send
Get PDFFriendship consistently correlates with happiness, and prioritizing one’s friendships has been associated with numerous components of health and well-being (Demir, Cuisinier, & Khoury, 2015; Lu et al., 2021; Taniguchi, 2014). However, people often lose touch with individuals they once called friends (Avalos, 2023; Bowker, White, & Weingarten, 2023). If people are given a chance to reach out to an old friend, do they? What would they say? To examine this question, 410 participants recruited as part of a larger study were asked to think of an old friend or person they care about with whom they had lost touch, and write a “reaching out” message to them. Participants were then given one minute to send their message to their old friend. Approximately one third of participants did so. Wondering if it is possible to predict which notes would be sent, we had six trained undergraduate students code the 410 messages along 14 content-related dimensions (e.g. did the author mention missing their friend, did the author apologize for losing touch). Contrary to most of our pre-registered hypotheses, only two dimensions significantly predicted whether the message was sent: messages in which the author acknowledged they had not spoken to their old friend in a while, and messages in which the author suggested vague future contact with their old friend. Although few coding dimensions predicted which messages were sent, it does seem that taking responsibility (both for losing touch and for initiating future contact) may be a predictor of messages being sent.
Faculty Supervior: Lara B. Aknin, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Research Team Member: Kristina K. Castaneto, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser Universit
Do Bullying Prevention Programs Reduce Depression and Anxiety Experienced by Students?
Get PDFBullying prevention interventions have been devised to reduce peer victimization and its negative effects on victims. Many primary research studies have examined the effectiveness of these programs, including some which investigated whether programs enhanced the self-esteem and overall mental well-being of students who participate in the programs, including those who have and have not been victimized. Several systematic reviews (analyses of secondary data) have assessed the overall effectiveness of these interventions. However, to our knowledge, no systematic reviews analyzed the effect of anti-bullying programs on depression and anxiety among program participants. The proposed study is the first systematic review to develop a comprehensive portrayal of the effect of bullying prevention programs on mental health, particularly depression and anxiety.
Our research will be a meta-analysis of the effects of bullying prevention programs on the depression and anxiety of participants. Studies will be selected by conducting literature searches on electronic databases such as ERIC, PsyhInfo, PsycARTICLES, Pubmed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Only randomized clinical trials and pretest and posttest studies measuring the effect of these programs on the participants will be included. A single effect size type, likely standardized mean difference, will be chosen and any different effect size types used in the studies will be converted to that type. All primary studies which meet the selection criteria will be coded for effect size and several other characteristics (e.g., age of participants) for potential use as moderating variables. The results will return a weighted-mean effect size for all relevant studies.