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Publishing queer literature: A comparison between the adult and young adult markets from the cold war to present day.
No full textHow Born-accessible Production Workflow Can Improve Accessibility in Book Publishing and Benefit Publishers.
No full textAn Examination of Social Cognition, Empathy, and Narrative Abilities in Young Adults
No full textStorytelling, including narratives about autobiographical memories, entails a complex process of translating rich nonverbal experiences, replete with emotional, perceptual, and sensory elements, into words. The referential process has been proposed as a general cognitive model, which is comprised of three distinct yet interconnected phases (i.e., Arousal, Symbolizing, and Reflecting/Reorganizing), that captures the strength of the connection between one’s emotional experience and its narrative form and carries meaningful real-world implications, including psychotherapy outcomes. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between referential and social-cognitive processes (e.g., social perception, empathy) in the context of early and recent personal narratives shared by a convenience sample of college students. Findings of the current investigation indicated positive correlations between social perception and empathy with indices of Affect and Reflecting/Reorganizing at a small to moderate effect size. Overall models with social perception and empathy as continuous predicting variables and all referential processes as continuous outcome variables had a statistically non-significant fit with strong effect sizes. Controlling for social perception, empathy was significantly and positively related to the mean total sum of affective language at a strong effect size within the early memory condition. Controlling for empathy, social perception was negatively related to indices of Symbolizing at a small to moderate effect size, contrary to hypotheses. No statistically significant correlations were found between empathy and social perception abilities. Indices of Symbolizing were found to be commensurate across early and recent memory conditions, suggesting that the ability to engage in emotional time travel may not be temporally bound. Consistent with the story-telling nature of the task, significantly higher levels of Symbolizing than Reflecting/Reorganizing processes were found in personal narratives. Gender differences in empathy were found at a moderate effect size. Lastly, subjectively rated valence positively predicted indices of the Symbolizing phase at a small to moderate effect size across early and recent memory conditions, lending evidence to the enhancing effect of positive emotion. Moreover, higher emotional valence was associated with a decrease in negative affective language and higher proportions of positive affect terms. In all, this preliminary study sheds light on the complexities of the referential process and its interface with key social-cognitive constructs. Findings provide a foray to a broader, more inclusive study entailing clinical populations, including ASD, psychophysiological indices of emotional arousal, as well as audio and video analysis
Examining the Interaction of Caregiver Involvement, Video Game Use, and Caregiver-Child Relationships: Implications for Social-Emotional Functioning in Children
No full textThis research aims to explore the relationships between caregiver involvement in video game use, the caregiver-child relationship, and children\u27s social-emotional functioning. Utilizing a sample of 96 caregivers of children aged 5-11 years, the study implemented an online survey to collect data. Through Pearson\u27s product-moment correlation analyses, the research examined five primary research questions. The findings reveal a negative correlation between caregiver co-play and positive views on video game usage. No statistically significant correlations were found between caregiver involvement in video game play and conflictual caregiver-child relationships, caregiver screen time and video game use in children, or video game usage in children and positive social-emotional functioning. However, a small positive correlation was found between video game usage in children and negative social-emotional functioning. The results partially support the initial hypotheses, highlighting the need for further comprehensive research. The study has valuable implications for understanding contemporary family dynamics, particularly related to digital media usage. The limitations of the study, primarily related to its demographic representation, highlight directions for future research
Destroying Defamation
Get PDFFake News is destroying defamation. The recent proliferation of rushed journalism, online conspiracy theories that almost every news story is, in fact, “Fake News,” have created a desert of veracity. Widespread public skepticism about even the most mainstream Internet reporting means plaintiffs will have difficulty convincing jurors that third parties believed any reported statement to be true. Without such proof, it is almost impossible for a plaintiff to prove the elements of defamation.
To establish defamation, a plaintiff must show defendant published an assertion of fact that is false and damages the plaintiff\u27s reputation Hyperbolic language or other indications that a statement was not meant to be taken seriously are not actionable. Today\u27s understanding that everything on the Internet is susceptible to manipulation is destroying defamation.
This article explains the unforeseen consequence of labeling news as “fake.” This article begins with a historical review of Fake News, concluding with an understanding of the phenomenon in its current iteration. It follows with a discussion of the tort of defamation. It explores the uniqueness of proving online statements as libel or slander. This article illustrates how plaintiffs bringing defamation claims for Internet statements will have difficulty persuading a judge that the message was factual and not merely hyperbole. Even if the judge finds a statement to be fact, allowing the issue to move to the jury, a plaintiff in today\u27s Fake News climate is unlikely to convince a jury that a reasonable person would find the statement defamatory. The abundance of fake news, the media\u27s rush to publish, and external attacks on credible journalism have created a heightened sense of questionable reporting among members of society. The potential for defamatory harm is minimal when the veracity of any news story is questionable. This paper argues that the presence of Fake News is a blight on this cause of action that threatens to destroy the tort of defamation
The Role of BookTok on the Publishing Industry: How it Began, Where it is Now, and if it Will Last Long-Term.
No full textIt’s been 13 years since Danroy Henry’s Death: It’s Time to Pass DJ’s Law
Get PDFThis opinion piece by Vinnie Birkenmeyer, Director of Residential Life at Pace University in Pleasantville and an adjunct professor in Political Science, calls on elected officials to pass the legal reforms known as DJ\u27s Law. Birkenmeyer also writes about the life of Danroy DJ Henry and the injustice of his death.
This opinion piece was originally published on lohud.com on October 18, 2023
Implementing Nature\u27s Rights in Colombia: The Arato and Amazon Experiences
Get PDFNature\u27s rights approaches are being developed as an alternative legal means to enable justice for nature and, oftentimes, humans, too. This study examines Colombia\u27s two seminal court-ordered nature\u27s rights approaches which recognize ecosystems-the Atrato River Basin (2016) and the Colombian Amazon (2018)-as a legal subject with rights to protection, maintenance, conservation, and restoration. Developed as remedies for human rights violations, both cases offer opportunities to explore variations in nature\u27s rights approaches and the relationship between efforts to enable justice for humans and nature. We build on existing scholarly engagement with the cases by contributing a detailed archival study on their implementation complemented by a few
interviews with key actors, as well as by evaluating implementation of the rulings using environmental and ecological justice frameworks to determine to what degree they have enabled justice for humans and nature to date. We argue that the Atrato River Basin and Colombian Amazon nature\u27s rights approaches currently fall short of their aims to enable justice for both humans and nature. Thus far, interpretation and implementation of the rulings have yet to fulfill court orders and, in some cases, have perpetuated injustices
Misogynoir: Exploring Lived Experiences of Gendered Racism and Impacts on Identity for Black Women Professional Counselors
No full textBlack Women are an extremely unique, yet oppressed population in America. A factor that makes Black Women distinctive, yet also so targeted, is that they experience two specific forms of oppression due to the intertwinement of their race and their gender, while also being plagued with a social construct that often categorizes Black Women negatively. An extensive amount of research has placed emphasis on understanding the degrading and prejudicial experiences that Black Women have had to deal with because of the intersection of those two specific identities, commonly known as gendered racism, to better understand how they cope with their experiences. However, in recent years, the ideas of intersectionality and gendered racism have been further developed into concepts such as misogynoir to highlight the unique experiences that Black Women face, different than those issues that other populations who experience gendered racism may have. Subsequently, although explorations regarding Black Womens’ experiences have previously occurred, the currently available literature is missing valuable information and research on Black Women as Professional Counselors and their experiences with gendered racism and identity formation, specifically based on misogynoir. Participants identifying as Black Women Professional Counselors (BWPC) were recruited to discuss their lived experiences with misogynoir. Using Critical Race Theory (Crenshaw, Gotanda, Peller, & Thomas, 1995; Haskins & Singh, 2015) as an umbrella, this phenomenological qualitative study was conducted via semi-structured interview. A variety of 10 participants with varying ages, African Ancestry, sexual orientations, licensure types, employment settings and years practicing participated in this study. Findings indicate that all participants experienced some type of misogynoir experience
The End Externalities Manifesto: Restatement, Loose Ends, and Unfinished Business
Get PDFProfessor J.B. Ruhl observes in his article, “The End Externalities Manifesto: Restatement, Loose Ends, and Unfinished Business,” that Elliott and Esty’s proposal for a rights-centric system of environmental law focuses narrowly on a right to recover compensation for harms to human health caused by pollution. He offers suggestions for implementing that proposal, such as using the concept of ecosystem services to trace how harm to ecosystems can cause harm to human health, and he proposes how Elliott and Esty could extend their rights-centric system to a broader conception of human rights and the environment