The thesis explores how the tactile aspect of "Subway Therapy," a project in which people could write messages on sticky notes after the 2016 Presidential Election and post them on the subway walls in New York City, fosters an alternative mode of being that is different from one perpetuated by the digital era. Tactility is an agent that strengthens the sense of community and reaffirms one's physical presence in the physical world.

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 with the medium of photography, participants play with metaphors through which sexting is primarily understood–economy, security, epidemic–to tell a story through image that encourages all generations to rethink how we learn about sex.

Joan Rivers. Elayne Boosler. Roseanne Barr. Janeane Garofalo. Amy Schumer. What do these commedians–whose careers span seven decades–have in common? Starting in the 1950s and ending in contemporary times, we see that there are transhistorical trends–including self-deprecation, navigating one's anger, and a contentious and often contradictory relationship to feminism as well as femininity–which link these and other women comedians together in lasting and complicated ways. However, at the same time, we find that these very comedians have often pushed back against the tropes and stereotypes that have attempted to define them through the decades in exciting and innovative ways.

It is through visual storytelling style, Francois Truffaut believed, that a director's expressive tendencies could be seen, imprinting a work with their signature style. In the world of television, collaboration is key and production's industrial processes tend to erase the sign of individual creators. But, in a modern world of narrowcasting and increased access to the filmmaking apparatus, the ideals of the French New Wave have become more and more accessible to creators. This short film and accompanying essay explore production models based on the ideals of the French New Wave. By drawing on Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis C.K., Andrew Sarris, comedy theorists, and budding young filmmakers Textbook reveals the results of making low-budget innovative cinema free of oversight and gives a glimpse into the experience of filmmaking in today's increasingly mediated world.