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Debiasing and the Abortion Debate: An Analysis of Integrative Complexity
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Research has indicated that partisan polarization is growing, and while partisanship itself is not inherently destructive, unchecked polarization may debilitate the healthy functioning of the American democracy. Additional ...
Community Identity, Gender, and Romance: An Analysis of Galgame Fan Culture
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Thanks to the anonymous cyberspace created by the internet, online fan communities offer people with shared interests a relatively safe place to gather. As a result, such fan communities often forge mutually supportive ...
YouTube as an Ally of Convenience: The Platform's Building and Breaking with the LGBTQ+ Community
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Through documentary film, this thesis investigates the importance of the video-sharing platform, YouTube, to the LGBTQ+ community’s connection, identity-formation, and coming out practices since its founding in 2005. The ...
Identifying Influential Inputs in Probabilistic Logic Programming
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Combining probabilistic theory and statistic reasoning, probabilistic logic pro- gramming (PLP) has various applications on many data-driven problems. Notable examples include machine learning models such as probabilistic ...
Comunas: ¿El Cuarto Poder? Análisis de la creación e implementación de la Ley Orgánica de Comunas de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Descentralización del poder de gestión y participación ciudadana (1996 - 2019).
(Georgetown University, 2020)
La Ley Orgánica de Comunas (Nº 1.777), sancionada en 2005 en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, da cumplimiento a lo dispuesto por la Constitución porteña que establecía en su Título Sexto que debía legislarse sobre la ...
What Do the Guards Think? Tracing the Discourse of Employee Surveillance in Academic Institutions
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Surveillance in workplaces and in academic institutions have long relied on strategic discourse to justify and normalize its practices. Scholars have approached this topic from a variety of disciplines, examining the ways ...
Mediums and Imbrication: Toward a Middle-Oriented Historiography of Technologies
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This thesis works to develop a heuristic technique – the Imbrication Model – for understanding technologies relations to other objects. These relations include objects which contribute to the actualization of a technology ...
Public Opinion, Refugee Programs, and State Welfare in Twenty Countries
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Refugee programs bolster global human rights by promoting responsibility-sharing and assisting the 25.9 million people who have been forced to flee their countries for fear of war or persecution. As refugee numbers soar ...
The Successes and Failures of the United States to Grant Reparations to Greenwood, Oklahoma following the 1921 Destruction of Black Wall Street
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why is it so difficult to get reparations for Greenwood? The United States has struggled with giving reparations for certain groups although they are an international standard for human rights outlined by the Office of the ...
A Modern Digital Accessibility Issue: Understanding Social Media Anxiety in Users
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This study explores the relationship between social media platform design and user experience and behavior. The topic of social media anxiety will be further analyzed through a review of literature in the field of user ...