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Using Thematic Analysis in Focus Groups with Children
Get PDFFocus groups with school age children were conducted for the development of a Pediatric Wellbeing Scale. Qualitative research methods, such as focus groups, are useful when conducting research with young children. Focus groups allow for research subjects to share personal information based on their own life experiences and this elicits data that may have been more limited using quantitative research methods. Focus groups emphasize real experiences that can provide a rich data source to understand the child’s perspective. Developmental stages, age, education level, and life experiences must be taken into consideration when using children in research. Children\u27s personal experiences are essential when conducting pediatric research to ensure that the findings are accurate and applicable to children. Using thematic analysis is an effective approach when working with focus groups data. Thematic analysis provides background on what process the researchers went through to understand the data and obtain results. This poster discusses the use of thematic analysis on data from children focus groups that were conducted over a series of sessions to create the Pediatric Wellbeing Picture Scale.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1114/thumbnail.jp
Architecture of Power in Philadelphia, an Analysis of the Comcast City Campus
Get PDFBefore 1987, Philadelphia had no significant skyscrapers to speak of due to an old “gentleman\u27s agreement” to preserve the architecture of power of the civic monument of city hall. This situation in which the power of the city was presented as above all else was shattered by the forces of capitalism which, from the late 1980s, have determined the city skyline. The two tallest buildings in the city both bear the name of the telecommunications conglomerate Comcast. Humans have long used architecture to convey power, from soaring cathedrals to massive castles. From the kings of antiquity building palaces to the corporations of today building modern towers, architecture as a means of projecting power is nothing new. In this modern case-study of the physical architecture of power, I reveal in particular how the Comcast Building in Philadelphia conveys the power of capital over the power of the people, of democracy, via tearing the city’s central focus away from its City hall. My analysis of the architectural style of these buildings and how it contrasts to the previous city center helps illustrate why this commercialization of city space alongside a realignment of the city center to the benefit of corporations is ultimately an unfortunate event for the people of Philadelphia. The tyrannical and dictatorial nature of capital monopolizing space and using that space to affect power structures, as the Comcast building does, have been to the detriment of the populace and their lived environment.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1126/thumbnail.jp
The Psychological Theory Behind the Epistemology of Disinformation
Get PDFDistinguishing true from false information is both a psychological and epistemological process. Clare Wardle emphasizes the importance of identifying various types of what she refers to as information disorder referencing pollution occurring among online platforms principally news outlets. The categories of disinformation can include something as simple as clickbait or truly deceptive information that one might believe at first glance. The solutions to internet pollution are complex because it takes on many different forms. This causes fact-checking to be inefficient and time consuming, only flagging articles that are blatantly false excluding ones that are misleading. There is an intersection between psychological and epistemological theories because they involve evaluating the validity of information despite its justification of previously held beliefs. This is examined through the dual process theory separating cognition into automatic and deliberate processing. Automatic processing is when people rely on their personal knowledge to determine if information is true, failing to account for their biases. Deliberate processing requires more effort and I draw on information from several studies proving participants deliberating for longer allows them to more efficiently differentiate true from false information. I will analyze the well-documented case studies in Pomerantsev’s This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality for examples of deliberation and the importance of understanding both psychological and epistemological processes because disinformation efforts are expanding and due to overstimulation people are failing to deliberate long enough to determine the reliability of information.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1129/thumbnail.jp
Vision in Virginia Woolfe\u27s To the Lighthouse
Get PDFIn their article, The Eye, The Mind & the Spirit: Why ‘the Look of Things’ Held a ‘Great Power’ Over Virginia Woolf, author Michael R. Schrimper creates an argument surrounding the idea of Virginia Woolf being fixated on vision. Schrimper bifurcates vision between two poles: the actual act of seeing, and the concentrated observation of objects and surroundings” (33). They go on to detail how that vision manifests itself in terms of active seeing and being seen. . Seeing and being seen splits the act of perception into a straightforward logic of subject/object; either/or; active/passive. Woolf is perhaps arguing seeing cannot be separate from being seen, and vice versa. Aside from offering various glimpses into conscious vision, or the act of sight occurring in Woolf’s works, such as when they state vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved (Woolf 124), the author argues sight retains a specific narrative function for Woolf. Schrimper stratifies Woolf\u27s interest in vision into four components, of which two are especially significant: Woolf believed that to behold a scene or object closely was to create a temporary stoppage against the passing of time. Thirdly, Woolf drew a connection among observation and cognition and spirituality. (33). In my research, I distill Schrimper\u27s distinction between the second and third component influencing why vision held a great power over Woolf. Departing from Schrimper, I argue that those two components are commonly one in the same within Woolf’s novel.https://orb.binghamton.edu/research_days_posters_2022/1137/thumbnail.jp
Managing artificial intelligence projects: Key insights from an AI consulting firm
Get PDFWhile organisations are increasingly interested in artificial intelligence (AI), many AI projects encounter significant issues or even fail. To gain a deeper understanding of the issues that arise during these projects and the practices that contribute to addressing them, we study the case of Consult, a North American AI consulting firm that helps organisations leverage the power of AI by providing custom solutions. The management of AI projects at Consult is a multi-method approach that draws on elements from traditional project management, agile practices, and AI workflow practices. While the combination of these elements enables Consult to be effective in delivering AI projects to their customers, our analysis reveals that managing AI projects in this way draw upon three core logics, that is, commonly shared norms, values, and prescribed behaviours which influence actors\u27 understanding of how work should be done. We identify that the simultaneous presence of these three logics—a traditional project management logic, an agile logic, and an AI workflow logic—gives rise to conflicts and issues in managing AI projects at Consult, and successfully managing these AI projects involves resolving conflicts that arise between them. From our case findings, we derive four strategies to help organisations better manage their AI projects
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Get PDFSavannah Harris is a left-handed writer from Indianapolis. She holds an undergraduate degree in creative writing from the University of Indianapolis. She loves writing fiction, poetry, flash, and creative nonfiction, and has been published in the Penultimate Peanut Magazine, Etchings Literary Magazine, and Neutral Spaces Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2020 Lucy Monro Brooker Poetry Award and the 2021 Roberta Lee Fiction Award. She manages the Museum of Miniatures in Central Indiana
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Get PDFMelissa Webster holds an MA from Johns Hopkins Krieger School, where she received the Outstanding Graduate award in 2011. Her writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Agape Review; New Contrast; The Mail and Guardian; Harare News; Outside In Literary Travel Magazine; The Centre Magazine; and Up, Do : Anthology of flash fiction. Her short story, “Space To Fall” was produced as the award winning short film Freestate, and optioned for a feature film. Melissa lives in Cape Town
