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Examining the Role of Interdisciplinary Arts Courses in Liberal Arts Universities: A Qualitative Case Study View Digital Media
Poster Session Catie-Reagan King
This study addressed the literature gap surrounding the arts’ value to other disciplines, particularly concerning design thinking found in university arts education. In addition, the research aimed to encourage students to take art courses, universities to support them in doing so, and researchers to continue exploring the effects of arts-based cross-departmental courses on students’ development of 21st-century skills. This study’s research design was a qualitative case study using a human-centered approach informed by constructivist theory and design thinking methodologies. Constructivist theory shaped data collection, as the goal of observation and interviewing was to explore the research problem from the perspective of participants directly subjected to the phenomenon and who reflected on the impact that interdisciplinary art education had on their growth and development. A human-centered research approach focused on the community as a whole and generated meaning from lived experience. The researcher examines the implications of university arts courses offered to non-art majors by posing actionable recommendations for university administrators, curriculum designers, faculty, and students. Implementing these recommendations by liberal arts universities will lead to more well-rounded graduates equipped with the 21st-century skills needed for professional success. The findings indicate that participants benefited greatly from engaging in artistic expression. This triangulated data collection method created a way to analyze the data meaningfully. Positive outcomes, such as newfound confidence, a sense of community, a broadened worldview, and problem-solving skills were a few of the takeaways from participants. Each participant found value in creating art, working with others, and reflecting.
Featured Agency of Refugees sur Place: A Biopolitical Analysis of Border Crossing of North Koreans
Poster Session Dosol Lee
This paper employs middle-range theory, situating North Korean refugees sur place presented in various “space” including borders, camps, and courts. Firstly, this paper analyses legal status of North Korean border crossers in five states (South Korea, China, Russia, the UK, and the US) vis-à-vis North Koreans’ predicaments as refugees sur place. The legal status is then compared to this paper’s survey on self-identification of border crossers. Through this triangulation of identity analysis, this paper describes endogenous and exogenous variables of (de)refugeeisation. Notably, this paper focuses on the “agency” of (non)border crossers drawn on Foucauldian resistance and Bakhtinian answerability. In this view, border crossing is rephrased as self-emancipation practice in response to the body management of the states. This is further articulated upon this paper’s theoretical foundation, Ethics of Coexistence (EoC). EoC addresses the power to restore the politics of migration against scapegoating mechanisms; the fitness of deviance for constructive social changes; and the resilience of human agents to risks in border crossing. This paper concludes with ethical, legal and methodological reflections on primarily but not limited to North Korean refugees sur place.
Live and Alive: Cinematic Time and the Replication of Communities on Social Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic View Digital Media
Poster Session Laura Migliore
This research addresses live streams on social media platforms and the concept of immediacy. Live streams are characterized by their liveness because they are transmitted and viewed in real time, presenting a substantial degree of immediacy. The immediacy offered by live streams on social media is the result of live streams' specific temporality and interactivity. Temporality refers to the relationship between time and various media forms, such as photography, film, television, and livestreams. Interactivity refers to the features on social media which invite interactions between social media users and digital media. Perceived immediacy is subject to the immersional circumstances of social media users. Using a series of weekly religious services live-streamed on Facebook as a case study, this research explores how one community transitioned from in-person gatherings to digital gatherings under the unprecedented circumstances produced by the COVID-19 pandemic. It asserts that these circumstances heightened the immediacy displayed by the livestreams and perceived by their viewers. It explores the paradoxical situation produced by the COVID-19 pandemic: one wherein an intuitive understanding of community and life as antithetical to isolation and death was overturned. Because of COVID-19, the physical gathering of communities could cause deaths, and the physical isolation of individuals could save lives. Within this context, social media offered a virtual semblance of life and community.
Is a Land Restoration Economy Boom required in India? View Digital Media
Poster Session Anubhava Singla, Vrinda .
India aims to increase its tree cover to 95 million hectares by 2030, with a focus on tree plantations. News headlines often throw huge numbers like 2.5 lakh trees planted in a day, creating records but are these plantation drives really successful? The answer is unfortunately no, they merely remain boasted news headlines, a medium to gain traction for the politicians and to show the utilisation of funds. These plantations often fail due to poor maintenance, low survival rates, and inadequate research on suitable saplings. To address these issues, land restoration companies can provide a solution and help India achieve its targets. These companies prioritize maintenance, resulting in higher survival rates than government schemes. While developed nations have well-established land restoration companies, India faces challenges in funding these projects. Environmental and social benefits derived from land generation are not enough to secure private financing. Government and philanthropic financing are the primary revenue sources, but they come with their own challenges. To support a land restoration economy boom in India, the study highlights the need to address implementation challenges hindering the industry's proper functioning. The prospective research takes into consideration the JFM scheme introduced by the government in different states to reach the desired result. The study concludes with efforts required to help the restoration economic boom in India.
The Balcony: Social Importance View Digital Media
Poster Session Lester Mejia Lucar
An analysis of the balcony allows us to know its importance in social interest housing. Referential cases are reviewed, comparing several examples. All of the above this allows us to be sure of including a balcony in social interest homes. The presence of a balcony in social interest homes is a need confirmed by the pandemic. From its beginnings as a recreational use in countries with suitable climates, the balcony has evolved and has manifested itself as the intermediate space between the interior and exterior of a multi-family dwelling. In addition to the social use of these balconies, its importance as an element of composition in architectural design is seen.
The COVID-19 Pandemic in Binmaley: Changes in Religious Space, Memory, and Faith Expressions View Digital Media
Poster Session Rizelle Diaz
This is a qualitative study into the changes in space, memory, and faith expressions of the parish church community of Binmaley, Pangasinan due to COVID-19 public guidelines. Through interviews and fieldwork with the community, the study recognizes the parish as thirdspace. Interpreting Soja’s thirdspace, the trialectic of spatiality-historicality-sociality, the study denotes spatiality as space, historicality as memory, and sociality as faith expressions. With space as the starting point, the study looks into how COVID-19 guidelines affected the way people remembered and experienced the parish church. In terms of space, the parish church functioned as religious space (center of faith) and public space (center of community). With the pandemic, the parish church as space was decentralized—accessed from a distance or through digital screens. In terms of memory, the parish church was seen as community and sacred space. During the pandemic, the parish church as memory has shifted to smaller units (individual or family) and to a distanced/distracting space (e.g., outdoors or at home). In faith expressions, the individual often expresses their faith as working towards an individual need (penance or blessing). On the other hand, the community expresses its own faith as a way to respond to God’s call. Both convey their faith proactively. With the pandemic, both faith expressions—individual and communal—felt too passive for the respondents. Socially distanced and online/virtual religious practices have stripped respondents of their initiative and duty. In the end, respondents claimed an “incomplete” experience of religion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
How Can the Justice System Respond to Displacement and Social Change? View Digital Media
Poster Session Angelo Brown
The criminal justice system faces unique challenges and opportunities in an era of displacement and social change. Suppose the criminal justice system is unable to evolve. In that case, it will hinder its ability to maintain law and order while addressing the needs of communities, especially those that are in disadvantaged positions. This paper provides a framework for how the justice system can respond to our current social change in a holistic manner. The framework includes a proactive approach that acknowledges the underlying causes of displacement and social change rather than merely reacting to the symptoms. Agencies within the criminal justice system, such as law enforcement, courts, and corrections, need to recognize the broader social context and address the root causes through collaboration with other sectors, such as social services.
