Adam King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0632-8317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Because that’s who they are”
This study examines whether linguistic abstraction can serve as a methodological tool for analyzing social perception, using young people’s discourse about governmental and community actors during a climate crisis as a test case. Drawing on the framework of linguistic intergroup bias and the linguistic category model, the study investigates how implicit evaluations of institutional actors are reflected in the use of abstract versus concrete langu…
All Players are Equal, but if We Win, Some are More Equal than Others
This study examines racial disparities in emotional expression within online football fandom by analyzing sentiment in YouTube comments referring to white players and players of color across different match contexts (previews, wins, losses, and draws). Using a two-way ANOVA with 239 observations derived from 5,819 comments, we identify significant racialized patterns in sentiment expression. White players received significantly higher sentiment s…
Benefits of Sport Skills Instruction on the Physical and Mental Well-Being of Preschoolers
Sport activities (SA) and physical education (PE) play a crucial role in education by fostering physical skills, competitiveness, and self-confidence among students (Garibaldi & Russell, 2021). Pre
Categorising Demand for Child Welfare Services Using Latent Class Analysis
In England, administrative data on children’s needs are recorded following a social work assessment. These data are typically used to understand prevalence of individual risk factors and to inform processes, such as the work of local safeguarding partners and multi-agency services. However, reporting individual factors at assessment cannot capture the complexity and heterogeneity of multiple and overlapping needs. This study aimed to identify com…
Determining the “Core of Indianness
In light of Bill C-92, which establishes a framework for delegating child and family service provision to Indigenous communities, this article addresses the contested regulation of employment and labour relations in Indigenous social service workplaces. It approaches this subject by looking back at NIL/TU,O Child and Family Services Society v. B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union, a case in which employees at a First Nations child and fam…
Reunification and Re-entry to Care
This article reports on a quantitative study of the national datasets for children in state care in England. The aim of the study was to investigate the likelihood of re-entry to care for children who returned home to their parents or main carers after an episode of care. An anonymised extract of case-level information on all children who received an episode of care between 2014 and 2020 (n = 51,238) was assembled from local authority (LA) admini…
The Etowah Archaeo-Geophysical Survey
Greater Early Disambiguating Information for Less-Probable Words
There has been much work over the last century on optimization of the lexicon for efficient communication, with a particular focus on the form of words as an evolving balance between production ease and communicative accuracy. Zipf’s law of abbreviation, the cross-linguistic trend for less-probable words to be longer, represents some of the strongest evidence the lexicon is shaped by a pressure for communicative efficiency. However, the various s…
Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal
Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal
We report a statistical test of a long-standing hypothesis in the literature: that phonological neutralization rules are more common at the ends of lexical domains than the beginnings (Houlihan 1975 et seq.). We collected descriptive grammars for an areally and genetically diverse set of fifty languages, identified all active phonological rules that target the edge of a lexical domain (root, stem, word, phrase, or utterance), and further coded ea…
The Hollywood Site (9RI1) and the Foundations of Mississippian in the Middle Savannah River Valley
In this chapter we explore the role of the Hollywood site in the development of a unique version of Mississippian political culture that emerged along the middle Savannah River Valley. We argue this variant of Mississippian was inspired by the coming together of material culture, belief traditions, and people from the Central Mississippi valley and the middle Savannah valley. Those divergent traditions and practices were entangled through a set o…
Shell Gorgets, Hybridity, and Identity Creation in the Hightower Region
Archaeology in South Carolina
Scholars examine the rich human history of South Carolina from its earliest days to the present
Foragers, Farmers, and Chiefs
Mississippian in the Deep South
This article focuses on illustrating three points regarding Mississippian societies of the Deep South—that is, people who grew corn, built platform mounds, and practiced social ranking. The first is that there is a great deal of variation in how Mississippian societies (from sometime after AD 1000 to the coming of Europeans) looked and operated in this region. The second point is that, despite this variation, there are a set of common elements ou…
Mound C and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex in the History of the Etowah Site
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Remote Sensing Data from Etowah's Mound A
This paper presents the results of a gradiometer survey conducted on the summit of Etowah's largest mound, Mound A, which stands some 19 m tall. Those results are compared to limited excavation data from the summit of Mound A as well as information from the wider region on mound summit architecture. The gradiometer results reveal the presence of as many as four buildings and an open-ended portico that are arranged around an open space and obscure…
Light on the Path
The Historic Period Transformation of Mississippian Societies
Finding Online Subcultures in Shared Meanings
This article describes a cluster analysis of affective sentiments assigned by a sample of 2,400 Internet users to a set of online-relevant concepts. The results of the cluster analysis, which identified five subcultures of the Internet population (Mainstream, Casual, Cliché, Enthusiast, and Neutral), are discussed in regard to demographic and use variations. The results of the study suggest that there is some utility in studying subcultures by se…
Re-Inventing Mississippian Tradition at Etowah, Georgia
Over a Century of Explorations at Etowah
Affective Dimensions of Internet Culture
This study examines online culture by constructing an affective portrait of Internet users. Respondents were recruited through a highly visible advertisement on the Yahoo! search engine, and their sentiments were collected with a Web-based survey instrument using Osgood’s semantic-differential technique. The study had three particularly engaging findings: First, Internet users hold extremely intense and nuanced affective sentiments toward the com…
Special Issue on Affect in Cyberspace
Light on the Path
Re-Inventing Mississippian Tradition at Etowah, Georgia
Affective Dimensions of Internet Culture
This study examines online culture by constructing an affective portrait of Internet users. Respondents were recruited through a highly visible advertisement on the Yahoo! search engine, and their sentiments were collected with a Web-based survey instrument using Osgood’s semantic-differential technique. The study had three particularly engaging findings: First, Internet users hold extremely intense and nuanced affective sentiments toward the com…
Finding Online Subcultures in Shared Meanings
This article describes a cluster analysis of affective sentiments assigned by a sample of 2,400 Internet users to a set of online-relevant concepts. The results of the cluster analysis, which identified five subcultures of the Internet population (Mainstream, Casual, Cliché, Enthusiast, and Neutral), are discussed in regard to demographic and use variations. The results of the study suggest that there is some utility in studying subcultures by se…
Categorising Demand for Child Welfare Services Using Latent Class Analysis
In England, administrative data on children’s needs are recorded following a social work assessment. These data are typically used to understand prevalence of individual risk factors and to inform processes, such as the work of local safeguarding partners and multi-agency services. However, reporting individual factors at assessment cannot capture the complexity and heterogeneity of multiple and overlapping needs. This study aimed to identify com…
The Etowah Archaeo-Geophysical Survey
Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal
We report a statistical test of a long-standing hypothesis in the literature: that phonological neutralization rules are more common at the ends of lexical domains than the beginnings (Houlihan 1975 et seq.). We collected descriptive grammars for an areally and genetically diverse set of fifty languages, identified all active phonological rules that target the edge of a lexical domain (root, stem, word, phrase, or utterance), and further coded ea…
Remote Sensing Data from Etowah's Mound A
This paper presents the results of a gradiometer survey conducted on the summit of Etowah's largest mound, Mound A, which stands some 19 m tall. Those results are compared to limited excavation data from the summit of Mound A as well as information from the wider region on mound summit architecture. The gradiometer results reveal the presence of as many as four buildings and an open-ended portico that are arranged around an open space and obscure…
Over a Century of Explorations at Etowah
Special Issue on Affect in Cyberspace
Affective Dimensions of Internet Culture
This study examines online culture by constructing an affective portrait of Internet users. Respondents were recruited through a highly visible advertisement on the Yahoo! search engine, and their sentiments were collected with a Web-based survey instrument using Osgood’s semantic-differential technique. The study had three particularly engaging findings: First, Internet users hold extremely intense and nuanced affective sentiments toward the com…
Over a Century of Explorations at Etowah
Re-Inventing Mississippian Tradition at Etowah, Georgia
Finding Online Subcultures in Shared Meanings
This article describes a cluster analysis of affective sentiments assigned by a sample of 2,400 Internet users to a set of online-relevant concepts. The results of the cluster analysis, which identified five subcultures of the Internet population (Mainstream, Casual, Cliché, Enthusiast, and Neutral), are discussed in regard to demographic and use variations. The results of the study suggest that there is some utility in studying subcultures by se…
Light on the Path
The Historic Period Transformation of Mississippian Societies
Mound C and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex in the History of the Etowah Site
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Remote Sensing Data from Etowah's Mound A
This paper presents the results of a gradiometer survey conducted on the summit of Etowah's largest mound, Mound A, which stands some 19 m tall. Those results are compared to limited excavation data from the summit of Mound A as well as information from the wider region on mound summit architecture. The gradiometer results reveal the presence of as many as four buildings and an open-ended portico that are arranged around an open space and obscure…
Mississippian in the Deep South
This article focuses on illustrating three points regarding Mississippian societies of the Deep South—that is, people who grew corn, built platform mounds, and practiced social ranking. The first is that there is a great deal of variation in how Mississippian societies (from sometime after AD 1000 to the coming of Europeans) looked and operated in this region. The second point is that, despite this variation, there are a set of common elements ou…
Archaeology in South Carolina
Scholars examine the rich human history of South Carolina from its earliest days to the present
Foragers, Farmers, and Chiefs
The Hollywood Site (9RI1) and the Foundations of Mississippian in the Middle Savannah River Valley
In this chapter we explore the role of the Hollywood site in the development of a unique version of Mississippian political culture that emerged along the middle Savannah River Valley. We argue this variant of Mississippian was inspired by the coming together of material culture, belief traditions, and people from the Central Mississippi valley and the middle Savannah valley. Those divergent traditions and practices were entangled through a set o…
Shell Gorgets, Hybridity, and Identity Creation in the Hightower Region
Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal
Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal
We report a statistical test of a long-standing hypothesis in the literature: that phonological neutralization rules are more common at the ends of lexical domains than the beginnings (Houlihan 1975 et seq.). We collected descriptive grammars for an areally and genetically diverse set of fifty languages, identified all active phonological rules that target the edge of a lexical domain (root, stem, word, phrase, or utterance), and further coded ea…
Greater Early Disambiguating Information for Less-Probable Words
There has been much work over the last century on optimization of the lexicon for efficient communication, with a particular focus on the form of words as an evolving balance between production ease and communicative accuracy. Zipf’s law of abbreviation, the cross-linguistic trend for less-probable words to be longer, represents some of the strongest evidence the lexicon is shaped by a pressure for communicative efficiency. However, the various s…
The Etowah Archaeo-Geophysical Survey
Determining the “Core of Indianness
In light of Bill C-92, which establishes a framework for delegating child and family service provision to Indigenous communities, this article addresses the contested regulation of employment and labour relations in Indigenous social service workplaces. It approaches this subject by looking back at NIL/TU,O Child and Family Services Society v. B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union, a case in which employees at a First Nations child and fam…
Reunification and Re-entry to Care
This article reports on a quantitative study of the national datasets for children in state care in England. The aim of the study was to investigate the likelihood of re-entry to care for children who returned home to their parents or main carers after an episode of care. An anonymised extract of case-level information on all children who received an episode of care between 2014 and 2020 (n = 51,238) was assembled from local authority (LA) admini…
Categorising Demand for Child Welfare Services Using Latent Class Analysis
In England, administrative data on children’s needs are recorded following a social work assessment. These data are typically used to understand prevalence of individual risk factors and to inform processes, such as the work of local safeguarding partners and multi-agency services. However, reporting individual factors at assessment cannot capture the complexity and heterogeneity of multiple and overlapping needs. This study aimed to identify com…
Benefits of Sport Skills Instruction on the Physical and Mental Well-Being of Preschoolers
Sport activities (SA) and physical education (PE) play a crucial role in education by fostering physical skills, competitiveness, and self-confidence among students (Garibaldi & Russell, 2021). Pre
“Because that’s who they are”
This study examines whether linguistic abstraction can serve as a methodological tool for analyzing social perception, using young people’s discourse about governmental and community actors during a climate crisis as a test case. Drawing on the framework of linguistic intergroup bias and the linguistic category model, the study investigates how implicit evaluations of institutional actors are reflected in the use of abstract versus concrete langu…
All Players are Equal, but if We Win, Some are More Equal than Others
This study examines racial disparities in emotional expression within online football fandom by analyzing sentiment in YouTube comments referring to white players and players of color across different match contexts (previews, wins, losses, and draws). Using a two-way ANOVA with 239 observations derived from 5,819 comments, we identify significant racialized patterns in sentiment expression. White players received significantly higher sentiment s…
Political science (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works) · Law (4 works)