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Articles 1 - 8 of 8
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Yes, Mmmm, Snaps: The Influence Of The Call And Response Tradition Of The Black Church Into Forensics, Tomeka M. Robinson, Sean Allen, Goyland Williams
Yes, Mmmm, Snaps: The Influence Of The Call And Response Tradition Of The Black Church Into Forensics, Tomeka M. Robinson, Sean Allen, Goyland Williams
Communication Graduate Student Publication Series
The forensics community has long been hailed as one of the most accepting, progressive, and open-minded segments of the academy. However, minority competitors and coaches continually face a myriad of challenges in terms of acceptance within the community. Many scholars have argued for more inclusiveness within the activity in terms of representation and acceptance of literature from diverse perspectives (Robinson & Allen, 2018; Rogers et al., 2003; Billings, 2000), however, very little attention has been placed on the issue of behavioral norms and expectations within rounds. More specifically, no article to date has explored the impact of culture on audience …
Christine De Pizan's The Book Of The City Of Ladies As Reclamatory Fan Work, E. J. Nielsen
Christine De Pizan's The Book Of The City Of Ladies As Reclamatory Fan Work, E. J. Nielsen
Communication Graduate Student Publication Series
In what ways can medieval texts be looked at as fan works? How might the rhetorical tools of fan studies or affect theory aid in further understanding of these texts? Likewise, can we use medieval understandings of literary production to look at modern fan works in order to complicate our contemporary ideas of authorship? Here I consider how Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies (Le Livre de la Cité des Dames) can be read as a reclamatory fan work addressing issues of representation and gender within both the texts it responds to and the …
Friends With Benefits: Plausible Optimism And The Practice Of Teabagging In Video Games, Brian Myers
Friends With Benefits: Plausible Optimism And The Practice Of Teabagging In Video Games, Brian Myers
Communication Graduate Student Publication Series
Recent scholarship in gaming studies has challenged the field to investigate and critique the hard core gaming audience (stereotypically seen as straight, White, cis-gendered male gamers) in a way that does not reinforce either the perceived marginalization of gamers or broader social hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and class. This article demonstrates a way to acknowledge the complexity of this audience without dismissing its most virulent tendencies via practice theory and weak theory. Using data drawn from a qualitative survey of 393 self-identified first-person shooter video game players, this article looks at the specific practice of “teabagging” in online competitive gaming …
The Cultural Cold War Goes "Vulgar": Radio Serial Melodrama In Post-Korean War South Korea, 1956-1960, Bohyeong Kim
The Cultural Cold War Goes "Vulgar": Radio Serial Melodrama In Post-Korean War South Korea, 1956-1960, Bohyeong Kim
Communication Graduate Student Publication Series
This study explores the birth of the popular radio serial drama under the Cold War doctrine of national broadcasting in 1950s South Korea. By examining texts, critiques, production practices, and writers, I interrogate how the anti-Communism propaganda mandate was negotiated in radio drama, influenced not only by the South Korean government and the field of radio production but also by the U.S. cultural Cold War programs and Americanization. As the result of historical contingencies within radiodrama production, the propaganda mission of national broadcasting morphed into “vulgar” melodrama, focused on romantic triangles and urban lifestyles. Whereas themes contrasted with the government …
The Mother’S Gaze And The Model Child: Reading Print Ads For Designer Children’S Clothing, Chris Boulton
The Mother’S Gaze And The Model Child: Reading Print Ads For Designer Children’S Clothing, Chris Boulton
Communication Graduate Student Publication Series
This audience analysis considers how two groups of mothers, one affluent and mostly white and the other low-income and mostly of color, responded to six print ads for designer children’s clothing. I argue that the gender and maternal affiliations of these women—which coalesce around their common experience of the male gaze and a belief that children’s clothing represents the embodied tastes of the mother—are ultimately overwhelmed by distinct attitudes towards conspicuous consumption, in-group/out-group signals, and even facial expressions. I conclude that, when judging the ads, these mothers engage in a vicarious process referencing their own daily practice of social interaction. …
Porn And Me(N): Sexual Morality, Objectification, And Religion At The Wheelock Anti-Pornography Conference, Chris Boulton
Porn And Me(N): Sexual Morality, Objectification, And Religion At The Wheelock Anti-Pornography Conference, Chris Boulton
Communication Graduate Student Publication Series
In the Spring of 2007, I interviewed a panel of four men who, along with me, had just attended a national anti-pornography conference at Wheelock College. As we discussed topics ranging from masturbation to sexual ethics, many described their continuing struggle to reconcile their desires with deeply held moral beliefs and political convictions. This essay recounts various events from the Wheelock conference and draws on the published work of prominent male feminists such as John Stoltenberg, Robert Jensen, and Sut Jhally. I argue that, by failing to adequately account for the pleasures of objectification, the radical feminist analysis of pornography …
Don’T Smile For The Camera: Black Power, Para-Proxemics And Prolepsis In Print Ads For Hip-Hop Clothing, Chris Boulton
Don’T Smile For The Camera: Black Power, Para-Proxemics And Prolepsis In Print Ads For Hip-Hop Clothing, Chris Boulton
Communication Graduate Student Publication Series
While much has been written on marketing to children, there remains a curious gap in the literature concerning marketing through children. This study considers print ads for three brands of hip-hop clothing for children (Rocawear, Sean John, and Baby Phat) that appeared in Cookie, a parenting magazine aimed at adults. I argue that, by depicting children in a “cool pose” of “flat affect,” these ads violate social expectations and assert "Black Power" through a para-proxemic challenge to the viewer. The result is a prolepsis — or foretaste of the future — which rhymes the child models with their adult equivalents.
Shifting Currents In Media Awareness, Chris Boulton, Erica Scharrer
Shifting Currents In Media Awareness, Chris Boulton, Erica Scharrer
Communication Graduate Student Publication Series
This longitudinal qualitative research study examines how a group of parents and teachers sought to raise awareness in their community about harmful media effects. Initially condemning the influx of new digital media technologies such as violent video games, the group eventually shifted tactics in an effort to go beyond ‘preaching to the choir’ and bring other parents into the fold. Their experience suggests that we might reconsider media literacy as a form of social work.