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Exploring Doctoral Student Mothers’ Mobile Device Use for Studying and Parenting: Mixed Methods Research Using the Concurrent Triangulation Approach
Get PDFOne in five U.S. college students is a student parent, of which roughly 2.7 million are student mothers. Student mothers’ success in academic pursuits was at a higher risk of attrition than almost any other group of U.S. students. This situation raises the need for discretionary educational policies among traditional and nontraditional students. Mothers pursuing doctoral degrees, in particular, face challenges in their dual roles as academic scholars and primary caretakers. Researching doctoral student mothers’ mobile device use is important, considering this group is likely to be in their peak childbearing years and in response to the increasing use of mobile devices in studying and parenting.
This study aims to explore LIS doctoral student mothers’ perceptions, experiences, and mobile device use for studying and parenting by applying the concurrent triangulation approach in mixed methods research. Twelve transcripts from online interviews with twelve doctoral student mothers were analyzed using NVivo15, resulting in six themes: motivation and persistence, support systems, perception of use, academic use, use in parenting, key challenges and benefits. Furthermore, 49 pings were signalled on each student mother’s mobile device, resulting in 316 completed surveys (53,74% response rate). After removing PII, the survey results were analyzed using the Airtable platform to create a dashboard to present four common attributes found in an ESM study, including context, social, activity and experience (as they occur). The study contributes to promoting research involving human-computer interaction on an everyday basis to bring further application of the experience sampling method into the LIS discipline
Health-Seeking Behaviors of the Displaced Afghan Women in Pakistan
Get PDFStudy Background The study aims to investigate the sustainable health behaviors of underrepresented ethnic minority communities in Pakistan. Pakistan is a multiethnic and multilingual country that hosts national and international populations due to its unique geographic location. Due to cultural and religious imperialism, some ethnic communities have received more attention than others (Alizai, 2021). As a result, minority communities lacking political, economic, social, and religious standing often face marginalization. Underrepresented ethnic groups such as the Baloch, Tajiks, Hazaras, Persians, and Kochis, along with marginalized religious communities such as Hindus, Dalits, Christians, Shias, Parsis, and Deo-Badees, experience discrimination and prejudice in Pakistan (Singha, 2022).
Research Methodology To investigate the health-seeking behaviors of displaced Afghan women in Pakistan, this study employs a qualitative research paradigm to collect data. By adopting oral history methods, the research intends to conduct focus group interviews. The research population will be in Quetta, Pakistan, with a sample size of 20 displaced Afghan women. Chatman’s “Small Worlds Theory” will serve as the theoretical lens for data analysis (Chatman, 1991). Thematic analysis will be employed to investigate, assign codes, and generate themes, ultimately leading to conclusions and recommendations.
Research Findings The information behaviors of underrepresented Afghan women can help us understand the social and cultural factors that influence health, education, and economic sustainability, especially among displaced women in developing nations. The research aims to recommend reformative changes in Pakistan’s immigration policy that should be gender appropriate and be supportive of the displaced Afghan women in Pakistan.
I Like to Think of a Cybernetic Forest Filled With Pines and Electronics: Mergings of Plant and Technology in Contemporary Art
Get PDFIntertwining what can be seen as environment and technology, contemporary art often has a pioneering role in articulating new paradigms. Interlinking ecocritical claims with techno-utopian imaginations, artworks of this genre conceptualize ecosystems as sentient objects of investigation and as autonomous, agential counterparts to a human audience. This article explores how medial imaginations of environmental connectedness might arise or can be imagined in artistic practices through the entanglement of technology and plants or forest ecosystems. In looking at three different artistic case studies, the article investigates how plant bodies and forest ecosystems as well as technological devices are conceptualized, arranged, and interlinked on a material level and explores the epistemologies and aesthetic traditions that the artworks relate to. Through deploying sensing technologies, imaging techniques, sensors, and recording devices, the three artistic case studies discussed in this article – “Perimeter Pfynwald” (Marcus Maeder, 2019), “Terra0” (Terra0, 2016), and “Variants” (Pierre Huyghe, 2022) – construct ecosystems as entities, explore logics of cybernetics and computation, and in doing so shape our imaginaries of our more-than-human environment
Малоросійські “Табелі про ранги” XVIII ст.: форми й практики
Get PDFAt the beginning of the eighteenth century, the military and political elite (“starshyna”) of the Cossack Hetmanate confronted a new series of threats from Imperial Russia, which sought to redefine the nature of its relations with the autonomous “Little Russian” polity. Cossack officials attempted to maintain their status, political influence, and wealth in the face of Peter I’s efforts to prohibit the election of the hetman and to control appointments and distribution of lands, in the process transforming themselves into landlords ("new nobility"). After Peter’s death, the starshyna demanded that the Russian government equalize their status with that of the other imperial officers and officials. To that end, Cossack officials drafted and tried to approve three Ukrainian counterparts (1742, 1756, 1762) to Peter I’s "Table of Ranks" (1722). These projects reflected the actual practices of career promotion and seniority in the Cossack corporation. In the future, they became one of the arguments in the Cossack elite’s struggle to obtain the rights of the Imperial Russian nobility.At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the military and political elite (“starshyna”) of the Cossack Hetmanate confronted a new series of threats from Imperial Russia, which sought to redefine the nature of its relations with the autonomous “Little Russian” polity. Cossack officials attempted to maintain their status, political influence, and wealth in the face of Peter I’s efforts to prohibit the election of the hetman and to control appointments and distribution of lands, in the process transforming themselves into landlords ("new nobility"). After Peter’s death, the starshyna demanded that the Russian government equalize their status with that of the other imperial officers and officials. To that end, Cossack officials drafted and tried to approve three Ukrainian counterparts (1742, 1756, 1762) to Peter I’s "Table of Ranks" (1722). These projects reflected the actual practices of career promotion and seniority in the Cossack corporation. In the future, they became one of the arguments in the Cossack elite’s struggle to obtain the rights of the Imperial Russian nobility
“Скиты” веселой Елизавет: Русские эрмитажи середины XVIII века
Get PDFThe article is devoted to the history of the appearance of garden pavilions and Russian palace chambers also known as "hermitages." The tradition of building hermitages as special-purpose premises, adopted in Russia in the early eighteenth century, had acquired during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna a meaningful national character and scope. Hereby, this tradition may be considered as one of the major cultural phenomena of that time. At the same time, Russian hermitages were significantly different in their function from the British and continental European hermitages. Their main function throughout the eighteenth century remained that of a private, isolated dining room equipped with a special table volante mechanism that allowed those who had gathered to eat without servants. The article therefore also pays attention to the role of mechanical tables and mechanical amusement machines in the baroque court culture. It also compares the design of Elizabeth Petrovna\u27s dining hermitage in Tsarskoye Selo with European architectural treatises. The reader is also acquainted with the reasons for the development of such functional and iconographic features of Russian hermitage architecture, which occupies a special place in the vast and varied European tradition of hermitage construction.The article is devoted to the history of the appearance of garden pavilions and Russian palace chambers also known as "hermitages." The tradition of building hermitages as special-purpose premises, adopted in Russia in the early eighteenth century, had acquired during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna a meaningful national character and scope. Hereby, this tradition may be considered as one of the major cultural phenomena of that time. At the same time, Russian hermitages were significantly different in their function from the British and continental European hermitages. Their main function throughout the eighteenth century remained that of a private, isolated dining room equipped with a special table volante mechanism that allowed those who had gathered to eat without servants. The article therefore also pays attention to the role of mechanical tables and mechanical amusement machines in the baroque court culture. It also compares the design of Elizabeth Petrovna\u27s dining hermitage in Tsarskoye Selo with European architectural treatises. The reader is also acquainted with the reasons for the development of such functional and iconographic features of Russian hermitage architecture, which occupies a special place in the vast and varied European tradition of hermitage construction
Vivliofika and the World 2024
Get PDFAgainst the backdrop of the war in Ukraine the field of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies is in something akin to crisis mode, which has produced deep and thought-provoking reflections on how or whether the field needs to be reconceptualized (or “decolonized” as some have framed it). This essay examines the nature of ourown journal, Вивлиофика, and its modest renaming, against the backdrop of this current rethinking. Itdiscusses these issues, first, by looking to its historical inspiration, N. I. Novikov’s, Древниая Российская Вивлиофика, in an effort to clarify Novikov’s own agenda(s) in producing it. The essay returns to the present,identifying various approaches current within empire studies that could embrace this decentering within an umbrella notion of “imperial spaces.
On the Uses of Decolonial History for Life
Get PDFThis essay provides arguments in favor of decolonizing the field of Russian and East European Studies,focusing on the eighteenth-century history of Ukrainian-Russian relations. It envisages two directions fordecolonization: overcoming the traditional narrative of Russian history and rethinking the basic categorieswe use to tell the history of the Russian Empire. It argues that we should reconsider a one-sided view ofempire as an embodiment of the politics of difference and pay more attention to the early modern policies of acculturation and assimilation that took the form of russification in the Russian Empire. It also emphasizes the need to overcome reductionism, typical of traditional national history. The history of the Ukrainian-Russian encounter in the early modern period cannot be presented as a black-and-white narrative of Russian subjugation and repression and Ukrainian resistance. It was a more complex story that also included a dimension of cultural entanglement with strong mutual influences
South African Metropolitan Public Libraries Using Technology to Support Authors and Writing Development
Get PDFThis Idea Lab piece explores how library services in three South African Metropolitan libraries support authors and writing using different technologies, with insights on the use of AI in libraries from Mr Scott Hanselman, who is an AI industry expert and Microsoft AI Development Community president. The article offers a glimpse into how public libraries in these metros use technology in various ways to introduce writing and publishing to local communities through competitions, workshops, and other program