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The MOspace Institutional Repository is an online repository for creative and scholarly works and other resources created by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Missouri--Columbia and the University of Missouri--Kansas City. MOspace makes these resources freely available on the web and assures their preservation for the future.
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Item Expressions of Belief in the QAnon Conspiracy Movement(Taylor & Francis || Routledge, 2025-09-08)QAnon is a conspiracy movement that began largely in online spaces in October 2017. The movement has been implicated in a variety of violent actions, including participating in the January 6 insurrection, spreading medical misinformation, perpetrating multiple murders, and fomenting distrust in the American system of governance. While researchers and journalists have painted the movement as a monolithic belief system with a homogenous group of participants, we urge caution in using this approach. This paper is a content analysis of 3,251 comments made by online users in response to posts made by Q between November 3 and November 5, 2017, during the early days in which QAnon coalesced. We coded comments to the “Q Drops” and found participants fall into one of the three categories: 1) Believers, 2) Skeptics, and 3) LARPers (live action role players). We chose this section of content to analyze because of a series of failed predictions by Q, just as the conspiracy theory began to crystallize into a research community, which we believed would be an inflection point for the movement. We find that participants in the QAnon movement during these heady early days remained invested in developing the theory despite the failed predictions and that the movement’s formation was far more heterogenous than previously assumed.Item Hopi silversmithing(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1968)Hopi silversmithing is discussed by noting its historical development and present status. A detailed description of the technology of the craft is given. The economics of the craft and the form and design of the jewelry is analyzed, contrasting the two major producers. Analysis of production draws upon Systems Theory to illucidate the function and structure of the units in relation to the craft. Chapters on Indian silverworking in the United States, the current situation in the Southwest, and a brief description of the Hopi are included.Item Missouri Hunger Atlas 2025(University of Missouri, Interdisciplinary Center for Food Security, 2025)"This atlas assesses the extent of food insecurity in the state of Missouri. It also gauges how well public programs are doing in meeting the needs of our fellow citizens who have difficulty acquiring sufficient amounts and qualities of food. The concept of food security, as the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program within the United States Department of Agriculture defines it, refers to “access by all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life.” Food insecurity in this country is normally due to insufficient resources for food purchases, and most food-insecure households avoid hunger by relying on a narrower range of foods or acquiring food through private and public assistance programs." -- First page.Item Rituals : the liminality of death(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2022)"Rituals creates a space that recalls traditional practices surrounding the death of a loved one. This installation is located in a refurbished 1868 home, The Conley House, that features two conjoined spaces." -- first pageItem Using trail cameras to study white-tailed deer vigilance behavior within an agroforestry landscape(University of Missouri, Campus Writing Program, 2022)"White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations have grown exponentially in the last century and now provide extensive opportunities for both recreation (e.g., hunting) and property damage (e.g., car collisions and crop damage) in the U.S. However, urban sprawl threatens to undermine our current understanding of wildlife behavior patterns, particularly in mixed-use areas along the urban-natural fringe, while also threatening to increase the frequency of human-wildlife conflicts." -- first page
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