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AEMS News and Reviews: Winter 2002 (Vol. 5, No. 2)
No full textThe Winter 2002 issue of AEMS News and Reviews (Vol. 5, No. 2) offers a diverse selection of films exploring cultural heritage, social change, and spirituality across Asia. It opens with an essay on making "Under Another Sun," a film profiling Japanese expatriates in Singapore and their connection to Southeast Asian history. Film reviews include "Japanese and Korean Pottery," highlighting East Asian ceramics and the "mingei" folk art movement; "Doing Time, Doing Vipassana," documenting Buddhist meditation in an Indian prison; and "Sadako’s Legacy," revisiting post-WWII Japan through the story of Sadako Sasaki and the peace movement. Also featured are "Swing in Beijing," which examines China's avant-garde art scene; "I Love You—Hope for the Year 2000," an ethnographic look at love and marriage in a Central Sumatra, Indonesia, village; and "Kamala and Raji," portraying two Indian women in Ahmedabad who are members of SEWA. Supplementary resources provide an overview of The Asia Society and a "Bargain Buys" column on films related to Vietnam's history and transformation.Center for East Asian and Pacific Studie
AEMS News and Reviews: Fall 2008 (Issue: #30)
No full textOur fall issue brings us reviews of four extraordinary films on topics spanning the Asian continent; if there is a theme this time, it might be “tragedy and transcendence.” The Flute Player, reviewed by Gavin Douglas (along with Monkey Dance), asks how music can give the survivors of the Cambodian genocide the strength to heal and to speak. Nazif Shahrani introduces Kabul Transit, a street-level exploration of the fractured cityscape of contemporary Kabul, Afghanistan—like Cambodia, a place torn apart by violence and trying to heal, but against daunting odds. The Blood of Yingzhou District moved reviewer Bob Cagle to action—after viewing this film about AIDS orphans in China, he began to organize fundraisers for their medical care. Finally, on a somewhat lighter note, Clay Dube takes us to a classroom in Wuhan, China, for an experiment in electoral politics—with some provoking questions to consider as we build up to our own presidential election. In our Teaching and Technology column, I present a guide to finding and using digital videos in a world exploding with technological opportunities and obstacles.Center for East Asian and Pacific Studie
Illinois Fire Service Institute- 2025 Course Calendar
No full textA calendar of courses offered by the Illinois Fire Service Institute from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025
The Great Depression and the New Deal: Transient Division Newsletter from Macon, Georgia
No full textVol 4. No. 2 (2023). This issue of SourceLab introduces readers to New Deal, a transient camp newsletter published in Macon, Georgia in 1934. This publication is part of the digital documentary edition series SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our Editorial Board conducts rigorous peer-review of every edition
Research and Management on the Interactions of Invasive Species and Other Natural Resources of the Upper Illinois River and Chicago Area Waterways (CAWS)
No full textSince the development and expansion of the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS), numerous nuisance and injurious species have used the CAWS as a corridor for invasion
between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basin. The most recent high-profile species, the invasive carps (Hypophthalmichthys spp., Mylopharyngodon piceus, and Ctenopharyngodon idella) have had a substantial effect on the economic and natural resources of the State of Illinois
and the Mississippi River Basin. The threat of the spread of invasive carps to new ecosystems like the Great Lakes necessitates a strong and coordinated response to limit their further spread. The two successful responses to the invasive carp threat are the construction of an electric barrier
to limit upstream spread, and the implementation of large-scale invasive carp harvest downstream of the electric barrier to reduce upstream pressure. However, there are still many
research questions about these invasive species’ responses that would improve and enhance their effectiveness. The need is for flexible and reliable monitoring, research, and response
capabilities for both the current invasive carp control efforts and for the next invasive species threat that arises.Project CAFWS-146
Sorting URLs Out: Seeing the Web through Infrastructural Inversion of Archival Crawling
No full textWeb archives collections have become important sources for Internet scholars by documenting the past versions of web resources. Understanding how these collections are created and curated is of increasing concern and recent web archives scholarship has studied how the artifacts stored in archives represent specific curatorial choices and collecting practices. This paper takes a novel approach in studying web archiving practice, by focusing on the challenges encountered in archival web crawling and what they reveal about the web itself. Inspired by foundational work in infrastructure studies, infrastructural inversion is applied to study how crawler interactions surface otherwise invisible, background or taken-for-granted aspects of the web. This framework is applied to study three examples selected from interviews and ethnographic fieldwork observations of web archiving practices at the Danish Royal Library, with findings demonstrating how the challenges of archival crawling illuminate the web’s varied actors, as well as their changing relationships, power differentials and politics. Ultimately, analysis through infrastructural inversion reveals how collection via crawling positions archives as active participants in web infrastructure, both shaping and shaped by the needs and motivations of other web actors.Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canada Graduate Scholarship 767-2015-2217 and Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement
The Serenity Logo: Otherness and Inauthenticity
No full textThis paper explores and critiques the typographic and design
decisions made in the creation of the logo and brand for the
2005 film Serenity by Joss Whedon and how the choice of the
Papyrus-inspired typeface used in the logo perpetuates the
potential for orientalist, racialized stereotypes, and material
dishonesty previously seen in the film’s casting, props, and
story critiqued prior in Serenity scholarly literature. In addition,
this paper explores how the choice of Papyrus leads to the
conflation of Asian visual culture and stereotypes throughout
the entire brand of Firefly and Serenity. Scholar Carrie Rose
Evon best explains this false pluralism:
[T]he representation of “Chinese” culture in Firefly and
Serenity is actually a representation of a blend of Asian
cultures that do not reflect a focus on China by Whedon.
The culture of China becomes the culture of Asia that a
white American man thinks is Asian enough
Collaborating in Conceptual Spaces: How Data Visualization Facilitated by Javascript Can Improve Interdisciplinary Design Projects
No full textThis paper explains the methods and reasoning behind the creation of Simple NetInt, a custom-made
JavaScript library designed to facilitate collaboration in conceptual spaces. As design researchers
increasingly partner with collaborators in the humanities, the need for visualizing datasets to support
conceptual elucidation, critical discourse analysis, and narrative inquiry are often needed. Two case
studies are examined in this paper that involve the use of Simple NetInt to positively affect inter-
disciplinary design collaborations that required the visual transformation of complex datasets into
a dynamic narrative that recounted the development of research projects on computer browsers,
and across a large mural imbued with 2D, 3D, and augmented reality (AR) components. Reflections
on each of these projects yielded questions that sought to examine how the framework of concep-
tual spaces could 1) better inform spatial thinking and 2) create actionable knowledge to guide the
design of data-driven, embodied data experiences. The paper concludes with potential design uses
for Simple NetInt in collaborative research and reviews the future potential of data-driven libraries in
complex design projects in and out of the classroom
Stressful life events as antecedents for online privacy protective behavior of Israeli students
Get PDFThis longitudinal research investigates the main reasons and triggers for users to engage in privacy-protective behavior, which is exemplified by their tendency not to disclose their personal details or provide falsified information upon website registration. In addition, we examine the possible effect of stressful life events (the COVID-19 pandemic and the Israel-Hamas War) on privacy concerns leading to this kind of behavior. To this end, a three-phased user study was carried out among 521 Israeli students in total, via a quantitative method using online closed-ended questionnaires. Privacy- and trust-related issues, such as distrust in the website operators and the desire to remain anonymous were found as the most prevalent for identity falsification. However, it seems that stressful life events do not increase the tendency to falsify details out of privacy-related reasons, but rather lead to indecisiveness or confusion, which are common in times of distress. The research may bear social implications for website operators and online marketers who, by recognizing the reasons behind identity falsification, may create more balanced personalization mechanisms for their own benefit and the benefit of their consumers
AI-assisted creativity: Shaping reader perspectives and evolving information needs
Get PDFArtificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to generate creative works. However, stakeholders’ perspectives regarding this trend remain underexplored. This study investigates readers’ perspectives on the impact of using AI in the creative process, and explores any information needs that are pertinent to AI-assisted creative works. Through opencoding Reddit discussion threads, the authors identified themes of positive impact (i.e., editing support and financial advantages) and negative impact (intellectual proper-ties and financial consequences) noted by readers, as well as four information needs that arose from the emergence of AI-assisted works (i.e., AI detection, disclosure, legislation, and AI literacy). By understanding readers’ perspectives on the impact of AI on creative works and their evolving information needs, this study suggests directions for future studies, such as expanding the forms of creative works investigated, soliciting opinions from diverse stakeholders, and exploring the concept of authorship and attribution in AI-assisted creative works