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- Description:
- This thesis argues that the work of contemporary writer Tan Lin proposes, through the figure of “ambient textuality,” an intervention into existing theories of “ambience” …
- Year:
- 2024
- Contributor:
- Kan-Sperling, Lucia (creator)
- Redfield, Marc (thesis advisor)
- Bewes, Timothy (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Media studies
- Experimental poetry
- Digital media
- Derrida, Jacques
- Cybernetics
- Contemporary literature
- Semiotics and literature
- Postmodernism (Literature)
- Posthumanism
- Metaphor
- Experimental fiction
- Ecocriticism in literature
- Ambient music
- Ubiquitous computing
- information
- Literary form
- Tan Lin
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Apophenia explores the unique capacity for the digital world to induce a paranoid state of conspiracy in the minds of those who engage with it. …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Calvelli, John Domenico (creator)
- Riva, Massimo (thesis advisor)
- Pozo, Teddy (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Digital media
- Games
- Alternate reality games
- Semiotics and literature
- Conspiracy
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- The rhetoric of textual stability tends to inform much of the scholarly writing about moving images, especially those manufactured by Hollywood studios. Analytical and historical …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Skoptsov, Mikhail (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Television
- Digital media
- Motion pictures
- Historiography
- Textual variation
- Motion picture industry--Technological innovations
- Technology in motion pictures
- Motion pictures--Distribution
- Motion pictures and history
- Motion picture film--Preservation
- Home video systems industry
- Television broadcasting of films
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the period 1988-1996 from the perspective of two concurrent yet contrasting occurrences: the arrival of a supposedly final historical stage pronounced by …
- Year:
- 2016
- Contributor:
- Lison, Andrew Evan (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Director)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Bewes, Timothy (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- New Media
- Multimedia
- Film Studies
- Cultural Studies
- 1989
- Digital media
- Culture--Study and teaching
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- Memes have become something of a vernacular language for young people online, as the proper understanding and usage of a meme displays subcultural knowledge and …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- Goetzen, Nina (creator)
- Pozo, Teddy (thesis advisor)
- McGrath, Jim (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Social media
- Digital media--Social aspects
- Memes
- Digital media
- Corporations
- youth culture
- authenticity
- Branding (Marketing)
- Subculture
- Youth--Political activity
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
- Year:
- 2010
- Contributor:
- Russo, Julie L. (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (director)
- Chun, Wendy (reader)
- Rosen, Philip (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- fandom
- fan fiction
- new media
- media
- Marxism
- online communities
- television studies
- The L Word
- Battlestar Galactica
- Law and Order
- queer
- networks
- fan studies
- media industry
- the closet
- Convergence
- Media studies
- Digital media
- Communism
- Internet
- Television
- Battlestar Galactica television programs
- Law & order (Television program)
- Queer theory
- Lesbians
- Labor
- Popular culture
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Soderman, Anton B (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Rosen, Philip (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- modernity
- modernism
- gender
- marxism
- politics
- interactivity
- flow
- Csikszentmihalyi
- rendering
- innovation
- representation
- media
- game studies
- postmodernity
- Brecht
- Video games
- Civilization, Modern
- Digital media
- Aesthetics
- Modernism (Art)
- Sex
- Communism
- Capitalism
- Political science
- Clouds
- Computer graphics
- Television
- Ideology
- Computer games
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Marvel's Iron Man franchise represents technology as a vehicle for global military might, heroic masculinity, and individual enhancement fantasies. Drawing on evolving digital film technologies, …
- Year:
- 2021
- Contributor:
- Huth, Antonia M. (creator)
- Koch, Gertrud (thesis advisor)
- Copjec, Joan (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Motion pictures
- Digital media
- Technology--Military aspects
- Marvel
- Marvel Comics Group
- Iron Man (Fictitious character)
- Haraway, Donna Jeanne
- Superheroes
- Masculinity in motion pictures
- Masculinity in popular culture
- War on Terrorism (2001-2009) in mass media
- Subjectivity in motion pictures
- Gender identity in motion pictures
- Transhumanism
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- How do we understand the digital world through narratives about – and narratives that emerge from - social media? Rather than think only about soundtrack …
- Year:
- 2025
- Contributor:
- Maxwell, Alex (creator)
- Li, Jinying (Advisor)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Digital media
- digital culture
- Ghosts
- Platform Studies
- Digital Platforms
- New Media
- Online social networks
- film studies
- YouTube (Firm)
- screenlife
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- With the 'massification' of digital media technologies comes their entanglements not only with our lives but that moment which defines each life, death itself. To …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Bramble, Victor (author)
- Azoulay, Ariella (advisor)
- Bogues, Barrymore (reader)
- Brown University (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Social media
- Digital media
- Violence
- Anti-Blackness
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Feminist and anti-colonial movements of the post-war era reconfigured and politicized the concept of reproductive labor. Simultaneously, an industry of broadcast television and advertising arose …
- Year:
- 2024
- Contributor:
- Austin, Arlen William (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
- Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne (Reader)
- Schneider, Rebecca (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Television
- Digital media
- Feminist theory
- Media studies
- Italian feminism
- Marxism and culture
- Labor theory of value
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- This dissertation examines a variety of media objects, from the 1950s exercise television program of Jack LaLanne to the 1980s VHS tapes of Jane Fonda, …
- Year:
- 2025
- Contributor:
- Contess, Katherine (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
- Rieppel, Lukas (Reader)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Exercise
- Television
- Digital media
- body
- Physical fitness
- Wearable technology
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- This dissertation takes as its focus three episodes when the notion of neural networks was not only deployed as a solution to the problem of …
- Year:
- 2023
- Contributor:
- Lepage-Richer, Théo (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Advisor)
- Rieppel, Lukas (Reader)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Cybernetics
- History of Medicine
- Digital media
- science and technology studies
- Artificial intelligence
- Media history
- History of computing
- Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934
- McCulloch, Warren S. (Warren Sturgis), 1898-1969
- Hinton, Geoffrey E.
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This thesis addresses the poetics and politics of "ambience" and "atmospherics" in contemporary culture. I am interested in how "ambient practices" often associated with the …
- Year:
- 2017
- Contributor:
- Mapes-Frances, Alec (author)
- Bewes, Timothy (advisor)
- Semerene, Diego (reader)
- Brown University (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ambient music (Electronica)
- Digital media
- Poetics
- Aesthetics
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation contends that American society is currently witnessing the rise of what I have termed the jurified spectator: the individual media user who perceives …
- Year:
- 2025
- Contributor:
- Lawrence, Heather Thompson (creator)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Guterl, Matthew (Reader)
- Mills, Mara (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- media theory
- Digital media
- Feminist theory
- Racial justice
- Popular culture
- visual culture
- American culture
- True crime
- trial narratives
- conspiracy theory
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Climate change knowledge emerges from the collection of ecological data on a global scale. Scientists require computer models to aggregate and harmonize disparate forms of …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Pringle, Thomas Patrick (creator)
- Chun, Wendy (Advisor)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- media theory
- Digital media
- climate change
- Media studies
- Documentary film
- Global warming
- environmental media
- digital culture
- media genealogy
- Environmentalism in mass media
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Debates about the political impact of digital platforms often revolve around a central, limiting dichotomy: Does digital media revitalize or undermine democracy? This project shifts …
- Year:
- 2023
- Contributor:
- Kalinka, Irina (creator)
- Anderson, Amanda (Advisor)
- Koch, Gertrud (Advisor)
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
- Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Democracy
- Political science
- Digital media
- Mass media
- Computer interfaces
- public sphere
- Platform Studies
- Digital Publics
- Agonism
- Radical Democracy
- Tech-Corporations
- Neoreactionary Thought
- Metaverse
- Public spaces--Political aspects
- Digital Democracy
- Digital Citizenship
- Radical Citizenship
- Algorithmic Governance
- Civic infrastructure
- Civic Life
- User
- Ideology
- Attention Economy
- Platform Capitalism
- Political Imaginaries
- Subjectivity--Political aspects
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- This dissertation examines the shifts in reproduction, knowledge, and power that remap our notion of "life" in contemporary scientific and popular cultures through the uncanny …
- Year:
- 2011
- Contributor:
- Bering-Porter, David (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
- Chow, Rey (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Film Studies
- New Media
- Media studies
- Digital media
- Zombies
- Race
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations