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Give Me My A... And That Beer!: Examining the Relationship Between Academic Entitlement, Major, and Alcohol Use
No full textAcademic entitlement (AE) is a relatively new area of research. AE is defined as expecting higher grades for minimum effort and demanding behaviors towards teachers, such as expecting to receive a good grade in a class just for showing up (Greenberger, Lessard, Chen & Faruggia, 2008). Alcohol is also a reoccurring problem on college campuses, and is associated with many other negative behaviors and consequences (Wesley, 2002). It has been found that students who drink more are less likely to schedule Friday classes (Paschall, Kypri, & Salt). It has also been found that the later a student schedules their first Friday class, the more they are apt to drink on Thursday night (Wood, Shere, & Rutledge, 2007). If students are likely to change their schedule to accommodate their drinking, it is also likely that their choice of major influences their drinking behavior. Since AE is tied directly to a student’s classwork, it also stands to reason that different majors would have differing levels of AE. Will a student with higher levels of AE be more likely to drink more because they feel they don’t need to spend time on course work to achieve good grades or that showing up to class hung over is acceptable? Are the academic majors that tend towards having heavier drinkers also the same majors that have more academically entitled students? Examining these questions will better help us understand the relationship between academic entitlement and other factors common to college students. The data will be collected from students at a mid-sized Midwestern university via an online survey. The survey is currently in progress. Implications will be discussed
Unpacked | A Girls Inc. Design Analysis
No full textOrganizations today communicate their missions and values primarily through the Internet and promotional materials. They are able to reach wider audiences, however they are also faced with the challenge of anchoring the abstract “audience” to concrete individuals with stories, thoughts, and experiences. Communicating with younger audiences adds a layer of complexity to this issue. How does an organization of adults create materials that connect with younger audiences? This is precisely the position of Girls Inc., a national nonprofit that works to inspire girls between the ages of six and eighteen to be strong, smart, and bold.
This question is not only complex, but also broad. I therefore chose to analyze Girls Inc. messaging and materials in a holistic way by examining the materials from several angles. I applied two different visual rhetoric frameworks. Anne Wysocki’s The Multiple Media of Texts focuses primarily on the visual elements of texts including color, proportions, typeface, and the relationships between elements on a page. Roland Barthes’s Rhetoric of the Image focuses on the symbolic nature of linguistic and iconic messaging including cultural and societal contexts. In order to better understand what resonated with and empowered the actual young women who are the audience for these materials, and to give them a voice in the designs that address them, I conducted an IRB-approved focus group with high school women in Girls Inc.'s Teen Impact Initiative.
Based on the feedback from the focus group with high school women, I identified strategies for ways visuals and texts may work together to resonate and create a sense of empowerment with these young women. Lastly, I created a mockup of a Girls Inc. website homepage based on the strategies identified in the focus group and design principles from Wysocki and Barthes
Gauging and articulating sense of place in downtown revitalization: the case study of Middletown, Ohio
No full textCentral business districts -- Ohio -- Middletown;
City planning -- Ohio -- Middletown;
Community development -- Ohio -- Middletow
AFTER THE PARADIGM OF CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS IN ARCHITECTURE: SPATIAL POSSIBILITIES AND VARIATIONS
Get PDFLiving in the age of scientific, technological and digital revolution changes our attitude towards information. It is inevitable to start approaching information not only as a product of fashionable digital media behavior, but also as a particular accumulation of facts and activities, transferable bits of matter, which influence our environment. Architecture not only exerts spatial influence on our environment, but also it structures its processes. Acting as such, architecture is involved into direct representation of informational flows via organizing spatial systems. Therefore, in the digital era, design gets more related to transforming different informational modes into spatial structures. Transformations of information provide rich possibilities for conceptualizing space; such transformations could be achieved by different methodologies. This paper uses the concept of space in contemporary physics, namely the self-organizational behavior of the spacetime framework, in order to explore various ways of coding information in design. Analyzing String theory and its follower M – theory, the research derives a method for spatial organization of cause-and-effect activities resulting in a unified approach towards design methodology. This paper explores the concept of movement in the space-time framework, namely the movement in various dimensions and in non-Euclidean geometry, in order to develop a system for achieving a particular design control over informational activities. Using the topology of spacetime in String heory and M-theory, a topology produced as an outcome from that particular movement behavior, the research proposes a way to handle an informational status in the environment spatially. Such a design approach, becoming more and more necessary in the age of the digital, opens room not only for mere spatial variations, but also for a direction towards new design morphology; a morphology in which architecture obtains new spatial value, reaching beyond the label of visionary desig
To Establish or Not to Establish? The Question of Establishing Name Authority Records for Theses and Dissertation Authors
No full textRecent vigorous discussion on the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) listserv raised a
number of questions on the ethics of establishing theses and dissertation authors using birth
dates and other information found on author's work (such as the vita or other personal data).
This presentation will use that question as a starting point to investigate the reasoning behind
establishing these authors, how they should be established, why theses and dissertation
authors should be treated any differently than other authors, and how OCLC's increased
addition of articles into their database complicate matters. In addition, the further challenge
that RDA adoption might cause will be presented and discussed. Questions and discussion are
welcome, and participants do not need to be NACO participants to join and contribute to the
dialogue
Cataloging Remote Access Multimedia: An Open Access Virtual Guide
No full textThe following lightning talk session introduces a freely accessible, peer-reviewed guide that
effectively explains how to catalog remote access multimedia, including podcasts, streaming
video, streaming audio, e-books, and web games. Created by Marielle Veve, University of
Tennessee lecturer at the School of Information Sciences, this scholarly guide utilizes an
innovative pedagogical approach that integrates streaming animated slides into distance
education of cataloging. http://www.lib.utk.edu/~veve/streaming-guides.htm
