Media Studies Program
Literacy and Learning in Mediated Spaces
LOL MY THESIS: An Exploration of the Written and Oral Linguistic Effects of Text Messaging
This project explores a new register of language called 'textese,' which has developed as a result of text messaging via cell phones. I research how and why textese is being used, to understand how text messages are linguistically affecting the...
Looking: Storytelling and Flânerie in the Arcades of Grindr
It is through storytelling, Walter Benjamin believed, that wisdom and experience are shared, letting open narratives achieve an amplitude that information lacks. And Charles Baudelaire considered the window-shopping flâneur to be the observant ne plus ultra of urban modernity. By...
Love, Nostalgia, and Beats: An Exploration of Retro-Soul's Hip-Hop Context
Manifestopheles: an investigation into the Faustian nature of adaptation
Marine to Muslim: Islam, Terror, and United States Foreign Policy on Homeland
Media and Democracy: Problems of a Free Press in Times of War
Media and Democracy: Problems of a Free Press in Times of War
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A mostly-stock-footage video essay that explores the relationship between a person and their traces / the work imagines an "I" and a "you" as they think through the fictions of memory and interpersonal boundary, through the impulse to create and...
Movement building, activism, feminism and celebrity culture in the digital age: an analysis of politics and political identity on social media
My dear friend: 5 letters and one questionnaire; reframing art and art museums via digital images
My queer body in Horiz0n
My whole universe in crumbs; at the center, what?: a meditation on the diary form
Navigating masculinty through portrait photograpy
NET/STALGIA: Nostalgia-Tripping on the Internet Aesthetic
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...