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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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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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Theorizing the Internal Movement of Lines: A Manifesto for Unfolding the Lines in an Open Ecology

Publication Date
2025-May-14
Authors
Wang, Yixuan
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Bringing together Tim Ingold’s anthropology of lines, the internal
movement of Chinese calligraphic lines described by Zhenzhong Qiu and the
philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, I argue that the internal movement
of lines, as a concept in its...

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Thurman Opening Comments

Publication Date
2024-February-15
Authors
Kahn, Jonathon S.
Department or Program
Vassar Inclusive History Initiative
Religion Department
Document Type
Event
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Opening comments by Jonathon Kahn for the "The Reverend Howard Thurman, Blackness, and Vassar College: Student Panel and Presentations" event on
Feb 15, 2024 5:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. in the Villard Room.

Black theologian Howard Thurman has been widely credited with...

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To Accept or Avoid: A Retrospective and Prospective Reflection on Death and Coping Method Variations in Males and Females

Publication Date
2025-May-10
Authors
Aulenbacher, Ava
Department or Program
Cognitive Science Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This thesis presents a narrative and cognitive investigation of grief, specifically, how individuals of different genders experience, anticipate, express, and adapt to the emotional, cognitive, and existential implications of death. Employing a phenomenological and gender-informed qualitative methodology, I draw upon...

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To Hear and See with Love -

Publication Date
2023-May-17
Authors
Whetstone, Haley
Department or Program
Art Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This project uses photographs and audio as a way to both hear about, and see the lives of Black women in a way that humanizes them without making them into a spectacle within the art world.

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Together We Know How to Achieve: An Epistemic Logic of Know-How

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
conference
Authors
Naumov, Pavel
Tao, Jia
Department or Program
Computer Science Department
Document Type
Conference
Abstract

The existence of a coalition strategy to achieve a goal does not necessarily mean that the coalition has enough information to know how to follow the strategy. Neither does it mean that the coalition knows that such a strategy exists...

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Too much, too soon: a toolkit for teenagers who learn more about sexuality through their phones than in the classroom

Publication Date
2017-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Eykholt, Ryan
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Too Much, Too Soon is a curriculum toolkit that simultaneously educates young people about the realities of sexting while providing tools to critique the structures that frame sexting as a problem in the first place. Through a speculative design exercise...

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