45 research outputs found
Book Review: Immersive Media and Books 2020: New Insights About Book Pirates, Libraries and Discovery, Millennials, and Cross-Media Engagement: Before and During COVID
No full textBooks exist within a connected media ecosystem, but few consumer behavior and experience studies capture the relationships between books and other media forms. In Immersive Media & Books 2020, Drs. Rachel Noorda and Kathi Inman Berens from Portland State University explore crossmedia consumer behavior for books, video games, and TV/movies—capturing behaviors both before and during COVID-19. The highlights of the report are highly distributed word-of-mouth discovery, the importance of author brand and genre, avid book engagement of Black and Latinx millennials, context-agnostic book discovery, cross-media engagement and discovery, multidimensional identities and behaviors of book pirates, multitasking as a feature of contemporary book consumption, and libraries as tools of discovery
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No full textPhotograph of Kathi Macias during the 47th Church and Synagogue Library Association conference, which was held at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Portland, Oregon. She is a guest speaker at the event and is the author of several books. She is standing behind the podium and is holding a microphone in her hand
Insights from the Immersive Media & Books 2020 Consumer Survey
No full textPodcast, episode 191.
Mark interviews Dr. Rachel Noorda and Dr. Kathi Inman Berens about the Immersive Media & Books 2020 Consumer Survey conducted by the Panorama Project and Portland State University.
Key discussion points: Behaviors related to “engagement” with books that don’t necessarily include buying or reading them The survey was made up of people who “engaged with a book” at least once in the past 12 months An OverDrive study and a 2019 PEW research study and that both estimate between 75% and 85% of people have engaged with a book in the previous year How books are a very durable 500-year success story, according to Dr. Berens, that people have incredibly powerful feelings and emotions about -Some of the research that revealed surprising results Bookstores are not just a showroom for Amazon. Purchases are more of a 50/50 split. The biggest single realm of book discoverability (20%) is from friends, but 80% of the time people are finding books from a multitude of other means. The difficulty of measuring or finding the typical 6 touch points a person needs to have with a book before they decide to purchase/read it All of the things that happen in purchasing behavior that we (as authors and publishers, and even as consumers) are not aware of How the Immersive Media report does have a specific section for authors The high relevance of “genre” and “favorite author” when it comes to deciding to buy a book How readers are often expecting some kind of “online access” to authors The “literary citizenship” that Jane Friedman talks about in her book THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITE
Epílogo. Una vida más alla del trabajo
No full textEpilogue of the book The problem with work, Madrid, Traficantes de sueños, 2020.
Assignment by the author and publisher.Epílogo del libro El problema del trabajo, Madrid, Traficantes de sueños, 2020.
Cesión por parte de la autora y la editoria
Epílogo. Una vida más alla del trabajo=Epilogue. A Life Beyond Work
No full textEpílogo del libro El problema del trabajo, Madrid, Traficantes de sueños, 2020.Cesión por parte de la autora y la editorial Epilogue of the book The problem with work, Madrid, Traficantes de sueños, 2020.Assignment by the author and publishe
Aging and Health: An Examination of Differences between Older Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal People
No full textThe Aboriginal population in Canada, much younger than the general population, has experienced a trend towards aging over the past decade. Using data from the 2001 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) and the 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), this article examines differences in health status and the determinants of health and health care use between the 55-and-older Aboriginal population and non-Aboriginal population. The results show that the older Aboriginal population is unhealthier than the non-Aboriginal population across all age groups; differences in health status, however, appear to converge as age increases. Among those aged 55 to 64, 7 per cent of the Aboriginal population report three or more chronic conditions compared with 2 per cent of the non-Aboriginal population. Yet, among those aged 75 and older, 51 per cent of the Aboriginal population report three or more chronic conditions in comparison with 23 per cent of the non-Aboriginal population.Aboriginal people, health status, health care use
"The Central I-Am's Private Own" : A Study of Humanism in "Absalom, Absalom!"
No full textiv, 105 p.The author explores the tension between humanism and absolutism and the ways that William Faulkner has the tragedy of the Sutpen family represent the tragedy of the South
Participation of unemployment benefit recipients in active labor market programs : before and after the German labor market reforms
No full text"Between 2005 and 2007 the German government raised a per-capita amount of around 10.000 Euros for each transition out of unemployment benefit receipt into basic social care, to be paid by the unemployment insurance. The so called 'Aussteuerungsbetrag' set strong incentives that investments in active labor market programs for unemployment benefit recipients should pay off - in terms of an exit from registered unemployment - before a transition into basic social care for needy jobseekers occurred. This raised considerable public concerns that less programs would be granted, in particular for hard-to-place workers. Our paper analyzes if these concerns were justified. We compare four cohorts, eligible for unemployment benefits at the beginning of their unemployment spell during March of the years 2003 to 2006. We conduct some descriptive analyses and estimate piecewise constant exponential hazard models to investigate the correlation between individual characteristics and transition rates into programs. The results show that transition rates into programs were in fact low across the 2005 cohort, but rather high for the 2006 cohort. The expectation that particular disadvantaged groups of unemployed would participate less in active labor market programs in the postreform period is not confirmed; their transition rates into programs were significantly higher across the 2006 cohort than in pre-reform cohorts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahme - Zu- und Abgänge, Hartz-Reform - Erfolgskontrolle, Aussteuerungsbetrag - Auswirkungen, Teilnehmerstruktur, Arbeitslose, schwervermittelbare Arbeitslose
Understanding public and private value: the case of carbon reduction projects in Edinburgh
No full textArguably, the research of public value and private value constitutes an
essential foundation for both the academic study and practical reform of public
management in recent decades. Yet, paradoxically, both concepts are
characterised by extremely vague definitions. Also, the relationship between
public value and private value objectives, especially their potential intertension in a given setting, has drawn remarkably little attention.
This thesis
aims at addressing these two critical research gaps.
The empirical research for this thesis is undertaken within a special and
previously ignored context, city-scale carbon reduction projects. These
projects target mitigating climate change, a major threat to the future
generation, and require the efforts made by agencies and individuals
presently. In this regard, carbon reduction projects typically involve the
potential creation of public value in the future, but often through the reduction
of private value at present. Therefore, they serve as the appropriate cases to
investigate diversified value objectives and complex value balance. In
particular, the author asked the three following research questions:
How are
carbon reduction projects conducted at the city-scale? What are the meanings
of public and private value in city-scale carbon reduction projects? And how
do public and private value interact in city-scale carbon reduction projects?
Guided by qualitative case study methodology, this thesis encompasses four
embedded case studies in Edinburgh (Scotland). The research findings are
drawn from 18-month fieldwork, which assembled an extensive database
incorporating interviews with policymakers, public managers, and respondents
from a wide range of social or private organisations, together with participative
observations and textual/video documents.
This thesis has generated an extensive array of research findings. It firstly
develops two novel conceptual frameworks, respectively, for the notions of
public and private value. On this basis, it secondly explicates two underlying
dimensions of public-private value conflicts, including the value
failure/destruction dimension and the value convergence/divergence
dimension, which thereby classifies value conflicts into four specific categories.
Prior to these two primary findings, this thesis also develops a process model,
delineating the deployment of city-scale carbon reduction projects as a cyclical
succession of three-stage inter-organisational couplings.
These findings are expected to make significant theoretical contributions by:
clarifying the conceptual ambiguity in public/private value study, synthesising
the currently separated research of public and private value, and explaining
different mechanisms and reasons of value destruction. On the practical level,
this thesis also provides a series of implications for practitioners. In particular,
the author highlights that future-oriented public projects normally involve a
multi-layered set of public and private value propositions, in both the short- and
long-term. Public managers and policymakers thereby need to proactively
identify these propositions, explore the links among them, and be prepared for
value conflicts that can happen frequently
Quality of life of immigrants: Integration experiences among Asian immigrants in Saskatoon
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