119409 research outputs found
Sort by
The Impact of Technological Advancements on the Likelihood of Conflict
Get PDFThere are a multitude of variables that result in the occurrence of militarized conflicts. This paper seeks to analyze the impact of one specific variable: the adaptation of a technological advancement. To isolate this relationship my study controlled for a country’s form of government, gross domestic product, and number of military personnel by year. A regression of ordinary least squares was used to investigate the correlation between conflict initiation and military technologies. A country-year data set was constructed using data from the Correlates of War Militarized Interstate Dispute Data and data from Hariri and Wingender. Three case studies were analyzed in light of this data. The regression results were significant while the evaluation of the cases provided positive, yet inconclusive information on the relationship between technology and belligerence. Overall, the data supported my hypothesis that adopting military technology makes a country more belligerent
04.07.2025
Get PDFNew ORED Website Goes Live
Oxford Pitch Competition
Hughes Miller, Strategic Partnershipshttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/orsp_newsletter/1047/thumbnail.jp
A MikuMiku Dance Inquiry: Fandom, Technology, Dance
Get PDFA globally popular Japanese manga/anime series called JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has become the basis for a form of fan video art that employs the MikuMikuDance (MMD) software program. This has led to the creation of a JoJo MikuMikuDance (JoJo MMD) digital community based on fan art creators and viewers. This digital ethnographic study, drawing upon an autoethnographic perspective, investigates the JoJo MMD fan community and its relationship to the MMD videos as fan video art. Examining this involves an analysis of YouTube videos and posted comments. The study argues that the JoJo MMD fan community has taken a very positive view of this fan art. The analysis shows the following distribution of comments over 25 videos: 207 positive, 1 negative, and 40 outliers. This indicates not only a love for the craft, but a thriving commenting community surrounding a very peculiar practice of fan art. More broadly, anthropology should investigate these digital fan art communities, which provide insight into processes of globalization, media, art, and sociality. As such, this study contributes to the emerging scholarship on the digital anthropology of fandom, technology, and dance
