bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Evaluating watershed hydrological responses to climate changes at Hangar Watershed, Ethiopia
Authors: Galata Abdata Wakjira , Tullu Kiyya Tesfa , Guder Abebe Chala
Published: March 2021

The aim of this study is to model the responses of Hangar Watershed hydrology to future climate changes under two representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios. Future changes in precipitation and temperature were produced using the output of dynamically downscaled data of a regional climate model (RCM) 0.44° resolution under RCP 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios for 2025–2055 and 2056–2086. The future projection of the RCM model of precipitation and temperatures showed an increasing trend relative to the base period (1987–2017). At 2025–2055 average annual precipitation increments of +15.7 and +19.8% were expected for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5, respectively. For 2056–2086 of RCP 4.5 and 8.5, a similar trend was also shown as average annual precipitation may increase by +20.1 and +23.4%, respectively. The changes of climate parameters were used as input into the SWAT hydrological model to simulate the future runoff at Hangar Watershed. The increment in precipitation projection resulted in a positive magnitude impact on average runoff flow. The average annual change in runoff at 2025–2055 of both RCP 4.5 and 8.5 may increase by +24.5 and +23.6%, respectively. In 2056–2086, a change in average annual runoff of +73.2 and +73.2% for RCP 4.5 and 8.5 may be expected, respectively.
Performance comparison of filtering methods on modelling and forecasting the total precipitation amount: a case study for Muğla in Turkey
Authors: Neslihanoglu Serdar , Ünal Ecem , Yozgatlıgil Ceylan
Published: March 2021

Condensed water vapor in the atmosphere is observed as precipitation whenever moist air rises sufficiently enough to produce saturation, condensation, and the growth of precipitation particles. It is hard to measure the amount and concentration of total precipitation over time due to the changes in the amount of precipitation and the variability of climate. As a result of these, the modelling and forecasting of precipitation amount is challenging. For this reason, this study compares forecasting performances of different methods on monthly precipitation series with covariates including the temperature, relative humidity, and cloudiness of Muğla region, Turkey. To accomplish this, the performance of multiple linear regression, the state space model (SSM) via Kalman Filter, a hybrid model integrating the logistic regression and SSM models, the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA), exponential smoothing with state space model (ETS), exponential smoothing state space model with Box-Cox transformation-ARMA errors-trend and seasonal components (TBATS), feed-forward neural network (NNETAR) and Prophet models are all compared. This comparison has yet to be undertaken in the literature. The empirical findings overwhelmingly support the SSM when modelling and forecasting the monthly total precipitation amount of the Muğla region, encouraging the time-varying coefficients extensions of the precipitation model.
Removal of pollutants by mycelium colonized sawdust
Authors: Osarenotor Osayomwanbo , Essandoh Helen M. K. , Tito Aighewi Isoken
Published: March 2021

Slaughterhouses generate wastewater daily and often discharge it to the environment. Many lack wastewater treatment systems, due to such systems' typically high cost and technological demands. In this study, slaughterhouse wastewater was filtered through columns of mycelium – Pleurotus ostreatus – grown on sawdust substrates of different particle sizes. The columns' pollutant removal efficiencies were evaluated for color, turbidity, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen and total phosphorus. The best color (75%), BOD (88%) and total nitrogen (86%) removal efficiencies were recorded with 2.36 mm particle size and 9 cm depth. Electrical conductivity removal efficiency was best with 2.36 mm particle size but 3 cm bed depth. The study showed that particle size has a significant effect on physiochemical pollutant removal by mycelium-colonized sawdust systems.
Reducing energy demand by the combined application of advanced control strategies in a full scale WWTP
Authors: Bertanza G. , Baroni P. , Garzetti S. , Martinelli F.
Published: March 2021

Two advanced control strategies were applied in the secondary and tertiary stages, respectively, of a full scale wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). This has a nominal capacity of 330,000 population equivalent (PE), a complex configuration (having been upgraded several times through the years), and it faces significant seasonal load fluctuations (being located in a touristic area, in Northern Italy). The lifting station of the tertiary treatments (devoted to phosphorus precipitation and UV disinfection) was optimized by adjusting the pumped flowrate, depending on influent phosphorus concentration. A preliminary simulation showed that a 15% reduction of pumping energy could be achieved. This result was confirmed by field measurements. Moreover, a fuzzy control system was designed and applied to one of the six parallel nitrification reactors, yielding a reduction of more than 25% of the power requirement for aeration. Overall, the combined application of the two controllers led to a 7% reduction of the total energy consumption of the plant. This result is particularly promising given that the fuzzy controller was applied only to one of six biological reactors.
Cognitive Modeling of the Cyber Attack Vector Based on CAPEC Methods
Authors:   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education ", Vasilyev Vladimir ,   Ufa State Aviation Technical University", Kirillova Anastasia ,   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Ufa State Aviation Technical University", Vulfin Alexey ,   Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Ufa State Aviation Technical University"
Published: March 2021

Purpose: automation of complex attack vector modeling based on formalized CAPEC meta-pattern based on fuzzy cognitive maps. Methods: modeling a tool in the form of a graph with a further form of development in the form of a hierarchical fuzzy cognitive map for analysis using the potential level of detail and quantitative assessment of cybersecurity risks. Practical relevance: a scenario approach to modeling complex multistep targeted cyberattacks is proposed based on the draft Methodology for modeling security threats of the FSTEC of Russia and the base of meta- pattern for attacks CAPEC. The algorithm for “folding” a detailed fuzzy cognitive map of the attack vector is shown using the example of the threat of interception of control of an automated process control system of an oil company with an assessment of the probability of implementation, considering the severity level of exploited vulnerabilities. The main software modules of the system have been developed. Computational experiments were carried out to assess the effectiveness of its application. It is shown that as a result of analyzing the vector of cyberattacks in a fuzzy cognitive basis, an expert can rank possible scenarios of implementation, considering the vulnerabilities used, assess the level of danger of the implementation of each scenario separately and cyberattacks as a whole.
Cryptographic Recursive Control of Integrity of Metadata Electronic Documents. Part 4. Evaluation of results
Authors:   Krasnodar Higher Military University of name General of Army S.M. Shtemenko, Tali Dmitry , Finko Oleg ,   Krasnodar Higher Military University of name General of Army S.M. Shtemenko,   North Caucasus Federal University,   Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences
Published: March 2021

The purpose of the study is to obtain a numerical assessment of the results of the application, previously presented by the authors, of the method of cryptographic recursive 2-D control of the integrity of the metadata of electronic documents. Research methods: logical-probabilistic method I.A. Ryabinin. Research result: a necessary condition for maintaining the integrity of electronic documents processed by automated information systems for electronic document management is to ensure the required level of metadata security. To evaluate the research results, the probability of violation of the integrity of electronic documents (through destructive influences of authorized users on metadata) was chosen as an indicator of efficiency. The presented approach to the construction of logical-probabilistic models for assessing the level of security of metadata of electronic documents allows in practice to obtain numerical values of the probabilities of transition of the systems under consideration to a dangerous state (associated with a violation of the integrity of the metadata of electronic documents), taking into account the structure of such systems and the real conditions of their functioning. The effect of using the developed method, under the conditions of destructive influences of authorized users (insiders), in comparison with the known solutions (using a hash function) of such problems, is 67% under the given assumptions.
Analysis of Vulnerabilities of Key Management Systems in Distributed Ledger Using the Example of the IBM Blockchain
Authors:   Moscow Polytechnic University, Plotkin Alexander , Kesel Sergey ,   Moscow Polytechnic University, Repin Maxim ,   Research Institute «Voskhod», Fedorov Nikolay ,   Moscow Polytechnic University
Published: March 2021

Abstract. Today, one of the most discussed topics in the field of information technology is distributed registry systems. They attract investors and developers with their functionality. Distributed ledger systems are being introduced into business processes in many areas of human activity, which makes their contribution to development irreplaceable. One of the most vulnerable parts of such systems is the process of managing cryptographic keys, an attack on which can destroy the entire security of the distributed registry system. The aim of the research is to identify possible threats to the process of managing cryptographic keys, on the basis of which recommendations and standards for managing cryptographic keys in distributed ledger systems will be developed. Research methods: to achieve this goal, the structure of the life cycle of cryptographic keys was considered, an analysis of possible vulnerabilities in the process of managing cryptographic keys at each stage of the life cycle of a cryptographic key was carried out. In addition, the distributed ledger system was analyzed in the context of the identified vulnerabilities of the key management process using the example of the IBM blockchain and the possibility of outsourcing cryptographic key management systems was considered. Result: a set of possible threats to the process of managing cryptographic keys was proposed, the necessity of assessing the security of the key management system before deciding on the introduction of these systems into distributed registries was proposed, conclusions were drawn about the need to develop recommendations and standards for the process of managing cryptographic keys for such systems, as well as the possibility applicability of the recommendations for assessing the security of the implementation of outsourcing of cryptographic key management systems in distributed ledgers.
Security Audit Logging in Microservice-Based Systems: Survey of Architecture Patterns
Authors:   Huawei, Barabanov Alexander , Makrushin Denis ,   Huawei
Published: March 2021

Objective. Service-oriented architecture increases technical abilities for attacker to move laterally and maintain multiple pivot points inside of compromised environment. Microservice-based infrastructure brings more challenges for security architect related to internal event visibility and monitoring. Properly implemented logging and audit approach is a baseline for security operations and incident management. The aim of this study is to provide helpful resource to application and product security architects, software and operation engineers on existing architecture patterns to implement trustworthy logging and audit process in microservice-based environments. Method. In this paper, we conduct information security threats modeling and a systematic review of major electronic databases and libraries, security standards and presentations at the major security conferences as well as architecture whitepapers of industry vendors with relevant products. Results and practical relevance. In this work based on research papers and major security conferences presentations analysis, we identified industry best practices in logging audit patterns and its applicability depending on environment characteristic. We provided threat modeling for typical architecture pattern of logging system and identified 8 information security threats. We provided security threat mitigation and as a result of 11 high-level security requirements for audit logging system were identified. High-level security requirements can be used by application security architect in order to secure their products
Cyber Resilient Platform for Internet of Things (IIOT/IOT)ED Systems: Survey of Architecture Patterns
Authors:   Innopolis University, Petrenko Sergei
Published: March 2021

Purpose of the article: development of tools for building the cyber resilient platform for Internet of things (IIoT/IoT). The urgency of development the cyber resilient platform for Internet of things (IIoT/IoT) is to provide the required security and resilience of critical information infrastructure of the Russian Federation in the face of rising security threats, and imperfection of the known models, methods and means for data collection and processing in IIoT/IoT networks, based on the wireless technology Sigfox, LoRaWaN, “Strij/”Vaviot” (XNB/Nb-Fi), NBIoT. Research methods: It uses the author’s models and methods of similarity and dimensions theory of the distributed computing, as well as the domestic technology of wireless communication Logic Inter Node Connection (LINC) (http:// aura360.ru/), as well as the domestic FenixOS operating system (https://fenix.link/kontakty/), designed for collecting and processing the telemetry data. Results: Developed tools for building the cyber resilient platform for Internet of things (IIoT/IoT). The article presents the main scientific and technical results of solving this problem. The research was carried out within the framework of the Federal project “Information security” of the national program “Digital economy of the Russian Federation”. It is important to note that the results allowed designing a prototype of the domestic Internet of things (IIoT/IoT) platform with self-healing data reception and transmission paths between smart devices
Supercritical Fluid Extraction from Aguaje (Mauritia Flexuosa) Pulp: Overall Yield, Kinetic, Fatty Acid Profile, and Qualitative Phytochemical Profile
Authors: Chañi-Paucar Larry Oscar , Yali Edgar Torres , Maceda Santivañez Júlio César , Garcia Dina Aro , Jonher Júlio C F , Angela A Meireles Maria
Published: March 2021

Aims:

This work aims to understand the effects of processing variables on supercritical fluid extraction from Mauritia flexuosa (Aguaje). This is not a cultivar because the plants used are indigenous.

Background:

The production of Mauritia flexuosa (Aguaje) is an economically significant activity in Madre de Dios, Peru, which has rarely been studied from a nutritional point of view.

Objective:

The present study evaluated the supercritical extraction of dry aguaje pulp (DAP).

Methods:

The supercritical extraction was evaluated at 200, 250, 300, 350, and 400 bar and temperatures of 40 and 60°C, and its effect on the global yield, fatty acid profile (FAP), and qualitative phytochemical profile (QPP). The kinetics data were fitted to the Spline model. The FAP was determined by gas chromatography, and the QPP was determined by thin-layer chromatography.

Results:

The highest yield (51.5 g extract/100 g DAP) was observed at 400 bar and 60°C in 79 min of extraction and 8.6 g CO2/min. The spline model showed that it is possible to extract 87.8% (45.2 g extract/100 g DAP) of the total extract in the tFER (falling rate period) period (38.99 min). The fatty acid and bioactive compound profiles were not affected qualitatively by the different extraction conditions.

Research perspectives:

The extracts obtained in this work were further studied with respect to the formation of emulsions, the development of cosmetics, and food supplements.

Conclusion:

DAP's supercritical extraction was carried out successfully, obtaining a high-quality phytochemical extract with potential applications in functional foods, drugs, and cosmetics.
COVID 19 Pandemic; A Review on Understanding the Mode of Transmission and Application of Strategies to Delay/Stop Transmission with Special Reference to India
Authors: Singhal Sameer , Singhal Prachi , Mittal Amit , Agarwal B K , Khatib MahalaquaNazli , Gaidhane Abhay
Published: March 2021

Background:

SARS CoV-2 has globally affected more than 31 hundred thousand population with more than 2 hundred thousand deaths till date, since its inception from Wuhan, China in December 2019. World is still clueless regarding definitive treatment for this highly contagious disease. Till then we have to rely on time tested methods to delay/stop transmission of this viral disease by observing social isolation, hand hygiene and wearing face mask.

Objective:

The main objective of this review paper is to focus on different modes of transmission of this virus, comparison of this virus with previous similar analogy viral diseases like SARS and MERS and different strategies that can be planned or are ongoing to reduce/delay transmission of this virus in community contacts, especially in context to India.

Methods:

PUBMED, Google Scholar and BioRxiv search was performed with keywords; COVID- 19, mode of transmission, infection, India, BCG. Around 538 eligible papers were evaluated from time period of January 1 to 29 April 2020 and results were summarized

Results:

On analysis of different papers on mode of transmission it was found that this virus is highly contagious and spreads through air droplet, close contact, through fomites and different metallic surfaces and through aerosol in surroundings with high aerosol generating procedures only. Also, it can spread both in asymptomatic and symptomatic phase equally so early testing is essential. Also, it is mutating in different host environments so it is imperative to include different strains in vaccine preparation.

Conclusion:

Results demonstrate the fact that early screening, social distancing, isolation of symptomatic patients, respiratory etiquette are the main armaments presently to deal with this virus till effective treatment or vaccine becomes available in the near future. Furthermore, we would like to suggest the Indian government to create a National Viral Disease Management Board on lines of National Tuberculosis Elimination program to prevent and control such viral outbreaks in future.
Introduction, Past and Present Scenarios of Plastic Degradation
Authors: Pandey N.
Published: March 2021

The fascinating properties of plastic make its use widely possible in every field for the ease of human life. On the other hand, these properties make plastic non-biodegradable in nature. Hence the increasing accumulation of plastic in the environment is the arising concern for environmentalists and human society. This growing concern has motivated researchers and technologist to promote research activity for finding new degradation methods for plastics, synthesis of new plastic with biodegradable nature or find alternatives to plastics. Considering these facts, this book chapter briefly discusses the management of post-consumer plastic products and all the possible methods for plastic degradation such as photo and thermo-oxidative, catalytic, mechano-chemical and chemical along with the factors affecting these degradation methods.
Plastic Degradation and its Environmental Implications
Authors: Rani M.
Published: March 2021

Extensive use of non-biodegradable plastic by anthropogenic activities is posing a severe threat to the global environment in the form of massive waste disposal and problems of closed-landfill sites and rising water and land pollution. Organisms are facing challenge to their lives once they consume plastic in the form of food. In addition, the plastic debris may have additive chemicals having possibility to leach out. Therefore, proper degradation of plastic to lessen negative environmental implications is necessary. Earlier the people were ignorant about this problem however, now-a-days, people are serious about its negative impact. Hence, biodegradable plastics are coming into the trend in the market. Interaction of plastic (adsorbing characteristics) with the environment results in new functional groups on its surface in a dynamic situation. In these circumstances, oxygenated, thermal, bio-based, and photocatalytic degradation of plastics is in high demand. Usually, different-rates along with diverse-pathways have been found in variable polymers like polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyethylene terephthalate. Polyethylene photo-degradation resulted in sharp infrared-peaks of ketones, esters, and acids due to oxidation reaction. Hydrogen peroxide is generated by oxidative action on methylene groups in the backbone of polyethylene terephthalate. The present chapter will provide compiled information about various polymers used in plastic as well as environmental concerns of plastic, finally the chapter concludes with comprehensive details about the degradation of various types of plastics. State-of-the-art on degradable plastics market with an emphasis on principle design for recyclable plastics and biodegradable plastics from renewable raw materials are also included. Factors affecting plastic degradation and metabolic pathways including past and present scenarios have also been discussed in this chapter.
Plastics Versus Bioplastics
Authors: Muneer F.
Published: March 2021

Plastics are polymers of long chain hydrocarbons based on petrochemicals. Due to their physiochemical properties these are almost non-degradable and their complete recycling is impossible. High production rate and less disposal capacities have made plastic environmental pollutant resulting in severe impacts on the health of organisms and destruction of habitats thus effecting the biosphere in different ways. Biodegradation, thermal and catalytic degradation of plastics is widely studied to ensure a sustainable disposal of plastic waste with limited results until the present however, a new field where ecofriendly polymers obtained from natural biomass are used to make materials is flourishing. Bioplastics are polymers derived from biomass such as cellulose, starch, chitin and microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates that have the ability to produce products of daily use that can replace their counter parts made from the synthetic plastics. Bioplastics degrade easily in natural environment and replace the petrochemical based plastic polymers, thus saving the natural environment from plastic pollution and ensuring a sustainable environment.
Análise do atual cenário da pesquisa científica sobre a ciência cidadã no campo da ciência da informação
Authors: Carvalho Erika Rayanne Silva de , Leite Fernando César Lima
Published: March 2021

This article aimed to analyze studies that constitute the current research scenario on Citizen Science in the field of the Information Science, as presented in the scientific literature. This is a bibliographic research in which the Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) database was used for data collection. After careful evaluation, eleven papers were selected to compose the study. The results achieved point out that there is disciplinary diversity in Citizen Science projects, there is an opportune context for libraries to conduct scientific training practices, several factors influence the participation of citizens in scientific projects, the domain of citizens over digital resources is highly relevant in Citizen Science projects and the citizen participation in scientific projects seems to turn around large-scale data collection, which does not necessarily reflect the collaborative potential of these citizens.
PUB In: publicações Integradas, Inteligentes e Inovadoras
Authors: Carvalho José , Costa Susana , Rodrigues Eloy
Published: March 2021

This proposal presents the PUB In project, developed by the University of Minho (UM) in collaboration with the National Scientific Computing Unit of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT/FCCN). PUB In emerged to improve the current state of scientific publication, characterized by vertical management in terms of the provision of editorial services (scientific journals), insufficient interoperability among themselves and with other editorial management platforms, obsolescence of platforms in use and skills deficit editorial management. PUB In is an integrated platform to support scientific publication nationwide to simplify and modernize the management of the editorial life cycle of scientific journals with benefits for all participants. It also intends to simplify the management process of these journals in the various magazine directories in order to make coherent and maximize the presence of Portuguese scientific journals on the Internet and in specialized indexes.
GEOINFO: impactos sociais do repositório de dados de pesquisa da EMBRAPA
Authors: Pinto Daniela Maciel , Rodrigues Geraldo Stachetti , Castro Gustavo Spadotti Amaral , Freitas Gisele Vilela , Mendes Angelo Mansur , Nogueira Júnior Lauro Rodrigues , Bogiani Julio Cesar , Rocha José Dilcio , Bertin Patricia Bello , Drucker Debora Pignatari , Simões Margareth Goncalves , Esquerdo Júlio César Dalla Mora , Custódio Davi de Oliveira , Rasche Francisca , Dart Ricardo de Oliveira , Campos Gabriel Antônio de
Published: March 2021

GeoInfo is a repository that provides the spatial research data generated by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) to understand the dynamics of agriculture in Brazilian territory. Considering the efforts required for the implantation and institutionalization of the repository, the absence of Information Science studies related to the investigation of the impact of the uses made from the data and information made available in research data repositories, as well as the impact assessment process used by EMBRAPA since 1989, it is opportune to investigate the impact of the repository for its target audience, that is, geoscience specialists. Thus, the objective of this work is to present the results of an impact assessment carried out with GeoInfo, based on the “Ambitec-TICs: Module of criteria and impact indicators for Information and Communication Technologies”, specifically for the social dimension, existing at Ambitec-TICs
Análise do panorama das editoras universitárias brasileiras referente a política de acesso aberto
Authors: Teixeira Lilian Aguilar , Marques Rogério Ferreira , Araújo Robson de Paula , Almeida Ana Cláudia Lopes de
Published: March 2021

The study aims to identify open access policies and books made available by university publishers from the first ten Brazilian universities in the Folha de São Paulo University Ranking (RUF) in 2019. Through documentary and exploratory research with a qualitative approach, we sought to analyze how the university publishers make policies and books available in open access. The result presents an analysis of the information contained in the websites and of direct contacts with these publishers and shows that most of these provide works with open access and that only one has an open access policy in progress to be published. The conclusion is that university publishers seek to share publications with open access, carry out scientific dissemination, contribute with quality information for the cultural and scientific development of society, however, they do not have defined and published open access policies.
A contribuição da ciência da informação para as humanidades digitais: análise da produção científica em periódicos de acesso aberto
Authors: Andrade Laura Mariane de , Dal’Evedove Paula Regina
Published: March 2021

Within the variety of possibilities that come with the application of computing and digital technologies in the humanities, the Digital Humanities integrate progressively the research practices of several scientific fields. In this way, we aim to identify how Information Science has been communicating with Digital Humanities. This is an exploratory and descriptive study using the Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação, Scientific Electronic Library Online and Web of Science databases to map Information Science research that explores the Digital Humanities’ potential. As a result, we verified that productions come from researchers of different scientific fields, characterizing the diversity and multi and interdisciplinary nature of the Digital Humanities. There are several converging aspects in the Digital Humanities and Information Science, with an investigative predominance for the open access movement.
Dados abertos e ciência cidadã em instituições de memória
Authors: Silva Ana Margarida Dias da , Borges Leonor Calvão , Alvim Luísa
Published: March 2021

The open science movement, based on the statements of Budapest (2002), Bethesda (2003) and Berlin (2003), and in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, defined by the UN in 2015, aims at accessing scientific literature through free availability and widespread scientific data on the WWW. In memory institutions, the availability of open access content aims to connect with users, in a new form of relationship benefited by the use of Web 2.0 platforms and citizen science projects. The purpose of this article is to identify and map trends in open data and citizen science projects in the National Archives, Library and Museum and to verify whether they are (or not) aligned with their foreign counterparts. It concludes by the still incipient but growing trend in Portugal, which can be partially explained by the fact that the coordination services in these areas do not promote projects on the Web 2.0.
Multimodalidad: un lenguaje de inclusión arquitectónica
Authors:   Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Cortés López Erika Marlene , Chávez Sánchez Fermín ,   Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
Published: March 2021

El artículo está construido a partir de la investigación que se hizo sobre el tema de la discapacidad abordado desde una perspectiva cualitativa, enfocándonos en el uso de la investigación etnográfica en el diseño con el objetivo de comprender a mayor profundidad la percepción de los objetos, contextos, sistemas o servicios con y en los que interactúan las personas. Las perspectivas que el grupo de investigadores involucrados obtuvimos a través de este enfoque son únicas, nos permitió visibilizar particularidades de la discapacidad y empatizar con la experiencia de las personas que la viven. Presentamos de manera resumida el método de trabajo, hallazgos y los conocimientos adquiridos poniendo en práctica una perspectiva transdisciplinaria, enlazando conceptos, campos y habilidades para extender el alcance disciplinario, en este caso hacia el ámbito de la arquitectura en la que reconocemos como potencial su lenguaje no verbal en pro de la inclusión.
Memoria desde el taller y la calle
Authors:   Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia, Velásquez Osorio Julián
Published: March 2021

En los gabinetes de la memoria, la vida se traba como deseo, narrándose feliz, miserable o irreconciliable entre lo cotidiano, la posibilidad, el recuerdo, la identidad, la transgresión. Ante los supuestos que constituyen la memoria como categoría de la historia, asistimos a un escenario de territorilización y tensión entre lo impuesto y lo auto impuesto, lo público, lo privado y todas las zonas grises de las que podemos dar cuenta. Estas últimas develan el habitual uso de categorías opuestas. Y tras esas huellas aparecen los rastros que permite indagar la imagen ilustrada, sus historicidades, sus recuentos y sus novedades.
"Blockbotting Dissent"
Authors: Gosse Chandell Enid , O'Meara Victoria Jane
Published: March 2021

In 2014, at the height of gamergate hostilities, a blockbot was developed and circulated within the gaming community that allowed subscribers to automatically block upwards of 8,000 Twitter accounts. "Ggautoblocker" as it was called, was designed to insulate subscribers' Twitter feeds from hurtful, sexist, and in some cases deeply disturbing comments. In doing so it cast a wide net and became a source of considerable criticism from many in the industry and games community. During this time, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) 2015 Video Game Developer Satisfaction Survey was circulating, resulting in a host of comments on the blockbot from workers in the industry. In this paper we analyze these responses, which constitute some of the first empirical data on a public response to the use of autoblocking technology, to consider the broader implications of the algorithmic structuring of the online public sphere. First, we emphasize the important role that ggautoblocker, and similar autoblocking tools, play in creating space for marginalized voices online. Then, we turn to our findings, and argue that the overwhelmingly negative response to ggautoblocker reflects underlying anxieties about fragmenting control over the structure of the online public sphere and online public life. In our discussion, we reflect upon what the negative responses suggest about normative expectations of participation in the online public sphere, and how this contrasts with the realities of algorithmically structured online spaces.
Exploring Middle-Class Malaysian Parents' Perceptions and Concerns About Children's Internet Usage
Authors: Kaur Hansaram Simranpreet
Published: March 2021

The growing number of children internet users are causing parents to worry. While there are many researches in the Global North, very few studies are done in the Global South. The study aims to bridge this gap with a study of Malaysia, a Global South country. Using a contextual approach, this research investigates middle-class Malaysian parents’ perceptions and concerns about their children’s internet usage. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with seven parents, whose children – aged from five to eighteen – are active internet users. The analysis of the interviews revealed three major themes; firstly, parents make evaluative judgments about internet contents and platforms; secondly, children’s age determines use and device ownership; and thirdly, Malaysian parents used mediation strategies unique to Malaysia: they employ spies among their children and enlist help from older children. The analysis further revealed two generalized Malaysian parents’ fears about the internet: foreign culture influencing the dominant culture and apprehensions about new technologies.
On the Production and Maintenance of Discursive Power
Authors: MacNeill Tim
Published: March 2021

Contrary to current academic thinking, I argue that cultural policy is not in decline but has simply changed form. The ubiquity and vitality of such policies have been obscured from our vision because we do not actually know what we are looking for. This is the case because we have never established a theoretically informed definition of cultural policy. I offer such a definition here, and suggest that once such an optic is mobilized cultural policy reappears as an essential, vital, ever-present, contentious, and powerful postmodern social phenomenon. It is mobilized locally, nationally, and internationally through and around markets by agents who wish to produce, contest, or maintain fields of discursive power.
Social Movement Phenomena and the Emergence of Communities of Becoming
Authors: Hershorn Robert
Published: March 2021

This paper will provide an overview of several noted social movement theories. This will be followed by an examination of the legacy of Habermasâ€™s public sphere and Castellsâ€™s network theory. I will explore how the former excludes peripheral actors from societal dialogue while linking the tenets of the latter to recent movement trends. The analysis will then shift to an examination of the orientation of engaged social movement actors. How have their internetworked activities contributed to the development of identity or communities of â€œbecoming.â€ Are they replicating the hegemonic behaviors within the established societal structures they repudiate? How can conceptual and practical developments inform us of the potential of movement actions within altered spaces? Overall, I hope to provide an effective analysis that clearly captures the potential pitfalls and openings for movement actors â€“ both theoretically and practically â€“ in their attempt to effect change and enhance their sense of community through ephemeral networks.
Ambivalence and Cultural Industrialization in Canada
Authors: Deveau Danielle Jeanine
Published: March 2021

If Canadian culture can be said to have a master narrative, it is surely one of ambivalence. It is a concept that is laced implicitly throughout Canadian popular culture, as well as Canadian cultural studies. Although Canadianists frequently grapple with the issue of cultural industrialization, especially in relation to cultural nationalist fears about Americanization, it is my contention that these analyses do not adequately consider Canadian popular culture as a process of ambivalent industrialization which allows certain non-industrial practices to be preserved. This process is particularly evident in the subject of my doctoral dissertation the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival (JFL) where carnival and industry collide in very public ways.
Government Imposition of Sustainable Business Practices in the Arts: A Saving Grace?
Authors: Knecht Brigit M.
Published: March 2021

The paper examines how the Alberta Foundation for the Arts has prioritized economic measures of sustainability and best business practices by including economic language and demands into arts funding applications. Analyzing ten years of granting documents from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts the research explores how the gradual inclusion of business language increases the demand on arts organizations to operate as sustainable organizations. The paper also considers how the very imposition of economic priorities onto non-profit arts organizations may, ironically, be the saving grace for such organizations in the face of global economic crisis. Forced to operate under the rigid fiscal demands of granting programs, arts organizations in Alberta are accustomed to efficient operation with limited resources. Therefore they may actually be poised to weather the economic storm better than other arts organizations in Canada.
Contestation, a Deeper Seduction
Authors: Zuurbier Peter
Published: March 2021

Individual media events, from the extraordinary to the mundane, as well as the logic they present, have transcended society. Media events no longer happen in isolation, they are intertextually and extratextually linked and mixed together. The ability to view, create, join in, and affect the shape of media events has caused a profound shift in the conception of what they are. What Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz refer to as individual media events, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault and Douglas Kellner consider collectively as spectacle. Their work on media events and spectacle features a debate on the role of contestation within it. Live audience members have an opportunity to impact media events and the spectacle either through individual or collective action. This action can go along with the intents ascribed to the media event and spectacle, or it can oppose them. Contestation often takes the form of an oppositional interruption of the linear messaging promoted within media events and spectacle. Contestation is typically a strategy used by voices that feel marginalized by the images of the spectacle. But contestation of media events and spectacle through their own logic becomes a means of deeper seduction.
The Problems with Reimagining Public Media in the Context of Global South
Authors: Rahman Anis
Published: March 2021

This paper puts forward a case from the global south into the discussion of public media. It pays particular attention to Bangladesh, an epicenter of a thriving media system in South Asia. From a political economic perspective in this paper I ask: can the state broadcaster BTV be a public media? Based on a combination of methods including in-depth interviews and document analysis, I locate four problematic areas including political instrumentalization, commercialization, struggle for autonomy, and contradictory policy responses â€“ all which impede BTVâ€™s ability to perform as a public media. I argue that this inability has to be understood not as a failure of the state but as a result of colonial legacy, post-colonial transformation, as well as a derivative of neoliberal market-orientation of communications in the global South.
Recap of the 2014 Media Democracy Days
Authors: Hackett Robert
Published: March 2021

The Media Democracy Day (MDD) project is an annual event for alternative, independent, and democratic media in Canada. It has approached the project of media reform with a three-pronged ambition: Know the Media, Be the Media, and Change the Media. This year, MDDâ€™s annual conference was held between Nov. 7th and 8th at Vancouver Public Library. For more information about MDD, Please visit http://mediademocracyproject.ca/.
2015 Smythe Memorial Lecture: Framing Inequality as a Crisis by Oscar Gandy
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

2015 Smythe Memorial Lecture will be hosted on March 26, 2015 from 7-9pm in Segal Centre (SFU Vancouver). This year's lecture is delivered by Prof. Oscar Gandy on the topic of "Framing Inequality as a Crisis". See the full text for details.
Public Lecture: Thinking about Oil: Energy Epistemologies and Political Futures
Authors: (CPCC) Policy Studies on Culture & CMNS
Published: March 2021

A CPCC public lecture on the topic of "Energy and Philosophy" will be hosted on January 12, 2015 from 5-7pm in room HC1600 (SFU Vancouver). The event is sponsored by FCAT's Centre For Policy Studies on Culture and Communities (SFU), the Institute for Humanities (SFU), and the Centre for Social Justice at Kwantlen University (KPU). Please see the attached PDF for further details.
PHD Defence: â€œComment Spaceâ€ by Geoffrey Glass
Authors: Phan Vu Thuy Anh
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Geoffrey Glass, will defend his PHD dissertation on Wednesday, November 18th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (10:00 am- 1:00 pm). Here is the abstract of his dissertation “Comment Space”.
Safety Information under Neoliberalism: The Chilean Case
Authors: Finkelstein Rodrigo
Published: March 2021

This paper explores the production and supply of safety information under a neoliberal regime, where economic incentives and competition rather than regulations, supervision and enforcement, comprise the common sense to guarantee a safe workplace. Following a political economy of communication framework on the Chilean sector, this assessment unpacks the relationship between Workers' Compensation Boards' (WCBs) informational resources and their economic process of exchange within a neoliberal context. The purpose of this paper is to provide a well-grounded theoretical outline to analyse safety information, and to offer a glimpse of the particular kind of informational resources and goods produced by neoliberal WCBs. The following analysis discloses that WCBs are compelled to cede control over their symbolic content to the dynamics of the market place and the logic of profit maximization. Economic and competition imperatives trigger the production, on the one hand, of informational resources as distorted rates, and on the other, of informational goods as pro-corporate safety knowledge. Workers are cognitively misled and left physically and mentally unprotected at the worksite. This paper claims that due to a free market model, Chilean WCBs fail to protect workers' health and safety by producing and supplying distorted rates and corporate friendly knowledge.
Public Event: 2017 Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture: "Dallas Smythe and China: An Unfinished Dialogue"
Authors: Ackerley Christine Rose
Published: March 2021

The annual Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday March 17 at 7:00pm at SFU Vancouver in the Joseph and Rosalie Segal Centre - Room 1400-1410. The event will be followed by a reception in Teck Gallery. This year the School of Communication's very own Dr. Yuezhi Zhao will be the speaker. Click on the following link to RSVP: http://websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/233096237 Please note that all RSVPs from outside the School of Communication will need to reserve their seats by emailing Brenda Baldwin at bebaldwi@sfu.ca. For more information, please see the attached poster.
Musical Artists Capitalizing on Hybrid Identities
Authors: Pope Amara
Published: March 2021

This study is an exploration of identity politics through an examination of the ways in which musical artists use the medium of music videos to create marketable, hybrid identities. With the rise of social media and the online consumption of information, music videos play a central role in global, cultural flows. I argue that hybrid identities are constructed by musical artists to gain popularity through the form of ethno-marketing. I include literature surrounding diaspora and hybridity to understand how hybrid identities become a production of heritage and human capital. By utilizing music videos specifically to construct their hybrid identities, musical artists are simultaneously enforcing and being subjected to economic, cultural, and political forms of exploitation. My methodology draws upon a multimodal discourse analysis (LeVine & Scollon, 2004) which assesses how meaning is made through the use of multiple modes of communication. I apply multimodality to the construction of music videos in which musical artists selectively chose particular sounds, images, and lyrics to claim specific identities. As articulated through the case study of Drake, I examine how the multimodal affordances of music videos allow artists to transcend borders within the digital age and reach a large audience. This study examines Drake’s bricolage of complex and intersectional identities and his unique privilege to choose to identify with different marginal communities. I assess how Drake capitalizes on shared experiences and struggles of different cultural, national, and class backgrounds though three of his music videos: “HYFR (Hell Yeah Fuckin’ Right)” (2011), “Started From The Bottom” (2011), and “Worst Behavior” (2013). Drake alludes to different cultures, locations, and social identities through these music videos to construct his place as a rapper in the music industry and articulates a hybrid identity as an “Authentic” Black/ Jewish, American/Canadian, working class member of society, and high-class rapper.
PHD Defence: "Federal Arts Policy 1957-2014" by Duncan Low
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Duncan Low, will defend his PHD Dissertation on Friday, September 23rd 2016 at Harbor Center Room 1600 (10:00 am - 1:00 pm). Here is the abstract of his dissertation "Federal Arts Policy 1957-2014: The Rhetoric & the Reality".