The Political Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Ethical Problem of Tyrannicide

In this thesis, I explore the relationship between political theology and the ethical problem of tyrannicide in the life and works of German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Beginning with an examination of his theological views, I argue that Bonhoeffer’s Christo-centric worldview forms the basis of his subsequent ethical and political beliefs, as well as his motivation for participating in an assassination plot against Adolph Hitler. Bonhoeffer’s desire to connect his understanding of Jesus Christ to the entirety of human life leads him to develop an unsystematic theological approach to ethics and the relationship between church and government. Concluding with an exposition on the implications of Bonhoeffer’s resistance against the Nazi state with respect to Christian sinfulness, I argue that Bonhoeffer’s political theology is ultimately characterized by faith. Rather than claiming his actions are justified according to ethical principles or just war arguments, Bonhoeffer acts against what he considered to be an evil force with the hope that his God offers forgiveness for those acting boldly yet sinfully

Poster 321: Calciphylaxis Disguised as Phantom Limb Pain: A Case Report

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/146920/1/pmr2s243a.pd

Organizational Participation in Open Communities: Conceptual Framing and Early Findings

As design and development evolves within open communities, new affordances present new possibilities andorganizations must balance ‘contributions to’ and ‘differentiation from’ the open community for reasons of cost, resourcemanagement, and time to market. Organizational participation in open communities is timely in light of recent analysesby the Linux Foundation indicating that 75% of kernel contributions are by paid developers. In this proposal, we build onprinciples of public sharing and collaboration using the Linux open-source community as our basis for understandingopen communities (Fitzgerald, 2006). The focus of this project is why organizations participate with open communitiesand how they participate with open communities. We apply action research as a methodological approach within which aqualitative field study will be conducted (Chiasson et al., 2009). Action research supports our dual goal of developing asolution to a practical problem which is of value to the people with whom we are working, while at the same timedeveloping theoretical knowledge of value to an academic community involved in research and pedagogy (Mathiassen etal., 2009). We found organizational participation to be primarily derived from the leveraged support, contribution to, anddifferentiation from open communities

The Domestication of Open Source

Open source is becoming domesticated through the advancement of organizational practices, foundation sponsorships, and communal standards. Over the past ten years, organizational participation with open source has become a viable business proposition, opening new paths for service management, innovation discovery, and product development. Traditionally, engagement with open source has recognized how organizations leverage resources from an open source community into new practice. Such recognition assumes stabilizing efforts located within organizations to address open source community complexities. However, recent trends have led organizations to advance durability into open source communities in efforts to stabilize practices within communities themselves. In essence, domesticating open source. In this research-in-progress we provide a theoretical frame of risk, agency, and technology-in-practice to understand open source domestication and reveal it roots, trajectories, and evolutionary nature. This work has been funded through the National Science Foundation VOSS-IOS Grant

Brierfield Plantation Museum

For our project, we decided to memorialize the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade in the form of a museum. Our museum is going to be a replica of the Brierfield Plantation owned by Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy. This location is important because it was once one of the most profitable cotton plantations in the south. Cotton has been an essential crop for hundred s of years; today, it is found in almost every piece of clothing. Most people in developed countries don’t realize that their consumerism comes at a cost, that people thousands of miles away are being forced to work in horrible conditions to create the brand names they so desperately desire. With our museum, we intend to juxtapose the exploitation of labor during chattel slavery to modern day sweatshop slavery in order to raise awareness about this global issue. Those who visit the museum will be forced to pick their own cotton in order to receive a t shirt to commemorate their experience.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/historyfrombelow/1019/thumbnail.jp

Risk Mitigation in Corporate Participation with Open Source Communities: Protection and Compliance in an Open Source Supply Chain

Open source communities exist in large part through increasing participation from for-profit corporations. The balance between the seemingly conflicting ideals of open source communities and corporations creates a number of complex challenges for both. In this paper, we focus on corporate risk mitigation and the mandates on corporate participation in open source communities in light of open source license requirements. In response to these challenges, we aim to understand risk mitigation options within the dialectic of corporate participation with open source communities. Rather than emphasizing risk mitigation as ad hoc and emergent process focused on bottom lines and shareholder interests, our interest is in formalized instruments and project management processes that can help corporations mitigate risks associated with participation in open source communities through shared IT projects. Accordingly, we identify two key risk domains that corporations must be attendant to: property protection and compliance. In addition, we discuss risk mitigation sourcing, arguing that tools and processes for mitigating open source project risk do not stem solely from a corporation or solely from an open source community. Instead they originate from the interface between the two and can be paired in a complementary fashion in an overall project management process of risk mitigation. This work has been funded through the National Science Foundation VOSS-IOS Grant: 112264

Uspon ambasadora robne marke: društveni udio, korporativna društvena odgovornost i utjecaj među utjecajnim osobama na društvenim mrežama

One of social media’s influences on public relations has been the connection they provide organizations with stakeholder groups, and the need to recognize new and emerging stakeholder groups and their influence on the organization. One such stakeholder group with social media-borne influence and recognition in public relations is brand ambassadors, who distribute organizational content to social networks. This study examines the meanings and motivations of brand ambassadors in establishing relationships with an organization, and their considerations in representing and distributing content for an organization. In particular, we examined the consideration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) content among brand ambassadors. Findings suggest complex considerations of loyalties, commitments, and stakes within the brand ambassador-organization relationship. CSR content’s value among ambassadors was questionable. The ethical issues of organizational ties, including compensation, are discussed.Jedan od utjecaja društvenih medija na odnose s javnošću bila je veza koju osiguravaju organizacijama sa skupinama dionika te potreba za prepoznavanjem novih i novonastalih skupina dionika i njihovog utjecaja na organizaciju. Jedna takva skupina dionika s utjecajem na društvenim mrežama i prepoznatljivošću u odnosima s javnošću su ambasadori robnih marki, koji distribuiraju organizacijski sadržaj društvenim mrežama. Ova studija ispituje značenja i motivaciju ambasadora robne marke u uspostavljanju odnosa s organizacijom te njihova razmatranja u predstavljanju i distribuciji sadržaja za organizaciju. Konkretno, ispitali smo razmatranje sadržaja o društveno odgovornom poslovanju (CSR) među ambasadorima brendova. Nalazi upućuju na složena razmatranja lojalnosti, obveza i udjela unutar odnosa ambasadora marke i organizacije. Vrijednost sadržaja DOP-a među veleposlanicima bila je upitna. Razmatraju se etička pitanja organizacijskih veza, uključujući naknade

Prosthetic Leg Kit for Deployment in Developing Countries

The World Health Organization estimates that over 30 million people require some sort of prosthetic technology. However, traditional prosthetic fitting practices take a lot of time and cost a lot of money, making them inaccessible to millions of people around the world. StandUP Worldwide is an interdisciplinary project team devoted to creating low-cost prosthetic technologies for use around the world, especially in resource poor areas. They are currently developing a low cost, below-the-knee prosthetic kit that can be easily deployed in a resource-poor area. The following presents their solution for a below-the-knee prosthetic socket, foot, and leg

Global ocean redox changes before and during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

This article is published by Springer Nature and is available here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36516-x This article is published Open Access and made available through a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events are recognized as widespread deposits of marine organic-rich mudrocks temporally associated with mass extinctions and large igneous province emplacement. The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event is one example during which expanded ocean anoxia is hypothesized in response to environmental perturbations associated with emplacement of the Karoo–Ferrar igneous province. However, the global extent of total seafloor anoxia and the relative extent of euxinic (anoxic and sulfide-rich) and noneuxinic anoxic conditions during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event are poorly constrained. Here we present estimates of the global total anoxic and euxinic seafloor areas before and during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event based on rhenium and molybdenum enrichments, respectively, in organic-rich mudrocks of the Fernie Formation (British Columbia, Canada). We find that mass balance models depict an expansion of up to ~7% total seafloor anoxia, which was dominated by euxinia, at the onset of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, followed by a contraction before the end of the event. The global ocean redox trends revealed by the rhenium data mirrors the collapse and recovery patterns of global ammonite and foraminiferal biodiversity