142 research outputs found
"Old futures: Speculative fiction and queer possibility," by Alexis Lothian
No full textReview of Alexis Lothian, Old futures: Speculative fiction and queer possibility. New York: NYU Press, 2018. Paperback $30 (352p). ISBN 9781479825851
"Hack Your Digital Sphere"
No full textCuratorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Individuals already immersed in digital life can find it difficult to objectively evaluate their social networks, let alone the role gender plays in them. In the “Social Media and Social Justice” unit of her Gender, Race, and Labor in the Digital Worlds course, Alexis Lothian asks her students to test the limits and boundaries of their social networks, document the results, and reflect on their digital activities within larger social structures. Designed as a larger research project where students must determine their research topics, questions, and methods, students were given enormous freedom to evaluate their relationship to social media. This project could be remixed to evaluate online gaming networks such as Fat, Ugly or Slutty, a blog that documents the gender-specific harassment directed toward women gamers, or communities such as those cohering around Facebook groups
An archive of one's own: Subcultural creativity and the politics of conservation [symposium]
No full textn response to a rapidly changing scene of intellectual property in digital media, activist fans have mobilized to develop a communal, nonprofit group to provide fans with an "archive of their own", protecting fan works from deletion by server hosts who believe those works to be in breach of copyright. In 2008, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) incorporated as a nonprofit, and the Archive of Our Own went live in 2009. I am a paid-up member of the OTW—and publishing in the journal it sponsors, after being part of the editorial team for the first five issues—because I believe in the artistic and cultural importance of fan works and I want them to be preserved. But I also believe we must look critically at the meaning-making projects that are encompassed within the OTW's goal of legitimatizing and preserving fan works for the future
"Bodyminds reimagined: (Dis)ability, race, and gender in Black women's speculative fiction," by Sami Schalk
No full textReview of Sami Schalk. Bodyminds reimagined: (Dis)ability, race, and gender in Black women’s speculative fiction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Paperback, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 9780822370888
Complex variation in measures of general intelligence and cognitive change
No full textCopyright: © 2013 Tenesa et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: Genotyping of the ABC1936, LBC1921, and LBC1936 cohorts and the analyses conducted here were supported by the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Phenotype collection in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 was supported by the BBSRC, The Royal Society, and The Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government. Phenotype collection in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 was supported by Research Into Ageing (continues as part of Age UK's The Disconnected Mind project). Phenotype collection in the Aberdeen Birth Cohort 1936 was supported by the BBSRC, the Wellcome Trust, and the Alzheimer's Research Trust. SJR, AR and AT are funded by the BBSRC through the Roslin Institute's strategic programme grant and project grant BB/K000195/1. The Brain data was provided by the Division of Aging Biology and the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology (NIA) through the NIH GWAS Data Repository (dbGaP Accession Number: phs000249.v1.p1) and funded as part of the Intramural Research Program, NIA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewe
Grinding Axess and Balancing Oppositions: The Transformation of Feminism in Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction
No full textIntroduction: Goodnight My Servants All: The Sourcebook of East Lothian Witchcraft
No full textA treasury of primary material about cases of witchcraft in East Lothian. This marvellous, vast compendium of transcribed documentation, with useful annotation and perceptive commentary, is a most welcome contribution to the study of Scottish witchcraft in the 16th and 17th centuries. Seasoned academic scholars of witchcraft will find much useful, challenging material - and read of witches and witchcraft cases that they have never come across before. Even with some familiarity with the cases that the author presents, it is fascinating to read different accounts given by different witnesses of the same case and the same alleged incidents.</p
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