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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"visual methodology"”.
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The gooey, the bloody, and just plain gross: exploring art and visual culture with an abject visual methodology
… images of disgust in fine art and popular visual culture. My study is ground in a deep understanding of disgust and the psychoanalytic theory of the abject as developed by Julia Kristeva and modified by later scholars like Chanter and Butler. However, these scholars do not concern …
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Experience Sharing on Social Networking Sites: A Glimpse into the Process, Benefits, and Drawbacks of Curated Experiences
… Theory, Personal Branding Theory, and Critical Visual Methodology Theory, as well as constructs such as 'staged authenticity' and image framing were used to identify themes and categorize processes. Findings suggest that the process of posting involves all four sites of Critical Visual …
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Representations of the Black subject in Irma Stern's African periods : Swaziland, Zanzibar and Congo 1922-1955
… through the discourse of 'primitivism'. My methodology involves drawing from various archives, primary and secondary literature on Stern and Stern's own writings. My visual methodology includes a comparative analysis of Stern's early paintings in relation to her influences and formal and …
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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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The New Normal: A Bourdieusian Examination of Living into Young Adulthood being a Paediatric Heart Transplant Recipient
… a heart transplant during childhood. Using visual methodology, focused open-ended interviews were conducted with 12 young adults who had a heart transplant during childhood. Bourdieu’s work provided a theoretical framework to investigate transplant recipients’ identities and social …
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Vox populi: Visual rhetoric methodology for medieval Apocalyptic Art
… thought is present in almost every form of visual rhetoric we know: photography, art, paintings, sculptures, illuminations, and cinematography. Christian Art is permeated with images of the Apocalypse. Particularly the art of the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages, the Book of Revelation …
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Permeable boundaries: exploring the architecture of the psyche in cinematic spaces through collage
… through its narrative form and command of visual, audio and temporal language. The emotive and visceral power of film render it an accessible and immersive medium, and as such make it uniquely placed to communicate less tangible qualities of space and character.<br/><br/>This thesis …
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‘In between spaces’: experiences of asylum seekers in the ‘direct provision’ system in Ireland
… in this system. Working through a participatory visual methodology allowed for a processual approach to the research, in which the visual became a tool for dialogue, for co-creation, for the exploration of experience and for the representation of that experience beyond the research space. Both …
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Visualizing Girlhood: Visibility and the Power of the Black Girl Gaze to Understand Adolescent Girls’ Identity
… their identity development. Overwhelmingly, the visual and interview data in this study suggested two major ways girls are experienced in relation to their teachers. Their inner selves are rendered invisible (i.e. Girls believed their teachers did not know or see their inner selves) or fully …
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The ‘Woman-child’ in Fashion Photography, 1990-2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity, and Reception Studies
… are positioned as childlike. A multi-faceted visual methodology is employed, combining visual analysis of imagery with experimental reception studies. Reception studies were conducted in focus groups with female participants and provide insight into the way these women made sense of the …
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The activity of rhetoric in the process of a designer's thinking
… images. The role of technology, intuition, and visual thinking are identified as three key components of design thought, and the way these three constituent parts inter-relate is the subject matter of inquiry.<br/><br/>Research is conducted from a theoretical and practical perspective, and …
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Picture This: Black Girl Multilingual Magic
… education. This dissertation study employed visual participatory methods to center the narratives of Black girl multilinguals in two-way dual language elementary programs with the instructional languages of Spanish and English in Southern California. Using Black girlhood (Brown, 2009) and …
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Metaphors of Command and Control in the United Kingdom and the United States America : Developing a Communicative Framework to Enhance Interoperability for Emergency Management Organisations
… The research design embraces linguistic and visual metaphor to answer the Central Research Question “how do U.K. and U.S. emergency management practitioners metaphorically interpret Command and Control?”<br/><br/>The collated data were analysed using content analysis to identify general …
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Black girl gaze: A visual (re)membering of black girlhood as an act of resistance
… specifically, the engagement of Black girls and visual methods, thus an important and necessary contribution of this research. The following research questions guide this research project: 1. What negatively constructed images of Black girls as community members and middle school students have …
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A Comparison of Aural and Visual Instructional Methodologies Designed to Improve the Intonation Accuracy of Seventh Grade Violin and Viola Instrumentalists.
… of data was in regard to (1) instructional methodology: aural and aural/visual, (2) performance tasks: A, B, and C; (3) individual pitches (seven from each of the music tasks), and (4) differences between instrument groups: violin and viola. Sixty-eight seventh grade string students from …