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An Experiment on the Effects of using Color to Visualize Requirements Analysis Tasks: Supplemental Material
No full textSupplemental material for the paper: An Experiment on the Effects of using Color to Visualize Requirements Analysis Tasks .This paper is a scientific evaluation of the effectiveness and usability of EVO. We conduct an experiment to measure any effect of using colors to represent evidence pairs
How Do Psychoanalytic Mental Health Clinicans’ Reactions, Understandings and Formulations Shape Their Work with Gender-Creative LGBTQ+ Clients?
No full textThis study investigates the ways in which psychoanalytic mental health clinicians in North America (United States and Canada) face and manage prejudices targeting gender diversity with LGBTQ+ clients, and what they do or do not do to prevent and repair ruptures in the therapeutic alliance through latrogenic gender enactments. The predominantly white sample was comprised of psychoanalytic clinicians: members of the International Psychoanalytical Association that trained and practices in the United States and Canada, and the years of experience oscillated between 3 and 48 years. There were 20 eligible participants for a 60- to 90-minute semi-structured interview; 14 males and 6 females. Ten participants out of the 20 identified as queer, gay, bisexual and/or trans. The results support current trends in prejudice studies that recommend symbolic relationships with members of the prejudiced-against community to achieve the dismantling of internalized prejudices. It provides evidence of the importance of accessibility at all levels of institutional psychoanalysis to address systemic prejudices that impact the training of beginning clinicians and deter LGBTQ+ people from accessing psychoanalytic treatments that can be beneficial. Lastly, participants strongly advocated for a revision of pedagogic curricula that includes a less harmful conceptualization of gender and sexual diversity
Introduction to the Symposium: China and the Campus
Get PDFThe US-China relationship has worsened dramatically in recent years. After decades of pro-engagement policies toward China, a bipartisan consensus began to emerge around 2016 that engagement had neither accomplished US policy goals (such as encouraging China to liberalize politically) nor served US citizens well.1 At the same time, political changes within China have pointed to a declining appetite for engagement with the United States and sidelined the domestic constituencies who remained interested in cooperation and exchange. Further restrictions have shrunk the already limited space for media, civil society groups, and academic exchange in China. Pandemic-related border closures eliminated in-person exchanges almost completely for nearly three years. And some are concerned that China’s 2021 Personal Information Protection Law could be used to prosecute foreign researchers who conduct research in China (Lewis 2023)
Direct Election, Bureaucratic Appointment, and Local Government Responsiveness in Taiwan
Get PDFDoes local democracy induce better service to citizens? While elected officials can be punished at the ballot box if they fail to address citizens’ needs, appointed bureaucrats may have policy knowledge that enables them to better serve citizens. Employing a multimethod design, this paper uses variation in local political institutions in Taiwan to assess the relative merits of direct election and bureaucratic appointment for local government responsiveness. While democratic institutions are often thought to induce responsiveness, I find that in Taiwan, with its historically strong bureaucracy and relatively new democratic institutions, the picture is somewhat more complicated. Elected and appointed officials face different incentives that motivate the latter to respond more quickly and effectively to online requests for help
Real Clothes, Real Lives : 200 Years of What Women Wore
No full textAn unprecedented look at women’s everyday clothes—from Sylvia Plath’s Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, modern suits, and fast-food workers’ uniforms—this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background have lived, worked, and dressed for 200 years. Groundbreaking in its focus on the everyday clothing of ordinary American women—a subject neglected in most fashion histories—Real Clothes, Real Lives highlights over 300 garments and accessories from the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection. This unique survey honors countless lives, tracing through the lens of dress how women’s roles have changed over the decades. Each piece holds colorful stories about the woman who wore it, the one who made or bought it, and her context in place and time. Whether homemade or ready-made, many of the garments are modest and inexpensive. Some are one-of-a-kind pieces; others are examples of clever making-do, which seems particularly relevant today; and most reflect the popular styles of their era. Among the many extraordinary examples are a rare World War I uniform worn by an American woman working behind enemy lines and a 1970s go-go dancer’s costume. Exceptional photography and rich archival visuals accompany the highly readable texts, which offer a wealth of historical and social analysis of a side of fashion and feminism rarely considered. Source: Publisherhttps://scholarworks.smith.edu/the_books/1000/thumbnail.jp
Race, Ethnicity and Higher Education in the African Diaspora: Guest Editors\u27 Introductory Note
Get PDFAuthors in this issue of Alliance for African Partnership Perspectives, Race, Ethnicity, and Higher Education in the African Diaspora, responded to a Call for Thought Pieces from anywhere in the world—urgent, critical reflections of issues around race and ethnicity in higher education institutions and key stakeholder and collaborator organizations in Africa and the African Diaspora.https://scholarworks.smith.edu/afr_books/1008/thumbnail.jp
Bringing Stakeholders Along for the Ride: Towards Supporting Intentional Decisions in Software Evolution
No full textContext and Motivation: During elicitation, in addition to collecting requirements, analysts also collect stakeholders’ goals and the present and historical interests that motivate their goals. This information can guide the resolution of requirements conflicts, support the evolution of requirements when changes occur (e.g., environmental constraints), and inform decisions in software design.
Problem: Unfortunately, this information is rarely explicitly represented and maintained. When a stakeholder is modeled in the literature, the captured information is only part of that stakeholder’s intention (i.e., the goals and the present and historical interests that motivate those goals) and not other requirements documents. In addition, such representations of a stakeholder are not traced and kept aligned with the design and, thus, cannot be used during iterative development and in case of changes.
Principal Idea: To support engineers in making informed decisions during the design, development, and evolution of a system, we propose a framework to collect and maintain intentionality in an efficient and effortless way.
Contributions: To define intentionality, disambiguate it from its use in literature, and position it in relation to similar concepts (i.e., rationale and goals), we conduct a literature review. Based on our derived definition, we present our framework to appropriately include intentionality throughout the stages of a project and the research agenda to realize such a framework.https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_books/1002/thumbnail.jp
Creating a Feminist Religious Counterpublic:RLDS Feminists and Women\u27s Ordination Advocacy in America, 1970–1985
Get PDFThe 1970s witnessed an efflorescence of religious feminism in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, particularly around the issue of women\u27s ordination. We pose a model for understanding this development—the formation of publics/counterpublics—and explore how it illuminates our case study. Drawing upon oral history interviews and archival sources, we document how RLDS women created independent publications, grassroots consciousness-raising groups, feminist classes and conferences, and Women-Church–inspired worship to reimagine priesthood within their church. We conclude that the lens of a counterpublic offers a capacious view of our topic, one capable of integrating both social movement theory and network theory. Furthermore, we suggest that the RLDS example featured in this essay is simply a manifestation of a larger late twentieth-century American “feminist religious counterpublic” formed across many religious denominations and groups that held a shared feminist social imaginary