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The Search for Women's Information : A Research Perspective
WESTBROOK, Lynn Asian Center for Women's Study ; Ewha Womans Unive 2005 Asian Journal of Women's Studies(AJWS) Vol.11 No.1
This paper provides a research perspective on developing information communication technology (ICT) in service to women and their communities. The activities which produce women's information are those which primarily serve, examine, and/or enhance the lives of women. ICT, when well designed, can make a significant improvement in both the development and dissemination of this information. Three interdisciplinary constructs underpin the proposed ICT research: development of women's knowledge structures, patterns in women's communication, and gender-related technology response patterns. Knowledge structure research can improve the design of information storage and retrieval systems by reinforcing the mechanisms many women use to incorporate new information into their extant understanding. Socially constructed communication patterns can provide a substantive array of strategies and tactics for women to use in sharing information. Understanding technology response patterns can improve ICT design and development as well as its deployment by supporting adaptation to both individual and community situations. Each of these three constructs is carefully explained in terms of both theory and current research. Finally, a three-part research agenda is proposed as the next stage in the cohesive, interdisciplinary, international development of women's information communication technology.
The Search for Women’s Information: A Research Perspective
Lynn WESTBROOK 이화여자대학교 아시아여성학센터 2005 Asian Journal of Women's Studies(AJWS) Vol.11 No.1
This paper provides a research perspective on developing information communication technology (ICT) in service to women and their communities. The activities which produce women’s information are those which primarily serve, examine, and/or enhance the lives of women. ICT, when well designed, can make a significant improvement in both the development and dissemination of this information. Three interdisciplinary constructs underpin the proposed ICT research: development of women’s knowledge structures, patterns in women’s communication, and gender-related technology response patterns. Knowledge structure research can improve the design of information storage and retrieval systems by reinforcing the mechanisms many women use to incorporate new information into their extant understanding. Socially constructed communication patterns can provide a substantive array of strategies and tactics for women to use in sharing information. Understanding technology response patterns can improve ICT design and development as well as its deployment by supporting adaptation to both individual and community situations. Each of these three constructs is carefully explained in terms of both theory and current research. Finally, a three-part research agenda is proposed as the next stage in the cohesive, interdisciplinary, international development of women’s information communication technology.
Freedom of Religion, Sangsaeng, and Symbiosis in the Post-COVID Study of (New) Religions
Donald A. WESTBROOK DAOS(The Daesoon Academy of Sciences) 2023 Journal of Daesoon Thought and the Religions of Ea Vol.2 No.2
This article explores the intersection of freedom of religion, sangsaeng, and symbiosis when considering the post-COVID study of religions, especially new religions. When it comes to the study of new and alternative religious groups, where there is more potential for misunderstanding and misinformation, it becomes all the more important-and indeed mutually beneficial, in the areas of religious liberty, religious freedom, and cross-cultural dialogue-to learn about a tradition by taking into account the spiritual life and practices of members themselves and their own sacred writings and practices. Daesoon Jinrihoe offers a case study of the importance of this principle and the notion of sangsaeng in particular is a fruitful utilitarian lens for thinking about how scholars, journalists, and others might approach the study of religion in our complex and global digital age of (mis) information. Daesoon Jinrihoe is also considered in light of Roy Wallis's typology of world-rejecting, world-affirming, and world-accommodating new religious movements. Open areas for sociological research are proposed and the nascent field of Daesoon studies is compared to some similar scholarly endeavors within NRM studies.
Multidisciplinary fingerprints: forensic reconstruction of an insect reinvasion
Kim, Kyung Seok,Jones, Gretchen D.,Westbrook, John K.,Sappington, Thomas W. The Royal Society 2010 Journal of the Royal Society, Interface Vol.7 No.45
<P> An unexpected outbreak of boll weevils, <I>Anthonomus grandis</I> , an insect pest of cotton, across the Southern Rolling Plains (SRP) eradication zone of west-central Texas, USA, was detected soon after passage of Tropical Storm Erin through the Winter Garden district to the south on 16 August 2007. The synchrony and broad geographic distribution of the captured weevils suggest that long-distance dispersal was responsible for the reinvasion. We integrated three types of assessment to reconstruct the geographic origin of the immigrants: (i) DNA fingerprinting; (ii) pollen fingerprinting; and (iii) atmospheric trajectory analysis. We hypothesized the boll weevils originated in the Southern Blacklands zone near Cameron, or in the Winter Garden district near Uvalde, the nearest regions with substantial populations. Genetic tests broadly agree that the immigrants originated southeast of the SRP zone, probably in regions represented by Uvalde or Weslaco. The SRP pollen profile from weevils matched that of Uvalde better than that of Cameron. Wind trajectories supported daily wind-aided dispersal of weevils from the Uvalde region to the SRP from 17 to 24 August, but failed to support migration from the Cameron region. Taken together the forensic evidence strongly implicates the Winter Garden district near Uvalde as the source of reinvading boll weevils. </P>
Four Extended-Reach TDM PONs Sharing a Bidirectional Hybrid CWDM Amplifier
Iannone, P.P.,Lee, H.H.,Reichmann, K.C.,Zhou, X.,Du, M.,Palsdottir, B.,Feder, K.,Westbrook, P.,Brar, K.,Mann, J.,Spiekman, L. IEEE 2008 Journal of lightwave technology Vol.26 No.1
<P>We demonstrate four conventional TDM PONs with symmetric 2.5-Gb/s line rate and extended reach, sharing a common infrastructure. A hybrid SOA-Raman amplifier provides 150-nm bidirectional gain over the PONs' downstream and upstream CWDM wavelength plan.</P>