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To Be Not So Lonely: Support and Community through Twitter Fan Accounts in the Harry Styles Fandom
Get PDFThis study aims to examine the ways that fan accounts on social media foster community and fill the void of emotional engagement when the artist is not as active. It also looks at how fans’ parasocial relationships change when the subject of their emotional connection disappears. This study adds to previous research done on fandom, parasocial relationships, and social media. To perform this study, a close content analysis was done, focusing on one specific Harry Styles fan account on Twitter, @hsdaily. Two time periods were defined, one being a time of low activity from Harry Styles and one being high activity. All of the tweets from these two periods were gathered and analyzed for similar themes and behaviors regarding community and emotional engagement. There were three main themes found across the tweets and replies: creating vs holding space, spreading information, and prompting discussion. A further analysis of specific tweets reveals exactly how this fan account encouraged fans to get engaged with Harry’s music and each other to keep their connection to him in focus even when he is not available. The account also acts as a resource for information relating to Harry Styles and a common place for fans to come together and bond over their shared interest. This fan account was able to fill in the void left behind when Harry was not as active, maintaining fans’ relationship with him in his absences. Further research may look deeper into how exactly these parasocial relationships manifest themselves into fans’ behaviors and whether these findings hold true across other fan accounts and other social media sites
Press Release Pace University to Kick-Off Social Justice Week on October 24
No full textPace University on Monday, October 24 will kick-off Social Justice Week across its three campuses – in lower Manhattan, Pleasantville and White Plains – featuring events that adhere to values of equity and justice while engaging the campus community in learning activities and dialogue centered on the issues of social justice.
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Zine-Making Pedagogy During a Pandemic: Reflections and Implications
Get PDFThe article presents a conversation between artist and professor Elodie Silberstein and feminist academic librarian Susan Thomas about the evolution of feminist zine culture ingrained in histories of resistance and self-publishing as well as the current popularity of zines. The authors discuss their collaborative zine pedagogy in an introductory gender studies course at Pace University during the COVID-19 pandemic
Religion, Finance, and Social Justice
Get PDFReligion is an important part of people\u27s lives and so is finance. And the two are connected. Most religions have a social justice aspect and so they either legislate or recommend actions in the financial sphere, e.g. the remission of loans or providing loans without charging interest. The objective may be equitable redistribution of wealth or poverty alleviation. This event is taking place in conjunction with a course on Finance and Society, taught by Prof. PV Viswanath.
Prof. Viswanath opened the session by talking about preferential treatment given to clerics in the religious law of various traditions, as well as conflicts of interest in the implementation of that law. Following this, a student in the course, Kaan Kocak spoke about economic issues and Islamic Law. Rabbi Michael Chernick, professor emeritus at Hebrew Union College followed up with an exposition of how Judaism deals with issues of finance and social justice. This was followed by a Q&A session, as well as a group discussion. The event ended with an analysis of Prof. Chernick’s talk by Prof. Viswanath, as well as a presentation of how the Jewish law on interest-taking in the Middle Ages was affected by the economic environment.
The goal of the event was to provide attendees with a better understanding of how financial transactions and the financial system interact with society and how religions play an important role in ameliorating some of the negative aspects of those interactions
