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The Mutability of Personal Documents and Mediated Memories as We Age: A Collaborative Reflection
Get PDFHow do our personal documentation practices change as we age, and how can we create and save personal evidence of ourselves for our family’s future? All of us continually accumulate information about ourselves in our everyday lives, intentionally, incidentally, or otherwise, for self-presentation, self-fulfillment, reminders of our past, reinforcing identity, as a hobby, for personal documentation, or for peace of mind. Increasingly, this evidence is in digital form, and often in the cloud. The authors use a collaborative autoethnography and narrative methodology, as outlined by Ford (2020), to document how aging affects our personal documentation and our memories. In the research literature, what are described as personal documentation include oral histories, diaries, letters, narratives incorporating photovoice, online social networks, and other reflective techniques that allow users to record their everyday stories, increasingly using digital technologies. Documents, along with objects and artifacts that act as documents do not hold our memories but are agents that can cue our memories through physical or digital experiences, or through a combination of both, experienced through our senses. As such, they are living documents that grow and evolve as they are carried through our lives and passed on to posterity, for we “primarily make sense of the past through the materiality of things — through objects, artefacts, landscapes, and [our] bodies” (Staats, 2019). According to Lund (2004) documents have aspects that are informational (mental), material (physical) and communicational (social); in other words, they involve our heads, hands, and hearts to create meaning. We, a group of four information researchers, drew on our extensive research experience, each contributing our unique personal narratives, reflections, and observations using a relational approach. By doing so, we were able to construct a shared understanding of our topic. Ultimately, our collaborative examination of our practices resulted in a rich and nuanced portrayal of this complex topic. We take a look at how we can make sense of our own personal and family histories in a holistic manner as we age so that what we leave behind contributes to our family and cultural memory and is not just a data store of indecipherable digital objects or an underbed shoe box of unexplained material artifacts. We explore the challenges of dealing with the wide distribution of personal digital information fragmented through different mediums. Like time, our personal spaces of information are constantly evolving; control and ownership are some of the issues at hand, as well as benign neglect and the lack of responsibility for taking control over personal documents and personal histories. Through this presentation we raise a call to action, and if not us, then who will take responsibility for our repository of personal identities and histories? Leaving our histories in others\u27 hands may lead to a great loss of cultural heritage for contemporary people’s life stories. We realize this will take great effort by individuals, and we see this project as a driving force to promote personal documentation as we age in a time where digital documentation tools present a great risk in maintaining the story of our lives
To Mean or Not to Mean: An Investigation of Regression to the Mean
Get PDFRegression to the mean is a statistical phenomenon that can hide important characteristics of what is truly happening in a research study. Caused by statistical randomness, regression to the mean occurs when extreme values, high or low, are followed by less extreme values. To correctly deal with it, one must understand what it is and how to distinguish its effect on conclusions made from the data. This paper provides examples of regression to the mean in both a medical and academic performance study and explains simple identifiers one can observe. Those are then followed up by the introduction of the usage of control groups and baseline studies to establish a basic understanding of the strength of regression to the mean. Thereafter, a fictitious basketball free throw study is created, and a simple analysis is completed. Afterward, other methods related to regression to the mean are briefly mentioned and readers are directed to additional academic sources
Research into the Effects of Invasive Earthworm Species
Get PDFAmynthas gracilis, or Alabama jumper worms, are a species of earthworms invasive to North America that hail from Asia. These worms are known to have an effect on the levels of macro-nutrients in the soil, as well as make alterations to the structure of the soil. These changes to soil composition and structure alter the soil’s ability to retain moisture and have been shown to negatively impact European species of earthworms such as Dutch Reds (Eisenia hortensis), Red Wigglers (Eisenia fetida,) and Canadian Nightcrawlers (Lumbricus terrestris). These effects were observed and quantified by monitoring and recording the populations and biomasses of communities kept in their own soil as well as soil that had been previously inhabited by Amynthas gracilis. The Eisenia hortensis, Eisenia fetida and Lumbricus terrestris populations that were housed in soil treated by Amynthas gracilis showed an increased and accelerated rate of die off compared to their counterparts kept within native untreated soils
I Can\u27t Breathe : A Comparison of Racial Inequity and Police Brutality Observed in France and the United States
Get PDFThis paper explores the unanticipated convergence of human experiences among Black and Brown citizens of France and the United States, despite their historical and legislative differences. Investigating racial inequity and police brutality through a comparative lens, this paper highlights global connections forged by racial and ethnic minorities in their shared anti-racist struggles. Emphasizing the transformative potential of acknowledging and sharing these narratives, this paper navigates linguistic, social, and legislative dimensions, providing insights into legal standings and communal ideologies. Addressing the lasting consequences of racial bias, this paper urges a reevaluation of societal structures and legal frameworks to foster global racial and social equity
Statement of Michael Doane Before the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet
Get PDFSection 337 provides U.S, intellectual property rights owners unique and effective relief against infringing products imported into the United States. The USITC and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have already taken steps to limit the ability of patent trolls to use Section 337 through tightening the domestic industry requirement. Efforts to address purported abuse will ultimately negatively impact those that Section 337 was expressly amended to protect. Amendments to Section 337, therefore, are unnecessary
Sugardale Marketing Research Project
Get PDFThis is a marketing research project for Sugardale meat company. Our group will be conducting primary and secondary research in order to answer questions and achieve goals that will help the Sugardale meat company market to millennials
Ecological Functions of the Document in Art and Design: Diplomatic Documents in Artistic Inquiries
Get PDFA certain ecologist art form has been on the rise for the past twenty years. Those artworks include documents. The analysis will take two examples : Tale as Tool, and Chroniques de l’accueil. The use of documents doesn\u27t deal with representation, as it used to be in art, but with inquiries. The ecological art tries to trigger testimonies and transformations of the common representation of nature. They don’t use documents as a trace but for their diplomatic capabilities. The document doesn’t record events or facts but it changes the situation. The ecological artists come with this paradoxical art stance : recording the existing state of social relation to transform it
Recursive Documentary Design and an Awareness of the Mechanism
Get PDFThis essay documents 3D-printed sculptures displayed at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Document Academy. To raise awareness about the cultural significance of the mechanisms that produce digital substance, the sculptures lend material heft to some of the abstractions that help to constitute textual representations of a sixteenth-century Korean lyric and modern Korean poems from the early twentieth century in digital environments. The essay also describes previous exhibitions of the sculptures that utilized augmented reality technologies. By documenting the ways augmented reality technologies represented 3D-printed sculpture that documents digital texts that represent printed documents and manuscripts, the essay suggests how recursive documentary practices can be designed to enable cultural memory while acknowledging the inevitable losses associated with cultural reproduction
Always Judge A Book By Its Cover
Get PDFThe goal for this honors project is to build my illustration portfolio and to explore the world of children\u27s book illustration. This project will facilitate my improvement in design layout, theming, and illustration. I would love to pursue a job involving children\u27s book illustrations at some point in the future and completing this project would help me to understand the challenges that come with designing such covers, it would improve my ability to illustrate in a purposeful manner, and it would strengthen my portfolio overall
Smart Longboard
Get PDFThe proposed design project includes a motorized longboard, equipped with a wireless handheld remote to manage the speed of the board. An embedded system mounted underneath the board will gather data from an accelerometer and a GPS sensor. This information is sent through a Bluetooth connection to a compatible smartphone application where it will be displayed. The project also includes a custom battery and charging circuit for the board to ensure that all of the engineering requirements are met. The board will be easy to use and the smartphone application will be able to display ride statistics of the user after the ride is completed. The application will display maximum speed, distance travelled, and average speed for the user to observe and compare with friends