scholarly journals Circling COVID: Making in the Time of a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abra Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Communities ◽  
Online Exchanges

The following is an account of some current Indigenous artistic trends and responses during the COVID‑19 pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in Indigenous artists adapting social media to maintain COVIDdisrupted knowledge networks about traditional making. In so doing, they have reimagined how to continue links within and beyond their own cultural communities. Art has become both an outlet and a connection to neighbours, friends, and strangers across geographic boundaries. Indigenous textile artists are refashioning their art and materials to maintain and reflect contemporary Indigenous issues and values that emphasize their community and reflect survivance, all while safely at a distance. The artists highlighted and discussed in this article include Dene, Métis, and Inuvialuit women with whom I have worked and who have contributed to my research in the Northwest Territories (NWT), as well as other Indigenous artists from across North America well known for their creative work. Because the coronavirus has all but eliminated non-essential travel to the NWT, the information that is presented has been developed through online exchanges with these women and by observing the artists’ public social media accounts over the course of six months.

Attitudes of Social Media Users Toward Mountain Lions in North America

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Evan Greenspan ◽  
Michelle A. Larue ◽  
Clayton K. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Mountain Lions

Insects Reared from Goldenrod Galls Caused by Eurosta solidaginis Fitch (Diptera: Trypetidae) in Southern Ontario

1953 ◽  
Vol 85 (8) ◽  
pp. 294-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Judd
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Eurosta Solidaginis ◽  
Southern Ontario

Studies of the goldenrod gall caused by Eurosta solidaginis Fitch have been made by various authors who reared insects from the galls in North America, e.g. Hughes (1934), Milne (1940) and Ping (1915). Snyder (1898) described the emergence of an adult fly from a gall in Illinois. In Canada, insects have been reared from galls collected in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories by Brodie (1892), in Quebec by Fyles (1894) and in Ontario by Harrington (1895). An opportunity has been taken recently to examine specimens reared by Dr. G. Beall from galls collected at Chatham, Ontario in 1930 and to rear insects from galls in the vicinity of London, Ontario.

scholarly journals “Real Heroes Care”: How Dad Bloggers Are Reconstructing Fatherhood and Masculinities

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey Scheibling
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
Involved Fathers ◽  
Blog Posts

“Dad bloggers” are an emerging community of fathers in North America. These men use social media to document and discuss their experiences as parents and gather annually at the Dad 2.0 Summit. A central topic of discussion both online and offline is how involved fathers negotiate and rework gender roles and expectations. This study examines how dad bloggers create and engage with discourse about masculinities. Using blog posts, fieldwork observations, and interviews as data, I present qualitative findings illustrating the ways in which dad bloggers challenge traditional notions of masculinity, construct “caring masculinities,” and adopt a pro-feminist perspective. Despite certain tensions and contradictions within the community, I argue that dad bloggers are reconstructing fatherhood and masculinities in ways that promote care and equality overall.

scholarly journals Plauditus cestus (Provonsha & McCafferty, 1982) (Insecta: Ephemeroptera: Baetidae): New records from Virginia and the Northwest Territories, with notes on color variation

Check List ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa R. Gorski ◽  
Autumn D. E. Fox ◽  
Jordan I. McQueen ◽  
Luke M. Jacobus
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Abdominal Segment ◽  
New Records ◽  
Color Variation ◽  
Aquatic Habitats ◽  
Far North ◽  
Color Variant

Plauditus cestus (Provonsha & McCafferty, 1982) is widespread in eastern and central North America. We provide new data from Virginia that fill a gap in the range of distribution and new data from the Northwest Territories that extend the range of the species by over 1900 km to the northwest. The Northwest Territories specimen represents a new larval color variant, with pronounced coloration of abdominal segment 6. We emphasize the need for additional sampling of aquatic habitats in the Far North.

scholarly journals Social and institutional presence of the Heads of Government of the Americas on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-129
Author(s):  
Lucas Dejard Moreira Mendonça ◽  
Adriano Madureira dos Santos ◽  
Harold Dias de Mello Junior ◽  
Rita de Cássia Romeiro Paulino ◽  
Karla Figueiredo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Institutional Leadership ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
Heads Of Government

This article examined the personal profiles of the Heads of Government of countries in South/North America and how they communicated with their audiences on institutional measures to contain COVID-19. Analyses were carried out on data collected from Twitter from November-2019 to November-2020. This study includes: i)quantitative analysis, measuring categories and emphases in the communication of tweets, retweets, likes, and comments on matters relevant to the pandemic; ii)qualitative analysis that allowed evaluating speeches to identify political interference and the effectiveness of communication at critical moments of the pandemic. It was possible to infer that each president has his singularities and understanding about Social Media’s use as a more direct communication tool with his audience. It was also found that successful communication is not directly proportional to the volume of messages on Twitter, but to socio-political aspects and institutional leadership that can make a difference in Social Media in combating COVID-19.

Creative Collaboration and Online Social Media

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophy Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Creative Collaboration ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Artistic Collaboration ◽  
The People ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Social Media Tools

Web 2.0 online social media tools have made it increasingly easy to communicate, cooperate, and collaborate with others online, and as such offer new frameworks for making creative work. Facebook claims that it helps members connect and share, but what if the people you want to connect and share with are your artistic collaborators? Can Facebook be used creatively, as a collaborative artistic environment? This article draws on a practical research project ‘Feedback’, carried out by the author in early 2010, exploring new methodologies for collaborative creation supported by online social media. The project focused on the creative use of Facebook as a tool for creative collaboration, establishing a possible working model of artistic collaboration using Facebook.

scholarly journals Dropping the Ball? The Welfare of Ball Pythons Traded in the EU and North America

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D’Cruze ◽  
Suzi Paterson ◽  
Jennah Green ◽  
David Megson ◽  
Clifford Warwick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Housing Conditions ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Water Provision ◽  
The Eu

Ball pythons (family Pythonidae) remain a commonly exploited species, readily available for purchase in North America and Europe. We assessed the housing conditions of more than 5000 Ball pythons across six exotic pet expositions and 113 YouTube videos. We scored provisions for hygiene, mobility, shelter, substrate and water provision, based on the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) minimum guidelines. We found most entities involved in this commercial enterprise are not providing housing conditions that meet the minimum welfare recommendations for Ball pythons, either publicly or privately. We found that breeders and vendors typically utilised small and highly restrictive enclosures, with dimensions that prevented occupants from extending their bodies to full and unrestricted natural length. Our study also highlights that most vendors are not providing adequate written husbandry guidance to potential consumers, either at exotic pet expositions, on their commercial website, or on associated social media pages. Furthermore, our study also indicates that most potential consumers may themselves be unable to recognise unsuitable housing conditions that do not meet minimum animal welfare standards for Ball pythons. We suggest that more consistent guidance, adherence to agree principles and more potent operating models that are formally incorporated into relevant legislation would greatly aid existing and future efforts to safeguard animal welfare in this regard.

Upper Llandovery and Wenlock graptolites from Prairie Creek, southern Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories

1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1955-1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred C. Lenz
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Mackenzie Mountains ◽  
Rich Fauna

A moderately rich fauna of graptolites, comprising species dominated by Monograptus (sensu stricto), Retiolites, Stomatograptus, and Cyrtograptus is documented from Prairie Creek, southern Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories. Graptolites of the upper Llandovery Monograptus turriculatus, Monograptus spiralis, and Cyrtograptus sakmaricus zones and of the Wenlock "unnamed zone" and Cyrtograptus rigidus and Monograptus testis – Cyrtograptus lundgreni zones are recognized. The species composition of these zones is significantly different from corresponding zones elsewhere in the Canadian Cordillera.Twenty-six species are described and illustrated, and of these, two are new: Stomatograptus canadensis and Cyrtograptus preclarus; and two species, Monograptus aff. riccartonensis and Cyrtograptus aff. sakmaricus might also be new. Several species, particularly Monograptus praecedens, Monograptus veles, and Monograptus cf. mutuliferus strigosus have not been prevously reported in North America.

In Search of “Fellow Pilgrims”: Radical Protestants and Transconfessional Exchanges in Europe and the British Atlantic, c. 1670–1730

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bouldin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
British Isles ◽  
British Atlantic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Public Sphere

The mobility and literacy of many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dissenters allowed for the circulation of people and ideas throughout Europe, the British Isles, and colonial North America. This article focuses on the interactions of dissenting groups who flourished in the half century between the Restoration and the Great Awakening, such as English Philadelphians, French Prophets, radical German Pietists, Quakers, Bourignonians, and Labadists. It considers how a push for further reforms, particularly those arising from the context of late seventeenth-century millenarianism, served as a catalyst for radical Protestants to seek out other dissenters with the goal of uniting communities of reformers across linguistic, confessional, and geographic boundaries. Dissenters facilitated their endeavors through the development of new sites of sociability, a reliance on implicit codes of expected behavior, and the circulation of manuscript and printed texts. By relying on mechanisms of the public sphere, they carried out esoteric conversations and critical debates about radical Protestantism.

scholarly journals Do Corporate Carbon Policies Enhance Legitimacy? A Social Media Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Galán-Valdivieso ◽  
Laura Saraite-Sariene ◽  
Juana Alonso-Cañadas ◽  
María Caba-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Carbon Mitigation ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Carbon Policy ◽  
Carbon Performance ◽  
Practical Implications

Stakeholders are increasingly concerned about climate change and companies’ commitment to anticipate future carbon-related risks, and grant or withdraw support depending on their perceptions of firms’ carbon performance. The aim of this research is to analyse which carbon-related factors influence stakeholders with regards to the legitimacy-granting process. The sample in this study includes 146 firms from North America and Europe committed to carbon mitigation, whose legitimacy is measured via social media interactions. Findings show that setting a corporate carbon policy and disclosing an internal price of carbon are positively linked to legitimacy, while other factors are negatively or not related to legitimacy. This study makes theoretical contributions, proposing a metric based on social media stakeholder engagement to measure corporate legitimacy, as well as practical implications, revealing which carbon information shapes stakeholders’ perception of firms’ climate performance, and opening new possibilities for future research.

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