Browsing Communication, Culture & Technology Master of Arts Program (CCT) by Title
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A Floating History: The Korean War and China's Political Use of War Memory
(Georgetown University, 2020)The Korean War has served as one of the crucial historical conflicts in China’s relations with other countries, especially with the United States. However, the narrative of the official memory and the meaning of the War ... -
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 ... -
A Qualitative Study of Combat Veterans’ Experience Negotiating Individual and Institutional Identity Following the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
(Georgetown University, 2023)In an effort to improve veterans institutional experience and experience transitioning away from their institution this research interviewed 14 individuals who served in Afghanistan on behalf of the U.S. government between ... -
A Real Gay Person: Representation and Stereotypes in Queer Romantic Comedies
(Georgetown University, 2023)The past decade has seen an explosion in the discussion of queer representation in the media, both in the mainstream and academic worlds. Stress placed on the importance of representation and the harm of past stereotypes ... -
Abbas Kiarostami Through the Prism of the Cinematic Essay
(Georgetown University, 2023)This thesis aims to illustrate Iran’s most internationally known filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami, can also be recognized as a cinematic essayist. The core concept mentioned in this thesis is “essay film,” a cinematic practice ... -
Active citizenship via personal expression : building civic youth identity in community after school art programs
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Acuña on Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
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Adomizen: A Foucaultian Archaeology of Homelessness in Washington, D.C.'s Monumental Core
(2008-04-18)Washington D.C.'s monumental core is a unique space in which discourses circulate like taxi cabs and individuals are hailed as U.S. citizens. The city, itself, is a body of knowledge: the monuments, the museums, and the ... -
Adopted Genealogies: Identity in Adoptee Heritage Camps
(2010-01-27)This is a project about space, identity, and history. It is a project that seeks to theorize identity as closely connected to the spaces and histories in and through which identity is lived. The project examines Korean ... -
The affective nation : tracing the temporal assemblage of Indian media
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Agenda setting in a digital age : tracking attention to California Proposition 8 in social media, online news, and conventional news
(Policy Studies Organization, 2010)This study compares the agenda-setting cues of traditional media alongside those of online media in general and social media in particular. The main line of inquiry concerns (a) whether people posting content to openly ... -
Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth," and Environmental Discourse in the Public Sphere
(2008-04-17)Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, released in 2006, created a lot of publicity about environmentalism and global warming. Gore won an Oscar and, along with the IPCC, a Nobel Peace Prize for the work. "An Inconvenient ... -
Aliens as the Other in Post-Independence Hindi Cinema
(Georgetown University, 2018)This paper seeks to understand globalization as a way to interpret the shift in the portrayal of the Other as allegorized as aliens in Hindi science fiction cinema. After a brief discussion of what constitutes science ... -
Altered in Translation: How Cultural Themes are Handled When Japanese Animation comes to America
(2010-03-01)Regardless of its cross-media flexibility and its visual appeal, Japanese animation is still produced in Japan and is targeted towards domestic Japanese audiences. References to Japanese culture that have no easy equivalents ... -
Altering the political landscape: The impact of electronic media on Armenia's transition to democracy
(2008-04-07)The free flow of information is a major factor that may contribute to the spread of democracy throughout the world. Knowledge that could be broadcast in the form of cell phone videos online forced the repressive Burmese ... -
America exceptionalism in television spy dramas: mainstreaming america with "I spy," "Sleeper cell," and "24"?
(2007-04-24)This thesis explores the potential for American television spy dramas to mainstream their viewers to see America as exceptional, thereby seeing America as superior and in a unique position of power to inflict its beliefs ... -
An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma on Networks
(Georgetown University, 2018)Prisoner’s dilemma is a framework in game theory to explain why rational individuals would choose to not cooperate even at their own expense. In 1984, Axelrod’s computer tournament and its simple yet profound results brought ... -
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 ... -
An Economy of 'Likes': Instagram and Debord's Spectacle
(Georgetown University, 2020)Instagram constitutes an economy of “likes.” Users exchange “posts”—commodities in this new spectacle—for capital in the form of “likes” and comments. Instagram does not represent a new social forum, but rather a reconstitution ... -
AN ANALYSIS OF TECHNO-LEGAL APPROACHES TO DISCRIMINATION IN DATA-DRIVEN MARKETING
(Georgetown University, 2015)Big data has been the hype of both public and private sectors for the past few years, and many businesses have urging others to adopt the technology in their operations. One of the areas that big data analytics proved much ... -
An analysis of Urdu and English editorial coverage of the 2007 emergency from Pakistani newspapers
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Analyzing Student Engagement and Retention in Georgetown's First MOOC: Globalization's Winners and Losers: Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries
(Georgetown University, 2014)Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have opened new doors for students around the world to access higher education courses. However, the opportunities that come MOOCs also come with its own set of challenges: student ... -
Anatomical Identity: Levels of Identity Attached to Preserved Human Remains
(2007-04-20)When a human body part is removed and preserved after death, what kinds of identity remain attached to it? There are the extremes of complete anonymity and the named remains of a famous or infamous person, but there are ... -
Argument Quality and Deliberation on Facebook: An Exploratory Study
(Georgetown University, 2018)In the past, scholars have argued that deliberation is important for a variety of reasons, including aiding in the development of political sophistication and decreasing attitudinal uncertainty (Gastil and Dillard 1999, ... -
Art Is Not Enough! The Artist's Body as Protest
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2014)Peer reviewed journal of communication, culture, and technology -
The art of diplomacy : the use of art in international relations
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"As true as television gets" : the wire and perceptions of realism
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Attack, Attack, Attack: Is That What We Want for American Politics?
(2010-03-08)Political advertising on television is becoming a main channel for people to obtain information about the salient characteristics of political candidates, their fitness for office, and their opinions on issues. Even for ... -
Authorship in Transnational Cinema: Pedro Almodovar, Wong Kar-wai, and the Star-Auteur
(2007-04-13)Built into the schema of commercially successful film today is a demand that directors perform as stars. This thesis explores the work of two filmmakers widely held as vanguards of contemporary global cinema and coveted ... -
Autism Does Not Speak: An Analysis of the Silencing of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Community in Television Dramas
(Georgetown University, 2021)Depictions of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in film and television are laden with misconceptions and stereotypes—including universal savantism, parental panic, and a presumed lack of social skills. Arguably, these ... -
Behind Poll Error: Review of the 2020 Presidential Election and the Cause of Poll Error
(Georgetown University, 2021)After experiencing the poll error and the forecast failure in the 2016 US presidential election, pollsters' effort to improve the pre-election poll didn't work. The poll error of 2020 is even more significant than the poll ... -
Bigger is not always better : outsmarting mega-retailers in the 21st century gift industry
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Biology and language : a response to Everett (2005)
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Biometrics, RFID Technology, and the ePassport: Are Americans Risking Personal Security in the Face of Terrorism?
(2006-04-10)This thesis analyzes the arguments for and against deploying an electronic passport to American citizens that contains a biometric identifier and an RFID chip. Are Americans giving up civil liberties and constitutional ... -
Blogging breast cancer: language and subjectivity in women's online illness narratives
(2007-05-02)For centuries, women have written about their experiences with breast cancer, often recording their accounts in the form of diaries and letters to be shared with an audience of intimates, or perhaps no one at all. Although ... -
BLOGGING POLITICS: A CASE STUDY OF THE 2004 ELECTION
(2005-05-02)The recent popularity of the weblog, or "blog", has been receiving a significant amount of attention within the mainstream press. While weblogs are devoted to issues ranging across the social spectrum, political weblogs ... -
BOLD Magazine: A Brave Space for Young Adults To Live Authentically
(Georgetown University, 2019)My thesis project is an online magazine that seeks to build a community of young adults who are open and honest about their worries and fears, and through dialogue are inspired to live an unashamed and authentic life. The ... -
BRANDING THE NATIONAL INTEREST: THE RISE OF SOFT POWER IN JAPAN AND CHINA
(2006-05-01)This thesis attempts to show that intangible assets like brands are sources of soft power that can help states fulfill their national interest. National interest is defined for purposes of this study in terms of wealth and ... -
A Brief Response
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Building Nature in Detroit: Ruin Aesthetics, Historical gaps, and the Urban Agricultural Imagination
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2016)Urban Agriculture is increasingly forwarded as a tool for social and ecological renewal in the post-industrial city. However, much of the enthusiasm (and increasingly, scholarly analysis) of this phenomenon focuses on its ...
