The 2024 SILS PhD Forum will take place on Friday, March 22 at 1:00 pm in the Pleasants Room in Wilson Library.
We encourage all attendees to provide feedback to presenters. You can provide feedback for each presenter using this form.
Our amazing speakers are:
Viviane Ito
Tensions around Notability: Is the Risk Worth the Reward?
This is a proposal for a study that will explore the tensions between being featured on Wikipedia and whether race, gender, and/or sexual orientation influence one’s desire to have a Wikipedia biography.
Robert Manzo
What We Owe Autistic Life-Writers, Ethically Speaking
Life-writing by autistic authors constitutes, in part, an open invitation to non-neurodivergent readers to engage in ethical relations with autistic people that are typically foreclosed by the usual ‘construction of autism as a deficient form of subjectivity’ (to borrow Anna Stenning’s phrase). By following a theoretical path through social epistemology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and narratology, I address the question: why should we respond to the invitation?
Rachel Han Rodney
Foster Parents Seeking Resources in Rural NC
Out of approximately 12,000 foster children and youth in NC, there are only around 5,000 foster homes, pointing to the issue of foster parent retention. A large factor in foster parent retention is feeling supported, and I explore this issue from an information seeking and user experience perspective.
Wenyuan (Wen) Wang
That Enough for You? Human Perception of Information Satiety Against the Machine’s
I’ll provide my current approach of modeling information satiety from both machine and human perspective, and bring some discussion around it.