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DePauw Men\u27s Basketball vs Ohio Wesleyan 2-3-24
No full textMac and Cooper bring you DePauw Men\u27s Basketball vs OWU, from 2-3-24
Tiger Talk 1-31-24
No full textIt\u27s Tiger Talk, with Mac and Ben, to kick off the Spring Semester! Broadcast 1-31-24
From the Prosser Collection Collection Connections: Chaos, Culture, & Contours
No full textHiroyuki Tajima Popox, 1964 Woodcut| Gift of David T. Prosser Jr. DePauw Art Collection, 2016.5.5https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_exhibit/1210/thumbnail.jp
Social Media and Surveillance Capitalism: Facebook, Political Polarization, Orwellian Dystopia, and American Democracy
Get PDFSocial media platforms have played a significant role in recent elections in the U.S. and other democracies. While Facebook and Twitter (now renamed X) claimed that they are “on a journey to connect the world,” to serve the goals of reforms and to bring about more democracy, their platforms have been effectively used to spread lies, misinformation, and disinformation which led some analysts to argue that we now live in a post-truth world and that the Orwellian dystopia is upon us. This paper is an attempt to assess whether big tech companies have created an Orwellian state in the U.S. We argue that the idiom of the Orwellian dystopia has been misused by scholars, commentators, and politicians on the political left as well as the political right. Our analysis of social media, especially Facebook, shows that the social media companies are not intentionally trying to subvert American democracy. Instead, as a business, they are driven by a profit motive and the logic of “surveillance capitalism.
November 2024 Table of Contents Newsletter - Current Issues and Elections / Statista
Get PDFDuring this contentious election cycle, we’re all focused on current issues that are important to us, as well as the state of American democracy, and our duties as citizens. Libraries are good places to gather the reliable information you need. We have historical sources, scholarly writing, and, of course, newspapers.
One way to stay on top of current events and election news is to read a variety of established news sources, coupled with your regular favorites. Did you know that DePauw Libraries provides campus licenses to the website versions of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, and The Economist for all students, staff, and faculty? Each one has their own set of instructions for setting up access - you can find them here: https://libguides.depauw.edu/campuslicens
E-TextBook For Better Learning in Chemistry 120
Get PDFOrganic chemistry is a highly visual subject since organic compounds are 3D objects. For this reason, in order to fully understand the composition, properties, and chemistry of these compounds, it is essential to understand and visualize their 3D structures. Nevertheless, there is a frequent necessity to depict organic substances on 2D surfaces, such as paper, a computer screen, or a whiteboard. As a result, one of the biggest obstacles we will face is learning these molecules in a 2D format while maintaining an accurate understanding of 3D nature. The purpose of this e-textbook is to fully utilize the digital medium by integrating images, videos, games, 3D interactive objects, etc., in order to assist students in comprehending the properties of molecules in both 2D and 3D formats.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/1142/thumbnail.jp
Comparison of two disaccharides and their saccharide components in AOT reverse micelles: Impacts of D-trehalose and D-sucrose
Get PDFReverse micelles, featuring an AOT surfactant with a polar head group and nonpolar tail, encapsulate a polar phase at the nanoscale. With water as the polar phase, the nanoconfined water pool interactions and water-interface interactions mimic biological nanoconfinement. Thus, we investigated the impact of osmolytes on AOT reverse micelles to explore the role they play in biological systems. We investigated two disaccharides, D-trehalose and D-sucrose, and their monosaccharide components, glucose+glucose and glucose+fructose. We chose these molecules for their biological significance and to allow us to investigate whether subtle structural changes in the osmolyte impacts the intermolecular interactions in confinement as strongly as is found with monosaccharides (Halliday). In determining the size of reverse micelles, Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) indicates saccharide-containing reverse micelles are smaller than reverse micelles with the same volume of water. Additionally, DLS shows there is no difference in reverse micelle size between D-trehalose and sucrose or their saccharide components. We further probed the system using a fluorescent dye molecule for lifetime measurements to determine the impact confinement and saccharides have on relaxation processes. Optical spectroscopy experiments, such as fluorescence anisotropy measurements, indicate relaxation processes are slowed by confinement and by increasing saccharide concentration. Similar to DLS results, there is seemingly no difference between the impact of D-trehalose and sucrose or their saccharide components on relaxation processes. Halliday et al. Langmuir. 2024.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/1151/thumbnail.jp
Zermelo\u27s Theorem: How To Reach A Standard of Perfect Play in Chess
Get PDFZermelo’s theorem establishes that in any two player zero-sum game with perfect information (without the element of chance), either one side can force a win regardless of how the other side plays, or both sides can force a draw (if allowed in the rules). This theorem encouraged me to see how I could better my chess to see if I could exploit the existence of this perfect standard. I considered how chess engines play, as they are currently the strongest at playing chess. I understood that they often look 60-70 moves deep from the opening stage of the game, which leads to the endgame. I decided to mimic this method by finding a statistical correlation between opening moves and the type of endgames that may occur from them.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/srfposters/1163/thumbnail.jp
(Un)learning Aesethetics: Pedagogy and the Perceptual Ecology of Class Struggle
Get PDFMaterialist approaches to aesthetics historicize our sensuous capacities, orientations, and objects by attending to their ongoing production. This article begins by articulating capital not as an “economic” system but as a broader perceptual ecology that produces particular correspondences between subjects and the world. In response to the clear limits of ideology critique we argue that not only is capitalist ideology reproduced educationally but that pedagogical challenges to capital need to generate experiences with alternative collective perceptual realities that exist in the present. In our current conjuncture, such experiences are political insofar as they help rejuvenate the belief in the possibility and reality of revolutionary transformation. We offer the pedagogy of unlearning as one potential educational philosophy and practice that interrupts our inauguration into capital’s sensuous regime. Moreover, we read Marx’s Capital as a text that is guided by an aesthetic pedagogy to help us understand capital as a totality in shifting and partial ways and that, more importantly, produces a gap in the reader between our presumed sensuous certainty and other possible perceptual configurations
Word Play: A Top-Down Approach to Text Analysis of BDSM Practitioners’ Written Language
Get PDFPower play, or consensual power changing between “Dominant” and “submissive” role partners, is common practice within BDSM culture. In fact, to many BDSM practitioners, their D/s role is an integral part of their sexual identity and behavior, which informs not only their sexual scripts, but also their non-sexual social interactions. This two-part research study used computerized text analysis to determine whether BDSM practitioners relative to non-practitioners, and among D/s role identities, differed in their language use. Study 1 utilized a sample of 13,374 web-scraped comments from BDSM- and non-BDSM-related subreddits. Study 2 used a recruited sample of 285 self-identified Dominants, submissives, switches, and non-BDSM practitioners. Results suggest that BDSM practitioners consistently use role-specific language outside of scenes and sexual contexts. Findings from this top-down approach, coupled with a bottom-up approach published previously (Crane & Ireland, 2022), intend to facilitate a comprehensive analysis to inform future research of marginalized persons with diverse sexualities