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"Glued To The Sofa": Exploring Guilt And Television Binge-Watching Behaviors, Charles N. Wagner
"Glued To The Sofa": Exploring Guilt And Television Binge-Watching Behaviors, Charles N. Wagner
Communication Honors Theses
In order to better understand the various aspects of television binge-watching behaviors and determine how guilt coincides with binge viewership, researchers administered a survey to 530 adults. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of responses suggested that viewers who watch less TV overall feel guiltier about binge-watching. Comedies and dramas were the most often binged genres, though viewers who binge-watched teen dramas felt guiltiest. Streaming services and digital video recorders (DVRs) were the most common platforms used for binge-watching television; those who used streaming services felt high levels of guilt afterwards, while those who used DVRs felt very little. Results indicated that …
“Holy Agency, Batgirl!”: Evaluating Young Adult Superheroines’ Agency In Gotham Academy And Ms. Marvel, Catherine Clark
“Holy Agency, Batgirl!”: Evaluating Young Adult Superheroines’ Agency In Gotham Academy And Ms. Marvel, Catherine Clark
Communication Honors Theses
This study utilizes textual analysis to understand the representation of two female protagonists’, Kamala Khan and Olive Silverlock, agency within the first volume of Ms. Marvel and Gotham Academy. Crossing comic worlds, this study seeks to determine whether or not these representations align with any waves of feminism, or continue postfeminist dialogue within media. Panel by panel, word by word, expression by expression, this researcher notes, categorizes, and analyzes these protagonists’ words marked as text, behaviors performed, and expressions shown through artistic representation on the page.
Situated on a cross-roads between postfeminism and the potential fourth wave of feminism, …
Increasing The Youth Vote: Communication Strategies For Nonprofits, Whitney Richards
Increasing The Youth Vote: Communication Strategies For Nonprofits, Whitney Richards
Communication Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Honor Bound: The Casual Transmedia Game A Case Study Of A New Game Design Framework, Laura Schluckebier
Honor Bound: The Casual Transmedia Game A Case Study Of A New Game Design Framework, Laura Schluckebier
Communication Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Fan Self-Identity In The Doctor Who Universe, Lyndsey Johnson
Fan Self-Identity In The Doctor Who Universe, Lyndsey Johnson
Communication Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Film For The Web, Rachel E. Rodgers
Dressing The Part: How Twilight Fans Self-Identify Through Dress At An Official Twilight Convention, Marisa Shipley
Dressing The Part: How Twilight Fans Self-Identify Through Dress At An Official Twilight Convention, Marisa Shipley
Communication Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Last Day On Earth: Encoding And Decoding Of Resistant Ideology In Music Video, Desiree Damon
The Last Day On Earth: Encoding And Decoding Of Resistant Ideology In Music Video, Desiree Damon
Communication Honors Theses
According to Stuart Hall's theory of encoding and decoding, an audience member, based on their individual ideological perspectives, can read media texts in one of three ways: dominant, negotiated, or resistant. Hall's theory, however, also implies that the producer will always encode a dominant or hegemonic message. Given semantically messy texts like music videos, however, producers now have the freedom to either encode a dominant ideology or to resist it. In order for the audience to make sense of a resistant ideology, it must first be relevant to them. Their subject position, which includes personal experiences, as well as familiarity …