10 research outputs found
Big Damn Fans: Fan Campaigns of Firefly and Veronica Mars
No full textMy research analyzes fan campaigns as a new cultural form of online television fandoms. With the rise of widespread internet usage, the nature of media participation has changed, the distinctions between media authors and media consumers has become obscure, and the nature of fan interactions have changed. Fans are now entering into new relationships with each other, producers, and authors of widely circulated cultural texts. This is the focus of my thesis.
Because little scholarly research on fan campaigns exists, my first aim is to document these cultural forms using two cases: the television shows, Firefly and Veronica Mars. My second aim is a critical consideration of the nature of production in these interactive spaces. Here we see an emerging definition of fans as important cultural citizens, and a desire to participate as such. Fans are not interested in overthrowing the current methods of cultural production; they are instead interested in participating within those frameworks.Sociolog
Cognitive capitalism, education, and digital labor, edited by Michael A. Peters and Ergin Bulut [book review]
No full textReview of Michael A. Peters and Ergin Bulut, eds., Cognitive capitalism, education, and digital labor. New York: Peter Lang, 2011, paperback, $38.95 (341p) ISBN 978-1-4331-0981-2
Second Story Television: Multi-Camera Sitcom Spaces, Objects, and the Suburban Spatial Imaginary
No full textThis project investigates the concept of the suburban spatial imaginary with regard to multi-camera sitcoms from the 1990s. I contend that the physical flatness of the multi-camera set construction is tied to the ideological presentation of suburban life. Through a textual analysis of moments in these sitcoms, I explore how they (through their representation and production design) flatten or distort real-world spaces to reinforce them as distinctly suburban. This investigation is interested in understanding the ways the materiality of architectural space in multi-camera sitcoms is related to real-world spaces. That certain moments—cars crashing, mothers spending their free time in bathrooms, adult characters learning to ride bicycles—occur in a similar manner across these shows indicates that they are part of a larger tableau of the American domestic spatial imaginary. These moments provide the richest sites to discuss the anxieties and tensions of the domestic space. They also demonstrate how the filming style reinforces an ideological view which is predominately suburban, regardless of where the shows are narratively set. To understand how the multi-camera shooting style “flattens” the representational space, I move through the various settings, focusing on moments and objects that highlight those spaces. I start my investigation into the suburban spatial imaginary with the most immobile of places, the living room. Turning to the representation of the bathroom creates a bridge between the private and the public. The following chapters embrace that mobility to focus on bikes and cars. Throughout, I use these moments to understand the ways in which the filming style flattens the representational space and reinforces a suburban spatial imaginary. Using these moments, I argue that these spaces cultivate an idealized vision of living that is distinctly suburban and that this vision serves as a nostalgic motor that helps fuel a suburban spatial imaginary
Vermoeiing onder random belastingen: Het verwerken van random belasting-tijd funkties tot belastingspektra
No full textCivil Engineering and GeosciencesStructural Engineerin
Aanbevelingen ten aanzien van de klemlengte en de lengte van de schroefdraad bij voorspanbouten
No full textCivil Engineering and GeosciencesStructural Engineerin
The fatigue behaviour of welded splices in rolled sections: Part 1 - Tests on HE 320 M sections
No full textCivil Engineering and GeosciencesStructural Engineerin
A comparative study of le gendre de monsieur poirier of Augier and les corbeaux of becque, 1967
No full textFood Preferences Survey in African Americans and West Africans: A Cultural Exploration of Agreement and Divergence in Attitudes in Food Environments and Food Responses
No full textAfrican Americans, currently over-represented among low SES groups, have been found to be among the most at risk groups for obesity and type 2 diabetes. Phenotypic expression, such as obesity, result from the combined effect of genetic inheritance and environmental influences. Environmental dynamics interact with individuals on micro, meso and ecto levels (Bronfrenbrenner, 1989), are diverse and cultural (Vygotsky, 1993) and are learned by individuals through modeling and observation (Bandura, 1989). Environmental factors such as parental influence and modeling, availability and accessibility of produce, sweetened drinks and fast foods, can contribute to or minimize the onset of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Consumption of fruits, vegetables and water has been shown to militate against the onset of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In the study ‘Genetic Bottlenecks Impacting Genes Governing Food Responses in African Americans’ the author considers the genetic and environmental responses to the onset of obesity and Type II diabetes among African Americans. The author uses a culturally competent model for repeated traits *(P=μ+G+Ep+Et) to evaluate the genotype/phenotype of African Americans. This model incorporates the contribution of temporary and permanent cultural environmental factors of historical origin, related to food responses, predisposition, metabolism and ethnic adjusted mean values of physical assessment to examine if the environment/genotype variables are informative towards the type 2 diabetes expression among African Americans, and to assess the validity of BMI as a predictor of adiposity and/or obesity prevalence among non-European populations. The main goal was to evaluate the relationship between BMI, fat distribution/prediction, variation among phenotypes and assess their relationships to the obesity genotype and environmental influences affecting metabolism and food choice
