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Explainable Deep Malware Detection in IoT Devices Using CNN-BiLSTM
No full textThe increasing prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has expanded the attack surface for malware-based intrusions, necessitating robust and interpretable security solutions. This paper presents an explainable deep learning framework that combines a convolutional neural network (CNN) with a bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) network for effective malware detection in IoT network traffic. The proposed model captures both local traffic patterns and long-range temporal dependencies while maintaining transparency through post-hoc interpretability tools. We integrate SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to identify feature-level contributions. Extensive experiments on two public IoT malware datasets-N-BaloT and IOT-23-demonstrate that our model achieves up to 98.2% accuracy, outperforms traditional base-lines, and maintains low inference latency suitable for real-time deployment. The inclusion of explainability enhances trust and usability, offering security analysts insights into model behavior. SHAP-based interpretation highlights that statistical features such as host-to-host mean traffic, port-specific flow weights, and temporal variability are key indicators in distinguishing malicious behavior. This work bridges the gap between high-performance deep learning and transparent decision-making in IoT malware detection © 2025 IEEE
Do you Chicken your Children?: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Chinese Maternal Identity
No full text“Chicken parenting” has recently surged in popularity among Chinese parents, emphasizing rigorous academic achievement and potentially replacing the “tiger parent” approach introduced to Western audiences. Amid these evolving attitudes, Chinese mothers often bear heightened responsibility for their children’s academic success. Yet little research has explored how these mothers navigate their identities in relation to shifting parenting expectations and norms. What remains underexamined is how mothers make sense of their roles through everyday interactions, particularly within China’s changing educational and cultural landscapes. This study takes up this issue by examining how two Chinese mothers construct and negotiate their maternal identities through narrative. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and positioning analysis, we apply a process-relational lens to trace how identity is co-constructed through lived experience, relationships, and meaning-making. Our analysis reveals that one mother transitions from a strict, “chicken parent” approach to a more supportive stance, while the other consistently and proactively respects her child’s autonomy. These contrasting narratives illustrate that maternal identity is not fixed, but continuously shaped through the interplay of cultural expectations, personal values, and parenting practices. Our findings show how mothers actively negotiate their identities and reevaluate parenting practices, striving to balance their own expectations with their children’s educational needs. This study contributes to interdisciplinary research by illustrating how identity emerges through mothers’ ongoing, situated meaning-making within shifting cultural, relational, and developmental contexts. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Monstrous North
No full textOfficial Book Description: Matter of North collects essays and source material related to Glenn Gould\u27s landmark 1967 radio documentary The Idea of North. The most famous product (other than his studio piano recordings) of Gould\u27s 1964 decision to abandon the concert stage for the recording studio, it combines Gould\u27s interests in the contrapuntal (by the simultaneous layering of speaking voices) with philosophy and a life-long fascination with the Canadian Arctic. Because the documentary is a multivalent work, the contributors approach the documentary from unique perspectives (sociological, philosophical, music-theoretical, ethnomusicological), each illuminating a salient aspect of the work. The source-material section includes for the first time the complete interview responses by Gould\u27s five participants, along with other important documentation
Beyond Content: Radical Belonging and Learning as a Community in a Feminist Development Studies Course on Population and the Environment
No full textAuthored by an anthropologist trained in critical development studies and African Studies, this chapter describes a pedagogical shift in a course titled “Beyond the Population Bomb: Rethinking Population and Environment in an Era of Climate Change.” Moving beyond learning diverse content, the three objectives for the course were: (1) Create a space of radical belonging for all students, (2) invite students to be responsible for their learning, and (3) provide opportunities for all students to think about how their racialized identities and social positions shaped their engagement with course themes. The antiracist action plan included generating community norms for the classroom with periodic check-ins, multiple reflection exercises over the semester in which students assessed their own learning, and community-building experiences in and outside of class. While all students were enthusiastic about community building, it is difficult to discern the degree to which this foundation of radical belonging and connection enhanced students’ engagement with course content. While this is perhaps impossible to measure, this chapter argues that pedagogical practices that facilitate community and belonging are necessary steps in creating an antiracist classroom. © 2026 selection and editorial matter, Jie Y. Park and Laurie Ross; individual chapters, the contributors
Antiracist Pedagogy for the Art History Classroom
No full textThis chapter offers several nested teaching strategies informed by antiracist principles in a lecture course “Art from 1940 to 1970: Modernism and Its Discontents”. The antiracist interventions described in the chapter include reframing the core narrative of the course around questions of artistic agency, artists’ networks, and the power of how history is written using a diverse group of artists; foregrounding the instructor\u27s own positionality as a white scholar who has benefited from the art world structures; and developing discussion questions that invite students to explore how artists expressed their racialized experiences. The assessment strategies prioritized bringing marginalized voices in the classroom to the table, making expectations transparent, and intentionally scaffolding the learning activities for every student to be successful. Analysis of various teaching artifacts suggests some areas of success – such as students expressing an understanding of power structures in how history is written, and students engaging with topics relating to race in their research papers. © 2026 selection and editorial matter, Jie Y. Park and Laurie Ross; individual chapters, the contributors
Grinding temporalities: Racial capitalism and social reproduction in tourism labor
No full textIn this article, I analyze the formation of a labor ethos of acceleration in the context of the postpandemic, when tourism businesses experienced the pressure to reactivate the local economy in coastal Talamanca, Costa Rica. Using ethnographic methods and bringing to the fore conversations around “the Caribbean rhythm” and time, that appeared as a way of talking about race without stating it, I argue that the postpandemic provides a scenario through which we can understand the ways racial capitalism works by weaving crises and different temporalities to organize and sort out labor. Tourism, as a labor-intensive activity that seeks to produce leisure and pleasure for rest-seeking bodies, works as the analytical site for understanding the intricacies of racial capitalism. In the touristic beach towns of Talamanca, the call for acceleration and caring attention to customers that the half-staffed businesses demanded from their workers after the COVID-19 pandemic functioned to recreate hierarchies of employment and employability. This, in turn, deepened existing racialized and gendered inequalities, which are particularly useful for tourism\u27s functioning as a form of commodified social reproduction. © The Author(s) 202
Understanding Bosnian Komšiluk: A Study of Neighbourhood Dynamics and Violence
No full textThe 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a top-down political project aimed at dividing the multiethnic state and it was characterized by neighbourhood violence. Following the war, scholars focused on understanding the meaning and significance of komšiluk (neighbourliness) in Bosnian culture, particularly in relation to how friendly neighbourly relations turned violent during the ethnic conflict. These scholarly debates have contributed to a better understanding of komšiluk, although it has typically been presented as a stable institution, often negotiated along an interethnic axis, and viewed as a concept that persisted unchanged over time, with near-universal characteristics throughout Bosnia. This paper aims to challenge these generalizations. First, I will review and discuss the existing literature on neighbourliness and neighbourhood violence in Bosnia to address theoretical and methodological concerns in the study of such violence in Bosnia and elsewhere. Second, drawing on findings from my microhistorical study of neighbourliness and neighbourhood violence in Bosanski Novi, I will examine how interethnic solidarity between neighbours broke down after the onset of violence, rather than preceding it. I will argue that, instead of assuming that intergroup (interethnic) divisions inevitably defined relations between neighbours, scholars should investigate these ruptures at the interpersonal level, where they take place, in order to first understand how solidarity between neighbours was lived on a day-to-day basis, and then how and why it was demobilized during the interethnic conflict of the 1990s. © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
The Scarlet - Volume CIV, No. 2 (September 19, 2025)
No full textThe September 19, 2025 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University\u27s student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.https://commons.clarku.edu/scarlet/1177/thumbnail.jp
Perceptions of teachers and teaching in the United States: a document analysis of one State’s policy memos during COVID-19
No full textPurpose – This study aims to examine policy artifacts produced by state governance in the wake of COVID-19 and the way they communicate certain perceptions of teachers and the work of teaching. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a document analysis methodology to systemically evaluate policy memos from one state’s educational agency. Findings – This study\u27s findings include that conceptualizations of teachers as technicians persist within these policy documents as do images of the purpose and measure of teaching solely based on standardized testing. Such findings reveal a problematic gap between policy and classroom realities exacerbated by the pandemic. Originality/value – Examining the assumptions within policy documents is work that is essential to addressing the policy and practice gap and ultimately improving the policymaking process to include teachers’ voices, increase student learning and improve public education. To this end, this study focuses on the images of teachers and teaching within policy documents that the SEA released throughout the pandemic. By parsing out these images, this work intends to assess how policy frames teachers and the work of teaching – a task that is critical to better aligning policy with teachers’ experiences and ultimately decreasing attrition rates, increasing teacher satisfaction and improving student achievement. © 2025 Emerald Publishing Limite
In the Spotlight-Established Researcher
No full textQ&A interview with Professor Néva Meyer of Clark University