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"33rd Balloon"
Vollmer, Matthew (2016-07-22)
Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words
Hay, Jennifer; Walker, Abby; Sanchez, Kauyumari; Thompson, Kirsty (PLOS, 2019-02-04)
Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring whether access is facilitated by invoking more abstract social categories. We conduct four experiments, all of which combine an Implicit Association Task with a Lexical Decision Task. Participants sorted real and nonsense words while at the same time sorting older and younger faces (exp. 1), male and female faces (exp. 2), stereo-typically male and female objects (exp. 3), and framed and unframed objects, which were always stereotypically male or female (exp. 4). Across the experiments, lexical decision to socially skewed words is facilitated when the socially congruent category is sorted with the same hand. This suggests that the lexicon contains social detail from which individuals make social abstractions that can influence lexical access.
"Advanced Placement, Essay #3, Free Response"
Vollmer, Matthew (The Normal School, 2012-11-01)
Black Magic
Vollmer, Matthew (2020)
Blackout
Vollmer, Matthew (2020-04-01)
"Blood Soup"
Vollmer, Matthew (2017-07-12)
"Brain Bank"
Vollmer, Matthew (2016-09-16)
"Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera"
Vollmer, Matthew (2016-07-22)
Bringing indexical orders to non-arbitrary meaning: The case of pitch and politeness in English and Korean
Holliday, Jeffrey J.; Walker, Abby; Jung, Mihyun; Cho, Esther (Ubiquity Press, 2023-02)
In this study, we investigated whether the relationship between pitch and politeness is mediated through iconic relationships between pitch and other talker attributes, and whether these relationships can differ across languages. US and South Korean listeners completed a speaker perception task in which they heard utterances and rated the speaker on a number of attributes, including politeness. The pitch of each utterance was unmanipulated, raised, or lowered. The results confirm previous work suggesting that in Korean, lower pitch is associated with politeness, which contrasts with both the English results we find, and claims of a universal association between higher pitch and politeness (i.e., Ohala's Frequency Code). At the same time, the impact of pitch on attributes like perceived height, strength, and emotion are similar across listener groups: Speakers in higher pitched guises are heard as shorter, weaker, and more emotional. Like others, we argue that pitch can be associated, non-arbitrarily, with a range of meanings, but additionally appeal to orders of indexicality (Silverstein, 2003) to account for the similarities between the groups, as well as the differences. Our results are of significance for researchers looking at non-arbitrary meaning of acoustic cues as well as the acoustics of politeness, especially in interaction with polite registers in Korean.
Bringing indexical orders to non-arbitrary meaning: The case of pitch and politeness in English and Korean
Holliday, Jeff; Walker, Abby; Jung, Mihyun; Cho, Esther (Open Library of Humanities, 2023)
In this study, we investigated whether the relationship between pitch and politeness is mediated through iconic relationships between pitch and other talker attributes, and whether these relationships can differ across languages. US and South Korean listeners completed a speaker perception task in which they heard utterances and rated the speaker on a number of attributes, including politeness. The pitch of each utterance was unmanipulated, raised, or lowered. The results confirm previous work suggesting that in Korean, lower pitch is associated with politeness, which contrasts with both the English results we find, and claims of a universal association between higher pitch and politeness (i.e., Ohala’s Frequency Code). At the same time, the impact of pitch on attributes like perceived height, strength, and emotion are similar across listener groups: Speakers in higher pitched guises are heard as shorter, weaker, and more emotional. Like others, we argue that pitch can be associated, non-arbitrarily, with a range of meanings, but additionally appeal to orders of indexicality (Silverstein, 2003) to account for the similarities between the groups, as well as the differences. Our results are of significance for researchers looking at non-arbitrary meaning of acoustic cues as well as the acoustics of politeness, especially in interaction with polite registers in Korean.
Building an Infrastructural Praxis: Understanding Twitter's Embeddedness in the U.S.-Mexico Border
Lindgren, Chris A.; Fernandes, Maggie (2022-10-01)
In this article, we document how Twitter is embedded within the U.S.-Mexico border and used to reorganize the oppressive conditions perpetuated by the border’s sociopolitical history. We do so through a mixed-methods case-study of three polarized, yet tangled, activist movements on Twitter, each of which responded to Trump’s border wall plans and zero-tolerance policy that separated asylum-seeking im/migrant children from their families. The hashtag movements included the liberal #FamiliesBelongTogether supporters (FBT), Trump Republican #BuildTheWall supporters (BTW), and liberal Anti-Wall (AW) #NoBorderWall and #TrumpShutDown denouncers. Findings indicate how the liberal activist movements inherited systemic issues of the broader U.S.-Mexico border infrastructure. Overall, we call for TPC to continue developing research agendas that learn from social activist networks so the field can understand its role in shaping the broader media infrastructure.
Burials
Vollmer, Matthew (2021-10-15)
"Can't Feel My Face"
Vollmer, Matthew (2016-07-22)
"Category Negative One"
Vollmer, Matthew (2021-04-15)
Challenging the Digital Humanities: A Response to Jon Saklofske
Reed, Ashley (Liverpool University Press, 2016-04)
Channeling William Blake: A Response to Roger Whitson
Reed, Ashley (Liverpool University Press, 2016-04)
"Checkout"
Vollmer, Matthew (The Literary Review, 2013-10-01)
Close to the Knives
Vollmer, Matthew (2020-06-25)
Craft and Care: The Maker Movement, Catherine Blake, and the Digital Humanities
Reed, Ashley (Liverpool University Press, 2016-04)
This article examines the popular Maker movement, the scholarly discourse of “critical making,” and the work of digital humanists through an analysis of the working relationship between William and Catherine Blake. It begins by examining the contemporary Maker movement, which claims to embrace William Blake as its “patron saint” even as it increasingly insists on the monetization of Makers’ creative labor. This pressure toward monetization—in which garage tinkerers become uncompensated R&D departments for large corporations—is accompanied by an emphatic gendering of Makers as male and productive rather than female and reproductive, erasing and effacing the care work that makes Making possible. Given the Maker movement’s appropriation of Blake as symbol, it is instructive to examine the collaborative creative processes of William and his wife Catherine, who facilitated Blake’s “making” at every stage, both as care worker and as laborer at the press. Recent scholarship on Catherine, however, falls into the same gendered binaries as discussions of the current Maker movement, a failing this essay remedies by proposing a model of Blakean ecology as a method for reimagining the Blakes’ lives. The essay concludes by examining Catherine’s presence and the role of care work in the William Blake Archive and calling for a critical digital humanities that foregrounds and rewards affective labor.
Cult Hymn
Vollmer, Matthew (2017)

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