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Deconstructing Beauty Ideals: Presentation of Beauty on Douyin and Young Chinese Women's Perspectives
(2024)
As social media platforms increasingly shape beauty ideals, this study investigates how beauty is portrayed on Douyin, China's leading short-video platform, and how young Chinese women negotiate their body image perceptions ...
Identity and Belonging: South Asian Americans Navigating K-pop Industry and Fandom
(2024)
Through four semi-structured interviews of South Asian (“Desi†) American K-pop fans, this article delves into the complexity in how South Asian American K-pop fans experience and interact with K-pop music, paratextual ...
Waves of Division?: How Podcasts Fuel Political Disinformation and Polarization in Partisan Media
(2024)
This study delves into the influence of the Ben Shapiro Show, Initially aimed at examining the potential for Shapiro's content to propagate political misinformation and exacerbate polarization. The analysis reveals a nuanced ...
Cyber Impressions: The Impact of Social Media Dynamics on International College Student Vloggers
(2024)
This study examines the impact of social media interactions on the self-esteem, self-regulation, and emotional well-being of international college student vloggers, framed within the context of Symbolic Interactionism. ...
It's About All of Us: Discussions of Race and Racism in Children's Television Post-George Floyd
(2024)
Through textual analysis of seven prominent kids’ programs, this article examines how themes of race and racism are portrayed within children’s television shows produced after the Summer of 2020. Finding that these ...
The Desire to be Desired: A Socio-Linguistic Understanding of Gay Men's Perpetuation of Hookup Culture
(2024)
This thesis examines how Queer men articulate their experiences with desire on the platform Grindr, within the framework of modern hookup culture. Despite a stated desire for long-term romantic connections, Queer men find ...
Contentious and Clashing Feminism--- Unpacking the 'Bot'-Mediated Feminist Discourses on Weibo
(2024)
This thesis examines the complex feminist discourses on Weibo, one of China's largest social media platforms, by focusing on the interactions between radical feminists and anti-radical neoliberal feminists. Utilizing the ...