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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"Self-representation"”.
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The Politics of Self-Representation
… films, shot at home or in the street, using myself, friends and family as actors. This is done in combination with imagery obtained from the internet which I alter in post-production in order to create artisanal animations and video collages. This purposeful artisanal approach to animation, …
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Performative feedback filmmaking: participatory documentary and creative self-representation in the community
Between 2019 and 2022 I documented and observed various activities at a rural Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club using video and sound as part of my PhD in Film and Screen Media through Creative Practice at University College Cork. The result of this long- term fieldwork became an exhibition of …
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Modeling player self-representation in multiplayer online games using social network data
Game players express values related to self-expression through various means such as avatar customization, gameplay style, and interactions with other players. Multiplayer online games are now often integrated with social networks that provide social contexts in which player-to-player interactions …
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Indian-American self-representation : transmission of culture through the entertainment medium of film
This study examined Hindi film representations of people of Indian origin residing outside India, Hollywood film representations of people of Indian ethnicity in America, as well as self-representation in Indian-American films. The researcher used the quantitative methodology of content analysis to …
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Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint Industry
"Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint Industry" argues that African-American and white working-class people participated in transatlantic antebellum literary culture in a far more central and sophisticated manner than has been assumed. …
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Assimilation and Accommodation in Self-Conception: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Self-Representation
How information about the self is organized and whether information about the self is stable or not are basic issues that have generated considerable controversy. This dissertation provided a conceptual integration of discrepant finding in the literature that concern the stability of information …
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Age of Philosophy: the self-representation of power in the post-Constantinian empire
… and Constantius II (ch. 1-3) shows that Julian’s self-projection as a philosopher-emperor was not an innovation, but the (pagan) recovery of a strategy of philosophical self-presentation of the sovereign that had already been exploited by the house of Constantine in a Christian key. In the second …
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Can You Hear Me? Reflexive Feminist Methodologies and Diasporic Self-Representation in the Digital Age
… scientists to showcase and critically engage self-representations of diasporic individuals, who often lack visibility and legibility within the dominant cultural archive. Filmmaking as a social research practice can provide rich audiovisual data, physical and social access to materials for …
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Transcending Temporality: a Study of the Reception of Julius Caesar’s Self-representation in Epic and Drama
… question is: what elements from Caesar’s self-representation, constituting themes and characterization, have been transmitted to his epic and dramatic representation?<br/>The groundwork of my study is formed by an analysis of Caesar’s self-representation in his Commentaries on the Gallic …
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Architecture and the question of identity : issues of self-representation in Islamic community centers in America
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.
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Self-Representation of Black Queer Athletes in the WNBA: Resistance to Misogynoir and Heteronormativity in Women's Basketball
… a critical discourse analysis of the media (mis)representations and self-representations of Black queer women athletes in the WNBA. WNBA players have found paths of resistance and self-representation through social media and their relationships with individual journalists in response to …
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Ethnic Minorities in Brazil and Spain: Erasure and Stigmatization, Gender, and Self-Representation of Indigenous and Roma Communities
… of media by marginalized ethnic minorities for self-representation, using as its frame of reference scholars such as Faye Ginsburg, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Achille Mbembe, and David Harvey. Specifically, this dissertation examines Indigenous communities in Brazil and the Roma …
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Whoretography – The Sex Worker As Image-Maker: A critical analysis of sex workers’ self-representation in online public spaces
… Hence, the nature of the woman sex worker self-portrait is severely under-researched. This thesis adds to arts-based research approaches that view the self-portraits of marginalised women through an intersectional feminist and self-image framework. This thesis attempts to merge writings on …
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"EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY
… that create networks of action and agency); (3) representation--the process in which certain macroactors (actors that appear as recurring and stable categories) present the interests of other actors within the network); and (4) teleaction--the movement of representations from place to place and …
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My Life as I Remember It: Subjectivities, feeling, and narrative in working-class women’s self-representation from late-twentieth-century England
… its form, emphasising working-class women’s self-representation as a reparative practice that is both dialogical and introspective and that facilitates coping with trauma and memorialising and building community.<p></p>
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Taking ownership : the relationship between self-representation and writing development in a science extended curriculum programme at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
… identity in text. I focus on the notion of the self and how this is represented in student writing. Students often view writing as difficult because they do not identify with the 'me' in their writing as dominant university discourses and practices often overpower them. The theoretical resources …
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One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South
… a violent, masculinist Southern culture from misrepresentation by outsiders, as do male “redneck autobiographers,” but rather re-establish connections with their families, native communities, and natural environments. In the process of writing on Okies, Crackers, and “white trash,” these writers …
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Criminal Representation and the Construction of Middle-Class Subjectivity, 1823-1844
… middle class used the criminal as a site of self-representation--especially masculine self-representation--during the 1820s, 30s and 40s. Between the late Regency and mid-Victorian periods, the figure of the criminal became a prominent site of ideological struggle, pitting the middle class …
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Transgender YouTubers and the Power of Coming Out: Existentialism, Gender Performance, and Self-Actualization
… as an especially valuable visual repository of self-representation. The present research is concerned with examining how transgender YouTube creators use the platform for self-actualization through the lens of existentialist and gender performance theory. Employing a qualitative content analysis …
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