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Shareholder Activism and Political Mobilization: How Activists Can Utilize the Structures of Modern Shareholder Corporations to Achieve Change

Laus, Jonathan (University of Oregon, 2022)

This research is a literature review focusing on the history of corporations, efforts to alter corporations, and a contemporary example of corporations that have altered their mission. The main lenses of analysis for ...
Silence and Banalization: An Analysis of History Writing About Computing

Hamid, Sarah (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

Myth, hype, and industry-captured historiography depict this moment as a unique and unprecedented confrontation with computational power and the devastating effects it has on vulnerablized communities. But automated decision ...
Televising the South: Race, Gender, and Region in Primetime, 1955-1980

Bronstein, Phoebe (University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)

This dissertation traces the emergence of the U.S. South and the region's role in primetime television, from the post-World War II era through Reagan's election in 1980. These early years defined, as Herman Gray suggests ...
The Impact of Online Communities on the Identity Reconciliation of Queer Christians

Mallari, Melina (University of Oregon, 2023)

This thesis examines how interactions with online social networks shape queer American Christians’ identities––more specifically, their abilities to negotiate and/or reconcile their sexual and religious identities. Christian ...
“The Specter of Psychological Abuse”: The Disregard for Emotional Harms in Oregon Juvenile Dependency Courts

Hollenbeck, Jakob (University of Oregon, 2022)

In 2000, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that parents’ rights to the “care, custody, and control of their children” were “perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court.” ...
“They Just Want the Eyesore Gone”: Evictions and Belonging in Eugene’s Washington Jefferson Park Houseless Encampment

Lewis, Aaron (University of Oregon, 2022)

In December of 2020, the City of Eugene responded to the pandemic-driven surge in unsheltered houselessness by suspending its urban camping ban and establishing a sanctioned encampment for the unhoused in Washington Jefferson ...
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Origins, Evolution and Cultural Embeddedness of Online Trolling

Phillips, Whitney (University of Oregon, 2012)

Ethnographic in approach, this dissertation examines trolling, an online subculture devoted to meme creation and social disruption. Rather than framing trolling behaviors as fundamentally aberrant, I argue that trolls are ...
Unpacking Excessive Gaming: A Political Economy and Ideological Analysis of Game Nogada

Lee, Younsong (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

This study examines a particular form of excessive gaming, that is, game nogada. Game nogada is a Korean game culture term that refers to repetitive, monotonous, labor-like game activities, which I define in this study as ...
Unthinkable Stories: Reading for Justice in Testimonial Migration Narratives

Marsh, Catherine (University of Oregon, 2023)

This thesis defines the literary genre of testimonio in the context of the United States/Mexico border and the humanitarian crisis of Central American migration in the last two decades. To explore questions of how testimonio ...
We Don't Need Cinderella: Changing Gender Identities on YouTube Comedy in India

Chaudhury, Sharmista (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

This paper analyses the emergent voices of young Indians in YouTube comedy sketches. As a format, YouTube comedy sketches have become popular among Indian youth for their ability to critique cultural norms, albeit with a ...