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- Creator:
- Tang, Carissa, Kao, Hsien-Te, and Jain, Anita
- Description:
- The United States has increased the awareness for gender fluidity through social expressions and movements. The horror community as a subspace of American society reflects the practice of gender fluidity. The horror community utilizes the diverse platforms of book, film and the internet to create horror characters and stories. Slenderman was a gender neutral horror character developed in 2009 that transformed into a gendered character through fanfictions and fan arts. We discover the gendered transformation of Slenderman from comparison analysis of original and fan-based Slenderman in addition to fanfictions text mining. We examine the history of horror characters with the analysis of Frankenstein, Freddy and Ring and text mining on the word selections between female and male author in 100 horror books and 100 horror movie scripts. We discover the existence of gender binary structure throughout the history of horror characters. The gender dichotomy in the horror community reveals the inconsistency between the practice and awareness of gender fluidity in the United States.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Ethnic and Women's Studies
- Creator:
- Sammler, Katherine G. and Lynch, Casey R.
- Description:
- Spaceport America, a spectacle to see with curvilinear geometry that itself looks like a spacecraft rising out of the desert near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, conveys a hope of the everyman astronaut. Yet this private-public project, spending over $200 million in state taxpayer money to build and with a $2.85 million operating budget for 2017, does not provide the vertical transport analog of an airport. As Virgin Galactic stalls in launching its astronomically-priced zero-gravity music festival and commercial passenger flights, the facilities have been dusted off for educational rocketry club launches and Hollywood film backdrops while most public access to the grounds is restricted to expensive guided tours. As with the Spaceport, access to outer space itself raises questions of public versus private ownership and exclusivity. With the shifting role of nation states in offplanet activity, there are openings for outer space to become another site of capital accumulation or to manifest as envisioned by social movements and "community space programs." This paper traces the ongoing realignment of public and private interests in offworld activity, of which Spaceport America is representative, considering how notions of offworld access have evolved since the aspirational vision of space as a commons laid out in the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty. The paper juxtaposes the emerging public-private hegemony with the actions of three autonomous space organizations that actively construct alternative political economic models, technological systems, and cultural imaginaries of offworld access. and To be published in Geopolitics.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 1557-3028
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs and School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
- Creator:
- Tang, Carissa, Kao, Hsien-Te, and Jain, Anita
- Description:
- The United States has increased the awareness for gender fluidity through social expressions and movements. The horror community as a subspace of American society reflects the practice of gender fluidity. The horror community utilizes the diverse platforms of book, film and the internet to create horror characters and stories. Slenderman was a gender neutral horror character developed in 2009 that transformed into a gendered character through fanfictions and fan arts. We discover the gendered transformation of Slenderman from comparison analysis of original and fan-based Slenderman in addition to fanfictions text mining. We examine the history of horror characters with the analysis of Frankenstein, Freddy and Ring and text mining on the word selections between female and male author in 100 horror books and 100 horror movie scripts. We discover the existence of gender binary structure throughout the history of horror characters. The gender dichotomy in the horror community reveals the inconsistency between the practice and awareness of gender fluidity in the United States.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Ethnic and Women's Studies
- Creator:
- Russikoff, Karen
- Description:
- Many faculty address potential plagiarism with only a brief mention, believing that students understand and know how to avoid it. In fact, the issue is complex and dynamic. While the ready access of Internet material has promoted copying without attribution, the diversity of students and faculty on American campuses who represent varied cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds also influences documentation conceptualization and practice. University students in China (PRC), Latvia, Lithuania, and the United States were surveyed to see how they regarded the concept of plagiarism and how their perception matched actual academic practices. The results suggest that plagiarism may be attributed to multiple variables, including historical, political, economic, social, pedagogical, and technological influences. Additional anecdotal evidence was collected. In one example, citing a half-century of Soviet rule in the Baltic States which had done away with the concept of personal property, students often failed to acknowledge the value of intellectual property, an especially abstract notion. Plagiarism has often been an outgrowth of differences in understanding. Therefore, implications include the need for increased awareness and knowledge by faculty and students provided through pedagogical support for discipline-specific instruction.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Hermans, Hubert
- Description:
- Huimin Jin’s article on cultural self-confidence is a welcome invitation to deliver a short commentary from a western point of view. My purpose is to show that in Western scientific publications of the past decades, there is an increasing interest in both the necessity and fertility of developing a dialogical self as part of a globalizing world society. In this context, I discuss (a) the dialogical self as an alternative to Western individualism (b) the origin of Dialogical Self Theory and some of its main tenets; and (c) tension between global and local positions; and (d) the necessity of recognizing the otherness and alterity of voices emerging from different cultures and selves. I show that recent developments in Western social sciences are well in agreement with some of Jin’s main arguments on Chinese self-confidence.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Description:
- The American Philisophical Association administers the David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship in the Amount of $10,000 for the support and dissemination of research in the field of ethics. Competition for this fellowship is open to candidates of any nationality, working in any country, whose research has some bearing on the philosophical interests of the late David Baumgardt. Broadly speaking, these interests were in the examination and comparison of types of morality associated with strong cultural and religious traditions, such as Judaism and Christianity, or based on certain contrasting principles (for example, love and justice on the one hand, power or forgiveness on the other).
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Yazhou, Liu
- Description:
- The spirit of a nation finds its manifestation in the essence and quality of its culture, which fundamentally impacts the nation’s existence and development. In this sense the victory over the Japanese aggression is not only a military victory, but also a spiritual victory, a cultural victory. The core of the culture is spirit. President Xi Jinping2 , China’s new leader, pointed out: “In this new historical condition, the whole party and whole nation should display the spirit of fighting against the Japanese aggressors, enhance our spiritual ties of unity and perseverance to achieve the Chinese Dream3 of its great revitalization and to comfort the souls of our predecessors and revolutionary martyrs with new feats achieved in building the socialism with the Chinese characteristics.”
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Jackley, Debra
- Description:
- Universities have a responsibility to help provide a safe and productive educational and work environment, free from the pressures to use alcohol and other drugs. There is significant scientific evidence demonstrating the health risks associated with the abuse of alcohol, drugs and other controlled substances, as well as their negative impact on the educational process. Because of these risks, Cal Poly Pomona has recently received a two-year grant through FIPSE (Fundfor the Improvement of Post Secondary Education) in order to institute a three-fold program of Alcohol and Other Drug prevention strategies. As part of this component, the CORE Alcohol and Other Drug Survey questionnaire was distributed in order to assess the current climate on campus relative to alcohol and drug use. This paper will summarize major findings from this survey.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona