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Bubbles and Machines: Gender, Information and Financial Crises
No full textAre financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches to communication can help in understanding because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital’s gendered aspect – even – the ideology of a ‘crisis’. This book develops four themes: women as resources in financial markets and as producers of values; gender ideology and unequal distribution; machine production and distribution of financial information and the varied actuality of markets. Working with case histories of tulipmania, microcredit, Wall Street reporting and the role of ‘screens’, Bubbles and Machines argues that rather than calling financial crises human-made or inevitable they should be recognized as technological
The Additive Effect of Social Anxiety Disorder on Learning in Veterans with Unipolar Depression
Get PDFDifferential patterns of punishment and reward responsivity are found in social anxiety disorder (SAD), which is highly comorbid with major depressive disorder (MDD). Individuals with either SAD or MDD react and respond differently to receipt of punishing and rewarding stimuli compared to healthy controls, suggesting a shared diathesis. Little is known, however, about punishment and reward responsivity in comorbid SAD and MDD compared to MDD-alone. In a sample of 80 veterans with unipolar depression, mixed model repeated measures analyses of variances (ANOVA) were conducted to explore the additive effect of co-occurring SAD and MDD on response bias (RB) in punishment and reward learning. For the punishment task, the SAD group demonstrated greater bias away from the more frequently punished stimuli and slower reaction times (RT). However, the interactions between Block and Group for RB and RT were not significant. For the reward task, no statistically significant main effects or interactions emerged, suggesting a unique effect of comorbid SAD on punishment responsivity in a depressed sample. Implications for etiology, maintenance, and treatment of comorbid SAD and MDD are reviewed as well as future directions for exploring this presentation
Digital Privacy - It Ain\u27t Over til the Dead Person Tweets - Ajemian v. Yahoo, Inc. 84 N.E.3D 766 (Mass. 2017)
Get PDFSyntax, Newsletter of the Suffolk University English Department, Issue 4, 2019
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Multilevel Resilience Characteristics of Youth who are at Risk for Trauma
Get PDFResearch on resilience, or “the capacity of a dynamic system to withstand or recover from significant challenges that threaten its stability, viability, or development” (Masten, 2011, p. 494) is a burgeoning field, particularly in the area of childhood resilience. Recent literature has moved away from the idea of resilience as a trait someone has or does not have and toward the integration of resilience at multiple levels beyond the individual child, such as their family and their community (Masten, 2014b; Masten, 2015; Southwick, Bonanno, Masten, Panter-Brick, & Yehuda, 2014). To address this call, this dissertation presents two original studies of multilevel resilience with groups of children that have been historically underrepresented in the literature: children with refugee statuses and children with trauma histories who live in low-income, urban neighborhoods. Study 1 is a review of the extent literature on resilience characteristics of refugee children, incorporating research with groups of refugees from a number of different countries that have been resettled all over the world. Study 1 takes a new approach to the existing literature by outlining what resilience characteristics refugee children are accessing at different ecological levels, as well as the most promising treatments and interventions to help bolster resilience for future groups of refugee children. Study 2 is an original empirical study that contributes to the existing literature by investigating resilience characteristics at the individual, family, and community levels as perceived by both children and caregivers, to get a comprehensive picture of the myriad ways children with trauma histories are currently coping with stressors and new life challenges. Study 2 uses the personal narratives of children and their caregivers to understand their own perspectives on resilience in the present, as opposed to retrospectively or through an outside observer’s perspective. Results from both studies show the importance of the family level as it contributes children’s overall resilience and positive adaptation after significant trauma or stressors, and I make recommendations for the best courses of action for research, clinical, and policy implications for children who may be vulnerable to trauma or revictimization based on these studies
Oral history interview with Bill Coughlin (SOH-050)
Get PDFBill Coughlin, former director of admissions at Suffolk University, discusses his forty-three career at the university. Coughlin discusses his early life, including studying at Holy Cross and Boston University, and his time as a high school teacher in Connecticut. He describes the growth of Suffolk University from 1966-2010, including aspects of the university’s culture, the evolution of the admissions department, reaching international students, plus the introduction of residence halls and other additions to the Suffolk campus. The interview concludes with a discussion of Coughlin’s life post-retirement.https://dc.suffolk.edu/soh/1037/thumbnail.jp
