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An Interview with Tony David Sampson: Author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
No full textTony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Culture and Communication in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI) at the University of East London, where he directs the EmotionUX lab, supervising research on the cognitive, emotional, and affective aspects of user experience. In 2013, he co-founded Club Critical Theory, an organization dedicated to the application of critical theory in everyday life in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Tony is the author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks and The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture, both from the University of Minnesota Press. He blogs at viralcontagion.wordpress.com.
The editors of this special NANO issue are delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Tony about how his work touches on issues of imitation and contagion—a loaded term unpacked within his 2012 book
Sampson W. Harris letters, MSS.0642
No full textAbstract: Letters from Senator Sampson W. Harris of Alabama, dating from 1848 to 1857, written from Washington, DC, to the Congressional Globe and to the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable J.C. Dobbin.Scope and Content Note: This collection consists of five letters written from Washington, DC, by then Senator Sampson W. Harris of Alabama. Two of the letters, dated 28 June 1848 and 2 August 1848, are to the editors of the Congressional Globe requesting copies of that publication. Two of the other three letters, dated 22 August 1855 and 13 March 1856 are to the Honorable J.C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, requesting the appointment of Mr. R.T. Thom of Montgomery, Alabama, to the post of purser in the Navy. The final letter is also to the Honorable J.C. Dobbin, dated 13 February 1857, naming Andrew Jefferson Clark of Jacksonville, Benton County, Alabama, to a vacancy at the Naval School.Biographical/Historical Note: Sampson W. Harris was born in Elbert County, Georgia on 23 February 1809, the son of Judge Stephen Harris of Eatonton, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1828 and read law with his uncle, Judge Eli Shorter at Eatonton. After practicing there for a short time, he moved to Alabama in 1837 and located at Wetumka. He was elected solicitor of the 8th Court in 1841 but resigned in 1844 when he was elected to the Alabama State Senate. Following two years in the state senate, he was elected to the United States Senate and served from 1847 to 1857. He died in Washington, DC, on 1 April 1857, shortly after leaving office
Sampson, W E, VX36715
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/415188Surname: SAMPSON. Given Name(s) or Initials: W E. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX36715. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 42288.235610
Item: [2016.0049.47449] "Sampson, W E, VX36715
Robert Nail Collection
No full textBill of sale for Abraham, an enslaved child between Sampson Folsom and Robert W. Nail
[Letter to George Converse from William Sampson]
No full textIn this letter, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance William Sampson orders George Converse and the Naval Torpedo Board, of which he is president, assemble at E. W. Bliss Company in Brooklyn regarding automobile torpedoes and their appurtenances and to report to Rear Admiral Gherardi when convenient. It is also requested the Stiletto torpedo be placed at the disposal of the Naval Torpedo Board as soon as possible after the Naval Review is over
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Arthur W. Sampson—Pioneer Range Scientist
No full textArthur W. Sampson, internationally known range scientist, plant ecologist and professor of forestry, died of pneumonia in San Francisco, California, February 7, 1967. This brief biography by his former close friends, associates, and students is affectionately dedicated to his memory.This material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries.The Journal of Range Management archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact [email protected] for further information.Migrated from OJS platform August 202
List of Names and Prices Signed by Albert W. Sampson
No full textList of names and prices signed by Albert W. Sampson, n.d
Webbia trigintispinata Sampson
No full text137. Webbia trigintispinata Sampson Webbia 30-spinatus Sampson, 1922: 149. Thai distribution: N: Chiang Mai (Beaver & Browne 1975). No more recent records from Thailand. Other distribution: Cambodia, India (Andaman Is., Assam), Indonesia (Sumatera), Malaysia (E. & W.), Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam. Intercepted in Japan in timber imported from the region. (4) Biology: Associated with Dipterocarpaceae. Illustrations: P (Nobuchi 1978).Published as part of Beaver, R. A., Sittichaya, W. & Liu, L-Y., 2014, A Synopsis of the Scolytine Ambrosia Beetles of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 3875 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3875.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/513058
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from G. G. Sampson to Daniel W. Kempner enclosing a herewith of Mary Jean Kempner's biography
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