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What kinds of personal data do primary school pupils share with whom? Children’s view of personal data and its implications for teaching about privacy
Get PDFSafeguarding personal digital data is crucial and requires appropriate training. However, privacy remains a novel topic, leaving teachers with limited guidance. This study investigates how elementary school students perceive personal data and assesses pre-service teachers’ accuracy in predicting children’s responses. Employing Nissenbaum’s contextual integrity framework, the outcomes of this research offer a nuanced perspective on privacy, considering different recipients and data types. The study surveyed 94 Grade 3 and Grade 5 students, asking them to indicate with which recipients (no one, parents, best friends, class, all other people) they would share specific information. In addition, 75 pre-service teachers were asked to indicate what they expected Grade 5 children would share with whom. The findings show: 1. what information Grade 3 and Grade 5 students consider to be most private, 2. which recipients they trust the most, 3. varying sharing practices between Grade 3 and 5, and 4. a tendency for pre-service teachers to underestimate children’s privacy sharing behavior. In the discussion section we propose five recommendations for enhancing digital privacy education
Beyond the Classroom: An Internship Model That Builds Age-Friendliness & Career Readiness
Get PDFSince 2015, the University of Rhode Island (URI) Engaging Generations Cyber-Seniors Program has provided over 500 students from 19 different majors with the opportunity to mentor older adults through internships and service learning courses. Due to the pandemic, interest in the program significantly increased from the community and from students in need of opportunities to work with individuals. As a result, a robust internship program was developed that focused on building age and digital inclusivity across campus and throughout the state. The program integrates a three-pronged approach where students complete field hours, enhance the Career Readiness Competencies employers seek in graduates as determined by the National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE), and complete the components necessary to earn the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center Interprofessional Teamwork in Geriatrics and Gerontology Certificate. This paper will describe the key elements of this internship model and present survey data related to the student experience
A decade of marine inorganic carbon chemistry observations in the northern Gulf of Alaska – insights into an environment in transition
Get PDFAs elsewhere in the global ocean, the Gulf of Alaska is experiencing the rapid onset of ocean acidification (OA) driven by oceanic absorption of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In support of OA research and monitoring, we present here a data product of marine inorganic carbon chemistry parameters measured from seawater samples taken during biannual cruises between 2008 and 2017 in the northern Gulf of Alaska. Samples were collected each May and September over the 10 year period using a conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) profiler coupled with a Niskin bottle rosette at stations including a long-term hydrographic survey transect known as the Gulf of Alaska (GAK) Line. This dataset includes discrete seawater measurements such as dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity, which allows the calculation of other marine carbon parameters, including carbonate mineral saturation states, carbon dioxide (CO2), and pH. Cumulative daily Bakun upwelling indices illustrate the pattern of downwelling in the northern Gulf of Alaska, with a period of relaxation spanning between the May and September cruises. The observed time and space variability impart challenges for disentangling the OA signal despite this dataset spanning a decade. However, this data product greatly enhances our understanding of seasonal and interannual variability in the marine inorganic carbon system parameters. The product can also aid in the ground truthing of biogeochemical models, refining estimates of sea–air CO2 exchange, and determining appropriate CO2 parameter ranges for experiments targeting potentially vulnerable species
Attack on Titan anime memes: Possible meanings and interpretations by young adults.
Get PDFMemes have unpredictable and diverse interpretations because of their tendencies to be parodies, remixes, or mashups. This study aims to examine the possible meanings which memes may express and the interpretations of memes by young adults within the affinity space of Attack on Titan anime memes. The two-phase methodology involves analysing the memes using Shifman’s analytical dimensions of content, form, and stance, before conducting in-depth interviews with ten young adults who represent insiders and outsiders of the affinity space. The findings discuss how Attack on Titan memes normalise sexualisation, violence, and struggles such as suicidal intentions in young adults. The influences of Attack on Titan memes are shown to reach beyond their immediate affinity space and implications for media literacy education are discussed
Hauntings of Publication Deaths, Possibilities for Our Academic Present
Get PDFIn this paper, we use a feminist dialogue to query publication deaths that haunt us. We ruminate on respective past publications that remain unread and uncited, despite encapsulating defining events in our development as scholars. For Author Kaye Hare this was an affective narrative that troubled a seemingly ideal moment of public scholarship; for Author Amber Moore, this was a hard-fought analysis of precarious intersectional feminist resistance in popular culture. Inspired by the horror-film genre “spectral incognizance,” we methodologically deploy a multivocal dialogical structure based on multiple revisitings that attenuate anxieties of metaphorical publication death, before revealing that this death is imminent. Through re-examining our past works, this project invites consideration of how our publications’ f(l)ailings can draw out a particular haunting temporality that holds the present open to provocative questions that are difficult to pose and sustain within current institutional, academic processes
Facies-neoichnological variability and sedimentation rates of modern continental shelves
No full textCurrent ichnofacies models for shelf environments are largely based on analysis of ancient sedimentary deposits and have rarely been applied to studies of modern siliciclastic shelves. Siliciclastic shelf margins are key components of source rocks and unconventional shale plays that can be used as modern analogs to ancient systems. This paper examines the sedimentology and ichnology of shelf margin cores of the Mississippi River Delta containing strata formed during the 2004 (Ivan) and 2005 (Katrina and Rita) hurricane events in the Gulf of Mexico, together with those from the Kikori-Fly-Purari rivers in the Gulf of Papua, New Guinea and the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay shelf deposits of the Waipaoa River basin, offshore New Zealand. The cores provide examples of modern-day traces created by marine organisms on muddy shelves and are used to evaluate ichnological models that have been applied to determine sedimentation rates and depositional processes in ancient settings. In total, six facies were recognised based on lithology and ichnological characteristics: (1) laminated very fine sand, produced by waxing and waning currents, displaying scarce to moderate bioturbation; (2) laminated silty mud, formed by waxing and waning currents, exhibiting scarce, very low to moderate bioturbation; (3) normally graded sand and silt, created by suspension settling following a wave-enhanced sediment-gravity flow (WESGF), which reveals low to moderate bioturbation; (4) fluid mudflow/suspension settling deposits, characterised by structureless mud with low to high bioturbation; (5) biogenically mottled silty mud deposited by suspension settling which show high bioturbation intensity; and, (6) storm-generated facies of laminated sand formed by rapid sediment accumulation on the shelf. The different study areas show remarkably similar traces with variable intensity, diversity, abundance and distribution. The Mississippi River Delta cores are typified by Helminthopsis, Chondrites, Schaubcylindrichnus, Skolithos, Siphonichnus, navichnia, fugichnia and abundant bivalve shells. The deposits from the Gulf of Papua consist of Phycosiphon, Chondrites, Schaubcylindrichnus, Skolithos, Helminthopsis, Arenicolites, worm-like traces and abundant bivalve shell fragments. In addition to the traces and bivalves, Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay shelf includes Asterosoma, Thalassinoides and gastropods. These traces are consistent with the newly defined Phycosiphon Ichnofacies (MacEachern and Bann, 2020), which characterise muddy prodelta settings. This research demonstrates that the neoichnology of modern shelf sediments match models developed from studies of ancient systems, and provides a robust tool for analysing and interpreting ancient shelf strata
Women in the Italian Resistance: Stories of Partnership between Italian Partisans and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services
No full textThe primary goals of Dr. Sama’s research project are to 1) enhance our knowledge of women’s roles in the Italian Resistance movement, and 2) shed light on the collaboration between Italian partisans and the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – the intelligence agency formed during WWII to coordinate espionage and sabotage activities behind enemy lines. Sama plans to create a limited series podcast about this complex historical partnership and time period (1943-45). It will feature the voices of the individual women and men involved in the fight to liberate Northern Italy from Nazi-Fascist control.
This talk explores the actions, dilemmas, fears, and hopes of these individuals as seen through the primary sources Sama has collected thus far: interviews with the partisans and OSS agents; military documents now declassified, including radio messages transmitted from behind enemy lines; private letters and papers; and interviews with descendants on both Italian and American sides.
Dr. Sama’s talk was only delivered in-person as her research is still in its early stages. Please stay tuned for access to Sama’s limited series podcast