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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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Digital Art and the Museum

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

Digital art faces challenges that non-digital art does not. Technology is mercurial, and digital art is always in danger of its platform becoming obsolete. It is, at its most basic form, information which can be transferred and viewed across different...

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Growth econometrics

Publication Date
2004-October-22
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Durlauf, Steven N.
Johnson, Paul A.
Temple, Jonathan R. W.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods, they are united in the common goals of first, identifying interesting contemporaneous...

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​Plenty​: a speculative fiction

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Paul Younger
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This project, a hypertext science fiction story entitled "Plenty," aims to explore our relationships to labor, leisure, and technology. Hypertext, a form of interactive fiction, resembles a choose your own adventure story, but incorporates digital elements which wouldn't be possible...

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Social capability and economic development

Publication Date
1996-November-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Johnson, Paul A.
Temple, Jonathan R. W.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

The conventional wisdom is that postwar economic growth has been unpredictable. In the 1960s few observers accurately forecast which countries would grow quickly. In this paper we show that indexes of social development constructed in the early 1960s have considerable...

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ThemTube: commercializing the digital public sphere

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Maher, Jamie Bellomy
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

ThemTube is a 3-part video essay, running about an hour in total. I aimed to characterize the contradictory, ambiguous status of YouTube, a site that claims to level the playing field for video creators while promoting certain users over the...

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