ALSHARIF, AFNAN
University/Organization
English Literature & Language Department
St. Mary’s University
San Antonio, Texas
Title
Dystopian and Utopian Worlds from a Postmodern Eye
Synopsis:
Postmodern writers tend to give a dystopian image only when a greater power takes control. Conversely, to create a utopian world, writers are more likely to imagine a world free from the rules of the real world. In other words, this would be a world where there is no power and where authority figures are always absent. This paper shows the relationship between authority and dystopian worlds by analyzing the methods and the postmodern characteristics that writers used to create dystopian and utopian worlds in three postmodern works, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as Julio Cortázar’s The Southern Thruway and The Other Heaven according to Linda Hutcheon in her book A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction.
BERGONZONI, CAROLINA
University/Organization
Arts Education Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
Canada
Title
Learning How to Listen to Dance – A Phenomenological Analysis of Inclusive Methodologies
Synopsis:
In this article, I will analyze my experience as a dancer involved in the collaborative inclusive performance project Translation. This project is based on questions of accessibility, inclusion and the potential of the dancing body to move us. By building on Merleau-Ponty’s notion of incorporation, I will argue for the possibility of incorporating other people in our phenomenal field.
BONSER, BRITTNEY
University/Organization
HIS 390: Senior Capstone
History Department
Cedar Crest College
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Title
“Patriotutes” of Hotel Street: The Untold Story of Jean O’Hara, The Honolulu Harlot
Synopsis:
This paper delves into the life of a brothel prostitute in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War Two. Their story outside of the brothel was a life of patriotic sacrificing to volunteer their time, mind, and body for our country. In turn, the women were abused and treated inhumanly as their basic rights were taken from them. This paper follows the story of Jean O’Hara as she courageously stood up against the brutal police vice squad.
BROWN, CORY
University/Organization
Writing Department
Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York
Title
The Ultimate Goal: Reflections on the Philosophy and Science of the Pursuit of Happiness
Synopsis:
This essay synthesizes some contemporary cognitive studies on the topic, liberally referencing what classical philosophers have said about it. I also sprinkle the scholarship with personal reflections. Schematically, the essay discusses social factors of happiness, such as money, marriage, and children, and then psychological factors, such as personal values and religious beliefs. Then it explores more philosophical issues, such as how best to define and measure happiness; should we conflate it with virtue (as classical philosophers do); what is its relationship to melancholy and to the perception of beauty; and is it something we should even attempt to pursue–that is, is there any value in thinking of it as a goal, especially given that our cognitive habits make it so elusive.
CHALFOUN, NADER
University/Organization
College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Title
Development of a Large Solar-shading Structure that Provides Human Thermal Comfort While Achieves Net-zero Status at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, USA
Synopsis:
The Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, USA, is transforming its campus to become the first Net-Zero operating park in the U.S.A. The House Energy Doctor Master of Science program’s faculty and graduate students at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture have been working on that project for the last three years. To achieve the Net-Zero goal, the existing four built areas of the park have been redesigned through Studio 601 faculty and students. These four areas are 1) the visitor center, 2) the one-mile residential loop, 3) the Maintenance Yard, and 4) the law enforcement and the research center complex. This paper demonstrates how the four built areas of the park were studied and how the maintenance yard energy consumption and operating cost was redesigned and redeveloped to include large solar-shading structures that provided human thermal comfort and achieve the goal of net-zero operation campus. 470 modules producing 345 watts distributed over 3 arrays on one of the maintenance yard scheme produced 1.1 GW capacity while acted as a water catchment and harvesting device for the research center.
CHEN, CHIA-LING
University/Organization
Research Division
National Museum of History
Taipei, Taiwan
Title
National Consciousness and Knowledge Production in Museums: A Case Study of the Five-Thousand-Year History and Culture of China Exhibition held by the National Museum of History, Taipei, in 1956
Synopsis:
The National Museum of History was established in Taipei in 1955 on the orders of the KMT government, and after the Second World War and produced the exhibition The Five-Thousand-Year History and Culture of China. This article aims to take the exhibition as an example to show how the Museum created displays through the methods of knowledge production and was able to inform and influence the Taiwanese people in the 1950s.
CHONG, RYLAN
University/Organization
Division of Natural Science and Mathematics
Chaminade University
Honolulu, Hawaii
Title
Teaching Social, Political, and Economic Topics to Student Data Scientists: The Case of a Data Science Course
Synopsis:
There is a calling to teach social, political, and economic topics in STEM-oriented curriculum. This paper used a case study approach to discuss the integration of the topics in a introductory data science course that is one of six courses of a certificate that will be offered by Chaminade University. The integration approach was to use the topics as subtexts with two subtopic areas of surveying data science, and during the interpretation and evaluation of the results.
DE VILLA, ARIADNE
University/Organization
Arts Education Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
Canada
Title
A Better Tool for Language Acquisition: Intrinsic or Extrinsic Motivation?
Synopsis:
The purpose of the present research is to determine the most efficient type of motivation, either intrinsic or extrinsic need that drives students to learn a language.
DEMIRCI LÓPEZ, TANER
University/Organization
Department of Theology
University of Murcia
Murcia, 30003
Spain
Title
The Evolution of Christian Theology in The Four Gospels
Synopsis:
The purpose of the present research is to analyze the linguistic evolution of The Four Gospels by their chronological order of composition in favor of deifying Jesus Christ.
DIRHAN, DARA
University/Organization
Nutrition Department
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Title
Using Kahoot in the Classroom
Synopsis:
Using Kahoot in the Classroom
FIETKIEWICZ, KAJA JOANNA
University/Organization
Department of Information Science
Heinrich-Heine-University
Düsseldorf, Germany
Title
The Development of Information Society in Japan: A Case Study of 21 Metropolitan Areas
Synopsis:
Informational City is the prototypical city of the 21st century with several distinct characteristics (e.g., knowledge and information flows, creativity, digitization, livability).What exactly are Informational Cities and what is the state of their development? In this paper the different building blocks of an Informational City will be discussed in more detail and in context of the Japanese Information Society.
FOMIN, SERGEI – CHUGUNOV, VLADIMIR
University/Organization
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
California State University
Chico, California
Moscow City University
Moscow, Russia
Title
Educational Outcomes of 2016-2018 REUT Program in California State University, Chico
Synopsis:
Our program targets secondary teachers with a strong interest in mathematics or math education (RET) and students who have completed their junior year with coursework appropriate to the research project (REU). Our program is designed to engage participants in research problems with a high potential for publication and to create a research experience that broadens participants’ perspective both of mathematics as a discipline and of research as an exciting exploratory process.
GILLIS, RICHARD
University/Organization
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
Title
Developing and Promoting Big Band Jazz in Canada and Beyond
Synopsis:
Big Band jazz is very much alive in every city and on every college campus in the Western world. A few professional organizations throughout North America are actively engaged in big band exploration, creation, performance, recording and education. This lecture/demonstration will present what the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra is doing to keep big band alive and thriving, and how it is developing ties to like-minded organizations in Canada and beyond.
GREENE, KIMBERLY – HILL, MICHAEL
University/Organization
School of Education
Brandman University
Irvine, California
Title
Convergent Transparency for Transformational Learning: Enhancing the Community of Practice Component of Virtual Andragogy
Synopsis:
Virtual Andragogy (VA) (Greene & Larsen, 2015 & 2017) offers instructional designers and distance educators a shared paradigm to holistically address the complexity of online learning for adults to develop transferable “affective, behavioral, and cognitive growth” (p. 6). This study explores the synergy of a key VA concept, Community of Practice, with Convergent Transparency, to support learner engagement in creating understanding that is personal, meaningful and transformational.
HONKA, AXEL – FIETKIEWICZ, KAJA JOANNA
University/Organization
Department of Information Science
Heinrich-Heine-University
Düsseldorf, Germany
Title
Impression Management and Social Media Use as Success Factors for Crowdfunding: A Comparison between Projects from Germany and the USA
Synopsis:
Crowdfunding is an alternative form of financing, which allows capital-seeking entrepreneurs to fund their efforts and put their projects into practice. The success of crowdfunding campaigns is determined by mobilizing as many investors as possible. This paper presents an empirical study on success factors of crowdfunding by focusing on social media usage and impression management techniques. The results will be compared between entrepreneurs from Germany and the USA.
INGRAM, MELISSA – MATTESON, SHIRLEY M.
University/Organization
Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
Title
Using Explanatory Data Collection Methods to Study Online Air Force Acquisition
Courses and Personnel Participation
Synopsis:
Participants in this qualitative case study were Air Force Acquisition personnel currently taking computer-based online courses. Air Force personnel were interview about their experiences with online courses and observed while engaging in an online course. The data were analyzed and themes emerged. This pilot study was conducted to support the completion of a Doctorate in Curriculum and Education.
JUNG, SUKWAN
University/Organization
Department of Global Business
College of Business Administration
Changwon National University
Gyeongnam, South Korea
Title
The Effect of Exchange Rate and Oil Price on Volatility of Inbound and Outbound Tourism Demand
Synopsis:
This study examined the volatility of inbound and outbound tourism demand and correlation between them using DCC(dynamic conditional correlation) – MGARCH (multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity) model. In addition, we analyze the effect of exchange rate, oil price on the volatility. The inbound and outbound tourism demand change rates have volatility, and there was interdependence between volatility. Oil prices and/or exchange rates affected volatility.
KAUR, HARPINDER
University/Organization
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
Title
Teachers’ opinions on ICT as a Teaching Tool in Teaching and Learning Process
Synopsis:
This project was conducted to explore teachers’ opinions on ICT as a teaching tool in their classrooms. It also included some sub-questions: ICT in the curriculum, School board’s policies for ICT, a role of school bodies in promoting ICT, teachers; training in ICT tools, teachers’ professional development and motivation for using ICT in teaching and learning project. This research based on Punjab (India) and 12 teachers from different education boards participated. The results showed that the factors like personal life experiences, gender inequality, school’s economic status, social concept and implementation of educational policies in practical influences the teachers’ attitude towards integration of technology in education.
KEITEL, PETER
University/Organization
Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Department
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Title
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall. The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy
Synopsis:
The Cold War dominated every aspect of life in the second half of the 20th century. It may be reasonable to expect that it ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. However, this paper argues that the Cold War and its ideology, despite good intentions and proclamations, did not end, but indeed continues until this day. In order to prove this point three internationally acclaimed German movies, Run Lola Run (1998), Good Bye, Lenin!(2003), and The Lives of Others (2006), are analyzed.
LEE, WONKYUNG ET AL
University/Organization
University College
Yonsei University
Incheon, South Korea
Title
Implementing Creative Learning Community Project for First Year Students
Synopsis:
Yonsei University has implemented the program called RC Creative Platform since 2016. It is an educational project of developing learning communities for first year students in the residential college environment. It is designed as an integrated approach of experience-based, problem-based and community-based project. The purpose of this project is to improve students’ problem-solving ability, creativity, challenging spirit and leadership through the opportunity of peer learning.
MAO, HONG – OSTASZEWSKI, KRZYSZTOF – CARSON, JAMES
University/Organization
Shanghai Second Polytechnic University
Shanghai, China
Department of Mathematics
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
Title
Thinking on the Three Generations of Prospect Theory
Synopsis:
In this article, we review and make some comments on the research of behavioral finance based on three generations of prospect theory by China’s scholars. We discuss their contributions from six aspects including the difference of the values of parameters of value function and weight function; the difference between individual’s decision behavior and group’s decision behavior; the explanation of insurance behavior from perspective of prospect theory; and other important factors.
MARASHI, KAREEM
University/Organization
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
Chapman University
Orange, California
Title
Building Learning Organizations: Emulating Business Organizational Structures in Academic Environments
Synopsis:
Administering academic institutions by adhering to common business principles and organizational structures can provide a template for effective leadership and management practices. Applying these corporate ideologies in academic environments offers a roadmap for effectual learning outcomes and positive pedagogical institutional paradigms.
MONAHAN, MEGAN PH.D
University/Organization
Cedar Crest College
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Title
“‘Pop’” Goes Hawaii: The 20th Century Origins of Tourism in Hawai’i & the Impact of U.S. Pop Culture on Women in the Islands of Aloha”
Synopsis:
Far off the western coast of the U.S. lie the breath-taking, mythical, magical islands of Hawaii—the country’s premier paradise playground and the ultimate alluring island fantasy for tourists worldwide, like a tropical Disneyworld. In this idyllic tropical paradise, Native Hawaiian women serve as cultural hostesses, whose bodies, dress, ‘suggestive’ dances, smiles and costumes are commoditized embodiments of an allegedly primitive, pre-commercial society. In short, Hawaiian women’s femininity has been exploited by the equally powerful forces of colonialism, imperialism and tourism.
Despite its centuries-long status as an independent nation of islands in the South Pacific, Hawaii became the fiftieth U.S. state in 1959—after its 1898 annexation in the country’s turn-of-the-century imperialistic drive. During the twentieth century, tourism became the main, driving economic force in Hawaii; in tourism brochures, even pineapples were a promotional ‘agent’ of tourism. Once World War II exposed the beauty and magic of the islands to the U.S., Amercian pop culture co-opted this fantastical image for its own use in movies and television shows. World War II, then, was an important historical turning point, transforming the public representation of Hawaii in the American imagination. Specifically, my research in the Hawaiian/Pacific Collections at the Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa found depictions of “exotic” Native Hawaiian hula dancers, in leis and hula skirts, touring nightclubs in the U.S. to promote tourism to Hawaii before and after World War II. These hula shows, sketched by American artist John Melville Kelly, created an “imagined intimacy” between Hawaii and the U.S., allowing Americans to possess their island colony physically and figuratively. As Hawaiian women danced the hula, they feminized and eroticized Hawai’i, implying that like a woman, the islands willingly submitted to American tourist and military ambitions.
MOON, HYUNJUNG
University/Organization
Department of Nursing
Far East University
Chungbuk, South Korea
Title
Healthcare Experiences and the Need for Health Education among Rural Older Women in Korea s
Synopsis:
This is a qualitative study analyzing the experiences of health care and the needs of health education for elderly women living in rural areas using focus group interview. This study is expected to provide basic data to develop appropriate health education program for elderly women in rural areas.
NIKOLIC, JANINA – DORSCH, ISABELLE – CHEIBE, KATRIN – ZIMMER, FRANZISKA – STOCK, WOLFGANG G.
University/Organization
Department of Information Science
Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf, Germany
Title
Country-specific Sentiment on Microblogs
Synopsis:
Can expressed sentiments (positive, neutral, negative) within text messages of microblogging services be differentiated by the users’ country? Are there indeed country-specific emotional patterns of microblogging behavior? Using the example of the service Twitter, the work in hand intends to introduce a measure for the expressed sentiments of countries. This idea assumes that people of different regions and cultures have a specific emotionality, not only in daily life but also in writing microblogs. 14,192,182 tweets have been analyzed from different countries, languages, and topics to be able to get significant results in how distinct people represent their positive and negative feelings and opinions to the outside depending on their home and culture. We applied a lexicon-based approach and adjusted the term lists (words as well as emojis) intellectually. As indicators we introduced sentiment strength (general emotionality), sentiment climate (difference between positive and negative sentiment values) and the amount of positive as well as negative microblogs. Finally, we compared our findings with other indicators on country level (as Human Development Index or average temperature).
OSBORNE, RANDALL
University/Organization
Psychology Department
Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas
Title
Predicting Risk Behavior in College Students: A Function of Family Dysfunction
Synopsis:
Two measures of elements of family dysfunction (scores on Minuchin’s “family Dynamics” scale and naïve rater ratings of student free writing about how his or her family would handle a family crisis) were gathered along with scores on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Results showed that higher self-reported levels of dysfunction of Minuchin’s scale were positively correlated with scores on multiple subscales of the Risk Behavior Survey.
RAFAPA, LESIBANA
University/Organization
Department of English Studies
University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Title
Circumcision and Celebratory Orality among Some Black South African Cultural Groups
Synopsis:
There is no adequate research on African poetic self-praise learnt at initiation. I intend to fill this gap by probing how this aspect of folklore survives beyond the arcane circumcision period. I confine myself to the traditional role of self-praise during initiation completion celebrations. I focus in my research of such a celebratory practice on the Northern Ndebele cultural group concentrated in the Vaaltyn-Moshate area of the town of Mokopane, in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
SIMMONS-KENDZIERSKI, AMELIA
University/Organization
Humanities Division
East Georgia State College
Swainsboro, Georgia
Title
Jake Barnes and his Lady Brett: Using Homosexuality to Escape Psychological Castration in The Sun Also Rises
Synopsis:
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, the most significant aspect of the character Jake Barnes is, of course, his physical impotence and his struggle with gender identity. Jake Barnes exorcises himself of his “Circe” known as Brett Ashley by placing himself into the position of the homosexual, thus rendering Brett incapable of castrating him psychologically.
SKOOG, WILLIAM
University/Organization
Department of Music
Rhodes College
Memphis, Tennessee
Title
Music Text Relationship in The Choral Music of Jennifer Higdon: Compositional Aspects are Universally Spawned by the Text
Synopsis:
Jennifer Higdon is an internationally renowned composer, most notably for orchestral works and the remarkable success of her opera Cold Mountain, based on the novel by Charles Frazier with a libretto by Gene Scheer. It was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera, the Minnesota Opera and the Philadelphia Opera, and premiered at Santa Fe, NM in 2015. It was so well received that every performance was sold out, adding a performance that also sold out. Santa Fe produced a recording of it (the only opera they have recorded in 21 years. This opera also received the International Award for Best World Premier, and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2016.
USKOKOVIC, BUDIMKA
University/Organization
Department of Germanic Languages
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Title
The Role of the Error Correction Journal on the Written Performance of Foreign Language Students
Synopsis:
This paper will provide more insight into error correction and an effective feedback. Participants will be able to learn more about Error Correction Journal, and how students can improve their writing, which is not only an important academic skill that can be applied to other areas outside of foreign language learning, but it is also a necessary life skill that students can employ beyond the classroom.
ZIMMER, FRANZISKA – SCHEIBE, KATRIN – STOCK, WOLFGANG G. – STOCK, MECHTILD
University/Organization
Department of Information Science
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Mrs. Mechtild Stock
Kerpen, Germany
Title
Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles of Fake News in Social Media:
Man-Made or Produced by Algorithms?Patterns and Trends in Contemporary Canadian Literature for Young People: Spotlight on Mental Health
Synopsis
SynopsisConcerning fake news and deception on online media, some authors stress notions of “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles” in order to describe communities of people which believe the same (maybe false) propositions. In the popular press, the construction of such communities is made by “bad algorithms.” However, what is the truth and what are lies as well as deceptions? What is the role of the algorithms when it comes to forming filter bubbles and supporting echo chambers? And what are the roles of individuals and their information behavior (posting fake content as well as reading, commenting, liking, or sharing it) in this process? Are there human selection biases or really misleading algorithms? In this article, we are going to analyze the interrelationship of knowledge, information and truth, ranking algorithms with side effects of producing filter bubbles (with the example of Facebook’s sorting algorithm), and, finally and most important, the role of individuals in the process of making and cultivating echo chambers. Here, we empirically study the effects of fake news on the information behavior of the audience while working with two case studies, applying quantitative and qualitative content analysis of online comments and re-plies. We describe the reactions of audience members to deepen our understanding of the pat-terns of the users’ cognitive states. Do users really produce or live in echo chambers?This presentation presents data from three original studies relating to patterns and trends in contemporary Canadian fiction for young people. A key part of the discussion spotlights picture books as well as junior and middle grade novels and young adult fiction that present mental health issues.