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Bridging the Digital Divide: Enhancing Literacy and Inclusivity through DELP
Authors: Grady Siobahn , Lawson Christopher , Walker Patrice 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTNorth Carolina Central University (NCCU) is dedicated to addressing the pervasive issues of digital inequality prevalent in Durham's underserved anchor communities through the Digital Equity Leadership Program (DELP) and NCCU's School of Library and Information Sciences (SLIS). DELP offers a holistic approach as its activities and initiatives encompass workforce development, technological access, and digital literacy training, leveraging its partnerships with local organizations. DELP fortifies communities through its holistic initiatives and adopts an innovative approach to fostering long‐term community resilience and adaptability in an ever‐growing digitized economy. DELP amplifies capacity building through multifaceted employability and economic growth approaches, laying the groundwork for a more equitable and sustainable future. DELP's core activities expose our community members to skills that support their financial, economic, health, and digital equity. By bringing together program partners and our resources, capabilities, and expertise in digital literacy, innovative remedies were created to reach deeper into the surrounding communities.
Black Informational Past: History, Data, and Archives of Chicago's ‘New Negro’ Wonder books
Authors: Gray LaVerne , Shoshani Alex , O'Leary Kayla 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTIn 1927, an organized group of Black college and graduate students from the Washington Intercollegiate Club of Chicago compiled a rich informational reference text reflecting the mosaic of Black life in Chicago, IL, USA. This effort resulted in the publication of two editions of the Intercollegian Wonder Book in 1927 and 1929. These books are reflective of the New Negro movement and cultural renaissance of the Black urban population in the early 20th Century. Our project examines the influence of the Wonder Books through methods that express the layered informational context of a Black community. The poster reflects the iterative development of a phased descriptive, archival, data and visual analysis of an historic Black Community. such as citation tracking, genealogical research of individual members, and analysis of data usage by the club's active students.
The Carceral State: Implications for Information and Technology Research and Practice
Authors: Hultman Samuel , Salimy Arian , Serrano Uriel , Crooks Roderic 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTThis systematic literature review synthesizes published sources from the ASIS&T Digital Library and the ACM Digital Library to develop a definition of the carceral state and to show how the term has been used in contemporary technology‐focused research. The carceral state concept has been adopted and applied widely in multiple areas of social scientific research to refer to the formal institutions of the criminal justice system proper and other social arrangements, ideologies, practices, and technologies that punish, surveil, and contain populations. Our review reveals a recent and increasing engagement with the carceral state in the collections surveyed. Encouraged by this increasing attention, this review is an attempt to introduce the carceral state as a guiding framework for tech‐society research and to consider implications for advancing responsibility, reflexivity, and care in the creation and evaluation of information systems, programs, and services.
Investigating Strategies for Inclusive Public Library Makerspace for Youth with Disabilities: A Case Study
Authors: Jung Yong Ju , Munyao Moses , Abbas June 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTPublic library makerspaces aim to serve diverse groups of populations, but research on how to facilitate the participation of youth with disabilities is very limited. This study presents a case study of an exemplary public library that offers various activities and programming in its makerspaces for youth with disabilities. Our analysis shows different strategies used from the preparation step to reaching out and targeted programming in this case.
Twitter as Knowledge Commons: What Twitter Users Think and Do About Managing Misinformation Issues
Authors: Kim Kyung‐Sun , Joanna Sin Sei‐Ching 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTBased on the Governing Knowledge Commons framework, this study examines what users do and think about managing misinformation issues in the Twitter community, and how these are affected by user characteristics. Undergraduates from a public university in the US participated in the study (n = 464) by completing an online survey. Findings shed light on how Twitter community members tackle misinformation issues and inform policies and system designs to support the members' actions and preferences.
Competing for Trust: How Initiative and Repetition of Exposure Influence Information Credibility
Authors: Ma Derick Chungcheh , Curebal Faruk , Ardhi Dimaz Cahya , Sari Dwi Puspita 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTModern democracy often requires citizens to engage in policy debates demanding multidisciplinary knowledge. This can lead to a cognitive gap that urges citizens to seek information for decision‐making on unfamiliar policy issues. The credibility of this information is crucial, as it shapes individual perceptions and attitudes, which aggregate as public opinions. To deepen the understanding of information credibility, this study proposes an experiment leveraging theories of the continued influence effect and the illusory truth effect to answer how initiative and repetition of exposure influence the evaluation of information credibility. 1,400 participants will be recruited and requested to rate the credibility of opposing arguments regarding a fictitious referendum provided with varying orders and numbers. The result is expected to show a positive causality between exposure initiative, information repetition, and information credibility. The findings will aid in promoting well‐informed democratic deliberation in an era of political polarization.
Exploring the Impact of Nudges on Volunteer Task Choices in Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing: An Eye‐Tracking Experiment
Authors: Pu Zhengtong , Sun Haoyuan , Zhang Xuanhui , Zhang Weijia 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTIn cultural heritage crowdsourcing, imbalanced volunteer task choices can impact project completion rate and sustainability. Nudges offer a way to alleviate this imbalance. This paper proposes three nudges: task order, visual saliency, and feedback based on dual‐process theory. We conducted a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial experiment incorporating eye‐tracking research methods to investigate how these nudges affect volunteer task choices. The results demonstrate a significant positive impact of visual saliency. While task order and feedback did not demonstrate significant effects, eye‐tracking results reveal that they effectively captured participants' attention. Our findings suggest that designing platforms with nudges could address the issue of imbalanced task choices in cultural heritage crowdsourcing projects.
The Impact of Ancient Book Image Quality on Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Correction Tasks: A Human Error Theory Perspective
Authors: Sun Haoyuan , Pu Zhengtong , Zhang Xuanhui , Zhang Weijia 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTThis study investigates the impact of ancient book image quality on the accuracy of cultural heritage crowdsourcing correction tasks. The study processed 27 pictures from an ancient book to adjust their quality in terms of clarity, seal coverage and background color. Based on human error theory, the study divided common errors made by participants in correction tasks into slips and mistakes, and analyzed the impact of different image qualities on these errors. The experiment was conducted using an online experiment platform, with 25 participants each completing 6 tasks related to clarity, seal coverage, and background color. The results show that the clarity of ancient book images significantly affects the number of rectifications and mistakes in the tasks. Different degrees of seal coverage significantly impact the number of rectifications and slips, while the background color of the images mainly affects the number of mistakes.
BookTok Community Building: Dissecting Fangirl Behavior on TikTok
Authors: Teel Zoë Abigail , Lund Brady 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTThis poster explores how BookTok, a social media community on TikTok focused on literature, builds a community among an audience of primarily female readers, sometimes called “fangirls.” The researchers analyzed comments on popular BookTok videos, finding that emotional responses, generic comments, and seeking interaction with other viewers were most prevalent. BookTok discussions prioritize shared experiences and emotional connection over critical analysis, creating a welcoming space for readers of all ages. This research suggests that BookTok functions similarly to traditional book clubs, offering a platform for community building and potentially boosting reading engagement and offers possibilities for engagement for libraries and educators.
Prompting Responses through Linguistic Cues: A Comparison of User and Chatbot Support for Consumers' Questions
Authors: Wu Qian 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTWhen interacting with chatbots, questioning is the starting point of the conversations. A well‐phrased question can elicit desired responses and enhance information‐seeking efficiency. Specifically, consumers can use various linguistic cues (e.g., emotional expressiveness) to phrase questions and shape responses. However, research on how to effectively phrase questions for chatbots was limited. This study focuses on consumers' questions for chatbots, examining how various linguistic cues (e.g., emotional expressiveness) influence responses. Further, it compares responses generated by community users and chatbots. Preliminary results showed that askers' self‐disclosure attracted emotional support from chatbots. Chatbots demonstrated higher expertise in responses to high‐specificity questions and produced more analytical and unified responses. In contrast, user‐generated responses were perceived with higher authenticity. This research underscores the role of question cues prompting chatbot‐generated responses and illustrates the strengths and limits of chatbot‐generated responses. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in the final section.
Factors Influencing University Students' AI Use and Knowledge Acquisition
Authors: Yin Stella Xin , Goh Dion Hoe‐Lian 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTDespite the growing emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI) education, there is relatively little research on the motivational factors that influence students' intention regarding AI knowledge acquisition and the utilization of AI applications. Understanding these factors helps educators and researchers to develop appropriate interventions to promote AI education. Guided by expectancy‐value theory and theory of planned behavior, we examined how university students' beliefs influenced their motivation to learn about and engage with AI technologies. Our findings demonstrated the significant role of expectancy‐value beliefs in shaping students' behavioral intention. Additionally, we identified gender differences, which can inform educators in designing gender‐specific interventions to enhance female students' motivation in AI learning.
The Knowledge Creation Capability of Female Scientists is Neck and Neck with Male Scientists
Authors: Zheng Bili , Hou Jianhua 
Published: October 2024

ABSTRACTDrawing on knowledge creation capability in the Science of Science, this paper aims to determine scientists' knowledge creation capability (KCC) and figure out whether there is any gender gap in that. We construct a career matrix to compute KCC of scientists in Economics, Astronomy, and Computer Science each year, from the perspective of knowledge source and diffusion. We find that male scientists' KCC is not significantly different from that of female scientists, and the two groups of scientists have the same KCC distribution. In the first 10 years of their academic careers, female scientists have higher KCC than male scientists but have lower KCC in the 15 to 40 years. After controlling a series of confounders, it's found that female scientists have higher KCC than male scientists, even though there is not much of a difference in KCC. The results remain the same after we perform a robustness check.
Microwave Ignition of Thermites
Authors: Lajoie Justin , Jones Brock , Lawrence Adam , Barkley Stuart , Sippel Travis 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThis study investigates the microwave ignition behavior of a range of thermites of aluminum, boron, titanium, and tantalum fuels with oxides of Bi2O3, CuO, and Fe2O3. In order to gain insight into the modes of energy transfer leading to ignition, thermites are heated in either a purely electric or magnetic field environment within a single‐mode 2.45 GHz resonant cavity with electric field strengths of 40 to 110 kV/m and magnetic field strengths of 22 to 258 A/m. Thermite stoichiometry is varied as well as particle size and thermite mass. The shortest ignition delays in electric and magnetic fields were found to be 1.37 s (nAl and CuO) and 0.87 s (nAl and CuO), respectively. The use of a variety of carbon susceptors to shorten ignition delay is also studied. Carbon susceptors are found to appreciably shorten ignition delays to as short as 140 and 170 ms for the E and B field respectively (nAl and CuO with multiwalled carbon nanotubes). The results of this work are informative on thermite component choice and the preferred mechanism (electric vs magnetic field) of heating for various thermite compositions for consideration of the increasingly popular ignition via electromagnetic fields.
Crucial role of a takeout protein in white‐backed planthopper Sogatella furcifera (Horváth) orientation towards its host rice plants
Authors: He Ming , Long Gui‐Jun , Feng Hong‐Yan , Zhao Ya‐Qin , Zhou Yang‐Yuntao , Zhang Meng‐Qi , Ma Yun‐Feng , Gong Lang‐Lang , Hull J. Joe , Zotti Moises J. , Dewer Youssef , He Peng , Smagghe Guy 
Published: October 2024

AbstractThe takeout (TO) gene family impacts diverse physiological and behavioral functions in insects, yet specific olfactory‐associated roles for the family have yet to be fully elucidated. To provide insights into TO function in rice planthoppers, the genomes of three rice planthoppers (white‐backed planthopper, brown planthopper and small brown planthopper) were searched for TO homologs and their degree of conservation assessed via chromosomal localization, exon–intron boundaries, phylogenetic relationships and protein domains/motifs. We performed a tissue‐specific expression analysis of the 20 TO genes in the white‐backed planthopper (WBPH, Sogatella furcifera) and found that SfTO17 is enriched in adult antennae. RNAi‐mediated knockdown of SfTO17 impaired WBPH olfaction and reduced host‐seeking responses following exposure to rice plants. The binding profile of β‐ionone, hexyl benzoate and benzyl benzoate with recombinant SfTO17 was evaluated via competitive fluorescence binding assays. Conformational prediction of SfTO17 coupled with molecular docking analyses revealed several amino acid residues potentially critical for odorant binding. This study demonstrates the olfactory function of SfTO17 in WBPH and highlights its potential as a target for controlling this rice pest. © 2024 Society of Chemical Industry.
Revealing Intrinsic Functionalization, Structure, and Photo‐Thermal Oxidation in Hexagonal Antimonene
Authors: Alcaraz Marta , Fickert Michael , Dolle Christian , Changarath Mahesh Eledath , Sánchez‐Royo Juan F. , Eggeler Yolita M. , Abellán Gonzalo 
Published: October 2024

AbstractAntimonene is one of the more exciting members of the post‐graphene family with promising applications in optoelectronics, energy storage and conversion, catalysis, sensing or biomedicine. Efforts have been focused on developing a large‐scale production route, and indeed, through a colloidal approach, high‐quality few‐layers antimonene (FLA) hexagons have been recently obtained. However, their oxidation behavior remains unexplored, as well as their interface, inner structure, and photothermal properties. Herein, it is revealed that the hexagons have an intrinsic surface functionalization with alkyl thiols that protects the core of the hexagonal flake against oxidation, and displayed inner defects related to the crystal formation during synthesis, as confirmed by cross‐sectional scanning transmission electron microscopy energy dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy (STEM‐EDX) and temperature‐dependent X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and selected area electron diffraction (SAED) analysis. A comprehensive study of temperature and laser power‐dependent Raman spectroscopy on varying FLA hexagon thicknesses is carried out. Thinner flakes (<20 nm) exhibited a blueshift and intensity decrease, contrasting with thicker ones resembling typical exfoliated flakes with a redshift. This work addresses a literature gap, providing insights into hexagonal FLA structure and characterization, and highlighting the influence of surface functional groups on oxidation behavior. Additionally, it emphasizes the potential of antimonene hexagons as building blocks for 2D heterostructures, including combinations with antimonene oxides and other 2D materials.
Fresh tilapia fish skin graft treatment of severe skin burns in a cat
Authors: de Witt Anika A. , Bester Elizabeth G. 
Published: October 2024

AbstractAn entire female cat presented with extensive third‐degree burns covering greater than 30% of total body surface. The wound was cleaned and debrided with daily dressing management to heal with second intention. Dressing applied included honey‐based product, L‐Mesitran Ointment, and silver alginate dressing, Askina Calgitrol Thin, until healthy granulation tissue had formed. Fresh tilapia skin grafts were harvested and prepared and secured onto the wound bed. Daily lavage and graft evaluation occurred, and subsequently the skin grafts were removed on Day 13 and Day 7, respectively. Wound healing was observed without any complications or adverse side effects. In conclusion, the use of fresh tilapia skin grafts proves to be a safe, innovative, low‐cost, and effective therapeutic and promising option in treatment of challenging skin burn wounds. Tilapia fish skin grafts resulted in a clinically favourable outcome in a cat with extensive third‐degree burn wounds.
Conspiracy Theories
Authors: Chapelan Alexis 
Published: October 2024

AbstractA history of antisemitism is a history of the virality of fear and prejudice; and the main driver of that virality was the narrative of a nefarious conspiracy led by Jews to destroy society. Going beyond a purely descriptive definition—an assertion of the existence of a covertly operating group of people who seek to manipulate the course of events—conspiracy narratives can be mapped onto a specific perspective on power. They are fundamentally oversimplified ways, in which people attempt to make sense of power and how it is (unevenly) distributed in society. Antisemitism, on the other hand, constructs Jews as an abstract, intangible form of global power that dominates the world. This distinguishes antisemitism from most other forms of racism. Antisemitism tends to ascribe to the “Jew” an unlimited, albeit secretive, agency which justifies discrimination or even extermination. When looking at both antisemitism and conspiracy theories through the lens of power, their structural proximity becomes evident.
Self-victimisation
Authors: Chapelan Alexis 
Published: October 2024

AbstractVictimhood is a complex notion, embedded into a variety of cultural norms and practices. It can be argued that the victim has become a central identity position in modern politics, which cuts across all ideologies. It constitutes a major gateway to social engagement, a pivotal means by which groups and individuals perceive themselves and constitute themselves as political actors. Antisemitism produces real-life victims, through demonisation and exclusion, oppression, violence and eventually large-scale extermination during the Holocaust. But, the memory of Jewish suffering has had to contend with virulent counter-victimisation narratives which have sought to justify continuing discrimination and marginalisation against Jews. Self-victimisation constitutes one of the core mechanisms of “moral disengagement:” by viewing themselves as faultless victims which merely acted in response to provocation, people evade moral responsibility; thus, not only are one's own injurious actions justified, but one even can feel self-righteous in the process. Nazi propaganda abundantly used this rhetoric, portraying Jews as aggressors and the German nation as a victim.
Demands for a Clean Break with the Nazi Past
Authors: Troschke Hagen 
Published: October 2024

Abstract“Demands for closure,” “drawing a line under” or a “clean break” (Schlussstrich) from the Nazi past are a constitutive mode of post-Holocaust antisemitism. They were and are used to express the wish that the remembrance of the Holocaust should be ended, the confrontation with (Nazi) antisemitism discontinued and payments to the victims stopped. Demands related to the Holocaust are a phenomenon that is particularly widespread in Germany and Austria, the countries from which the Holocaust originated and where the main responsibility lies. Furthermore, such demands are found primarily in discourses of societies in which co-responsibility was accepted in the first place and where a corresponding sense of complicity is felt. In a German context, they first aimed at a legal and moral exoneration of the perpetrators and of Nazi society in general. After the phase of repressing Nazi crimes was gradually followed by confronting them, the advocates of a clean break have been making further demands. They claim that remembering historical crimes or taking responsibility for them imposes a significant and unjustified restriction upon the development of national identity, as well as potentially the personal development of individuals within that society.
Holocaust Distortion and Denial
Authors: Troschke Hagen 
Published: October 2024

Abstract
Holocaust Distortion
Holocaust Distortion differs from Denial in that it recognises the Holocaust's genocidal character in principle (or at least seeks to give that impression). However, it relativises the historical facts, which is tantamount to a partial denial. The forms of relativisation can be assigned to two basic fields according to their strategies and purposes. The strategies of the first field pursue the purposes of rejecting the guilt and whitewashing antisemitism or Nazism and serve as a basis for antisemitic attacks on Jews. In the strategies of the second field, the Holocaust is not the focus, but is only used to strengthen the effect of another message with its symbolic power.

Holocaust Denial
Denial of the Holocaust goes beyond distortion: it rejects the fact that the Holocaust took place at all. In doing so, the Holocaust is completely negated through the denial of its very occurrence or of its crucial characteristics. The latter can be achieved either by denying essential aspects, such as mass shootings and the existence of extermination camps or gas chambers, or by reinterpreting the victims of the genocide as war victims, or by claiming that they were missing survivors whose whereabouts were merely untraceable due to the turmoil of war.