The Realities and Unrealities of Borderline Personality Disorder

It is my contention that Borderline Personality Disorder involves two issues that affect women negatively. First, BPD is defined largely in terms of feminine stereotypes, as if there is something deviant about being feminine. For example, BPD is characterized by stereotypically feminine traits such as fear of abandonment, extreme reactions, unstable self-image, highly changeable moods, and inappropriate anger. This does not allow women to understand the socialized nature of these traits, and thus shuts down political action and advocacy. Second, even if we grant BPD\u27s legitimacy as a real illness, it is nevertheless a tool for silencing women who are victims of sexual abuse, violence, among other things. Women are disproportionately diagnosed with BPD and a majority of them have experienced sexual abuse. Illness implies that something is wrong with the victim when, in the case of abuse resulting in BPD, something is wrong with the perpetrator, or the culture which permits this. Even if legitimate mental issues are present, overmedication and over-diagnosis are tools to invalidate women. Thus, BPD takes what is a social and political issue and makes it the victim\u27s problem to deal with in the private sphere of psychiatry. By pathologizing the product of a political issue, we rule out facing the problem in a way that might help women more than through psychiatry. In sum, there are two distinct ways in which psychiatry silences women, both of which need to be addressed before women can be completely empowered to deal with mental illness

Framing Red Power: The American Indian Movement, the Trail of Broken Treaties, and the Politics of Media

This study explores the relationship between the American Indian Movement (AIM), national newspaper and television media, and the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan in November 1972 and the way media framed, or interpreted, AIM\u27s motivations and objectives. The intellectual and political currents present in the 1960s, including the ideas of Vine Deloria, Jr., and the successes of the Civil Rights Movement, influenced the development of AIM\u27s ideas about militant tactics and the role media played in social movements. AIM entered the national stage with the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in late 1972 and used television broadcasts and print media to disseminate their ideas for federal policy reform. Media often missed the purpose of the Trail of Broken Treaties, instead focusing their narrative around a different set of political issues. Early reports of the Trail of Broken Treaties were sparse until the occupation led to a substantial increase in coverage, though what was considered “newsworthy” by the media differed from the issues activists hoped to raise. Final reports focused on the cost of the occupation, legal proceedings in the aftermath of the occupation, and high-level changes in the hierarchy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Department of Interior. Adviser: John R. Wunder The attached zipped file (bottom of page) contains the digital project that served as a component of the thesis

Preserving Histories Digitally

Digital technology has become a key component of public history and cultural heritage, from mobile devices, Geographic Information Systems, 3D modeling, augmented reality, and online exhibits. This session will address the ways digital technologies can heighten civic engagement and activism as well as engage communities in creating their histories. Case studies of two community engagement projects will highlight the drawbacks and benefits to using digital techniques in community engagement and emphasize how such approaches can empower communities to tell their stories and experiences

Women in STEM in Higher Education: A Citation Analysis of the Current Literature

Increased efforts to diversify science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in the United States have increased the number of studies regarding the experiences of women in STEM programs in higher education. Using citation analysis and data visualization, this study aims to determine the major publishers and journals in this area. We reviewed 647 articles published between 2007 and 2018. Citations were concentrated on a small core set of journals and then scattered over other publications. Overall, just 3% percent of the publications accounted for 25% percent of the citations. The ramifications for STEM librarians and collection development are discussed

A citation analysis of journals publishing research on women in STEM in higher education

This presentation will cover: Background of project Women in STEM Literature Citation Analysis and Data Visualizations Findings Recommendations for Libraries Conclusion Where to Find U

Teaching Data Literacy for Civic Engagement: Resources for Data Capture and Organization

Endangered Data Week emerged in the early months of 2017 as an effort to encourage conversations about government-produced, open data and the many factors that can limit its access. The event offers an internationally-coordinated series of events that includes publicizing the availability of datasets, increasing critical engagement with them, encouraging open data policies at all levels of government, and the fostering of data skills through workshops on curation, documentation and discovery, improved access, and preservation. The reflection provides an outline of the curriculum development happening through Endangered Data Week and encourages others to contribute

A Call to Redefine Historical Scholarship in the Digital Turn

This is a collaboratively-written call for the American Historical Association to appoint a task force to survey the profession as to the place of digital historical scholarship in promotion and tenure and graduate student training and to recommend standards and guidelines for the profession to follow. This document is a product of many of the exciting changes discussed below. It began at a session atTHATCamp AHA 2012 that included graduate students, tenured and non-tenured faculty, and librarians. These participants and others continued their conversations at the physical conference and afterwards on the web. Additional signatures and edits in the Google Doc were solicited via Twitter, and through posts on Jason’s blog and by Alex on GradHacker. The letter was then submitted to the American Historical Association’s Research Division on January 26, 2012. On June 2, 2012 the AHA announced the establishment of a Task Force on Digital Scholarship

Crowdsourcing Digital Public History

The generation of communal knowledge is not a new phenomenon. In the late nineteenth century, the Oxford English Dictionary solicited volunteers to submit words and their usage for inclusion in the dictionary ( 1 ). Carl Becker, writing in 1932 on what was already an old discussion in the historical profession, noted that if the essence of history is the memory of things said and done, then it is obvious that every normal person, Mr. Everyman, knows some history (2). The historian Jo Guldi\u27s work on participatory mapping shows that urban planners in the middle of the twentieth century attempted to learn from and listen to members of a community. There is plenty of precedent, then, for harnessing participatory knowledge. Today, the digital turn has offered new technologies to engage with communities and significantly widened the number of possible participants. The success of recent digital crowdsourcing projects, including Flickr Commons, the National Archive\u27s Citizen Archivist Dashboard, History Harvest, and Transcribe Bentham have demonstrated the degree of success that crowdsourcing offers to cultural heritage and public digital history. Like any research, a crowdsourcing project requires careful planning and an understanding of what is meant by crowdsourcing in a specific project. In this essay we discuss the importance of these definitions, describe a few successful and well-known crowdsourced projects, and discuss one of the projects we are working on here at Stanford\u27s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)

Creating Capacity for Research Data Services at Regional Universities: A Case Study

Understanding the processes of research design and of data collection, organization, storage, preservation, and sharing is critical to the success of any project, regardless of the scope of the research. From research design and conceptualization to the potential sharing of data with other researchers for replicability, as well as preserving data for the benefit of the wider research community, unique challenges, as well as opportunities for research data management (RDM) and research data services (RDS) teams, are presented; these include problems, issues, and concerns regarding how to prepare a data management plan (DMP) and how to manage data collection, analysis, storage, and preservation. In response to these concerns, academic institutions typically have structured RDS for students and faculty through the support of many stakeholders: academic librarians who are familiar with the disciplinary resources and have skills in archives, data curation, and institutional repositories; information technology services staff who provide solutions to infrastructure issues regarding storage and archiving; and other campus research administration entities that deal with the funding, integrity, and administration aspects of the research

A Zero-placement Technique for Designing Shaped Inputs to Suppress Multiple-mode Vibration

than traditionally designed shapers of comparable duration. Computer simulations of a single-mode system demonstrated the advantages of the new shapers. MACE results collected aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor demonstrated the shapers' vibration-reducing abiUty on real structures. Acknowledgments W