Central Florida Future, January 10, 2001

UCF and UF partner with NASA; 18 years of service comes to an end; UCF receives par of $100 million federal funding; UCF students deep in credit card debt.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2559/thumbnail.jp

Surviving a Dying Industry: the Compounded Effect of Precarity and Stigma on Strippers in Britain

Like most forms of sex work and adult entertainment, stripping is and has always been a form of stigmatised and precarious work and in many ways resembles the gig economy. Over the last decade, the British stripping industry has furthermore been on a downward trend due to the closure of clubs, restrictive licensing conditions, and a decrease in demand for live nude entertainment. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated some of the trends towards casualisation and exploitation in stripping, and intensified digitalisation and platformisation of adult entertainment more generally. However, despite a decline in income potential, strippers do not seem to leave the industry completely. Instead, many have started to work in multiple sectors of the wider sex and adult entertainment industries alongside stripping, a trend that resembles wider transitions of work towards increasingly precarious and flexible labour markets. Strippers who work at the intersections with other sectors face specific issues due to legal frameworks that seek to prevent crossover between sectors and different levels of stigmatisation based on the whorearchy, which ranks different sectors of the sex and adult entertainment industries according to level of criminalisation and proximity to clients. This study applies a mixed methods approach involving a literature review, a self-administered online survey of 141 strippers, in-depth interviews with 16 of the survey respondents, and triangulation of the data in three sector-specific focus groups and engages with the key mechanisms that drive further precarisation and stigmatisation in the stripping industry as well as with the strategies of strippers to subsist within a dying industry. It uncovers a cycle of precarity and stigma which strippers are caught up in. While the Covid-19 pandemic intensified and accelerated precarisation in the industry overall, newly formed networks of solidarity and mutual aid temporarily disrupted this cycle

Love\u27s Labour\u27s Lost 2.0: exploring identity formation on Facebook and beyond

An adaptation of William Shakespeare\u27s play of the same name, Love\u27s Labour\u27s Lost 2.0 utilizes the social network website Facebook as its stage so as to explore the unique problems and opportunities that social media affords identity creation. Through this lens, I find that identity creation in this digital world is discursively composed, much like identity in the analog world, and serves to shunt dissent or action that may threaten the status quo. Facebook\u27s ultimate promise to this constantly composing individual is the comfort and security of an audience

The meanings of happiness in Mass Observation's Bolton

In April 1938, the social investigative organization, Mass Observation conducted an inquiry into the happiness of Bolton people. In this article we analyse the letters and questionnaire responses generated through a competition that asked, ‘What is happiness?’ We examine the extent to which these competition entrants were representative of Bolton population and conclude that they were broadly representative in terms of occupation and sex, but less so in terms of social class. We describe the factors which according to competition entrants determined individual happiness. These were remarkably stable across age groups and gender. Economic security emerged as the dominant consideration, whilst personal pleasure was represented as playing little part in generating happiness. A detailed analysis of the happiness letters and questionnaires suggests that introspective and relational factors were also important determinants of well-being. We demonstrate that these introspective factors were framed by an individual’s personal moral framework and that relational factors were under-pinned by gendered conceptions of domestic happiness

Fleshing Oedipa Out: How to Read The Crying of Lot 49 (and How Not To)

Some thoughts on a favorite book by a favorite author. Not my field, but at this stage not my concern, etiher. A sort of a compensation for my wish that I had proposed writing an opera together to Thomas Pynchon when I had the chance

April 12, 2007

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Mitigating Insider Sabotage and Espionage: A Review of the United States Air Force\u27s Current Posture

The security threat from malicious insiders affects all organizations. Mitigating this problem is quite difficult due to the fact that (1) there is no definitive profile for malicious insiders, (2) organizations have placed trust in these individuals, and (3) insiders have a vast knowledge of their organization’s personnel, security policies, and information systems. The purpose of this research is to analyze to what extent the United States Air Force (USAF) security policies address the insider threat problem. The policies are reviewed in terms of how well they align with best practices published by the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Emergency Readiness Team and additional factors this research deems important, including motivations, organizational priorities, and social networks. Based on the findings of the policy review, this research offers actionable recommendations that the USAF could implement in order to better prevent, detect, and respond to malicious insider attacks. The most important course of action is to better utilize its workforce. All personnel should be trained on observable behaviors that can be precursors to malicious activity. Additionally, supervisors need to be empowered as the first line of defense, monitoring for stress, unmet expectations, and disgruntlement. In addition, this research proposes three new best practices regarding (1) screening for prior concerning behaviors, predispositions, and technical incidents, (2) issuing sanctions for inappropriate technical acts, and (3) requiring supervisors to take a proactive role

Mold fever : how a bizarre life form penetrated popular consciousness and launched a creeping hysteria

Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-42).Molds are everywhere, lately: in our homes, newspapers, and courtrooms, and on our minds. In the past few years, mold has gone from a blip on the radar of public consciousness to a major force in home inspections, insurance, litigation, and testing. Never before have people been so concerned over a group of creatures that--undeniably--have been there all along. This thesis--written as a four-part newspaper series--details the mold hysteria phenomenon, the biology of indoor molds, the science of indoor mold and health, and the profit-making frenzy that capitalized on mold fever.by Jennifer Tucker Frazer.S.M.in Science Writin