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Actualization through Activism: Transgender Media Making in Central Appalachia

Banks, Beck (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

Using ethnographic methods, this dissertation explores transgender media makers and their works in Central Appalachia. It employs audience studies, queer/trans migration, and queer rurality to understand the drive of these ...
Aesthetics of Historiophoty: The Uses and Affects of Visual Effects for Photography in the Historical Documentary Film

McDaniel, Kyle (University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)

This dissertation examines the origins, applications, and functions of visual effects in the historical documentary film. This research study investigates how aesthetic and editorial practices and tools are used for different ...
Communication and Curation: Embodied Meaning and Praxis

Swartz, Jeremy (University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)

This dissertation focuses on developing and furthering curation as a mode of inquiry for the discipline of communication, and how concepts can lead to action (praxis) for life. It will contribute to the ongoing repair of ...
Cultivating Digital Mindfulness in an Era of Constant Connection: A Phenomenological Exploration of College Students’ Digital Detox

Stanovsek, Shelby (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

The “always on” culture of constant connectivity afforded by the ubiquity of smartphones and social media has profoundly influenced society, reorienting our sense of self and connection to others. This thesis particularly ...
The Future of Remembering: How Multimodal Platforms and Social Media Are Repurposing Our Digitally Shared Pasts in Cultural Heritage and Collective Memory Practices

Burkey, Brant (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

While most media-memory research focuses on particular cultural repository sites, memorials, traumatic events, media channels, or commemorative practices as objects of study to understand the construction of collective ...
How the Media Frames Pregnant Female Athletes

DiMinno, Sammy (University of Oregon, 2021)

The purpose of this research is to examine how female athletes are framed and covered in the media in regard to both pregnancy and motherhood. The media plays an important role in framing women’s sport and how the media ...
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me: The Importance of Tangible Media in Music Uses and Gratifications

Sauvageau, Jacob (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

Despite being declared obsolete many times over the past 30 years, the popularity and consumption of vinyl records have come back from a nadir and maintained a slowly but steadily growing hold on consumers. After a digital ...