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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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Assata Shakur: Embracing Community

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Lino, Martha
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Assata Shakur is a 65-year-old revolutionary. During the 1960s, Assata Shakur was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. However, on May 2, 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), placed Assata Shakur on the...

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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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Speed as Signifier: McDonald's as a Contested Space

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Lucero, Zachary
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Those who control spaces are able to regulate what moves through them and the speed at which they do so; as such, space has a tendency of being reorganized in favor of those who move more quickly at greater expenditures...

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