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My Writing Technique (2021-2022), Samantha Spencer
My Writing Technique (2021-2022), Samantha Spencer
Critical Evaluation
This critical evaluation essay considers Spencer’s writing process, her strengths, and her assessment of her own writing. Throughout, Spencer offers specific examples that she cites from her papers in relation to the point she is making about her writing. She thinks in detail about how prewriting and organization contribute to her writing confidence and her writing strengths. She also spends time presenting comments that she has received on her writing from teachers and what she does with that feedback.
Ua19/16/2 Golf Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Golf Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Administration Documents
Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU golf teams in 2021.
Ua19/16/2 Athletic Media Relations Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Athletic Media Relations Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Administration Documents
General WKU athletic press releases for 2021.
Ua19/16/2 Football Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Football Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Administration Documents
Press releases, photos and statistics for WKU football team for 2021.
Ua35/7 Preparing Students For Infinite Possibilities 2007-2021, Wku Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky
Ua35/7 Preparing Students For Infinite Possibilities 2007-2021, Wku Gatton Academy Of Mathematics & Science In Kentucky
WKU Administration Documents
Report of awards, research projects, study abroad opportunities and alumni achievements.
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Ua19/16/2 Baseball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Baseball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Administration Documents
Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU baseball team in 2021.
Ua68/14 Newsletter, Wku Folk Studies & Anthropology
Ua68/14 Newsletter, Wku Folk Studies & Anthropology
WKU Administration Documents
Newsletter created by and about WKU Folk Studies & Anthropology.
- Applegate, Darlene. From the Department Head & Anthropology Program Director
- Ferrell, Ann. From the Folk Studies Program Director
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Kiss Of Love Campaign: Contesting Public Morality To Counter Collective Violence, Sonia Krishna Kurup Miss
Kiss Of Love Campaign: Contesting Public Morality To Counter Collective Violence, Sonia Krishna Kurup Miss
Peace and Conflict Studies
The paper studies the immense opposition to a nonviolent campaign against the practice of moral policing in Kerala to understand the dominant spaces, collective identities, and discourses that give shape to the outrage of public morality in India. The campaign through its politics specifically targeted rightwing and political groups as well as socially embedded familial and institutional structures that exercise control over individuals through patriarchal regimes. The adverse reaction to the campaign revealed that collective aggression or violence can be used to impose majoritarian values and exert social control through the authority of public morality and everyday acts of moral …
Ua19/16/1 Lady Topper Basketball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/1 Lady Topper Basketball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Administration Documents
2021-22 women's basketball media guide produced by WKU Athletic Media Relations, includes athletic records and statistics, photographs, schedule and information regarding opponents.
Ua68/17 Wku Dance: Creating, Thinking, Artists, Wku Theatre & Dance
Ua68/17 Wku Dance: Creating, Thinking, Artists, Wku Theatre & Dance
WKU Administration Documents
Newsletter created by and about the WKU Dance program.
Ua19/16/2 Softball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Softball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Administration Documents
Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU softball team in 2021.
Ua19/16/2 Volleyball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Volleyball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Administration Documents
Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU volleyball team in 2021.
Are Workers Musicians? Kesha Sebert, Johanna Wagner And The Gendered Commodification Of Star Singers, 1853–2014, Matt Stahl
FIMS Publications
The legal history of pop singer-songwriter Kesha Sebert has brought to light serious problems of gender and power in the US recording industry: it remains male dominated to its core. These contemporary problems have specific historical origins. Contextualising the 2008–2014 lawsuit between two rival producers over the exclusive right to Kesha's labour power suggests that elements of Victorian gender relations and class war were baked into the doctrine on which that 21st century case turned. Drawing empirically on court documents, and analytically on perspectives from history and sociology as well as feminist legal scholarship, this paper explains the persistent vitality …
What Moves You?: Georges Didi-Huberman’S Arts Of Passage And Pittsburgh Stories Of Migration, Alexandra Irimia
What Moves You?: Georges Didi-Huberman’S Arts Of Passage And Pittsburgh Stories Of Migration, Alexandra Irimia
Languages and Cultures Publications
Contemporary art historian, critic, and theorist Georges Didi-Huberman thinks of images not as static objects, but as movements, passages, and gestures of memory and/or desire. For the French “historian of passing images,” as he has been called, “all images are migrants. Images are migrations. They are never simply local” (D2017). His book, Passer, quoi qu'il en coûte ("To Pass at Any Price"), co-written with the Greek poet and director Niki Giannari, takes on precisely the visual dynamics of passages, passengers, and passageways in the context of contemporary migration flows. In April 2018, only several months after the launching of the …
Ua19/16/1 Volleyball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/1 Volleyball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Administration Documents
Athletic media guide for volleyball team.
Critical Media Literacy And Black Female Identity Construction: A Conceptual Framework For Empowerment, Equity, And Social Justice In Education, Petra A. Robinson, Ayana Allen-Handy, Kala Burrell-Craft
Critical Media Literacy And Black Female Identity Construction: A Conceptual Framework For Empowerment, Equity, And Social Justice In Education, Petra A. Robinson, Ayana Allen-Handy, Kala Burrell-Craft
Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications
This paper addresses the issues of knowledge production, which interrogate and disrupt dominant narratives that subjugate Black females related to their identity. We contextualize our discussion through the lens of critical consciousness and critical media literacy by exploring the role of popular media in identity development/imposition for Black females. We outline issues of Black female identity politics by framing them through the description of critical media literacy as a 21st century literacy, with Black Feminist Theory as our theoretical lens. Similar discussions have remained centered in the field of Media Studies and there has been inadequate attention to these issues …
Gold & Blue, Fall 2020/Winter 2021, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas
Gold & Blue, Fall 2020/Winter 2021, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas
Gold & Blue
This is the Fall 2020/Winter 2021 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.
Power Is Not Served As A La Carte: Rethinking The Social Contract In Nigeria, Chinedu Samuel Ogbuze
Power Is Not Served As A La Carte: Rethinking The Social Contract In Nigeria, Chinedu Samuel Ogbuze
Young African Leaders Journal of Development
Social contract is central to the provision of public goods and social welfare. Good governance among other things derives from strong institutions of government and citizen engagement in the political process. This study focuses on reshaping the relationship between the government and the governed in Nigeria. Using functionalism theory, the paper argues that political and economic success is not automatic in a democracy but proportional to the extent that the people can hold their leaders accountable. The study concludes that changing the prolonged ethnoreligious narrative is critical to development and growth in Nigeria as the people are more united by …
Is Donor State 'Securitisation' A Threat Or An Opportunity For Humanitarianism?, Albert Mcbell Ninepence
Is Donor State 'Securitisation' A Threat Or An Opportunity For Humanitarianism?, Albert Mcbell Ninepence
Young African Leaders Journal of Development
Since the end of the Cold War, a significant number of aid workers have been assaulted and killed, projecting humanitarian assistance as a precarious discourse. Given that humanitarian workers find themselves in dangerous environments and the threats they are exposed to, the need for security has become an exigent concern for most aid agencies and workers (Barnett, 2011 and VanBrabant, 2001). In view of this, security has now been implanted in the conceptualization, planning and delivery of aid. Though the Copenhagen School is associated with the theory of securitization which provides a framework for defining security as securitizingobjectsandreferentobjects(Watson,2011), differentschoolshaveconstruedsecuritizationin different …
Entrepreneurial Identity In Us Book Publishing In The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Noorda
Entrepreneurial Identity In Us Book Publishing In The Twenty-First Century, Rachel Noorda
English Faculty Publications and Presentations
Entrepreneurship underpins many roles within the publishing industry, from freelancing to bookselling. Entrepreneurs are shaped by the contexts in which their entrepreneurship is situated (social, political, economic, and national). Additionally, entrepreneurship is integral to occupational identity for book publishing entrepreneurs. This Element examines entrepreneurship through the lens of identity and narrative based on interview data with book publishing entrepreneurs in the US Book publishing entrepreneurship narratives of independence, culture over commerce, accidental profession, place, risk, (in)stability, busyness, and freedom are examined in this Element.
Star Wars: Galaxy’S Edge As Postcolonial Fantasy: Disney, Labor, And The Renegotiation Of Border Discourses, Diana Leon-Boys, Christopher Chávez
Star Wars: Galaxy’S Edge As Postcolonial Fantasy: Disney, Labor, And The Renegotiation Of Border Discourses, Diana Leon-Boys, Christopher Chávez
Communication Faculty Publications
In the summer of 2019, Disneyland opened Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, an immersive experience where visitors imagine themselves as members of a resistance army fighting against a colonizing power. As Disney’s theme parks have increasingly become conduits of global flows, the company’s original brand of U.S. exceptionalism has become incompatible with the company’s strategic needs. In this article, we argue that Disney’s newest themed land, Galaxy’s Edge, functions as a reworking of Disney’s colonial discourse and borderland narrative, where postracial borderland fantasies coincide with the conglomerate’s evolution from a national project to a global enterprise. Within this intergalactic borderland, racialized …
Introduction - Multiculturalism, Communication, And Critical Citizenship Studies, Hsin-I Cheng
Introduction - Multiculturalism, Communication, And Critical Citizenship Studies, Hsin-I Cheng
Communication
Since 2015, the movements of refugees and migrants have intensified discussions on citizenship in both Eastern and Western societies. The image of Aylan, a three-year-old Syrian boy lying on a beach, triggered global conversations on citizenship, borders, and nationhood. In Germany, Chancellor Merkel worked swiftly on refugees’ settlement in German society and encountered much resistance. In the United States, discussions of policies to curtail immigrants, migrants, and refugees became heated after the 2016 presidential election. In Taiwan, given the country’s ethnic diversity and politically controversial status as a nation-state, political economists urged the government to accept and treat refugees and …
How Twitter Exposes Daily Whiteness Practices In Mexico And Argentina, Erika Maribel Heredia
How Twitter Exposes Daily Whiteness Practices In Mexico And Argentina, Erika Maribel Heredia
Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023
This dissertation questions: How is the social imaginary about the meaning of being white in Mexico produced, reproduced, and problematized in Twitter Discourse? How is the social imaginary about the meaning of being white in Argentina produced, reproduced, and problematized in Twitter Discourse? How are the social imaginaries in Twitter Discourse in Mexico and Argentina related to the cultural and symbolic power exercised by the United States, and does US power influence the structure of privileges built around Whiteness? For doing that, I collected up to 10K tweets using two keywords to identify discourses surrounding Whiteness in tweets from users …
Visual Infrastructures Of Covid-19 Messaging, Julia Ross, Claudine Jaenichen
Visual Infrastructures Of Covid-19 Messaging, Julia Ross, Claudine Jaenichen
Art Faculty Articles and Research
Infecting more than two hundred and nineteen million people internationally as of September 2021, SARS-Cov2 (COVID-19) remains a major health crisis despite the availability of vaccines in many countries and publicized guidance on effective preventative measures (WHO, 2021). To combat the spread of the virus, governments worldwide have found themselves relying on their ability to exert control over health behaviors in public and private spaces. Visual communication, which includes both graphics and text, is an integral component of how these behavioral advisories are communicated to the public. Authorities translate scientific information into digestible designs for the public to achieve effective …
The Uncanny Swipe Drive: The Return Of A Racist Mode Of Algorithmic Thought On Dating Apps, Gregory Narr
The Uncanny Swipe Drive: The Return Of A Racist Mode Of Algorithmic Thought On Dating Apps, Gregory Narr
Publications and Research
As algorithmic media amplify longstanding social oppression, they also seek to colonize every last bit of sociality where that oppression could be resisted. Swipe apps constitute prototypical examples of this dynamic. By employing protocols that foster absent-minded engagement, they allow unconscious racial preferences to be expressed without troubling users’ perceptions of themselves as non-racist. These preferences are then measured by recommender systems that treat “attractiveness” as a zero-sum game, allocate affective flows according to the winners and losers of those games, and ultimately amplify the salience of race as a factor of success for finding intimacy. In thus priming users …
บทบาทของตัวละครเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์ในการเรียนรู้และสร้างอัตลักษณ์ของวัยรุ่นเพศหญิงในสังคมไทย, กฤติญา สาริกา
บทบาทของตัวละครเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์ในการเรียนรู้และสร้างอัตลักษณ์ของวัยรุ่นเพศหญิงในสังคมไทย, กฤติญา สาริกา
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อวิเคราะห์และตีความบทบาทและอัตลักษณ์ของตัวละครเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์ที่มีต่อการเรียนรู้และประกอบสร้างอัตลักษณ์ของวัยรุ่นเพศหญิงในสังคมไทย เพื่อได้องค์ความรู้คุณค่าบทบาทและอัตลักษณ์ของตัวละครเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์สามารถนำไปต่อยอดในการผลิตสื่อที่มีเนื้อหาเพื่อส่งเสริมทัศนคติที่เป็นประโยชน์และประยุกต์เข้ากับสื่อใหม่ๆ ตามกระแสโลกาภิวัตน์ในอนาคตอย่างเหมาะสม โดยใช้วิธีการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพประกอบด้วย การวิเคราะห์ตัวบท ทั้งภาพยนตร์กับบทบาทและอัตลักษณ์ของเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์ด้วยการสัมภาษณ์แบบเชิงลึกจากผู้ให้เสียงพากย์ภาษาไทยของตัวละคร และการเรียนรู้โดยศึกษาจากแนวคิดทฤษฎีการเรียนรู้โดยการสังเกตหรือการเลียนแบบกับวัยรุ่นเพศหญิงกลุ่มเป้าหมายด้วยวิธีการสนทนากลุ่มรวมกับการเล่าเรื่องแบบอัตลักษณ์ ผลการวิจัยสรุปว่า บทบาทและอัตลักษณ์ของตัวละครเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์เป็นส่วนในการสร้างการเรียนรู้ให้กับวัยรุ่นเพศหญิงในสังคมไทยตั้งแต่วัยเด็กเป็นต้นมาจากบทบาทและภาพพจน์ที่ตนสนใจและจดจำได้เกี่ยวกับ 1) เจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์มีความโดดเด่น 2) ชอบเพลงเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์ 3) ความชื่นชอบในเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์ 4) เจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์มีความเชื่อมโยงกับตนเอง 5) อยากเป็นเหมือนเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์ 6) เจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์สร้างคุณค่าให้ โดยเลือกเลียนแบบบทบาทที่มีความใฝ่รู้ เดินทางออกไปเปิดโลกทัศน์ มีความกล้าหาญต่อสู้เพื่ออิสรภาพ และภาพพจน์เพียงบางส่วนประกอบสร้างเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของอัตลักษณ์ตนเองแล้วให้คุณค่าในการสร้างพลังบวกเพื่อใช้ชีวิตให้มีความสุข ในสังคมไทยควรจะมีการผลิตสื่อตัวละครเป็นแบบที่สร้างคุณค่าในลักษณะเจ้าหญิงดิสนีย์และให้ความสำคัญกับการรับรู้สื่อของเด็กเพื่อให้เติบโตมามีทัศนคติในเชิงบวกเป็นผลดีให้กับสังคม
กลวิธีการเล่าเรื่องฉากเลิฟซีนในละครโทรทัศน์ไทยยอดนิยม, ญาดา วิภาดาพรพงษ์
กลวิธีการเล่าเรื่องฉากเลิฟซีนในละครโทรทัศน์ไทยยอดนิยม, ญาดา วิภาดาพรพงษ์
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
การวิจัยเรื่อง "กลวิธีการเล่าเรื่องฉากเลิฟซีนในละครโทรทัศน์ไทยยอดนิยม" มีจุดประสงค์เพื่อ ศึกษากลวิธีการเล่าเรื่องและการสื่อความหมายของฉากเลิฟซีนในละครโทรทัศน์ไทย โดยใช้กลุ่มตัวอย่างละครโทรทัศน์ทั้งหมด 3 เรื่อง คือ สวรรค์เบี่ยง คลื่นชีวิต และ ปีกหงส์ ผลการวิจัยพบกลวิธีการสื่อสารฉากเลิฟซีนผ่านองค์ประกอบการเล่าเรื่อง ดังนี้ 1) แก่นเรื่องหลักคือทุกปัญหาสามารถแก้ไขได้ด้วยการพูดคุยกันอย่างไม่ใช้อคติ ประกอบกับการดำเนินเรื่องด้วยความแค้นของตัวละครเอกฝ่ายชาย นำมาซึ่งความรุนแรงที่เกิดขึ้นในฉากเลิฟซีน 2) โครงเรื่อง ใช้การมีเพศสัมพันธ์โดยไม่ได้รับความยินยอมเป็นจุดเปลี่ยนแปลงความสัมพันธ์ (Turning Point) ของตัวละครเอกฝ่ายชายฝ่ายหญิง และถูกใช้เป็นเครื่องมือการแก้แค้นที่รุนแรงที่สุด 3) ตัวละคร คือ ตัวละครเอกฝ่ายชายเป็นผู้ที่เต็มไปด้วยความแค้น ตัวละครเอกฝ่ายหญิงเป็นคนดีและอ่อนโยน จึงทำให้ฉากเลิฟซีนที่เริ่มต้นด้วยตัวละครเอกฝ่ายชายที่เป็นอารมณ์เชิงลบมีแต่ความโกรธแค้น แตกต่างจากฉากเลิฟซีนที่เริ่มต้นด้วยตัวละครเอกฝ่ายหญิงที่เป็นอารมณ์เชิงบวก เกิดจากความรัก และพบการสื่อความหมายของฉากเลิฟซีน 2 ลักษณะ คือ 1) ฉากเลิฟซีนที่สื่อความหมายเชิงบวก เช่น เกิดจากความรัก ความห่วงใย เป็นต้น 2) ฉากเลิฟซีนที่สื่อความหมายเชิงลบ เช่น เกิดจากความโกรธ ความแค้น เป็นต้น โดยใช้ภาพที่มีแสง และโทนสีสว่าง โดยเฉพาะสีขาวที่แสดงถึงความบริสุทธิ์ ประกอบกับเพลงประกอบละครและดนตรีที่มีจังหวะช้าเพื่ออธิบายและเน้นอารมณ์ความรู้สึกของตัวละครเอกทั้งสองฝ่ายด้วยความรักโรแมนติก เพื่อลดทอนความรุนแรงที่เกิดขึ้นในฉากเลิฟซีนนั้น
I Need To See Me On Tv: Parasocial Affirmations Of Sexual And Gender Identity Development Of Lgbtq+ Mass Media Consumers, Donald I. Lowe
I Need To See Me On Tv: Parasocial Affirmations Of Sexual And Gender Identity Development Of Lgbtq+ Mass Media Consumers, Donald I. Lowe
Theses and Dissertations--Communication
This dissertation presents a new cycle model of media usage by LGBTQ+ community members in the United States that reveals a purpose previously unnamed and undefined. While parasocial contact, parasocial interaction, and parasocial relationships have been present in the academic literature for quite some time (as early as 1956 when Horton and Wohl first wrote of the phenomenon), use of media to parasocially affirm one’s LGBTQ+ status is unique to this study. This study used qualitative methods to examine a specific mass media audience, LGBTQ+ individuals, and asked them, in one-on-one interviews, how they utilize mass media to assist with …
Strategic Misrepresentation Or Something More Sinister? Deception In George W. Bush's War Rhetoric On Iraq, Cassandra D. Hightower
Strategic Misrepresentation Or Something More Sinister? Deception In George W. Bush's War Rhetoric On Iraq, Cassandra D. Hightower
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Presidential war rhetoric is an incredibly complex and far-reaching genre of political rhetoric, and the consequences of such rhetoric can often lead to mass destruction and death. Based on the continuously changing rules of warfare and the increased use of deception in political communication, this study aimed to analyze this usage of deception more closely in presidential war rhetoric. This project examined the case study of George W. Bush’s war rhetoric on the Iraq War f 2003 to determine if the deception he used fits the “strategic misrepresentation” characteristic that Campbell and Jamieson identified in their landmark 2008 book, Presidents …
Higher Education And The Dei Climate: Exploring And Understanding The Role Of Social Media, Self Esteem, And Intercultural Communication In Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Initiatives On The College Campus, Christian T. Cardona
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
This study seeks to understand the effects and levels of impact that a university student’s intercultural communication competence, social media usage, and self-esteem have on the students’ attitudes towards diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts implemented by institutions of higher education. By studying these three independent variables, this research seeks to improve the understanding of the university students’ attitudes on DEI efforts for leaders and change agents in higher education, providing an inspiration for leaders, administrators, and change agents of higher education to continue collaborating to innovate methods and avenues towards creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus climate, as …