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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:
- My dissertation examines contemporary humanitarian media empowerment initiatives, arguing that their interventionist rhetorical strategies further exoticize their marginalized beneficiaries by mobilizing their alterity as a …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Rangan, Pooja Girish (creator)
- Chow, Rey (Director)
- Doane, Mary Ann (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Ethnography
- Indexicality
- Advocacy
- Animal Studies
- Childhood Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Ethnology
- Indexicals (Semantics)
- Labor
- Humanitarianism
- Human rights
- Media studies
- Visual anthropology
- Biopolitics
- Critical theory
- Culture--Study and teaching
- 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 provides a critical and materialist account of the history of the media interview. Starting with Henry Mayhew’s use of the interview to investigate …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Sarlin, Paige (creator)
- Rosen, Philip (Director)
- Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
- Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Marxism
- Documentary
- Form
- Communism
- Feminism
- Labor
- Media studies
- Publicity
- Liberalism
- Language:
- English
- 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
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- Description:
- Metaphors of descent, birth, childhood, family, and reproduction are routinely applied to emergent technologies. This dissertation contends that in the second half of the 20th …
- Year:
- 2024
- Contributor:
- Rowson, Rose (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Koch, Gertrud (Reader)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- History
- Biopolitics
- history of technology
- American History
- Feminist theory
- Obstetrics
- Media studies
- Social Reproduction
- Family
- ultrasound
- Biography
- Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging
- Media history
- History of computing
- Media Archaeology
- Jobs, Steve, 1955-2011
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- Lisa computer
- Microcomputers
- Donald, Ian, 1910-1987
- Video display terminals--Safety measures
- Video display terminals
- Fetal Personhood
- Intrauterine contraceptives
- United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Smith College Archives
- Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
- Feminism (Women's liberation movement)
- New Media
- Paternity testing
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- National Women's Health Network (U.S.)
- 9to5
- Gender and Sexuality
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- Politics of Scatter: Dust and Forensic Media examines the media of forensics, with a focus on the importance of dust to the establishment of evidence …
- Year:
- 2024
- Contributor:
- Huggins, Julia Marie (creator)
- Hui Kyong Chun, Wendy (Advisor)
- Honig, Bonnie (Reader)
- Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- DNA
- Communication and culture
- science and technology studies
- Colonialism
- Media studies
- environmental media
- Forensic sciences
- History of Forensics
- Solar Geoengineering
- Atmospheric science
- Critical legal studies
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
- Description:
- This project is a study of transportation infrastructure, how it sounds, and how people hear it; it consists of a collection of 16 audio files …
- Year:
- 2019
- Contributor:
- Neuman-Hammond, Eli (creator)
- Cokes, Tony (thesis advisor)
- Armstrong, Maralie (reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Transportation
- Sound recordings
- Media studies
- Sound
- audio
- infrastructure
- Interstate Highway System
- New England
- Automobiles
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
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- 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:
- This dissertation addresses a conceptual form of negativity in the literature, film, and criticism of the United States during the period just following World War …
- Year:
- 2012
- Contributor:
- Tierney, Matthew A. (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Director)
- Chow, Rey (Reader)
- Daniel, Kim (Reader)
- Silverman, Michael (Reader)
- Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- American culture
- film theory
- history of criticism
- Literary form
- Media studies
- Intermediality
- Language:
- English
- Collection:
- Modern Culture and Media
- Theses and Dissertations
- Description:
- Design has come to serve as a solution to almost every problem from climate change to college grades. “Toward a Utopia Without Revolution: Developmentalism, Globalization, …
- Year:
- 2020
- Contributor:
- Jung, Seungyeon (creator)
- Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
- Azoulay, Ariella (Reader)
- Chun, Wendy (Reader)
- Li, Jinying (Reader)
- Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
- Genre:
- theses
- Subject:
- South Korean History
- Media studies
- Design and history
- 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