HELIN Consortium LORI Grant Final Report The Reckoner Group

Final report from Ely Beckman of the Reckoner Group on work done under the LORI grant including launching a graphic mock-up of website for the cultural heritage portion of the digital portal and Branding the digital portal

UPAYA GERAKAN PRO-LIFE DALAM MENGKAMPANYEKAN PERLINDUNGAN HAK HIDUP JANIN DI AMERIKA SERIKAT TAHUN 2019-2022

This research aims to explore the efforts of the pro-life movement in advocating for the protection of the fetus's right to life in the United States from 2019-2022. The issue of abortion in the United States has created divisions within society, with the pro-life movement emerging as a group opposed to abortion. Using a descriptive qualitative method, this research seeks to depict the issue of abortion in the country and efforts undertaken by the pro-life movement. This research utilizes the concept of new social movement, which revealing that the pro-life movement, in its series of efforts, seeks to employ strategies to gain social acceptance and become a successful social movement. The research findings indicate that the pro-life movement adopts a holistic and diverse approach, incorporating both direct campaigns such as door-to-door activities or marches, as well as indirect campaigns utilizing social media. The ultimate goal is to reach as many people as possible, convey the pro-life movement's message to a wider audience, and mobilize society to become more aware of the issues they advocate for. The pro-life movement serves as an example of a enduring new social movement with the ability to sustain its existence by continuously adapting to changes in the existing social context, while simultaneously building support and community involvement to uphold the most fundamental human rights, the right to life of the fetus, as outlined in the nation's declaration of independence

Simtech 08 poster submission: digital upheavals: ethnographic studies on digital-DIY activity

This poster describes current work-in-progress on a digital-DIY research project, exploring how people experiencing life-change configure and re-configure their domestic entertainment, information and communication technologies. The project draws upon a number of theoretical concepts from human-computer interaction, the social construction of technology, material culture and design studies to understand the digital-DIY phenomenon and is methodologically rooted in the ethnographic tradition. This poster describes early pilot-study work utilizing Blythe et al’s (2002) ‘Technology Biographies’ method applied to (amongst other pilot studies) the author’s own autoethnographic study of moving home and concludes with a summary of themes and concepts emerging from this early data. The poster presents proposals for future empirical studies of people experiencing life-change