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A Grounded Theory and Collaborative Design Approach to Disability Storytelling on TikTok
Get PDFThis developing dissertation explores the use of TikTok as a platform for individual and collective storytelling and information creation practices – within a specific online health community of people experiencing painful, invisible, and difficult to diagnose central sensitivity syndromes (CSSs) – to understand and support these embodied, creative, and collective information behaviors. Ongoing data collection indicates that people with CSSs are using TikTok affordances to tell and scaffold complex micro-stories about their expertise and social experiences of disability: by employing iconographic elements to make disability visual; intimate cinematography; audio, visual, and community-specific mimetic options; and platform-specific novel feature use.
The research design draws upon critical disabilities studies (CDS) sensitizing concepts. A constructivist grounded theory approach will be employed, by theoretically sampling TikTok micro-videos, their top comments, and, by the time of this presentation, conducting semi-structured interviews with CSS TikTok community members. This poster also discusses these preliminary results, as well as a novel initial sampling approach which addresses both the hashtag and algorithmic logics of the platform, and an implementation of feminist ethics of care in research methods.
Then, three codesign workshops with individuals experiencing CSSs will develop creative storytelling materials that can be utilized in various contexts. These workshops promote the inclusion of disabled community members as co-designers and aim to co-design physical and digital storytelling resources such as prompts, templates, and TikTok features.These findings expand storytelling theory into the health domain, introduce and define algorithmically mediated online health communities, and promote critical disability studies perspectives in information science
Youth Services : Inclusion, Community, & Resilience
Get PDFThe ALISE Youth Services Special Interest Group (SIG) presents a panel exploring ways youth services in libraries empower youth and families and builds resilience to respond to crises and social issues. The session will begin with presentations of papers (15 minutes each) with a question and answer portion to conclude. Attendees will be able to share their own experiences and work in progress on these topics in the discussion. The presentations include research from Cahill et al., Kociubuk & Willett, Matthews, and Naidoo & Mahand.
In their presentation “You may be at your home and I\u27m at mine. But we are in this together”: Children’s librarians’ motivations for virtual storytime programming during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cahill et al. discuss findings from an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) nationwide survey focused on public library virtual storytime programming. This study examines the motivating factors influencing librarians’ decisions whether to adopt virtual storytime programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Preliminary findings suggest that children’s librarians acted quickly and of their own volition to provide virtual storytime programming to children and families. The top three motivating factors were to (a) maintain a connection with patrons, (b) support children’s early learning, and (c) reduce children’s feelings of isolation.
Kociubuk & Willett’s presentation Parents’ and Caregivers’ perceptions of the value of public libraries during the pandemic shares an analysis of interviews with 26 caregivers about their use and perceived value of resources provided by public libraries during the pandemic, focusing on the provision of resources, the role of libraries in communities, and promotion of social capital. The authors will discuss how their findings have the potential to inform future decision-making processes concerning resource provision, particularly during times of crisis.
Matthews’ presentation The Forgotten Ones: Anti-Black Racism, Public Libraries, and Black Youth in Canada shares how anti-Black racism has far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on Canadian Black youth. Her presentation identifies how these tensions impact library services and how libraries can better address structural barriers. Matthews’ study, grounded in Critical Race Theory and anti-racism frameworks examines how current approaches to library service may perpetuate systemic racism. Community-based research is also in this study to work with Black youth and community organizations to envision new service trajectories for public libraries.
Naidoo & Mahand’s presentation From the LIS Classroom to the Stacks: Examining Social Justice Education in Practice for Youth Library Professionals, spotlights the transition youth library professionals make when moving from an LIS student to a working professional. Professional youth services competencies created by ALSC, YALSA, and ILFA provide suggestions on particular skill sets needed for successful youth librarians as they bridge the gap between theory and practice. This presentation will discuss a case study of a racist incident that occurred during a conversation about Black stereotypes in children’s literature.
Youth services can nurture youth, community, and inclusion and mitigate crisis and social issues. These presentations and attendee discussion will explore the ways that the LIS field can work to address these urgent community needs
A new species and new combination in the planthopper genus Cheiloceps Uhler (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Issidae) from Miocene Dominican amber
No full textCheiloceps arachnophila sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Issidae) is described and illustrated based on a well-preserved adult male, representing the second species of Issidae known from Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Dominican amber. The only previously described issid from Dominican amber is transferred from Thionia Stål to Cheiloceps Uhler: Cheiloceps douglundbergi (Stroiński & Szwedo) comb. nov. Comparative notes on Cheiloceps and Thionia are provided
First records of the chondrichthyans Heslerodus and Ossianodus from the Upper Pennsylvanian LaSalle Limestone (Bond Formation) of northern Illinois
No full textHeslerodus divergens and an undetermined species of the genus Ossianodus are recorded for the first time from the Upper Pennsylvanian LaSalle Limestone Member of the Bond Formation in northern Illinois. Ossianodus is a new record for the state. Four specimens of H. divergens and one of Ossianodus sp. were recovered, all partially complete teeth. Descriptive and comparative notes are provided. Future studies of the formation may yield additional specimens of other vertebrate species
Defying Fate, Demanding Futurity: Nostalgia, Queerness, and Family in Ikuhara Kunihiko’s Mawaru Penguindrum
Get PDFIn discussions of anime director Ikuhara Kunihiko, much emphasis has been placed on the prominence of queerness in his works. Mawaru Penguindrum (2011), with its focus on familial belonging and relatively low incidence of explicitly LGBTQ+ characters, is consequently often framed as the most heteronormative of Ikuhara\u27s works. Drawing on the ways in which queerness has deployed in queer theory as a force that pushes against normativity, I argue that Penguindrum can nonetheless be read as a queer text insofar as it queers the concepts of family and nostalgia. If the family is at the heart of Penguindrum, it is not the heteronormative nuclear family that Lee Edelman critiques as a force of reproductive futurity, but families of choice formed in response to exclusion from normative society. Additionally, working with Freud\u27s distinction between mourning and melancholia as well as work in memory studies, I read nostalgia in Penguindrum as an affect that is queer insofar as it does not seek to replicate or hold onto the past, but rather uses past attachment as a generative force for forming new connection. Ultimately, I argue that queer nostalgia acts a crucial link between Penguindrum\u27s two main themes: the idealization of the nuclear family and forms of societal belonging in the wake of the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attacks
Ghosts in the Machine
Get PDFThe National Institute of Standards and Technology\u27s (NIST’s) Facial Recognition Vendor Test is considered the gold standard for assessing the performance of facial recognition models. Since the test series began in 1994, it has been regarded as an objective benchmark for corporations and academic research groups to compare their models against one another. To evaluate the accuracy of facial recognition models, NIST draws upon a database of millions of photos of US visa applicants and border crossers. Without their knowledge or consent, immigrants’ photos have become raw material for the refinement of facial recognition software. This essay discusses the afterlife of these images, photos of immigrants and non-citizens that have been repurposed for a function that goes far beyond their original intent
Understanding the Backer Motivations for Japanese Anime Crowdfunding Campaigns
Get PDFIn the Japanese animation industry, TV stations and film companies generally take the lead in setting up joint ventures called production committees to raise funds. Although there are cases where an animation studio takes the lead in starting a project, it is often difficult for the studio to form a production committee depending on the content of the project and the career of the director. In recent years, crowdfunding has attracted attention as a way of raising funds for production from general consumers. While some projects can raise more than their goals through crowdfunding, many others do not. This study, therefore, attempts to identify what anime crowdfunding backers value in pledging their support. A total of 6,596 comments from backers of three Japanese anime projects funded on the U.S. crowdfunding website Kickstarter were analyzed using a text-mining method. The results showed that most crowdfunding backers placed importance on the rewards and that crowdfunding success is likely to be related to past achievements of the work and its creators, as well as the credibility of the studio. Compared to overseas backers, Japanese backers were found to express their support for the creators more than for the rewards
Book Review: Manga: A Critical Guide
Get PDFIn Shige Suzuki and Ronald Stewart’s book, Manga: A Critical Guide, Suzuki and Stewart set out to provide an analytical overview of manga with particular attention to social, historical, cultural, and aesthetic matters surrounding the medium. This publication modernizes previous frameworks and research published on the topic to introduce an updated survey of the amazingly diverse and ever-evolving field of manga and Japanese comics studies
Academic Collaboration JAMS-boree: JAMS, Anime Expo, and Fan Connections
Get PDFThis introduction to JAMS Volume 4 discusses the successful partnering of JAMS and Mechademia, and Anime Expo to put on an amazing academic symposium. It also discusses an increase in JAMS\u27 readership
Grassroots Inquiry through Reading Groups in Academic Libraries
Get PDFReading groups organized within academic libraries offer an interdisciplinary/undisciplined space for academics to discuss scholarly readings without the typical expectations associated with reading within the academy. Unlike reading for coursework or in order to write, which positoins the reader as a suspicious critic, reading as a community interested in a shared topic of inquiry opens up new avenues for interpretation and collaboration. This article describes some history of reading groups, how they are related to libraries, and theories of reading that help explore why reading groups create a sense of grassroots inquiry. It also offers practical advice for those interested in creating academic reading groups in their library