P-30 Edward Snowden, Criminal or Patriot: Media coverage of National Security Agency document leaks

Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pentad was used to analyze Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency (NSA) document leaks from June 5, 2013 through October 1, 2013 as published in the New York Times (NYT) and the Guardian. The articles were coded by newspaper, headline, reporting journalist, page prominence, word count, publication date, and tone of stories. Content analysis revealed that the Guardian utilized the word “whistleblower” extensively in a positive way while the NYT most often used the term “leaker” in a negative way. Both papers overlap in their identification of Snowden’s actions as one of the most significant intelligence disclosures since the Pentagon Papers

Community based mappings for the semantic web: MappingsTool

An extension of BioPortal, an open source ontology repository developed by the UNIVERSITY OF STANFORD, that facilitates the manipulation of mappings between ontologies. We provide a flexible web user interface that facilitate the workflow to create a mapping and the exploration of the relations between ontologies.Pera Mira, O. (2011). Community based mappings for the semantic web: MappingsTool. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/11159.Archivo delegad

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East Bay Coalition for the Homeless: Branding Study and Marketing Strategy

There are a number of potential positioning strategies. The two which make the most sense for the EBCH are to “position the EBCH away from others in the category” and to “position the EBCH as unique.” These strategies have the advantage of setting the EBCH apart from the other organizations that address homelessness. Occupying its own “position” in the minds of potential and current donors is not only an effective communications/marketing strategy but also a less costly one because it avoids head-to-head competition and comparisons

Localizing the Global - A Minor Field Study about Globalization and Identity among Call-Center Employees in Northern India

In our time it is widely argued that we are undergoing global transformations that influence the way we think about ourselves and how we interact and form ties with others. The intensified global integration of service sectors during the last five to ten years underscores such transformations. In recent research and among popular commentators the rise of transnational call-centers in India that provide foremost phone-based support services to customers in Western countries has been upheld as either global integration and development, or as Third world exploitation and/or commoditization of identity. With fascination call-center employees have also been upheld as marks of cosmopolitanism due to their transnational work field, whilst negative critics have pointed to this phenomenon as imposed Westernization and cultural homogenization. The aim of this study is to move beyond such dichotomous accounts, and to capture and demystify the experiences and perceptions of call-center employees and the meanings they ascribe to their work roles, identities and globalization in their everyday lives in India. A minor field study was conducted in the National Capital Region of Delhi, which included field observations and interviews with call-center employees that were working or had worked in the call-center hub towns Gurgaon and Noida. This study addresses previous research in this field, and demonstrates new findings that contradict previous research findings. While previous studies have demonstrated that call-center employees in India were conditioned to adapt to foremost US work shift regimes and cultural norms this study indicates that such homogenization processes are regressing and enabling more heterogenic interactions. The call-center employees in this study experienced increased global connectivity and a new proximity to localities across the globe, but they did not experience cosmopolitan identification as they reasoned in terms of “their-and-our” culture and negotiated between modern and traditional social positions. This study also concludes that in order to understand the social influences of globalization we need to conduct research on the local level if our aim is to understand how people construct meaning and navigate between traditional social positions and the variable modern influences of globalization

East Bay Coalition for the Homeless Project: Final Report

The report suggests strategies that can be incorporated into the current work flow and builds upon the current work of the EBCH. The report also presents ways in which to create a more efficient platform for completing marketing tasks, creating opportunities for awareness and knowledge of the EBCH, and increasing consideration of the EBCH as a potential donation focus

Visualizing the unfamiliar: ethnography of an emerging moment in Cairo

This thesis explores the artwork and practices of visual artists as they negotiate the current political and historical moment in Cairo. This project tries to disrupt the binary of state versus market that has often been used as an analytical lens through which to understand Egyptian contemporary art. Instead, this thesis argues that, through a politics of the everyday, artists are exploring and challenging categories of revolution and the political. Nonetheless, regulatory frameworks, such as the language of neoliberal governance, continue to be reproduced within these subversive spaces and moments. This project considers what sorts of questions can be asked in an emerging moment, in which the language of the familiar and the unfamiliar is constantly shifting through changing processes and events. By theorizing an emerging moment, the purpose of this thesis is not to map any possible futures, but instead, to recognize the experimental processes and practices through which the interlocutors try to imagine an alternative future. This project considers what these practices mean for the gallery as an art space as well as alternative forms of organizing that emerge outside the gallery. Furthermore, this thesis explores the relationship between visual production and revolution. In a moment of â visual surplus,â artists struggle to negotiate their own visual art practices with the containing desires that emerge when revolution is imagined as a fixed and static category. In using the analytical lens of the everyday, this thesis questions what becomes legible as the political and what sorts of practices are thus rendered illegible by hegemonic language. This project also explores art spaces of community and collectivity as possible sites for artists to critically engage with the question of revolution as containment and to challenge hegemonic notions of art, the political and revolution. It serves primarily as an analytical space in which to explore this emerging moment and the different sites of resistance that artists traverse. The methodology of the thesis is meant to permit not only a flexibility in the theoretical framework but also to allow the initial questions of the project to fluctuate along with the interlocutors\u27

Proceedings ICPW'07: 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, 22-23 Oct. 2007, Tilburg: NL

Proceedings ICPW'07: 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, 22-23 Oct. 2007, Tilburg: N