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The ill effects of World Wide Web on the Google Generation: An analysis and criticism of ways in which the World Wide Web is altering young learners’ cognitive behaviors (open access)

The ill effects of World Wide Web on the Google Generation: An analysis and criticism of ways in which the World Wide Web is altering young learners’ cognitive behaviors

Article accompanying the Proceedings of HCI 2011 The 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction. This paper explores the World Wide Web's effect on the Google Generation/those born after 1993.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Fong, Michele Wong Kung
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Skin Quilt Project captions transcript

Skin Quilt Project

This is an excerpt from the documentary, "The Skin Quilt Project," that focuses on skin color representation. The documentary features scholars, writers, and quilters from across the country, who discuss issues of skin-color politics in the African-American community. Through the stories of African-American quilters we are able to understand how the fellowship and practice of quilting has enriched peoples lives, and given them a sense of pride in their cultural heritage.
Date: 2010
Creator: Cross, Lauren E.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Students Collaborate to Develop Educational Green-Clothing Label (open access)

Students Collaborate to Develop Educational Green-Clothing Label

This book chapter describes a project to develop an informative green label that outlines the impact of a product on the environment, to help inform the consumer considering buying the product.
Date: 2011
Creator: Gam, Hae Jin; Ma, Yoon Jin & Ciaccio, Elizabeth
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceived ease of use and usefulness of sustainability labels on apparel products: application of the technology acceptance model (open access)

Perceived ease of use and usefulness of sustainability labels on apparel products: application of the technology acceptance model

This article explores consumers' perceptions of sustainability labels on apparel products and examines sustainability labels as an effective means of determining consumers' purchase intentions using the technology acceptance model.
Date: May 28, 2017
Creator: Ma, Yoon Jin; Gam, Hae Jin & Banning, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Allaying Terror: Domesticating Vietnamese Refugee Artisans as Subjects of American Diplomacy (open access)

Allaying Terror: Domesticating Vietnamese Refugee Artisans as Subjects of American Diplomacy

This article explores how the photographs of a basketmaker, as well as photographs of other refugee artisans published in the August 1956 issue of Interior magazine, served the American State Department agenda by characterizing its subject in terms of pathos and need.
Date: August 1, 2018
Creator: Way, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo, Palace of the Mind: The Cloister of Silos and Spanish Sculpture of the Twelfth Century (open access)

Book Review: Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo, Palace of the Mind: The Cloister of Silos and Spanish Sculpture of the Twelfth Century

Review of the book "Palace of the Mind: The Cloister of Silos and Spanish Sculpture of the Twelfth Century" by Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo.
Date: 2015
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internet Use in Latin America (open access)

Internet Use in Latin America

This paper explores the development of Internet use in Latin America by exploring the macro- and micro-social expectations and actualities of Internet use.
Date: August 18, 2011
Creator: Salzman, Ryan & Albarran, Alan B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Business, soft power, and whitewashing: Three themes in the US media coverage of “The Great Wall” film (open access)

Business, soft power, and whitewashing: Three themes in the US media coverage of “The Great Wall” film

This article uses a grounded theory approach to identify three major themes--business, soft power, and whitewashing--in the US media coverage of "The Great Wall" film.
Date: February 11, 2018
Creator: Zhang, Xiaoqun
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relevant Interdisciplinarity: Taking the Art History Classroom to the Field (open access)

Relevant Interdisciplinarity: Taking the Art History Classroom to the Field

This article situates Medieval Studies in the ever-evolving education environment that has linked the public rhetoric of the academy to business models.
Date: 2016
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher/Student: Technology as a Basis for Centrifugal Learning that “Goes Both Ways,” Part 1 (open access)

Teacher/Student: Technology as a Basis for Centrifugal Learning that “Goes Both Ways,” Part 1

This article provides retrospective insight on incorporating geographic information systems into medieval studies research.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defining a New Coast: G.I.S. Reconstruction of Maillezais Abbey’s Hydraulic Drainage Program and the Coastline It Created (open access)

Defining a New Coast: G.I.S. Reconstruction of Maillezais Abbey’s Hydraulic Drainage Program and the Coastline It Created

This article discusses the expansion of Maillezais Abbey and the creation of its hydraulic infrastructure.
Date: 2016
Creator: Abel, Mickey S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing the Media Visibility of China's President Xi Jinping's First 3-Year Governance in the New York Times (open access)

Assessing the Media Visibility of China's President Xi Jinping's First 3-Year Governance in the New York Times

This article assesses the media visibility, a composite measure of attention and prominence, of China's President Xi Jinping's first 3-year governance in The New York Times.
Date: February 1, 2017
Creator: Zhang, Xiaoqun
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Video Conference and Eddie

This predominately black and white work consists of three main images, some text and several colorful marks moving across the face of the artwork. The larger text states, "Bush and Iraq's leader have video conference."
Date: 2010
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Richardson Endorses Obama

Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, stands next to President Barack Obama. Both men are looking downward but smiling. The digital painting is a creative depiction of an AP photograph by Alex Brandon. Text below the image states, "Richardson gives endorsement to Obama." Included on top of the photo depiction are several loosely digitally painted colorful geometric shapes, an orange square, a green square, a pink rectangle and miscellaneous other loose yellow, red and turquoise marks. In the white margin at the bottom of the image of the men is a small inset image that depicts a highway overpass, a billboard and a car on the road with two dialogue bubbles.
Date: 2010
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Gotta Gun

This artwork consists of two portions, the top a grid, eight by seven, of colored squares and the lower dialogue between Caroline and Steve.
Date: 2011
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cezanne Painting

This monochromatic painting depicts the artist Paul Cezanne in the countryside with some of his plain-air paintings and on the left hand edge text and dialogue unrelated to Cezanne.
Date: 2010
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Senate Testimony

The left hand section of the painting depicts three men seated at a table with microphones while the right side consists of text, dialogue between two people, Steve and a woman.
Date: 2011
Creator: Blackburn, Ed, 1940-2022
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
Museum Dilemma: Nazi-era Art Restitution (open access)

Museum Dilemma: Nazi-era Art Restitution

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Award for 2013. This paper discusses Nazi-era art restitution. The author examines the unique history of the World War II art plunder and the dilemma and issues that heirs and museums face.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Wiskera, Emily
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Black Growth

This head piece was created using mylar removed from floppy disks that were individually machine stitched into form, then hand sewn to create the overall look.
Date: 2011
Creator: Williams, Chesley
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Collective Case Study of Veterans Inside an Arts and Crafts Room and their Perceptions Regarding Empowerment

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home. The author discusses methods and findings from a project she participated in related to how veterans narrated their experiences through art. Her component of the study evaluated participants and described what they gained through creating arts and crafts.
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Hasio, Cindy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Untitled

The untitled set of photographs depict, in one, a man dressed in a suit and tie seated next to computer equipment and, in the second photograph, a man wearing a western style hat stands in front of a counter piled with many papers and objects as well as on the shelving behind him.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dolph, Jillian
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tail Shoes

This pair of hand-made shoes includes a tail like feature. They are natural in color with a closed toe.
Date: 2012
Creator: Navama, Tamar
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lidded Vase

Image of the artwork as seen in the exhibition, From Here to There: Practice, Form, and Meaning, May 22 through August 4, 2012 in the Art Gallery at University of North Texas.
Date: 2012
Creator: Zouhary, Caleb
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Small Casseroles

Image of two small casserole containers as seen in the exhibition From Here to There: Practice, Form, and Meaning, May 22 through August 4, 2012 in the Art Gallery at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2012
Creator: Zouhary, Caleb
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library