Student presentation for WRTG 3020, Spring 2011. The presentation contains a synopsis of key findings from Michael S. Kimmel's article, "Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity."
Introduction slides for Post-Feminism and Queer Theory. This is an over-simplification of the concept, we are mostly interested in how gender and sexuality are represented in the media and how traditional roles can be subverted.
Introduction slides for Post-Feminism and Queer Theory. This is an over-simplification of the concept, we are mostly interested in how gender and sexuality are represented in the media and how traditional roles can be subverted.
Representation of male and female in mediaIlhaan Marwat
In general, "media" refers to various means of communication. Media includes every broadcasting and narrow casting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, direct mail,telephone, fax, and internet.
How do we raise our boys? Which impact does it have on their emotional and physical health? Which initiatives exist to challenge the traditional vision of masculinity?
Masculinity and Misogyny in the Digital AgeBrandwatch
Ditch the Label – one of the largest anti-bullying charities in the world – worked with Brandwatch to analyze 19 million public tweets over a four year period to explore the current climate of misogyny and constructs of masculinity as expressed across social media.
The project sheds light on discriminatory language, but should not be viewed as an argument for online censorship. Rather, the data points to the need for a nuanced approach, further open debate and awareness, and positive role models.
Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. It includes women's studies (concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics), men's studies and queer studies.
Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, has been noted as a success of deconstructionism. Sometimes, gender studies is offered together with study of sexuality.
Representation of male and female in mediaIlhaan Marwat
In general, "media" refers to various means of communication. Media includes every broadcasting and narrow casting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, direct mail,telephone, fax, and internet.
How do we raise our boys? Which impact does it have on their emotional and physical health? Which initiatives exist to challenge the traditional vision of masculinity?
Masculinity and Misogyny in the Digital AgeBrandwatch
Ditch the Label – one of the largest anti-bullying charities in the world – worked with Brandwatch to analyze 19 million public tweets over a four year period to explore the current climate of misogyny and constructs of masculinity as expressed across social media.
The project sheds light on discriminatory language, but should not be viewed as an argument for online censorship. Rather, the data points to the need for a nuanced approach, further open debate and awareness, and positive role models.
Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. It includes women's studies (concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics), men's studies and queer studies.
Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, has been noted as a success of deconstructionism. Sometimes, gender studies is offered together with study of sexuality.
I wrote this story in 1995 and had it available on my personal web site for many years. Then I lost track of it and only recently found it again via the Wayback Machine on Archive.org. Many thanks to whoever thought to archive it there!
I'm posting it here so that I can embed it on my main web site at: http://amygoodloe.com
This is the first chapter of a novel I'll never finish. I wrote it in 1995 and published it on my personal web site, and then lost track of it. I recently found it again via the Wayback Machine on Archive.org. Many thanks to whoever thought to archive it there!
Target Audience: College faculty
Purpose: through a series of hypothetical "advice column" letters:
-- Clarify the difference between blogs and web sites
-- Identify best ways to use blogs for classes
-- Help you decide if a blog is right for your class
-- Recommend free web site and blog builders
Subtitled: Teaching rhetorical awareness through design analysis.
These are notes for a presentation I delivered to faculty as a member of the Digital Composition Committee for the writing program at CU Boulder.
Teaching Digital Composition: Tips, Approaches, & BenefitsAmy Goodloe
These are the notes for a talk I gave at Emory University, for their Symposium on Digital Publication, Undergraduate Research, and Writing in January 2013.
A few tips for faculty who'd like to offer digital storytelling as an option for student projects. For more resources, see: http://digitalwriting101.net/teaching
Making a Digital Storytelling Project in iMovie '11Amy Goodloe
The presentation guides you through the process of creating a digital storytelling project in iMovie '11.
For more info, such as links to playable versions of sample stories as well as other versions of the presentation (including one that has over 20,000 views!), see:
http://digitalwriting101.net/content/presentations-on-digital-storytelling/
This post is on my DigitalWriting101.net help site, which features resources to help students and faculty compose in digital media (including separate tutorials on each step of using iMovie). Feel free to share the site with students and colleagues!
Intro to Digital Storytelling (shorter version)Amy Goodloe
These are slides (minus playable video clips and speaker's notes) from my March 7th presentation on Digital Storytelling at the Norlin Library Learner's Lunch series at CU Boulder. For a longer version of this presentation, see: http://www.slideshare.net/PerpetualRevision/intro-todigitalstorytellingfor-pdf
The presentation defines digital storytelling, reviews the learning benefits for college students, and offers sample projects and approaches.
For more info, including links to playable versions of the sample stories featured here as well as other, shorter versions of the presentation, see:
http://digitalwriting101.net/content/presentations-on-digital-storytelling/
This post is on my DigitalWriting101.net help site, which features resources to help students and faculty compose in digital media. Feel free to share the site with students and colleagues!
The Role of Digital Literacy in Writing InstructionAmy Goodloe
This presentation represents the culmination of many years of research into and experience with incorporating digital literacy into writing instruction. I originally prepared the presentation for my colleagues in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU Boulder, but it has also been used by other universities to help introduce writing faculty to the changing nature of literacy.
General Tips for Writing & Revising v.1.0Amy Goodloe
This presentation offers several tips and strategies for improving your writing. Adapt the strategies to the type of writing you're doing for one of my classes or any other writing situation.
Understanding Intersexuality via Personal ExperienceAmy Goodloe
A student presentation for WRTG 3020, Spring 2011, based on Sharon Preves' article "Intersex Narratives: Gender, Medicine, and Identity," as well as selections from Cheryl Chase and Riki Wilchins.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
2. “Put your mother in a straight jacket, you punk ass white boy! Come here and tell me that and I'll fuck you in the ass, you punk white boy. You faggot. You can't touch me, you're not man enough. I eat your asshole alive you bitch. Fuck you you ho. Come say to my face and I fuck you for everybody. You bitch. Come on you bitch. You scared coward, you not man enough to fuck with me. You can't last two minutes in my world bitch. Look at you, you scared now you ho. Scared like a little white pussy. Scared of the real man. I'll fuck you till you love me faggot.” – Mike Tyson Click for video
3. In the previous statement, a man states dominance of another man by calling him words that are associated to femininity and weakness: Faggot, bitch, ho, pussy. He exposes his “enemy” as vulnerable and threatens to physically dominate him stating that the man is “not man enough” and that he is “scared of the real man”. Why does he choose these specific types of words to insult his opponent with instead of other possible insults?
4. Dr. Michael S. Kimmel’s article, “Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity”, explores gender issues from a male perspective and addresses the pressure men have to always prove their manhood. Using this article, this presentation will attempt to explore the how we know what we know about masculinity by exploring the history, the consequences, and how it is identified for the American man. Most importantly, it seeks to create awareness that we can and must change this definition.
5. Masculinity was not always the competitive situation we know it as today. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries two types of men co-existed: Heroic Artisans described as the working class included farmers, and craftsmen like Paul Revere. Genteel Patriarchs described as refined included land owners like Thomas Jefferson.
6. The Heroic Artisans and Genteel Patriarchs were able to live in society together because their gender roles complimented each other. Kimmel asserts that eventually these gender roles became overpowered by Capitalists, what he calls “Marketplace Manhood”. This theory is the belief that capitalism drives gender identity: wealth, power, status and the ability to conquer all that he comes across “prove” a man’s worth and therefore his masculinity.
7. This masculinity is a continuous process that must always being played out and a man can never let his guard down for doing so can reveal weakness or inadequacies. Kimmel describes masculinity is a homosocial enactment which includes exaggerated gendered actions and language to hide signs of so called feminine weakness.
8. Masculinity resides in a homosocial* environment, perpetuating the cycle that exists. For this homosocial environment to exist, exclusion of others (women, non-white men, homosexuals) must occur. *Homosocial: of, relating to, or involving social relationships between persons of the same sex and especially between men) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homosocial
9. Masculinity is a never-ending test, masculinity in our society equates to “not being like a woman”. “masculinity is defined more by what one is not rather than who one is.” (p. 5) “What men need is men’s approval.” -playwright David Mamet (p. 6)
10. To further extend the definition of manhood, Kimmel provides the following 4 phrases created by psychologist Robert Brannon: “No Sissy Stuff!” “Be a Big Wheel.” “Be a Sturdy Oak.” “Give em Hell.”
11. How does the cycle begin? The theory is that a young boy is evaluated for his masculinity by his father, always seeking his approval as a man. Boy must prove himself to his father and eventually peers, bosses and other males.
12. The boy is evaluated his whole life, seeking approval from other men, afraid for being exposed as vulnerable. Now an adult, he continues to try to dominate his world including women, minorities and homosexuals. The cycle exasperates within his interactions in society and offspring Because men need to live up to a standard to seek approval from each other, this standard is rarely obtained, and usually leads to severe consequences.
13. Far too often, this group who is known as being powerful describe feelings of being powerless. Kimmel claims that men are afraid of other men and describes masculinity as a "nightmare" that other men will discover the man's inadequacies. "Our real fear is "not fear of women but of being ashamed or humiliated in front of other men, or being dominated by stronger men". This fear creates the feeling of being powerless.
14. The consequences of the current societal definition of masculine are far reaching: One consequence is the effect it may have on a man’s family in that a man may feel that he must work long hours in order to provide and succeed. This value is quite different from those of the Heroic Artisans and Genteel Patriarchs.
15. Another consequence is depression and suicide because men cannot live up to the standard that has been created. According to Kimmel, “Men commit suicide three times as often as women” often due to a perceived social humiliation.
16. A third consequence is violence, something manhood is often associated with. Violence is “often the single most evident marker of manhood.” (p. 8) Sexism is also a clear consequence of masculinity. “One of the centerpieces of that exaggerated masculinity is putting women down”
17. Racism is part of the masculine condition as manhood is given to white, heterosexual, middle/upper-class males. To give masculinity to any other group is to give them power.
18. Another centerpiece of masculinity is homophobia. Kimmel asserts that homophobia exists because of a fear of being exposed as feminine, i.e., weak. “The fear-sometimes conscious, sometimes not-that others might perceive us as homosexual propels men to enact all manner of exaggerated masculine behaviors and attitudes to make sure that no one could possibly get the wrong idea about us.” (p. 9)
19. Violence, sexism, racism, homophobia… these are results of proving masculinity. The homosocial environment that has been created continues to give men a sense of power while keeping others out. What could change if men began to embrace their feminine side?
20. “Girls can wear jeansAnd cut their hair shortWear shirts and boots'Cause it's OK to be a boyBut for a boy to look like a girl is degrading'Cause you think that being a girl is degradingBut secretly you'd love to know what it's likeWouldn't you?What it feels like for a girl” -Madonna
21. Changing the definition It is possible to allow men to embrace their feminine side. If Kimmel’s theory is correct, if we strive for gender equality can lead to race and sexual equality. By changing how we define masculinity, we may be able to change our society interacts. This is a possible task that can be done through teaching new generations the importance of respecting each other’s gender identities.
22. Conclusion Referring back to the argument presented at the beginning of this lecture, with Kimmel’s theory we now understand why the argument contained sexist slurs and vulgarities. This behavior is a perfect example of masculinity at its most extreme degree. It is important that we recognize these patterns and change the current characterization of masculinity to combat the negative affects this definition has on men, women, children and society as a whole.
23. Works Cited Kimmel, Michael S. "Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity." Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: The New Basics. Eds. Abby Ferber, Kimberly Holcomb, and TreWentling, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. 58-69. Print.