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Identity Construction through Positioning in Mealtime Narratives of Kazakh-speaking Village Residents.
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Mealtime narratives are a site for constructing a community’s social worlds (e.g., Ochs and Taylor 1995). Extending this research direction, I examine mealtime narratives among Kazakh-speaking Kazakhs, an under-researched ...
Desegmenting a Gameworld: The Super Mario Series
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Throughout game studies scholarship, the term “gameworld” has often been used to contain two notions simultaneously: the navigable virtual space of a videogame and the collection of characters, settings, and events represented ...
ComicCon-Networked Culture and Participatory Business in the US, Japan, and China
(Georgetown University, 2018)
ComicCon represents the coming-together of a participatory fan culture and a transmedial, multigenre commercial culture. This thesis analyzes the international ComicCon culture and its business strategies, including both ...
Posts and G-G-Ghosts: Exploring the Portrayal of Stuttering in IT (2017)
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Representation is important. This is a sentiment that pervades the current American media landscape. Media that includes historically marginalized and underrepresented groups of people are becoming more and more popular. ...
Unwrapping Presence: The Impact of Cell Phones on Face-to-Face Conversations
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Ubiquitous digital devices such as cell-phones have made it easier for people to multicommunicate, or participate in multiple conversations at once. While these devices have enhanced the multicommunicative environment, ...
NewSpace: An Era of Entrepreneurial Branding
(Georgetown University, 2018)
With the rise in space entrepreneurial companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, the modern day space sector paradigm appears to be much different that of a NASA-led past. In the mid-90s with the rise of frustration over ...
An American in Paris: Investigating the Discourse of "No-Go Zones" Through Documentary Film
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Despite retractions, inconsistent definitions, and insufficient evidence circulating around claims of “No-Go Zones” (NGZs)—the areas of Europe and the United States allegedly under localized Sharia law—belief in the ...
Tying the Knot: A Discussion with Indian Americans on Arranged Marriage through Bollywood
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Bollywood films have a strong presence in the lives of Indian Americans. Previous studies show that they play a significant role in shaping cultural identity. A salient theme in Bollywood films, particularly of the 90’s ...