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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Elinor and Anne: Emotional Isolation, Family, and Society in Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion

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2023-December-12
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In her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, and her last, Persuasion, Jane Austen centers the perspectives of gentry women, Elinor Dashwood and Anne Elliot, who were socially successful because of their ability to regulate their own emotions and influence those...

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NET/STALGIA: Nostalgia-Tripping on the Internet Aesthetic

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2014-January-01
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As the Internet drifts away from being a novel technology, people have increasingly become fascinated by the sometimes-garish, comparatively rudimentary aesthetics of the early web. Using Walter Benjamin's reflections on the Parisian arcades as a framework, I propose that this...

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Suffering in silence: the politics of shaping cultural memory in the context of narratives around Korean "comfort women" in South Korea

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2016-January-01
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In <em>Tangled Memories</em>: <em>The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering, </em>Marita Sturken discusses the shaping of cultural memory in the U.S. in the context of the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. She writes that...

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