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Showing 1 to 20 of 1107 for “"Everyday life"”.
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Online identifiers in everyday life
Identifiers are an essential component of online communication. Email addresses and instant messenger usernames are two of the most common online identifiers. This dissertation focuses on the ways that social, technical and policy factors affect individual's behavior with online identifiers. …
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The dynamic structure of everyday life
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989.
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Transforming Images: Media, Sexuality and Everyday Life
… experiences around sexuality, exploring the real life impact of television. representations.</p>
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Everyday Life, Debt and Death in North Dublin
This thesis is about the cultural phenomenon of homeownership in Ireland; a country where, historically, home ownership has particular cultural, symbolic content. It is also about the collapse of Irish property dreams using the key example of Priory Hall in Donaghmeade, Dublin 13. On Friday, 14 …
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The Pornographic Home: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life
I map connections between literary erotica and other technologies, including the computer, cable, and video. Women have had a longer, more productive history writing and reading erotica than they have in producing or watching visual porn; however, I also show how women as producers and consumers …
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Terror and everyday life: A history of horror
… excessive productions overtly concerned with the everyday experience of post-modernity.
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Popular talk radio and everyday life in Mauritius
… to explore the myriad ways talk radio is tied to everyday life in Mauritius. As a point of departure, this study has considered the success of Mauritian private radio stations as a social phenomenon that deserves attention. It has delved into the ways talk radio, especially their morning talk …
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Visual interfaces to share and highlight everyday life
… enable users to get a deeper understanding of life in different cultures. Specifically, I have focused on user interfaces that enable and inspire the contribution and consumption of visual media that highlights the subtleties of everyday life. This thesis was completed via the …
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City Limits: A Psychoanalysis of Urbanism and Everyday Life
… of the problem of limits in contemporary urban everyday life. The overriding questions are, “What do we desire from the city?” and, “What do we think the city wants from us?” The central writers and movements in urban planning are then interpreted through Lacan’s ‘four discourses.’ Generally, …
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Religion, Heritage, and Power： Everyday Life in Contemporary China
Based on an ethnographic study of the religious life of ordinary people in the town of Dongpu, this research explores the relationships between: religion and state power; Chinese ritual (li, 礼/禮) tradition and Christian culture; and religion and intangible cultural heritage in contemporary China. …
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Fortuyn's Foundations of Homonationalism (Homonationalism in Dutch everyday life)
In 2006 Puar defined homonationalism as a form of nationalism that utilizes gay rights to exclude (Muslim minorities). This thesis analyzes the development of Dutch homonationalism from 1990-2002. It finds that the origins and development of homonationalism are rarely discussed. Only research by …
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Personal Intelligence and Learning about Personality in Everyday Life
… or useful social companion. People also infer life lessons from their everyday “personality education.”</p>
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Popular Media, Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ghana
… owners, the interactions between specific life experiences that spurred them to coin these inscriptions and the cultural fabric within which they have done so. Conceptually, this dissertation draws not only from cultural anthropology and its subfields of visual culture, and religion, media …
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Teenagers, Everyday Life and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland
The aim of this thesis is to provide a social and cultural history of young people, their lives and their interactions with popular culture in 1950s Ireland. Popular culture is contextualised within the wider social discourses of the decade including emigration, unemployment, globalisation and the …
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The found object and the presentation of everyday life.
… these writings I explore the ways in which the everyday lives of ordinary people are depicted in art via the use of found objects, and how the findings have helped influence my own art practice. I begin by discussing the concept of the everyday in relation to my own work, and identify the impact …
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Enacting Cognition: Actor Education and the Performance of Everyday Life
This qualitative study explores inner and outer experience in the context of dramatic arts, and specifically in actor education. The author defines experience as the richness of now. It is everything that we bring to each moment, and everything that each moment brings to us. The dynamic space …
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Home and away: The tourist, the flâneur and everyday life
… as a practice of, rather than opposed to, everyday life, for many subjects in late-capitalist Western society. The argument is developed by comparing and contrasting the tourist with the flâneur. The flâneur is regarded as a representative subjectivity of early modernity who developed …
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The making of Polish London through everyday life, 1956-1976
… ‘parallel Polish world’ at the level of everyday life, rather than the central institutions of ‘Polish London’. It focuses on three Gminy (Communities) founded in the 1950s: the Polish Community of West London, the Polish Community of South London, and the Polish Centre in Lewisham. The …
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Rationalizing everyday life in late nineteenth century Istanbul c. 1900
… explores the rationalizing process of everyday life in late nineteenth century Istanbul, within the framework of the modernization agendas that swept the Ottoman Empire from the 1830s on. Starting with the period known as Tanzimat (literally 'the reforms'), the study covers the Hamidian …
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Space, Activities and Gender- Everyday Life in Lindora, Costa Rica
The thesis analyzes the everyday life of women and men in a neighbourhood planned for low-income housing in the ourskirts of the capital San José in Costa Rica. The research uses an everyday life perspective and shows how gender organization leads to a division of labour and a use of space that …
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