Spartan Daily, April 30, 2019

Volume 152, Issue 38https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartan_daily_2019/1037/thumbnail.jp

Killing me Softly: Creative and Cognitive Aspects of Implicitness in Abusive Language Online

[EN] Abusive language is becoming a problematic issue for our society. The spread of messages that reinforce social and cultural intolerance could have dangerous effects in victims¿ life. State-of-the-art technologies are often effective on detecting explicit forms of abuse, leaving unidentified the utterances with very weak offensive language but a strong hurtful effect. Scholars have advanced theoretical and qualitative observations on specific indirect forms of abusive language that make it hard to be recognized automatically. In this work, we propose a battery of statistical and computational analyses able to support these considerations, with a focus on creative and cognitive aspects of the implicitness, in texts coming from different sources such as social media and news. We experiment with transformers, multi-task learning technique, and a set of linguistic features to reveal the elements involved in the implicit and explicit manifestations of abuses, providing a solid basis for computational applications.Frenda, S.; Patti, V.; Rosso, P. (2022). Killing me Softly: Creative and Cognitive Aspects of Implicitness in Abusive Language Online. Natural Language Engineering. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135132492200031612

An Examination of Concussion Education Practices

The purpose of this research project was to examine concussion education practices, and to recommend effective ways of delivering concussion education materials. A blended design included both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative component was an evaluation of three separate concussion education tools (video, athlete’s story, video + athlete’s story) with parents, coaches, managers, and trainers of girls’ minor hockey teams using the RoCKAS-ST questionnaire completed pre- and post-educational seminar. A repeated-measures ANOVA revealed that all groups scored high on the baseline measure of concussion knowledge and there were no significant differences in the effectiveness of the education tool used. There were some marked discrepancies between concussion knowledge scores and attitude scores. The qualitative component examined conference materials from the 4th International Concussion Summit hosted by the District School Board of Niagara in April 2016, using manifest and latent analysis. Qualitative analysis findings indicated the target audience should be the ‘driver’ for who delivers the educational message, messages should be tailored towards the specific audience, e.g. parents, coaches, athletes, and knowledge transfer should be an ongoing process

A Curriculum for Teaching Collaborative Worship Songwriting Inspired by Village Hymns

The scriptural injunction to “sing to the Lord a new song” motivates the church to create new worship songs that are Biblically based, musically excellent, and reflective of God’s unique gifting and purpose for the church in its time. Village Hymns, a collective of worship leaders and songwriters serving in South Florida churches, has developed a platform for building skill in collaborative worship songwriting through their CREATE events. Through the experience of hosting over 50 CREATE events and recording three EP CDs, Village Hymns has developed best practices for collaborative worship songwriting. The aim of the case study research was to identify these best practices and incorporate them into a twelve-week curriculum for teaching collaborative worship songwriting. The curriculum is informed by perspectives from Biblical and theological scholarship and church history. Additionally, social learning constructs including communities of practice and structural folding inform the curriculum

Nightlight: Tradition and Change in a Local Music Scene

This thesis considers how tradition—as a dynamic process—is crucial to the development, maintenance, and dissolution of the complex networks of relations that make up local music communities. Using the concept of “scene” as a frame, this ethnographic project engages with participants in a contemporary music scene shaped by a tradition of experimentation that embraces discontinuity and celebrates change. This tradition is learned and communicated through performance and social interaction between participants connected through the Nightlight—a music venue in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Master of Art

If You Stand On This Corner, People Know What You\u27re About : Powerful Geographies Of Airline & Goodwood in #JusticeForAlton

This thesis seeks to understand the multiple geographies of Airline & Goodwood, a site of protest occupied nightly during a part of summer 2016 in response to the police shooting of Alton Sterling. Through a methodology of observant-participation, interviews, and oral histories, I make the case that the politics of this site differed from other contemporaneous protest sites in the city through specific place-making activity which highlighted the site’s powerful contemporary and historical geographies. I connect protest at this site to the precarity of Black life and death in Baton Rouge through interviews and oral histories which discuss the historical geography of birth and segregation in Baton Rouge. Further, I examine the ways that the place of this site extended beyond its space, extending into flood relief and other organizing efforts post-summer 2016