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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"identity performance"”.
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Performing the (un)inherited language, identity, performance
… in Post-Apartheid South Africa is central to identity construction and discern in what ways this construction informs my approach to creating performance. I use this paper to offer a frame as to how a relationship to language is socially and historically constructed in post-apartheid South …
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Identity Performance Among Muslim International Women: A Narrative Inquiry
The purpose of this research was to study identity performance among undergraduate Muslim international women on college campuses in the U.S. Identity performance was defined as the way in which these women acted, engaged, interacted, behaved, and situated themselves in their various environments …
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Identity Performance and Space in the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene
… of people are rich sites for research on identity formation. This thesis explores the poetry slam as a space where poets and audiences co-construct and perform individual and group identities. From a social constructionist approach to identity formation and through the theories and methods …
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'Friends', 'fans', and foes: Identity performance through responses to Facebook brand marketing
… feed marketing messages as opportunities for the performance of identity, and how this is achieved linguistically through discursive exchange and evaluative language. This research question is approached through a triangulated discourse analytic approach grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics …
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(Re)embodying girlhood : collective autobiography and identity performance in Rude Mechanicals' Grrl action
… Grrl Action, an autobiographical writing and performance program for teenage girls, one of many advocacy and empowerment programs focused on female youth nationwide. Still today, Austin-area girls come together each summer to generate original performances based on their own life experiences. …
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Playing Pirates: The Construction of Shared Fantasy and Identity Performance in theRenaissance Festival Subculture
… setting offers a context for non-normative identity performance within a carnivalesque setting in which the construction of shared fantasy is the basis of social processes. It also asks how what social forces, such as popular media’s romanticized version of history, may influence …
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What do I do with my hair? Identity, performance and social representations of Black hair in women of colour in England and Germany
… social world as the site of meaning making and identity construction. The theoretical framework underpinning this study is informed by social representations theory as well as Mead’s work on the formation of the self and Honneth’s theory of the struggle for recognition. However, as a study …
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Malay women’s identity construction and engagement with The Sims Social in Facebook
… as a case study to explore the complexity of identity performance and management that emerges as these two different, but overlapping contexts collide. The research finds that instead of rejecting the many clashing social-cultural values portrayed in The Sims Social, Malay women attain …
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How to make Facebook your friend: queer self-presentation on a heteronormative social network site.
… a review of early critical cyberculture studies, identity performance and queer theoretical considerations. This study is based on hermeneutic analysis of public profile information and transformative changes of Facebook users as well as in-depth interviews of two queer Facebook users. Results …
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The Performance of Refugeehood on Social Media in an Era of Superdiversity: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Arab Refugee Identities and Literacies on YouTube
… platform, the aim is to gain insight into their identity performance (Jonsson & Muhonen, 2014) and how they reflect superdiverse conditions. The study builds on a growing body of research exploring superdiversity in digital contexts (e.g., Androutsopoulos & Juffermans, 2014; Stæhr, 2015; Varis, …
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The Impact of User-Generated Interfaces on the Participation of Users with a Disability in Virtual Environments: Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft Model
… interface addons to manage their experience and identity performance in the game. A rubric was also created to study a selection of addons for evidence of the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). The study found that World of Warcraft players with disabilities do not use addons more …
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Η αμφίδρομη σχέση μόδας και κίνητρου για άθληση: η έννοια της «Επιτέλεσης Fitness» στους νέους
… social influence, enclothed cognition, identity performance). Για την ανάλυση εφαρμόστηκαν περιγραφικά στατιστικά, έλεγχοι αξιοπιστίας (Cronbach’s α), συσχετίσεις Pearson και γραμμικές παλινδρομήσεις, ενώ διερευνήθηκαν και πιθανοί διαμεσολαβητικοί μηχανισμοί. Τα αποτελέσματα δείχνουν ότι …
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The Hollow Class: African-American Class-Passing and the Popular
… passing but stress racial intersections with identity performance. I rely on New Historicism and Critical Race Theory to substantiate my examination of the literature. I look at specific moments in black America in the latter 20th century as inspiring literary responses to class concerns. My …
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(Un)disciplined Performativity: Anonymity, Identity, and Governmentality on Yik Yak
… to post content without attachment to their identity. This project has employed the use of qualitative and ethnographic methods to develop a case-study to explore two layers of empirical analysis: (1) as an empirical extension of post-structuralist theory, this project demonstrates how social …
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Posttraumatic growth as a discursive resource for managing identity after breast cancer : implications for theory, and counselling psychology practice
… alternative understanding of PTG; as discursive identity performance in the context of breast cancer survivorship. First, a critical review of literature on PTG after cancer is presented, with attention to rigour and methodological diversity and also with regard to the fit between existing …
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Digital Agency and Professional Identity: Neurodivergent University Educators’ Experiences on Twitter
… in UK Higher Education negotiate professional identity and digital agency through Twitter. This engagement is traced from the onset of the first UK COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 to the platform’s acquisition by Elon Musk in October 2022. Drawing on a critical realist framework and grounded in …
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Performances of Marginalized Identities in Virtual Worlds
This dissertation explores performances of identities in virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. While virtual worlds are popularly imagined as spaces where any performances of identity are possible and welcomed, constraints of both design and culture create a dominant or …
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PRACTICAL DIGITAL LITERACY: YOUTHS¿ PRACTICAL MASTERY OF PLATFORM EXPERIENCES
… is structured primarily along axes of gendered identity performance, cultural engagement, and modes of participation, with parental capital exerting surprisingly limited influence. The TikTok fieldworker further demonstrates that algorithmic feeds and comment sections co-produce gendered …
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Policy contexts and student identity/ies: a post ’92 university case study
… in a knowledge economy? Drivers of student identity in a post-92 university environment: a case study. This work concerned itself with the becoming and being of studenthood against a policy environment that appears to position the student as both watchman and inmate within the panopticon of …
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Raising the curtain on mathematics identity: The drama of transition to secondary school
… they seem to have developed a mathematics identity of failure, helplessness or fear. This study aimed to better understand how this happens by focusing on learners’ identity construction at a particular time in their schooling: the transition to secondary school. Defining identity as a …
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