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“I’d have to vote against you”: Issue Campaigning via Twitter
Title
“I’d have to vote against you”: Issue Campaigning via Twitter
Creator
Roback, Andrew, Hemphill, Libby
Date
2012-12-03, 2013
Description
Using tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when...
Show moreUsing tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when using Twitter to lobby their elected officials. In contrast to earlier research, we found that constituents do use Twitter to try to engage their officials and not just as a “soapbox” to express their opinions.
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Reaching Out and Beyond: Making Library Centered Connections
Title
Reaching Out and Beyond: Making Library Centered Connections
Creator
Han, Yi, Fu, Li, Fu, Jiaqi
Date
2012-06-23, 2012-06-23
Description
This poster is presented at the 2012 American Library Association Annual Conference in the Anaheim Convention Center. The hub on campus,...
Show moreThis poster is presented at the 2012 American Library Association Annual Conference in the Anaheim Convention Center. The hub on campus, academic libraries play a significant role in promoting diversity and academic success. Library resources and services have a great impact on university’s recruitment, retention and graduation. This poster session discusses some innovative practices in outreach, effective support in student learning, diverse models in services, and successful approaches in connecting with the campus community.
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Comprehending the Menger Sponge
Title
Comprehending the Menger Sponge
Creator
Alcheikh, Bassil, Leslie, Barett A., Pichardo, Brian
Date
2012-01-31, 2012-01-31
Description
This poster, created by undergraduate students at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), details Karl Menger's 1926-discovered fractal...
Show moreThis poster, created by undergraduate students at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), details Karl Menger's 1926-discovered fractal curve currently known as the Menger sponge. Menger is a former IIT faculty member.
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“Broader Impacts” or “Responsible Research and Innovation”? A Comparison of Two Criteria for Funding Research in Science and Engineering
Title
“Broader Impacts” or “Responsible Research and Innovation”? A Comparison of Two Criteria for Funding Research in Science and Engineering
Creator
Davis, Michael, Laas, Kelly
Date
2013-10, 2013-10
Publisher
Springer
Description
Our subject is how the experience of Americans with a certain funding criterion, “broader impacts” (and some similar criteria) may help in...
Show moreOur subject is how the experience of Americans with a certain funding criterion, “broader impacts” (and some similar criteria) may help in efforts to turn the European concept of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into a useful guide to funding Europe’s scientific and technical research. We believe this comparison may also be as enlightening for Americans concerned with revising research policy. We have organized our report around René Von Schomberg’s definition of RRI, since it seems both to cover what the European research group to which we belong is interested in and to be the only widely accepted definition of RRI. According to Von Schomberg, RRI: “… is a transparent, interactive process by which societal actors and innovators become mutually responsive to each other with a view to the (ethical) acceptability, sustainability and societal desirability of the innovation process and its marketable products (in order to allow a proper embedding of scientific and technological advances in our society).” While RRI seeks fundamental changes in the way research is conducted, Broader Impacts is more concerned with more peripheral aspects of research: widening participation of disadvantaged groups, recruiting the next generation of scientists, increasing the speed with which results are used, and so on. Nevertheless, an examination of the broadening of funding criteria over the last four decades suggests that National Science Foundation has been moving in the direction of RRI.
Sponsorship: European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme grant number 321400.
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Repository Refresh: A New Theme for repository.iit
Title
Repository Refresh: A New Theme for repository.iit
Creator
Strohm, Adam
Date
2016-05
Description
This year, Illinois Tech's Institutional Repository was given it's first significant visual upgrade since its creation in 2012. The...
Show moreThis year, Illinois Tech's Institutional Repository was given it's first significant visual upgrade since its creation in 2012. The application of a new theme harmonized the repository's look with that of the university and library web sites, added more fluid and natural mobile responsiveness, and brought the repository up to contemporary standards in terms of style and functionality. This poster highlights some of the new features of the new theme, and identify some of the challenges that arose when modifying this theme for use at IIT.
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Celebrating Our Successes Mini-Conference 2016