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Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

Creator:

Papaleo, November R.

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MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...

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Masters Thesis

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MySpace. Foundational research by John Berger and Laura Mulvey will locate visual culture theory as
Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Creator:

Barbour, Nancy Staton

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This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...

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Masters Thesis
Morrison’s Magical Reality: Disrupting the Politics of Memory

Creator:

Littke, Amanda L.

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Novelist Toni Morrison is well-known for using the concept she calls rememory, or the process of actively revisiting and reconstructing a cultural past. Many critics agree that Morrison uses rememory in a strategic way, so that it provides sturdy framework for a larger discussion of issues of race, class, and...

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Masters Thesis

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