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Session: Guerilla Session 1, Critlib Unconference 2015 Session 1 Attendees

Critlib Unconference

Notes from Session1 of the Critlib Unconference 2015, held at Portland State University in March 2015. This was specified as a "guerilla" session, and was limited to ten participants. Discussion revolved around neutrality and ethics for librarians, as well as various aspects of reference instruction and student learning behaviors.

Session: Safe(R) Spaces, Critlib Unconference 2015 Session 3 Attendees

Critlib Unconference

Brief notes from Session 3 of the Critlib Unconference 2015, held at Portland State University in March 2015. Specifies questions about safety in libraries and library spaces.

Critlib Tech Manifesto, Critlib Unconference 2015 Session 2 Attendees

Critlib Unconference

This document contains the beginnings of a Critlib Tech Manifesto, started during session 2 of the Critlib Uncnference 2015 held at Portland State University in March 2015. Session attendees continued to add notes and commentary following the session. The goal of the manifesto is to address the engagement with and the use, adoption, and promotion of technology in libraries.

Acrl Framework And Critical Pedagogy, Critlib Unconference 2015 Session Attendees

Critlib Unconference

Notes from Session 2 of the Critlib Unconference 2015 held at Portland State University in March 2015. Discusses attendees experiences with implementations of the ACRL framework, open access, information literacy and related issues.

Session: Hegemonic Information Structures, Critlib Unconference 2015 Session Attendees

Critlib Unconference

Notes from Session 3 of the Critlib Unconference 2015, held in Hoffman Hall at Portland State University, March 2015. The discussion focused on hegemonic information structures in academic libraries, as embodied in authority control and controlled vocabularies in particular, and cataloging practices in general. The discussion also included remarks on academic discourse, citation and information literacy frameworks.

Lightning Talk: Feminist Pedagogy: How One Person Is Using It In The Library, Annie Pho

Critlib Unconference

Slides from a presentation given by the author at the Critlib Unconference 2015, helad at Portland State University in March 2015. Provides an introduction to feminist pedagogy and explores the ways in which it impacts library instruction.

Teaching Australian Literature In A Class About Literatures Of Social Reform, Per Henningsgaard

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article presents an intriguing thesis about proximity and identification, distance and empathy based on the experience of teaching Sally Morgan’s My Place to American university students alongside Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in a class examining literature as an agent of social change. Indeed, its response to the question, “How does the Australian production of My Place influence its American reception?” will surprise many people. Students more readily demonstrate empathy with characters and are prepared to ascribe their unenviable life circumstances to social structures that propagate oppression when reading literature about cultural groups …

Life Post 9/11: Experiences Of Korean Americans Ten Years Later, Jay Lee

Dissertations and Theses

This is one of the first qualitative studies to investigate experiences of Korean-American Christians living in New York City at the time of 9/11. This study sought to gain an understanding of how a group of Second Generation Korean-American Christians living in New York City at the time of the 9/11 attacks experienced that event and the event's impact on their religious beliefs. The study also investigated the communication context at the time of the ten year anniversary of the event, September 11th, 2011. The guiding research questions were: RQ1) What were their life experiences of 9/11? RQ2) Was their …

War's Visual Discourse: A Content Analysis Of Iraq War Imagery, Mary Elizabeth Major

Dissertations and Theses

This study reports the findings of a systematic visual content analysis of 356 randomly sampled images published about the Iraq War in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report from 2003-2009. In comparison to a 1995 Gulf War study, published images in all three newsmagazines continued to be U.S.-centric, with the highest content frequencies reflected in the categories U.S. troops on combat patrol, Iraqi civilians, and U.S. political leaders respectively. These content categories do not resemble the results of the Gulf War study in which armaments garnered the largest share of the images with 23%. This study concludes that …

Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics: A Case Study Of Music Censorship And Suppression In America, Nathaniel T. Belcik

Young Historians Conference

The paper talks about music censorship in the 1980s, specifically the PMRC hearings in 1985. The paper looks at the anti-Rock movement of the 1980s and the Parents Music Resource Center, an organization that wanted warning labels placed on albums. The paper examines the motives of the PMRC and opposition to their proposals from famous musicians. The thesis of the paper is that the PMRC's proposals were adopted by the RIAA because the RIAA wanted to get a tax on cassettes passed and the negative publicity over explicit music was hurting their efforts to get the tax passed.

Islamophobia And The U.S. Media, Michelle Maria Nichole Diamond

Dissertations and Theses

The following paper examines the growing fear and discrimination currently projected towards Islam and Muslims in the United States. This thesis will specifically focus on what role the U.S. mainstream media has played in either increasing or decreasing Islamophobia amongst the American public post September 11, 2001. The research collected to conduct this study came from theories of political science, conflict resolution, international affairs, psychology, sociology, and personal interviews. I conclude that Islamophobia has increased in the United States since the attacks of September 11, 2001 and that Islamophobia, due to the mainstream media, is more pervasive in the U.S. …

An Exploration Of Cultural Differences In Japanese/American Intercultural Marriages, Mary Erzen-Toyoshima

Dissertations and Theses

This is a study of how certain cultural differences between Japanese and Americans might be problematic in Japanese/American intercultural marriage.

A Descriptive Study Of Thai Nonverbal Communication, Suriya Smutkupt

Dissertations and Theses

Nonverbal communication is especially significant in the area of intercultural communication. Familiar signals often signify and convey different and unexpected messages, usually out-of-awareness, and then unfamiliar stimuli cause confusion and uneasiness. This is a report of Thai NVC, which intends (1) to describe selected Thai nonverbal behavior, (2) to relate these to appropriate time and context, (3) to explain a cultural component that makes the behaviors acceptable and/or mandatory, and (4) to report how Thai nonverbal behaviors may affect intercultural and cross-cultural communication.

Selected Thai nonverbal messages are described: (1) nonverbal signals: the sign language of wai, the kinesthetic …

A Comparison Between Sources Of Student Anti-Hunting Sentiment And Wildlife Information Sources Of A Sample Of Oregon Adults, Ronald E. Shay

Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated the various sources of information utilized by a sample of the Oregon adult population to gain information and ideas about the wildlife resource. The results were compared to those of a study of college and university students and their sources of information that gave them anti-hunting attitudes.

The basic question posed was: What sources of information are most commonly utilized by a sample of Oregon’s population in obtaining ideas and information concerning the wildlife resource and do the proportions of various sources utilized compare with those indicated by college students as sources of anti-hunting sentiments?

Additional questions …