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Implementasi Pembelajaran Sinkronus pada Mata Kuliah Fisika 1 Menggunakan Discord Dipadukan dengan Google Jamboard dan Powerpoint
Authors: Gideon Samuel , Rahmansyah Abdul Azis
Published: March 2021

COVID-19 virus have affected educational activities to be carried out through e-learning. Discord and Google Jamboard offer advantages in delivering synchronous e-learning. The purpose of this research is to implement e-learning of Physics 1 course using Discord integrated with Google Jamboard and Powerpoint. In this research, we used qualitative-descriptive method which conducted in several steps, i.e: (1) Discord installation and Physics 1 Class preparation; (2) Virtual Tablet Server installation and its testing for mobile phone; (3) Learning materials preparation in Powerpoint; (4) Implementation of Physics 1 Class using Discord integrated with Google Jamboard and Powerpoint; (5) Evaluation of the results and (6) Surveying of student’s opinion about e-learning using using Discord integrated with Google Jamboard and Powerpoint. Discord can be used as an alternative e-learning tool because of its practical use as well as more powerful when integrated with Google Jamboard and Powerpoint, especially for mathematical-analytics subject such as Physics. This is supported by the results of a survey in which 34 out of 39 students said they wanted to use Discord and Google Jamboard for other mathematical-analytics subjects.
Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Problem Based Learning untuk Menganalisis Keterampilan Pemecahan Masalah Siswa SMP pada Materi Cahaya
Authors: Sinensis Arini Rosa , Firdaus Thoha , Hardila T , Nopitasari Nopitasari , Saiputri N
Published: March 2021

The challenge of 21st century education is to prepare human resources who are required to have skills, one of which is problem solving. The Problem Based Learning (PBL) learning model is considered effective in training problem-solving skills because it has constructivist characteristics with science learning. The purpose of this study was to analyze students' problem solving skills in the Light material through PBL learning. The research method used is quantitative with descriptive analysis. The research sample was 22 Tanah Merah Integrated Junior High School students grade IX. The data collection technique used the observation sheet of problem solving skills. The results showed that there was an increase in students' problem solving skills from the first to the third experiment. The increase with the highest percentage was in the third experiment with indicators of problem solving/ investigation by 90.9%. The average data for each problem solving indicator shows that students can understand the problem by 80.78%, collect data by 69.63%, carry out problem solving/investigation by 78.46%, and make conclusions by 66.67%. These results indicate that the Problem Based Learning model can be used as a science learning construction in improving problem solving skills.
Efektivitas Penggunaan Seleksi Ciri CFS pada Klasifikasi Ciri Bentuk Nodul Kanker Payudara dengan Citra Ultrasonografi
Authors: Nurul Yusufiyah Hesti Khuzaimah , Gya Nur Rochman Juan Pandu
Published: March 2021

The implementation of nodule shape characteristics is one of the parameters used in determining breast cancer malignancy. Mathematical calculations are used as a second decision to strengthen radiologists in determining breast cancer malignancy using ultrasound images (USG). The method used in this research is to filter ultrasound images that contain speckle noise, then continue the segmentation process, extracting shape features, selecting shape features, and classifying them. The feature selection process using Correlated based Feature Selection (CFS) is used to select the dominant shape features in the image. The classification results obtained show that the results of feature selection using CFS can improve the results of image accuracy, sensitivity and specificity, so as to be able to better distinguish the characteristic shape of the cancer nodule.
A new method for rolling bearing compound fault diagnosis based on WT-PCA method
Authors: Pan Xiang , Yu Mingyue , Guo Guihong
Published: March 2021

As it is difficult to extract the combined faults from rolling bearings of aero-engine in strong noise, a fault diagnosis method based on wavelet transform (WT), principal component analysis (PCA) and self-correlation noise reduction is proposed to solve this problem. The proposed method is then compared with the target matrix composed of maximum component of kurtosis, the largest and the second largest kurtosis value. The result of comparative analysis reveals that the 2D target matrix proposed in this paper works better to extract the characteristic frequency of combined faults of rolling bearings in terms of accuracy and effectiveness.
Experimental study on spray characteristics of diesel-FAME blends
Authors: Zhang Yijun , Liu Wenfu , Zhu Di
Published: March 2021

Macro-spray structural parameters and micro-droplet of diesel-FAME under the circumstance of different FAME content, injection pressure and nozzle diameter were studied. With the increase of FAME content, the spray penetration increases, and spray angle decreases, molecules viscous force and the micro-droplet size increase, which means the atomization getting worse. With the increases of injection pressure, the penetration increases, the spray angle decreases. The more FAME content, the greater the rate of them. The microscopic droplet size decreases as pressure increasing. With increased nozzle diameter, the cavitations of liquid become weak, the penetration extends, and the spray angle decreases. Droplet size becomes bigger and atomization gets worse.
Design and mechanical analysis of hydraulic incremental slipforming platform with sliding frame
Authors: Yao Gang , Wang Zeng , Yang Yang
Published: March 2021

Building facades are becoming more and more complex, and the requirements for concrete quality on the facades are increasing. Traditional slipforming construction is difficult to meet the requirements of construction period and quality. Incremental slipforming with sliding frame has emerged at the historic moment. Due to the heavy weight of hydraulic incremental slipforming platform with sliding frame and the complicated force condition, the research on its safety and stability is particularly necessary. Aiming at the construction needs of the complex frame-shear wall rectangular chimney project, a new type of platform of hydraulic incremental slipforming with sliding frame is proposed. According to the platform structure design composition and construction technology, the finite element model of hydraulic incremental slipforming platform with sliding frame was established in the ANSYS platform. The stress and displacement of hydraulic incremental platform slipforming with sliding frame under different working conditions were studied through static analysis. The dynamic characteristics of the structure were obtained through modal analysis, and the safety and stability of hydraulic incremental slipforming platform with sliding frame were evaluated.
Modeling sulfide production in full flow concrete sewers based on the HRT variation of sewerage
Authors: Wang Junyan , Xu Xianglong , Liu Shuai , Shao Yuting , Zhang Jingbing , Wang Jian , Li Qinyu , He Yuanpu , Wang Yue , Sun Wenzhuo , Luo Fangzhou , Qi Wei , Liu Guohua , Qi Lu , Wang Hongchen
Published: March 2021

The corrosion and odor in concrete sewers are mainly related to the sulfide production, which is, under certain circumstances, directly proportional to the hydraulic retention time (HRT) of the sewer. To reduce the corrosion and control the odor in concrete sewers, it is necessary to model the production of sulfide in the concrete sewers with different HRTs. However, previous researches were mostly carried out in simulated Perspex-made sewers, and the obtained theoretical formulas based on the Monod equation were impractical because of the complexity. An actual concrete pipe with domestic sewage was employed in this study to obtain a simple but practical model, which can be applied to quantitively describe the sulfide production according to the HRT of the sewer and the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the sewage. The empirical equation obtained was , the coefficient is a logarithmic function of the HRT, and the sulfide production rate and COD have a power relationship. Based on the data of COD and HRT obtained in the realistic sewer, the production of sulfide in the sewer can be predicted for better maintaining sewers through sulfide control.
Knowledge, Awareness and Perception of COVID-19 Pandemic Among Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in Coastal South India
Authors: Unnikrishnan Bhaskaran , Rathi Priya , Shenoy Suchitra M. , Nandan Gautam , Sanil Meenakshi , Saxena Shwetansh , Rai Harshit R.
Published: March 2021

Background:

It is crucial for the frontline force such as health care workers to be up-to-date with the knowledge of the trend of COVID-19 pandemic and its epidemiology. We conducted this study to assess the knowledge, awareness and perception of health care workers towards the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods:

We performed a cross-sectional survey in the hospitals of coastal Karnataka among health care workers from February to May 2020.

Results:

A total of 197 Health care workers responded. Most of them were females (64%), physicians (45%), with a working experience of 1-10 years (77%). Five percent had a prior experience of the outbreak. The survey showed that the study participants had knowledge about treatment and precautions to be taken. However, some of them were not aware of the recent updates on quarantine and sample testing. Most of them perceived this pandemic as an important public health issue and were concerned that they might get infected in the course.

Conclusion:

There is a partial knowledge among HCWs regarding recent updates on COVID-19 pandemic and its related epidemiology. Hence, frequent sessions with the help of virtual media may be utilized to provide updates, and counseling sessions by experts may be arranged to reduce the fear of the pandemic.
Degradable Plastic Recycling
Authors: Akram N.
Published: March 2021

The public demand of plastics for food, drinks, consumable and packaging is increasing enormously all over the world. Due to limited available plastic resources, it is challenging to meet the stipulation of the massive population. The contribution of the synthetic plastic industry is encouraging to cope with these challenges. However, it is not only restricted towards production, but the degradation of its waste is also equally arduous and even more complicated to a large extent. A useful solution to this problem is recycling instead of degradation. In order to optimize the utility of recycling, various techniques are in progress. Plastic recycling is an acceptable technique to keep the economy in circulation. Moreover, it is an effective way to reduce the environmental pollution and to promote green environment.
Enzymes Involved in Plastic Degradation
Authors: Cobongela S.Z.Z.
Published: March 2021

The global increase in production of plastic and accumulation in the environment is becoming a major concern especially to the aquatic life. This is due to the natural resistance of plastic to both physical and chemical degradation. Lack of biodegradability of plastic polymers is linked to, amongst other factors, the mobility of the polymers in the crystalline part of the polyesters as they are responsible for enzyme interaction. There are significantly few catabolic enzymes that are active in breaking down polyesters which are the constituents of plastic. The synthetic polymers widely used in petroleum-based plastics include polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinylchloride (PVC), polyurethane (PUR), polystyrene (PS), polyamide (PA) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) being the ones used mostly. Polymers with heteroatomic backbone such as PET and PUR are easier to degrade than the straight carbon-carbon backbone polymers such as PE, PP, PS and PVC.
Ciência Aberta Na França: ponto da situação, legislação, iniciativas, ferramentas e medidas
Authors: Galliano Clara , Quoniam Luc , Raymond David
Published: March 2021

Issues related to open access to scientific publications and the reuse of research data concern research actors, academic communities and society as a whole. Many countries have mobilised themselves around these issues in order to establish policies in favour of the opening up of science. France is both a promoter and coordinator of open science at national and European level. This country has also expressed its commitment at the international level by joining world-class initiatives and coalitions. Faced with the power of certain private players in the publishing market, France insists on its current position: the aim is not to destroy them but rather not to be totally dependent on them. This communication proposes to take France as an example to complement and reinforce the commitment of certain countries to the Open Science movement.
VODAN BR: a gestão de dados no enfrentamento da pandemia coronavírus
Authors: Veiga Viviane , Campos Maria Luiza , Silva Carlos Roberto Lyra da , Henning Patrícia , Moreira João
Published: March 2021

The world is experiencing a pandemic caused by the variant of the Coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2, causing the infectious disease COVID-19. Global actions are being carried out to combat this virus, including the Virus Outbreak Data Network (VODAN), which aims to establish a federated data infrastructure aligned with the FAIR principles and which supports the data collect from medical records of patients infected with high contagion. FIOCRUZ, which coordinates the GO FAIR Brazil Health network, took over the VODAN BR network in partnership with UNIRIO and UFRJ, with the participation of the hospitals Gaffrée and Guinle, Municipal São José and Israelita Albert Einstein. This article aims to present the national infrastructure aligned with the guidelines and the international network, for collecting and managing data from patient records, of these hospitals, infected with COVID-19, to establish an information model that supports the confrontation of this and other possible pandemics.
Prática da Ciência Aberta: os preprints em movimento
Authors: Priíncipe Eloísa
Published: March 2021

To present a brief evolution of preprints servers, in international and national terms, and initiatives that consolidate their appropriation in the scope of scientific communication and to examine their acceptance by the Brazilian scientific community, in its technological and social components. In the international scenario, the acceptance of preprints as a model of submission seems irreversible, considering the growing number of manuscripts deposited in the preprints servers. In Brazil, the acceptance of preprints submissions by journals is still reduced. This scenario tends to change as a result of the launch of the SciELO Preprints server, by the Scientific Electronic Library Online and the EmeRI - Emerging Research Information repository, by the cooperation between the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors and the Brazilian Institute of Information on Science and Technology, in 2020.
Perfil dos autores brasileiros com publicações científicas em periódicos de acesso aberto
Authors: Dias : Patrícia Mascarenhas , Dias Thiago Magela Rodrigues , Moita Gray Farias
Published: March 2021

In the current state of scientific development, identifying how the results of scientific and technological investigations are being published allows us to understand how scientific communication has been used to disseminate the studies carried out and the results achieved. In this scenario, the publication of articles in open access journals appears as an important and interesting mechanism for the dissemination of scientific research, since it facilitates and enables access to them, considering that there are no barriers, especially financial ones, to access the contents of this type of publication. Thus, this work aims to present a characterization of the group of Brazilian researchers who have published articles in open access journals. To this end, the Lattes Platform curricula is used as a data source to initially identify researchers with publications of articles in open access journals and, subsequently, draw a portrait of the profile of these researchers, such as areas of expertise, levels of training and geographic distribution.
Desenvolvimento de um sistema de armazenamento e reconhecimento de marcas de proveniência em acervos bibliográficos
Authors: Rodrigues Marcia , Vian Alissa Esperon , Teixeira Heytor Diniz , Borges Eduardo Nunes , Prado Mateus Alves
Published: March 2021

This work aims to present a System of Storage and Recognition of Provenance Marks. Such a system consists of an online data repository, a mobile application (app) and a web application server for image processing. For the construction of the theoretical contribution, a bibliographic and documentary review was used. The repository will make it possible for users and institutions to deposit photographic records of their marks, consult and collect metadata of marks’ registration already available. The app will be used exclusively for recognition of the provenance marks registered in the repository. The study of the provenance marks in bibliographic collections covers investigations on the trajectories of use and possession covered by the book throughout its existence and makes it possible to know preferences and fads that have historically influenced readers and libraries. In this sense, the use of technological tools assists the professional in obtaining information about specimens and their marks.
Rede académica internacional WEIWER®: um exemplo de práticas educacionais abertas
Authors: Cardoso Teresa , Pestana Filomena , Pinto João
Published: March 2021

Wikipedia as an object of study and pedagogical strategy is present at different levels of education in the world. In Portugal, the Universidade Aberta (Open University), through LE@D, is pioneer by fostering its research and curricular integration. It is in this field of action that the WEIWER® International Academic Network was launched - Wikis, Educação & Investigação | Wikis, Education & Research. The conceptual framework is linked to open education and, thus, Wikipedia is perceived as an Open Educational Practice and Resource. Therefore, the WEIWER® Network integrates several perspectives that, in short, can be segmented, on the one hand, in the promotion of digital literacy and, on the other, in the implementation of didactic and technical-pedagogical resources. Both correspond to different paths, with different approaches, according to the target audience involved. These paths are associated to the axes of the Portugal INCoDe.2030 Initiative and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Validação automática dos currículos da plataforma lattes à biblioteca digital brasileira de teses e dissertações (BDTD)
Authors: Dias Thiago Magela Rodrigues , Carvalho-Segundo Washington L. R. de
Published: March 2021

One of the main problems in scientific repositories is to identify relationships and link metadata from different sources. This paper briefly describes the new results in an effort to build a software platform able to process metadata from different heterogeneous sources. The case study for this phase is the linking of the thesis and dissertation repositories network, the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), and the Lattes Platform of researchers' curricula. A strategy for generating hashes for records is applied, through transformation rules on title and year, capturing, in one step, the Lattes identifiers of theses and dissertations authors and supervisors.
Repositórios brasileiros sobre a COVID-19: colaboração para o enfrentamento da pandemia
Authors: Cruz-Riascos Sonia Aguiar , Silva Paloma Rayana França
Published: March 2021

In face of COVID-19 pandemic, scientific and academic initiatives have emerged to produce reliable information. This research aimed to provide an overview about the creation of thematic repositories and the registration of such content in repositories of public education institutions and research centers to disseminate this knowledge. Descriptive and qualitative research with an exploratory objective. Study based on bibliographic review and survey of the registry of repositories at the Brazilian Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation to select the sample. Renowned health research centers in the country were included. A survey was carried out on the Internet, the technique of direct observation was used on official websites and online questionnaires were applied. As a result, it was obtained a return of 50% and a situational panorama of ten repositories that act with the purpose of aggregating knowledge and also adding efforts to face this global problem.
Digital Communications and Society: Student Proceedings from the 2018 Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference
Authors: Lao Mary Grace , Hübner Lena
Published: March 2021

It is our privilege to publish this special section of the current issue of Stream: Inspiring Critical Thought devoted to publishing the student proceedings from the Canadian Communication Association’s 2018 Conference at the Congress for the Social Science and Humanities held at the University of Regina. In its third year, these proceedings sought to provide a space for graduate students in communication studies across the country to publish their works.

C’est un privilège pour nous de publier une section spéciale du numéro actuel de Stream: Inspiring Critical Thought, consacré à la publication des actes des communications étudiantes du colloque de l’Association canadienne des communications 2018, colloque organisé dans le cadre du Congrès des sciences humaines à l’Université de Régina. Pour une troisième année de suite, cette publication vise à fournir un espace aux étudiants et étudiantes de deuxième et troisième cycle en communication à travers le pays leur permettant de publier leurs travaux de recherche.
Same as it ever was
Authors: Kribs Kaitlyn
Published: March 2021

In this paper, I outline how the “piracy panic narrative” (Arditi, 2015) has repositioned the fan/musician dynamic in the digital era, from one between maker and listener to one between labourer and thief. The paper questions if the press has fairly assessed the fan/musician dynamic in the digital era and examines who has directly benefited from the reorganization of the relations between producer and consumer. The article provides a contemporary history of the American and Canadian music industries’ response to file sharing, crisis and piracy. Drawing on data from the 2017 Music Canada report on the Value Gap, the essay ultimately concludes that those most affected by the repositioning of the producer/consumer dynamic are not the various stakeholders whose voices are most frequently heard, but actually the musicians. The piracy panic narrative is thus nothing but an exercise in creating smoke and mirrors; music industries depict themselves as victims, all the while quietly rearranging their business practices to maintain a long-held position as gatekeeper.
Looking Beneath the Skin
Authors: Tziallas Evangelos
Published: March 2021

Since the New Queer Cinema explosion, the style and content of Gregg Araki's films have changed in seemingly drastic ways. However, my paper argues that his films, although more mature, are just as radical today as they were in the beginning of his career. Mysterious Skin is a controversial film that looks at early childhood sexuality and its relationship to teenage sexual development. I argue that Araki looks at contemporary queer life in all its complexity and demonstrates that both sexuality and sexual development are far too complicated to quantify and categorize.
The Urban Square
Authors: Wiley Danielle
Published: March 2021

Emerging technologies challenge the conceptualization of contemporary urban public space, both in where it is located and of what it consists. With the advent of the digital medium and the internet, the public realm is expanded, dispersed and reconnected in new ways. At the same time, technologies profoundly impact the realization of apparently conventional public spaces, as architects' design process and building materials undergo technological renovations, staged in the digital medium. This paper explores how the public square can be reconceptualized as a place of convergence of the digital and physical domains.
â€œI Started out as a Social Constructionistâ€: A Conversation with Myra J. Hird, Part 1
Authors: Scott Rebecca
Published: March 2021

As a student of Communication, I have come to understand the field as being principally concerned with the symbolic world. Thus we see cultural studies, news and media studies, and language studies and linguistics as defining traditions; discourse and textual analysis as defining methods; and social construction as a defining theoretical approach. Yet the field has been defined in a number of ways which can vary drastically or conflict with one another. Rather than seeing this as a serious problem of identity, I suggest that, quite possibly, this is Communicationâ€™s most productive feature. Being interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or whatever you would like to call it, Communication has the distinct advantage of being relatively free from the binding constrictions of older, more established disciplines. This means the field is at the forefront of producing novel research.
Introducing "Surveylady": A Case for the Use of Avatars as Part of Gaming Research
Authors: Bergstrom Kelly M
Published: March 2021

The popularity explosion of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMOs) such as World of Warcraft provides researchers with a venue to reach a wider research subject base than ever before. But what is the best way to collect data about these virtual worlds? This paper illustrates the rich potential of using an avatar to interact with MMO participants while players are immersed in the gameâ€™s virtual environment. Rather than observing from the periphery, this paper makes the case for the researcher to â€˜dive right inâ€™ and interview gamers within their (virtual) environment. This paper will argue that this methodology acts as a means for collecting rich, nuanced data about the gaming community.
Stars versus Rainbows: Walt Disneyâ€™s and Jim Hensonâ€™s â€œPhilosophies of Childhoodâ€
Authors: McDermott Brenda
Published: March 2021

The television special The Muppets go to Walt Disney World (1990) provides an unique opportunity to discuss the differences between two influential producers of childrenâ€™s media culture, Jim Henson and Walt Disney. Several scholars highlight distinctive differences between Disney and Hensonâ€™s products, including Jack Zipes. The film was created both as promotional material for the park and the new Muppet 3D adventure ride; it also marked the merger of Jim Henson Productions within the Walt Disney Corporation. With the sudden death of Henson, the deal was called off. The special still demonstrates many of the important ideological differences between the Henson and Disney conception of childhood and family.

Drawing on Karal Ann Marling, Peter Stevens, and Virginia Salamoneâ€™s work on the constructed nature of the park experience, this paper examines how the Muppetâ€™s visit breaks and bends both the expected behavior of visitors and their expected pleasure. Central to the examination become the distinctions between social and moral transgression, and biological versus found families. Disney theme parks and films focus on the importance of social conformity as way to protect of childhood innocence, which is opposed by Hensonâ€™s characters experimentation and self discovery. Hensonâ€™s character separate experiences with the park critique Disneyâ€™s biological definition of family. These conflicting notions and satire of classic Disney values may explain why this special has not been re-released, despite Disney purchase of the Muppet franchise in 2006.
Memories, Identity and Mother Russia: A Study of the Russian-Chechen Conflict
Authors: Sambells Chelsea
Published: March 2021

Todayâ€™s Russian-Chechen conflict is based upon a long history of colonization and domination. Although the historic conflict relies upon an underlying mentality of â€œusâ€ versus â€œthem,â€ this assumption does not serve as the core identity marker of Chechen identity. Instead, the 1944 deportations, in which Stalinist Russia deported and exiled half a million Chechens, has become the primary national identity marker. This suggests that when an ethnic group has experienced deportations, their historic memories will serve a greater role in collective identity construction than any other relationship they have with that adversary.
The Western Canada Communciation Graduate Students Conference: Notes from the Organizers
Authors: Bergstrom Kelly , Moldes Marcos
Published: March 2021

The Western Canada Communication Graduate Students Conference (more commonly known as â€œThe Nelson Conferenceâ€) is co-organized and co-hosted by the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University. The conference is held annually in the spring in Nelson, BC, which is the geographic midpoint between Calgary, Alberta and Burnaby, British Columbia. Nine students from the University of Calgary and ten students from Simon Fraser University presented at the conference with topics ranging from Heath Technologies, Postmodern War, Gaming Studies to work on Transnationalism, Trauma/Memory Studies and Cultural Theory.

The breadth of topics and areas of inquiry that were represented at the conference were indicative of the scope of work being done in the field of Communication Studies. A sign that like most interdisciplinary programs, the discipline is home to a variety of innovative and interesting areas of research.

This yearâ€™s conference marked the 19th consecutive meeting between the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University. A conference organized for graduate students by graduate students, it offers a unique opportunity for students in Western Canada to collaborate across institutional boundaries.
Super Undies, Buff Bodies and Body Facism: Normative Gay Identity and the Politics of Regulation
Authors: Moldes Marcos
Published: March 2021

fab Magazine, a bi-weekly based in Toronto, is an example of a gay tabloid press that claims to provide an alternative to the traditional discourses of gay identity. Providing local coverage of Torontoâ€™s gay community, the magazine also contains featured columnists, music and restaurant reviews, and a classified section that focuses on gay businesses and services. However the magazineâ€™s representation of the gay community embraces and glorifies the normative images of the gay body that articulate the stereotypical conception of gay consumer identity. This creates a contradiction at the centre of the magazine: it is a text that seeks to be understood as a â€œfor us, by us textâ€ publication yet it deploys a normative construction of gayness in the vast majority of its image-based representations.
Of Insurrection and Its Scribes
Authors: Rovito Jason
Published: March 2021

Review of The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection. Semiotext(e), 2009.
Environmental infomediaries in the Risk Society: The behavioral impact of online environmental information and communication strategies
Authors: Godfrey Matt
Published: March 2021

The expansion of the online marketplace changed the way many people consume products and information by allowing consumers to conduct increasing amounts of pre-purchase research. Many organizations developed online tools to help consumers efficiently find and use environmental information to make more sustainable purchase decisions. In this paper I explore the impact and efficacy of these online environmental infomediaries through an analysis of their history, methods, and impact. Using a framework developed from Ulrich Beckâ€™s theory of the Risk Society and Bettmanâ€™s theory of contingent decision making, I conducted a preliminary case study of GoodGuide.com, a well-known online environmental infomediary. Based on this framework, I found that effective online environmental infomediaries (1) target educated, internet-savvy, leisure- and trend-oriented consumers; (2) focus on high-risk, non-convenience purchases; (3) provide visually appealing and interactive tools; (4) ensure information tools are easy to use and understand; (5) employ a clear and transparent methodology; and (6) satisfy consumersâ€™ expectations of their efficacy. GoodGuide.com excelled at several of these criteria, but its opaque methodology and failure to meet most consumersâ€™ expectations may threaten its long-term viability.
The Managing of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technologiesâ€™ Network Effect: An Adaptation of Actor-Network Theory
Authors: Elahifar Kobra
Published: March 2021

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technologies have impacted the music industry, including its strategies for the distribution of the musical products, for more than a decade now. As a result, music labels have delayed full digitization of their industry in fear of â€œonline music piracyâ€. The present paper reviews the historical context of the evolution of the music industry from 1999 to 2012. Using Actor-Network theory, the paper examines the strategies that helped the music industry to translate new actorsâ€™ effect in order to sustain music labelsâ€™ business on their path to digitize music distribution. I will discuss the impact of new digital policies and methods of governing online behavior including the business concept of â€œentrepreneurshipâ€ as they may potentially affect the future of public domain within the framework of consumer rights.
The CRTCâ€™s Market-driven De-regulation of Canadian television
Authors: Druick Zoe
Published: March 2021

Over the past twenty years, the Canadian television landscape has come to increasingly resemble the market-driven television of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, to name only the other major English-language industries. Sports, reality TV, and sci-fi drama dominate, and the public elements of the system are increasingly under siege. How did this happen? A look back over the decisions of the past two decades makes it apparent that Canadaâ€™s regulatory agency the CRTC has repeatedly enabled the system we now see. These changes are the direct result of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Deal, signed in 1994), which drastically altered the cultural industries in Canada and led to an entrepreneurial approach to television. Since then, there has been a concerted shift toward an export-oriented industry, provoking a new emphasis on the global trade of cultural products (Edwardson 2008). In effect, even before the impact of the Internet, as the cable dial expanded, and sponsorship was diluted, production costs were pushed down and new, cheaper formats were created. At the same time, ownership became more consolidated and the telecommunication industry merged with the broadcast industry hoping to cash in on the promises of digital and wireless technologies. The CRTC enabled these shifts with the stated intention of increasing Canadian televisionâ€™s competitiveness at an international level (CRTC 1999).
PHD Defence: â€œConsuming Communication: Promotion, Expertise, and Sustainability in an Age of Participatory Mediaâ€ By Michael Felczak
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Michael Felczak, successfully defended his PHD dissertation on November 3, 2014. Here is the abstract of his dissertation “Consuming Communication: Promotion, Expertise, and Sustainability in an Age of Participatory Media”.
Roundtable on diversity of cultural expressions
Authors: (CPCC) Policy Studies on Culture & CMNS
Published: March 2021

A public roundtable discussion titled "Impacts and Implications of the UNESCO Convention Ten Years After and Ten Years Ahead: The View From BC". The event will take place on February 25th, 2015, from 2-5pm at Harbour Centre Room 1700. Please see the attached program for details.
Public Seminar: Air India Flight 182: The Making of a Canadian Tragedy
Authors: (CPCC) Policy Studies on Culture & CMNS
Published: March 2021

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 tragedy, Simon Fraser University's Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities and SFUâ€™s Vancity Office of Community Engagement have organized a public forum on the Air India Flight 182: A Canadian Tragedy public inquiry report. We invite you to join panellists on June 17th from 7:00-9:00pm in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre at SFU Woodward's for a round table discussion.
Paradigms of the Religious Network Society
Authors: Bajan Adam
Published: March 2021

Beginning in the early 1970â€™s with the invention of the microprocessor, mass use of information technologies worldwide coincided with the appearance of a nodally-linked network of digital interconnectivity, or â€˜network societyâ€™ (Castells, 1996). The network societyâ€™s exponential growth correlates with a rise in use of digital networking media by various sects and denominations of the Christian religion. Today, growing numbers of Christian organizations integrate digital media into both their approach to worship and the dissemination of the Holy Scriptures. This paper argues that the use of digital media by these organizations is indicative of the creation of a â€œreligious network societyâ€ exhibiting identical structural paradigms to Castellsâ€™ (1996) network society. By virtue of the media deployed within it, the â€˜religious network societyâ€™ fosters a mass culture of digital participation characterized by a rapid fragmentation of religious messaging and an over-sharing of personal religious beliefs. However, the religious network society also erodes Christianityâ€™s hierarchical structures of authority (Turner, 2007). It is argued that these structures are being replaced with a banal form of religion emphasizing spirituality and individual self-expression at the expense of tradition (Campbell, 2012; Hjarvard, 2013). Moreover, purpose alterations to Christianityâ€™s authority structures and approach to worship are indicative of a much larger shift in the religion, in which rising digital media use may in fact imply a decline in Christianityâ€™s societal influence.
What Audience, What Labour? A Review of the 2015 Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture by Oscar Gandy
Authors: Hauck Byron
Published: March 2021

In Dallas Smytheâ€™s old stomping grounds of Simon Fraser University, Dr. Oscar Gandy delivered the 2015 Dallas Smythe Memorial lecture. Arguing that inequality deserves state action, he linked financial inequality to capabilities and then to inequalities in political capital. He proposed this problem can be solved by linking the interests of those who are benefiting from the current system to those who are being marginalized by it. This can be done by framing messages to elites with the intention of making political use of their labour as audiences. While political audience labour is an important take away, it is difficult to divorce his understanding of how it can be exploited from his presentation of inequality as a domestic American problem rather than a global problem in this lecture. Additionally, while Dr. Gandyâ€™s definition of framing includes presenting solutions, he did not specifically address how the wealthy might react to understanding their interests as connected to the marginalized; ignoring current efforts of philanthropy and the rise of corporate social responsibility.
Rising Above: Alternative Media as Activist Media
Authors: Anderson Benjamin
Published: March 2021

This paper asserts that truly activist media must be dually committed to critical education and to political action. Whereas my previous work has focused on the need for activist media to challenge media power from within, it is my goal here to build a model of activist media characterized by direct action through engagement in critical education and activism in both content and production. Such a model will provide insight both into the limitations of previous research on the oppositional potential of alternative media and into the challenge facing alternative media scholars and practitioners alike â€“ that of rising above the noise of the dominant media of the cultural industry in order to communicate for radical social change.
MA Defence: â€œCommunicating Communes: A Case Study of Urban Communing Movement in South Koreaâ€ By Didi (Kyoung-ae) Han
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Didi (Kyoung-ae) Han, will defend her MA Thesis on Monday, September 8th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 2250 (10 am -12 noon). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Communicating Communes: A Case Study of Urban Communing Movement in South Korea”.
Still Policing the Crisis: A Seminar and Panel Discussion on Stuart Hallâ€™s Relevance in the Current Conjuncture
Authors: Ackerley Christine Rose
Published: March 2021

There will be a public seminar with on Stuart Hall's relevance in the current conjuncture of political crisis. The seminar will take place on Oct. 9th, 2015 between 4:00 and 6:00 pm at room 2270, Harbour Centre. Please see the attached poster for details.
Public Event: Confronting Internships: A Forum on Reforming Unpaid Work
Authors: Ackerley Christine Rose
Published: March 2021

There will be a forum on unpaid internships to celebrate the publication of "Interrogating Internships: Unpaid Work, Creative Industries, and Higher Education"â€”a special issue of tripleC.

The event will take place on November 4th, between 7:00 and 9:00 pm at room 420 in SFU's Morris J. Wosk Centre For Dialogue. Please see the attached poster for details.
PHD Defence: â€œNow Playing, You: Big Data and the Production of Music Streaming Spaceâ€ by Robert Prey
Authors: Phan Vu Thuy Anh
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Robert Prey, will defend his PhD dissertation on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (10:30 am -1:30 pm). Here is the abstract of his dissertation “Now Playing, You: Big Data and the Production of Music Streaming Space”.
Public Event: A Colloquium on Digital Media, Public Sphere, & the Development of Digital Systems
Authors: Ackerley Christine Rose
Published: March 2021

There will be a day-long colloquium on Digital Media, Public Sphere, & the Development of Digital Systems on November 9, at Harbour Centre room 3100. The event starts at 9 am. Please see the attached poster for details.
MA Defence: â€œCreativity Within Constraints: Encoding, Production, and Representation in Battlestar Galacticaâ€ by Philippa Adams
Authors: Phan Vu Thuy Anh
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Philippa Adams, will defend her MA Thesis on Friday, December 10th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (2:00 pm - 4:00 pm). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Creativity Within Constraints”.
Global Communication Program 2016 Year-End Presentation
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

The 3rd cohort of M.A. Double Degree Program in Global Communication are finishing their first year at SFU and will soon start the second year of study in Beijing. Prior to the departure, the students will present their capstone projects completed at SFU. The event will be hosted on Thursday, August 4 (9:00am to 4:00pm) at Harbour Centre, Room 7000.For more details, please see the attached PDF.
MA Defence: â€œOppression in the Reddit Hivemindâ€ By Jesse Betteridge
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Jesse Betteridge, will defend his MA Thesis on Friday, August 19th, 2016 at Harbour Centre, Room 1505 (10 am -12 noon). Here is the abstract of his thesis “Oppression in the Reddit Hivemind: Tracing Patterns of Misogyny in Electronic Public Spaces”.
PHD Defence: "After Displacement" by Ayaka Yoshimizu
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Ayaka Yoshimizu, will defend her PHD Dissertation on Monday, October 3rd 2016 at Mallinson Conference Room (K8657) on SFU Burnaby Campus (1:00 pm - 4:00 pm). Here is the abstract of her dissertation "After Displacement: Excavating Memories of Migrant Sex Workers and Becoming Entangled with the Water Trade in Yokohama".
Public Event: CPROST seminar: Canadian Science Technology and Innovation Policy
Authors: Ackerley Christine Rose
Published: March 2021

The Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology hosted Dr. Peter Phillips for a seminar on on his recent work on Canadian science, technology and innovation policy. He is currently part of a nation-wide study on the digital industries in Canada, titled “Creating Digital Opportunity.”The event took place at Harbour Centre, on September 19. Please see the attached poster for details.
Public Event: CPCC Seminar: Geographies, Alternatives Cartographies: Crime Mapping And The Prefiguration Of Disposability
Authors: Ackerley Christine Rose
Published: March 2021

In this seminar Dr. Burman will discuss her research on online crime mapping, with a particular focus on how the LA Times' maps narrate the lives and deaths of the Black women killed by Lonnie Franklin Jr. The event will be held at on October 7, 2016, from 5PM-7PM at Harbour Centre room 1520. This event is organized by the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities and the School of Communication; and co-sponsored by SFU’s Vancity Community Engagement Office, the Institute of Humanities, the Department of English and Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Social Justice Centre. Please see the attached poster for details.
PHD Defence: "ContingentÂ Belonging" by MarcosÂ D.Â Moldes
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Marcos D. Moldes, will defend his PHD dissertation on Friday, October 7, 2016 at Harbor Center Room 1600 (9:30 am - 12:30 pm). Here is the abstract of his dissertation "Contingent Belonging: Second-Generation Latino Canadian Negotiations of Place, Identity, and Nation".
PHD Defence: Networks of Memory: Vernacular Photography, (New) Media, and Meaning Making by Megan Robertson
Authors: Chen Sibo
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Megan Robertson, will defend her PHD dissertation on Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 at Harbor Center Room 2245 (10:00 am â€“ 13:00 pm). Here is the abstract of her dissertation â€œNetworks of Memory: Vernacular Photography, (New) Media, and Meaning Makingâ€.
PHD Defence: Gateway to Crisis: Discourse Coalitions, Extractivist Politics, and the Northern Gateway Conflict by Bob Neubauer
Authors: Ackerley Christine Rose
Published: March 2021

Our dear colleague, Bob Neubauer, will defend his PHD dissertation on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at Harbor Center Room 2245 (1:00â€“4:00 pm). Here is the abstract of his dissertation â€œGateway to Crisis: Discourse Coalitions, Extractivist Politics, and the Northern Gateway Conflict.â€
Positioning Myself Between West and East
Authors: Shi Xinnan
Published: March 2021

Why would communications scholars want to present their positionality to the public? This was the first question I asked myself when I came across the term "positionality". Throughout my studies, I have approached communication as social science, and I have thought about communications researchers as scientists. I certainly understand that the objects of research in social science are social phenomena such as social relations and institutions, and that these are difficult to explain with quantitative data most of the time. But for me, being a scientist means holding back personal emotions and being objective in the production of knowledge about society. I believe that even a single case study should offer explanations not just of its immediate context, but also of broader social problems or phenomena.