Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper describes the preliminary implementation and lessons learned during the creation and launch of a citizen journalism converged media project by the communication department of a small college. We-town.com – the interdisciplinary curriculum project within a Department of Communications is designed to create a sustainable model of citizen journalism media within a converged media environment.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Persistent gender norms continue to link mothers with child-rearing and fathers with breadwinning, with implications for how people anticipate the ‘empty nest.’ This paper finds that mothers, fathers and children predict mothers will have a difficult time as their children begin leaving home for college, conforming to cultural expectations of maternal behavior. However, it also finds those predictions are mistaken; it is fathers who are more likely to experience this transition adversely. Several reasons are offered to explain this outcome, including the ways in which parents prepare (or do not prepare, in the case of fathers) for the transition; the character of parent-child relations; fathers’ and mothers’ divergent experiences of paid labor, and maternal relief from the domestic burden associated with child-rearing. While fathers associate their children’s departure with loss of the protector role and loss of their children’s companionship, mothers associate it with reduced tension and gain of flexibility and leisure.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Using public opinion data from various Eurobarometer surveys, this paper seeks to determine the sources of individual-level support or opposition to a common European currency. The study develops a series of explanations, economic-utilitarian, political-ideational, and cognitive, to determine which best explains the variation we see among European Union citizens in their support for the European Monetary Union project. Another important aim of the study is to asses whether these models explain support and opposition to the common currency before and after its launch. It is possible that the calculus of support and opposition is different for citizens when they think about the common currency in the abstract and when they experience its affects first-hand.

Publication Type: Individual Paper
Abstract: In a newly inaugurated, comprehensive college of education and human development, we sought to re-imagine the preparation and development of school-based educators, with the goal of supporting the learning of E-12 students in our ever-changing school environments.