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Master's Project, Patricia Miller
Master's Project, Patricia Miller
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Patricia Miller is an Inland Empire based artist, who was born and raised in San Bernardino, California. She creates abstract plywood sculptures that promote mental health awareness. Her work is an investigation of the unhealthy relationships that many people have with society, the fine art world, their environment, and themselves.
Everquest, Reality, And Postmodern Theories Of Community, Brian Jacob-Paul Bailie
Everquest, Reality, And Postmodern Theories Of Community, Brian Jacob-Paul Bailie
Theses Digitization Project
EverQuest is a multiplayer online role playing game that serves as a practical incarnation of life as a cyborg in a posthuman community. Using cultural materialsim, this thesis demonstrates how the words of EverQuest interactants - from message boards, interviews, and player in-game communications - construct the world of EverQuest and the roles of the interactants as its citizens. More specifically, this thesis will argue that the EverQuest world serves to reify the ideas of consumer capitalism that informs the "real" world, even as EverQuest itself promises an escape from that world.