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The Hollowed-Out Bookstore: Amazon’s Promotion of Empty Discourses in Their Online Bookstore: Amazon’s Promotion of Empty Discourses in Their Online Bookstore
No full textAmazon is considered the world’s largest bookstore but what kind of books hide on the ‘darkest’ digital shelves? By looking beyond the new titles and best-sellers, this paper finds evidence of a wasteland of titles composed of content-free titles, corrupted reprints, and dangerous misinformation. Changes to publishing in the twenty-first century and the pressure of the market on Amazon can help to explain how this wasteland formed, but this paper also explores how this wasteland provides for specific audiences who live in their own cultural bubbles
Self-compassion and social stress: Links with subjective stress and cortisol responses
No full textThe present study investigated links between self-compassion and responses to social stress. Participants (N = 102) were randomly assigned to a self-compassion training or a comparison condition and engaged in the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G). Measures of trait self-compassion, subjective perceptions of stress, and salivary cortisol were collected. Participants with higher trait self-compassion had significantly lower subjective and cortisol responses to stress during the TSST-G than did participants with lower trait self-compassion. Participants in the self-compassion training condition did not have significantly lower responses to stress. Results suggest that trait self-compassion is linked with subjective and physiological responses to a social-evaluative stressor. Implications for trait self-compassion and self-compassion training on subjective and physiological responses to stress are discussed
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and United States
No full textPublic school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity. In this book, Mneesha Gellman examines how Indigenous high school students resist assimilation and assert their identities through access to Indigenous language classes in public schools. Drawing on ethnographic accounts, qualitative interviews, focus groups, and surveys, Gellman’s fieldwork examines and compares the experiences of students in Yurok language courses in Northern California and Zapotec courses in Oaxaca, Mexico. She contends that this access to Indigenous language instruction in secondary schooling serves as an arena for Indigenous students to develop their sense of identity and agency, and provides them tools and strategies for civic, social, and political participation, sometimes in unexpected ways. Showcasing young people’s voices, and those of their teachers and community members, in the fight for culturally relevant curricula and educational success, Gellman demonstrates how the Indigenous language classroom enables students to understand, articulate, and resist the systemic erasure and destruction of their culture embedded in state agendas and educational curricula. Access to Indigenous language education, she shows, has positive effects not only for Indigenous students, but for their non-Indigenous peers as well, enabling them to become allies in the struggle for Indigenous cultural survival. Through collaborative methodology that engages in research with, not on, Indigenous communities, Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom explores what it means to be young, Indigenous, and working for social change in the twenty-first century
Skin for Skin: A One-Act Play
No full textJess, a 16 year-old Honors student is with Brendan a senior at her high school while her parents are away at Jess‘s cousin’s bris (ritual circumcision). Alone, together at last they intend to have sex, but Jess, who denies her Jewish identity, discovers that she can’t go through with the act after she sees Brendan wearing a gory crucifix. Brendan threatens to share photographs she sent to him in private with Ivy League admissions offices, if she doesn’t have sex with him. Jess comes up with a unique solution to resolve the issue
Library Newsletter: October 2023
No full textThis newsletter series includes information about Libray collections, services, spaces, and more!https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/librarynews/1001/thumbnail.jp
It Takes a VILLA: Building Information Literacy into First-Year Media Arts Courses
No full textDiscover how librarians can organize and deliver faculty development in a virtual setting. The Virtual Information Literacy Library Atelier (VILLA) program includes designing inclusive assignments for foundational visual media arts courses using the new ACRL Framework for Visual Literacy in Higher Education, co-creating library interventions with faculty, and assessing impact on student learning. Presenters will show how this program came to be, the curriculum development process, assessment data, and lessons learned. Presenters will also illustrate the challenges and opportunities of designing a virtual learning experience as a remote team with changing membership and the ongoing sustainability of the program
Speaking Up: The Politics of School Climate in the Trump Era and Afterward
No full textIdentity politics are fraught. High school is a prime location where such politics play out and interface with state-dictated norms and values about acceptable social behavior. This article examines identity politics during the Trump era in two far Northern California high schools to better understand the impact on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students. I argue that while the Trump effect allowed hostility towards BIPOC people to be expressed more openly in general, schools can also be sites of resistance to culturecide—the killing of culture—that diminishes the role of minority ontologies and epistemologies in the formation of young people. Yurok and Spanish language courses serve as spaces of heritage language revitalization that challenge White supremacist ideologies embedded in curricula as well as wider US culture
What Outfit Shall the Protagonist Wear? New models of revenue creation in online fiction platforms
No full textOnline fiction platforms like Wattpad, Tapas, Choices, and Episode have created new models of digital storytelling that serve billions of readers a month who access the content through apps and websites. Through a free-to-read (F2R) model these platforms offer access to thousands of online prose narratives. Instead of requiring money upfront for access, they have found a way to monetize narrative through ad-supported serialization and paywalls. Some companies have also begun to offer reader customization through microtransactions similar to those in the mobile game world. This paper examines how these platforms are using the F2R model to create a compelling reading experience that personalizes the text and keeps readers engaged with textual content
IDEAS for Learning: October
No full textIDEAS for Learning email newsletter from October 2023https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/ideasnews/1000/thumbnail.jp
Library Newsletter: September 2023
No full textThis newsletter series includes information about Libray collections, services, spaces, and more!https://digitalcommons.emerson.edu/librarynews/1000/thumbnail.jp