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The Prospector, September 6, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: UTEP Miners Are Extended Family for Lineman

The Prospector, August 23, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: President Heather Wilson

Ready Player?: Sex And Race In Video Games, Matthew Michael Espino

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

As a child, I had always been fascinated with video games. Sure, I used video games as a way to relieve stress mainly, but I found myself drawn into the worlds that I was immersing myself in. These worlds are filled with social structures, cultures, governments, even religions. Once I started doing research in college, I took a bit of a step back from the games I loved and took a broader look at what I was playing. Specifically, I wanted to see what these worlds had to offer in terms of representation of races, gender, and non-human characters. These …

Experiences Of Latinidad And First-Generation College Students In Jane The Virgin: Using Auto-Historia Teoria And Finding Coyolxauhqui, Gema Sarahi Lopez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of the importance of Latinx and first-generation college student representation in media. By using autohistoria-teoría and content analysis, I aim to find the ways in which the show, Jane the Virgin, influences my experiences of Latinidad as well as how it represents the first-generation college experience and how those relate to my own. I use Gloria Anzaldúa's model to study identity dealing with nepantla, arrebatamientos, and the Coyolxauhqui process to discuss my own identity.

The Prospector, May 3, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Congratulations: Graduation Issue

The Prospector, April 19, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: "Into the Woods"

The Prospector, April 5, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Fashion Issue

Minero Magazine, Vol. 34, Spring 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, March 22, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Women in Journalism

The Prospector, March 22, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Women in Journalism

The Prospector, March 1, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Has Global Impacts

The Prospector, February 15, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Natalicio's Legacy

The Prospector, February 1, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: UTEP Hall of Famer Jim Forbes Dies at 69

The Prospector, January 18, 2022, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Beto O'Rourke Returns to El Paso

Examining The Effects Of Information And Communication Technologies In The Legal Representation Of Latin American Asylum Seekers, Victor M. Portillo Ochoa

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis was to explore how legal defense nonprofit organizations (NPO) are using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to provide legal defense for asylum seekers and improve the conditions of immigrants at detention centers. In addition, this research explored the impact of ICTs on legal defense NPOs, bottlenecks, and security implications when supporting vulnerable communities. ICTs profoundly impacted the way we interact in a post-pandemic world, and it presents new challenges and possibilities for legal defense nonprofit organizations that are helping vulnerable communities. This study consists of staff and volunteers from different legal defense nonprofit organizations NPOs …

Experiences Of Latin American Au Pairs In El Paso, Texas: Perceptions And Challenges In A Border Context, Nathaly Carolina Hernandez Garcia

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

For the last three decades, the French term Au Pair has been used to name the exchange program that allows foreign young people (primarily women) the possibility to immerse themselves in American culture while living, working, studying, and traveling in the United States. Within the context of globalization in which we live, this program has experienced significant growth in Latin America and Europe, among others. The purpose of this exploratory study was to explore and make visible the concerns raised by female Au Pairs from Latin America who participate in the program in El Paso, Texas, a border community along …

Wailing For My Cultura: Disenfranchised Grief Among Mexican Americans Navigating A Bicultural Identity, Sandra Ramirez

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

There is a gap in grief research in the field of Communication that is related to the Mexican American experience. Mexican Americans navigating two often opposing cultures may experience additional complications as they attempt to maneuver the differences in grief rituals that align with either American or Mexican customs. This may result in the bereaved experiencing disenfranchised grief. This study aims to examine the significance of Mexican American bicultural grief rituals as a third option to determine how that relates to disenfranchised grief.

The first part of this study is a textual analysis of media coverage of Mexican American grief …

The Prospector, November 30, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: The Graduation Issue

The Prospector, November 16, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: UTEP Police Department Addresses Delayed Security Response in Forum

The Prospector, November 2, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: All About UTEP Basketball

The Prospector, October 19, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Halloween

The Prospector, October 5, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: A Legacy of Excellence: Remembering Diana Natalicio

The Prospector, September 21, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Homecoming Issue

The Prospector, September 7, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: The Career Issue

The Prospector, August 24, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Miners Start Season on the Road

The Prospector, May 4, 2021, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: The Graduation Issue: Congratulations, Graduates!

The Rhetorical Mediator: Understanding Agency In Indigenous Translation And Interpretation Through Indigenous Approaches To Ux, Nora Karina Rivera

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

In 2018, I became involved in a collaborative community-based project to co-organize an event with the purpose of collecting resources to help in the professionalization efforts of Indigenous translators and interpreters. Drawing on Indigenous and decolonial theories, this interdisciplinary study examines the work done during this event through a user experience (UX) research lens that analyzes the various ways in which Technical and Professional Communication (TPC) and Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) can better support Indigenous language practices. The colonization of the Americas brought a layer of issues that continue to affect the way in which Indigenous communities conduct their …

The Role Of Translation In Multilingual User Experience, Tetyana Zhyvotovska

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Examining the intersections of technical communication, user experience, and translation, this study focused on the contexts of a user experience (UX) research center as a site where these intersections occurred and on practices of multilingual users while encountering translated information. In order to explore translation practices in relation to UX and cover the gap in understanding multilingual UX, the study examined how multilingual users worked with translated content, how they acted and reacted to it, and what they experienced during this process. Based on the existing scholarship in translation and usability studies in technical communication, this Dissertation undertook empirical research …

¿Y Los Condones? The Rhetoric Of Birth Control In The Latinx Community Of The United States, Carey Vanessa Cuevas

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This project aims to explore the current rhetorical strategies used in framing reproductive technologies and how these frameworks influence the sexual health outcomes of Latinx communities. Despite the wealth of information made available to individuals in order to make more informed choices regarding their sexual health, literature supports that Latinx communities are at a perpetually higher risk for poor sexual health outcomes. Additionally, other influences such as mass media, culture, and legislation play roles in how this community engages around birth control and safe sex practices. This project seeks to investigate how entities utilize language in discourse over birth control …

Let's Talk About Sex(Ual Health) Baby: Analysis Of Sexual Communication With Adolescents In Mexican American Families, Melynda Ann Venegas

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

No abstract provided.