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Or, (2022) Image 27
No full textOr,December 8-11, 2022Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Liz Duffy AdamsDirected by Chris Flaharty
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_or/1026/thumbnail.jp
Investigating Conceptual Metaphors for Covid-19 on Social Media
No full textConceptual metaphors are prevalent in everyday language as a way to make sense of the world around us. The objective of these studies is to improve understanding of how people interpret common conceptual metaphors for Covid-19. These studies are relevant to research on the relationship between language and cognition. The first study had 240 participants fill out a brief online survey where they were asked to rate and describe the effectiveness of different metaphors as descriptors for Covid-19. The second study presented 80 participants with tweets and had them judge whether they believed the tweets were written by a medical expert, politician or reporter. In both studies, participants answered multiple choice questions about their attitudes to Covid-19 safety protocols and their basic background information. Both studies revealed interesting differences in how people interpret and discuss metaphors describing Covid-19 depending on demographic information and self-identified political ideology
Fuzzy-logic Cognitive Mapping as a tool for measuring and increasing systems thinking: A test of MentalModeler
No full textIncoming : Ethnographic Committee
No full textI will interview the incoming members of the ethnographic collection committee which is planned to start Fall 2022 (after I leave). I will be recording these interviews for now + also typing up a report but this is subject to change
La mirada masculina en Nadie me vera llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza: Reflejos e imagenes fragmentadas del cuerpo y de la mente femenina
Get PDFAl crecer en plena época de las redes sociales, uno de los dilemas centrales de mi adolescencia era “¿cómo puedo representarme para que los demás sepan quien soy?” o más honestamente, “¿para que ellos me perciban cómo yo quiero parecerles?” Mientras que me siento afortunada por haber experimentado con mi propia imagen (aunque lo hacía durante mis años más vulnerables y confusos), este proyecto ha sido una oportunidad de reflexión y análisis de mi propia experiencia como persona que se identifica como mujer y con la feminidad debajo del ojo patriarcal. A la vez que mis amigas y yo experimentamos con nuestras voces artísticas, presentando una imagen “empoderadora” nuestra existencia en varios sitios, poses, o disfraces (el maquillaje, la ropa) en nombre de la lucha femenista, la experimentación de nuestra performance de feminidad era algo bastante personal que nos ayudó en el camino del autoconocimiento. La “yo” adolescente nunca habría pensado que su experimentación pubescente con la imagen formaría parte de la culminación de mis estudios universitarios, ni que mis aprendizajes y pensamientos sobre el tema, recaudados a través de los años, llegarían a informar un proyecto apoyado por numerosas teorías y ejemplificados en una novela que leería en una clase universitaria
The Personal Must Always Be Political: A History of Survivors\u27 Narratives in Anti-Sexual Violence Zines
Get PDFThis thesis constructs a history of the changing role of survivors’ narratives in anti-sexual violence zines from the 1990s to the early 2020s. I argue that zines are a window to the changing politics of the American anti-sexual violence movement. Through this lens, I find that the role of survivors’ narratives in zines has complexly changed and ultimately diminished over time. I examine how and posit why this change occurred in zines and the anti-sexual violence movement. Among other reasons, I find that both have followed the traditional arc of social movements, which chronologically involves emergence, coalescence, institutionalization, and decline. There are complicated consequences of zines’ transition from helping survivors heal to providing impersonal education and the paralleled progression of the anti-sexual violence movement. Ultimately, I advise that there must always be space for survivors’ narratives in anti-sexual violence efforts because of their benefits to survivors’ healing and the movement’s progress
Characterizing AGN Influence on the Calculated Metallicities of Adjacent Star-Forming Spaxels
Get PDFIn this thesis, I introduce a method to identify and characterize the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGN) on the spectra of nearby star-forming regions. I analyze spatially-resolved areas of galaxies called “spaxels” within Data Release 15 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with the goal of locating those which are physically close to AGN. I find those spaxels with calculated metallicities which lie adjacent to AGN-flagged spaxels and characterize their metallicity values relative to the spaxels which are not adjacent to AGN-flagged spaxels, using a total of 11 separate metallicity calibrations. I find that the current methods to mask AGN-influenced regions for large-scale investigation are, in general, robust, as the largest median deviation between metallicities in border spaxels and those in non-border spaxels is 0.0467 dex. The largest mean difference in metallicity between border and non-border spaxels is 0.0522 dex with a standard deviation of 0.0590 dex. However, on a spaxel-by spaxel basis, I find that the differences in metallicity between border spaxels and non-border spaxels can be as large as 0.9350 dex. These results are concerning for spaxel-by-spaxel analysis, and indicate the need for an improved masking process in the future
Kinetics Study of Acid-Catalyzed Sulfate Esterification Reactions for Atmospherically Relevant Polyols
No full textExtensive laboratory and field studies have identified organosulfates as important constituents of secondary organic aerosol (SOA). However, the mechanisms by which these organosulfates form in the atmosphere remain uncertain. The rate constants for the acid-catalyzed sulfate esterification reactions of a series of polyols were measured via bulk kinetics experiments using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The NMR data indicated that while reactions that occurred at a terminal hydroxyl site were somewhat faster than reactions at internal hydroxyl sites, there were no other significant structure–reactivity trends among the series of polyols. These results suggest that neighboring hydroxyl groups do not significantly modify the sulfate esterification rates from those previously determined for monoalcohols. Extrapolation of the kinetics data to typical atmospheric SOA acidities suggests that sulfate esterification reactions of polyols are unlikely to be a significant source of organosulfates. This conclusion is consistent with a previous study of monoalcohols which made similar conclusions about the kinetic infeasibility of this reaction type
Cultivating hope through creative resistance: Puerto Rican undergraduates surviving the disasters of climate and colonization
No full textThis article details what occurred during a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project involving Puerto Rican undergraduates who at first focused their analysis on how their experiences with Hurricane Maria could be framed as resiliency and then eventually adopted a framework of resistance to further capture their actions, stances, and practices in response to government neglect. The YPAR generative process facilitated this emergence of resistance by beginning with the presentation of a cultural artifact and then helping students to use creative and artistic means to critically reflect on their experiences and the ways that not just resiliency, but also resistance captured their analysis of the actions of the people and government actors both immediately after the hurricane and in the long recovery that followed
