THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, COMMUNITY, AND VALUES
Welcome to the June posting of Interface, the electronic journal of the Berglund Center for Internet Studies. This issue reflects the culmination of a number of Berglund Center projects which have occupied their authors and us for several months.
The feature article is by a Berglund Research Fellow for 2008-09, Professor Tiffany Boggis of the School of Occupational Therapy, Pacific University Oregon. Dr. Boggis was funded to develop a series of media rich websites for a continuing project dealing with "Elder Homes" in Nicaragua. See "Health Promotion of Elders in Nicaragua: Interdisciplinary International Educational Opportunities for Pacific University Health Programs." We have followed this project for some time and know that it has improved the lives of many elderly Nicaraguans and been the stimulus for resultant reforms in the treatment of the elderly there. The Berglund Center is proud to have been a small part of this project.
Each year the Center announces an award for the best senior thesis project dealing with the impact of the Internet at Pacific University. This year's winner is Samantha Richards, graduating senior in Media Arts with a focus in journalism. Her project focused on the multimedia components now required of online journalism and is described in "Boxercast: Creating Web Video Broadcasts for The Pacific Index." Congratulations, Samantha.
Our Berglund Student Fellow Jenn Hernandez, who has written a great deal for us, offers "From Facebook to Resume: Marketing Yourself Via Social Networks"
Our Legal Editor, Leonard D. DuBoff and his colleague Christy O. King offer us critical legal advice on an important topic, particularly in these difficult times. See "Insurance: Does Your Policy Really Protect You?" Leonard is widely recognized as one of the most authoritative legal voices on the web and we continually receive requests from other attorneys and firms to exchange links with his Interface columns. Sorry, he's ours!
Our first book review is by Deborah L. Wheeler of the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. Professor Wheeler is a noted authority on the impact of the Internet in the Muslim world. Here she reviews Mark Le Vine's recent book, Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam.
Our second review, by Editor Jeffrey Barlow, is Arthur Phillips' work The Song is You. This work was chosen for review in Interface because of what it suggests about the evolving impact of the Internet, but also for what it tells us about Amazon.com's new reading appliance, the Kindle.
The editorial for this issue is "To George Orwell, II; Is It 1984 yet?" This is the second of two articles dealing with the impact of the Kindle, one decidedly positive in its orientation which appeared in the May issue of Interface; this one speculates about possible negative effects of the impact of reading appliances like the Kindle.
As always, we hope that you find this issue of Interface both informative and entertaining. This is our last posting before our summer hiatus---we do not publish in July. Our August issue will be posting on or about August first.
The Berglund Center for Internet Studies
Pacific University Oregon
Tiffany Boggis - Health Promotion of Elders in Nicaragua:...
Samantha Richards - Boxercast: Creating Web Video Broadcasts for The...
Leonard D. DuBoff and Christy O. King - Insurance: Does Your Policy...
Jenn Hernandez - From Facebook to Resume: Marketing Yourself Via Social...
Mark Le Vine's Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle...
Arthur Phillips's The Song is You
To George Orwell, II; Is It 1984 yet?
Berglund Undergraduate Award Winner