Reflections on Collective Collections

Silence, Murmurs and Applause: Reflections on Expressions of Collections

The area of commonality has to do with the issue of subtle expressivity. I am interested in means—particularly as manifested in visual and auditory portrayals—of conveying complex and subtle expressions. And much of my work draws upon studies—principally from sociology—of the ways in which people notice and interpret large arrays of subtle cues expressed by ‘natural systems.’ The area of differ...

Reflections on collective versus individual rights related to communicable diseases.

Reconstruction and Applications of Collective Storylines from Web Photo Collections

Widespread access to photo-taking devices and high speed Internet has combined with rampant social networking to produce an explosion in picture sharing on Web platforms. In this environment, new challenges in image acquisition, processing, and sharing have emerged, creating exciting opportunities for research in computer vision and multimedia data mining. In this dissertation, we explore one o...

Reflections on Reflections

The graduate student workshop ''Buddhist Art: Objects and Contexts'' was an unusual event. Like Reflections of the Buddha, the exhibition it addressed, it was in constant dialogue with its physical setting, the singular Tadao Ando ¯ building home to the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, as the four sessions moved through the four galleries in changing light. The event was also distinguished by ...

Understanding Mechanisms in Organizational Research Reflections From a Collective Journey

Social mechanisms are theoretical cogs and wheels that explain how and why one thing leads to another. Mechanisms can run from macro to micro (e.g., explaining the effects of organizational socialization practices or compensation systems on individual actions), micro to micro (e.g., social comparison processes), or micro to macro (e.g., how cognitively limited persons can be aggregated into a s...