Multimedia narratives, data visualization, collaborative news engagement and new media business models: how the world's first academic journalism library enables digital creativity and struggles to preserve the resulting products

This paper and the accompanying slides were presented at the 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly held 11-17 August 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.The Missouri Method, practical hands-on training in real-world news media, is still the pedagogy of choice at the Missouri School of Journalism and has been for more than a century. However, today's journalism tools and the products they create have little resemblance to those used in 1908 when the school was founded. The journalism library at the University of Missouri has supported scholars and journalists for more than a century. The mission of the library has never changed, but its role continues to expand to include access to and management of content creation technology. Today, news is created and delivered by methods early twentieth century newspapermen could not even imagine. This paper will share innovative experiments in news media, including: U_News, a collaborative multimedia broadcast using Google + Hangout to create ; communities; Intersection, a video streamed community discussion platform hosted by public radio; Newsy.com, a multisource video news analysis service; Columbia Missourian, a "digital first" newspaper employing social media engagement tools; and news and magazine applications (apps) created for mobile devices. This paper will also examine emerging media business models like Spot.us, an open source project to pioneer "community powered reporting." Finally, the paper will share challenges libraries face in assuring that digital objects created today are preserved for tomorrow's historians

Beyond Home Automation: Designing More Effective Smart Home Systems

This paper outlines a Smart Home Proof-of-Concept system that uses a Bayesian Network to predict the likelihood of a monitored event to occur. Firstly, this paper will provide an introduction to the concept of a smart home system; then it will outline how Artificial Intelligence concepts can be used to make such systems more effective. Finally, it will detail the implementation of a smart home system, which uses an inference engine to determine the likelihood of a fire. The system prototype has implemented using a LonWorks™ hardware kit and a Netica™ Bayesian Network engine from Norsys

Finestreries /

Edició d'alguns articles de la secció "Finestreries" publicats a 'La Publicitat'. Textos: "Prefaci. Una proposició" (5 de juliol, 1932), "D'un enutjós" (26 d'agost, 1931), "Escola espartana" (9 de setembre, 1931), "A l'estil de balada" (3 d'abril, 1932), "Apòleg dels dos previsors" (19 d'abril, 1932), "Me'n vaig" (8 de setembre, 1932) i "La insabuda bellesa" (9 d'octubre, 1932

Re-constructing heritage: the National Theatre of Scotland’s Calum’s Road

David Harrower’s adaptation of Roger Hutchinson’s novel, Calum’s Road (2011, 2013) tells the real-life story of Calum MacLeod, and his quest to build a road from Arnish to South Arnish on the island of Raasay in the Inner Hebrides. Calum is representative of the everyday hero that can be found throughout Scottish texts and stories—one that remains true to himself, and fights for the cause he believes in, no matter how small it may seem to the government, or the people around him. The play highlights a dying age, and yet emphasizes the importance of merging the past with the ever changing present and is ultimately a celebration of failure. This article explores the role of heritage and heroism within Harrower’s play and, by extension, contemporary Scotland, by examining the relationship between struggle and failure, as well as the mutual responsibility within the national community to work to create a new image of the Scottish nation.Publisher PD

Not a Phase: LGBTQ+ Teens -- How We Can Save a Life

This DNP project was conducted to address suicide and risk-taking behaviors of LGBTQ teens and how adults can improve the long-term outcomes of LGBTQ teens by being supportive adults. LGBTQ+ teens are at 4 times higher risk of suicide than their non-LGBTQ+ peers (The Trevor Project, 2021). The Suicide Prevention Resource Center, 2008, found a teen having one caring adult in their lives decreases the risk of suicide. The project\u27s goal was to educate adults to increase their comfort levels in terminology, their understanding of the developmental stages of teens, and how to provide protective factors to help reduce the risk of suicide and risk-taking behaviors. The self-reflective post-survey completed by participants showed an overall increase in comfort levels with terminology and gender and sexual orientation issues. This project was completed at an organization within a community where many individuals identify as LGBTQ+. This may have caused some positive cultural bias, so there is a need to further this project in areas where the population is less aware of the LGBTQ+ identities