Networked Publics, Networked Politics: Resisting Gender-Based Violent Speech in Digital Media

This dissertation is a qualitative study of digital media that identifies and analyzes feminist responses to violent speech in networked environments across Canada and the United States between 2011 and 2015. Exploring how verbal violence is constitutive of and constituted by power relations in the feminist blogosphere, I ask the following set of research questions: How do feminist bloggers politicize and problematize instances of violent speech on digital media? In what ways are their networked interactions and self-representations reconfigured as a result of having to face hostile audiences? What modes of agency appear within feminist blogging cultures? This work engages with feminist theory (hooks, 2014; McRobbie, 2009; Stringer 2014), media studies (boyd, 2014; Lovink, 2011; Marwick 2013) and their intersections in the field of feminist media studies (Jane 2014; Keller, 2012). Drawing on interviews with the key players in the feminist blogosphere and providing a discursive reading of selected digital texts, I identify networked resistive strategies including digital archiving, public shaming, strategic silence and institutional transformations. I argue that feminist responses to violent speech are varied and reflect not only long-standing concerns with community building and womens voices in public context, but also emerging anxieties around self-branding, professional identity and a control over one's digital presence. This research underscores the importance of transformative capacities of networked feminist politics and contextualizes agentic modes of participation in response to problematic communication

ON THE INTERACTION OF SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

An attempt is made to explain the interaction of secular and religious education in modern Russia.Предпринята попытка объяснить взаимодействие светского и религиозного образования в современной России

Supervised Clustering of Genes for Multi-Class Phenotype Classification

The paper presents the new approach to the supervised gene selection by means of gene clustering for the microarray data, which belong to more than two phenotypes (classes). The main distinction from the previous approaches, that are based on the splitting the multi-class task into several binary ones, is the application of the HUM (hypervolume under the manifold) score, that guides the search for the most discriminative gene clusters that simultaneously differentiate all the classes. The results of comparative analysis with other methods shows the advantages of our approach both in classification rate of the new samples and in the lower number of gene clusters. The application of our approach to a randomly permuted data shows that the identified structure is more than just a noise artifact

Practice-oriented training model for seminars in the bachelor of social work

The article discusses the possibility of using active learning in the formation of professional competence of future specialists of social workВ статье рассматриваются возможности использования технологий активного обучения для формирования профессиональной компетентности будущих специалистов социальной работ

Pecularities of the development of montoring system for general and specialized competences of students

Автор статьи поднимает вопрос о профессиональной и психологической подготовленности студентов к многообразию ситуаций в профессиональной деятельности с позиции сформированности общих компетенций. Формирование профессиональных компетенций рассматривается как процесс, осуществляемый с применением педагогических условий и средств.The author of the article set the question of the professional and psychological readiness of students to a diversity of situations in the professional activity with the position of general competences. The formation of professional competences is shown as a process with application of pedagogical conditions and means

Consumers' Perception of Milk Safety

Several times during the last decade consumers have been warned about different incidents concerning food safety, like, salmonella in eggs, cheese and poultry, and pesticides residues in tomatoes. The problem of food safety is still to be a largely latent concern for consumers. The main research goal of this paper is to investigate consumers' risk attitudes and risk perceptions concerning milk safety and to estimate their willingness to pay for extra-safe milk. The data was collected in the Netherlands using a mail survey. 211 usable questionnaires (26%) were returned. Results show that, in general, consumers are not concerned about the safety of milk. However, the results of consumers' perceptions of the "riskiness of milk contamination" for vulnerable groups of people show that babies are considered to be more sensitive to different sources of contamination than other groups. This study supports the results of previous food safety studies showed that consumers are willing to pay a price premium to the traditional purchase price to avoid some perceived risks. 58% of respondents are willing to pay an additional price for extra-safe milk. The conjoint experiment results indicate that the most important factors for consumers' preference are risk of contamination and presence of a label. Based on a conjoint analysis four segments of respondents were distinguished: "Balanced Shoppers"; "Safety-Seekers"; "Safety-Indifferent"; and "Extreme-Safety Seekers".food safety, questionnaire survey, risk attitudes, risk perceptions, willingness to pay, willingness to buy., Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,