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Virtual Team Communication and Team Outcomes
Get PDFAbstract. Virtual team communication is a critical antecedent of virtual team outcomes, such as team trust, satisfaction, and performance. However, communicating through virtual tools can be difficult. Many studies have shown that the relationship between virtual team communication and team outcomes is complicated and not well understood. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to answer the question: how can virtual teams communicate effectively to achieve positive team outcomes? My thesis consists of two studies to answer this question. In study 1, I reviewed and synthesized 103 peer-reviewed empirical articles about virtual team communication and its outcomes to delineate this important relationship and suggest promising directions for future research. Results indicate that different dimensions of team communication impact various virtual team outcomes differently. Nonetheless, this study identified that virtual team communication affects virtual team outcomes mainly through two theoretical mechanisms - relational and informational - and that two main contextual variables - communication tool and team development stage - moderate these relationships. In study 2, I explored the relationship between specific communication content and team performance in virtual teams, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of study 2 demonstrate that four types of team communication content (i.e., problem-focused, positive procedural, action-oriented, and social-emotional communication) can help virtual teams perform well and even adapt to disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, these papers provide a comprehensive review and testable framework to help us better understand the effects of virtual team communication on virtual team performance, including important qualifiers of this relationship that are critical for effective team communication in virtual teams today
Hindi Film Songs in the Home: Gendered Experiences of Singing Popular Songs in Tamale, Northern Ghana
Get PDFBeginning in the 1950s, Dagbamba and Hausa women in Tamale listened to Hindi film songs in their homes, via gramophone records and through state-run women’s radio programs. Hindi film songs were soon integrated into existing domestic singing practices, including songs meant for domestic labor (tuma-yila) and childcare (biyola-yila). Through an analysis of oral history interviews as well as recorded performances of Hindi film songs sung by women, men, and youth in Tamale, I show how everyday performances of Hindi film songs reveal gendered and intergenerational experiences of domestic space, labor, and social life in Tamale
Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them
Get PDFThe first book to demonstrate how inadequately place names and visual emblems represent the presence of women, people of colour, and people living with disabilities, Canada’s Place Names and How to Change Them provides an illuminating overview of where these names came from and what they reflect.
This book disentangles the distinct cultural, religious, and historical naming practices and visual emblems in Canada’s First Nations, provinces, territories, municipalities, and federal lands. Starting with a discussion of Indigenous place knowledge and naming practices from several Indigenous and Inuit groups spanning the country, it foregrounds the breadth of possible ways to name places. Lauren Beck then illustrates the naming practices introduced by Europeans and how they misunderstood, mis-rendered, and appropriated Indigenous place names, while scrutinizing the histories of Columbian names, missionary names, and the secular and commemorative names of the last two centuries. She studies key symbols and emblems such as maps, flags, and coats of arms as visual equivalents of place names to show whose identities powerfully inform Canada’s place nomenclature.
This book also documents the policies and authorities that have traditionally governed the creation and modification of names and examines case studies of institutions and communities who have changed their names to demonstrate pathways to change.
Lauren Beck is professor of visual and material culture and the Canada Research Chair in intercultural encounter at Mount Allison University
Archivematica-EPrints Integration : Developing Digital Preservation Capacity for Open Repositories
Get PDFFollowing three years of software development, requirements refinement, and testing, we released the integration of EPrints and Archivematica as a plugin to EPrints in 2021. This paper will explain how the integration evolved, how we implemented it in parallel to a new Archivematica instance at Concordia University, and how we are currently using it to preserve the contents of our institutional research repository. We will conclude with a discussion of some possible future enhancements envisioned for the integration
Marginalized, Minimized and Forgotten: Gender Dynamics in Photojournalism, From a Global Sociohistorical Lens to the Local Case of Claire Beaugrand-Champagne in Quebec
Get PDFClaire Beaugrand-Champagne was 27 years-old when she completed her first assignment for Le Jour—a new, young, independentist and left-leaning daily newspaper in Montreal. The year was 1974, and she was by all historical accounts the first woman to photograph the news in Quebec. Relatively few women in the province have followed in her footsteps since. Globally, women continue to be vastly underrepresented among staff and freelance news photographers. This essay examines, from a sociohistorical angle, some of the gender-specific challenges women photojournalists face in newsrooms, as well as how they have been able to overcome or bypass the barriers to their integration. It draws from existing, but relatively thin research in the field of journalism, which tends to examine women news photographers in the context of the United States. As such, it attempts to make a contribution by extending focus around the emergence of women photographers in the sociopolitical context of Quebec, through the case study of Claire Beaugrand-Champagne
Libertarian (Un-)Freedom Revisited: How Nozick Can Rescue Republicanism From The Problem Of Political Trust
Get PDFMany authors have critiqued Phillip Pettit’s republican conception of freedom as non-domination (F=ND). I argue that the result of those critiques should not be any of the following (1) accept List and Valentini’s conception of freedom as independence (F=Ind) as a preferred alternative; (2) rely on trust in group agents via democracy or civic virtue as a means of defending F=ND; (3) revert to the traditionally accepted account of liberal freedom as the actual absence of interference. Instead, I argue that when the concerns of Pettit’s critics are addressed, what we are left with is a conception of freedom compatible with the implicit definition given in Nozick’s Anarchy, State & Utopia (ASU). I attempt to articulate a conceptual structure of liberty that is preferable to the rival views presented, and that is compatible with Nozick’s larger body of work beyond ASU. The positive view that is defended is that when comparing the structure of rights and freedoms in Nozick’s larger body of work against Pettit’s conception of Freedom as non-domination, the former is preferable. This is precisely because Nozick’s conception does not lead us to rely upon the “knock-on” effect of personal trust in government that republicanism requires in order to generate a state that maximizes freedom for all, but instead is able to generate a state exclusively from relations of mutually-beneficial exchange - relations that are themselves dependent solely on acts of impersonal trust - without violating any individual’s rights
Group Art Therapy Program for Refugees in Museum Settings
Get PDFForced migration is a worldwide crisis that presents a multitude of risk factors and needs. Refugees have to flee their countries as a result of violence, deprivation, persecution, war, or a threat to their lives (Van der Gucht, 2019). The process of pre-, during, and post-migration poses an accumulation of obstacles that reshape the trajectories of newcomers’ lives (Schouler-Ocak & Kastrup, 2018). Particularly, during post-migration and resettlement, refugees have to hold onto past experiences of trauma and displacement, while facing new stressors and barriers in their new host country. These experiences can impact newcomers’ emotional safety, cultural preservation, well-being, coping mechanisms, and ease of accessing mental health care (Goosen et al., 2011). With this in mind, existing art therapy programs currently serve a variety of populations including refugees and newcomers. Group art therapy in museum settings can present key therapeutic benefits that support refugees' emotional expression, identity preservation, cultural continuity, memory integration, and social connection. Therefore, this research will address the following question: how could group art therapy interventions conducted in a museum setting support the refugee resettlement process? A secondary research question will also be addressed, which is: what might a group art therapy intervention program that supports refugees’ well-being and resettlement process look like? Using Fraser & Galinsky’s (2010) first two steps of the intervention-based methodology this study integrates and synthesizes literary research with the researcher’s experiences at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and The Refugee Centre to propose a 12-week museum-based group art therapy program for refugees and newcomers. Limitations of the research are presented along with implications for practice and future research.
Keywords: art therapy, museums, interventions, refugees, complex trauma, culture, acculturation, and resettlement
Bargaining Power in City Development: A Case for Greater Community Representation and Advocacy
Get PDFIn this paper, I evaluate stakeholders involved in city planning and development such as private investors, businesses, city planners, real estate agents, and other community members. Each stakeholder exhibits a different level of bargaining power in the decision-making process. My analysis examines the consequences of this power imbalance and presents a normative claim such that city planners should promote adequate bargaining power in the decision-making process for affected community members to (1) improve understanding of relevant issues and subjective experiences and (2) empower vulnerable groups. By doing so, city planners will be in a better position to promote ethical decision-making in accordance with substantive principles of respect, self-determination, and no-harm. City planners provide an important role in community development by authorizing projects and zoning to ensure that residential, commercial, industrial, and natural areas are used efficiently. However, past and present cases of injustices in city planning and development show that city projects often cause harm to community members through pollution, economic consequences, and displacement. Groups of community members may experience high costs of organization, limited economic capital, or trends of marginalization. These factors contribute to power imbalances among stakeholders in the decision-making process for new city developments. I examine the interpersonal and ethical relationships among community members to explain a source of value in city spaces. I conclude that limited understanding of potential harms and power imbalances among stakeholders often lead to injustices and negative externalities for community members. I defend the position that by improving bargaining power for community members, especially marginalized groups, city planners can limit future cases of development-related injustices by creating an environment better suited to reach substantive ethical goals
‘Hell Is Waiting Where the Ocean Meets the Sand’: The Legacy of the Gallipoli Campaign in Ireland, 1915-2015
Get PDFThe treatment of Great War remembrance and commemoration in the southern counties of Ireland has been overwhelmingly attributed to concepts of historical amnesia within nationalist memory of the war. Scholarship focuses primarily on Northern Ireland, the Battle of the Somme, and divisions between unionist and nationalist units. My study challenges this notion of amnesia by turning its focus to the Gallipoli campaign, the effects it had on life in Ireland, and its ongoing historical legacy in nationalist memory. Through an examination of Gallipoli’s remembrance and commemoration, it becomes clear that the experience of Irish soldiers at Gallipoli had a profound impact at home, adding to existing political tension. Through analyses of popular print media representations of the campaign, the influence of memory studies, and the intrinsic connection between commemoration and politics, this research examines why Gallipoli remains outside of the linear Irish historical narrative, despite efforts in the late-1990s and 2000s to revive Great War memory in Ireland. Additionally, the Decade of Centenaries project undertaken by the Irish government is centrally explored as a missed opportunity for Irish war commemoration to place Gallipoli within the narrative, next to events deemed more important like the Easter Rising, instead of keeping it on the fringes
The Visual Journal as A/r/tographic Inquiry: The Learning Processes Among Art Education Graduate Students Through Artmaking and Discussion Workshops
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The Visual Journal as A/r/tographic Inquiry: The Learning Processes Among Art Education Graduate Students Through Artmaking and Discussion Workshops
Becky Yi Wen Cao
This research investigates the visual journaling experiences of four art education graduate students: Lara, Nancy, Sha, and myself. The multicultural backgrounds of this group have brought unique perspectives on living, artmaking, and art education. I intended to conduct this study in person at the university. Unfortunately, as I prepared my research proposal, the COVID-19 pandemic began to force all academic activities to the online mode. This research illustrates our lives during the pandemic, an unprecedented event, and how we adjusted our daily routines and transformed into new creative beings during this recent phenomenon. The research data consists of six weekly meetings on Zoom. Each session offered an abundance of life stories and art-making experiences based on a creative prompt that served to illustrate our lives as artists, teachers, and researchers. By making art in visual journals independently and collectively, we connected our lives' visual and textual aspects and addressed the importance of community as an active learning sphere.
In summary, my research informs how art educators have lived, created, and connected during the pandemic as a group. Two questions emerged that guided this study: How do we engage with each other virtually? What are the benefits and limitations of online learning