Proceedings der 11. Internationalen Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2013) - Band 1

The two volumes represent the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik WI2013 (Business Information Systems). They include 118 papers from ten research tracks, a general track and the Student Consortium. The selection of all submissions was subject to a double blind procedure with three reviews for each paper and an overall acceptance rate of 25 percent. The WI2013 was organized at the University of Leipzig between February 27th and March 1st, 2013 and followed the main themes Innovation, Integration and Individualization.:Track 1: Individualization and Consumerization Track 2: Integrated Systems in Manufacturing Industries Track 3: Integrated Systems in Service Industries Track 4: Innovations and Business Models Track 5: Information and Knowledge ManagementDie zweibändigen Tagungsbände zur 11. Internationalen Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2013) enthalten 118 Forschungsbeiträge aus zehn thematischen Tracks der Wirtschaftsinformatik, einem General Track sowie einem Student Consortium. Die Selektion der Artikel erfolgte nach einem Double-Blind-Verfahren mit jeweils drei Gutachten und führte zu einer Annahmequote von 25%. Die WI2013 hat vom 27.02. - 01.03.2013 unter den Leitthemen Innovation, Integration und Individualisierung an der Universität Leipzig stattgefunden.:Track 1: Individualization and Consumerization Track 2: Integrated Systems in Manufacturing Industries Track 3: Integrated Systems in Service Industries Track 4: Innovations and Business Models Track 5: Information and Knowledge Managemen

Uniform Threat: Manufacturing the Ku Klux Klan's Visible Empire, 1866-1931

This dissertation examines a symbol central to the racial consciousness of the contemporary United States: the white robe and hood worn by members of the modern Ku Klux Klan. In this cultural history of Ku Klux Klan regalia, I argue that the development of the idealized image of the uniformed Klansman shaped the formation, expansion, and decline of the infamous white supremacist fraternity in the early twentieth-century. This project maps the relationship between images of uniformed Klansmen, the garments that made these images possible, and the ideological project that the Klan espoused. I approach the mutual constitution of images, objects, and ideology through the Klan’s engagement with and emergence from institutions of the Progressive Era United States. Klan regalia, and the meaning that these garments conveyed, reflect the organization’s development within the burgeoning institutions and industries of a national mass culture. Industrially-produced regalia facilitated a view of the Klan as a “uniform” organization that could act as a coordinated body across vast geographic distances. At the same time, processes of manufacturing and large-scale distribution helped the Klan to establish an ambivalent relationship to contemporary capitalism and the violence for which the organization was best known. Thus, the Klan’s use of Klan regalia as a symbolic and material threat of violence was representative of larger processes of making meaning in a period of widespread industrialization and cultural transformation. This project approaches the study of material and visual culture through archival history, using a mixture of documents, images, artifacts, and extant garments to show how the Klan used their iconic regalia in the early twentieth-century. At the core of this project is a concern with the ways that ideas about race, gender, and nationality were crafted and embodied in the early twentieth-century. Members, leaders, and critics of the organization used robes and hoods to grapple with whiteness, masculinity, American citizenship, and violence in their everyday lives. The embodied experience of making, participating in, and fighting the violent ideology that the Klan championed is thus illuminated through a study of the organization’s material remains.PHDAmerican CultureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138768/1/klennard_1.pd

HERITAGE 2022. International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability

Vernacular architecture, tangible and intangible heritage of great importance to European and global culture, represents the response of a society culturally linked to its territory, in terms of climate and landscape. Its construction features are born from the practical experience of the inhabitants, making use of local materials, taking into consideration geographical conditions and cultural, social and constructive traditions, based on the conditions of the surrounding nature and habitat. Above all, it plays an essential role in contemporary society as it is able to teach us important principles and lessons for a respectful sustainable architecture. Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability will be a valuable source of information for academics and professionals in the fields of Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Engineering and ArchitectureMileto, C.; Vegas López-Manzanares, F.; Cristini, V.; García Soriano, L. (2022). HERITAGE 2022. International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/HERITAGE2022.2022.15942EDITORIA