IUPUI Research Day 2013

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IUPUI Research Day 2013 Program. Research and Creative Activity Matters @ IUPUI: Imagine the Future!
(2013-04-05) Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, IUPUI
The Old-Time Tradition: Rediscovery of Folk Music in the United States
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Wagner, Chance D
Traditional music in America is at a crossroads in the present day as post-industrial capitalism and globalization have become solidified as permanent, dominant ideologies in American society. In times of social, political, and economic crises, citizens of their native countries tend to look backward for answers and the music of the past is also a part of this reflection. The 1960’s in America demonstrate this phenomenon perfectly. The time period in American history where social, economic, racial, and political conflict were in full force, young students from northern universities began to travel southward in search of a simpler existence with a more humanistic spirit. Many young adventurers found refuge in this old-time music and their involvement helped bring them closer to humanity and diverted them away from urban monotony, industrial capitalism, and prejudice. I aim to bring awareness to this music to propose that a similar migration should occur in the present day. Young Americans must be aware of their folk traditions and should learn to embrace and preserve them. If the progression of America remains the same, it will not be long before most folk traditions have dissolved into modernity. The modern music industry has developed right alongside industrial capitalism in America, so the performance of old time music can be regarded as a radical response to commercial music in general. By educating and urging people to be involved in the rediscovery of this tradition, I aim to create a base for other popular movements to form in response to globalization and corporate capitalism. Old-time music represents a spirit in American history that should not be forgotten and should be applied to the twenty-first-century social context.
Engaging with the Visual Arts
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Basile Center for Art, Design and Public Life
The Basile Center for Art, Design and Public Life is the primary contact point at Herron School of Art and Design for people in the community who want to partner with Herron and its faculty and students on creative projects. The Basile Center receives and assesses inquiries to determine the appropriateness and feasibility of incorporating potential projects into an academic curriculum in order to give students professional practice opportunities. The Basile Center’s poster will highlight two multidisciplinary projects that were completed during the 2011-2012 academic year. One project that the poster will highlight is a partnership with Dow AgroSciences, a biotechnology company that develops and produces agricultural products that improve the health and growth of crops around the world. Dow AgroSciences commissioned one large-scale outdoor sculpture, three benches, and two 2-dimensional artworks for their expanded facility on the northwest side of Indianapolis. The other project that will be featured on the Basile Center’s poster is a partnership with the IU Health Neuroscience Center, a brand new facility in downtown Indianapolis where patients can be treated for neurological conditions related to a wide variety of causes, including Alzheimer’s Disease, stroke, epilepsy, Huntington’s disease, and more. The IU Health Neuroscience Center commissioned benches and a 3-dimensional, site-specific installation. Through these two examples, the Basile Center’s Research Day poster will illustrate the process of such partnerships from the time the students propose their ideas to community partners to the time when they install their artworks on-location.
CORPUS: Toward a Collaborative Online Research Platform for Users of Scholarly Editions
(2013-04-05) De Tienne, André
Scholarly editions are central to the humanities: they seek to reconstitute the texts of seminal writers and thinkers with rigorous exactitude in order to provide researchers with an authoritative standard text. In the digital age, scholarly editions need to rethink from the ground up their dissemination methods in the light of the kind of services they need to provide to their growing international constituency. Successful scholarly editions will be those that take full advantage of advanced contents management frameworks so as to stimulate transformative scholarship while opening it to broader audiences. They need to offer online a wide but conveniently centralized array of options to users, including powerful search tools, interactive tools, collaborative tools, work zones, discussion areas, and—especially important for academic users—feedback areas where their contributions get peer-reviewed, assessed, and professionally accredited. We present the results of a research we have conducted toward the design of CORPUS, a dissemination platform that will (1) provide electronic access to the specialized content of critical editions; (2) provide access to a database of digital images while allowing authorized users to contribute metadata to that database; (3) provide an interactive interface allowing scholarly users to conduct research both publicly (in collaboration with others) and privately; (4) provide different levels of privileges allowing users to enhance the electronic product with their own scholarly contributions; (5) institute a quality-assessment system that keeps track of all contributors, gauges the quality of their contributions, protects the system’s integrity to guarantee a safe and productive environment, and offers peer-reviewed certifications that scholars can use as evidence of professional worth for instance in P&T dossiers or grant applications. We will report the results of a contextual study based on a series of IRB-approved interviews. We identified seven key user requirements, and generated corresponding design ideations for CORPUS.
Digital Atlas of American Religion
(2013-04-05) Bodenhamer, David; Kandris, Sharon; Devadasan, Neil; Colbert, Jay; Dowling, Jim; Danielson, Laura
Our poster presentation will introduce DAAR, the Digital Atlas of American Religion (http://www.religionatlas.org). DAAR is a web-based research platform with innovative data exploration and visualization tools to support research in the humanities. Time and location are essential components of humanities exploratory research; however, GIS technology, especially in its web form, does not support the easy exploration and visualization of the complex spatio-temporal data manipulated by humanists. DAAR presents researchers with an integrated solution stemming from several fields including GIS, visualization, and classification theory. Researchers using DAAR are provided with the following exploration/visualization techniques: maps, cartograms, tree maps, pie charts, and motion charts. Using these tools and methods, researchers can explore patterns, trends, and relationships in the data that otherwise are not apparent with traditional GIS or statistical software. DAAR allows researchers to understand the multiple dimensions and diversity of religion across geographies, or within geographies. Paired with historic census data, it allows them to explore relationships to give better context and meaning to the patterns and trends. Maps provide the spatial patterns and relationships, tree maps show relative strength and relationships, charts show trends, cartograms reveal relative numbers of adherence, and motion charts animate trends over time.
Puppets of Terror: The Limits and Opportunities of Creating Ambiguity about Terrorists and Terrorism through Humor
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Davey, Lydia
At times of war, the rhetorical strategy of framing an opponent as a dispensible “other” and dehumanizing the enemy enables people to view other human beings as worthy of death. Since 9/11, the labels of “terror” and “terrorist” have served these rhetorical ends. This analysis explores the ways that puppetry and rhetorical strategies of humor have been used since the 9/11 attacks to create ambiguity around the concepts of terrorists and terrorism. Comedians, with the help of a small army of complex, ambivalent characters, have problematized the politics of fear and dehumanization. This research examined puppets from three sources: the satirical news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; the marionette movie Team America; and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. The research draws on scholarship about the purpose and social functions of humor. Through the lens of rhetorical criticism and cultural studies, I analyzed the persona constructed by the puppets and the implications of their messages about terrorism, terrorists, and domestic policy. I suggest that the humorous use of puppets constructs a neutered terrorist threat, breaks down rigid perception barriers, and challenges visceral reactions to the words “terrorist” and “terror.” These performances also call into question the rigid and binary distinctions between good and evil that the politics of fear construct. However, even as they create ambiguity, these comic figures provide subtle strategies to deride the enemy, vent anger, and reinforce stereotypes about the threat of the “Other.” For better or worse, the use of not-quite human representatives of terror allowed America to laugh again after 9/11. Understanding the role of humor as it relates to fear, particularly regarding the sensitive and often racially charged discussion of radical Islamic fundamentalists, contributes to a refined perspective of the role of humor as a political tool.
Public Pedagogy and Popular Culture: Assessing Satire and Activism in an Emergent Media Landscape
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Herrera, Omar; Nightingale, Amy
Popular culture has created a widened scope through which non-traditional political actors participate in the public sphere. Moreover, new media technology such as YouTube videos, blogs, and internet memes has created new possibilities for crafting and exacting social change. Although scholars debate whether these opportunities harm or bolster genuine political activism, the fact remains that more individuals have the ability to gain access to and influence the public conversation thereby raising consciousness and galvanizing new communities. Through a communications and cultural studies framework, this research explores the opportunities and limitations of political satire within this media landscape of evolving web technologies. This exploration considers two case studies where non-traditional groups have been able to influence the national conversation. First, we analyze the LGBTQ community’s response to the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) widely-distributed advertisement “The Gathering Storm,” which opposed marriage equality and supported California’s Proposition 8. The satirical and parodic video responses produced by websites like Funny or Die exposed holes in NOM’s argument against marriage equality that might have remained inconspicuous without satirical intervention. Second, we examine the rhetoric of comedian Lalo Alcaraz and his ability to propel the term “self-deportation” to the national stage, eventually having the satirical term adopted into the right wing political platform. Under the pseudonym Daniel D. Portado, Alcaraz organized efforts online to promote the farcical policy, which resulted in political participation en masse on the part of otherwise alienated immigration activists. We argue that these satirical, new mediabased interventions provide alternative sites of political discourse that direct attention to issues and perspectives that would otherwise be ignored in the public sphere. Consequently this type of satirical intervention serves as a public pedagogy of the people in that it has the potential to help traditionally marginalized perspectives raise political consciousness and influence decision making.
Language vs. Behaviors: A Holistic Approach to Studying Racism
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Gillard, Laccy
Racism has always been an issue in the history of the United States. However, this country has evolved and transformed in ways that have greatly limited old time blatant racism. Consequently in today’s age, racism has converted into an implicit and arguably more insidious form, as it is not as obvious to identify. Subtle and implicit racial bias has become all the more difficult to identify or discuss given the popular belief that we will live in a post-racial society. Researchers from different disciplines have taken different approaches to understand and confront these implicit racial biases. In particular, social psychologists are interested in answering questions about social behavior. They seek to objectively and systematically measure and assess implicit racism through the use of experiments and implicit measures. Conversely, rhetoricians are interested in how language and symbols create perceptions of reality and understandings of the world. They aim to understand how language not only shapes our beliefs about racial matters but also reveals our attitudes and ways of thinking. Rhetoricians study language and symbol use in areas such as political discourse, educational discourse, media texts, and sites like civil rights museums which participate in shaping collective memories. This research will highlight the different methods to address implicit racism used by researchers in social psychology and rhetoric. The contribution of this research is not only to consider the unique intellectual insights of each field but also to argue for the necessity of interdisciplinary approaches to studying racism. Social scientific and humanities research complement one another’s aims. Therefore, together they provide a more complete understanding of and way to confront social problems such as implicit racism.
Art, Race, Space
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth; Labode, Modupe; Holzman, Laura M.; Mullins, Paul R.
Art, Race, Space is a collaborative research project that takes as its starting point E Pluribus Unum, a public art installation proposed for the Indianapolis Culture Trail by renowned artist Fred Wilson that was cancelled in 2011 due to controversy surrounding Wilson’s appropriation of a freed slave figure from the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Art, Race, Space” goes beyond examining the visual legacies of racial bondage to explore how the public responses to sculptures, memorials, and archaeology reveal our society’s faultlines of race and inequality. Building on the ideas about race, class, visual culture, and democratic debate that emerge from the Indianapolis project, the faculty have designed a multifaceted program to advance scholarship and promote civic dialogue about these significant issues. The faculty members organized an interdisciplinary symposium in January, 2013. Supported by an IAHI grant, the symposium explored the complicated relationships between art, race, and civic space with presentations by Wilson, community representatives who supported and opposed the sculpture, and scholars from a variety of disciplines who examined historical and cultural contexts of the controversy that had revealed Indianapolis’ longstanding racial and class tensions. The dialogue was expanded with the presentation of historical and contemporary examples from other parts of the United States. In order to encourage public dialogue, the symposium provided opportunities for audience members and presenters to engage in conversations, and it deployed social media (Twitter and Facebook) to encourage broader participation. The project's goal is to further scholarship and encourage public conversation on race and materiality. To this end the faculty have created a website, a Facebook page, Twitter account, and are working on an open-access curriculum to support dialogue in schools and informal learning settings about the complex issues of art, race, and representation. The faculty are also collaborating on academic publications, including selected proceedings and an article on the symposium's "hybrid discourse" that combined university and community resources, expertise, and communication practices and brought together diverse voices in constructive conversation about the challenging issues surrounding E Pluribus Unum.
Do the Homeless Count?
(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2013-04-05) Littlepage, Laura
Each year since 2007, the Indiana University Policy Public Institute (PPI) has worked with the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) to conduct the Point-in-Time Homeless Count in Marion County. This presentation will present results from the 2012 count conducted and considerations for policymakers. It will also have an interactive component to challenge stereotypes of homelessness.

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