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Adolescent Identities In A Globalized Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham Oct 2001

Adolescent Identities In A Globalized Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.


Adolescents, The Internet And The Politics Of Gender: A Feminist Case Analysis, Meenakshi Durham Sep 2001

Adolescents, The Internet And The Politics Of Gender: A Feminist Case Analysis, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

This case study is based on field observation of the first hands-on Internet sessions experienced by a group of lower-income minority teenagers in an inner-city middle school. Using feminist analysis to interrogate the social dynamic within which the Interact use took place, I explore how new technologies are appropriated by adolescents as a site of social bonding. I conclude that the adolescent users' social locations in terms of gender, race, and class work to constrain Internet use to support dominant relations of power


Displaced Persons: Symbols Of South Asian Femininity And The Returned Gaze In U.S. Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham Apr 2001

Displaced Persons: Symbols Of South Asian Femininity And The Returned Gaze In U.S. Media Culture, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Presents a critical analysis of media images of White women adorned in the symbols of Indian femininity to explore the circulating economy of seeing and representation in the United States. Preservation of the contemporary 'ethnic chic' of power hierarchies by locating the White woman as sexual object and the Indian woman as the disembodied fetish; Implications for South Asian American women.


For The Record: An Oral History Of Rochester, New York Newsworkers, Bonnie Brennen Dec 2000

For The Record: An Oral History Of Rochester, New York Newsworkers, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

For the Record focuses on the experiences of journalists, primarily in their own words, who worked in Rochester, New York, on the Gannett owned Democrat & Chronicle and the Times Union. While there are occasional glimpses back to the beginning of the twentieth century and conversations regarding current newsroom policies by those who are still involved in the business, most of the material in this study centers on Gannett during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s-a period that may be seen as pivotal to the development of the Gannett Company. Although there is an enormous wealth of material available on the …


Media And Cultural Studies : Keyworks, Meenakshi Durham, Douglas Kellner Dec 2000

Media And Cultural Studies : Keyworks, Meenakshi Durham, Douglas Kellner

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.


Women's National Press Club, Bonnie Brennen Dec 2000

Women's National Press Club, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

No abstract provided.


A Psychographic Analysis Of Generation Y College Students, James Pokrywczynski, Joyce Wolburg Dec 2000

A Psychographic Analysis Of Generation Y College Students, James Pokrywczynski, Joyce Wolburg

James Pokrywczynski

No abstract provided.


In Danger Of Dilution, Bonnie Brennen Dec 2000

In Danger Of Dilution, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

No abstract provided.


The ‘Risky Business’ Of Binge Drinking Among College Students: Using Risk Models For Psas And Anti-Drinking Campaigns, Joyce Wolburg Dec 2000

The ‘Risky Business’ Of Binge Drinking Among College Students: Using Risk Models For Psas And Anti-Drinking Campaigns, Joyce Wolburg

Joyce Wolburg

No abstract provided.


Preserving The Moment, Commodifying Time, And Improving Upon The Past: Depictions Of Time In U.S. Magazine Advertising, Joyce Wolburg Dec 2000

Preserving The Moment, Commodifying Time, And Improving Upon The Past: Depictions Of Time In U.S. Magazine Advertising, Joyce Wolburg

Joyce Wolburg

No abstract provided.


Dorothy Day And The Catholic Worker Movement: Centennary Essays, William Thorn, Phil Runkel, Susan Mountin Dec 2000

Dorothy Day And The Catholic Worker Movement: Centennary Essays, William Thorn, Phil Runkel, Susan Mountin

William Thorn

No abstract provided.


A Psychographic Analysis Of Generation Y College Students, Joyce Wolburg Dec 2000

A Psychographic Analysis Of Generation Y College Students, Joyce Wolburg

Joyce Wolburg

No abstract provided.