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The Black Woman That Media Built: Content Creation, Interpretation, and the Making of the Black Female Self.
(2015)
This study is a qualitative, womanist inquiry into the ways that black women engage media texts through their interpretive work and through content creation. The study explores the media landscape, the interconnected domain ...
Browse and Search Patterns in a Digital Image Database
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-01)
A prototype image retrieval system with browse and search capabilities was developed to investigate patterns of searching a collection of digital visual images, as well as factors, such as image size, resolution, and ...
Knowledge and Authority in Shift: A Linguistic Ethnography of Multilingual News Media in the Buryat Territories of Russia.
(2012)
How might institutional projects to improve the status of minority languages and publics have unintended and contradictory consequences? This dissertation examines media and language practices in order to illuminate the ...
Media, Technology, and the Global Technoclass: Case Studies from Ghana.
(2014)
Extant literature on globalization acknowledges fundamental shifts in the global flow of people, capital and technology. Key among these is the knowledge generated by the various intersections of these flows and their role ...
Cherchez la femme: Franco-American Relations through Popular Magazines' Representations of French and American Women, 1945-1965.
(2015)
This project examines how French and American magazines’ comparisons of American and French women, respectively, worked through U.S.-French relations after World War II into the 1960s (1945-1965). Drawing from over 2,500 ...
A Modern Family: The Performance of "Family" and Familialism in Contemporary Television Series.
(2012)
This dissertation addresses the complexities inherent in contemporary television articulations of family life and organization that construct the discourse on the American family since the mid-1990s. In addition to surveying ...
Hurricane Katrina, the Politics of Pity, and the News Media.
(2011)
This thesis seeks to account for how and why particular interpretations of Katrina achieved dominance or were undermined, and how the ethical crisis after the Convention Center was resolved without upsetting the balance ...