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Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

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Cassell, Christopher J.

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Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...

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Masters Thesis

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. Designing policy and grounding expectations of technology begins by separating the facts about the "power
Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:

Takahashi, Tokiko

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Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...

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Masters Thesis

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that had been passed down from ancestors, loss of social interactions leading to the ongoing viability
Japanese animation in America and its fans

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Davis, Jesse Christian

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This research covers Japanese animation and its popularity in the United States. It focuses on hardcore fans for whom this animation has become part of their lives. Using interviews of self-identified anime fans, this research explores how anime fandom has become a part of American life despite originating in a...

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Masters Thesis

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aspect of Japanese fandom are doujinshi, fan-created comics using characters from existing manga or