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Vassar Scholarship

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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Art Is What We Say It Is: "Easy Art" and the Pragmatics of Interpretation

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Dylan Josef Kerr
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Since 2009, Brad Troemel and Lauren Christiansen have run the Jogging, a blog on the popular social media site Tumblr in which they and others post a variety of sloppily rendered and generally silly images to be viewed and shared...

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Covering Islam: National Trauma and The Politics of the Imagination

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

My thesis scrutinizes the U.S. media construction of the events of September 11, 2001 as "national trauma," and the way in which this framing of the attacks has allowed '9/11' to invoke a visceral imagination of the deterministic relationship between...

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The relationship of preschool children and the media: a thorough investigation into the televised culture

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Bachurska, Victoria M.
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

The understanding of television and book media is necessary during the years of early childhood development especially as the presence of these particular media continue to advance. Children are growing up in-almost thrown into- a world that is global, competitive...

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