Faith Online

Presents findings from a survey conducted in November and December 2003, to document the use of the Internet for spiritual or religious purposes

Encountering a surprising response to cyberbullying among an immigrant community

Lynn Schofield Clark draws on her ethnographic research at a U.S. high school and reflects on the role of digital media in immigrant groups, online harassment and the opportunities provided by strong communities. Lynn is Professor and Chair in the Department of Media, Film, and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver. She is also the author of “The parent app: Understanding families in a digital age”, a book also recently reviewed on this blog

Globalization and the Mediatization of Religion: From Scandinavia to the World

Scholarship on mediatization has focused on the interactions between the institutions of the media and the realms of society that have been historically separate from those institutions, seeking to develop an empirical record that allows us to better understand the role of media in sociocultural change. The chapters in this book have sought to contribute to this field by asking: what role have the various media industries, platforms, and practices played in the unfolding of conflict, and, in turn, how have these dynamics shaped and continue to shape religion? And although mediatization research has now taken place all over the world, this book has provided a rich set of theoretically informed, empirical case studies on the role of media in exacerbating and/or assuaging conflicts around religion in contemporary Scandinavian societies, recognizing that northern Europe is the context in which much of the theoretical work on mediatization had its origins and has continued to develop. The purpose of this chapter, then, is to discuss the relevance of mediatization theory for scholars interested in the comparative analysis of the often turbulent relationship between media, religion, and conflict in national contexts outside of Scandinavia. In this chapter we examine three underlying points of connection between Scandinavian and other national contexts to explain the general salience of this book for scholars. First, we examine the significance of national myths and their relationship to an imagined homogenous community in public responses to immigration. Second, we explore processes of globalization: the worldwide realities of migration, and displacement, and the complex entanglements of religion with alterity in national contexts of secular governance. Finally, with reference specifically to current challenges to public service media, we argue that the book provides a valuable framework for further analyses of the changing ways in which media condition public engagement with religion, thus contributing to our understandings of the mediatization of religion

Likelihood of death within one year among a national cohort of hospital inpatients in Scotland

No abstract available

The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Community-Engaged Research: Insights From a Study of Digital Storytelling With Marginalized Youth

This article draws on qualitative data from a long-term partnership to exemplify the unique advantages of interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches in community-engaged research. We demonstrate how the differing foci and intersecting concerns of our scholarly fields, social work and media studies, benefited our work with marginalized communities to promote youth voice through digital storytelling. This effort was grounded in the shared view that digital storytelling offers an excellent opportunity to engage creatively with young people’s memories and experiences and that such storytelling can support young people in their healing, identity formation, agency development, and engagement with the public. By working together across disciplines, we were able to surface and address concerns related to vulnerability, privacy, and advocacy among young people experiencing marginalization in ways that would not have been possible in a project involving only social work or media studies. We illustrate this process by describing three critical incidents that exposed our disciplinary overlaps and differences in ways that helped us navigate complex issues related to young people shared their stories with the public. Our findings therefore have implications for others working with vulnerable communities to amplify counternarratives with the goal of bringing about positive systemic change

Encapsulation of phosphorus dopants in silicon for the fabrication of a quantum computer

The incorporation of phosphorus in silicon is studied by analyzing phosphorus delta-doped layers using a combination of scanning tunneling microscopy, secondary ion mass spectrometry and Hall effect measurements. The samples are prepared by phosphine saturation dosing of a Si(100) surface at room temperature, a critical annealing step to incorporate phosphorus atoms, and subsequent epitaxial silicon overgrowth. We observe minimal dopant segregation (5 nm), complete electrical activation at a silicon growth temperature of 250 degrees C and a high two-dimensional electron mobility of 100 cm2/Vs at a temperature of 4.2 K. These results, along with preliminary studies aimed at further minimizing dopant diffusion, bode well for the fabrication of atomically precise dopant arrays in silicon such as those found in recent solid-state quantum computer architectures.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure

An empirical determination of the dust mass absorption coefficient, κd, using the Herschel Reference Survey

We use the published photometry and spectroscopy of 22 galaxies in the Herschel Reference Survey to determine that the value of the dust mass absorption coefficient κ d at a wavelength of 500 μm is κ500 = (0.051 +0.070 −0.026) m^2 kg^-1. We do so by taking advantage of the fact that the dust-to-metals ratio in the interstellar medium of galaxies appears to be constant. We argue that our value for κd supersedes that of James et al. (2002) – who pioneered this approach for determining κd – because we take advantage of superior data, and account for a number of significant systematic effects that they did not consider. We comprehensively incorporate all methodological and observational contributions to establish the uncertainty on our value, which represents a marked improvement on the oft-quoted ‘order-of-magnitude’ uncertainty on κd . We find no evidence that the value of κd differs significantly between galaxies, or that it correlates with any other measured or derived galaxy properties. We note, however, that the availability of data limits our sample to relatively massive (10^9.7 < Mstar < 10&11.0 Msol ), high metallicity (8.61 < [12 + log 10 O/H] < 8.86) galaxies; future work will allow us to investigate a wider range of systems

Photon indistinguishability measurements under pulsed and continuous excitation

The indistinguishability of successively generated photons from a single quantum emitter is most commonly measured using two-photon interference at a beam splitter. Whilst for sources excited in the pulsed regime the measured bunching of photons reflects the full wavepacket indistinguishability of the emitted photons, for continuous wave (cw) excitation the inevitable dependence on detector timing resolution and driving strength obscures the underlying photon interference process. Here we derive a method to extract the photon indistinguishability from cw measurements by considering the relevant correlation functions. The equivalence of both methods is experimentally verified through comparison of cw and pulsed excitation of an archetypal source of photons, a single molecule

Hospital care in the last year of life

No abstract available

Atomically precise placement of single dopants in Si

We demonstrate the controlled incorporation of P dopant atoms in Si(001), presenting a new path toward the creation of atomic-scale electronic devices. We present a detailed study of the interaction of PH3 with Si(001) and show that it is possible to thermally incorporate P atoms into Si(001) below the H-desorption temperature. Control over the precise spatial location at which P atoms are incorporated was achieved using STM H lithography. We demonstrate the positioning of single P atoms in Si with similar to1 nm accuracy and the creation of nanometer wide lines of incorporated P atoms