Heather Suzanne Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 907157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Suzanne Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2402-6064 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of listening to nurse-focused songs to cope with work-related emotions in oncology nurses
BACKGROUND: Oncology nurses experience work-related stress and difficult emotions related to sustained exposure to patient suffering, death, and moral distress. While creative and music-based approaches have been explored to support nurses' emotional well-being, little is known about the acceptability and perceived helpfulness of listening to nurse-focused songs previously written for their nursing peers. METHODS: An exploratory, proof-of-concept…
Smart homes
This essay analyzes the way that the Brookfield Residential (BR) Smart Home constructs domestic futurity, or a set of cultural practices and meanings pertaining to a mediated, technologically-advanced home and homelife. The BR Smart Home is a new mass-market smart domestic product produced in partnership with retail and logistics hegemon, Amazon. The Smart Home offers customizable, luxury smart living, to include the traditional (stainless steel …
Asking more of Siri and Alexa
This paper illuminates how gendered stereotypes can be leveraged to assuage anxieties surrounding artificially intelligent virtual assistants (AI VA). In particular, the analysis shows that these AI objects routinely traffic in normative gender roles of the feminine as caretaker, mother, and wife in order to obfuscate modes of surveillance, and mediate the relationship users and potential users have with late-capitalist market logics in the platf…
The quiver is full
This investigation into the cultural dynamics of gendered, aging bodies attends to a mediated representation of what contemporary biomedicine defines as pregnancy in “advanced maternal age” (AMA). We offer a feminist rhetorical analysis of an episode of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting entitled “A Duggar Loss,” where 45-year-old matriarch Michelle Duggar experiences pregnancy loss. In the episode, age is reconfigured in discussions of AMA pregnancy thr…
Anonymous, Steubenville, and the Politics of Visibility
Should visibility be an objective of digital feminist interventions? If it is true, as media scholar danah boyd (2014, 160) notes, that “[t]he internet may not have the power to reverse long-standi
Asking more of Siri and Alexa
This paper illuminates how gendered stereotypes can be leveraged to assuage anxieties surrounding artificially intelligent virtual assistants (AI VA). In particular, the analysis shows that these AI objects routinely traffic in normative gender roles of the feminine as caretaker, mother, and wife in order to obfuscate modes of surveillance, and mediate the relationship users and potential users have with late-capitalist market logics in the platf…
Anonymous, Steubenville, and the Politics of Visibility
Should visibility be an objective of digital feminist interventions? If it is true, as media scholar danah boyd (2014, 160) notes, that “[t]he internet may not have the power to reverse long-standi
The quiver is full
This investigation into the cultural dynamics of gendered, aging bodies attends to a mediated representation of what contemporary biomedicine defines as pregnancy in “advanced maternal age” (AMA). We offer a feminist rhetorical analysis of an episode of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting entitled “A Duggar Loss,” where 45-year-old matriarch Michelle Duggar experiences pregnancy loss. In the episode, age is reconfigured in discussions of AMA pregnancy thr…
Anonymous, Steubenville, and the Politics of Visibility
Should visibility be an objective of digital feminist interventions? If it is true, as media scholar danah boyd (2014, 160) notes, that “[t]he internet may not have the power to reverse long-standi
The quiver is full
This investigation into the cultural dynamics of gendered, aging bodies attends to a mediated representation of what contemporary biomedicine defines as pregnancy in “advanced maternal age” (AMA). We offer a feminist rhetorical analysis of an episode of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting entitled “A Duggar Loss,” where 45-year-old matriarch Michelle Duggar experiences pregnancy loss. In the episode, age is reconfigured in discussions of AMA pregnancy thr…
Asking more of Siri and Alexa
This paper illuminates how gendered stereotypes can be leveraged to assuage anxieties surrounding artificially intelligent virtual assistants (AI VA). In particular, the analysis shows that these AI objects routinely traffic in normative gender roles of the feminine as caretaker, mother, and wife in order to obfuscate modes of surveillance, and mediate the relationship users and potential users have with late-capitalist market logics in the platf…
Smart homes
This essay analyzes the way that the Brookfield Residential (BR) Smart Home constructs domestic futurity, or a set of cultural practices and meanings pertaining to a mediated, technologically-advanced home and homelife. The BR Smart Home is a new mass-market smart domestic product produced in partnership with retail and logistics hegemon, Amazon. The Smart Home offers customizable, luxury smart living, to include the traditional (stainless steel …
The role of listening to nurse-focused songs to cope with work-related emotions in oncology nurses
BACKGROUND: Oncology nurses experience work-related stress and difficult emotions related to sustained exposure to patient suffering, death, and moral distress. While creative and music-based approaches have been explored to support nurses' emotional well-being, little is known about the acceptability and perceived helpfulness of listening to nurse-focused songs previously written for their nursing peers. METHODS: An exploratory, proof-of-concept…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Active listening (1 work) · Advertising (1 work)