732 research outputs found
Carrie Fountain, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textCarrie Fountain\u27s poems have appeared in Tin House, Poetry, and The New Yorker, among others. She is the author of the collections Burn Lake (Penguin, 2010) and Instant Winner (Penguin, 2014), and a recipient of the National Poetry Series Award. Her first novel, I\u27m Not Missing, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books (Macmillan) in 2018
Beyond the digital diva: women on the World Wide Web
Full text linkIn the year 2000, American researchers reported that women constituted 51 percent of Internet users. This was a significant discovery, as throughout the medium's history, women were outnumbered by men as both users and builders of sites. This thesis probes not only this historical moment of change, but how women are mobilising the World Wide Web in their work, leisure and lives.
Not considered in the '51% of American women now online' headline is the lack of women engaged in Web building rather than Web shopping. In technical fields relating to the Web, women are outnumbered and marginalized, being poorly represented in computer-related college and university courses, in careers in computer science and computer programming, and also in digital policy. This thesis identifies the causes for the low number of women in these spheres. I consider the social and cultural reasons for their exclusion and explore the discourses which operate to discourage women's participation.
My original contribution to knowledge is forged as much through how this thesis is written as by the words and footnotes that graze these pages. With strong attention to methodology in Web-based research, I gather a plurality of women's voices and experiences of under-confidence, humiliation and fear. Continuing the initiatives of Dale Spender's Nattering on the Net, I research women's use of the Web in placing a voice behind the statistics. I also offer strategies for digital intervention, without easy platitudes to the 'potential' for women in the knowledge economy or through Creative Industries strategies.
The chapters of this thesis examine the contexts in which exclusionary attitudes are created and perpetuated. No technology is self-standing: we gain information about 'new' technologies from the old. I investigate representations and mediations of women's relationship to the Web in fields including the media, the workplace, fiction, the Creative Industries and educational institutions. For example, the media is complicit in causing women to doubt their technological capabilities. The images and ideologies of women in film, newspapers and magazines that present computer and Web usage are often discriminatory and derogatory. I also found in educational institutions that patriarchal attitudes privilege men, and discourage female students' interest in digital technologies. I interviewed high school and university students and found that the cultural values embedded within curricula discriminate against women. Limitations in Web-based learning were also discovered.
In discussing the cultural and social foundations for women's absence or under-confidence in technological fields, I engage with many theories from a prominent digital academic: Dale Spender. In her book Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace, Spender's outlook is admonitory. She believes that unless women acquire a level of technological capital equal to their male counterparts, women will continue to be marginalised as new political and social ideologies develop. She believes women's digital education must occur as soon as possible. While I welcome her arguments, I also found that Spender did not address the confluence between the analogue and the digital. She did not explore how the old media is shaping the new. While Spender's research focused on the Internet, I ponder her theses in the context of the World Wide Web.
In order to intervene in the patriarchal paradigm, to move women beyond digital shoppers and into builders of the digital world, I have created a website (included on CD-ROM) to accompany this thesis's arguments. It presents links to many sites on the Web to demonstrate how women are challenging the masculine inscriptions of digital technology. Although the website is created to interact directly with Chapter Three, its content is applicable to all parts of the thesis.
This thesis is situated between cultural studies and internet studies. This interdisciplinary dialogue has proved beneficial, allowing socio-technical research to resonate with wider political applications. The importance of intervention - and the need for change - has guided my words. Throughout the research and writing process of this thesis, organisations have released reports claiming gender equity on the Web. My task is to capture the voice, views and fears of the women behind these statistics
Alienable rights: negative figures of U.S. citizenship, 1787-1868
No full textPh. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Carrie Hyd
Why Look at Animals in Landscapes?
No full textThis book was published on the occasion of the two-person exhibition Reflexive Animals with work by Heather Passmore and Carrie Walker. The exhibition was held at SFU Gallery from September 8 to October 20, 2012. It includes written contributions by artist Julie Andreyev, poet Peter Culley and Bill Jeffries.final article publishe
Revising Writing Assignments in Response to Generative AI
Full text linkThe author describes how she revised writing assessments in the university’s first-year writing sequence to emphasize rhetorical analysis of multimodal texts, prompts to which generative AI and ChatGPT struggle to respond
Book Review: Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership
No full textAuthor: Martha C. Nussbaum
Reviewer: Carrie Griffin Basas, J.D.
Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard, 2007
ISBN: Paper 978-0674024106, 512 pages
Cost: Available at amazon.com for 18.95
A historical review of the Carrie Steele-Pitts home, incorporated in Fulton county, Georgia, 1979
Full text linkThis study is a historical review of the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home, Inc., a foster care facility. The Carrie Steele-Pitts Home has been in existence since 1886. Its main purpose was and still is to care for neglected boys and girls. The purpose of this study demonstrates the fact that the Black community has played a very important role in the development of young people through the service of foster care
An animal model of autism using GSTM1 knockout mice and early post-natal VPA-treatment:
No full textAutism is a behaviorally defined developmental disorder with unknown origin. However, its etiology most likely involves a gene by toxicant by age of exposure interaction. To test this hypothesis, mouse pups with a deletion of glutathione-S-transferase M1 (a gene associated with increased risk of autism and that codes for an enzyme involved in the management of toxicant-induced oxidative stress) and wild-type controls were exposed to valproic acid (a toxicant known to cause autism-like behavior deficits following prenatal exposure and one that exerts its toxic action, in part, by inducing oxidative stress) on post-natal day 14. It was observed that VPA-treatment resulted in significant increases in the number of cells staining for TUNEL in the hippocampus and cerebellum. There was also a gene by treatment by sex interaction with VPA- treated wild-type females having increased protection against VPA-induced cell death. VPA- treatment also resulted in long-lasting deficits in social behaviors and corresponding changes in brain chemistry. Collectively, these data expand our current animal model of autism by adding a genetic component in the form of an autism susceptibility gene. In addition, these results support the hypothesis that autism may be the result of a gene by toxicant interaction wherein both factors share a common feature of oxidative stress.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-61)by Carrie Leigh Yochu
Specialized relationships between active bacteria and their environment:
No full textThe question as to which environmental factors select for or influence the resident and active community within the global ocean is still unclear. While general trends have been established in overall community response to natural forces and the impact of particular environmental parameters on biodiversity, little has been done to examine how certain species react to environmental stimuli and how the percentage of metabolically active species correlates to the ambient conditions. This research aimed to address these understudied areas and provide insight into how particular alterations in the physical, chemical, and biological environment relate to species composition and activity. More specifically, this work utilized molecular techniques, such as 16S and 18S ribosomal RNA analysis, to track how changes within the active and resident bacterial populations correlate to changes in environmental drivers. By narrowing the focus to two widely spaced locations, a New Zealand Fjord and a Caribbean river plume, and then evaluating these relationships in the laboratory, it was our hope to find patterns in species-specific bacterial activity associated with salinity, DOM, and phytoplankton dynamics in model systems. Results of this work indicate that no single environmental parameter drives the diversity of a system and that only a small percentage (< 30%) of the active bacterial population were correlated with the physical/chemical/biological parameters measured in our field studies. Furthermore, this data indicates that the appropriate parameters are not currently being measured to determine the regulatory force on the abundance and activity of the microbial population.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Carrie Allyson Ferrar
Book Review: Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
No full textAuthor: Robert McRuer
Reviewer: Carrie Griffin Basas, J.D.
Publisher: New York University Press, 2006
Cloth, ISBN: 081475712X, 299 pages
Paper, ISBN: 0814757138
Cost: Cloth 22.00 US
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