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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This study examines how LGBT activists and LGBT youth make meaning of a strategic advocacy campaign. By examining activist and advocacy efforts aimed at youth, this research brings to light how LGBT organizations use ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)This thesis explored the significance of the 1969 Woodstock festival and its anniversary festivals as indicated through media use of iconic and popular photographs. The literature review examines the role of iconic and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)Free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS) emerged in the 1980s as a radical alternative to proprietary software. Fighting back against what FLOSS enthusiasts viewed as overly restrictive intellectual property protections ...
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Independent Filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest: A Critical Analysis of the Regional Film Landscape (University of Oregon, 2011-06)Thousands of films are produced every year in the United States, and only a fraction of these is made by mainstream Hollywood film studios. Independent filmmakers working in regional locations produce the majority of these ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Research into mainstream (AAA) video games reveals a popularized form of militarized masculine entertainment that is synonymous with violence toward other men and sexualized violence toward women. The means of successful ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)The visual quality of Instagram has allowed for it to become the prime platform for user-generated content that features brands and consumer goods. Millennials report learning about brands after being exposed to them on ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This thesis explores the relationships and experiences that young adults have with and within complicated and always changing new media environments, such as those afforded by social media platforms and mobile media ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Since the mid-1990s, American Internet service providers (ISPs) have enjoyed immunity from liability for defamation under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. As Congress originally intended in 1996, Section 230 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The purpose of this research is to address ongoing challenges in American education that relate to student engagement, retention, and achievement. The intent is to examine current high school language arts pedagogical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Much of the research examining how newspaper journalists respond to changing labor practices finds that journalists are terrible at change. Ryfe’s influential study of newsrooms undergoing change found that journalists ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)Whistleblowing has been a topic of media interest since the Vietnam War, and it continues to resonate strongly with the public. Several well-publicized whistleblowers have done much more than catch the attention of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This study analyzes the contribution of the podcast My Favorite Murder to the discourse of the true crime genre. Through Critical Discourse Analysis, Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis, and Feminist Media Research the ...
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Life Among the Ruins: An Examination of Monument and Power in the Abandoned Game Star Wars: Galaxies (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)In the genre of Massively Multiplayer Online video games are titles that have been abandoned by their developers. These cloud-based games are inaccessible and disappear when shut down unless new servers are launched. Such ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This dissertation investigates the somatic politics of postcolonial masculinity and mass media in British Gibraltar. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic and archival research over the course of 5 years in Gibraltar ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)Television mediation with children is a topic that has been important for parents, educators and scholars since television was introduced into the home. A majority of American families deal with this issue regularly. A ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)In response to the opioid crisis disproportionately affecting Native American populations, this dissertation examines the communication preferences of the Ojibwe community in Northern Minnesota for addiction recovery program ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)The field of international development communication has given scant attention to the role of communication practitioners who are critical players in facilitating participation and community engagement in development. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)This thesis comprehended the negotiation between feminism and music on social media, focusing on the discourse of the Brazilian feminist funk genre on TikTok. Through the qualitative method of textual analysis, 60 videos ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)TikTok’s Day in the Life trend, in which users show a typical day in their work life, provides an example of how neoliberal ideology is reflected through social media content as users’ performances in this trend depict ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)The Internet is a product of the organizational structure of the Office of Science and Research Development, scientific corporate liberalism of Vannevar Bush's post-WWII policies, the process-oriented rhetoric in Science: ...
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