This essay bridges the gaps in the literature within legislative studies by illustrating the usefulness of feminist ethnography as a methodological intervention into studying legislative behavior. Black feminist epistemology is a useful tool for making new knowledge claims within an existing body of knowledge. I use anecdotes and examples from my fieldwork in the Maryland state legislature to e...

The use of laboratories in Higher Engineering Education is an adequate opportunity to implement forms of experiential learning like problem-based or researchbased learning into manufacturing technology. The introduction of remote laboratories gives students the opportunity to do self-directed research and by that having their own and unique learning experiences. Recently finished research proje...

It has been almost a decade since Gareth Schott and Kirsty Horell wrote their article "Girl Gamers and their Relationship with the Gaming Culture" in the 'Winter 2000' issue of Convergence. According to the abstract and introduction to the article, their goal was to " …focus upon the experiences and attitudes of females who already view themselves as 'gamers' " [36]. However, as the article dev...

Empirical studies have investigated the effect of attitude and behavior on IT acceptance in organizations but yielded ambiguous results. Possibly they have not effectively accounted for the moderating effects of experience gained through direct interaction with the target technology. We examined the moderating effect of the length of direct experience on IT acceptance relationships and construc...

There is a growing critical social science literature around contemporary expressions of alternative spirituality. However, this literature appears to have overlooked a core feature of these spiritual experiences. For many contemporary alternative spiritual practitioners, spirit plays an active and ever present role in their everyday lives and relationships. However, the critical social science...

Calls from the psychological literature have highlighted a need for the integration of social justice training in both didactic and fieldwork practicum experiences in professional psychology. This article presents concrete strategies for practicum instructors and applied fieldwork training site staff to integrate social justice work into practicum experiences. The authors review current scholar...

In the 21st century, ethnomusicology tends to welcome an integrated study as a reason of diversifications of research theories and methods. How does Chinese tradition music maintain its natural active state in folk cultural soil under this globalization trend, and how does it adapt this new culture shock? Meanwhile, how do researchers explore interrelationships between music and its culture sur...

The Field Experiences for Science Teachers (FEST) Program, based in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University, provides field seismology experiences to secondary school science teachers in Connecticut. Research experiences for K-12 science teachers have been shown in the past to improve students’ test scores and encourage inquiry-based teaching in the science classroom. FEST p...

When two competing and incompatible products coexist in a market, potential users face a choice between the two products and the alternative of deferring the decision. This paper examines the choice between the two substitutes, where each one is subject to a positive network effect. That is, a user of one of the products experiences an increase in the value for each additional person using the ...