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...accounts, students spend a heck of a lot of time logged onto Facebook, a circumstance that irks educators, who complain of students messaging friends or posting snarky status updates from their laptops instead of paying attention to lectures. It was this habit that first got Karpinski interested in the topic while she was earning her master's degree in developmental psychology at West Virginia University. "When I became a teacher's assistant, I started noticing my students' using [Facebook] and becoming obsessed with it," says Karpinski - who is not on Facebook, despite her fellow classmates' badgering efforts...
...billed as an effort to promote dialogue about sexual violence. With over 20 years of research on pornography to his name, Jensen—who focuses on male production and consumption of pornographic material—spoke candidly, frankly, and often humorously about the sensitive and potentially uncomfortable topic. “Can all the men who masturbated to pornography in the last 48 hours please come down to the front,” Jensen joked at one point amid laughter. “How about in the last ten minutes?” a male student quipped in response...
...University Library. The new version of the Harvard Online Library Information System—commonly known as HOLLIS—displays a color-coded “word cloud” that offers links to related search terms and a column that allows searchers to refine searches based on topic, format, language, and genre. “The Web search arena has been experiencing major changes,” said Robinson of the need for the modifications. “Search engines like Google Book Search and Google Scholar were gaining attention, and we felt that our online catalogue...
...swastika and represent the Jewish people. “Without graphic designers, the Holocaust would not have happened,” Heller said. “I guarantee you that.” The concluding panel for the series was a discussion in which four speakers addressed a topic with great import for the future of graphic design: the politics and aesthetics of appropriation and the exact definition of “fair use.” Heller was joined by Nicholas Blechman, his successor at The New York Times Book Review and creator of the acclaimed fanzine, Nozone; Elliott...
...clear that they were not meant to describe our otherwise very positive interactions with Dr. Richardson and faculty members during the creation of the lecturer disclosure policy. Rather, these quotes described the challenges of advocating for policy changes on conflict of interest beyond the lecture disclosure policy, a topic that also has no bearing on Dr. Richardson...