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.

Speed as Signifier: McDonald's as a Contested Space

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2015-January-01
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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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The Voice: Humanity's Unique Medium

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2024-April-19
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This thesis is an exploration and analysis of the human voice in the context of our current technological landscape. Through technologies such as music-based vocal pitch correction (AutoTune, Melodyne), and vocal synthesis (VOCALOID, SynthesizerV, Emvoice) the voice is seen as...

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