823 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
No full textIn 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
Field of WIldflowers Meditation
No full textDiagram of a yoga-based meditation. Visualize or feel you are surrounded by a field of wildflowers. Online video of the meditation available by request to the author
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New perspectives on gender and gaming, edited by Yasmin B. Kafai et al. [book review]
No full textReview of Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, and Jennifer Y. Sun, eds. Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New perspectives on gender and gaming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. $29.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-262-11319-9
Revising Writing Assignments in Response to Generative AI
No full textThe 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
A meditation on loss within games
No full text"Failure is something which we are all familiar with, but when we look at games and the rules which govern them failure takes on a different form. This kind of failure, unique to games, is what I term Loss. To be truly unique to games, Loss must be the result of gamic actions taken by the player, must be constrained by the limitations of the game, and must represent a unique occurrence or state within the game. Taking these constraints into account I propose the following as a definition of Loss. Loss is a player state in a game, entered into when a 'Loss Condition' has been met by the direct actions of the player, wherein something valued by the player within the game is removed. This definition, upon inspection, leads to several different and unique aspects, or dimension, of Loss which provide useful tools for understanding, analyzing, and creating Loss within games. The Digital Dimension of Loss consists of the binary triggers, Loss Conditionals, which lead the game to enter a State of Loss. The Design Dimension of Loss is the method of translating Loss Conditionals into unique game events understandable to the player. The Value Dimension of Loss consists of the gamic measures of effort that are taken away from the player by Loss. Finally, the Experience Dimension of Loss concerns the subjective effects of Loss on the player and methods for predicting what these effects will be. Together, this definition and the 4 aspects of Loss provide us new tools for understanding Loss as unique to games and distinct from failure in non-game contexts."--Page ii.Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Media and Information, 2016Includes bibliographical references (71-74
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
No full textThis 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
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