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Toy: Wooden Nurse Figurine
No full textThis is a wooden nurse figurine, which might have been part of a larger children\u27s toy such as a wooden puzzle.https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/nur_hagan/2131/thumbnail.jp
Exploring Echo-Systems: How Algorithms Shape Immersive Media Environments
No full textIn the lead up to the 2016 election, fake news often “outperformed” actual news in users’ social media feeds (Silverman, 2016). This paper attempts to analyze the process in which fake news proliferates social networking sites and presents a method of understanding and articulating ways in which personalized feeds are shaped by algorithm-based user feedback. The algorithm systems are embedded programs that analyze past user data and search history in combination with other users’ searches and history to calculate digital outcomes, anticipate possible recommendations, and present consumers with feeds that represent their own unique immersive media environments.
As of August 2017, over two-thirds of Americans get some of their news from online sources (Shearer & Gottfried, 2017) and new research suggests that users may tend to believe misinformation or fake news regardless of their information echo-chamber, but rather as a result of algorithms tailoring cultural artifacts customized to the user in social media information and distribution systems (Flynn, Nyhan, & Reifler, 2017). Additional research shows most users have a poor understanding of the technical functions and methods in which algorithms gather data about user activities and interactions both online and in physical space that in turn becomes repurposed into their online media consumption (Rader & Gray, 2015). Social media platforms create user categories based on data collected through online behavior as well as data collected offline in “dataveillance” methods. Further complicating an understanding of information network analysis is the general “invisibility” of the algorithm in end-user interaction within social networking sites (Eslami et al., 2015).When consuming digital media on various digital platforms, users often access media without interrogating how fake news is designed to find its way into user algorithms and social feeds. This paper analyzes how the algorithm itself should be considered an immersive media environment that permits users to consume unique media feeds that may affect civic actions
Public Policy Consideration of Workplace-Based Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) Use by Immigrants for Asset Building
Get PDFWhen immigrants need to save a large lump sum to purchase of home or for entrepreneurial efforts, many turn a “susu” or “partner” to build assets and secure middle-class status rather than mainstream financial services. This financial practice of pooling savings and credit based on an individual’s social connections is known as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs). In these underground organized associations; participants agree to make regular contributions to an unregulated fund that participants then distribute, in whole or in part, to each contributor in rotation. Policymakers view ROSCAs as an informal or alternative financial service operating under the radar of regulations, even though one-third of the adult U.S. population are users (FDIC, 2014; OIG, USPS, 2014). Policymakers and the financial industry categorize consumers using informal or alternative financial services such as ROSCAs as “underbanked or unbanked” rather than “fully-banked.” This policy position reinforces the established poverty pathology around poor people and saving, while casting ROSCA users negatively. In contrast, ROSCA users view themselves as “fully-banked” by mixing and matching informal, alternative, and mainstream financial services; view the informal and alternatives sectors more formal and positive than acknowledged; and achieve greater success saving and accumulating wealth with ROSCA
Kneel and You\u27re Fired: Freedom of Speech in the Workplace
Get PDFThe divisiveness of race relations, using sports as a political platform and President Trump himself aside; does the National Football League have the right to terminate their employee for kneeling during the National Anthem? Does an NFL employee have a protected right to “Freedom of Speech” without putting their employment at risk? This paper will examine the legal rights of employers to terminate employees for engaging in workplace speech. Part One of the paper will examine job security and an analysis of employment as a protected property interest. Part Two will analyze freedom of speech in the workplace. Part Three will provide a legal analysis of the NFL players protest. Part Four will conclude, suggest solutions and possibly solve other impossible world problems
Boric Acid Tin - 1
No full textThis is a 2 oz. tin of Boric Acid produced by Purepac corporation located in Elizabeth, New Jersey and Los Angeles, California. The package features a faded pink and white striped wrapper with a brown board around the base.https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/nur_hagan/1775/thumbnail.jp
Boric Acid Tin
No full textThis is a 2 oz. tin of Boric Acid produced by Purepac corporation located in Elizabeth, New Jersey and Los Angeles, California. The package features a faded pink and white striped wrapper with a brown board around the base.https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/nur_hagan/1774/thumbnail.jp
Sphygmomanometer - 1
No full textThis is a Majestic Mercury Sphygmomanometer: an instrument used to take blood pressure. It was created by JAC Instrument Company located in California and was distributed by Graham-Field, Inc. located in Hauppauge, New York. The sphygmomanometer still functions and the gauge’s center consists of mercury. There is a cardboard box, steel box with attached gauge, inflatable cuff, rubber tubes, inflator, and operating instructions. There is an on-off switch for the blood pressure gauge. The desk model number reads 03-225 and is from lot 414104.https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/nur_hagan/1795/thumbnail.jp
Sol Naciente, El Salvador
No full textSr. Diane Capuano from Campus Ministries started a program with her Dominican partner, Sister Flor de Maria Buruca (Dominican Sister of Amityville and graduate of Molloy College), in El Salvador. For the past 5 years she has selected several Molloy students to take part in running a camp for the children in the village of Sol Naciente.
This year the selected students are: Alumni, Tom Malinowski, and students Jeffrey Lozano, Elizabeth Meittinis, Eddie Cramsie, Joey Marino, and Bethany Pincus.https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/international_trips/1028/thumbnail.jp
Quito, Ecuador
No full textGroup of students traveling to the Galapagos; Quito was the first leg of the journey.https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/international_trips/1025/thumbnail.jp
Sicily & Malta
No full textA creative and cultural program that will investigate the history, arts, and cuisine of these two cultures.https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/international_flyer/1014/thumbnail.jp