Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Comparing Political Implications Of Punitive Paradigms In Digital Surveillance And Data Driven Algorithms Between The Polities Of The United States Of America And The People's Republic Of China, Shedelande Lily Carpenter

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Identifying The Relationship Between Page Content And Title, Yabo Ornella Detchou

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This project seeks to find the similarity score between content on the page and title using cosine similarity from a word2vec model. Frequent words and randomly chosen words from each article were analyzed and compared against the title using three samples. Frequent words were found to have a higher similarity score with the title than random words. Word frequency helps you identify the most relevant keyword on the page. The bigger goal of the project is to develop a keyword suggestion tool. Identifying which keywords are most relevant in writing content is the first step.

The State Of Crypto: How Blockchain Changes The Private Money Debate And The Innovation Of Digital Value, Patrick Devine

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This paper seeks to explore how cryptocurrencies improve on past issues with private currencies and assess where they fit within the broader economic and regulatory context. This paper finds that blockchain technology provides a solid foundation for cryptocurrencies to improve on many of the past issues associated with private currencies, but concludes that, given the infancy of the industry and the lack of an established regulatory framework, we cannot confirm that they are truly infallible, nor that they provide a clear answer to the debate over whether private currencies actually improve the financial system as laid out by Hayek, Ingham, …

Lithium Mining: Unearthing Old Mining Practices In A New Age Of Extraction, Claire Isabella Dickson

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

What Happened To The Republican Party? The Right-Wing Media Ecosystem And The Rise Of Right-Wing Populism, Hannah Eisendrath

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

The Job Guarantee As It Relates To People With Disabilities, Tyler Christopher Emerson

Senior Projects Spring 2022

We accept unemployment as an inevitability in our capitalist economy even when it is purportedly functioning at full capacity. Some economists propose that the government could directly intervene in the labor market to meet the peoples’ demand for jobs. Work in modern America is a central aspect of participation in society that directly impacts individuals’ identities. Unemployment is, therefore, a key mechanism of social exclusion. The Federal Job Guarantee seeks to provide work directly for the unemployed with work that serves the public good.

People with disabilities disproportionately suffer from unemployment, underemployment, and often leave the workforce entirely. The majority …

The Elusive Rainbow Nation: Assessing Post-Apartheid Reconstruction Strategies In Johannesburg, South Africa, Ashley May Eugley

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This paper examines how South Africa’s political and economic orientation following the nation’s democratization in 1994 enabled a continuation of Apartheid-era patterns in the City of Johannesburg. In particular, it contends that governmental decentralization, neoliberalism, and global city aspirations—enshrined in both local and national policy documents—turned attention away from addressing internal deprivations. Rather than redistributing social and economic power, uplifting the Black-majority, and allowing urban stakeholders to play a central role in policy formation and decision-making, Johannesburg’s City Government catered to elite outside interests, effectively introducing new forms of segmentation and disenfranchisement. Although the African National Congress committed to transform …