November Roundtable: Multiculturalism and Integration Introduction

An annotation of: “Germany\u27s Integration Blinkers. What\u27s So Bad About Parallel Societies?” by Henryk M. Broder, Spiegel Online, November 20, 2010 and “Angela Merkel: German Multiculturalism has Utterly Failed,” by Matthew Weaver, The Guardian, October 17, 201

Live Blogging- Digital Journalism's Pivotal Platform? A case study of the production, consumption, and form of Live Blogs at Guardian.co.uk

This article describes and analyses the production, consumption, and form of Live Blogs at a popular UK newspaper website and contributes to related debates in journalism studies. Qualitative research interviews with journalists and editors, a reader survey, content analysis, and web metrics were used to obtain data about production practices, product outcomes, and the consumption stage of the product lifecycle. The study finds that Live Blogs are a popular daily component of the news site, used increasingly to cover serious breaking news. Although rarely authored exclusively on location, they may utilise more original sources than traditional online hard news formats. Their frequent updates mean factual verification is cursory, but compensatory factors, including their attribution practices, contribute to a positive evaluation of their objectivity by readers. Live Blogs—with their timeliness, navigational simplicity, and bite-sized content units—suit readers’ consumption of news in the workplace. Live Blogs may increase online news readers’ interest in public-affairs content, and their inclination to participate. This study contradicts some existing scholarship on sourcing practices, content preferences, and immediacy in online news, while supporting the observation that news is increasingly consumed at work. It makes the novel suggestions that Live Blogging is uniquely suited to readers’ at-work news consumption patterns and that the format provides journalists with a means to manage the competing demands of their elite and mass publics

Herald of Holiness Volume 78 Number 17 (1989)

Cover and Pages 21 and 22 Photo Credit: Comstock Photography Page 4 Photo Credit: Ted Ferguson Pages 13, 25, 26, and 27 Photo Credit: Mark Graham Page 15 Photo Credit: Camerique Page 19 Photo Credit: Cleo Freelance Photo Page 24 Photo Credit: John N. White Page 25 Photo Credit: Focus on the Family Page 29 Photo Credit: Paul Buddie Pages 46 and 47 Photo Credit: Matthew Weaver, Media International FEATURE ARTICLES 4 How to Ruin a Family Reunion, James D. Hamilton 9 Restore the Joy of Giving, Moody Gunter 12 Mr. Work and Witness, Mark Graham 19 How Important Is Self-esteem?, Richard S. Taylor 21 The Christian and Self-esteem, Dorothy E. Hamilton 22 Love Yourself, Blaine Robison 24 James Dobson on Building Self-esteem in Your Child 28 Raising Self-esteem in the Church, Ronald J. Scott 46 Like It or Not- You Hold the Key, Ray Hendrix CONTINUING COLUMNS 8 Family Matters, Dorothy Tarrant 10 Rhythms of the Spirit, Morris A. Weigelt 14 Into the Word, Reuben Welch 16 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, Donald D. Owens 18 When You Pray, E. Dee Freeborn 41 Observer at Large, W. E. McCumber 42 In a Woman’s Voice, Rebecca Laird DEPARTMENTS 2 Editor’s Choice, Wesley Tracy 6 The Readers Write 31 Looking Back 32 News, Mark Graham, News Editor 45 The Question Box 48 Late Newshttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1124/thumbnail.jp

Herald of Holiness Volume 78 Number 17 (1989)

Cover and Pages 21 and 22 Photo Credit: Comstock Photography Page 4 Photo Credit: Ted Ferguson Pages 13, 25, 26, and 27 Photo Credit: Mark Graham Page 15 Photo Credit: Camerique Page 19 Photo Credit: Cleo Freelance Photo Page 24 Photo Credit: John N. White Page 25 Photo Credit: Focus on the Family Page 29 Photo Credit: Paul Buddie Pages 46 and 47 Photo Credit: Matthew Weaver, Media International FEATURE ARTICLES 4 How to Ruin a Family Reunion, James D. Hamilton 9 Restore the Joy of Giving, Moody Gunter 12 Mr. Work and Witness, Mark Graham 19 How Important Is Self-esteem?, Richard S. Taylor 21 The Christian and Self-esteem, Dorothy E. Hamilton 22 Love Yourself, Blaine Robison 24 James Dobson on Building Self-esteem in Your Child 28 Raising Self-esteem in the Church, Ronald J. Scott 46 Like It or Not- You Hold the Key, Ray Hendrix CONTINUING COLUMNS 8 Family Matters, Dorothy Tarrant 10 Rhythms of the Spirit, Morris A. Weigelt 14 Into the Word, Reuben Welch 16 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, Donald D. Owens 18 When You Pray, E. Dee Freeborn 41 Observer at Large, W. E. McCumber 42 In a Woman’s Voice, Rebecca Laird DEPARTMENTS 2 Editor’s Choice, Wesley Tracy 6 The Readers Write 31 Looking Back 32 News, Mark Graham, News Editor 45 The Question Box 48 Late Newshttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1124/thumbnail.jp

Measuring Emotions in the COVID-19 Real World Worry Dataset

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact on societies and economies around the world. With various measures of lockdowns and social distancing in place, it becomes important to understand emotional responses on a large scale. In this paper, we present the first ground truth dataset of emotional responses to COVID-19. We asked participants to indicate their emotions and express these in text. This resulted in the Real World Worry Dataset of 5,000 texts (2,500 short + 2,500 long texts). Our analyses suggest that emotional responses correlated with linguistic measures. Topic modeling further revealed that people in the UK worry about their family and the economic situation. Tweet-sized texts functioned as a call for solidarity, while longer texts shed light on worries and concerns. Using predictive modeling approaches, we were able to approximate the emotional responses of participants from text within 14% of their actual value. We encourage others to use the dataset and improve how we can use automated methods to learn about emotional responses and worries about an urgent problem.Comment: Accepted to ACL 2020 COVID-19 worksho

Lecture-Free Calculus for Science and Engineering

Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (MA 16100) is a historically difficult, required course for engineering and science majors. The traditional configuration consists of 250 students meeting in a large lecture 3 times per week and twice per week in smaller recitations of size 40. Additionally, those who repeat the course often continue to encounter difficulty. A scalable re-design has been implemented to attempt to address the needs of students that are not being met in the traditional configuration by diverting resources from lecture to problem sessions and from traditional Q&A recitations to student-driven presentation/collaboration-based recitations. The students work in groups of 4 on activity sheets during the weekly problem session and instructors are available to assist at a ratio of 15:1. A complete set of lectures have been cut into 5-10 minutes tagged clips and stored in a database so that students may reference them as needed to study and complete online homework. Preliminary results indicate a strong socio-academic environment in the problem sessions and within the recitations. A comparison to the traditional sections on standardized assessments indicates the experimental section maintains or exceeds the outcomes of the traditional version. Furthermore, students may benefit in ways that contribute to their academic growth and promote long term student success but may not manifest on the high-stakes assessments in the current semester