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Grotesque Bodies: A Response to Disembodied Cyborgs

Abstract In this paper, my aim is to show some of the problems that the figure of the cyborg may raise, in order to show how in many cases the cyborg has been used, even if in a dissimulated way, to reinstate the natural , normative order with its known distinct and very well defined categories and divisions. But, more importantly, I propose here an alternative to the figure of the cyborg which, I believe, has more possibilities of keeping the promises of subverting the normative order of Western thought. This alternative is the one presented by the figure of the grotesque body. The grotesque body, I will argue, contains in itself the seeds of a real hybrid, fragmented, non-binarian thought. The relevance of my proposal is that, in opposition to the cyborg, the grotesque body does not present the dangers of a reinforcement of the old categories which support the powers-that-be in maintaining oppression and domination. Unlike the cyborg, the grotesque body does not make possible a return to the Cartesian frame, with its clear danger of losing one more time the embodied subject (and losing with it the concrete, non-neutral subject), which the postmodern and feminist thought strived so hard to bring to the philosophical and political scene. Keywords: Grotesque bodies, cyborgs, postmodernism, phenomenology, embodiment, feminism

Jones, Paul and Waters, Richard. Using Video to Build an Organizations Identity and Brand: A Content Analysis of Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Videos
Abstract Organizational scholarship has increasingly focused its attention to how nonprofit, forprofit, and government agencies develop their unique organizational identity through their strategic communication efforts. As social media continues to become more prominent in communication campaigns due to the high levels of public usage and public involvement with organizations on social media sites, it is important to examine these social media messages as they relate to organizational identity. YouTube videos increasingly are being used by organizations to educate and inform just as much as they are to entertain. Through a content analysis of the most viewed videos on the top 100 official nonprofit YouTube channels, this study found that nonprofit organizations primarily use their YouTube videos to inform and educate viewers about their missions, programs, and services. While the videos also occasionally discuss the organizations advocacy, volunteering, and fundraising efforts, nonprofit organizations were not living up to their potential in terms of engagement through direct appeals for involvement. Additionally, the organizations were more likely to use outsiders words and stories to build the videos narratives rather than

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using internal stakeholders. The benchmark numbers provided by this study reiterate key rules that are stressed in practitioner-oriented work on video production for branding andidentity-building efforts. KEYWORDS organizational identity, branding, social media, YouTube, organizational communications, public relations

Social Learning Networks: build Mobile Learning Networks Based on Collaborative Services
ABSTRACT Recently, the rising of Web 2.0 has made online community gradually become popular, like facebook, blog, etc. As a result, the online knowledge sharing network formed by interpersonal interaction is now a major character of Web 2.0, and therefore, by this trend, we try to build up a collaborative service mechanism and further set up an analysis mechanism under which. A similarity analysis was conducted on learners personal data in order to recommend learning partners of the same interests and specialties to learners. Under this recommendation mechanism, we can support Mobile Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning activities (MCSCL), building up learner-oriented mobile learning knowledge networks. Keywords Social learning networks, mobile learning networks, learning community, community of practice, collaborative service

Huey, Laura and Berndt, Eric. Youve gotta learn how to play the game: homeless womens use of gender performance as a tool for preventing victimization
Abstract As a masculinist space, the streets present a variety of dangers to homeless women a fact that has received too little attention within the social science literature. This study utilizes data drawn from interviews with homeless women and service providers in Edinburgh, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa, to explore the complex survival strategies that homeless women develop to prevent criminal victimization. Through women s words, we see that gender is understood strategically as performance. Four gender performances are identified and discussed: the femininity simulacrum , the masculinity simulacrum , genderlessness and passing . We discussed how each of these performances is employed in the pursuit of safety and security in frequently violent and chaotic social spaces.

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Veletsianos, G. The impact and implications of virtual character expressiveness on learning and agentlearner interactions.
Abstract The possible benefits of agent expressiveness have been highlighted in previous literature; yet, the issue of verbal expressiveness has been left unexplored. I hypothesize that agent verbal expressiveness may improve the interaction between pedagogical agents and learners, ultimately enhancing learning outcomes. Evidence from a quasi-experimental investigation, indicates that learners who interacted with an expressive agent 1) scored higher on a post-task exam; and 2) rated the agent s ability to interact higher, than learners who interacted with a nonexpressive agent. Qualitative results provided insight into this finding, while indicating the complexity of deploying pedagogical agents in educational settings. Keywords agent learner interaction, EnALI, expressiveness, instructional design, learner experience, pedagogical agents.

Split Selves and Situated Knowledge

The Trickster Goes Titanium
Thomas S. Frentz Abstract Grounded within Donna Haraway s theory of feminist objectivity that foregrounds split selves, embodied vision, and situated knowledges, the author tells of his experiences with the medical practitioners who performed his hip replacement surgery. The story unfolds in three episodes: the first highlighting the trickster, a second his conversion into a cyborg, and the third a trickster/cyborg hybrid. Reflecting back on the story, he suggests how Haraway s feminist vision might well be enhanced by laughter, vulnerable feelings, and evocative storytelling. Keywords: trickster; cyborg; Haraway; doctor/patient; laughter; autoethnography

Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions:(Re)Envisioning First-Year Composition as Introduction to Writing Studies
ABSTRACT In this article we propose, theorize, demonstrate, and report early results from a course that approaches first-year composition as Introduction to Writing Studies. This pedagogy explicitly recognizes the impossibility of teaching a universal academic discourseand

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rejects that as a goal for first-year composition. It seeks instead to improve students understanding of writing, rhetoric, language, and literacy in a course that is topically oriented to reading and writing as scholarly inquiry and that encourages morerealistic conceptions of writing

Perl, Sondra. The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers.

Abstract This paper presents the pertinent findings from a study of the composing processes of five unskilled college writers (Per, 978). The first part summarizes the goals of the original study, the kinds of data collected, and the research methods employed. The second part is a synopsis of the study of Tony, one of the original five case studies. The third part presents a condensed version of the findings on the composing process and discusses these finding in light of the current pedagogical practice and research design.