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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Energy Consumption and Habit Formation: Evidence from High Frequency Thermostat Data

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
article
Authors
Ge, Qi
Ho, Benjamin
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Article
Abstract

Using minute-by-minute data from over 60,000 smart thermostats in households distributed across the United States, we analyze the persistence of energy consumption behaviors in response to external weather shocks. The analysis examines habitual behavior and provides insight into what affects...

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Individualization and Collectivity in Networks of Discursive Cyberspace: A case study on reddit

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Mark, Raymond
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

The diminishing of temporal and spatial boundaries in the contemporary age of connectivity has fully realized Beck, Giddens and Nash's "reflexive" modernity. This reflexive modernity refers to the diminishing control of traditional institutions on individual lives. In the shift towards...

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Take Up the Song: Commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Publication Date
2023
Authors
Hill, Thomas E.
Goddu, Krystyna Poray
Saini, Naima
Shaye, Kimberly
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
Document Type
Exhibition Catalog
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This booklet celebrates the centennial of the award of the first Pulitzer Prize to a female poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay (VC 1917). On April 30, 1923, Millay received a letter informing her that she had won the $1,000 Pulitzer...

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Webcam Culture: & the Commodification of Privacy

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Jessica Lin
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

My thesis takes a look at the history of webcam culture and investigates the changing attitudes towards surveillance and privacy since the creation of webcam technology and the rise of participatory culture. I postulate that since webcam culture became increasingly...

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