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Showing 1 to 20 of 424 for “"Fun"”.
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Fun House: Stories
Fun House: Stories is a collection of eight short stories.
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For the Fun of It: A Culture Theory Study on How Fun Informs E-scooter Experiences
… the affective dimensions, such as experiences of fun, within e-scooter consumption. By focusing on the consumptive experiences of 18 e-scooter users, this study aims to understand How do experiences of fun inform micromobility consumption in urban populations? A market-oriented ethnography was …
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Homespun Fun: Theme Parks, Suburbia, and the Postwar Child
… to the themes of childlike wonder and family fun, theme parks have made the heterosexual nuclear family unit the prototypical park visitor. This project explores the histories and geographies of theme parks and their privileging of the heterosexual family unit through a queer framework. It …
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Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal
<p>This research reflects on the patterns of uneven development occurring in the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, social and physical changes taking place there, and how these elements of the canal relate to the changing purpose of urban waterways. Gowanus has mimicked the development of New York City …
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Fun Mills: The Interactive Adaptation of a Post-Industrial Economy
Fun Mills intends to revive the economy of the declining post-industrial town, Burnley, UK. Taking influence from Cedric Price’s proposed Fun Palace, this thesis explores how architecture might continue to flourish through society’s dependence on digital technology. Burnley was once England’s …
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Exertion interfaces : sports over a distance for social bonding and fun
… got to know the other player better, had more fun, became better friends, and were happier with the transmitted audio and video quality in comparison to a control group playing the game with the same video-conferencing setup, but using a traditional keyboard interface. Exertion Interfaces, …
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'Fun' and Its Contributors: The Literary History of a Victorian Humor Magazine
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6101636.pdf: 19502686 bytes, checksum: 02d599cb1cd3274193ea4c975a81dd4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Audience research for fun and profit : rediscovering the value of television audiences
The American television industry is in a moment of transition because of changes brought about by digital distribution and audience fragmentation. This thesis argues that the television industry can no longer adapt to the changing media landscape because structural relationships and business logics …
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Functions Fun: An iPad Educational Game for Teaching Mathematical Functions and Graphs
Teaching and learning mathematical functions and graphs pose significant challenges for teachers and students. Students often have difficulty in understanding a functional relationship between two quantities such as distance and time, temperature and precipitation, and gas price and number of …
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Brogrammers, Tech Hobbyists, and Coding Peasants: Surveillance, Fun, and Productivity in High Tech
This project is based on an ethnography of Trifecta Tech (pseudonym) a major high-tech firm on the West coast of the U.S. Although a growing group of organizational theorists started investigating high-tech firms’ organizational model and management mechanisms, they are still limited by their …
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StoryScape : fun technology for supporting learning, language and social engagement through story craft
… through interactive stories, enabling fun and engaging learning through story creation and other activities. While the main focus of this work is related to children diagnosed with ASD, I also present a number of exploratory studies conducted with neurotypical children. In total, six …
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Humanistic Approach vs. Technological Approach: Accelerate Language Learning by Having Fun In the Sun
<p>Technology continues to spread throughout the world, and it seems that this trend will continue for some time. Many students have been left behind because the focus has been largely on viewing computer screens and communicating without the use of a voice, through text messages and chatting.</p> …
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N-hydroxytryptophan in synthetic approaches to indole alkaloids : a lustrum of n-hydroxytrypto-fun
Contains fulltext : 30078_nhydinsya.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Fun With Frames: Exploring Metacommunication and Real Media Frames in South Park's Fake News
The popular cable show South Park has steadily entertained audiences since its debut in 1997. Much of the show's humor and entertainment value comes from its satirical treatment of public figures, institutions, and timely trends. One of the institutions often lampooned on the show is that of …
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Future War for Fun and Profit: Authority, Bureaucracy, and Masculinity in Defence Industry Software Development
Technological innovation is at the heart of many discussions of understanding military practice, and it is increasingly important to understanding the relationship between states, militaries, and civilian actors such as a corporations and citizens increasingly shaped by militarization. One group of …
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