cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Abracadabra: Key Agents of Mediation that Define, Create, and Maintain TV Fandom
Creators: name: Gardner, David
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: From a media industries, fan studies, and emerging socio-cultural public relations perspective, this project pulls back the Hollywood curtain to explore two questions: 1) How do TV public relations practitioners and key tastemaker/gatekeeper media define, create, build, and maintain fandom?; and 2) How do they make meaning of fandom and their agency/role in fan creation from their position of industrial producers, cultural intermediaries, members of the audience, and as fans themselves? This project brings five influential, working public relations and media professionals into a conversation about two case studies from the 2010-2011 television season ? broadcast network CBS? Hawaii Five-0 and basic cable network AMC?s The Walking Dead. Each of these shows speaks to fandom in particular ways and are representative of the industry?s current approaches in luring specific audiences to TV. This study shows that the relationship between entertainment publicists and media is dynamic, intertwined, complex, and historically hidden.
Product Placement Decisions On-Set
Creators: name: Pulliam, Maria Flavia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis is an ethnographic study of the product placement decisions made on-set during the production of a feature film. A concise historical review of the use of products in film and television is followed by an overview of the current research literature. The literature overview reveals a need for specific additional research. The research question which directed the present study intends to add to the existing literature: product placement is part of a creative decision-making process that happens throughout production on-set with filmmakers using products to help tell their story. The method used to approach the research question is an ethnographic observation of the decision-making process on-set, supplemented by interviews with professionals in props, art and set decorating departments. The findings present the results of the study summarizing the observations and interviews supporting the research question. The last section outlines the conclusions and areas that call for further research.
First Impressions, Second Appraisals: Going Beyond the ?Paratextual Contract? in The American Televisual Opening Title Sequence
Creators: name: Clabaugh, Erik
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Much of the existing academic discourse surrounding opening title sequences suggests that they function primarily by providing viewers with information concerning a program?s characters, settings, genre and themes. Such accounts seemingly fail to recognize more nuanced concurrent functions. Utilizing the concept of paratexts originally proposed by Gerard Genette in combination with a neoformalist approach to analysis, this project identifies patterns, narrative components, stylistic elements and various industrial and authorial characteristics within the field of American televisual opening title sequences in order to explore some of these underlying concomitant functions, and classify the segments that perform them accordingly.
Image Trends in Corporate Environmental Reporting: Bolstering Reputation through Transparency or Widening the ?Sustainability Gap??
Creators: name: Brooks, Sarah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: As companies discover the monetary benefits of a positive environmental image, a proliferation of green imaging confounds the public sphere. The consequence becomes the disarticulation of terms like environmental excellence, sustainable development, and minimum environmental harm. Because the oversaturation of greening efforts has elicited public distrust, stakeholders need timely and accurate information regarding environmental claims. As a major vehicle for communicating these efforts, corporate environmental reports (CERs) are laden with colorful and sublime images. This study examines the functionality of images found in CERs from 27 industry leaders, applying Sonja Foss?s tenets of visual rhetorical analysis to identify the nature and function of the images and offer an evaluation based on emergent themes. Because images are increasingly important to corporate transparency, the study concludes with several best practice recommendations to serve as ethical image design strategies and to reflect the ways companies address impactful operations.
Friend Request Accepted: A Case Study of Facebook's Expansionary Network Strategies in India
Creators: name: Thapliyal, Devna
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Facebook?s status as the world?s largest social networking platform is well documented. However, studies focusing on Facebook are largely limited to how individuals and businesses use the platform and not on how Facebook expands globally and affects markets and competition in foreign countries. Although international communication scholars have scrutinized the international expansion of major media corporations like Time Warner, Disney and News Corp., analysis on Facebook remains scarce. This thesis seeks to fill in the gap in scholarly research by conducting a meso-level (i.e. organizational level) analysis of Facebook?s expansion into developing countries through the theoretical lens of networks. The network perspective was chosen because it has previously facilitated the most comprehensive analysis of the globalizing strategies of media corporations. This paper simultaneously serves as a test of the applicability of theories of networked globalization and the Network Society to the global expansion of ICTs, and in particular, social-networking websites.
Deadly Viper Character Assassins: Cyber Discourse on Asian American Marginalization and Identity
Creators: name: Wang, Eileen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This study examines how Asian Americans articulate their marginalization and identity, as well as other issues related to race, through the use of blogs. Specifically, I look at discourse surrounding the Deadly Viper Character Assassins publication controversy on three different blogs. I draw upon critical discourse analysis (CDA) to compile patterns, themes, and anomalies from the online discussions. This paper highlights key findings, given the scarceness of Asian American voices in public culture, that prompt ongoing discussions about identity and the use of blogs as a platform to speak and conceptualize Asian American identity.
Supplementary document for Deep learning multi-shot 3D localization microscopy using hybrid optical-electronic computing - 5513985.pdf
Creators: name: Ikoma, Hayato
name: Kudo, Takamasa
name: Peng, Yifan
name: Broxton, Michael
name: Wetzstein, Gordon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: supplemental document
American Masculinity and Homosocial Behavior in the Bromance Era
Creators: name: Sargent, Diana
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: This study examines and reflects upon the current ?bromance? culture that has emerged in American society and aims to conceptualize how media texts relate to masculine hegemony.  Attention to current media portrayals, codes of conduct, rituals, homosocial interaction, and constructions of masculinity in American culture is essential for the evaluation of the current era of American masculinity.  Mediated portrayals present an ironic position on male closeness, dictate how men should behave towards women and other men, and create real life situations in which these mediated expectations are fostered and put into practice.  Textual analyses of the films Superbad and I Love You, Man and the television series How I Met Your Mother were conducted, as well as an ethnographic study of cult film audiences of The Room to better understand manifestations of homosocial environments in mediated texts and in real life settings.
The Reality Of Televised Jezebels and Sapphires: Blogs and the Negative Stereotypes of African American Women on Reality Television
Creators: name: Reid, Safiya
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Americans spend an average of 5.1 hours a day viewing television, with reality television as the most prevalent type of programming. Some of the top reality television shows feature African American women in negative and limiting roles. However, little research examines how the stereotypes presented on reality television about African American women are viewed by the audiences of these reality shows. This research seeks to understand how African American women on reality television are discussed by their audiences online, and whether African American women who contribute to blogs resist the negative stereotypes and portrayals.
The innovation fund
Creators: name: Duwe, Matthias
name: Ostwald, Robert
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: emissions trading
subject: low-carbon economy
subject: decarbonisation
subject: public funding
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: This report analyses a range of options for designing the EU Innovation Fund (IF), a financing instrument created under the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to support technological breakthrough for low-carbon innovations in the power sector and industry. The report combines a look at lessons learned from the IF’s predecessor mechanism “NER 300” with insights from the respective emission reduction technology options in three key industry sectors (steel, cement, pulp & paper) based on a literature review and interviews: on this basis, the paper concludes with recommendations for the IF’s design.
Additional file 1 of Relationships between work-family conflict and family structure in the lives of working mothers in Hungary – a pilot study
Creators: name: Sztányi-Szekér, Barbara
name: Hőgye-Nagy, Ágnes
name: Szemán-Nagy, Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Health Safety-Net Crisis: A Case Study of News Discourse
Creators: name: Mitchell, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: This study is the first to analyze news coverage of a hegemonic struggle over a crisis that threatened to close a Southern safety net hospital. Such closure could have left indigent, African American men and women without health care access. The study utilizes critical discourse analysis to focus on news portrayals of patients and the struggle over whether the hospital would continue to be governed by a majority-Black, public board of directors or a nonprofit, private board recommended by a majority-White civic group. Results indicate that newspaper coverage privileged the elite, White view, while stereotypically representing indigent, Black patients as problematic. Coverage legitimized privatizing the hospital?s board through a neoliberal discourse that also portrayed its majority-Black board as incompetent.
Practicing Work, Perfecting Play: League of Legends and the Sentimental Education of E-Sports
Creators: name: Hinnant, Neal
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: A growing force in the culture of digital games fandom, e-sports represents the profes-sionalization of digital games play. This thesis examines League of Legends, a prominent game in e-sports, to understand the relationship between e-sports and the ideology of neoliberal economics. Using Clifford Geertz?s descriptions of sentimental education as a model, the author argues that League of Legends and other e-sports texts create an environment where neoliberal economic values can be practiced and explored in a meaningful space. The game as text, the culture of e-sports fandom, and the e-sports broadcasting industry are all examined to reveal the ways that e-sports fosters a space to both practice neoliberal values and potentially question them through the conflicting values of Web culture. Understanding the ways e-sports texts and e-sports culture explore ideological values allows for the potential to create more recursive e-sports texts that question this ideology in the future.
The Bulgarian Horrors Through the Eyes of an American Journalist: J. A. MacGahan's Role in the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire 1876-1878
Creators: name: Sandmeier, Miglena
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: The thesis examines the role of an American journalist of Irish descent, Januarius MacGahan, who became known as the ?Liberator of Bulgaria.? Evidence presented in the thesis substantially restores MacGahan?s role in the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire. That accolade was deleted from Bulgarian history by Marxist revisionist historians during the Communist regimes in the 20th Century.
This paper affirms that it was MacGahan?s resolve and passionate outcry against injustice and cruelty he witnessed, that changed the course of European diplomacy and ultimately led to a war that liberated Bulgaria.
A directed acyclic graph of overall survival for patient with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Hsu, Frances
name: Weiskopf, Nicole
name: Chen, Emerson
name: Hall, Eric
name: Totten, Annette
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis
subject: cancer
subject: directed acyclic graph
subject: causal inference

description: Accurate model representation is critical for conveying assumptions and guiding data analysis, especially when using observational data. This qualitative study employed a knowledge-driven approach to develop a causal model represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG).
Ethics in Photojournalism: Authenticity and Sensitivity in Coverage of Tragic Events
Creators: name: Shields, Minla
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Photojournalism captures moments within an event or space in time that are used to tell a larger story. Photographs are powerful tools for communication because these moments not only represent facts; they also have an ability to speak to viewers on a relatable and emotional level. With this power comes ethical responsibility and natural tension points between photograph, and journalistic practices.
Journalism?s ethics codes group points of discussion specific to photographs into categories of manipulation, privacy, or graphic content. This thesis argues that these issues fall into broader overlapping themes of authenticity and sensitivity. Using visual analysis of four photographs from the Boston Marathon bombing and Newtown school shooting, it considers how journalists deal with the relationship between photography and journalistic theory using this ethical framework of authenticity and sensitivity. It concludes with a discussion of best practices for coverage of tragic events from the real-world perspective of the photojournalist.
Global Audience Participation in the Production and Consumption of Gangnam Style
Creators: name: Jung, Soo keung
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis examines the cultural consumption of the Korean music video Gangnam Style in the broader context of the increasing popularity of Korean popular content, often called the Korean Wave, and of complex conditions of transnational consumption. Specifically, it investigates why the music video Gangnam Style gained popularity not only in East Asia but also over the world, how it is circulated, and what conditions contribute to its success. It focuses on the role of the networked audiences and the interactions between the networked audiences and mainstream media through a chronological analysis on the distribution and reproduction process of Gangnam Style on YouTube. Through the case study of Gangman Style, this thesis attempts to rethink the established globalization theories and to suggest new perspective of cultural circulation in the globalized and digitalized media environment.
Supplementary document for Deep learning multi-shot 3D localization microscopy using hybrid optical-electronic computing - 5513985.pdf
Creators: name: Ikoma, Hayato
name: Kudo, Takamasa
name: Peng, Yifan
name: Broxton, Michael
name: Wetzstein, Gordon
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: supplemental document
Scenes from a radical theatre
Creators: name: Carlin, David
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360201
subject: Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)

description: BACKGROUND Scenes from a Radical Theatre draws explicitly upon the philosophical/political writing of Alain Badiou and relates in its formal concerns to current international work in the field of non-fiction creative writing practice including that of Geoff Dyer, David Shields and Rebecca Solnit. It builds upon a body of work discussing and analysing Australian theatre history by Julian Meyrick, Alison Croggan, Denise Varney and others. CONTRIBUTION This memoir/essay uses an experimental formal structure of theatrical 'scenes' to dramatise the contradictions evident in radical collectives operating in the cultural sphere. It also creates new knowledge in narrating the subjective history of a hitherto under-documented but significant chapter in Australian theatre history. Adelaide's The Red Shed Theatre Company has been acknowledged as one of the most important sites of innovative theatre practice of the 1980s in Australia but until now there have been few, if any, accounts of its vision and methods. SIGNIFICANCE The work was accepted for publication in Overland #209, 2012, one of Australia's oldest and most highly regarded journals, known internationally as a literary journal of the intellectual left. Its significance is further attested to in a critical review by well-regarded editor, writer and reviewer, Chrysoula Aiello in Arts Hub (1 February 2013): "Carlin cleverly uses an act scene structure to frame his account of the company's visionary beginnings, its egalitarian collective and times of financial uncertainty: the various ebbs and flows within a 'working place' creating art that matters." Aiello concludes her review of this edition of Overland with the comment, "The thoughtfully curated collection...continues the journal's tradition of providing...an entrée to a space where culture matters". Carlin's creative use of structure in this work bespeaks of the theatre itself as he documents a 'missing link' in the fabric of Australian theatre history.
Untouchable Hunger: Framing Of Childhood Poverty In India,  May 2012-April 2014
Creators: name: Welch, Amber
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: The effects of childhood poverty and hunger in India are systemic. Almost half of the county?s children are classified as malnourished?and 47 percent of those under the age of three are underweight (UNICEF, 2014). This thesis analyzes how Indian?s English-language press has portrayed this widespread health issue during the past two years. This thesis also examines how the framing in the English-language press relates to the frames in the Hindi-language press. In light of framing theory, the study has found that the press used three principal media frames to portray child hunger. One frame focused on socioeconomic disparities, a second on geographic differences, and the third on government interventions. These frames, however, did not address more complex realities identified by developmental studies literature as contributing to the seemingly untouchable crisis of childhood poverty and hunger.
The Clinton Administration's Use of Hermeneutic Opportunities in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide During the Bosnia and Rwanda Genocides
Creators: name: Overmier, Kimberly
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis explores the hermeneutic opportunities in the United Nations? human rights documents which are used by states, like the United States, to rhetorically circumvent the responsibilities the documents place on U.N. member states. The way these opportunities are strategically used is examined through case studies of the Clinton administration attempts to evade involvement in the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides. News conferences, press briefings and speeches are used to do a rhetorical analysis of Clinton?s strategy in order to determine how that strategy was shaped by the constraints and opportunities of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Step Into a Blue Funk: Transversal Color and Derek Jarman's Blue
Creators: name: Fowler, Daren
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Derek Jarman?s Blue has a complicated reception and exhibition history. Stuck between his past representational queer cinema and the inability to represent the suffering and death from AIDS, Jarman crafted a film of radical stylistics. It is in Blue?s striking color that a transversality of form, sensation, and visuality occurs, and in so doing, produces a space for synesthetic affectivity and collective desire. This thesis will use those radical formal elements and the history of Jarman and Blue to position color away from the phobic tradition of color theory and towards a flowing site of political rupture.
The Nonhuman Lives of Videogames
Creators: name: Kunzelman, Cameron
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Videogames are not subjects to be operated on, but rather bodies that humans live both with and inside of. In order to reconcile human existence with this nonhuman life, this thesis looks to evaluate the exact relationships developed between humans and assemblages in order to understand how humans are disciplined to return to games time and time again. The recognition of the nonhuman life of videogames necessitates a rethinking of the word ?life,? as well as a reformulation of ethics around the new sets of obligations humans have toward videogames if we begin to recognize them as alive.
Comparative Modalities of Network Neutrality
Creators: name: Wrather, Kyle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This project examines the ongoing debate over internet content discrimination, more commonly referred to as network neutrality. It offers a new approach to examining this issue by combining a critical, political economy approach with Lawrence Lessig?s four modalities of regulation: policy, architecture, markets, and norms. It presents a critical, comparative case study analysis of how architecture, markets and norms have shaped United States policy along with comparative examples from select international case studies facing similar regulatory issues. Its findings suggest that while each of the four modalities plays a significant role in the regulation and persistence of network neutrality, there is a need for more clear, robust policy measures to address content discrimination online. Based on these analyses, the author offers policy recommendations for future network neutrality regulation.
Making it in America: How Charles Dickens and His Cunning Manager George Dolby Made Millions from a Performance Tour of The United States, 1867-1868
Creators: name: Martin, Jillian
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Charles Dickens embarked on a profitable journey to the United States in 1867, when he was the most famous writer in the world. He gave seventy-six public readings, in eighteen cities. Dickens and his manager, George Dolby, devised the tour to cash in on his popularity, and Dickens earned the equivalent of more than three million dollars.  They created a persona of Dickens beyond the literary luminary he already was, with the help of the impresario, P.T. Barnum.  Dickens became the first British celebrity to profit from paid readings in the United States.  This research thesis asks how Dickens earned a fortune from his performance tour.
The Chromophilic Chromophobe: Transference of Racial Otherness in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums
Creators: name: Hill, Reginald
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Reggie Hill
The Chromophilic Chromophobe: Transference of Racial Otherness in The Royal Tenebaums
In this essay, I will analyze the role that color plays in the construction of cinematic otherness through close textual analysis of Wes Anderson?s The Royal Tenenbaums. Drawing from studies of phenomenology of whiteness and space, and of the effects of color in cinema, I will examine the relationship between characters, their surroundings, and the colors around them in order to highlight a paradox between the ways in which whiteness becomes normalized in the characters, and how what I?ll refer to as Anderson?s ?chromophilic? approach to filmmaking actually negotiates and reinforces racial power dynamics, even though race doesn?t appear (on the surface or narrative level) to be discussed or treated in a meaningful way. By exposing how colors ? not just black and white, but also the bright pinks, reds, purples, and blues Anderson?s films are known for ? can create a subtle discourse of racial, gender, and sexual politics in film, I hope to show how systemic modes of racism, sexism, and heterosexism depend on invisibility. I will show that even when these social structures are not evident and obvious, they are always being negotiated through other mechanisms such as color design and film style.
Film Studies
Aesthetics
Race
Whiteness
Otherness
Chromphobia
Chromophilia
Wes Anderson
Phenomenology
Legislation as a Site of Contested Meaning in United States Congressional Debates
Creators: name: Rountree, John
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Rhetoric and public policy scholars have shown interest in uncertainty and polysemy in Congress, but they have traditionally treated legislation as a given. Members of Congress disagree about what policy should be, but they also disagree about what any given bill proposes to do. From a rhetorical perspective, I investigate the creation of uncertainty about legislation through the 2013 Senate debate on immigration. I argue that legislation is inherently ambiguous because legislative debate is consistently pushed behind the language of statutes. Rather than consider statutes unto themselves, members of Congress understand them in terms of the potential acts they sanction. Legislation thus becomes a framework for action, and legislators work to construct the probable acts that will result from its passage. By conceptualizing legislation as a framework for action, I shed new light on an unexplored source of disagreement in policy debate.
?Beloved Be the Ones Who Sit Down?: Aesthetics and Political Affect in Roy Andersson?s ?Living? Trilogy
Creators: name: Tucan, Ella
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Roy Andersson?s unique surrealist style and the affect it gives rise to, situated somewhere between deep existential dread and the most absurdist humor, are intimately connected to his staging of action in stacked layers of meaning in deep focus, immobile long takes. A formal reading of his films then gives us a greater understanding of the connection between affect and film style.But the tableau which all but evacuates time in Andersson is not only a stylistic choice: this challenge to traditional structures and temporalities is the formal manifestation of his anachronistic conception of history. I argue that cinematic time is here closely tied to historical time: a view of history as layered, instantaneous and made up of incongruous juxtapositions as commentary on a failure of historicism as central to the development of a national Swedish identity marked by passivity, anti-intellectualism, and a lack of historical conscience.
Interactive Social Selling and Relationship Management on WeChat
Creators: name: Sun, Ying
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The thesis examined the phenomenon of micro-entrepreneurship, social selling and relationship management on WeChat. I used autoethnography as my research methodology, and the findings contribute to academic area on social selling, micro-entrepreneurship, social marketing, relationship management, and strategic communication. This paper also explored how WeChat users conduct their management strategies and relationship marketing in the common Chinese culture background. Findings revealed that WeChat is an ideal social selling and marketing approach for Chinese individual sellers to accomplish their business goal.
Content Is President: The Influence of Netflix on Taste, Politics and The Future of Television
Creators: name: Esack, Alanna
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: The evolving television industry relies heavily on the corresponding shift in the audiences that it addresses. New practice for consumption and production, particularly the ?disruptive? force of streaming services like Netflix, have been evidenced not only in the methods of the companies themselves but also in the content they have begun to offer. A milestone in the television industry, Netflix?s first original series House of Cards provides an innovative and meaningful installment to the genre of political melodrama, which has its own cultural significance and heritage of mapping audience relations to the media. Analyzing the text, this paper reveals how industrial strategies relate to taste cultures and produce cynical political television drama.
The Chinese Image in Sino-Hollywood Co-Produced Blockbusters During the Era of Globalization
Creators: name: Song, Zhewen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: This thesis explores the global-local interplay among three key players, which are Hollywood, the Chinese government, and Chinese film industry, by analyzing representations of China and Chinese culture in three kinds of modes of film cooperation between Hollywood and China in the era of globalization. Drawing on both the analysis of three factors respectively and the elaboration of tripartite push-and-pull, a spectrum of film collaboration has been built to find out how the leveraging powers work, indicating that the images of China in selected films manifest a shared cultural identity that is hybridized and market-friendly. By further discussing China?s position in the global competition, it reveals China?s ambition to brand itself as a global media power instead of a media capital.
AI-Driven Programming Education for Black, Latinx, and Afro-Caribbean Communities
Creators: name: Green, Karon Jahmai
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: MTOP
subject: UMSI Master's Thesis
subject: AI-assisted learning
subject: educational equity
subject: programming education
subject: social science
subject: information science

description: My thesis explores the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tools on programming education for African American, Latinx, and Afro-Caribbean students. I use an explanatory sequential design, collecting quantitative data through surveys and, subsequently, gathering qualitative insights from in-depth interviews. The findings indicate that AI tools enhance learning engagement, motivation, and retention by providing immediate feedback and personalized learning experiences. However, the study also highlights concerns about a possible over-reliance on AI, suggesting a need for careful and balanced integration. Additionally, the research considers how AI might improve access to programming education, addressing unique challenges each demographic group faces and fostering more inclusive learning environments. Insights from this study may contribute to developing innovative educational interventions to improve outcomes for marginalized communities in higher education and the tech industry.
The Curvy Girl Handbook vs. the Industry: A Unique Body Image in a One-Track Business
Creators: name: Wise, Jessica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Two years ago, I expanded my growing blog, The Curvy Girl Handbook, into a detailed, hard copy book. As I complete my education, I have yet to present my book for a publisher or consumer. It has been workshopped, revisited, and industry researched. This thesis shows the need for publishers to open their doors to more black female authors.
My study explores the impact of whitewashing in the publishing industry for fitness-related works for women. Following a literature review of the historic portrayals of the curvy figure and the black female body, I employ a quick overview of the publishing industry as well as a textual analysis of the existing works in today?s fitness media through the intersectional feminist lens. The fitness industry is dominated by slender, fit white women, without much attention to other body types, races, and occasionally socioeconomic statuses. This project moves with the intent to expound on racial implications that may create obstacles for publishing my kind of work, as well as the content that is combating them.
Please Allow Fans - Curated by Jessica O'Brien, Irene Finkelde and Jonas Ropponen
Creators: name: Mitchell, Scott
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330309
subject: Industrial and product design
classificationCode: 360603
subject: Performance art
classificationCode: 369999
subject: Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified

description: Research Background: Please allow fans was a sculptural installation and performance work presented within the curated exhibition 'These are your instructions'. The work responds to a recent solo exhibition by Melbourne based artist Bianca Hester at ACCA (2010). Please allow fans remakes portions of Hester's exhibition on a modest scale within a Melbourne ARI. In doing so it re-draws relations between the participants in Hester's work and the structures that house this work. Research Contribution: Please allow fans questions the role of audience participation within contemporary relational art practice and highlights the high degree of interconnectedness present within the Melbourne art scene. Through exploring these connections the role of community in developing audiences and facilitating arts production is made evident. Please allow fans demonstrates that interpersonal connections developed through pedagogical structures and career paths play a major role in shaping Melbourne's contemporary art practice. Research Significance: Please allow fans was selected for the 'These are your instructions' exhibition along with works by four other prominent Melbourne based artists (Lou Hubbard, Dylan Martorell, Torie Nimmervoll and Charlie Sofo).
Stronger: An Examination of the Effects of the Strong Black Woman Narrative through the Lifespan of African American Women
Creators: name: Bailey, Verinique
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: The Strong Black Woman narrative and characteristic fosters both positive and negative representations of African American women. This study explores the lived experiences of African American women and their encounters with stereotypes, particularly the Strong Black Woman narrative and characteristic, through their lifespan. By examining three dominant age groups (young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults) this study analyzed the level of endorsement to the Strong Black Woman narrative in connection to self-care and help seeking behaviors. The article and supplemental documentary contribute to existing research and support the idea that African American women become stronger when they practice self-care and help-seeking behaviors.
REACHING THE PRIMARY BENEFIT FROM SYMPTOMS OF TENSION HEADACHES
Creators: name: O.Y. Kirilova
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Alexithymia is a complex psychological phenomenon. Despite the long history of its study by representatives of various scientific disciplines, there is still no single scientific concept that can explain the causes and mechanisms of alexithymia development. The widespread prevalence of this psychological disorder not only among patients but also among healthy people, its negative impact on the development of personality and human health, makes this issue relevant today. The article summarizes information on the main theories and hypotheses related to the phenomenon of alexithymia.

The authors came to the conclusion that despite the successes achieved in recent years in the study of the etiology and pathogenesis of cancer, in the development and use of new drugs and treatment methods, their prevalence remains high, which determines the relevance of studying the factors influencing the course and prognosis of cancer.

An important area of research is the study of personality traits of cancer patients, psychological prerequisites and consequences of the disease, as well as disease-related changes in interpersonal relationships and in the emotional status of patients. Such studies have contributed to the recognition of the importance of patients' subjective assessment of their psychological, social and physical well-being and its inclusion in programs for evaluating the effectiveness of treatment methods.
Livro dos egressos do Centro Universitário da Grande Fortaleza (UNIGRANDE): II Encontro de Egressos
Creators: name: Gama, Tatiane de Jesus
name: Viana, Henrelly Raony da Silva
name: Silva de Sousa, Marcella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Perfil profissional
Mercado de trabalho
Alunos egressos
Jornada de Trabalho

description: Este livro tem como propósito principal reconhecer e celebrar a trajetória dos nossos egressos, destacando as competências, habilidades e valores que foram cultivados ao longo de sua formação. Além disso, buscamos fortalecer os laços entre a universidade, nossos ex-alunos e o mercado profissional, criando pontes que favoreçam o networking, a troca de experiências e o crescimento mútuo.

O UNIGRANDE reafirma, por meio desta obra, o seu compromisso com a educação de qualidade, a inovação e a formação de profissionais éticos e capacitados. Que este livro inspire novas gerações de estudantes e sirva como um legado do potencial transformador da educação.

Aos egressos, nosso reconhecimento e admiração. À comunidade acadêmica e profissional, nossa gratidão por fazerem parte desta história. Juntos, seguimos construindo um futuro de excelência e impacto positivo.
Attitudes Towards Depression And Suicide: An Analysis Of News Coverage and Online Comments on Nigerian News Sites
Creators: name: Lawal, Oluwamayomikun
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: This study investigated the issue of suicide in Nigeria, based on an analysis of online news articles about suicide as well as posts in response to those news articles. The study examined how the articles framed suicide, including stereotypes about suicide, and how often comments reflected common beliefs/attitudes towards suicide. Twenty-four articles and 168 comments were analyzed. Results revealed stereotypes in language and images in the articles, which often deviated from the World Health Organization responsible suicide-reporting guidelines. The articles cited economic hardship and mental illness most often as causes of suicide, but none of the articles provided solutions to the problem of suicide or information on where to seek help. Comments cited politics and economic hardship most often as causes of suicide, and rarely mentioned mental illness. Mental health professionals and journalists should work together to improve news coverage of suicide and promote the use of suicide prevention resources.
Characterizing people with frequent emergency department visits and substance use: a retrospective cohort study of linked administrative data in Ontario, Alberta, and B.C., Canada
Creators: name: Moe, Jessica
name: Wang, Yueqiao
name: Schull, Michael J.
name: Dong, Kathryn
name: McGregor, Margaret (Physician)
name: Hohl, Corinne M.
name: Holroyd, Brian R.
name: McGrail, Kimberlyn M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2022

description: Background Substance use is common among people who visit emergency departments (EDs) frequently. We aimed to characterize subgroups within this cohort to better understand care needs/gaps, and generalizability of characteristics in three Canadian provinces. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study (April 1st, 2013 to March 31st, 2016) of ED patients in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia (B.C.) We included patients ≥ 18 years with substance use-related healthcare contact during the study period and frequent ED visits, defined as those in the top 10% of ED utilization when all patients were ordered by annual ED visit number. We used linked administrative databases including ED visits and hospitalizations (all provinces); mental heath-related hospitalizations (Ontario and Alberta); and prescriptions, physician services, and mortality (B.C.). We compared to cohorts of people with (1) frequent ED visits and no substance use, and (2) non-frequent ED visits and substance use. We employed cluster analysis to identify subgroups with distinct visit patterns and clinical characteristics during index year, April 1st, 2014 to March 31st, 2015. Results In 2014/15, we identified 19,604, 7,706, and 9,404 people with frequent ED visits and substance use in Ontario, Alberta, and B.C (median 37–43 years; 60.9–63.0% male), whose ED visits and hospitalizations were higher than comparison groups. In all provinces, cluster analyses identified subgroups with “extreme” and “moderate” frequent visits (median 13–19 versus 4–6 visits/year). “Extreme” versus “moderate” subgroups had more hospitalizations, mental health-related ED visits, general practitioner visits but less continuity with one provider, more commonly left against medical advice, and had higher 365-day mortality in B.C. (9.3% versus 6.6%; versus 10.4% among people with frequent ED visits and no substance use, and 4.3% among people with non-frequent ED visits and substance use). The most common ED diagnosis was acute alcohol intoxication in all subgroups. Conclusions Subgroups of people with “extreme” (13–19 visits/year) and “moderate” (4–6 visits/year) frequent ED visits and substance use had similar utilization patterns and characteristics in Ontario, Alberta, and B.C., and the “extreme” subgroup had high mortality. Our findings suggest a need for improved evidence-based substance use disorder management, and strengthened continuity with primary and mental healthcare.
Jammu and Kashmir during the Communication Blackout: A Textual Analysis of Indian News Coverage
Creators: name: Sirohi, Akansha
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: This study examines the news coverage of Jammu and Kashmir conflict during the communication blackout of 2019. Using comparative analysis, it explores right-leaning, left-leaning and neutral newspapers to examine how political leanings affected the news coverage and asks whether the coverage challenges the actions by the central government amid limitations of press freedom in Jammu and Kashmir. The findings indicate the ideological leanings of the newspapers affected the news coverage during the communication blackout and the news overwhelmingly supported the central government?s nationalist ideologies and relied on government officials for information. However, a few stories, primarily in the left-leaning Hindu newspaper, represented the voices of the residents of Jammu and Kashmir and held the central government accountable. This study concludes that though the communication blackout severely restricted press freedom, it didn?t extinguish it entirely as journalists were able to represent diversity and voices of dissent.
Escenarios de pandemia: Una aproximación sobre las motivaciones de las/os aspirantes a técnicos en enfermería en la Provincia de Buenos Aires.
Creators: name: Alonso, Santiago Ezequiel
name: Iguerabide, Sofia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Motivation
subject: Health Workforce
subject: Students, Nursing

description: Escenarios de pandemia: una aproximación sobre las motivaciones de las/os aspirantes a técnicos en enfermería en la Provincia de Buenos Aires [Internet]. XV Jornadas Nacionales de Debate Interdisciplinario en Salud y Población, Instituto Gino Germani, Facultad de Sociales UBA, Buenos Aires; 2022 Ago 3-5
Mammies, Sapphires, and Jezebels Don?t Marry: Televised Media, Black Stereotypes, and Low Marriage Rates
Creators: name: LaBon, Aysha
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: Black women are one of the most progressive minority groups in the U.S. in terms of business and economics. While they may excel in the area of career, Black women hold the lowest rates of marriage in the country. The goal of this study was to uncover what role, if any, do media stereotypes of Black women play in the marriage gap. Findings suggest that Black men and Black women are, perhaps dismissing one another in terms of romantic relationships because of the images they see on television. 11 self-identified single, heterosexual, Black women were interviewed for the study and my focus was to learn if they perceived that media representations have impacted their belief in their viability to marry. Employing constant-comparative open coding process to analyze the responses of the participants for emerging trends, this analysis will help further understand Black women?s perceptions of the media?s portrayal of them and if they believe these representations impact their marriage rates.
The Influence of Relatedness on Emotional Brand Attachment with Fitness-Oriented Non-Profits: A Self-Determination Theory Approach
Creators: name: Castiglione, Alexander
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2021

description: This study examines the influence of relatedness to emotional brand attachment, specifically in the context of Self-Determination Theory. It aims to fill the extant literature regarding a mini theory of Self-Determination Theory (SDT), Relationship Motivation Theory (RMT), which has not been examined in the communication and marketing literature. The study identifies which dimension(s) of relatedness ? defined as Acceptance/Support, Connection, Common Interests, and Congruity ? are predictors of Emotional Brand Attachment (EBA), specifically in the context of fitness-related non-profit organizations. By use of a survey to fitness-related non-profit supporters, this formative research endeavors to investigate a yet untested facet of emotional brand attachment in a communication and branding context. The scope of this research is not limited to merely predictors of Emotional Brand Attachment under the SDT framework, but also ventures to inform the communication literature so non-profit executives and marketers can more strategically and effectively craft messaging to foster EBA.
?Better Than We Found It?: A Persuasive Narrative & Its Impact
Creators: name: Holzworth, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description: This study examined Maren Morris?s music video for the country song ?Better Than We Found It? and her audiences? response in 672 comments left on her Instagram post of the music video. The study focused on narrative persuasion throughout the video in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, immigration reform/the DREAM Act, and the importance of being good stewards. A thematic analysis was conducted on the music video followed by qualitative and quantitative analysis of the Instagram comments. Results showed that overall commenters expressed support for Maren Morris as an artist and for her music video?s message. Results also indicated signs of a parasocial relationship between Maren Morris and her fans and support for her arguments about the Black Lives Matter movement and good stewardship. Future research should be done on how other musicians are able to use their music and social media platforms to promote social issues.