ScholarWorks@Towson: Recent submissions
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Effects of source cues and storytelling on attitudes toward Covid-19 vaccination
(2023-05-09)Guided by the Parasocial Interactions Framework and the Elaboration Likelihood Model, this study examined how source cues and storytelling occurring on social media could have an impact on someone’s attitude toward the ... -
The participatory American K-pop fan - a study of culture and 'glocalization'
(2023-05-08)This critical cultural analysis draws on existing cultural artefacts created by Korean pop (K-pop) fans of group Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) in the United States. Specifically, this study examines the unique participatory ... -
Online social support and self-care on Facebook: a content analysis of the Forever35 private Facebook group
(2023-05-05)The digital infrastructure of online communities enables the facilitation of interpersonal help-giving and help-seeking behaviors while also providing a platform for community members to share information. This study ... -
Book review of An Oxford companion to the Romantic Age: British culture 1776-1832, Iain McCalman, editor
(American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2002)Book review of a reference work on British culture during the Romantic Age -
Swipe right or get left behind: presentation of masculinity in the Tinder dating app
(2022-03-10)The following study sought to better understand the ways in which men perform and present their masculinity within the Tinder dating app, and to what extent this performance is reflective of their personal attitudes towards ... -
The Baltimore Hebrew Institute Collection: A Jewish Studies Library Re-imaged
(Association of Jewish Libraries, 2022-12-31)The Baltimore Hebrew University (BHU) was one of a handful of independent Jewish studies institutions in the United States during the twentieth century. Located in the heart of the Baltimore Jewish community, it grew from ... -
Book review of George H. Douglas' H. L. Mencken: critic of American life
(Maryland Historical Society, 1978)Book review of an examination of H.L. Mencken -
The spaces in between care: considerations of connection and disconnection for subjects of care
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020-06)Drawing on work that explores human vulnerability and the incoherence of the subject in the process of subject formation, I build on the ideas of care as relational and connectedness within human geography. I examine how, ... -
Feminist contributions to geography coming from, and focused on, Ghana
(Pennsylvania Geographical Society, 2018)This is a brief discussion of feminist and gender-focused geography from Ghana. I am deeply indebted to the work of Mariama Awumbila at the University of Ghana (UG), a geographer who has written elsewhere on the development ... -
Assessing scholarly communication programs
(2021-07)In August 2019 California State University, Sacramento and San Jose State University were awarded an IMLS National Forum Grant to identify standards and best practices in evaluating scholarly communication programs at M1 ... -
Measuring campus engagement for scholarly communication services: A mixed methods study of U.S. public teaching institutions
(International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, 2021-11)Over the past several decades, new technologies and paradigms have impacted the creation and sharing of work; scholars across all fields have seen changes in research output, publication, and preservation of the scholarly ... -
Book review of Carleton Jones's Maryland: a picture history, 1632-1976 and Edwin Wolf II's Philadelphia: portrait of an American city
(Maryland Historical Society, 1978)Book review of two pictorial histories; one about Maryland and one about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Book review of A concordance and word-lists to Henry Fielding's "Shamela," Michael G. Farringdon, ed.
(Springer, 1983-12)Book review of a concordance to Henry Fielding's Shamela -
Book review of Robert Ignatius Letellier's The English Novel, 1660-1700: An annotated bibliography
(College of Toronto. Press, 1998-11)Book review of an annotated bibliography of the early English novel -
Book review of Deborah Kennedy's Poetic sisters: early eighteenth-century women poets
(American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2013-09)Book review of a book on eighteenth century women poets -
Book review of Eric Parisot's Graveyard poetry: religion, aesthetics and the mid-eighteenth-century poetic condition
(American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2015-03)Book review of a book on graveyard poetry -
Bearing witness: (auto-)biography in Holocaust literature
(2022)In this discussion-based, upper-level college course students will read literary fiction and historical-philosophical investigations of the Holocaust. We will focus on (auto-)biography as a form of bearing witness in the ... -
Moving beyond Neverland: reflecting upon the state of the diverse economies research program and the study of alternative economic spaces
(University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2015-03-19)The project of examining economic diversity and alterity has grown significantly both within the discipline of geography and beyond. There now exists an expansive literature pertaining to diverse economies and alternative ...