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Theories of Fear: Disinformation, Racism, and the Republican Party
Get PDFIn the fall of 2022, the DEA warned parents that fentanyl, a potent, deadly opioid, was being dyed bright colors to entice young children into addiction and overdose. Quickly labeled rainbow fentanyl, the story was amplified by right-leaning politicians and pundits. Despite overwhelming expert testimonies that children were not being targeted, the story transformed into a narrative about illegal immigrants murdering innocent children. This paper applies the theories of the emerging field of Disinformation Studies to analyze the rainbow fentanyl panic. Specifically, I define fear as a central component in disinformation by showing how fear 1) shapes, mobilizes, and socializes a base; 2) obstructs logical decision making, leaving individuals open to manipulation; and 3) motivates the false justification of bigotry. My findings contribute to a growing body of evidence that indicates a covert Republican strategy to operationalize racially divisive, fear-based appeals to win votes.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2023/1061/thumbnail.jp
Southern Tier Community Revitalization and Redevelopment: Endicott Lithium Battery Factory
Get PDFThis project will survey around 800 residents of Endicott, New York, to analyze their perspective on the redevelopment plans and construction of a new lithium-ion battery factory in the Southern Tier of New York. The survey will be conducted online and distributed by postcard. It will focus on the impact of the battery factory on the local environment, economy, and quality of life for residents. The questions will address community concerns, public knowledge, personal expectations, and the general opinion of the redevelopment project and battery factory. The results of this survey can inform residents, project stakeholders, and government officials about the public opinion and impact of the battery factory on the region. It can also guide future community involvement in redevelopment projects and highlight areas of concern. This survey will be conducted by a collaborative of student and faculty researchers to examine information for future reports on community revitalization and redevelopment and community representation in these projects and provide a basis for future research.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2023/1067/thumbnail.jp
The Systemic Side of Disinformation: The Reid Technique as Exploitative Knowledge Production
Get PDFThe Reid Technique is a police interrogation technique that relies on pressure to elicit information from people suspected of a crime. The Reid Technique optimizes the intense stress of being under interrogation to pressure people to confess, which leads to an unfortunate rate of false confessions. This paper draws on theories of systemic disinformation to articulate the effects of disinformation within the US justice system. Firstly, by encouraging interrogators to misinterpret their implicit biases as intuition, the Reid Technique disproportionately affects people already vulnerable to the prejudices encoded within what is considered common knowledge. Secondly, by encouraging interrogators to falsely claim that they have evidence that, in fact, does not exist, the Reid Technique exploits vulnerable people by causing them to doubt their experiences as a legitimate form of knowledge.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2023/1070/thumbnail.jp
Understanding 5th Grade Students Perspective of STEAM through Sketches
Get PDFCreative thinking is becoming a significant element of students’ learning to prepare them for today’s complex work environments (Battelle for kids, 2019). While the ideas of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics have led to incredible advancements to the global economy, incorporating design thinking can help foster creative thinking in our educational environment. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand fifth grade students’ perspectives of STEAM within a local school district. Data was collected from participants through a task administered by the STEAM teachers for two fifth grade classes. This task contained 5 separate sections, with room for students to illustrate their image of each element of STEAM, as well as to answer two questions as to what they illustrated and why they illustrated it. By analyzing the data for these fifth grade classes, the school district can look deeper into how students are expressing and understanding STEAM.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2023/1073/thumbnail.jp
Scherk Tower, Brazilian Ebony, Figure 3
No full textA wooden Scherk Tower carving made from a 3 x3 x12 block of Brazilian Ebony.https://orb.binghamton.edu/mathematical_sculptures/1662/thumbnail.jp
Flourish
No full textArtisan Crafted Creator, J’Atelier9/J’A9 (@jatelier9) emerged after its Los Angeles based visionary founder, Janine Tang, began her movement towards a circular environment philosophy by sourcing recycled repurposed salvaged materials into her sustainable fine arts. J’A9 reshapes the transcendent beauty of innovative repurposing & upcycling.. allowing her art to become the unconventional vessel. She juxtaposes the dichotomy of consumerism against responsible adaptive reuses of materials and upcycling
Mongrels
Get PDFAnisha Bhaduri is an award-winning journalist and writer from Kolkata, India, who lives and works in Hong Kong. She has won a British Council prize, and has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and nominated for Best of the Net 2022 for her first short story published in North America. Her work of literary fiction was first published by Random House India in a bestselling anthology. Her debut crime novella, Murders in Kolkata 26, was published by Juggernaut Books. In recent months, her short stories have appeared or have been accepted for publication across four countries in Joyland Magazine, Tampa Review, Harpur Palate, Touchstone Literary Magazine, Sonder Magazine, the other side of hope, and Kitaab
10 Musings: Eleanor
Get PDFIn 2018, Chelsea Catherine won the Mary C Mohr award for nonfiction and their second book, Summer of the Cicadas, won the Quill Prose Award from Red Hen Press. In 2022, they won an Emerging Artist’s Award and spent a month in Alaska at the Alderworks Artists Retreat. Their story “The Not-Deer” was recently published in an anthology out of London. Their work can be found at Passengers Press, The Florida Review, and other journals
My Face-Eating Octopus
Get PDFRachel Furey is a neurodivergent writer and Associate Professor at Southern Connecticut State University, where she teaches creative writing, including writing the environment and writing the body courses. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in journals such as Sou’wester, Nimrod International Journal, and Baltimore Review. She’s a winner of The Briar Cliff Review’s Creative Nonfiction contest, Hunger Mountain’s Katherine Paterson Prize, Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize, and Stone Canoe’s Robert Colley Prize for Fiction