Just A Little Respect: Authority And Competency In Women’s Speech

Young women have conflicting motivations directing how they use pitch, vocal fry, and uptalk intonation. High pitch and uptalk may emphasize their femininity, but low pitch and vocal fry are associated with better leadership. Thus, it is difficult to predict how young women will speak in a particular situation. This thesis measures how 16 young women used pitch, vocal fry, and uptalk in three different speech styles collected through videoconferencing calls. Surveys determined how the changes in speech affected the listener’s judgments of the speaker. The lowest average pitch was in interview style speech and the largest range of pitch in casual style speech. The young women used more uptalk in interview style speech than in presentation or casual speech. The highest amount of fry was in presentation style speech. Male participants were more likely than female participants to judge a speaker using uptalk as less competent

Liberate your avatar; the revolution will be social networked

This paper brings together the practice-based creative research of artists Charlotte Gould and Paul Sermon, culminating in a collaborative interactive installation that investigates new forms of social and political narrative in multi-user virtual environments. The authors' artistic projects deal with the ironies and stereotypes that are found within Second Life in particular. Paul Sermon’s current creative practice looks specifically at the concepts of presence and performance within Second Life and 'first life', and attempts to bridge these two spaces through mixed reality techniques and interfaces. Charlotte Gould’s Ludic Second Life Narrative radically questions the way that users embody themselves in on-line virtual environments and identifies a counter-aesthetic that challenges the conventions of digital realism and consumerism. These research activities and outcomes come together within a collaborative site-specific public installation entitled Urban Intersections for ISEA09, focusing on contested virtual spaces that mirror the social and political history of Belfast. The authors' current collaborative practice critically investigates social, cultural and creative interactions in Second Life. Through these practice-based experiments the authors' argue that an enhanced social and cultural discourse within multi-user virtual environments will inevitably lead to growth, cohesion and public empowerment, and like all social networking platforms, contribute to greater social and political change in first life

Toward a More Perfect Union: Overcoming Division, Discrimination, and Distance Through the Rule of Law

This Essay is based on remarks delivered on February 15, 2023, at the Distinguished Jurist in Residence Lecture held at Fordham University School of Law and hosted by the Center for Judicial Events and Clerkships.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/jirl/1004/thumbnail.jp

Sticky Doors and Crusty Floors: Zooming in on Messiness And Parenthood in Virtual Work Meetings

This study examines how the condition of an employee’s home background setting (messy vs. tidy) and the presence of a child on screen (present vs. not present) impact observer judgments of the target’s professionalism, competence, and career success. Participants (N=711) were randomly assigned to one of 16 experimental conditions with two levels for performance (high or low), target gender (male or female), background (messy or tidy), and child (present or not present). The results show that messiness alone results in less favorable perceptions of the target employee’s professionalism and career outcomes, but not competence. Having a child present did not impact any of the dependent variables. The study’s most consistent finding was that individuals with a messy background experience a buffer effect if they have a child present. That is, individuals with a messy background were rated higher in professionalism, competence, and career outcomes when they had a child present than when there was no child present

Double Secret Protection: Bridging Federal and State Law To Protect Privacy Rights for Telemental and Mobile Health Users

Mental health care in the United States is plagued by stigma, cost, and access issues that prevent many people from seeking and continuing treatment for mental health conditions. Emergent technology, however, may offer a solution. Through telemental health, patients can connect with providers remotely—avoiding stigmatizing situations that can arise from traditional healthcare delivery, receiving more affordable care, and reaching providers across geographic boundaries. And with mobile health technology, people can use smart phone applications both to self-monitor their mental health and to communicate with their doctors. But people do not want to take advantage of telemental and mobile health unless their privacy is protected. After evaluating the applicability of current health information privacy law to these new forms of treatment, this Note proposes changes to the federal regime to protect privacy rights for telemental and mobile health users

Double Secret Protection: Bridging Federal and State Law To Protect Privacy Rights for Telemental and Mobile Health Users

Mental health care in the United States is plagued by stigma, cost, and access issues that prevent many people from seeking and continuing treatment for mental health conditions. Emergent technology, however, may offer a solution. Through telemental health, patients can connect with providers remotely—avoiding stigmatizing situations that can arise from traditional healthcare delivery, receiving more affordable care, and reaching providers across geographic boundaries. And with mobile health technology, people can use smart phone applications both to self-monitor their mental health and to communicate with their doctors. But people do not want to take advantage of telemental and mobile health unless their privacy is protected. After evaluating the applicability of current health information privacy law to these new forms of treatment, this Note proposes changes to the federal regime to protect privacy rights for telemental and mobile health users

Video conferencing in Teaching Cross-cultural Competences

International communication in business requires adequate skills in English. For this purpose, the global community requires a working force who can not only use the English language for reception of information but also for oral and written production. It is thus vital for educational institutions to prepare students efficiently and possibly more than ever, for fast and reliable oral communication with the help of Skype or video conferences. At the same time the curricula of higher education are filled with what the students need in many other respects to be able to succeed in their future career. Studies of language can therefore be challenged by other courses and activities, all necessary to have at hand in a more complex and demanding working environment. Motivation is central in students’ learning and therefore it is crucial to create conditions for learning languages that students experience as both relevant and authentic-like. In 2014 some 120 students at Pardubice University and Uppsala University, Campus Gotland worked together in communication in English by using video conferences. In these video conferencing seminars the students’ oral skills were in focus. The Czech and Swedish students were of different faculties/disciplines but mostly in the first or second year of their studies. The purpose was to highlight issues of international business and intercultural communication and in this way develop the students’ language competence in authentic communication and interaction between non-native speakers of English. The authors will discuss some e-instruments (Moodle, Facebook groups, shared Google docs and presentations, Google drive) used in VC seminars for improving effective language learning and for achieving desired progress in the students’ communicative and cross-cultural competences. The instruments discussed are related to raising the students’ learner autonomy through video conferencing techniques in the everyday learning-teaching process. The experience of the students also reflects the intercultural challenges seen through the students’ different approaches towards both set and selected topics for VC sessions and focuses on the shift from the teacher-centred to a more learner-centred approach. The seminars were evaluated both in terms of questionnaires and with discussions in groups