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Item ePADD: Email Archiving for Beginners(Texas Digital Library, 2023-05-17) Banuelos, ChrisAs electronic communication becomes more and more ubiquitous, what steps are organizations taking to archive and provide access to emails? Here at Rice University, the University Archives have been mandated to preserve all of the email correspondences from our newly outgoing university president. Since we've not done this before, we've started experimenting with a software called ePADD. This open-source software allows digital archivists and librarians to process email collections, preview the content for personal information that may need redaction, provide metadata, map the metadata to a local finding aid, and act as a point of contact for patrons requesting access to the content. After testing the software, we are almost ready to start archiving the collection. I'd like to take this opportunity to share with the community what I've learned from our ePADD tests. Additionally, since I've yet to formally begin the project, I'd like to ask the community to share with me any and all experiences thay have had with email archiving. My hope is that this session will be informational not only for the attendees but for the presenter as well.Item Interlanguage Pragmatics and Email Communication(2013-08-07) Ko, Wei-HongThe present study investigated learners? interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of ninety requestive emails written to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. Most previous studies on interlanguage pragmatics have been comparative. These studies focused on how nonnative speakers? pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native speakers? and compared learners with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds to native speakers. In addition, the few existing literature on developmental pragmatics have used elicited. Naturally occurring data, in the form of emails, offer a more valid reflection of learners? pragmatic competence. This study adopted speech event analysis approach, which seeks to account for all parts of requestive emails and recognize the ?work? each part does in the production of the speech event. Results indicated that although quantitative analysis did not indicate much pragmatic development, content analysis revealed learners? development of pragmatic competence such as showing ability, clearer requests and relevant supportive moves and improvement from a reason then request to request then reason structure. This study elucidated the merits of analyzing natural data in interlanguage pragmatics as well as offered the benefit of recognizing email requests as a situated event.Item S/MIME client with wireless key passing for android(2015-12) Diaz, Ramiro Daniel; Barber, Suzanne; Bard, WilliamAs the value and vulnerability of personal data has increased, the security of digital communication and information has become more important. Currently, there exists no application that allows for a convenient transfer of secure digital communication on mobile devices as they continue to usurp the role of personal computers in the real world. This report will document my attempt to create one such application on the Android platform. This report will present a brief background of the algorithms intended to be used, as well as an overview of the evolution of the email protocols into the S/MIME protocol. It shall also cover related works that currently exist that we explored, or used in the creation of the application. In program requirements, the overall requirements of the application will be discussed in detail. In program design, we will describe the overall design and architecture of the application. Finally, program outcome will describe the difficulties faced in the process of implementing the work, the outcome itself and where it can be found, and future work that is needed for the application.Item Technology, ideology, and emergent communicative practices among the Navajo(2006-08) Peterson, Leighton Craig; Sherzer, Joel; Strong, Pauline Turner, 1953-This dissertation examines emerging cultural attitudes, language ideologies, and discursive practices among Navajos and Navajo speakers through the lens of new media technologies on the Navajo Nation. New media such as cell phones and the Internet are significant features of contemporary Navajo communities, and act as both a context for and medium of linguistic and cultural vitality and transformation. They have opened new spaces for Navajo language use, generated emergent uses of the Navajo language, and increased the spaces of language contact and change. This dissertation explores the ways in which ideologies of language and technology have shifted and converged, and describes multiple instances of the transformative nature of technology through the mediation of communities. New technologies do not exist in a vacuum, and novel practices emerge from a wide range of existing observable styles, registers, and norms in Navajo communities. Significant are the shifting geographies of communication, expansion of social networks, and increased circulation of bilingual Navajo hane’, or publicly shared “tellings” in the form of stories, jokes, and information that accompany them. This work analyzes the appearance of new media technologies in contemporary Navajo society within broader discourses of modernity and narratives of progress about, and among, Navajo communities. New technology is not incommensurate with existing practice; rather, emergent practices are part of the broader circulation of Navajo identities, defined here as a process linked to social activities, and emergent practices index the ways in which some Navajos are “doing” community in unexpected ways and unexpected places. New expressive forms and genres have appeared, including a migration to English emails by previously monolingual, illiterate elders, the transition of traditionally oral genres to widely circulated emails, and the appearance of locally created bilingual hip-hop music. These are crucial developments that have immediate implications for Navajo language vitality and cultural continuity.