Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Ogburn used his social networks to obtain advice on selecting computational equipment for the University of Chicago's new Social Science Research Building in 1929. This was, of course, pre-internet, but one who strongly influenced Ogburn was Lord Kelvin, who had been knighted for his contribution to development of an earlier network that included transatlantic telegraph cables.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Because estimates of effects sizes are often either misreported or not reported at all, meta-analysts must use conversion formulas that allow them to estimate effect sizes from the information available in a research report. The focus of this article is on formulas that convert F in ANOVA to eta squared, d, or the correlation coefficient. This paper demonstrates that the traditional F to r formula can differentially, and in some cases radically, inflate estimates of effect size when combining the results from studies with varying numbers of factors. Specifically, commonly used conversion formulas for converting F values to r, actually yield a partial r statistic that can be substantially larger than the desired zero-order r depending upon the number and relevance of additional factors in ANOVA. An alternative method to calculate non-partialled effect sizes according to the common formula (SSeffect/SStotal) is provided.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Black Entertainment Television introduced the �Read a Book� campaign as a part of its agenda to promote discourse about paths to equality for African Americans. Introduced alongside other satirical representation of black struggle, only �Read a Book� survived criticism from onlookers and sponsors. Relying heavily upon satirical representations of African Americans, hip-hop, and rhetorics of sanitation and uplift, �Read a Book� demonstrates and introduces the notion of �terministic intratextuality.�

Publication Type: Invited Paper
Abstract: Socially, economically and medically marginalized, and existing in a generally hostile legal environment in the US, the lives of transgender men and women are frequently vilified in news accounts of their murders. One study (MacKenzie and Marcel, forthcoming) found a disturbing pattern of sexualizing female transgender murder victims, blaming them for deceiving their killers, and justifying the “transgender panic defense,” successfully used by William Palmer, the killer of transwoman Chanelle Pickett in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1994 to win conviction on lesser charges and minimal jail time, despite overwhelming evidence of his guilt.
The intervention of transgender activists, who protested such coverage and formed the Transgender Day of Remembrance after the 1997 murder of transwoman Rita Hester to honor the lives of murdered transgender people, had a positive effect on the coverage of subsequent transgender murders in several news markets. This paper examines coverage of the 2001 slaying of F. C. Martinez, a 16-year-old transgender youth by Shaun Murphy. It assesses the extent to which previously established protest actions and activist interventions with journalists affected this coverage. It explores new tactics developed by activists in the Martinez case and angles of coverage which emerged from them, including recognition of Martinez’s Navajo heritage and the Navajo concept of two-spirit people as a socially-integrating understanding of the non-Navajo concept of transgender. It concludes by assessing the impact of activism and coverage from the Martinez case on reporting of the subsequent murder of transwoman Gwen Araujo, also sixteen, in California in October 2002.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Recent decades have seen some fruitful intersections of feminist scholarship in the academy and feminist activism within the world of development institutions e.g. the recognition of the economic value of women’s reproductive labour. However, a sizeable a