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Mobile technologies for libraries: A list of mobile applications and resources for development
Get PDFA list of mobile applications useful for libraries and library users and resources libraries can use to develop their own mobile Web presence
Disrupting patriarchal norms and languages: Narrative and rhetorical analyses of bi and pansexual feminist blogs.
No full textThis dissertation asserts that existing definitions of gender and understandings of sexuality need to be reworked in order to compose more holistic senses of both identifications. To accomplish this, this research highlights how some feminists are using Internet communications (specifically blogging) to revamp contemporary understandings about gender. Additionally, it explores how some feminists are more purposefully incorporating bi and pansexual feminist perspectives into feminist conversations which, in turn, can potentially mitigate harmful monosexual and patriarchal dialectics that constrain personhood. There is continued need for careful scrutiny and analysis of hegemonic forces working against females and, more specifically, those who identify within marginalized sexualities. This project delegitimizes suppressions of gendered and/or sexed constructions of self by deconstructing the languages and norms working against females and femaleness (whether these come from outside of or from within the feminist community itself). This dissertation examines how ideas about identity construction (specific to the idea of female ) within bi and pansexual-feminist blog writing can remedy, add to, and widen existing feminist political and ethical theories
A Lexicon of Drawing Problems and Solutions
Get PDFNot so much a how-to on drawing, this book of unique art plates adds new insights to modern concepts of composition and design. Its beautiful presentation seeks to please the art collector as well as the student.
A single theme, whose nuggets are scattered throughout, unifies these varied and original drawings done over a period of ten years: Understanding fundamentals enables the modern artist to present all things in all ways, making the most of both observation and inventiveness.
This volume consists only of images. While including teaching text handwritten into the illustrations, at the same time the artist crafted each plate to speak by example as a work of art.
This seemingly modest but intensely interesting collection of black and white illustrations was done as freehand studies with the ball-point pen, originally sized for 8.5 x 11 inch paper.
Some earlier pages were multiplied and passed on as teaching aids to students. The greater number served the artist in analytical experiment and study, showing what possibilities his insights can deliver in extending modern freedoms for the thoughtful viewer.
Later pages are unique works of art seeking to carry into execution a creative wish.
Overall this collection seems the offspring or sequel of a more severely formal earlier book: The Formulation of a Graphic Language.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/jvg-books/1002/thumbnail.jp
Melville and Women in Specific Relation to Bartleby, the Scrivener
Get PDFAlthough there are no female characters in Herman Melville\u27s Bartleby, the Scrivener, there is a clear sense of femininity that breaks through the barriers Melville has created showing that there is no such thing as a man\u27s world. Within the thesis background on the author is revealed that may lend insight in to reasoning behind the lack of women, as well as specific cases where femininity is present
Sailors in the age of steam: Reexamining a counterintuitive response to advancing technology.
No full textTechnology is continually advancing. With each major step forward, users must decide whether to adopt the new technology or to continue using the old. A number of things can influence this choice, but for commercial technologies, economic self-interest is presumed to be the dominant factor. Commercially superior technologies are expected to replace their less-profitable predecessors quickly. Curiously, this did not happen when ocean-going steamships evolved to be more profitable than sailing ships in the 1870s. Some mariners persisted with commercial sail well into the twentieth century. Many explanations have been offered, but none fully account for the phenomenon. Philosopher Albert Borgmann provides a possible alternative interpretation. Borgmann suggests that at some deep, intuitive level, we humans sense that there are benefits in doing some things the hard way; that our lives are meaningfully enriched when we engage with technologies that demand significant time, skill, and commitment. He calls these focal things and practices. This study explores the possibility that the subtle allure of Borgmann\u27s focal things and practices contributed to the persistence of commercial sail. The historical record of a select group of schoonermen is examined, mariners who chose to work under sail into the mid-twentieth century. Qualitative analysis reveals a positive correlation between their lived experiences and key indicia of Borgmann\u27s focal things and practices. Other, more conventional explanations for their choices are examined and dismissed. A conclusion is reached that the attractive forces Borgmann ascribes to focal things and practices did play a role in these mariners\u27 apparently counterintuitive choices. This finding adds weight to Borgmann\u27s larger body of work and has implications for how humanity might deal with advancing technology in the future