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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Modes of expression"”.
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Multimodal Environmental Interfaces : discrete and continuous changes of form, light, and color using natural modes of expression
… a framework for design and evaluation of Multinodal Environmental Interfaces. Multimodal Environmental Interfaces allow users to control form, light, and color using natural modes of expression. The framework is defined by categorizing possible changes as discrete or continuous. …
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The semantics of emojis and memes: understanding meaning- making among social media users
There is no doubt that the use of emojis and memes within computer-mediated communication (CMC) on social media platforms like Facebook has become an essential part of how people communicate online (see Thurlow 2018; Thurlow and Jaroski 2020; Barbieri et al 2016; Bai et al 2019 and Thurlow and Dü …
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Tomorrow's Typography
… interfacing, and (C) creative exploration. A lot of care has been put in understanding the current scene through expert interviews, workshops, talks and surveys. With pose estimation, generative visual AI, and large language models that operate on text, I explore whether typographic shapes can be …
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Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture
… Martin Luther King Jr.'s untimely death had a profound impact on American life. In this dissertation, I argue that the assassination inspired musicians, producers, artists, and consumers across the nation to reconstruct soul music and, in its place, construct the cultural idiom known as funk. …
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English language learning kindergartners' dynamic responses to picturebook reading
<p>This study explores the nature of English language learning by kindergartners as they engage in multimodal literacy practices in response to picturebook readings in a mainstream classroom. Three focal Spanish-speaking kindergartners and their classroom teacher took part in this study. Data were …
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Computation and technology as expressive elements of fashion
… explores technology and computation as elements of fashion. Far beyond the definition of clothing as a necessary protective covering, fashion exists as a way for people to express themselves to others, to reflect portions of their personality in their outward appearance, and to distinguish …
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Falling Forward: Continuity and Change in the Poetics of Eden
… poetry in Middle English takes up the idea of a secular Eden by which various non-normative theorizations of time and self are made possible. The invocation of a rich and multifarious Eden may be effectively understood through its relationship to the psychoanalytic theorization of origins by …
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Feedback Exhaust: Money and the Novel at the End of the Contemporary
<p>In the contemporary context of global financialization, the distance between the categories of money and fiction has been theorized as narrowing. This dissertation uses a Marxist analytic to argue that financialized money and fiction, as two modes of accounting, should be approached as competing …
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Boris Volkoff: Dancer, teacher, choreographer
… formative influences on the dance career of Boris Volkoff. During his career in Canada Volkoff was also influenced by the social, economic, and political environment of Canada. His contributions to dance in Canada were numerous. He introduced many people to the art of dance and after …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
… classical tradition yet the powerful Influence of rhetoric on literature resulted in his use of vivid and picturesque modes of expression. |In the "De Beata Vita" this picturesqueness is attained partly by the use of diminutives, which suggest familiar things; partly by homely words which make …
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Oral and Written Discourse in Adolescents With Closed Head Injury
"Analysis of oral and written discourse suggested differing cognitive demands for the two modes of expression. Speaking and writing samples were provided by 8 adolescents with closed head injury (CHI) and 8 matched controls. A generation task using the ""Cookie Theft"" picture stimulus provided the …
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Visual humor : female photographers and modern American womanhood, 1860-1915
The late 19th and early 20th century was a period of humor, photography, and rampant gender debates. This dissertation was founded on an attempt to make sense of a period in American history that was messy and confusing. The United States was going through a growth spurt that, at times, as been …
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Peter Jona Korn: An Introduction to His Works for the Oboe
… to many other German-Jewish composers of the twentieth century, as he, like Arnold Schoenberg, Stefan Wolpe, and Kurt Weill, was forced to flee Germany to escape Nazi persecution. However, unlike composers who turned away from tonality, searching for other modes of expression after the …
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Correggio and the Sacred Image
… surfaces in order to address changing notions of interiority in early sixteenth-century Italy. Correggio's innovative treatment of these surfaces -- what is referred to in the critical tradition in terms of softness, melting, and erasure -- enacts the desire to grasp a divinity at once human …
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The quality of deliberation in Northern Ireland's district policing partnerships
… dimensions to measure the deliberative quality of Northern Ireland’s District Policing Partnership (DPP) meetings in public. The study combines Habermasian, and Young’s deliberative concepts to create an Augmented Discourse Quality Index. This Augmented DQI is employed by this research as am …
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Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dress
<p>The body, a long contested site of identity construction, has been used by historically by queers to convey desire, build affinity and transgress norms. Looking at the fashioned queer body, this capstone takes the form of a proposal for an art exhibition at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and …
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VOICES OF SELF-SURRENDER: RELIGIOUS MULTILINGUALISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA
… explores the distinctive intellectual history of South Asian multilingualism. Specifically, it focuses on the South India based Śrīvaiṣṇava religious community (c. tenth century CE onward) as a paradigmatic case. It analyzes the Sanskrit and Manipravalam, a mixture of Tamil and Sanskrit, …
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The making of a good woman : analysing children’s narratives on female gender identity and role in pre-school Saudi Arabia
… explored young girls’ (4 – 6 years) perceptions of female identity and role in in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Exploring the ways in which their gender identities were interpreted and manifested in narratives and stories to identify and analyse the influences, apparent ideologies and …
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Everything (Old was New) Already: Theories, Histories, and Politics of Appropriation, Contemporary Art, and Culture
The past decade and a half of technological innovation and explosion of historical multiplicities have reignited the debates on appropriation. This dissertation contributes to the discussion for the purposes of understanding appropriation’s significance to our fluctuating conceptions of …
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Rethinking the rhetoric of remix: copies and material culture in digital networks
… played by copies and replication in both systems of representation to identify and analyze material practices and rhetorical claims about their cultural influence. Specifically, it identifies and critiques the influence of recording formats qua copies in the history of three forms of composition …
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