scholarly journals Contemporary Religious Changes in the U.S.: Responses to the Fracturing of Religious Life

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Verna Marina Ehret
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Narratives ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Landscape Survey ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Religious Landscape

The purpose of this essay is to explore the changing religious landscape of the United States in relation to social and political changes and how scholars of religion ought to respond to those changes. These changes are being evaluated through recent developments in theological narratives of the last 15 years in light of the data provided by the Pew Forum’s Religious Landscape Survey from 2007 and 2014. Special attention is paid to the impact of the 2016 election on social and political narratives and their impact on religious life and religious narratives. The essay argues that scholars of religion have an important voice in this changing landscape to provide tools for building community in diversity and challenging narratives of exclusion that seek to dominate the religious landscape of the United States.

‘Y’all need to hide your kids, hide your wife’: Mobile applications, risk and sex offender databases

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 2469-2484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharif Mowlabocus
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Sex Offender ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Mapping ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article reflects upon recent developments in sex offender tracking and monitoring. Taking as its focus a suite of mobile applications available for use in the United States, the author explores the impact and consequences of remediating the data held by State offender databases. The article charts the recent history of techno-corrections as it applies to this category of criminal, before then undertaking an analysis of current remediation of this legally obtained data. In doing so, the author identifies how the recontextualizing of data serves to (re)negotiate the relationship between the user, the database and registered sex offenders. The author concludes by arguing that the (mobile) mapping of offender databases serves to obscure the original intentions of these recording mechanisms and might hinder their effectiveness in reducing sex offending.

Humanism and Political Identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juhem Navarro-Rivera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Landscape Survey ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Religious Landscape

This chapter focuses on humanist political identities and how these shape views on various social, cultural, and political matters. The chapter considers “humanists” as people (a) who are nontheistic, meaning they do not believe in God; and (b) whose worldviews are shaped not by religious belief but by science and philosophy. This definition of humanist overlaps with the segment of the population that consider itself atheist but is not entirely composed of self-identified atheists. For this reason, the humanist cohort is not limited to the nonreligious. An analysis of the 2014 Religious Landscape Survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project shows that humanists in the United States hold views about politics, economics, and culture that are more liberal than most religious Americans. As humanism becomes better known and embraced by more nonreligious Americans, their views could become an important part of the Democratic Party coalition.

The Promises and Challenges of Health Information Technology

2012 ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Brian Gugerty ◽  
Michael J. Maranda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Health Records ◽  
Healthcare Information Technology ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the application of Information Technology to healthcare in the United States. Recent developments and trends in healthcare information technology (HIT) are presented and discussed. Widespread adoption of HIT promises to save lives, save money, and improve health. Definitions, descriptions, and examples of electronic health records (EHRs) and personal health records (PHRs) are provided. The significant efforts to broadly and meaningfully adopt HIT over the next several years are discussed. The significant challenges in implementing EHRs are discussed, including transformation of clinical processes. Finally, the impact of HIT on the concept of ownership of the healthcare record and how it may change the relationship between the patient and healthcare provider are explored. Implementing effective HIT on a nationwide scale will require considerable effort.

Miranda, Francisco de

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joselyn M. Almeida
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Latino Immigration ◽  
Latino Literature ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Cabeza De Vaca ◽  
New Democracy ◽  
The Impact

Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), known as El Precursor (the Precursor) in Latin America, belongs in the canon of Latino Literature as a contrapuntal figure to the better-known and frequently anthologized Álvar Nuñez, Cabeza de Vaca, and as a critical Hispanic voice amidst better-known European travelers such as Alexis de Tocqueville. Miranda’s journey can be considered within the context of his dramatic transatlantic life and the broader historiography. In the Viaje por los Estados Unidos, 1783–1784, translated as The New Democracy in America: Travels of Francisco de Miranda in the United States, 1783–1784, Miranda articulates a hemispheric consciousness that anticipates the impact of Latino immigration in the American story, turning it into a North–South narrative, as well recent developments in American studies. At the same time, he opens a space for sovereignty in Latin America. Through his experiences in the United States, Miranda confronts the limits of a democracy predicated on exclusionary categories of race, gender, and class. Finally, Miranda can be considered an early exponent of Romanticism in the Hispanophone world in his engagement with the historical sublime and his construction of an autobiographical subject who is conscious of being a historical agent.

scholarly journals To Speak or Not to Speak: Developing Legal Standards for Anonymous Speech on the Internet

10.28945/2526 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas A. Lipinski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores recent developments in the regulation of Internet speech, in specific, injurious or defamatory speech and the impact such speech has on the rights of anonymous speakers to remain anonymous as opposed to having their identity revealed to plaintiffs or other third parties. The paper proceeds in four sections. First, a brief history of the legal attempts to regulate defamatory Internet speech in the United States is presented. As discussed below this regulation has altered the traditional legal paradigm of responsibility and as a result creates potential problems for the future of anonymous speech on the Internet. As a result plaintiffs are no longer pursuing litigation against service providers but taking their dispute directly to the anonymous speaker. Second, several cases have arisen in the United States where plaintiffs have requested the identity of the anonymous Internet speaker be revealed. These cases are surveyed. Third, the cases are analyzed in order to determine the factors that courts require to be present before the identity of an anonymous speaker will be revealed. The release is typically accomplished by the enforcement of a discovery subpoena issued by the moving party. The factors courts have used are as follows: jurisdiction, good faith (both internal and external), necessity (basic and sometimes absolute), and at times proprietary interest. Finally, these factors are applied in three scenarios—e-commerce, education, and employment—to guide institutions when adopting policies that regulate when the identity of an anonymous speaker— a customer, a student or an employee—would be released as part of an internal initiative, but would nonetheless be consistent with developing legal standards.

Impact of Recent Developments on the Status of Commercial Nuclear Power and Reactor Decommissioning in the United States

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jas S. Devgun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Energy Economics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Mountain Closure ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the impact of three recent developments on the commercial nuclear power in the United States. These developments include: Yucca Mountain closure and issues related to SNF; actions in response to Fukushima Diaiichi accident, and; energy economics. All of these have had a significant impact on the commercial nuclear power, its future, as well as the reactor decommissioning scene in the US.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari Rabin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

Two important but relatively unknown events marked the summer of 1877, involving businessman Joseph Seligman and Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, highlight the impact of mobility on religious life and thought at the end of an era in American history. The shifting economy and demography of American life created a new context for religious life, in which Jewish mobility was less common and Jewish whiteness was questioned. The 2.2 million Jews who came to the United States around the turn of the twentieth century built on the American Jewish infrastructure that earlier Jews had created and that would see its heyday at the middle of the twentieth century. Today, globalization and the Internet have thrust Americans back into an age of relentless mobility, anonymity, and uncertainty. Again, unafilliated Jews—and the much-heralded “nones” of all backgrounds—seek identity and belonging through family, informal social ties, print culture, and forms of knowledge unmoored from stable, coherent, and authoritative religious sources.

The Promises and Challenges of Health Information Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Brian Gugerty ◽  
Michael J. Maranda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Health Records ◽  
Healthcare Information Technology ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the application of Information Technology to healthcare in the United States. Recent developments and trends in healthcare information technology (HIT) are presented and discussed. Widespread adoption of HIT promises to save lives, save money, and improve health. Definitions, descriptions, and examples of electronic health records (EHRs) and personal health records (PHRs) are provided. The significant efforts to broadly and meaningfully adopt HIT over the next several years are discussed. The significant challenges in implementing EHRs are discussed, including transformation of clinical processes. Finally, the impact of HIT on the concept of ownership of the healthcare record and how it may change the relationship between the patient and healthcare provider are explored. Implementing effective HIT on a nationwide scale will require considerable effort.

The American Experience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Exceptional Case ◽  
American Experience ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Citizen Perceptions ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

This chapter tracks the evolution of the economic and cultural cleavages in the United States from the early 1970s to the 2016 election. Institutionally, the United States is an exceptional case because of its institutional structure as well as its economic and cultural history. Yet the same forces of social and economic change observed in Europe also occurred in the United States. The chapter tracks citizen perceptions of party issue positions over time. The analyses then show a persisting economic cleavage in voting patterns, and a growing importance of the cultural cleavage over time. The final analytic section concentrates on the impact of the economic and cultural cleavages on voting in 2016, showing how various candidates in the primaries affect the importance of both cleavages. The analyses are based on the American National Election Studies from 1972 to 2016.

What did Russian Trolls Want During the 2016 Election? A Closer Look at the Internet Research Agency’s Active Measures

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Addyson Jackson ◽  
Class of 2021 ◽  
Katie Kovarik ◽  
Class of 2021
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Honors College ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Conference

Katie and Addyson’s work is primarily centered around the question: Why did Russian trolls want to interfere with the United States presidential election of 2016? They worked with Dr. Tricia Jenkins and were sponsored by the John V. Roach Honors College. Their role in the research consisted of research and an immense amount of coding pertaining to tweets during the time of the election. They sorted tweets with both extreme right and extreme left content. Their findings were presented at a global conference at Oxford in the United Kingdom where they learned of the impact of Russian interference in many international cases.

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