“Taking the Power Away”: An autoethnographic exploration of intimate partner violence, social support, and survivorship

This thesis is an autoethnographic exploration of my experience with same-sex intimate partner violence, the development of the abusive relationship itself, my journey to escape the abusive relationship, and the comfort that I found among my social networks after the abusive relationship ended. First, I provide a brief overview of intimate partner violence. Second, I describe autoethnographic methodology and my rationale for using narrative inquiry as a way to make sense of my experiences and to offer a concrete portrait into the lived experience of interpersonal violence and survivorship. In the narratives, I describe my experiences as a pastor’s kid, the development of a same-sex violent romantic relationships, the movement from shame and hiding to coming out to family and friends to seek help, and the kinds of social support I found afterward. The scholarly literature is weaved in between the narratives to create a conversation between my experiences and the ongoing scholarship on each topic and theme addressed. The thesis ultimately enabled me to examine and reflect on the complex experiences of IPV and social support that enables survivorship, ultimately contributing to the body of research on intimate partner violence

Manford Nosay, an Infant suing by J. W. Nosay, his Next Friend v. Warnell Owens, an Infant who sued by Sadie Owens, his Next Friend

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Eros in New Orleans and Other Stories

Eros in New Orleans features nine short stories that explore the rich, even mythical character of the Gulf Coast. From New Orleans to Mobile, the mundane exists without comment alongside the fantastic, and in this collection, realism and surrealism coincide. "Graves Like Houses" explores the intersection of food and death as a baker must face responsibility for the burial of her estranged husband, while in the title story a Greek god falls in unrequited love in the contemporary Big Easy. In "Smoking Loon" a woman grapples with her mother's abandonment, while in "Danes in Purgatory" Shakespeare's melancholy prince charges a teenager with the task of explaining Hamlet once and for all.Englis

Visual analysis of e-mail communication to support digital forensics & e-discovery investigation in organisations

The main aim of the research is to design and develop interactive visual solutions to explore the information in E-mail communication data to support E-discovery compliance in an organisation. The solutions intent to assist the world of digital forensics and investigations, which will enable users/analysts to explore, identify/find/discover interesting communication behaviour and characterise information of interest. In this research, we designed & developed software prototypes through a structured process of abstraction, design and testing, by using a well-known methodology called Design Study Methodology (DSM). We describe our analysis/approach through examples applied within the context of a real-world application domain. Doing so is intended to explore and answer a series of research questions in ways that will improve the role of visualisation in Digital Forensics and E-discovery investigations. The work identified the knowledge gap, challenges, requirements and tasks in Digital Forensics and E-discovery involving the analysis of E-mail communication data from the unstructured interviews with the organisation domain experts and from the literature. We employed user-centered design (UCD) which involved iterative design process for 3 years and built several visual solutions based on the requirements and tasks. We evaluated the solutions by conducting an empirical study with the experts to understand E-discovery tasks, visual solutions and the interface that can help analyst, to investigate and navigate within communication data, to identify/find/discover various patterns, trends, anomalies and information that might be interesting/relevant to investigation. The solutions were deployed in the collaborator's E-mail platform