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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)In 1920s and 1930s, filmmakers William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack produced a number of short-subject nature documentary films notable for their early use of the narrative techniques that are now considered rote in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)Tales of unethical reporting, conflict of interest, biases and corruption characterize media practice in Zambia today. The advent of technology and the mushrooming of media houses have ironically magnified this trend. Such ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)After shifting to an all-volunteer force (AVF) in 1973, the U.S. military was forced to expand recruiting efforts beyond the ideal figure of the white male soldier in order to meet personnel needs. Shaped by the economic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This dissertation analyzes the expansion of narrative journalism and the institutional change in the American newspaper industry in the last quarter of the 20th century. In doing so, it offers the first institutionally-situated ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-12)Nostalgia is the longing for a lost, and often substantially reimagined, time or place. Commonly regarded as a conservative impulse available for exploitation by hegemonic forces, nostalgia can also be a source of social ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation examines the phenomenon of War Porn, a term that describes the visual destruction of bodies in conflict to elicit a visceral reaction in viewers for the purposes of titillation and entertainment. I examine ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)This comparative semiotic study aims to examine and critically compare the portrayal of the Vietnam War in two award-winning films, one Vietnamese and the other American, both made in 1979: Canh Dong Hoang (The Wild Rice ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)Pakistan being the fifth most populous country in the world with limited resources. The demand for contraceptives is low with contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) being 35 %. Most of the health campaigns in Pakistan focus ...
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Reproducing the Frontier: How Media Images Shape Perceptions of Natural Environments of Wilderness. (University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)The visual image has long been renowned for its world-shaping abilities. This study argues that the worlds of images give life to visual cultures for how audiences go about “visualizing” physical space through images that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This study explores whiteness through a rhetorical analysis of the language used in a speech made at a Red October campaign rally in South Africa in October, 2013. The Red October campaign positions white South Africans ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The mediated closeness experienced by social media users is built on the ongoing accumulation of personal information by corporate owned social media platforms. Each user’s digital footprint becomes more intricate as this ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar is located in the rural city of Sehwan in Sindh, Pakistan. Sehwan is a site of pilgrimage for thousands of devotees at the annual festival known as urs, spanning three days to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)This study analyzes the culture, history, and technology of the hip hop DJ in order to tease out the relationships between industrial and cultural practices. The following research questions structured the investigation: ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Education in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina suffers from the serious consequences of ongoing ethno-national conflict. My focus is segregated education in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina generally, particularly ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Smartphones continue to grow increasingly ubiquitous for a variety of reasons. This study employed an online survey experiment in order to determine whether perceptions of environmental/locational privacy or individual ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Among college students in Ghana, the new media app WhatsApp has been widely adopted as a medium for both communication and sexual exploration. Drawing on a classical media effects theory Uses and Gratifications, this mixed ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Common regional hazards in Oregon include wildfires and earthquakes. These hazards vary in severity and have the potential to cause damage to persons or communities in the state. Earthquakes range from small to significant ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Smartphones are the most personalized and in the meantime the most anthropomorphized computing and communication technology in our society. Existing studies, especially Computers as Social Actors studies, on anthropomorphism ...
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