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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"visual media"”.
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Predicting human behavior using visual media
… medicine. In this thesis, I focus on the use of visual media such as images and videos to predict human behavior. Can we predict what images people remember or forget? Can we predict the type of images people will like? Can we use a photograph of someone to determine their state of mind? These …
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Analysis of Scoring Music to Visual Media
… accentuate the mood and emotion of the visual element. The process involves interpreting the filmmaker's intentions, composing music to compliment this, and realizing the composition by various methods of audio recording and musical performance.</p><p> The process is a unique blend of …
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Merging static and dynamic visual media along an event timeline
… Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1998.
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Seeing systems: A rhetorical history of visual media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939-1969
… of Technology (MIT) was an epicenter of visual media research and experimentation during the middle of the twentieth century. In the 1930s and 40s, electrical engineer Harold Edgerton developed a high-speed photography system that would be taken up in machine research, art photography, …
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A study of architecture for art, design and visual media in the West Midlands from the 20th century onwards based on the perceptions of individuals
The study investigates how museum and gallery buildings can be designed to give functional longevity and appeal. It considers this in terms of their design and relation to their surroundings and use in the context of changing social, cultural, political and economic factors. Post World War II the …
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Religious imagery at the Khmer Pagoda of Canada : the significance of images for education
… case study of the Khmer Pagoda of Canada and its visual media, this thesis examines the significance and meaning of the Khmer Temple and its religious imagery for members of the Cambodian Buddhist community. This research study involved formal and informal interviews, participant observation as …
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Recast : an interactive platform for personal media curation and distribution
… of Recast, which is an interactive media system that enables users to dynamically aggregate, curate, reconstruct, and distribute visual stories of real-world events, based on various perspectives. Visual media have long been the means for consumptive information acquisition. However, …
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The effect of audio, a single picture, multiple pictures, or video on second-language listening comprehension
Although aural and visual media have long been used in the second-language classroom, relatively little information exists to show that media are really effective for preparing students to deal with communicative situations. This study investigated whether hearing the audio of natural dialogs …
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Visual interfaces to share and highlight everyday life
… and inspire the contribution and consumption of visual media that highlights the subtleties of everyday life. This thesis was completed via the researcher-as-designer approach where I explored and tackled the different design challenges in the intersection of cultural understanding and …
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Question of Bias: A Content Analysis of the Visual Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Campaign
… in the 2004 election as evidenced by their visual coverage. Using content analysis, all the visual depictions of candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry were analyzed for 10 visual attributes to determine whether one had received better pictorial treatment. This study asked if the …
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Becoming “Lesbian” in TV land: Television as an Interlocutor of Queer Consciousness & Community
… community as influenced by television, or other visual media formats. Utilizing intersectional queer perspectives, I draw on José E. Muñoz’s queer longing and queer utopia as the basis of my theoretical framework. Extrapolating from queer phenomenology as my methodological approach, I conducted …
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From Trial to Triumph: Representations of African Americans in Museum Exhibits
… Second, I examine the use of exhibits and other visual mediums located within museums, in the process of representation wherein these visual media symbolize social and cultural identities. This study provides a cross-cultural analysis of how the varying foci of museums shape cultural …
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"""For craft recoils in the end"": The oppositional stagecraft of Thomas Middleton"
… Through a manipulation of aural, kinetic, and visual media, Middleton generates vibrant contrasts, contrarieties, and contradictions; develops a complex theatre event which involves an equivocal interplay of interpenetrating layers of meanings; and ""compromises"" the presumptive moral …
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Power and pleasure : the politics of film analysis and feminist community media education
… for the analysis of representations of women in visual media, and the potential of media education for establishing a culture of critical viewing. Feminist film theory is thus critically considered, as are associated debates within feminism on the reproduction by media institutions of categories …
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No Longer the Big Bad Wolf: The Expedition to Secure Wolf Self-Portraits and Its Impact On the Bureau of Biological Survey
… the importance of camera traps in the history of visual media, it also allows for additional insight into the machinations of the Bureau of Biological Survey (the Survey) during the 1930s. Founded in 1885, the Survey had several duties, including the advancement of knowledge in the natural …
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