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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Visual History"”.
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Exploring the World's Visual History
… Flickr. Together, these photos create a living visual record of the world that is growing every day and covers the whole planet. Now is the first time in history that we have access to more than a decade worth of such detailed visual information. In my thesis, I proposed novel techniques to …
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Visual History und Geschichtsdidaktik. Beiträge zur Bildkompetenz in der historisch-politischen Bildung
Die Arbeit "Visual History und Geschichtsdidaktik" ist eine Synthese der Publikationen des Autors zu diesem Thema. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie die materiellen Bilder aus der Vergangenheit die mentalen Bilder von der Vergangenheit beeinflussen oder gar generieren. Leitend ist also die Frage nach …
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ScreenTrack: Using Visual History for Self-tracking Computer Activities and Retrieving Working Context
… Sometimes application provides a chronological history of recently opened documents (files, websites). However, it can be challenging to find the right information they need as there are many and users may not recognize from the text-based data (e.g. web page titles, document file name). …
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Graphic Politics: A visual history of activism and resistance in the Arab world from the middle to late twentieth century
… political change, exploring the overlap between visual communication design and political engagement in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (the Arab world), with a specific focus on revolutionary uprisings from the end of the Second World War until the early 1980s. The research provides an …
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Jazz contacts : envisaging Basil Breakey's photographic remains beyond the archive
… photography, both as a particular instance of visual history and as a local site for an international photographic genre is largely under-researched. In consequence, its iconic trajectory, with its interconnected sets of specific historical and cultural contexts, is still inaccessible to a …
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Making history, picturing hysteria : archaeology, ficto-criticism, and the critical history of Nicole Jolicoeur's La vérité folle
… archaeology as she researches and re-assembles a visual history of hysteria. Using historical photographs, she proposes a new and critical history of hysteria that can be termed ficto-criticism. Both archaeology and ficto-criticism are explored as strategies for producing alternative histories. …
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Geography of the Middle East through the Western Lens: A Survey of Films Set in the Middle East and Filmed in the American Southwest
… the place is lost in translation. Throughout the history of cinema, the geography of the Middle East has been manipulated into a vision designed for Western audiences that is strikingly disjointed from reality. </p> <p>The foundation of modern Orientalist interpretations of the Middle East in film …
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Exposing New Guinea: The early photographers, W. G. Lawes and J. W. Lindt
… result of this investigation is a more nuanced visual history that encompasses the specific encounters, networks, technology, and texts that shaped the early photographic record of New Guinea.
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Exposing New Guinea: The early photographers, W. G. Lawes and J. W. Lindt
… result of this investigation is a more nuanced visual history that encompasses the specific encounters, networks, technology, and texts that shaped the early photographic record of New Guinea.
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Filmic Fabulation: The Imagining of pre-Nakba Palestinian Women's History Beyond the Archives
… that remain obscured, and contributing to a visual history of Palestinian return grounded in feminist and decolonial praxis.
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The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism
<p>The Senses of Fundamentalism: A Material History of Sensing Bodies in Early Twentieth-Century American Fundamentalism offers a new historical narrative about the rise of fundamentalism. I argue that sensing bodies laid the foundation of fundamentalism. New kinds of Christian sensory practices …
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From the Battlefield to the Archive: Tracing Testimony in Holocaust Memory
… pasts. Testimony, whether handwritten, oral, visual, or digital, is not a neutral historical record but an interpretive act shaped by cultural, political, and technological forces. This portfolio argues that testimony functions as evidence and expression: it transmits trauma across generations …
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The Representation of the Outlaw Biker in California, 1953-1969: Film, Counterculture and Commodity
… all important, therefore the thesis will be a visual exploration into the social and cultural history of the biker. Easy Rider is the defining biker movie. Merging counterculture values with a cowboy themed outlaw biker image, this film defined both the mentality and imagery of what is …
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The subject of television: a methodology of subject-oriented textual analysis
This thesis approaches televisual texts and the scholarly practice of textual analysis via the politics of subjectivity. Because subjects are formed in symbolic and representational systems that pre-exist them, subjectivity is an inherently political phenomenon, bound up in questions of power …
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Using Screenshots as a Medium to Support Knowledge Workers' Productivity
… there has been limited research on leveraging visual cues to help users reconstruct their previous mental contexts, retrieve digital resources, and enhance self-reflection for behavioral change. Therefore, this Ph.D. dissertation addresses these gaps by focusing on: (1) investigating the …
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"Alive & Kicking": Queer Cultural Memory of Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement Through Photographs of Violence and Protest in The Body Politic (1971-1987)
… of the GLLM), while the photographs show the visual narrative. Both comprise the movement’s collective memory. To analyze these photographs, this thesis establishes a visual methodology based on techniques in cultural history and visual anthropology. Using these techniques, it performs a …
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Visual Narrative: A Theory and Model for Image-Driven Digital Historiography based on a Case Study of China’s Boxer Uprising (c. 1900)
… images, demands a new paradigm for the use of visual imagery in historical research. This thesis proposes a new form of historiography in the digital medium, an image-based narrative mode for authoring and reading history. I propose a digital model for conveying history through the visual …