Through the Lenses of Rage: Refracting Success in Greek America

Rage resides in the underbelly of Greek America. It percolates individual psychic sedi - ments, simmering or suppressed, dormant, concealed or displaced. Yet it may be disguised, undetected in everyday words and gestures. I can think of no better metaphor than a geological one to gauge its shifting pressures. An imperceptible shift in the architecture of its plates and it emerges as diffused resentment. Apply a magnified pressure, and it eruptsin ‘magnificent wrath’ (Stearns and Stearns 13)

Reading Family Heirlooms, Spelling Public Memory: Cultural Translation and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America

This article develops the notion of ethnicity-as-translation as a strategy to make immigrant and transnational pasts relevant in the present. My point of departure is a museum exhibit - displayed in the space of a Greek-American festival - entitled "Women's Fabric Arts in Greek Ame­rica, 1894-1994." I analyze the production of meanings associated with this exhibit in terms of the social processes converging to its making: American multiculturalism, ethnic preservation, ethnography, and the "cul­tural activism" of intellectuals. I argue that the idea of ethnicity as cultural trans­lation offers itself to various constituencies - museum curators, scholars, artists, and cultural producers in general - interested in the preservation of Greek heritage. Translating ethnicity results in the proliferation of competing interpretations of Greek pasts in diaspora and elsewhere

Mediterranean Americans to Themselves, from Redirecting Ethnic Singularity

Editors' introduction from Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras and Theodora Patrona, eds.Chapter by Jim Cocola from Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos D. Kalogeras and Theodora Patrona, eds.© 2022 by Fordham University Press. Used with permission of the Publisher.  Publisher website: https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823299713/redirecting-ethnic-singularity

Semantic Interoperability for IoT Platforms in Support of Decision Making: An Experiment on Early Wildfire Detection

One of the main obstacles towards the promotion of IoT adoption and innovation is data interoperability. Facilitating cross-domain interoperability is expected to be the core element for the realisation of the next generation of the IoT computing paradigm that is already taking shape under the name of Internet of Everything (IoE). In this article, an analysis of the current status on IoT semantic interoperability is presented that leads to the identification of a set of generic requirements that act as fundamental design principles for the specification of interoperability enabling solutions. In addition, an extension of NGSIv2 data model and API (de-facto) standards is proposed aiming to bridge the gap among IoT and social media and hence to integrate user communities with cyber-physical systems. These specifications have been utilised for the implementation of the IoT2Edge interoperability enabling mechanism which is evaluated within the context of a catastrophic wildfire incident that took place in Greece on July 2018. Weather data, social media activity, video recordings from the fire, sensor measurements and satellite data, linked to the location and the time of this fire incident have been collected, modeled in a uniform manner and fed to an early fire detection decision support system. The findings of the experiment certify that achieving minimum data interoperability with light-weight, plug-n-play mechanisms can be realised with significant benefits for our society