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A Library ‘Teens’Cape’ Against The New Callousness, Anthony Bernier
A Library ‘Teens’Cape’ Against The New Callousness, Anthony Bernier
Anthony Bernier
No abstract provided.
Young Adults, Rituals, And Library Space, Anthony Bernier
Young Adults, Rituals, And Library Space, Anthony Bernier
Anthony Bernier
No abstract provided.
Silicon Valley Reinvents The Company Town, Jan English-Lueck
Silicon Valley Reinvents The Company Town, Jan English-Lueck
Jan English-Lueck
California's Silicon Valley, famous for its innovative high-technology corporations, makes an ideal laboratory for exploring certain cultural inventions. It is a bellwether for a particular kind of social order—one dominated by work. In anthropology we encounter many frameworks through which life is organized—kinship, religion, and politics. Work is another lens through which life can be filtered. People may move to California for the weather, but they go to Silicon Valley to work. High-technology work draws on a global pool of talent and shifting skills that creates a culturally complex community. Migrants to Silicon Valley bring and enact an image of …
Constructionist Perspectives On Body Weight: A Critical Review Essay, Natalie C. Boero
Constructionist Perspectives On Body Weight: A Critical Review Essay, Natalie C. Boero
Natalie C. Boero
A review essay of Sobal, Jeffrey and Donna Maurer, eds. 1999. Interpreting Weight: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems. New York: Aldine DeGruyter.
Hardware Handshake: Listserv Forms Backbone Of National Free Radio Network, Ted M. Coopman
Hardware Handshake: Listserv Forms Backbone Of National Free Radio Network, Ted M. Coopman
Ted M. Coopman
During the spring and summer of 1999, the Low Power Radio Service Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) recently drew a record number of responses. Several thousand people from all over the country participated in what has traditionally been the purview of major corporations and institutions, including 1120 individuals who signed the Micro Radio Empowerment Coalition comments. This paper examines that response and its implications for the micro radio and other activist movements. The Internet played an important role not only in filing responses, but in drafting and signing responses as well. For example, the …
High Speed Access: Micro Radio, Action, And Activism On The Internet, Ted M. Coopman
High Speed Access: Micro Radio, Action, And Activism On The Internet, Ted M. Coopman
Ted M. Coopman
During the spring and summer of 1999, the Low Power Radio Service Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) recently drew a record number of responses. Several thousand people from all over the country participated in what has traditionally been the purview of major corporations and institutions, including 1120 individuals who signed the Micro Radio Empowerment Coalition comments. This paper examines that response and its implications for the micro radio and other activist movements. The Internet played an important role not only in filing responses, but in drafting and signing responses as well. For example, the …
Alcohol Tobacco And Pharmaceutical Industry Funding: Considerations For Organizations Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Communities., Laurie A. Drabble
Alcohol Tobacco And Pharmaceutical Industry Funding: Considerations For Organizations Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Communities., Laurie A. Drabble
Laurie A. Drabble
Emerging research suggests that alcohol, tobacco and drug-related problems may be higher in lesbian and gay communities than in the population as a whole. At the same time, alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries have increased marketing strategies that are targeted specifically to lesbian and gay communities. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) and HTV/AIDS organizations, often marginalized and under-funded, have frequently faced significant challenges in funding programs and special events. These organizations are often the very same groups needed to promote and support effective substance abuse countermeasures in LGBT communities. Agency leaders, community members, and substance abuse prevention advocates all …