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Just Following Up: My Experience As A Summer Student Administrator For Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Llp, Bridget Leslie
Just Following Up: My Experience As A Summer Student Administrator For Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt Llp, Bridget Leslie
SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Publications
In this paper, I reflect on my experience as a Summer Student Administrator for Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP where I acquired skills such as proficiency in various software and data analysis as well as professional communication, confidence, and organization. I applied these skills daily to produce quality work, and I am still applying these skills to my academic and personal life almost a year later. The culminating experience of the summer was presenting my own data analysis to a group of executives, which helped me improve my presentation skills and foster confidence in my own abilities. In addition to …
Instagram Influencers And Their Youngest Female Followers, Amanda Jenkins
Instagram Influencers And Their Youngest Female Followers, Amanda Jenkins
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
The purpose of this research is to gain a better understanding of the content teenage girls are surrounded by on Instagram, specifically focusing on influencer self-presentation and the impacts it can have on Instagram’s youngest female users. To do so, this research identifies and analyzes the top ten most popular influencers followed by a concentrated sample of 13–16-year-old girls. Theoretically informed qualitative analysis is used to analyze the influencers’ profiles by applying Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical approach (1956). With reference to Angela McRobbie’s (2008) work on “girl culture” and Alice Marwick’s (2015) work on “insta-fame”, the ways in which influencers code …
Learning From Experience: Designing For Western Libraries And Western Mustangs, Sophia Belyk
Learning From Experience: Designing For Western Libraries And Western Mustangs, Sophia Belyk
SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Publications
In this report, Belyk reflects on her two internship experiences. In her summer with Western Libraries, Belyk worked on social-media content production and social-media management, as well as expanded her knowledge of design and her skill of working collaboratively. In her three years with the Western Mustangs, Belyk learned a lot about working in design professionally, as well as how to thrive in unfamiliar circumstances, and what kind of team she likes to work with. Throughout the report Belyk reflects on the value of experiential learning and what it means to be a designer.
My Internship At The Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Carina Pagotto
My Internship At The Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Carina Pagotto
SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Presentations
In her presentation on her Summer 2019 internship at the Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia, Ontario, Carina focuses on the goals and outcomes, challenges, and results of her experience. Featuring photographs she took onsite, Carina discusses learning about the issues faced by museums and galleries, familiarizing herself with the gallery’s collection and reviewing exhibition catalogues, and building an exhibit. She details promoting the gallery through social media and building strong relationships with her supervisors and peers and finishes with a brief discussion of the value of art and of internships.
Reflecting On That #Gallerylife, Carina Pagotto
Reflecting On That #Gallerylife, Carina Pagotto
SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Publications
My report documents my internship experience at the Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia, Ontario. The report describes the progression of my internship from the first meeting, through my internship, to the final presentation of the experience. I reflect on the behind-the-scenes experience I had at working in a prestigious local art gallery. I describe researching and crafting social media posts for the permanent collection and for a travelling exhibition. I also go on to recount my experience in creating my main deliverable: an exhibition. The report explains the development of my exhibition proposals and my presentation at …
Digital Refuse: Canadian Garbage, Commercial Content Moderation And The Global Circulation Of Social Media’S Waste, Sarah T. Roberts
Digital Refuse: Canadian Garbage, Commercial Content Moderation And The Global Circulation Of Social Media’S Waste, Sarah T. Roberts
Media Studies Publications
The story of a rogue Canadian garbage barge attempting to offload illegal garbage in the Philippines opens this article on techno-trash, in order to underline both the relationships between countries of the Global North with countries of the Global South in matters of waste, as well as to reframe discussions of techno-trash as one fundamentally tied to material things. The definition of techno-trash is then expanded, to cover digital detritus created through an entirely digital set of practices I term “Commercial Content Moderation.” The attempt to offload mounds of e-waste and the similar ways in which a great deal of …
Commercial Content Moderation: Digital Laborers' Dirty Work, Sarah T. Roberts
Commercial Content Moderation: Digital Laborers' Dirty Work, Sarah T. Roberts
Media Studies Publications
In this chapter from the forthcoming Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online (Noble and Tynes, Eds., 2016), I introduce both the concept of commercial content moderation (CCM) work and workers, as well as the ways in which this unseen work affects how users experience the Internet of social media and user-generated content (UGC). I tie it to issues of race and gender by describing specific cases of viral videos that transgressed norms and by providing examples from my interviews with CCM workers. The interventions of CCM workers on behalf of the platforms for which they labor directly contradict …
In/Visibility, Sarah T. Roberts
In/Visibility, Sarah T. Roberts
Media Studies Publications
In online life there is a normative supposition that the information- and image-rich environment of the web and other platforms should provide unfettered access to the circulation of all types of content. Less attention is paid to what is not seen, to the invisible—be it actual content that is rescinded, altered or removed, or the opaque decision-making processes that maintain its flow. In/visibility online is central to the intertwined functions/mechanisms of user experience and platform control, further operationalized under globalized, technologically driven capitalism. A digital labour phenomenon that is both responsible for it and relies upon it: is …
A Look At The Changing Relationship Between My Generation And Technology In Michael Harris's Book The End Of Absence, Anastasia Scott
A Look At The Changing Relationship Between My Generation And Technology In Michael Harris's Book The End Of Absence, Anastasia Scott
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Technological Takeover: A Reading Response To Chapter 1 Of Michael Harris' The End Of Absence, Joshua Thompson-Persaud
Technological Takeover: A Reading Response To Chapter 1 Of Michael Harris' The End Of Absence, Joshua Thompson-Persaud
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The Challenge To Disconnect: Response To Chapter One Of The End Of Absence, By Michael Harris, Leonid Beletski
The Challenge To Disconnect: Response To Chapter One Of The End Of Absence, By Michael Harris, Leonid Beletski
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The Perpetuation Of Pundits: My Reflection And Response To Chapter Four "Public Opinion," From The Book The End Of Absence By Michael Harris, Elise Geschiere
The Perpetuation Of Pundits: My Reflection And Response To Chapter Four "Public Opinion," From The Book The End Of Absence By Michael Harris, Elise Geschiere
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