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Applied ethics in the technological world: An examination of secondary traumatic stress and trauma exposure in social media.
No full textThis study integrates the humanities with psychology by examining the impact technology has on humans. Ethics, literary works that relate to the impact of technology on humans, and how social media and television today may impact the layperson in such a way that they may exhibit symptoms of the condition of secondary traumatic stress will be examined. Through the use of the humanities, this study connects the impact technology has on changing societies, the ethics associated with the way humans react to each other and how television and social media\u27s delivery of traumatic stories may leave some humans with secondary traumatic stress. First, a discussion will be presented on what is known about ethics and technology through a study of the humanities, specifically by looking at traditional literary works and philosophies. Second, an examination of the way technology has changed people will be revealed, including the technological changes in the tools we use to communicate with each other. Then a discussion will occur on how the platforms of television and Internet and social media may be a means to deliver a traumatic story, which may perhaps trigger some laypersons to acquire psychiatric symptoms of an anxiety disorder. Finally, a discussion of the administered and analyzed survey will be implemented to offer feedback on whether or not a scientific study is warranted to further examine secondary traumatic stress in the layperson. This study demonstrates how the communication technologies of television and Internet, with social media, impacted the human condition in that the very presence of television and social media today may indeed affect the human in such a way that secondary traumatic stress in the layperson may surface. In the survey, data were present that some laypersons exhibited symptoms of experiencing traumatic stress after exposure to real life traumas through television and social media. Further scientific research is necessary to determine if a correlation exists between the layperson developing secondary traumatic stress and the amount of exposure to others\u27 real-life traumatic events through television and social media
The golden age of Irish music: The cultural impact of 78 RPM recordings in Ireland and Irish America 1900-1960.
No full textThis dissertation examines the impact that early 78 rpm recordings had on the cultural and ethnic identities of Irish people in both Ireland and Irish America during the first half of the twentieth century. It raises questions about what is considered Irish in the context of both the traditional and popular music recorded at the time. The author reviews the history of Irish music before and after mechanical sound reproduction and outlines the technological history concerning the development of phonographs and wax cylinders and gramophones/victrolas and the flat 78 rpm disc. Using an media ecological approach, the author employs Marshall McLuhan\u27s Laws of Media to examine the cultural impact of early recorded media by examining what becomes enhanced, obsolesced, retrieved from the past, and reversed or flipped into when pushed to its limit
Individual forms of subtle resistance to Nazi hegemony: Portrayals in modern books and film available to American consumers.
No full textThis study investigates portrayals of ethnic German resistance to Nazism in literature and films as read and seen by Americans. At the heart of this study is the question: what do Americans know about German resistance efforts to Nazi hegemony? To investigate this, an interdisciplinary lens was used to chronicle how popular books and films available to American consumers frame German resistance. This study categorizes the types of resistance portrayed and illuminates the characters motivations behind each action providing a typology of resistance. This typology provides more context for understanding the circumstances in which individuals under a totalitarian regime are constrained when making choices about resistance. The study follows the Reader-response theory which recognizes the reader as an active agent who imparts real existence to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation. In this vein, three types of source material are important to learn what people know of the subtle nonconformist, dissenting strands of opinion and unorganized individual resistance efforts of Germans: historical fiction, memoirs and films
Newport, R.I. The Cliff Walk from The Breakers
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Meaningful Meaninglessness: Albert Camus\u27 Presentation of Absurdism as a Foundation for Goodness
Get PDFIn 1957, Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature. By that time he had written such magnificently important works such as Caligula (1938), The Stranger (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Rebel (1951), and The Fall (1956). Camus was a proponent of Absurdism, a philosophy that realizes the workings of the world are inherently meaningless and indifferent to the human struggle to create meaning. Absurdism, however, is not a nihilistic philosophy. In The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, and Caligula, Camus offers a foundation of optimism and morality
Leading Ladies?: Feminism and the Hollywood New Wave
Get PDFIn the late 1960s, a new film movement emerged in Hollywood cinema known as the Hollywood New Wave. The women’s movement began roughly the same time as the Hollywood New Wave, but feminism was rarely a topic discussed in Hollywood cinema. The Hollywood New Wave is often considered a “boy’s club,” in the sense that most of the filmmakers, actors and other crewmembers were male and writing stories about male experiences. Women did have a part in these films in a limited way, yet there are some examples of strong female characters in select films
Screening Culture: Is Western Media to Blame for “Tainting” Traditional Third World Values?
Get PDFThis thesis questions the idea that, through globalization, American media infiltrates Third World countries and subsequently changes or taints traditional culture
Learning Enhancement or Headache: Faculty and E-textbooks
Get PDFThe availability of e-textbooks is increasing along with the variety of electronic readers. According to the “2010 Horizon Report,” adoption of this technology will be widespread in academia in two to three years as it will “… reduce costs, save students from carrying pounds of textbooks and contribute to the environmental efforts…” (Johnson, Levine, Smith, & Stone, 2010, p.6). Will e-textbooks become favored by faculty in higher education? This paper will examine the benefits and limitations of e-textbooks and the attitudes of faculty and students towards using this radical alternative to the centuries-old standard of education. An exploratory case study of faculty attitudes and usages of e-textbooks at a small liberal arts university was performed
