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Spouses’ attachment orientations shape physiological responses to relational stress over time
No full textThis research examined how the interplay between spouses’ attachment orientations contributes to physiological responses to relational stress. Mixed-gender newlyweds (NWave 1 = 218 couples; NWave 2 = 184 couples; NWave 3 = 164 couples) discussed relationship conflicts during three laboratory sessions over the first 3–4 years of marriage. Individuals provided saliva samples to assess their cortisol levels before, during, and after each conflict, which reflected physiological responses to stress. Across all three waves, anxiously-attached individuals showed greater cortisol reactivity (via faster rates of cortisol change and/or more exaggerated changes in cortisol slope) in anticipation of conflicts, especially when they had an avoidantly-attached partner. Findings highlight the dyadic nature of spouses’ responses to relational stress
On Prime Labelings of Uniform Cycle Snake Graphs
No full textA reseaech paper in graph theory, a subfield of math. At the time of the research Agam Bedi and Samiksha Ramesh were undergraduate students at Emerson College and the work was completed as part of the SOC320 Research Co-Curricular in the summer of 2022. The work has a Creative Commons BY-NC licence
The Digital Architexture of E-readers. How the Internet of Things Adds Layers of Meaning to Text
No full textWhen Gerard Genette identified the paratexts that surrounded what he called the naked text, he defined how the presentation of a book creates a network of relationships both within the text and to the larger environments that interact with that text. In the years since Genette first proposed his theory, text has moved the printed page to a variety of digital structures, which provide new ways of interaction. Even in these new structures, the essential features of paratext—what Genette and Maclean identified as spatial, temporal, substantial, pragmatic and functional[i]—are still present and influence how we interact with an ebook. From the way networks chop up large text files into smaller packets for delivery to the way HTML adds a semantic layer to text in the source code, these digital structure need to be considered when thinking of the criticism of the work. One need only look at Mark Marino’s Living Will[ii], which includes communications from the narrator to other characters hidden in the source code to begin to see how we need to look below the text on the screen to understand a literary work. This paper proposes to look at e-readers like the Amazon Kindle to understand how the added layers of interactions create new meaning to the text.
In order to render the text for the reader an e-reading device must connect with a digital distributor, download the text over a network and display it on screen. These actions correspond with one of the proposed architectures for the Internet of Things (IoT), what Peña-López et al. define as a paradigm in which computing and networking capabilities are embedded in any kind of conceivable object.[iii] Through this IoT lens we can begin to understand how text is (re)produced on a digital reading device only after passing through different interactions of the e-reader with the world. Using the IoT framework we can identify three of these layers of interaction: the application layer, the network layer and the presentation layer.
When a reader accesses a text on an e-reading device, that text must pass through the network (online protocols and delivery) and application (rendering software) layers before appearing in the perception layer which not only renders it on screen, but also connects the physical buttons, cameras, microphones, GPS sensor, etc. to the ebook in order to both display and collect information while in use.
This paper will work through how these three layers of IoT architecture in an e-reader reflect the features of paratext defined by Genette and Maclean and identify where the different interactions with software alter the production the text in ways that are different from print.
[i] Genette, Gérard, and Marie Maclean. Introduction to the Paratext. New Literary History 22, no. 2 (1991): 261-72. Accessed March 13, 2021. doi:10.2307/469037.
[ii] http://markcmarino.com/tales/livingwill.html
[iii] I. Peña-López, Itu Internet Report 2005: The Internet of Things, 2005
MCC Artist Fellowship (Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction)
No full textMCC Artist Fellowship (Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction
Unsettling settler colonialism in words and land: A case study of far Northern California
No full textThis article examines two case studies of unsettling settler colonialism in the far north of California: the inclusion of Yurok language electives in public high schools, and land return to the Wiyot Tribe. These two cases demonstrate repertoires of Indigenous resistance to historic and ongoing culturecide—the killing of culture—and show what unsettling settler colonialism looks like in the region. The central research question in this article is: How does unsettling happen in settler colonial-controlled public institutionalised spaces in far northern California? I argue that acts of Indigenous voice-raising and place-making constitute forms of resistance to ongoing erasure of Indigenous peoples in settler-colonised spaces. Concretely, both Yurok language course inclusion in public schools and land return of Duluwat Island to the Wiyot Tribe disrupt patterns of culturecide and promote new kinds of settler-Indigenous relations in the region
The Democracy Crisis in El Salvador: An Overview
No full textThis paper examines the current democratic breakdown in El Salvador, identifying factors and events in the country from 2019 to 2022 that have led to democratic backsliding, the process by which democracy as a political system loses traction. Indicators of backsliding show that El Salvador’s shared characteristics of liberal democracy — free and fair electoral procedures accessible to all; freedoms of the press, to assembly, and to express political opinions; the rule of law; and basic human rights protections — are in peril. Given the events of the last several years under President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s regime more closely resembles democratic failure facilitated by populist authoritarianism rather than one of democratizing momentum that it embodied in the first part of the twenty-first century
Emerson Contemporary Capital Improvements Grant
No full textLeonie Bradbury (Emerson Contemporary) was awarded a $114,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust for capital improvements and upgrades to the Media Art Gallery on Avery Street and the Huret & Spector Gallery located in the Tufte Performance and Production Center
Sky Hopinka: Present Joys
No full textLeonie Bradbury (Emerson Contemporary) was awarded a $2,500 Massachusetts Cultural Council project grant to support the presentation of Sky Hopinka: Present Joys at the Emerson College Media Art Gallery
I Hear Spring is Beautiful
No full textAn original musical about a dance student who comes to terms with their gender identity as the USA succumbs to the horrors of fascism