Vassar College Digital Library

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.

Digital advertising regulation and issues of internet privacy

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2016-January-01
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The amalgamation of the real and digital worlds has forced us to critically consider our evolving relationship with technology. My thesis aims to examine practices of digital advertising and the effects they have on Internet users' privacy and anonymity. I...

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

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2014-January-01
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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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The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England

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2015-February
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A catalogue of the exhibition The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England February 12 – June 17, 2015 Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library Vassar College.

Cover design by Nikolai Firtich Layout and typesetting by George...

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