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Community, Spring 2005, Office Of Communications And Marketing, Wright State University

Community

Thirty-six page issue of Community which was published periodically from 1996 through 2011. The magazine focused on news and events at Wright State University relating to faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the university.

Web Service Semantics - Wsdl-S, Rama Akkiraju, Joel Farrell, John A. Miller, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma

Kno.e.sis Publications

The current WSDL standard operates at the syntactic level and lacks the semantic expressivity needed to represent the requirements and capabilities of Web Services. Semantics can improve software reuse and discovery, significantly facilitate composition of Web services and enable integrating legacy applications as part of business process integration. The Web Service Semantic s technical note defines a mechanism to associate semantic annotations with Web services that are described using Web Service Description Language (WSDL). It is conceptually based on, but a significant refinement in details of, the original WSDL-S proposal [WSDL-S] from the LSDIS laboratory at the University of Georgia. …

Any Given Tuesday: Performance Of Law During Small Claims Court, Michael E. Muhme

Masters Theses

Building on Hasian's examination of Jurisprudence as performance and Nolan's research of performance in drug courts, this study looks at Small Claims Court as cultural performance through the examination of face-to-face interactions in the courtroom. They are evaluated through the metaphoric lens of Tumer's social drama as well as integrating the legal metaphors of law as grid, energy, and perspective. This study found that the court uses scripts to limit issues and that claimants are rewarded more for following the rules of the court rather than resolving the conflict. Additionally, Small Claims Court exacerbates conflict between low-income tenants and the …

Live Virtual Reference And The Database Dilemma, Jennifer Mcclure

The Southeastern Librarian

Live virtual reference programs in the university setting have blossomed in recent years as librarians have aspired to become as “virtual” as the resources they offer. While some libraries have chosen to limit their service to affiliated members, many have preferred to open their programs to the wider community. The motivation to do so is perhaps particularly strong among public university librarians, who often feel a dual responsibility to their own affiliates and to the citizens of their state. However, the decision to offer a chat reference service to the public raises a number of legal, ethical, and practical questions …

A Functional Analysis Of American Vice Presidential Debates, William L. Benoit, David Airne

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

This study analyzes the seven American vice presidential debates held through 2004. Results are compared with content analysis of the presidential debates held in the same years.

Cnning And Showdown: Iraq: News, New Media, And Popular Culture, G. Kim Blank

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Kim Blank's CNNing and Showdown Iraq, too, provides an innovative model for the interaction and mutual transfusion of case study and the work of theorizing. Although the backdrop to Blank's essay is CNN's cultural significance and the programming it ran under the SHOWDOWN: Iraq banner, it repeatedly returns to the busy intersection of media, technology, popular culture, and mass culture. Characterized by its author as restless, the piece strategically employs a non-linear discursive strategy deliberately mimicking the practices of channel surfing and the constant interruption of the commercial break. It re-contextualizes, in other words, the critical perspective by re-inventing it …

Reading In The Future: Literacy And The Time Of The Internet, David R. Cole

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

David R. Cole's Reading in the Future: Literacy and the Time of the Internet locates the literacies of the internet -- itself read as the end game of western technology or the Machina Mundi, the Great Chain of the World that has a centre that is everywhere and a circumference that is nowhere -- in a contradictory space. But Cole also self-consciously locates his own writing at a moment in time when the initial technological hype of the internet is subsiding in the face of the boredom of informational overload and the internet is emerging as both an unlimited …

Who Owns The Medium Owns The Message? The Ambiguity Of The Right To Communicate In The Age Of Convergence, Aliaa Ibrahim Dakroury

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

In her essay on The Ambiguity of the Right to Communicate in the Age of Convergence, Aliaa Dakroury frames the issue mediation in terms of media ownership and control. The question asked in the title -- Who Owns the Medium Owns the Message? -- in its rhetorical rather than literal form, indicates the skepticism with which Dakroury approaches too narrow a vision of determination. In the terms of his case study, this means questioning the apparent incommensurability of the economic convergence of multi-national media conglomerates and the right to communicate. To do so, Dakroury offers substantial analyses of both the …

On Bill V. Mullen's Afro-Orientalism, Graham Barnfield

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

For two decades Edward Said's Orientalism has occupied a significant place in how we think through the cultural relations between what we now call ‘North’ and ‘South’. Conceived in the 1970s, Said’s model mounted a challenge to readers in the west, suggesting they should unlearn what they know of the east. Despite its influence, one weakness of this approach was the underlying suggestion that orientalism was a one-way street, constituting a fixed set of perceptions or timeless discourses. In and without the Orientalist imagination, what is to be done with those in ‘the Occident’ who find themselves treated …

Communo Magazine, Spring 2005, School Of Communication

CommUNO Magazine

CommUNO magazine is currently produced annually by the UNO School of Communication: 6001 Dodge Street, ASH 140, Omaha, NE 68182: Phone: 402.554.2600. Fax: 402.554.3836. For more information, follow us on Twitter@ CommUNO, join the “UNO School of Communication” page on Facebook or visit communication.unomaha.edu.

Hollins Columns (2005 Apr 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Mysterious 35 foot dildo discovered on front quad
• Top 10 ways to save Hollins University's financial crisis:
• Squirrels seize the school
• "Honor" award bestows employment casualties
• Roommate slain on campus
• Hollins PR has local men join sports teams
• Lisa Bower, wipe my ass!
• The gossip corner -- keep it on the down low
• Scientists discover "super-tapeworm!"
• Just who the heck is I.N. Cognito?

Brown Meets Green: The Political Fecology Of Poopreport.Com, Marisol Cortez

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

In engaging with the culture of filth, Marisol Cortez's Brown Meets Green: The Political Fecology of PoopReport.com questions contemporary cultural criticism's emphasis on shit's textual ambivalence. In order to avoid relapsing into either the Bakhtinian celebration of the grotesque or the too narrowly conceived Kristevan category of the abject, Cortez argues, and to find a way out of this theoretical dualism, one must rethink the very categories of filth and waste through an ecocritical reading of the scatological -- the meeting of brown and green -- performed at the confluence of ecology, cultural studies, and Marxist political economy. This perspective …

Media Discourse: Social Semiotics And The Study Of Multimodal Discourse. An Interview With Theo Van Leeuwen, Theo Van Leeuwen, Judith Reitstaetter, Markus Rheindorf

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph of Abstract]

This interview article is intended to provide both an overview of the contribution Theo van Leeuwen has made to the field of semiotics and approach his work from an unconventional angle. The first aspect of our aim is covered in the form of an introduction comprised of a short biographical note, a list of recent publications and short reviews of van Leeuwen’s major works. The second aspect of what we hope to accomplish is tackled in the form of the interview itself. In this, we have tried to balance general questions – e.g. about the epistemological …

Nothing's Gonna Give? Age, Gender, And Cultures Of The Screen, Christine Scodari, Becky Mulvaney

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Christine Scodari's and Becky Mulvaney's Nothing's Gonna Give? Age, Gender, and Cultures of the Screen investigates the 2003 romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give, written and directed by Nancy Meyers as exceptional in its featuring a fifty-something woman as leading actress. Beginning with an analysis of the filmic text itself, the authors do not confine themselves to it, but go on to critically engage with its reception in both the press and academia. While the focus is thus shifted from the film to the meta- and para-texts produced in the course of its reception and promotion, the underlying questions asked …

The Agenda Setting Function Of Mass Media, Tampa, John Howard, Print Media And Public Opinion: How It All Came Together In Melbourne, Rosemary Schultz

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This paper will explore the ways in which the rhetoric of the Australian news media – the print media of Melbourne, specifically – has the power to shape and construct public sentiment toward national issues. Specifically, the paper explores the crafting of public opinion toward asylum seekers in the country through the use of specific rhetoric in print media outlets. The paper will focus on the “Tampa” incident of August 2001 as a basis for exploring asylum seeker issues in Australia. With the Agenda Setting Function Theory of Media Communications as a research base, and through personal interviews, extensive research …

Mint Magazine, 2005, Volume 4, Spring, Mint Magazine Staff

MINT Magazine

EDITOR'S Note...........................................2
AROUND TOWN
No Guarantees............................................3
Irshad Manji.................................................3
The CAS Monopoly......................................4
Shakespeare Was A Korean Woman..........5
Is Company All You Need?..........................6
PERSPECTIVES
Reflections on "Priviledge"...........................7
FEATURE
Angst And America's Fear-Fueled Foreign Policy...8
LEISURE
"When Work Disappears".............................9
Fever For The Music Of The Night...............10
A Garden State of Mind................................10
RESPONSES FROM READERS
CREATIVE
A Winter Day In Hell.....................................12
The Kind.......................................................13
Infinity...........................................................15

An Editorial Introduction To Reconstructing Media, Markus Rheindorf

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Media [pl. of medium, from the Latin noun medium, meaning ‘the middle’ or ‘the public eye’]. Although no longer one of the top buzzwords in the humanities or cultural criticism, if you prefer, ‘the media’ are still around, in the sense of both an ever more elusive and ramified empirical reality and as a conceptual field marked by the theoretical debates of several decades. Whether dealing with synchronic analysis or historical change, a specific medium or the media in general, a singular text, a group of texts or genre, studies relying on – or should we say, …

Fractured Identities: Siblings And Doubles In Video Games, Laurie N. Taylor

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

In her essay on “Fractured Identities: Siblings and Doubles in Video Games” Laurie Taylor explores how certain norms of video game design – originally derived from technological constraints of code space and processing speed – continue as the narrative parameters of many if not most contemporary video games. Synthesizing approaches from literary studies and narratology, Taylor offers an innovative angle on the fractured identities of doubles and siblings as the narrative correspondence to now largely obsolete technological constraints. Game-play, related to but nevertheless distinct from the literary type of narrative, as Taylor insists, is a key factor in determining what …

Why Girls? The Importance Of Developing Gender-Specific Health Promotion Programs For Adolescent Girls, Amanda Birnbaum, Tracy R. Nichols

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

Adolescence is a time when many girls begin to develop unhealthy behaviors that can affect myriad short- and long-term health outcomes across their lifespan.2There is evidence that smoking, physical activity, and diet are habituated during adolescence, and some physiologic processes of adolescence, such as peak bone mass development, have direct effects on future health.3-4 Establishing healthy practices, beliefs and knowledge among adolescent girls will decrease morbidity and mortality among adult women and potentially affect the health of men and children through women’s role as healthcare agents. This paper provides a brief review of lifestyle health behaviors among women and girls …

Columnist Answers Questions From Journalists, Carla Kimbrough

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

From time to time, this column will feature your questions about professional development. I will strive to answer your questions fully before publication in this space. Thanks to all who have offered questions and, to others, keep them coming.
Before tackling the questions posed to me, ethics is the theme for this issue, and I didn't want to miss an opportunity to discuss ethics and highlight the excellent staff at Poynter Institute.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 45 [47], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Richardson, Kelly. New Science Lab to be Named for Senator Mitch McConnell
• Hupman, Samantha. Sophomore Drowns Trying to Save Friend – Ryan Ladd
• Coulter, Amber. Teacher Evaluations to be More Accessible
• Mullins, Mandy. Live Jazz Album Recorded – David Livingston, John Cipolla
• Coulter, Amber. Student Government Association President-Elect Making Plans – Katie Dawson
• Richardson, Kelly. University Senate Addresses Student Liability
• Words of Advice to Katie Dawson
• Ingram, Brooks. Editorial Cartoon – Student Workers
• Hupman, Stephanie. Remember the Labor Workers
• Harrell, Bobby. Stealing, Not Quite Copperfield
• Little, Harold. Cell Phones …

Ua12/2/1 Not Guilty, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald regarding the Katie Autry case.

• Clark, Ashlee. Not Guilty – Lucas Goodrum, Katie Autry Case
• Clark, Ashlee. Depsite Criticism, Western Defends Campus Police – Katie Autry Case
• Farner, Keith. Experts: New Freedom Can Make Students Vulnerable
• Wilberding, Beth. Verdict Does Not Surprise Most Students & Faculty
• Clark, Ashlee. Legal Issues Continue in Katie Autry Case

2005 Plan For Multicultural Development (Revised Draft), Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Resources

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 54, March 31, 2005

Central Florida Future

Stadium medical school faculty salary on trustees' plate; Speaker supports bridging divides; Gay adoption ban hits home; Relay takes strides for cancer help; Late Night drummer makes mark; UCF student makes eBay film history.

The Rattler (Volume 92, Issue 10, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

The Guardian, March 30, 2005, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Hollins Columns (2005 Mar 30), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Batten Program still evolving in its third year
• Michael Mansfield, director of media services resigns
• Professor and her students bring recycling back to campus
• First Viewpoints student art show is a success
• ADA's on the campus, ADA's on the scene: The early days of ADA
• Dear Editors: Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated
• Mrs. Congeniality 2 and Robots: Sentimental and humor-filled flicks worth seeing
• Regin Spektor: A venus of the indie rock world
• Dear Editor: Confederate flag draws response from Diversity Initiative Advisory Board
• Melissa Larkin, fencer, named Athlete of the Week

Nemo News, Volume 1, Issue 3, Uno Library Science Education

NEMO Newsletter

This issue of NEMO News features the Spring Mixer is a Success, Important Dates, May 2005 Commencement Information, and Scholarships.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 53, March 28, 2005

Central Florida Future

Higher textbook prices on horizon; Students reach out to spread AIDs awareness; Caribbean duo spice up scene; The price of protest: Construction projects cost more money as neighboring residents oppose Master Plan; Pixar animator brings life to computer graphics; Religious rites teach about Purim.

Has Technical Communication Arrived As A Profession, Kathy Pringle, Sean Williams

English Faculty Publications

This article examines the design and technology components of technical communication by investigating how practitioners imagine their work and the profession, specifically with respect to technology. In short, we wanted to interrogate the duality of “core design skills” and “technology skills” by asking practitioners to reflect both on the definition of technical communication and on the role technology plays in their work. We wanted to weigh claims that communication and rhetorical skills are important for success in the field against claims that knowledge of specific tools is likewise vitally important to success in the field. Technical communication historically has been …