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COVID-19: A Pandemic of Anti-Asian Cyberhate
Get PDFHateful online attacks targeting individuals of Asian descent have increased dramatically in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. This study examines daily trends in inflammatory keywords associated with anti-Asian cyberhate using data collected from Twitter between January 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021. Additionally, we explore the sentiment of tweets and track the evolution of discourse on Twitter regarding Asians and the coronavirus. Our results indicate that the usage of inflammatory keywords associated with anti-Asian hate on Twitter rose dramatically at the outset of the outbreak, and then spiked at various points over the next fourteen months. Notably, offline events and rhetoric appear to have affected the rate of hateful tweets about the pandemic targeting Asians. Additionally, we find that discourse on Twitter around the words China, Chinese, Asians, and virus has become increasingly negative and stigmatizing during the course of the coronavirus outbreak
Kung Flu and Roof Koreans: Asian/Americans as the Hated Other and Proxies of Hating in the White Imaginary
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic brought about not only political, social, and economic disaster globally, but also rising hate and the exacerbation of social inequity. As the pandemic spread beyond China, hate crimes against Asians skyrocketed in the United States and internationally. Amidst growing xenophobia and a global health crisis, 2020 also marked worldwide Black Lives Matter protests. Memes that featured “Roof Koreans” started being shared during the protests, along with the already racist memes about COVID-19 that targeted Asians. In this essay, we critically analyze memes from the spring and summer of 2020 to examine how Asian/Americans are not only positioned and reproduced as the Hated Other (“Kung Flu”), but also how they function as Proxies of Hating (“Roof Koreans”) in service to white hegemony. Using critical discourse analysis, while also responding to Palumbo-Liu’s 1994 essay examining images of Korean Americans from the 1992 LA Uprising as proxies of white hegemony, we explore the symbolic connections between these memes and the pervasive narrative of Asian/Americans as both yellow peril and model minority
A Journey in Servant-Leadership
Get PDFWelcome to our 2021 edition of The International Journal of Servant-Leadership. I would like to offer my special thanks to all of our contributing authors in this journal. Each edition of IJSL contains a wonderful array of articles and papers, poetry and research, film reviews and reflections from around the world that demonstrate many remarkable journeys in servant-leadership
A Conversation on Activism, Solidarity, and Burnout in the Academy
Get PDFDrs. Ersula J. Ore and Bernadette Marie Calafell were invited to discuss their experiences with activism in the academy. They discuss what’s at stake and the costs (both emotional and financial) as well as issues of trauma and burnout
Schleiermacher\u27s \u27Historicism\u27: Historical Criticism and the Modern Study of Theology
Get PDFLevels of Interpersonal Trust Across Different Types of Environment: The Micro-Macro Interplay Between Relational Distance and Human Ecology
Get PDFSocial and behavioral scientists have long investigated the relationship between interpersonal trust and features of the environment. However, it remains unclear how the microenvironment of relational distance (i.e., social proximity between 2 persons) interacts with the macroenvironment of human ecology (i.e., social and natural environments) to predict people’s levels of trusting other persons. In this research, we tackled this puzzle using diverse methodologies (e.g., meta-analysis, experiment, and multilevel analysis) and large, cultural-group samples. Four studies found that, across many countries (e.g., 77 countries in Study 3) and regions within a country (e.g., 28 Chinese provinces in Study 4), members of these social units trusted close others (e.g., family members) more than distant others (e.g., strangers). However, this general effect of relational distance was stronger in societies embedded within more restrictive cultural, sociopolitical, and natural ecologies (e.g., a more collectivistic cultural logic, less developed socioeconomic and political institutions, and a stronger threat of infectious diseases, such as HCV infection). More importantly, people’s attitudinal trust of distant others was higher in countries or regions with less restrictive ecocultural features, but such differences often disappeared in the context of trusting close others. Compared with other sociopolitical and natural features, the societal culture of collectivism often was a unique explanatory variable for the micro–macro interplay of current interest. These converging pieces of evidence provide a clear view of how levels of interpersonal trust vary as a function of relational distance and ecocultural environments simultaneously
NOW 2021-07 July
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NOW 2021-03 March
No full textCorpus of News on the Web data for March 2021.
The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID
Heating Our Homes and Addressing Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Emission Forecasts for Electrification of Space Heating in Residential Homes
Get PDFThe Spokane Sustainability Action Subcommittee has recently released a draft plan that recommends phasing out natural gas hookups for all new commercial and multifamily residential buildings by 2023, and from all new construction by 2028. This proposal created significant discussion within the community about whether we can continue to use fossil fuels such as natural gas (methane) and address the climate crisis, with members of the climate action group 350 Spokane arguing in favor of the provision and Avista Utilities arguing against. In its guest opinion in the Spokesman-Review, Avista Utilities cited a study by UC Davis, claiming that it “confirms that in Washington, electrification of natural gas heating can actually increase carbon emissions.” Others have argued that the UC Davis study proves the opposite, that switching from natural gas furnaces to electric heat pumps will drastically reduce climate pollution.
To help contribute to the public discussion of this important issue, the Gonzaga Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment has invited Co-Director of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Institute and Western Cooling Efficiency Center, Theresa Pistochini, to discuss the UC Davis study and what it does and does not say about the likely impacts of transitioning from natural gas to electricity for our home heating in Spokane.
Theresa Pistochini is Co-Director of Engineering at the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Institute and Western Cooling Efficiency Center with 12 years of experience in applied research in energy efficiency and building operation, primarily in the areas of Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning. She led the development and construction of an HVAC testing laboratory in 2013 and has served as co-PI or project manager on several large projects, including the California Energy Commission funded project to develop a Product Evaluation Hub. Theresa provides technical management for the engineering staff, reviewing project progress including experimental plans, analyses, results, and publications. She earned her M.S. degree from UC Davis and is a registered professional engineer in California
Understanding the Latest IPCC Climate Report
No full textIn August of 2021 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first comprehensive update to our understanding of climate science (Assessment Report 6 or AR6) in seven years. In this presentation Gonzaga University Biology Professors Hugh Lefcort and Betsy Bancroft share some of the key findings from this latest climate science report and its significance.
About the speakers: Dr. Hugh Lefcort is Professor of Biology at Gonzaga University. Dr. Lefcort served as a peer reviewer on the IPCC\u27s sixth Assessment Report. Dr. Betsy Bancroft is Associate Professor of Biology and of Environmental Studies at Gonzaga University