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This paper explores the paradoxical nature of computer technology to both help and hinder people with disabilities (PWD). More specifically, it examines how assistive computer technology improves or alleviates disability and how standard computer technology produces or exacerbates disability. The study consists of 12 interviews with people who have a physical or mental disability that requires them to use assistive technology (AT) to access the computer or complete cognitive tasks. The study results investigate the complex mix of benefits and drawbacks experienced by AT users. The types of AT include screen magnifiers, screen readers, voice recognition systems (VRS) and two other devices that convert handwriting to text. The study demonstrates that while AT helps provide partial computer access to PWD, its many technical defects and social costs prevent it from solving the problem of computer access for PWD. The study also reveals that screen readers and VRS simultaneously help and hinder reading and writing. When PWD are denied full computer access, they are denied the same economic, educational and social opportunities afforded to those who are free of disability and this puts them at risk of becoming even more disadvantaged. This paper addresses the concern that the standard computer’s restrictive interface may work to further the divide between the able and the disabled.

Women are seriously underrepresented in the field of music production because of a number of social and systemic barriers. These barriers include a lack of access to technology, a lack of encouragement to use technology, shortages of same-sex/same-gender role models, and the marginalization of women’s contributions in the field. In response, I organized the event “Resampled music production workshops for women and trans folks.” My aim was to challenge some of these barriers and to encourage women and trans folk to engage in music production. A team of experienced female facilitators led the Resampled workshops, which covered a variety of disciplines in the music production and technology fields. Women and trans people of all experience levels were invited to participate in the free event, which took place on July 14, 2013, in Toronto. This paper outlines Resampled’s mission and pedagogical approach, including its goal of working toward social justice through empowerment, community development, and participatory learning. After the event, participants were invited to complete a feedback questionnaire about their experiences at Resampled. Drawing upon this feedback, along with critical discourses on women in music production, this paper analyzes the usefulness of Resampled as an approach for tackling injustice and inequality in the field. My findings demonstrate that although the model has limitations with regard to facilities, funding, and outreach, it was highly effective in fostering a productive learning environment and in empowering participants to further explore music production.

This study combines the fields of communication studies and psychology in order to determine the relationship between personality type, academic background, and social media content. Ten participants from each of McMaster University’s seven undergraduate faculties completed a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to determine their personality type, and submitted 10 personally written status updates or comments from the social media platforms of Twitter or Facebook. The Content Analysis of Verbatim Explanation (CAVE) method was used to analyze 630 social media content to determine overall positive or negative explanatory style. The dominant personality types at McMaster University as determined by the 70 participants are: INFP, ENFJ, and ISTJ. In type preference it was found that 68% of the participants prefer the attitude of Introversion (I), 70% prefer the perceptive function of Intuition (N), 54.3% prefer the judging function of Thinking (T), and 61.4% prefer the orientation of Judging (J). The following personality preferences were found to be correlated with the CAVE’s explanatory dichotomies: Internal/External with Sensing (S) / Judging (J), Stable/Unstable with Extraversion (E) / Sensing, Global/Specific with Sensing/Thinking, and Controllable/Uncontrollable with Sensing. Of the 630 submitted social media content, 68.4% of them were found describing positive events. It was found that 92.1% of the social media content contained an optimistic explanatory style. These findings strongly suggest that the majority of content written and uploaded on social media is positive and that personality type plays a minor role in content and explanations produced. It is concluded from these results that social media is an inherently positive medium for university students. The primary reason for this is believed to be a result of social media being an immensely public sphere forcing all individuals, regardless of personality type, to engage in higher levels of self-monitoring.

This archive contains an inventory of the Globalization Compendium which was one of the outcomes of the Globalization and Autonomy project. See "About the Project" and "About the Compendium" below. The Globalization and Autonomy project was funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and led by William Coleman. This archiving project was conducted by Geoffrey Rockwell, Shawn Day, and Joyce Yu. Date of Archiving: August 2007-September 2011. The Current URL of the globalization compendium can be found at - http://www.globalautonomy.ca/ The Current URL to the archiving project is at - http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/ProblemOverview (Note: this site is a wiki where we documented what we were doing. It doesn't necessarily reflect the final decisions.) This archive contains: 1. A zip file named "Globalization Compendium_Archival_entries_PDF and XML files.zip" This Zip file contains two folders of all the contributions and entries found on the Globalization Compendium website in both PDF and XML format. The un-Zipped versions of the folders are also included. 2. The folder named "Globalization Compendium_Archival Entries_PDF files" contains all of the contributions and entries found on the Globalization Compendium website in PDF format. 3. The folder named "Globalization Compendium_Archival Entries_XML files" contains all of the contributions and entries found on the Globalization Compendium website in XML format. 4. The file named "Globalization Compendium_Bibliographic_Database.txt" contains contains the bibliographic information of all the entries that have been contributed to the Globalization Compendium. 5. The file "Globalization Compendium_Textfile_map.rtf" contains the list of the files and subdirectories for the globalization server at the root level for the project. This illustrates how files in the global1 directory were structured. 6. The file "Globalization Compendium_Contributor_Database.txt" lists all of the authors who have contributed entries to the Globalization Compendium 7. The "Globalization Documenting_Interactivity_files" folder contains GIF files of different sections from the Globalization Compendium website. 8. The file named "Globalization Compendium_Documenting_Interactivity.pdf" serves as written guide on how to navigate the Globalization Compendium website. 9. The folder named "Globalization Compendium_Globalization Archive_Directory" is the whole site from the root level down as it was on the working server. 10. The directory (# 9) of the globalization archive can be found in the compressed file titled "Globalization Compendium_Globalization Achive_Directory.tar". 11. An dump of the SQL global database containing the bibliographic table and the contributors table. This is found in the file named "Globalization Compendium_Globalization_Dump.sql". 12. The "Globalization Compendium_Globalization_Website_Editor_experience.pdf" file is an interactive PDF that simulates the editor experience of the Globalization Compendium website, using hotlinks to explain how navigation worked between pages. 13. The "Globalization Compendium_Globalization_Website_User_experience.pdf" file is an annotated PDF that explains the user experience of the Globalization Compendium website, using comments and hotlinks to explain how navigation worked. 14.The folder named "Globalization Compendium_Globalization_Entries" contains the PDF files of the Glossary entries for the Globalization Compendium. 15. The PDF files of the Glossary entries in the Globalization Compendium can be found zZipped in the Globalization Compendium_Glossary_Entries.zip" file. 16. The folder named "Globalization Compendium_Globalization_Project_Wiki_Information contains the PDF files of the wiki pages that documented our deliberations and considerations as we undertook this project. 16. The "Globalization Compendium_ReadMe_First.txt" is this text file. In January 2002, through its Major Collaborative Research Initiatives program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) gave a grant of CDN 2.5 million to our research team in support of a wide-ranging study of the dialectical relationships and interplay between globalization and autonomy. The research group is a large one involving forty co-investigators in twelve universities across Canada, and another twenty academic contributors from outside Canada, including scholars from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Slovenia, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We have an affiliated interdisciplinary research team of sixteen scholars based in Tunisia, which includes some members from Jordan, Lebanon, Spain, and France as well. Scholars from the following disciplines are involved: Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Economics, English Literature, Ethnomusicology, Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology. The Rationale for the Project Over the past several decades, processes now termed globalization have been restructuring the way many people live and how they relate to others. They are reducing many limits on social interaction once imposed by physical location. These processes are also destabilizing existing centers of authority and security such as nation-states, with new centers emerging at various scales of social life, from global down to local levels. Globalization has reconfigured the organization and scope of markets and the production and diffusion of cultural forms and practices. Many individuals and communities have begun to resent the changes involved and have moved to oppose and resist the dynamics of globalization. Others are seeking to exploit the new opportunities that come with globalization in the hope of changing the cultural and social situations in which they live. In both cases, human beings are seeking to control and harness these new forces in order to secure their autonomy, that is, the opportunities for individuals to shape the conditions under which they live and the capacities of communities to shape the laws and norms which order their ways of living. Individuals and communities have long identified autonomy in these senses as means to creating the ways of life they imagine as best for them. The dialectical relationships between globalization and autonomy have become increasingly central to the world in which we live. Individuals and communities are experiencing the changes resulting from globalization when they go to work, meet their friends, observe and challenge their political leaders, relate to their environment, and imagine their cultures — their ways of living. When individuals and communities take action in response to these changes, these acts now more easily reverberate to other parts of the globe. They are more likely to affect other communities far away, forcing change on supranational institutions. These experiences, these responses, and these actions often trigger processes designed to secure and build autonomy. The search for autonomy may sometimes involve attempts to resist global integration and more profound interdependence by building walls or securing borders in attempts to minimize the impact of globalization. Or such strivings may be directed at utilizing these same globalizing processes and globality to construct new global networks to counter those of transnational crime, capitalism, imperialism, and other forms of domination and global heteronomy. The Core Objectives and Research Questions of the Project In pursuit of an in-depth understanding of these dialectical tensions between globalization and autonomy, and to permit us to draw on the broad range of our disciplinary expertise in a collaborative, interdisciplinary way, we formally agreed as a team in October 2002 to focus on the following core research objectives: Overall Research Objective To investigate the relationship between globalization and the processes of securing and building autonomy. To this end, we will seek to refine understanding of these concepts and of the historical evolution of the processes inherent in both of them, given the contested character of their content, meaning, and symbolic status. Given that globalization is the term currently employed to describe the contemporary moment, we will: determine the opportunities globalization might create and the constraints globalization might place on individuals and communities seeking to secure and build autonomy evaluate the extent to which individuals and communities might be able to exploit these opportunities and to overcome these constraints assess the opportunities for empowerment that globalization might create for individuals and communities seeking to secure and to build autonomy determine how the autonomy available to individuals and communities might permit them to contest, reshape, or engage globalization We chose to attack these objectives by focusing our attention on a series of research questions that fall into three groups. First, we accept that globalization and autonomy have deep historical roots. What is happening today in the world is in many ways continuous with what has taken place in the past. From its inception, capitalism has incorporated a globalizing dynamic. Political, economic, and cultural structures of varying form, often grouped under the headings of empires and imperialism, have reflected global ambitions. Struggles for autonomy have occurred at the frontiers of these empires, at their dissolution and in many other sites both within and outside imperial structures. Central to many of these struggles are those over the introduction of Western notions of property rights. The burden then of any contemporary examination of globalization and autonomy is to assess in some way what is new and what has changed in significant ways. We need to investigate how a host of political, economic, technological, ideological, and cultural events and forces contributed to new circumstances that drastically increased the depth, breadth, speed, and range of penetrations of global operations, including property rights. Second, the dynamics of the relationship between globalization and autonomy are related to a series of important changes in the locations of power and authority. Moreover, the tensions between integration on the one side and fragmentation on the other that occur in the contemporary period pose particular problems for governance, autonomy, democracy, and accountability. This period has also created openings for new realms of activity subject primarily to private rule-making and private authority. This activity may complement public authority, compete with it, displace it, or hurry in to fill governance gaps no longer capable of being addressed by nation-states. Third, the globalization-autonomy dynamic plays itself out in the construction and reconstruction of identities, the nature and value of community, and the articulation of autonomy in and through culture. The ways in which a variety of communities exercise, enhance, find, or lose their autonomy are changing in response to different globalizing pressures. Autonomy can take the form of an ideology, a response to governance or governmentality, a form of everyday affective association and identification, and a discursive form across variegated contexts of national and transnational life. The constitution of autonomy, in turn, generates cultural, aesthetic, and political responses. In this respect, autonomy becomes an innovative, unchartered borderland in which the global, cultural, political, and artistic meet, creating and recreating both our understandings of globality and of the worlds in which we live. The Results of Our Research We are publishing the results of our research in three ways. First, we are making them available and accessible to a wide public audience through the Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium. Second, we are publishing them in academic form in the Globalization and Autonomy Series published by the University of British Columbia Press. Finally, individual team members are publishing their work in their usual disciplinary journals and books. These publications are included in the Compendium's bibliographic database. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From "About the Compendium" About the Compendium The idea for such a Compendium came from Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell then head of the Humanities Computing Center at McMaster University and currently Associate Professor of Humanities Computing and Multimedia in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia. Dr. Rockwell is now the lead designer of the Compendium. Based on his ideas, the Compendium was included in the original application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada as the principal means for the project team to make the results of its work available in an accessible, interesting way to the general public. In this regard, our thinking about the Compendium was influenced, in part, by Arjun Appadurai's (2000) discussion of globalization and the research imagination. He pointed out that activists and the general public, particularly in developing countries, are alienated from the vocabulary used by what he called "the university-policy nexus" to describe global problems, projects and policies. He called for a "new architecture for producing and sharing knowledge about globalization [which] could provide the foundations of a pedagogy that closes this gap and helps to democratise the flow of knowledge about globalization itself" (Ibid., 17). The Compendium is thus our vehicle to globalize the knowledge we have gained about the complex relationships between globalization and autonomy." Technical Infrastructure With the funding of the project, Professor Rockwell together with his colleague, Dr. Andrew Mactavish, assumed responsibility for designing the infrastructure for the publication. The objective was to come up with a structure that would permit us to deliver the contents of the Compendium in the various formats mentioned in the application. We were also interested in a design that met the highest standards available for representing online research, that permitted us maximal opportunities for expressing our work, and that minimized the possibility of obsolescence in the short and medium terms. To these ends, we became a member of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), which began as a research effort cooperatively organized by three scholarly societies (the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing). It was funded initially by substantial research grants from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, the European Union, SSHRCC, the Mellon Foundation, and others. Starting in 1987, the TEI had developed detailed guidelines for "the encoding of all kinds of textual material of all kinds in all languages from all times." In 2000, responsibility for managing and continuing to develop these standards was given over to a non-profit corporation, the TEI Consortium. Following these guidelines, Professors Rockwell and Mactavish, working with Alex Stevens and Lian Yan, a programmer with the TAPoR Project developed Document Type Definitions or DTDs for the various component parts of the Compendium from the TEI Guidelines, P4. All Compendium documents were to be coded in TEI-conformant Extensible Markup Language or (XML), a language designed to describe data rather than to display data, the function of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this regard, they were advised early on in the process by Professor Stephen Ramsay, a specialist in humanities computing from the University of Georgia. In January 2005, the DTDs for the Compendium were reviewed by Julia Flanders, Associate Director for Textbase Development at Computing and Information Services of Brown University. This review permitted us to finalize the DTDs and to move toward publication of the Compendium. Structure of the Compendium A. Research Summaries Research Summaries are a tool to make the findings of our research available in digest form to a wide audience. Each one describes the nature of the research in question, its importance, how the research was carried out, the main findings, and the implications of those findings for globalization and autonomy. B. Glossary The glossary contains brief articles that provide key information on important persons, organizations, events, places, and concepts. These articles provide background for the research summaries in the Compendium, while also offering an encyclopedia of information on globalization and autonomy. C. Bibliography This searchable database provides a compilation of all the bibliographical items utilized by researchers in the project in the academic volumes plus collections of other items on globalization and autonomy compiled by team researchers. As such, it is a comprehensive database of writing on globalization and autonomy issues. D. Research Articles Designed for those interested in more technical issues examined in an academic way, these articles address globalization and autonomy relationships and questions that are not covered in the academic volumes published by UBC Press. E. Position Papers Position Papers are a tool for discussing aspects of our research on globalization and autonomy that will be of interest to a broad and general public. They may offer a commentary on a contemporary issue related to globalization and autonomy being debated and discussed in various parts of the world, a review of a popular book on globalization and autonomy issues, or a discussion of a technological innovation or an historical event important for understanding a contemporary issue or problem. Notable Properties of the Compendium The Compendium has several characteristics that will enhance its credibility and its potential to address the objectives for which it is being created. A. Peer Review Every research and glossary article is peer reviewed in a double blind process. Where possible, reviewers are chosen from a discipline other than that of the author of the article. The peer review process is run by the Academic Editors of the project. In addition, in the Memorandum of Agreement that the project has signed with the University of British Columbia Press, the Compendium will be peer-reviewed as an entity in its own right in conjunction with the academic volumes of the project. This review will contain two components. First, the synergy between the chapters in the academic volumes and the research summaries (and accompanying glossary terms) in the Compendium will be evaluated. Second, the technical workings and design of the Compendium based on the TEI guidelines will be reviewed and evaluated. B. High and Low Bandwidth Versions Given our stated objective to work toward the globalization of our own knowledge of globalization and autonomy, we have designed a website that will permit the delivery of the publication to those with only low bandwidth Internet access. These features will be built into both the overall design of the website and the way in which parts of the publication can be viewed and downloaded. C. Dynamic Linkages The research summaries, research articles, and position papers are dynamically linked to the glossary articles and to the bibliographic database. For example, if a research summary, article, position paper, or a glossary article makes reference to the key concept of "diaspora," the reader will be able to click on the term and the glossary article will appear in a separate window. Similarly, bibliographical references in research articles, position papers, and glossary articles will be linked to the bibliographical database. D. Oversight and Management The design and development team of the Compendium includes: Geoffrey Rockwell: Compendium Project Manager and Lead Designer www.geoffreyrockwell.com Andrew Mactavish: Assistant Designer Lian Yan: Programmer William Coleman: Academic Editor Nancy Johnson: Academic Editor Rebecca Sandiford: Managing Editor (January 1, 2004 – September 2005) Audrey Carr: Usability Study and Web Design Matt Patey: Student Assistant Andrew MacDonald: Student Assistant Jeremy Greenspan: Student Assistant Kate MacKeracher: Student Assistant Joanna Dacko: Graphic and Web Design Alex Stevens: Initial Web and XML Design Julia Flanders: Consultant Stephen Ramsay: Consultant Works Cited Appadurai, Arjun. 2000. Grassroots globalization and the research imagination. Public Culture 12(1):1-19. The Rationale for the Project Over the past several decades, processes now termed globalization have been restructuring the way many people live and how they relate to others. They are reducing many limits on social interaction once imposed by physical location. These processes are also destabilizing existing centers of authority and security such as nation-states, with new centers emerging at various scales of social life, from global down to local levels. Globalization has reconfigured the organization and scope of markets and the production and diffusion of cultural forms and practices. Many individuals and communities have begun to resent the changes involved and have moved to oppose and resist the dynamics of globalization. Others are seeking to exploit the new opportunities that come with globalization in the hope of changing the cultural and social situations in which they live. In both cases, human beings are seeking to control and harness these new forces in order to secure their autonomy, that is, the opportunities for individuals to shape the conditions under which they live and the capacities of communities to shape the laws and norms which order their ways of living. Individuals and communities have long identified autonomy in these senses as means to creating the ways of life they imagine as best for them. The dialectical relationships between globalization and autonomy have become increasingly central to the world in which we live. Individuals and communities are experiencing the changes resulting from globalization when they go to work, meet their friends, observe and challenge their political leaders, relate to their environment, and imagine their cultures — their ways of living. When individuals and communities take action in response to these changes, these acts now more easily reverberate to other parts of the globe. They are more likely to affect other communities far away, forcing change on supranational institutions. These experiences, these responses, and these actions often trigger processes designed to secure and build autonomy. The search for autonomy may sometimes involve attempts to resist global integration and more profound interdependence by building walls or securing borders in attempts to minimize the impact of globalization. Or such strivings may be directed at utilizing these same globalizing processes and globality to construct new global networks to counter those of transnational crime, capitalism, imperialism, and other forms of domination and global heteronomy. The Core Objectives and Research Questions of the Project In pursuit of an in-depth understanding of these dialectical tensions between globalization and autonomy, and to permit us to draw on the broad range of our disciplinary expertise in a collaborative, interdisciplinary way, we formally agreed as a team in October 2002 to focus on the following core research objectives: Overall Research Objective To investigate the relationship between globalization and the processes of securing and building autonomy. To this end, we will seek to refine understanding of these concepts and of the historical evolution of the processes inherent in both of them, given the contested character of their content, meaning, and symbolic status. Given that globalization is the term currently employed to describe the contemporary moment, we will: determine the opportunities globalization might create and the constraints globalization might place on individuals and communities seeking to secure and build autonomy; evaluate the extent to which individuals and communities might be able to exploit these opportunities and to overcome these constraints;* assess the opportunities for empowerment that globalization might create for individuals and communities seeking to secure and to build autonomy; determine how the autonomy available to individuals and communities might permit them to contest, reshape, or engage globalization. We chose to attack these objectives by focusing our attention on a series of research questions that fall into three groups. First, we accept that globalization and autonomy have deep historical roots. What is happening today in the world is in many ways continuous with what has taken place in the past. From its inception, capitalism has incorporated a globalizing dynamic. Political, economic, and cultural structures of varying form, often grouped under the headings of empires and imperialism, have reflected global ambitions. Struggles for autonomy have occurred at the frontiers of these empires, at their dissolution and in many other sites both within and outside imperial structures. Central to many of these struggles are those over the introduction of Western notions of property rights. The burden then of any contemporary examination of globalization and autonomy is to assess in some way what is new and what has changed in significant ways. We need to investigate how a host of political, economic, technological, ideological, and cultural events and forces contributed to new circumstances that drastically increased the depth, breadth, speed, and range of penetrations of global operations, including property rights. Second, the dynamics of the relationship between globalization and autonomy are related to a series of important changes in the locations of power and authority. Moreover, the tensions between integration on the one side and fragmentation on the other that occur in the contemporary period pose particular problems for governance, autonomy, democracy, and accountability. This period has also created openings for new realms of activity subject primarily to private rule-making and private authority. This activity may complement public authority, compete with it, displace it, or hurry in to fill governance gaps no longer capable of being addressed by nation-states. Third, the globalization-autonomy dynamic plays itself out in the construction and reconstruction of identities, the nature and value of community, and the articulation of autonomy in and through culture. The ways in which a variety of communities exercise, enhance, find, or lose their autonomy are changing in response to different globalizing pressures. Autonomy can take the form of an ideology, a response to governance or governmentality, a form of everyday affective association and identification, and a discursive form across variegated contexts of national and transnational life. The constitution of autonomy, in turn, generates cultural, aesthetic, and political responses. In this respect, autonomy becomes an innovative, unchartered borderland in which the global, cultural, political, and artistic meet, creating and recreating both our understandings of globality and of the worlds in which we live. The Results of Our Research We are publishing the results of our research in three ways. First, we are making them available and accessible to a wide public audience through the Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium. Second, we are publishing them in academic form in the Globalization and Autonomy Series published by the University of British Columbia Press. Finally, individual team members are publishing their work in their usual disciplinary journals and books. These publications are included in the Compendium's bibliographic database.

Nick van Vugt's Website This research paper explores common variations of adaptation found in contemporary cinema by deconstructing classic Hollywood narrative systems of filmmaking and through a comparison of source material and adapted works.

The historiography surrounding the Irish in Canada has generally adopted an American framework that has equated Irishness with Catholicism, thereby creating a very one dimensional picture of what it meant to be Irish in nineteenth century 'Amerikey'. Although historians have shown that the greatest emigrant outpouring for this period was not only an Irish one, but also a Protestant one, relatively little has been done to understand that group on its own terms. Where solid work does exist on Irish Protestant groups in Canada, rarely does one hear them speak in their own words. Rather, where and how quickly they settled, the singular importance of kin networks and the peculiarity of certain institutions is detailed. Little has been done with respect to understanding Irish Protestant identity: how they viewed their new world upon arrival and more importantly, how they would now and later view themselves. Indeed, the question 'Whatever Happened to the Irish?' was answered: Irish Protestants despite the strength of their numbers and their institutions, simply acculturated willingly and quickly into a larger, more encompassing 'British' identity. The assumption has followed that Irish Protestants were never very Irish in the first place. On the contrary, this thesis argues that far from simply fading away, a recognizably Irish Protestant culture - one that identified itself as the Irish nation - overcame early nineteenth century prejudice against 'things Irish' and eventually came to predominate many a local landscape in Ontario. Relying heavily on emigrant letters, this thesis emphasizes an Irish Protestant discourse that enjoyed a distinction and longevity that has yet to be recognized. It also maintains that Irish Catholicism was an integral component to the expression of that identity. Irish Protestants in Ontario remained distinctively Irish for a period longer than their countrymen in Ontario and their co-religionists in the homeland. Thesis Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The interactive art project SoftShare allows the user to manipulate soft sensors that are made of conductive yarns and fabrics. This wearable e-textile project emphasizes sensorial aspects of surveillance. Following a set of simple instructions, the person wearing this garment is capable of creating a short sensorial travel diary. These actions of responding and recording “out in the field” of the urban environment are a method of examining surveillance as a multi-faceted dynamic involving embodied perceptions of space. Inhabiting for a time what is essentially an electronic device allows the user to participate in monitoring a space within which, because of the pervasiveness of surveillance in urban spaces, they are also being monitored. What are the effects of surveillance technologies and ubiquitous computing on material and tactile experience? How is identity and tacit knowledge affected and transformed by the new fluid social spaces that are characteristic of embedded surveillance technologies? Embodied experience is always an element of processes of surveillance or use of locative media. The tangible media of conductive textiles is employed to explore participation and communication within new surveillance spaces.

Medieval queenship, an institutionally and socially important condition marked by ambiguity and contradiction, is the subject of a growing body of research, to which this study's holistic approach seeks to make a valuable contribution by focusing on two queens consort of England between 1464 and 1503: Elizabeth Woodville and her daughter Elizabeth of York. The contemporary theory of queenship is elusive, combining the queen's subjection to her husband, and dissociation from the political sphere, with a marked legal independence and a versatile, powerful model in Marian symbolism, which stressed intercession as a priority for queens. This apparently incoherent conception is not easily understood through histories relying on narrative sources, whose evidence is scanty and vague. As a result, portrayals of both Elizabeth Woodville (negative) and Elizabeth of York (positive) have been determined by narrative attitudes toward gender and social status, which have accrued over generations of historical writing. The ceremonies of queenship (coronation, churching, royal entry, funerals), as prescribed for and enacted by both Queens Elizabeth, broadcast their role to the court and realm and to the queens themselves. They clearly established the queen's status as not equal to the king's, but also confirmed her autonomous authority (suggested by a general ceremonial separateness) and recognized her importance to the nation. That autonomy was made possible in a practical sense through the queen's landed estate and household, which enabled both queens to act as landed magnates and as patrons to different degrees; Elizabeth Woodville's greater resources allowed her to be the more active of the two. Moreover, the institutions of queenship enabled both queens to act as intermediaries between court and realm. Queens were very close to the centre of cultural and political life in fifteenth-century England, and are therefore significant figures requiring more sensitive, detailed studies. Thesis Master of Arts (MA)