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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Participatory culture"”.
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Life, Learning, and Literacy on the Social Network: Digital Participatory Culture
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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement
Do it Yourself (DiY) is a participatory culture which exemplifies a particular ethos in its approach to technology and materials. Rather than engage with ‘complete’ technologies, such as a technology supplied as ready-to-go item, the DiY practitioners examined in this thesis engage with the raw …
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REACTING TO...: Understanding The Motivations, Participatory Culture, and Spectatorship Behind Reaction Videos
… popularity, emerging as a distinctive facet of participatory culture on current-day social video-sharing platforms such as YouTube, Tiktok, and Twitch. This study aims to explore not only the motivations and engagement patterns of viewers with RVs, but also the underlying nature of the virality …
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Safe Space: A novel and accompanying critical study into the participatory culture in fandom and a historiographic approach to the fragmentation of popular culture in select novels by Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
… fiction fandom – a symbolic battle in the Culture Wars.<br/><br/>The investigation uses a historiographic, long durée (or long term) approach to test the hypothesis that periods of cultural anxiety are related to a loss of confidence in great hegemons. The research interrogates the concept …
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Transformational Festivals and the Enchantment Economy: Performance and Race in Neoliberal Times
… the phenomenal global growth of music festival culture over the last two decades, with particular emphasis on “Transformational Festivals,” a genre of participatory, for-profit event influenced by New Age ideology and aesthetics. I use ethnographic examination of these festivals in the United …
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Brave new forms: Adaptation, remediation, and intertextuality in the multimodal world of Hugo Cabret
… and respond to texts. In our hyper-mediated culture, images and texts converge and disseminate across multiple media platforms, changing once-passive readers and spectators into active agents in the intellectual and creative process of interpretation. This thesis examines the multimodal world …
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SCROLLING CRITICALLY: MOMFLUENCERS AS SITES OF COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, AND PEDAGOGICAL INSIGHT
… as a lens for understanding digital literacy, participatory culture, and ethical communication, this thesis offers insights into how a humanistic view of multimodal and platform-aware composition shapes trust, influence, and cultural meaning in contemporary digital environment.</p>
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Democratic Organizing in the Corporate Sphere: A Case Study
… a for-profit organization create a democratic, participatory culture that thrives in a capitalist society? To answer this question, a critical ethnography case study was conducted on a small for-profit telecommunications business that claims to be democratic. Ten individuals from the company and …
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A Case Study of New Media Literacies in an English Language Learning Program
… the program whereas the practices of networking, participatory culture, and collective intelligence were constrained to a certain degree. The study also identified human and nonhuman actors that shaped students’ new media literacies practices, such as program design, materiality of classrooms, and …
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The management of transmedia production in an era of media and digital convergence
… work on transmedia narratives and storytelling, participatory culture, and a strong foundation in the design of narratives provided by the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT, I add a business perspective on risk and brand management to counteract the rising costs of production and …
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Determining the impact of a multiliteracies workshop on TPACK knowledge of elementary preservice teachers
… practice. Group B participants were engaged in a participatory culture through three research-based approaches designed to yield TPACK learning: Learning activity types, deep-play, and learning by design. Teacher educators can use the MWM to provide nested experiences with teaching and technology …
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Taiwanese political call-in talk shows : control and "credible participation" hidden behind the spectacle
… an opportunity to participate. To understand the participatory culture, I studied Taiwanese political talk shows as a media system by analyzing the style and content of Taiwanese talk shows, as well as the social, cultural, legal, political, and economic institutions, practices, and protocols that …
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The identity construction and representation of diasporic Chinese content creators on YouTube
… while also considering YouTube’s outstanding “participatory culture” and its commercial attributes. In terms of methodology, this study will treat YouTube’s environment as a whole and it has adopted a series of methods from online observation, semi-structured interview and textual analysis. The …
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‘HOW CAN ONE BE THIS WICKED TO HIS OWN BROTHER?’ : AN APPRAISAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TIKTOK AND FACEBOOK PARTICIPANTS' COMMENTS ON A REAL-LIFE VIDEO NARRATIVE
… investigates the uniqueness of both platforms' participatory culture by comparing the similarities and differences in the patterns of commenters’ evaluative attitudes across both social media platforms. The study adopts a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADA) approach to study 4,647 TikTok …
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Is Hearing Believing? Perception of Online Information Credibility by Screen Reader Users who are Blind or Visually Impaired
… Therefore, promoting inclusion in the online participatory culture will enhance the information practices of screen reader users.
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An investigation into crime tourism, screen tourism and dark fandoms
… shared narratives and spaces circulated through participatory culture that reinforce collective memory and emotional investment. The findings benefit scholars in cultural criminology, business, film and cultural studies as well as practitioners developing immersive true crime experiences.
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Can You Hear Us Now? Investigating the Effects of a Wireless Grid Social Radio Station on Collaboration and Communication in Fragile Populations
… learning and business environments. Our digital participatory culture is based on communication in response to purposeful activity and is facilitated by information and communication technologies (ICT). Students with emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities are often disengaged and …
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An exploratory study of social media usage and developmental outcomes by government and emerging political leaders : the Nigerian experience
… institutions/agencies together with new participatory culture Social Media use. The study tests various social theories concerning interactive media, and asks whether ,by encouraging audiences to express their opinions, interactive media can be perceived as a tool for expanding the …
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Democratic Administration in the United States Forest Service
… years offers the opportunity to assess whether participatory democracy offers a better paradigm for determining the public interest. This research focused on four cases of reported successful collaboration in Region One of the Forest Service and involved in-person interviews with 17 Forest …
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Democratic Administration in the United States Forest Service
… years offers the opportunity to assess whether participatory democracy offers a better paradigm for determining the public interest. This research focused on four cases of reported successful collaboration in Region One of the Forest Service and involved in-person interviews with 17 Forest …
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