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Parents Frame Childhood For The World To See In Digital Media Postings, Aysenur Benevento
Parents Frame Childhood For The World To See In Digital Media Postings, Aysenur Benevento
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
With the wellbeing of children being at the center of contemporary media discourse (Livingstone & Bovill, 2013), developmental studies are ever more challenged to understand both children’s and adults’ behavior in online spaces. Parents and children are involved in the human development process in complementary ways (Johansson, 2010; Uprichards, 2008) while using media platforms. As the development and use of innovative media technology are accelerating at a fast pace, theory and methods for analyzing uses of digital media for human development have lagged behind. This study examines adults’ postings of photos of their children on social media and offers a …
Still Life: Growing Up With Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen
Still Life: Growing Up With Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This capstone is a multidimensional visual narrative project that incorporates heuristic methodology to illustrate complicated grief that emerged from early childhood loss. The memoir’s intention is to exemplify grief as a complex and mutable composite response to the death of my mother. One objective of this capstone is to understand melancholy, commonly associated with mental illness or symptomatic of depression, as an aesthetic emotion as well as a conduit for philosophical reflection. I use non-verbal approaches to the genre of a memoir by incorporating my photography to epitomize art as a powerful means to comprehend the totality of loss: as …