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Syracuse University

2021

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Diversity On Campus: Awareness And Knowledge About Our Newest Federal Holiday, Winn W. Wasson, Jessica M. Rice Oct 2021

Diversity On Campus: Awareness And Knowledge About Our Newest Federal Holiday, Winn W. Wasson, Jessica M. Rice

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

In late May 2021, Syracuse University’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion asked the Syracuse University Libraries to help prepare a reading list about Juneteenth. Library employees, including liaison librarians and members of the Libraries’ Diversity and Inclusion Team, quickly put together a list of resources for each day of the 19-day campus celebration of Juneteenth. We will discuss our working process, lessons learned, and how we might respond to and proactively approach similar requests in the future. We conclude with some reflections on the future of the holiday and protecting it from adulteration now that it has achieved federal recognition.

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What Are The Social Impacts Of Deepfakes?, Rafael Luiz Testa Aug 2021

What Are The Social Impacts Of Deepfakes?, Rafael Luiz Testa

English Language Institute

Images and videos generated by computers, also called deepfakes, are usually created by automatically changing its facial attributes. They can have beneficial social applications and harmful effects. It is crucial to mitigate the negative consequences while allowing helpful applications.

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Navigating Research Misappropriation And Mischaracterization: Facilitating A Workshop On Strategies, Winn W. Wasson Aug 2021

Navigating Research Misappropriation And Mischaracterization: Facilitating A Workshop On Strategies, Winn W. Wasson

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

From medicine to medieval studies, there is a growing trend of ideologically motivated individuals and groups misappropriating and mischaracterizing academic research and even intimidating researchers to further political agendas. It is essential that researchers be well prepared in the event that their research gets unwanted attention. To that end, I created and facilitated a workshop for faculty and graduate students on how to prepare for and respond to instances when their research gets misappropriated or mischaracterized to push an unsupported ideological narrative. Strategies covered in the workshop included utilizing undergraduate classrooms to gauge how one’s research might be understood by …

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Occasional Groups In Crowdsourcing Platforms, Mahboobeh Harandi Jul 2021

Occasional Groups In Crowdsourcing Platforms, Mahboobeh Harandi

Dissertations - ALL

Contributors to online crowdsourcing systems generally work independently on pieces of the product but in some cases, task interdependencies may require collaboration to develop a final product. These collaborations though take a distinctive form because of the nature of crowdsourced work. Collaboration may be implicit instead of explicit. Individuals engaged in a group conversation may not stay with the group for long, i.e., the group is an ``occasional group.'' Occasional group interactions are often not well supported by systems, as they are not designed for team work. This dissertation examines the characteristics and work of occasional groups in the Gravity …

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“(Mis)Information Creation As A Process”: A Method For Teaching Critical Media Literacy Designed To Work With Students Of All Political Persuasions, Winn W. Wasson Apr 2021

“(Mis)Information Creation As A Process”: A Method For Teaching Critical Media Literacy Designed To Work With Students Of All Political Persuasions, Winn W. Wasson

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

After the advent of widespread coordinated disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, librarians stepped up to combat misinformation and disinformation in their communities and the larger information ecosystem by applying principles and best practices of information literacy education. However, librarians walk a fine line on how to educate audiences to become critical consumers of information, particularly on politically sensitive topics. It is all too easy to lose audience members’ trust and receptiveness to our message when a component or the entirety of our presentation challenges the beliefs of participants too forcefully. When we teach information literacy sessions to …

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Sampling The Hors D’Oeuvres: Exploratory Poetics In Archives And Special Collections, Patrick Williams Jan 2021

Sampling The Hors D’Oeuvres: Exploratory Poetics In Archives And Special Collections, Patrick Williams

Libraries' and Librarians' Publications

This lesson plan engages students with primary materials as ingredients for creative work, with attention to the ways researchers read and notice in archives and special collections. This hands-on creative activity helps students to identify and analyze many facets of materials in a special collections setting, and it allows students to explore those materials together. Students create found poems based on a prompt distributed by the librarian-instructor and then engage in reflective sharing of the poems. The prompt draws students toward the textual, paratextual, and metadata elements of materials, and the sharing of poems among students highlights the variety of …

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