105. Presidential Address: After the Revolution: Folklore, History, and the Future of Our Discipline (45:37)

Date:
2015-10-17
Main contributors:
Williams, Michael Ann, Turner, Kay
Summary:
More than four decades have passed since the advent of the new folkloristics. Assessments of this revolution tend to narrowly focus on performance theory and not on whether the broader promises of this era have been realized, especially in areas of cross-disciplinary research. This address will look specifically at how attitudes toward historical scholarship have changed within the discipline of folklore and how we have constructed our own disciplinary histories during this postrevolutionary phase. Finally, the address will look to the future and whether we are reconstructing our past in our current graduate training in the discipline.

106. Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior (1:34:51)

Date:
2015-10-16
Main contributors:
Blei, David
Summary:
Probabilistic topic models provide a suite of tools for analyzing large document collections. Topic modeling algorithms discover the latent themes that underlie the documents and identify how each document exhibits those themes. Topic modeling can be used to help explore, summarize, and form predictions about documents. Topic modeling ideas have been adapted to many domains, including images, music, networks, genomics, and neuroscience. Traditional topic modeling algorithms analyze a document collection and estimate its latent thematic structure. However, many collections contain an additional type of data: how people use the documents. For example, readers click on articles in a newspaper website, scientists place articles in their personal libraries, and lawmakers vote on a collection of bills. Behavior data is essential both for making predictions about users (such as for a recommendation system) and for understanding how a collection and its users are organized. In this talk, I will review the basics of topic modeling and describe our recent research on collaborative topic models, models that simultaneously analyze a collection of texts and its corresponding user behavior. We studied collaborative topic models on 80,000 scientists' libraries from Mendeley and 100,000 users' click data from the arXiv. Collaborative topic models enable interpretable recommendation systems, capturing scientists' preferences and pointing them to articles of interest. Further, these models can organize the articles according to the discovered patterns of readership. For example, we can identify articles that are important within a field and articles that transcend disciplinary boundaries. More broadly, topic modeling is a case study in the large field of applied probabilistic modeling. Finally, I will survey some recent advances in this field. I will show how modern probabilistic modeling gives data scientists a rich language for expressing statistical assumptions and scalable algorithms for uncovering hidden patterns in massive data.

111. Rave: Repository Enlighten-ment: A ten year rave! (07:38)

Date:
2015-06-10
Main contributors:
Nixon, William J., Ashworth, Susan
Summary:
Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P6A: Repository Rants and Raves.

114. Revisiting self-deposit of scientific data (24x7) (10:35)

Date:
2015-06-10
Main contributors:
Hardy, Darren
Summary:
24x7 short presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P4A: Managing Research (and Open) Data.

115. Robert E. Thompson, BA'49 (02:09)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Thompson, Robert E.
Summary:
The late Robert E. Thompson, who attended Indiana University on the G.I. Bill after World War II, became a top political reporter who eventually rose through the ranks to excel in newspaper management. Thompson came to Indiana from his hometown of Los Angeles to study journalism and stayed after earning his degree in 1949. His first job was as a reporter for the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gazette. In 1951, Thompson was hired by the International News Service, a wire service owned by the Hearst chain, to cover agriculture from Washington, D.C. By the time the 1956 presidential elections arrived, Thompson had changed his beat to politics, an area he had always wanted to cover. He reported on the presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson and Dwight D. Eisenhower. INS merged with United Press in 1958, and Thompson was one of many who were laid off. Shortly after, however, Sen. John F. Kennedy asked Thompson to be the press secretary for his re-election campaign. Thompson quickly returned to the newspaper business, however, joining the Washington, D.C., bureau of the New York Daily News in 1959. He was assigned the White House beat and would eventually report on his former boss after Kennedy was elected president. He returned to his hometown in 1962 for a four-year stint writing for the Los Angeles Times. Thompson then was named Washington bureau chief for Hearst Newspapers. He later served as Hearst’s national news editor, then publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before returning to his position as bureau chief in Washington. He would retain this title until his retirement in 1989. Thompson’s involvement with the Kennedy family was a distinctive part of his career. He was on the scene for the coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination and witnessed Jack Ruby’s shooting of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald. He co-authored the book Robert Kennedy: The Brother Within, a biography about the late senator. During his time at IU, Thompson served as editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student and was active in student government. He returned to IU Journalism in the early 1970s as the Ernie Pyle lecturer. His weekly column for Hearst about his experience as a political reporter continued until a month before his death in 2003.

116. Sailing the High Seas of Open Access Publishing with the OJS XML Galley Plugin (46:19)

Date:
2015-04-08
Main contributors:
Homenda, Nick, Pekala, Shayna
Summary:
The IU Libraries provide publishing support to open access journals through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. The Scholarly Communication and Digital Collections Services departments recently collaborated to migrate two open access journals that use XML publishing workflows from XTF and DSpace to OJS. In this presentation, Homenda and Pekala will discuss the history of XML journal publishing projects at the IU Libraries, detailing the recent migration of the Indiana Magazine of History and The Medieval Review to OJS.

117. Social Media Mining with Natural Language Processing (1:52:18)

Date:
2015-11-06
Main contributors:
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad, Dickinson, Markus
Summary:
With the increasing role social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Tumbler play in our lives today, the body of data generated by their users continues to grow phenomenally. Accordingly, searches and processing of social media data beyond the limiting level of surface words are becoming increasingly important to business and governmental bodies, as well as to lay web users. Detection of sentiment, emotion, deception, gender, sarcasm, age, perspective, topic, community, and personality are all valuable social meaning components that promise to be important elements of next generation search engines and web intelligence. The emerging area of extracting social meaning from social media data using computational methods is known as Social Media Mining (SMM). This workshop is intended to first introduce the core ideas of natural language processing (NLP) and then to provide the ideas and some hands-on instruction in mining social data using NLP and machine learning technologies. As such, we will address practical issues related to building tools to mine social media data and some of the primary computational methods employed for modeling social meaning as occurring in these data.

118. Suellen Jackson-Boner - Early Initiatives of the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disab... (07:08)

Date:
2015-12-06
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"At that time, supported employment was just beginning across this country" and the goal was "to show that this was very viable, that people with severe disabilities could actually work." Suellen Jackson-Boner, the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities Executive Director for 35 years until she retired in 2015, discusses several projects the Council was involved in over the years. In addition to supported employment, the Council funded housing initiatives starting in the early 80’s. The Council staff organized people in Indiana too work towards the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Count Us IN was a project centered on the right to accessible polling places for people with disabilities. The Council was an early supporter of promoting leadership among people with disabilities. Suellen states, “There are a lot things the Council was at the very forefront in helping to fund or get started and to get organized, which is really, I think exciting.”

119. Suellen Jackson-Boner Interview (29:56)

Date:
2015-12-06
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
"The initiative on livable communities is one that I was super excited about, because I think to me that's where the disability community should be." Suellen Jackson-Boner discusses the direction that the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities was taking when she retired in 2015. Interviewed in that year, Suellen had been the Council's executive director for 35 years. She recalls the early days of the agency, which is mandated by the 1975 Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, but was strictly an advisory body at that point. After effecting a funding transition that allowed the agency to become independent in its activities, community employment was an early focus. "At that time, supported employment was just beginning across this country" and the goal was "to show that this was very viable, that people with severe disabilities could actually work." The cooperation of four state agencies to create this initiative in the early 1980s was remarkable, Suellen points out. Early group homes, another Council emphasis, were an important vehicle for getting people out of institutions. The Council went on to serve as a catalyst for supported living and home ownership by people with disabilities. Suellen talks about how the Council has promoted leadership among people with disabilities, building their capacities to make change, through support of early self-advocacy groups and such programs as Partners in Policymaking. Prior to passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, "the staff was heavily involved in working toward organizing people" to effect its passage. Then it sponsored trainings to educate people, particularly people with disabilities, about what the legislation entails and how to use it as an advocate. Count Us IN was a 2002 Council project surveying the accessibility of polling places. Employing people with disabilities as surveyors, thousands of polling places were assessed on election day, with support and follow-up from the Secretary of State's office. The Council's annual statewide conference on disability "has grown year after year and brought in a lot of people from all over the state and sometimes even neighboring states," Suellen recounts.

120. Taik Sup Auh, MA'73, PhD'77 (02:15)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
O, T'aek-sŏp
Summary:
Taik Sup Auh has forged a career as a respected educator, administrator and acclaimed textbook author in his native country of South Korea. He came to America in the late 1960s to work at the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C., and returned to South Korea in 1981 with two post-graduate degrees from Indiana University. Auh served as the assistant information attaché at the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C., from 1966 to 1970, shortly after earning his bachelor’s degree in international relations from Seoul National University. He was accepted to IU’s journalism graduate program in 1970, earning his master’s in journalism in 1973 and his doctorate in mass communication in 1977. With degrees in hand, Auh became an assistant professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where he remained until 1979. In 1981, he returned to South Korea and began his 25-year stay at the Korea University School of Media and Communications. During this time, he held several positions, including professor and dean of graduate studies. Over the years, Auh has been involved with communications on a national level in South Korea. He has served as a committee chair for the Korean Communications Commission and the chair of the License Renewal Review Committee for Four General Cable-TV in Korea. Auh has been president of both the Korea Cyber Communication Research Society and the Korea Society for Journalism and Communication Studies. In 2011, the Korean government awarded Auh the Order of Industrial Service Merit Bronze Tower for his role as the chair of the Media Diversity Committee. In this position, Auh contributed to the growth of the media industry in Korea while protecting diversity of opinion across all media platforms. In addition to offering his expertise in mass communications as an educator and administrator, Auh has shared his knowledge through publications. He has authored and edited five textbooks used at universities across Korea, and he served as editor of the journal Asian Communication Research from 2004-06. Auh’s research and instruction focus on political communications, theories of cyber communication and research methods. He has written studies about fact checking political statements, how language barriers affect cyber communication and Korean perceptions of the United States. Auh returned to Indiana University in 1991 as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, and again in 2006 as a visiting professor at the School of Journalism. He is currently a professor emeritus at Korea University and a board member at the Seoul Broadcasting System Cultural Foundation.

121. Talk Time Featuring Dr. Stephen Porges: Polyvagal Theory (1:03:27)

Date:
2019-10-10
Main contributors:
Porges, Stephen W.
Summary:
Talk Time host Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen discusses trauma and the Polyvagal Theory with Dr. Stephen Porges. Dr. Stephen Porges' shares key finds from his research about the neuroscience of emotions, attachment, communication and emotional regulation. Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kgO3HOP8VQ

122. Talking Folklore: A Conversation with Leading Scholars of Folk Religion and Belief (2:00:21)

Date:
2015-10-16
Main contributors:
Shukla, Pravina; Goldstein, Diane E.; Griffith, James S.; Primiano, Leonard Norman
Summary:
This forum features a conversation with prominent folklorists who will reflect on their respective careers, and meditate on the past and future of our discipline. The forum contributes to the intellectual history of folklore; it will be recorded, as past forums have been, for the AFS “Collecting Memories” Oral History Project. This year’s forum will focus on folk religion and belief, by looking at the “life of learning” and the choices, chances, and triumphs of participants Diane Goldstein, Jim Griffith, Elaine Lawless, and Leonard Primiano. Pravina Shukla will once again facilitate this exchange about their academic and public work, their fieldwork and festivals, and also their important involvement in our field and in our scholarly society over the past several decades. (Sponsored by the American Folklore Society.)

123. The Don Yoder Lecture in Religious Folklife: "A Subtle Thing Withal”: Reflections on the Ineffab... (1:18:04)

Date:
2015-10-15
Main contributors:
Brady, Erika, Kruesi, Margaret, Primiano, Leonard Norman
Summary:
Many years ago as a graduate student studying William Langland’s Vision of Piers Plowman, I came upon what was evidently a popular scatological riddle pertaining to a profound theological teaching. Since that time I have continued to ruminate over the role of humor—especially sexual and scatological humor—arising from within vernacular Catholicism. In this talk, I will consider the serious play of such forms of expression and their significance for folklorists concerned with the nature of belief in the sacred.

125. The Ethics of Naming and the Perils of Masking in Ethnography (1:27:24)

Date:
2015-12-11
Main contributors:
Jerolmack, Colin
Summary:
Ethnographers routinely employ pseudonyms and even mask the sites (e.g., street corner, neighborhood, city) of their research. This is usually justified as an ethical necessity, to protect our participants. In this talk, drawing from a paper I am co-authoring with Alexandra Murphy (Michigan), I challenge this justification and spell out some of the ways that masking can potentially harm research participants and impede social science research. Regarding ethics, I show, on the one hand, how masking often fails to provide the guaranteed degree of identity protection and, on the other hand, how research participants may have a very different understanding of what the researcher owes them that has little to do with whether or not they are named (e.g., portraying them as a human, not just a social type). Regarding scientific integrity, I argue that masking reifies ethnographic authority, invokes a pseudo-generalizability that downplays the particularities of the case (e.g., "Middletown"), and inhibits replicability (or "revisits"), falsifiability, or comparison. I conclude by arguing that masking is a convention, not an ethical or IRB necessity, and while I concede that there are many cases in which masking is the ethical choice, I contend that we should no longer consider it the default option.

127. The Hydra common data model (27:28)

Date:
2015-06-10
Main contributors:
Cowles, Esme, Sanderson, Robert, Stroop, Jon
Summary:
Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P4A: Managing Research (and Open) Data.

129. The once and future repository, HKU's Scholars Hub (27:06)

Date:
2015-06-10
Main contributors:
Palmer, David T.
Summary:
Presentation at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana, in session P5A: Building the Perfect Repository.

130. The Phillips Barry Lecture: Afro-Mestizo Imaginaries in “Música Tropical”: Gender Differences in ... (1:13:49)

Date:
2015-10-16
Main contributors:
Herrera-Sobek, Maria, Winick, Stephen D.
Summary:
Some songs pertaining to the “música tropical” genre, or music exhibiting tropical rhythms from both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, feature Afro-mestizo protagonists in their lyrics. My study explores the imaginaries constructing the subjectivities of Afro-mestizo men and women and posits that these gender constructions are different between the two sexes. Men tend to be depicted more harshly than women. Both, however, are depicted in a stereotypical and racist manner. My study incorporates feminist and critical race theories as well as postcolonial theories in the analy- sis and hermeneutics of the representation of Afro-mestizos in the lyrics of these songs.

131. The Political Economy of Patriarchal Systems (1:25:22)

Date:
2015-11-12
Main contributors:
Nancy Folbre
Summary:
In “The Political Economy of Patriarchal Systems”, Folbre examines feminist efforts to theorize the emergence and evolution of gender inequality no longer invoke some abstract, a-historical “patriarchy.” Rather, they explore the co-evolution of many distinct patriarchies with other hierarchical structures of constraint, emphasizing intersecting forms of inequality based, for instance, on class, race/ethnicity, citizenship, and hetero-normativity. In this presentation, I argue that economic theory offers some important analytical tools for this exploration, providing a framework for analyzing the interplay of social structure and individual choice. In particular, I explain how game theory, bargaining models, and concepts of exploitation can enrich the emerging interdisciplinary paradigm of feminist theory.

132. Tom Olin - ADA Legacy Bus Tour (18:24)

Date:
2015-06-19
Main contributors:
Indiana Disability History Project
Summary:
“The shot that was heard around the world for people with disabilities,” is how one of Tom Olin’s photographic images has been described. As part of the ADA at 25 Legacy Tour, the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, Indiana hosted an exhibit of Tom Olin’s work. On June 19, 2015, Tom gave a public talk in association with the exhibition. He was also present as the driver of the touring ADA Legacy bus. It made Indiana stops in Bloomington, Monticello, and Indianapolis during a national tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Tom has become widely known for the powerful advocacy of his photography focusing on the disability rights movement. In this videotaped talk, he discusses how he became involved in documenting the struggle for the rights of people with disabilities, and provides information about photographs in the exhibit. Some of the iconic photographs he discusses include images of the event now referred to as the Capitol Crawl. Depicting the landmark protest where people got out of their wheelchairs to ascend the steps of the U.S. Capitol building, it became “the shot that was heard around the world.” The action on March 12, 1990 was initiated by the activist organization ADAPT (Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit ). Tom identifies disability leaders at the protest and points out that his eight-year-old niece, Jennifer Keelan, is among those shown crawling up the steps. Tom explains that even though the “Crawl” took place just a few months before the ADA was passed into law, there were numerous attempts being made to weaken its provisions. “In Congress, you had the Senate and the House conferring on the bill that was to be. And they had all these different ways of how they thought the bill should look like.” Tom also describes photographs in the exhibit documenting other ADAPT actions in Memphis and at the federal building in Atlanta. It’s up to us, he says, to make sure the work of grassroots activists continues. “I see things happening. You know, I'm really impressed with a lot of young people.”

133. Using BCSSE and NSSE to Help Retention Efforts (55:34)

Date:
2015-04-30
Main contributors:
James Cole
Summary:
Retaining students is a key initiative for institutions. This webinar will highlight how to incorporate BCSSE and NSSE data to help inform your institution's retention efforts. In this webinar we will discuss research findings relating engagement and retention as well as explore ways in which NSSE and BCSSE data can be used to supplement retention efforts on your campus. We will also highlight examples of how other institutions have used their NSSE and BCSSE data in their retention plans. Finally, we will encourage participants to think of their own retention efforts and how they might use their NSSE or BCSSE to help improve their efforts. Attendees should make sure they have copies of both the BCSSE and NSSE surveys as this session will identify specific items from each. Copies of the surveys can be found at nsse.iub.edu. We ask that you submit any specific questions you have or barriers you have encountered when using BCSSE and/or NSSE data to help with retention efforts. Please list questions &/or topics that you would like to see addressed in the Webinar in the box below. Additional questions can be raised via the chat feature during the Webinar.

134. Using jsPsych to Conduct Behavioral Research Online (1:48:26)

Date:
2015-09-04
Main contributors:
de Leeuw, Josh
Summary:
Behavioral scientists have been using the internet to conduct research for over two decades, but only recently has the scope of internet research begun to rival the traditional laboratory experiment. In this workshop, I will introduce you to the basics of online data collection and various tools for conducting online research, including jsPsych (http://www.jspsych.org), a programming library for conducting laboratory-like experiments online developed at Indiana University. I'll describe all the necessary components of running an online experiment, the features of jsPsych, and how to create a simple experiment using the jsPsych library.

135. Using R for Text Analysis (59:41)

Date:
2015-12-02
Main contributors:
Gniady, Tassie
Summary:
R is a statistical package used by many digital textual analysts to explore aspects of styelometry. Here at IU, we have an instance of the popular Rstudio running on Karst to facilitate work on large corpora. However, it is often helpful to begin work with a small test set (sometimes even a single text) and scale up. The CyberDH group has put together code packages and annotated RNotebooks that are available on GitHub to serve as a friendly introduction to how the process of scaling up might work. This talk will step through the basics of these exercises and the visualizations that result.

136. Welcome to Open Repositories 2015: OR2015 opening session (33:52)

Date:
2015-06-09
Main contributors:
Dunn, Jon W., Minton Morris, Carol, Walters, Carolyn, Nixon, William, Field, Adam, Knowles, Claire
Summary:
Opening session at Open Repositories 2015 (OR2015), the 10th International Conference on Open Repositories, Indianapolis, Indiana. Includes remarks by Jon Dunn (Organizing Committee Chair), Carol Minton Morris (Steering Committee Co-Chair), Carolyn Walters (Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries, Indiana University), William Nixon (Program Committee Co-Chair), Adam Field (Developer Challenge Co-Chair) and Claire Knowles (Developer Challenge Co-Chair).

137. What’s So Special About Sir William Osler? (1:01:00)

Date:
2015-11-18
Main contributors:
Bryan, Charles S.
Summary:
Inaugural lecture in the Leo J. McCarthy, MD History of Medicine Lectureship. Presented by Charles S. Bryan, MD, MACP at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library on November 18th, 2015.

139. Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker (07:50)

Date:
2015-08-18
Summary:
Folklorist Jon Kay made this short documentary for the exhibition, "Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker." The exhibit explored the work of Viki Graber a willow basketmaker from Goshen, Indiana. Viki learned willow basket weaving at the age of twelve from her father, who was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a 2009 National Heritage Fellow. Where once her family plied their talents to make utilitarian workbaskets, Viki makes baskets for collectors and to sell at art shows and galleries. While using the same tools and methods as her great-grandfather, Viki's keen sense of color and innovative designs have elevated her family's craft to a new aesthetic level. Sponsored by the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences as part of their Fall 2015 Themester @Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet, the exhibition and the video were on display at the museum from August 18 through December 20, 2015.

140. Your NSSE Institutional Report 2015: Step-by-Step (59:37)

Date:
2015-08-25
Main contributors:
Robert M. Gonyea, Jillian Kinzie
Summary:
A step-by-step walkthrough of your NSSE Institutional Report 2015. We will review the redesigned reports and provide general strategies for utilizing and disseminating your results. NSSE webinars are live and interactive, providing participants the opportunity to ask questions via a text chat.