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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"escapism"”.
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Demystifying the Link Between Loneliness and Materialism: Mediating Roles of Emotion Regulation, Self-Enhancement, and Escapism
… mediators (emotion regulation, self-enhancement, escapism) within the perspective of compensatory consumer behavior. Results from this study contribute to the growing body of consumer behavior research on the psychological underpinnings of compensatory consumer behavior. Furthermore, it sheds …
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Látogatói élmény a múzeumokban. Az eszképizmus mint élménydimenzió elemzése a múzeumi látogatások kontextusában = Visitor experience in museums. Analysis of the escapism experience dimension in the context of museum visits
A szerző a múzeumi látogatói élmény területére fókuszál és B. Joseph Pine II és James H. Gilmore 1998-as négydimenziós élménymodelljét állítja elemzése középpontjába, amelyet múzeumok esetén kíván alkalmazni és továbbfejleszteni. Részletes narratív és szisztematikus szakirodalmi elemzés keretében …
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This side of midnight: Recovering a queer politics of disco club culture
… as important to the dancers’ experiences: escapism/transcendence. From this point, this project synthesized a variety of theoretical texts in order to point towards a potential queer politics embedded within the experience of dancing at a disco club, drawing on the contradictions inherent …
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Privatio Dialogus: Toward a Phenomenology of Aloneness for the Philosophy of Communication
… experiences of aloneness, including isolation, escapism, and solitude. I present a phenomenology of each of these types of aloneness through a representative philosopher for each one, with Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Henry David Thoreau, respectively. Finally, I conclude that the …
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Happy Faces
… Through this work, I examine the concepts of escapism and duality. My studio investigation influences my pedagogical approach in the way I interact with my students and manage my classroom, both in how I embrace process and experiment with my use of mixed media and by approaching students as …
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TikTok Made Me Gay: Digital Networks and Information Activism on Queer(ed) Platforms
… pandemic, Gen Z flocked to TikTok to engage in escapism amidst the global crisis to partake in trends, comedic content, and explanatory-like videos. Considering these two simultaneous occurrences, this research uses a triangular approach of autoethnography, hashtag analysis, and the reading of …
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"I can't carry on like this": a feminist perspective on the process of exiting sex work in a South African context
… These themes are permeated by a pattern of escapism. This pattern exemplifies their disempowerment and lack of agency, which is symptomatic of the gender oppression pervading their lives. The results of this research will be used to draw up a policy in collaboration with the NGO Embrace …
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What is 'Surreal' about Surrealism? An investigation of Surrealism as seen through the looking-glass of Jan Svankmajer
… of surrealism equating to fantasy and escapism. The second key area is how the filmic representation of surreality by the surrealist filmmaker Švankmajer supports the relationship of the movement with reality. This is analysed in terms of Švankmajer’s filmic engagement with the …
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Sword fighting in virtual reality: Where are we and how do we make it real
… currently best known for its role in gaming and escapism. A number of different mediums have used virtual reality for its strengths in training. It is particularly useful for its ability to recreate real world locations and situations while still having full control over the environment. One area …
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South African travel writing and bias
… older criticisms of bias including 'othering', escapism, and gendering. However, it also focuses on a number of more modem biases such as direct advertising, advertorial usage, as well as the acceptance of 'freebies' and barter agreements, none of which has been given much attention in previous …
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The Fabulist
… and of a grandly supernatural departure; of escapism as an act of abandonment, but also (at its best) a catalyst for new communities and connections. This novel draft aspires to all these goals, and may perhaps achieve some of them one day.
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Resisting captivity: An analysis of the New Zealand POW experience during World War Two
… of resistance and the use of various forms of escapism, both physical and mental, to cope with captivity. In doing so, it explores how men constructed their individual identities, refusing to be labelled as mere prisoners. More than escapees or saboteurs, POWs were active agents in shaping the …
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Leveling Up: How Posters on r/StopGame Describe Video Gaming, Its Consequences, and Trying to Stop
… a compulsion, like taking a drug, as a form of escapism, as an undefined “something” to be moderated, as something that has impacted their lifestyle, as a hobby, and as problematic enough to bring them to r/StopGaming in the first place. Posters described experiencing addiction trajectories, …
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Nuair a bha Gaidhlig aig na h-eoin : an investigation into the art and artifice of avifaunal mimesis as a mode of artistic expression in Gaelic oral culture from the seventeenth century to the present
… be read in a wider context as a form of artistic escapism ‘in which the ordinary features of our world are brought into focus by a certain exaggeration … a framing of reality that announces that what is contained within the frame is not simply real’ (Davis, 1999: 3).
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After-Effects: A Feminist Poststructural Exploration of the Young Adult Series “After” and Discourses of Romanticized Abuse
… 2) How the series functions as a form of escapism; 3) Awareness of toxicity in Hardin and Tessa’s relationship; and 4) Reflections on reading the series in their younger years. In my conclusion, I argue that the binarized performances of masculinity and femininity by the characters in the …
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Art in Scale: Barbara Marshall and the Fine-Scale Miniature Movement
… an expression of preservation, nostalgia, and escapism. All three were displayed in public institutions and entered the public consciousness, setting a standard for fine-scale miniature work and inspiring artists of later decades. The fine-scale miniature movement of the 1970s developed in …
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The lived experience of gaming and gambling: guiding practitioners' understanding for supporting children and young people.
… from the lived experience focus groups were Escapism, Preventative Measures, Public Perception and Ecological Dynamics. Implications: These findings carry implications for practitioners seeking to support CYP and also for policy makers and regulators who are seeking to address this issue, …
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Low Culture Fever: Pulp Science in Chinese Comics After Mao
… preceding decades. Providing far more than mere “escapism,” however, the popularity of science popularization comic books is shown to derive from their unique willingness to directly address the distinction between science and superstition; between socialism and capitalism; and between dystopia …
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Empowering Korean Adolescent Girls Using Smartphones as a Stimulus for Creative Expression: Response Art and Dialogue
… therapeutic work addressed the rampant escapism and high levels of academic stress that have been identified as a societal malaise. As a therapeutic stimulus, the protocol began by using the smartphone as a leisurely, cultural, and developmental intervention, which was found to increase …
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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood
… that they provided fantasies of empowerment, escapism, and constructive of the experience of childhood under socialism.
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