A recently published report by the Pew Research Center discuss the news use across social media platforms. The findings are quite interesting:
Check out what some of JCU Communications students stated about the same issue:
11/20/2017
Livia Piotto
No Subjects
The Frohring Library will be closed on Thursday, November 23, to celebrate Thanksgiving. Regular opening hours will resume on Friday, November 24.
In the meantime you can check out some articles from JSTOR Daily for some interesting Thanksgiving facts for those moments when you need to... All stories contain free links to the supporting academic research on JSTOR.
11/14/2017
Livia Piotto
No Subjects
The Art History Society, in collaboration with the Frohring Library and the Department of Art History and Studio Art, is happy to invite the JCU community to the Fine Arts Show that will be held in the Aurelian Wing on November 16, at 7:30 pm.
Prof. William Pettit will present his work The Omniverse Dilemma, the current exhibit of the 4m2 Gallery located in the Aurelian Wing.
The pieces come from the union of two artistic intentions.
One concerns research in local and home-made materials, traditional ingredients, and pigments related to the history of both cooking and painting. These represent a sample of locally sourced colors and supports made by the artist based on medieval and Renaissance manuals.
The other is an exploration of physical and scientific structures and how they influence accumulation and and flow, and the gesture and hand of the artist. There is a balance between structure and and chance that reflects both cosmic and cellular formations.
The union of these two intentions form a biology of painting where the infinitesimal qualities of animal and vegetable chemistry reflect the elements of a macro- and micro-cosmic genesis, order, and entropy.
The Fine Arts Show will be accompanied by the launch of the on-line 4m2 Gallery and the presentation of the new 4m2 Gallery logo.
11/10/2017
Livia Piotto
No Subjects
The Pew Research Center recently released a report on The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online about prediction about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years.
The Pew Research Center in collaboration with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center conducted a large survey asking technologists, scholars, practitioners, and strategic thinkers to react to this issue:
"In the next 10 years, will trusted methods emerge to block false narratives and allow the most accurate information to prevail in the overall information ecosystem? Or will the quality and veracity of information online deteriorate due to the spread of unreliable, sometimes even dangerous, socially destabilizing ideas?" 1
The report brings the responses to the public highlighting 5 major themes regarding the environment of the future og online information:
1Pew Research Center, The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online, 19 October 2017.
Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) is the first database for analyzing and understanding key documents of international organizations. Each document is accompanied by a concise expert commentary.
OXIO includes, but is not limited to, resolutions and decisions of organizations, draft normative texts prepared within the framework of organizations, and constituent instruments of organizations. It also contains court decisions relevant for the institutional law of organizations as well as, occasionally, a treaty to which an organization is a party, where this brings light to issues of institutional law.
OXIO is available as a free resource for a limited time only, but it can be used for your final projects!