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Vassar Scholarship

Webcam Culture: & the Commodification of Privacy

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

My thesis takes a look at the history of webcam culture and investigates the changing attitudes towards surveillance and privacy since the creation of webcam technology and the rise of participatory culture. I postulate that since webcam culture became increasingly...

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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Wells, Emilie Louise, 1871-1916 | Memorial Minute:

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Date
[After 1916]
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Vassar College Memorial Minutes

Wells, Mary Evelyn, 1881-1965 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1965]
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The Library Café

Wendy Graham

Date
February 19, 2020
Abstract

"Wendy Graham, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Vassar College, talks about her latest monograph, Critics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity (Columbia University Press, 2017.) \nCritics, Coteries, and Pre-Raphaelite Celebrity sheds new light on Victorian discourses

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Wendy N. E. Ikemoto

Date
November 27, 2019
Abstract

"Wendy Ikemoto, Associate Curator of American Art at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, discusses her exhibition: Panoramas: The Big Picture, on view at the Society through December 8, 2019.\n\nPanoramas: The Big Picture explores the history and continued impact of panoramas from the

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Wendy N. E. Ikemoto

Date
April 11, 2018
Abstract

Wendy N. E. Ikemoto, Associate Curator of American Art at the New York Historical Society and former Vassar professor, talks about her new book Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking (Routledge, 2017). Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first

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The Library Café

Werner Pfeiffer

Date
October 3, 2012
Abstract

Artist Werner Pfeiffer talks about the exhibition of his work on view in the Thompson Library, Van Ingen Art Library, and Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College through December 14 entitled: "Reexamining Books: Book Objects and Artist Books by Werner Pfeiffer."

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Vassar Scholarship

What Do You Meme? An Exploration of Internet Communication Through Memes

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Tilley, Shannon
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

The topic of memes and the ethnographies they create are discussed. Memes that have been created and adopted by alt-right communities, specifically incels, illustrate their ideologies while simultaneously validating their views and recruiting insecure, vulnerable populations. Memes from times past...

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Vassar Scholarship

What will you choose?

Publication Date
2025-May-16
Authors
McByrne, Kieran
Department or Program
Art Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

What will you choose? is an exploration into the comfort and discomfort I experience relating to tradition and identity in competitive Irish dance.

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