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Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection, a creative thesis, explores patterns of change in stories from the perspective of connection and disconnection. The preface examines the effects of temporal disconnection, the relationship of conflict and connection to narrative rhythm, and the webs of connection formed during the process of creation. Included in the body of the work are six fiction stories, one metafiction story, and two nonfiction essays.

The current study tested a component of the social disconnection model (Hewitt, Flett, Sherry, & Caelian, 2006) by determining whether the interpersonal components of perfectionism and suicide outcomes in youth are mediated by experiences of being bullied, a marker of social disconnection. The perfectionism trait of socially prescribed perfectionism and the perfectionistic self-presentation facets, suicide outcomes, and experiences of being bullied were measured in a heterogeneous sample of 152 psychiatric outpatient youth, aged 8 to 20 (mean = 12.87, SD = 2.97; 83 males, 69 females). The current study found evidence in support of the social disconnection model whereby the perfectionistic self-presentation facet, nondisplay of imperfection, and suicide outcomes were mediated by experiences of being bullied. Implications of self presentational components of perfectionism and social disconnection in suicide outcomes for youth are discussed, in terms of both their conceptual and clinical significance.

The current study tested a component of the social disconnection model (Hewitt, Flett, Sherry, & Caelian, 2006) by determining whether the interpersonal components of perfectionism and suicide outcomes in youth are mediated by experiences of being bullied, a marker of social disconnection. The perfectionism trait of socially prescribed perfectionism and the perfectionistic self-presentation facets, suicide outcomes, and experiences of being bullied were measured in a heterogeneous sample of 152 psychiatric outpatient youth, aged 8 to 20 (mean = 12.87, SD = 2.97; 83 males, 69 females). The current study found evidence in support of the social disconnection model whereby the perfectionistic self-presentation facet, nondisplay of imperfection, and suicide outcomes were mediated by experiences of being bullied. Implications of self presentational components of perfectionism and social disconnection in suicide outcomes for youth are discussed, in terms of both their conceptual and clinical significance.

The current study tested a component of the social disconnection model (Hewitt, Flett, Sherry, & Caelian, 2006) by determining whether the interpersonal components of perfectionism and suicide outcomes in youth are mediated by experiences of being bullied, a marker of social disconnection. The perfectionism trait of socially prescribed perfectionism and the perfectionistic self-presentation facets, suicide outcomes, and experiences of being bullied were measured in a heterogeneous sample of 152 psychiatric outpatient youth, aged 8 to 20 (mean = 12.87, SD = 2.97; 83 males, 69 females). The current study found evidence in support of the social disconnection model whereby the perfectionistic self-presentation facet, nondisplay of imperfection, and suicide outcomes were mediated by experiences of being bullied. Implications of self presentational components of perfectionism and social disconnection in suicide outcomes for youth are discussed, in terms of both their conceptual and clinical significance. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

Synchronous distributed groupware is a class of software applications allowing a geographically distributed group of people to collaborate in real time. There are different types of groupware, e.g., collaborative editing software, distributed meeting support tools, and multiplayer games. However, collaborators in groupware can become disconnected from the session. Disconnections can range in duration from a few seconds (e.g., due to a network outage) to hours or days (e.g., stowing a laptop while flying). Disconnection causes information loss and makes it difficult for users to understand both the state of the workspace and the current activities of other people upon reconnection. Thus, it is important to handle disconnection in groupware. However, handling disconnection is difficult for groupware developers. They need to determine varieties of strategies in order to address different disconnection scenarios. These strategies determine how stored information can be manipulated as the system waits for a disconnected user to rejoin, and how information should be replayed upon reconnection. If disconnection lasts for a long time, developers need to select and combine strategies in order to manage a trade-off between performance requirements (e.g., delivering stored information as quickly as possible upon reconnection) and understandability requirements (e.g., allowing users to watch missed information in an understandable manner). Developers might not know how to implement such strategies in a reusable manner. Because of this lack of knowledge in handling disconnection, developers might build disconnection-aware groupware applications that will not address the range of wide variety of user-level requirements that arise from different disconnection scenarios. Moreover, as there are a few disconnection-aware groupware applications, developers might not know the overhead (e.g., additional message transmission time, memory usage and programming complexity) of handling disconnection in synchronous groupware in practice. In order to mitigate developers’ problems to handle disconnection in synchronous groupware, this thesis provides codified solutions that capture and organize a wide range of strategies for handling disconnection, that manage the performance and understandability trade-off through selecting and combining suitable strategies and that show how to implement the strategies in a reusable manner. In order to determine the overhead of handling disconnection, a toolkit is developed following the designed solutions, and different applications are constructed using the toolkit. User studies and performance analyses are conducted that evaluate the toolkit and demonstrate its quality goals, such as offering simple application programming interface (API), high performance, and supporting different disconnection scenarios and timeframes. / Thesis (Ph.D, Computing) -- Queen's University, 2013-04-29 17:52:00.165

Bodies Degraded by Friction is a collection of poetry existing in finite spaces. The first section, “A Moment and a Moment and a Moment," attempts to capture in words small passages of time as simple as clicking through a Facebook photo album and as destructive as new love. The second section, “It’s Complicated," is a manuscript in progress detailing a year in the life of an “other woman" negotiating an interpersonal relationship role underrepresented in self-help books and mass media. Several themes run throughout the book: the consequences of the use of technology-mediated communication as digital isolationist mechanisms, the collisions of real/virtual identity and real/virtual place, disruption as a poetic device, and the idea that love is a fleeting and ultimately impermanent state. / Master of Fine Arts

This dissertation examines the outbreak of depression in the United States through an ethical lens of care and disconnection. Discussions in bioethics and collaborating fields largely speak of mental health as a series of phenomena attributable to individuals, subsequently using terms like 'disease' and 'disorder' to denote abnormality in those persons affected by distress. Alternatively, I respond to the ongoing "crisis of care" through a critique of neoliberalism and biomedicalization. I argue that widespread despair is the result of a collective way of life wherein persons are detached from fundamental physical and psychosocial needs by nature of fallacious cultural commitments and techniques. I implement constructivism to empirically ground a new application of care ethics to be considered by normative ethicists. In addition to merging several established traditions such as feminist philosophy and the capabilities approach, I also contribute a comprehensive model for understanding basic needs and the distribution of caring responsibilities/roles. Further, the project enhances the field of applied bioethics by featuring a practically-specific relational approach that is built from the experiences of those embedded in daily decision-making. The dissertation critiques the theoretical soundness of psychiatric and psychological classifications and the practical efficacy of prominent solutions such as antidepressant medications and various psychotherapies. I further assert that these depictions of mental health misrepresent the experiences of those affected by depression, and thus share their stories of derealization, isolation, frustration, resentment, and hopelessness through a lens of disconnection. These feelings apply to caregivers as well: the commodification of care alongside of the constraints attached to "professionalism" are used to inhibit their autonomy, exploit their labor, and detach them from relationships with charges and other carers. This leads to issues such as moral distress, burnout, and vicarious traumatization, all of which foster despair. Finally, I respond to these collective concerns with a new framework consisting of an expanded account of fundamental needs and an analysis of "care-abilities": the capabilities one has to meet their needs and to fulfill the needs of others who depend on them. I then supplement this account with a detailed distribution of skills and responsibilities attached to the particular caring roles that one might occupy. This ethical framework is intended to be advisory and malleable to contextual practice rather than prescriptive. / Doctor of Philosophy / This dissertation outlines the techniques and conditions which, through persuasion or coercion, direct us towards a particular way of living marked by isolation, alienation, and precarity. This life, I argue, has facilitated an epidemic of depression and related conditions of distress in the United States. We largely consider mental health to be a series of phenomena attributable to individuals, and subsequently use terms like 'disease' and 'disorder' to denote abnormality in those persons affected by distress. Alternatively, I follow a question proposed by Johann Hari, who asks "What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief – for our own lives not being as they should? What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost, yet still need?" The dissertation critiques the paradigms of neoliberalism, which refers to the ideology of elevating market theories to state-sponsored and enforced norms, and biomedicalization, an affiliated logic which individualizes and medicalizes all human problems. In response, I develop an ethics of care framework that prioritizes relationships, acknowledges our shared dependencies, and fosters skills for quality care and advocacy. By viewing depression as an affective reaction to social dysfunction, my analysis also challenges conventional interpretations regarding mental health and illness. This project critiques the theoretical and empirical efficacy of modern mental health solutions, details the various challenges and harms experienced by both depressed persons and particular caregivers, and outlines an alternative ethical approach to be used for evaluation and subsequent care.

Abstract   Title: Online versus Offline - A comparative qualitative study on how young individual’s health and social relationships are influenced by connection versus disconnection   Authors: Malin Ensgård, Lisa Hallberg Nilsson   Aim: The aim of this study is to compare how young individuals communicate depending on how connected they are to social media. More specifically how it affects their mental health and social relationships, and how their usage of social media platforms should be adjusted.   Method/Material: In order to collect empirical material, we use focus group interviews and self-observations as methods.   Main Results: The study has shown a general desire for those who are not disconnected to take more distance from social media. It also shows a critical approach to social media and an awareness that the choice of being connected or disconnected is important.   Number of pages: 46   Course: Media and Communication studies C   Department: Department of Informatics   University: Uppsala University
   Period: HT – 2018   Tutor: Kerstin Engström   Keywords: Social media, connection, disconnection, online, offline

Let G be a nontrivial connected, edge-colored graph. An edge-cut R of G is called a rainbow cut if no two edges in R are colored the same. An edge-coloring of G is a rainbow disconnection coloring if for every two distinct vertices u and v of G, there exists a rainbow cut in G, where u and v belong to different components of G − R. We introduce and study the rainbow disconnection number rd(G) of G, which is defined as the minimum number of colors required of a rainbow disconnection coloring of G. It is shown that the rainbow disconnection number of a nontrivial connected graph G equals the maximum rainbow disconnection number among the blocks of G. It is also shown that for a nontrivial connected graph G of order n, rd(G) = n−1 if and only if G contains at least two vertices of degree n − 1. The rainbow disconnection numbers of all grids Pm Pn are determined. Furthermore, it is shown for integers k and n with 1 ≤ k ≤ n − 1 that the minimum size of a connected graph of order n having rainbow disconnection number k is n + k − 2. Other results and a conjecture are also presented.