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  • Tactical cities : negotiating violence in Karachi, Pakistan 
    Yusuf, Huma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    This thesis examines the relationship between violence and urbanity. Using Karachi, Pakistan, as a case study, it asks how violent cities are imagined and experienced by their residents. The thesis draws on a variety of ...
  • Television 2.0 : reconceptualizing TV as an engagement medium 
    Askwith, Ivan D (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    Television is in a period of dramatic change. As the mass audience continues to fragment into ever-smaller niche audiences and communities of interest, and new technologies shift control over the television viewing experience ...
  • Televisual sports videogames 
    Stein, Abraham D. (Abraham Daniel) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Over the three decade long history of sports videogame development, design conventions have lead to the emergence of a new sports game genre: the televisual sports videogames. These games, which usually simulate major ...
  • Toying with obsolescence : Pixelvision filmmakers and the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera 
    McCarty, Andrea Nina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    This thesis is a study of the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera and the artists and amateurs who make films and videos with this technology. The Pixelvision camera records video onto an audiocassette; its image is low-resolution, ...
  • Transformational tales : media, makeovers, and material culture 
    Kuritsky, Orit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
    This thesis probes into current American makeover culture, thorough three detailed case studies that represent an increasing confluence of commerce, entertainment, and, at times, spirituality. Each of the chapters is devoted ...
  • Transmedia storytelling : business, aesthetics and production at the Jim Henson Company 
    Long, Geoffrey A (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    Transmedia narratives use a combination of Barthesian hermeneutic codes, negative capability and migratory cues to guide audiences across multiple media platforms. This thesis examines complex narratives from comics, novels, ...
  • Understanding meaningfulness in videogames 
    Weise, Matthew Jason (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    This thesis explores "meaningfulness" in videogames. Academics, journalists, and others who write about games often discuss the concept of meaning yet seldom define it clearly. I am focusing on a variation of this topic: ...
  • Unschooling media : participatory practices among progressive homeschoolers 
    Bertozzi, Vanessa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    Introduction: Rehoboth, the name of my hometown in southern Massachusetts, comes from the Hebrew work for "crossroads." Indeed there's not much in this rural town besides Route 44 and Route 118, with smatterings of horse ...
  • User-generated censorship : manipulating the maps of social media 
    Peterson, Christopher E., S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    The last decade has seen the rise of new technologies for making information more broadly available and accessible. Variously called 'user-generated content,' 'social media,''social news,' 'crowd-curation,' and so on, these ...
  • We are like this only : Desis and Hindi films in the Diaspora 
    Punathambekar, Aswin, 1977- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
    Set in Boston, U.S.A, the overarching goal of this thesis is to develop a theoretical framework and a set of analytical tools that might help us understand how Hindi films are watched in the Indian- American diaspora and ...
  • Web of words : poetry, fandom and globality 
    Gopalakrishnan, Amulya (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    This study explores questions of media change, negotiation of literary value and postcolonial hybridity through a study of The Wondering Minstrels, a largely South-Asian community on the Web dedicated to the celebration ...
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