Browsing Comparative Media Studies - Master's degree by Title
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Engineering the American dream : a study of bias and perceptions of merit in the high-tech labor market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)In recent years, a significant amount of resources and attention has been directed at increasing the diversity of the hi-tech workforce in the United States. Generally speaking, the underrepresentation of minorities and ... -
Ethics in photojournalism : past, present, and future
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Like writers and editors, photojournalists are held to a standard of ethics. Each publication has a set of rules, sometimes written, sometimes unwritten, that governs what that publication considers to be a truthful and ... -
Evaluating interactive documentaries : audience, impact and innovation in public interest media
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Public interest media organizations are increasingly interested in experimenting with interactive and participatory approaches to documentary storytelling enabled by digital technologies. However, due to the experimental ... -
Everything is awful : snark as ritualized social practice in online discourse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis explores a mode of collective meaning making at the intersection of humor, insult, and jest that increasingly occupies social media conversations, online comment sections, and Internet writing far and wide: for ... -
The evolution of intimacy : advertising personal computers in the 1980s
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)At the heart of this thesis is a desire to understand the evolving and situated relationship between humans and computers. Looking to a specific kind of computer at a specific moment in history, I analyze the ways in which ... -
Expectations across entertainment media
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)An audience's satisfaction with an entertainment product is dependent on how well their expectations are fulfilled. This study delves into the implicit contract that is formed between the purveyor of an entertainment ... -
Experiments in corporate collaboration : the case of the Arts Electronica Future Lab
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The Ars Electronica FutureLab is a thriving interdisciplinary research facility located in Linz, Austria. It is part of the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), a cultural institution which for over two decades has been a pioneer ... -
"Fire, lights, everything!" : exploring symbolic capital in the Tecnobrega dance scene
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The music industry, along with the world of media as a whole, is in a state of transition. What is being sold is not so clear anymore, nor is it obvious what parts of the traditional business will survive. Audiences play ... -
From huelga! to undocumented and unafraid! : a comparative study of media strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Attention to the use of new media by social movements rose rapidly following groundbreaking global protests: The Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the "Indignados" Movement in Spain. However, determinism and rhetoric ... -
From physical to virtual : extending the gallery experience online
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis is an exploration of the ways in which interactive features in the virtual space can be developed to complement physical museum exhibitions, as well as create opportunities for museums to reach broader audiences. ... -
From Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 characters : the hyper-mediated election of a paranoid populist president
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)The improbable election of Donald Trump relied on myriad factors. Among the most important of these, I argue here, was Trump's deft use of the social media site Twitter, which Trump used as a means to both communicate with ... -
Frontlines of crisis, forefront of change : climate justice as an intervention into (neo)colonial climate action narratives and practices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Indigenous peoples, Small Island States, the Global South, women, youth, and the global poor, all face disproportionate impacts from climate change, a fact captured in the adage "the least responsible are most vulnerable." ... -
Fursonas : furries, community, and identity online
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The furry fandom is a loose-knit online subculture of fans devoted to anthropomorphic animal characters. Furries are not necessarily fans of specific media properties, but instead often create their own media, including ... -
Game worlds : a study of video game criticism
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This paper explores the relation between criticism and establishment of narrative forms and genres, focusing on the cultural situation of video games. Comparing the context of early film criticism and contemporary video ... -
The grey harvest : hunting wolves in America's Heartland
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)For centuries, humans killed the grey wolf (canis lupis) out of fear and misunderstanding. By the 1950s, the species had been hunted to brink of extinction within the continental United States save for a small remainder ... -
Health equity rituals : a case for the ritual view of communication in an era of precision medicine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)This thesis explores the meaning and implications of a ritual view of communication in the field of public health. This thesis uses the budding field of precision medicine to frame arguments and discoveries, referring back ... -
Heike, Jike, Chuangke : creativity in Chinese technology community
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This thesis surveys creativity in Chinese technology communities and its implication in China's development mode shift from "Made in China" to "Created in China." It discussed the history of creativity in China and how ... -
The hidden activism : media practices and the media opportunity in Chinese politics of resistance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)My thesis discusses the hidden and non-adversarial nature of resistance in authoritarian countries through the perspectives of media practices and media opportunity structure. To understand the art of resistance in ... -
High-interactivity radio : using the Internet to enhance community among radio listeners
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)(cont.) This thesis examines the evidence of community among listeners to three radio programs, who gather online to discuss radio programming in blogs, message boards and discussion forums provided by those programs. The ... -
Homebrew and the social construction of gaming : community, creativity, and legal context of amateur Game Boy Advance development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis challenges the common social construction of game development, which perceives the activity only within its commercial, corporate realm. As an exemplar of the many thriving amateur development communities, the ...
