What happened last March, and again around GameStop, fit into a larger pattern of tech startup behavior. “This is a normal startup thing,” said Lana Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media. Essentially, the move is to bring a platform to market, get it to scale, and worry about everything else later.
Facebook and Google have vigorously fought the proposed legislation in Australia and have publicly threatened to pull out of the country over the effort to compensate news organizations. But Google, whose business model relies on fast and reliable news links, hammered out a deal, whereas Facebook, which depends less on publishers, put up a fight. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, said the proposed law is an attempt to reinvigorate flailing news organizations, which have seen substantial amounts of advertising revenue siphoned by tech giants like Facebook and Google. “It’s n...
Facebook and Google have vigorously fought the proposed legislation in Australia and have publicly threatened to pull out of the country over the effort to compensate news organizations. But Google, whose business model relies on fast and reliable news links, hammered out a deal, whereas Facebook, which depends less on publishers, put up a fight. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a UVA professor of media studies, said the proposed law is an attempt to reinvigorate flailing news organizations, which have seen substantial amounts of advertising revenue siphoned by tech giants like Facebook and Google. “It’s n...
(Commentary) Fifty years on, the constitution remains a surprisingly optimistic document, distinguished by commitments to redistricting, education, anti-discrimination protections and the environment that – fashioned during the upheaval of the 1960s by an 11-member commission that represented the apotheosis of the often-dour Virginia patriarchy – seemed un-Virginian. “The commission was trying to put that decade behind us and look to a new future for Virginia,” said A.E. Dick Howard, the panel’s executive director as a 30-something professor at the University of Virginia Law School.
The brazen assault on America’s constitutional process also reflects a nation that has long been fractured at its core by an unrelenting and polarizing factor: race. “This country was founded as a slave owners’ republic,” said Kevin K. Gaines, UVA’s Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice. “There have been powerful movements to attempt to address the entrenched racism in our social and political cultures. Whether you’re talking about the crusading efforts of the abolitionists, a civil war, reconstruction, and the modern civil rights movement, powerful steps have been taken to ...
“Rush built upon an already robust right-wing media and organizational infrastructure and married it to lowbrow entertainment culture, appealing to a deeply politicized audience of angry white men who did not consider themselves political,” writes David Astin Walsh, a UVA postdoctoral fellow and historian of conservatism. “Limbaugh was the fountainhead for an entire generation of radical right-wing GOP politicians who owe their careers to the politics of resentment and white racial rage.”
Although the area’s vaccine distribution has been admittedly hampered by limited supply, and hiccups at the state and federal levels, the process, spearheaded by the Blue Ridge Health District at the direction of the Virginia Department of Health, “has clearly been lacking,” said Dr. Ebony Hilton, a UVA associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine. It’s a problem she attributes to a “trickle-down” impact from the flawed federal vaccination response.
(Commentary by Andrew Kahrl, professor of history and African American studies) From the moment beaches became a popular summertime destination and valuable asset, shoreline towns and beachfront homeowners in the state have fought to keep this common resource to themselves. Recently, state Rep. Roland Lemar introduced a bill in the General Assembly that would eliminate one of the main instruments used by shoreline towns to keep the general public out: exorbitant access and parking fees for nonresidents. Critics charge that towns deliberately use these fees – which render the cost of a day at s...
Two local programs have received recognition for work helping residents of long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Virginia Health System says its Geriatric Engagement and Resource Integration for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Facilities, or GERI-PaL, program was a runner-up in the award. This program worked with long-term care facilities to prevent COVID-19 infections and reduce mortality rates during an outbreak.
Novant Health and UVA Health are in discussions for UVA Health to acquire full ownership of Novant Health UVA Health System, a Northern Virginia regional health system owned by the two institutions under a joint operating company.
UVA Health may soon obtain full ownership of Culpeper’s hospital, the health system announced Wednesday.
Novant Health Inc. is in discussions to sell its 60% stake in the northern Virginia regional health system that it owns with UVA Health. The two groups formed a joint operating company that debuted in January 2016.
UVA Health says it is working to acquire full ownership of the Novant Health UVA Health System. According to a release, this is a Northern Virginia regional health system that is currently owned by Novant Health and UVA Health under a joint operating company.
It’s not just expenses you will have to wrangle with as a singleton. There’s what seems to be an acceptable bias towards singletons. A recent study found that rental agents are more likely to pick a married couple over a single person to rent to. In the experiment conducted by the University of Virginia, rental agents read descriptions of multiple applicants for a rental property and chose one. The applicant pool included a married couple and different types of singles. Although the applicants were similar in terms of wealth and careers, participants consistently chose the married couple over ...
UVA demographers have hypothesized that in addition to involuntary employment, the Asian-American unemployment rate may also include some degree of voluntary unemployment due to heightened COVID-19 fears. They predicted in December that “practical realities and financial pragmatism will organically bring Asians back to the workforce.”
(Commentary) My alma mater, the UVA School of Education and Human Development, echoes Freeman’s distinction between the Ph.D. and Ed.D. According to the description of the institution’s doctoral programs, the doctor of philosophy program “develops academic scholars who develop a line of research in conjunction with a mentor and often within a disciplinary setting.” The doctor of education “is a professional degree designed to support practitioner-scholars in their pursuit of identifying, studying, and solving problems of practice in a work setting.” As such, doctor of education candidates ofte...
Both the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and Charlottesville City Council at their respective virtual meetings this week approved a memorandum of understanding for collaboration between Charlottesville, Albemarle and UVA on equity and inclusion.
At UVA, the McIntire School of Commerce is in the good hands of a Black female dean – the first in more than 25 years. While their high-profile administrative positions vary widely, one thing they have in common is The PhD Project, which they all credit to their ascension in academia.
More than a dozen UVA students asked the school’s Board of Visitors to forego a possible 3.1% tuition increase for the next school year, citing financial impacts the hike would have on themselves, their families and their friends. The board held the meeting Wednesday as part of its budget-setting process. The board will consider raising tuition between zero and 3.1% for next school year.
UVA says it has set a record for the number of new COVID-19 cases reported on a single day. The UVA COVID Tracker says there were 229 new cases reported on Tuesday, all of which are among students. There are currently 605 active cases among the UVA community, on- and off-Grounds.