Browsing by Author "Burkart, Patrick"
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Kaghazgaran, Parisa (2021-01-15)User reviews are ubiquitous. They power online review aggregators that influence our daily-based decisions, from what products to purchase (e.g., Amazon), movies to view (e.g., Netflix, HBO, Hulu), restaurants to patronize ...
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Johnson, Christopher (2015-08-10)In recent years, electronic dance music (EDM) and dance music culture have gained immense popularity. This thesis looks at EDM’s contemporary cultural landscape and what changes this popularity has brought about. While ...
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Westgate, Christopher Joseph (2012-10-19)This manuscript tells the stories of the Latin/o and general music industries in the United States from 1898 to 2000. It argues that performers transformed the local identities of aural industries based in place and melody ...
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Powell, Gary Botts (2013-06-05)What can 15th century France and heavy metal have in common? In Heavy Metal Humor, Gary Powell explores metal culture through the work of Mikael Bakhtin‘s “carnivalesque theory.” Describing the practice of inverting commonly ...
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Daryani, Monika Manohar (2021-04-23)Customers on online marketplaces have to proceed with extreme caution before buying any product as they cannot evaluate it physically. Reviews are crucial metrics to gauge the quality and authenticity of the item. This ...
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Bogen, Paul (2012-02-14)Digital collections are ubiquitous. However, not all digital collections are the same. While most digital collections have limited forms of change - primarily creation and deletion of additional resources - there exists a ...
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Cantu, Elizabeth Angelica (2009-05-15)Globalization trends and treaties, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have increased the access and flow of United States media and popular culture products in Mexico. Limited research has been done ...
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Liu, Zhijiao (2015-12-02)Local experts are critical for many location-sensitive information needs, and yet there is a research gap in our understanding of the factors impacting who is recognized as a local expert and in methods for discovering ...
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Vaserfirer, Andrew (2012-07-16)Drawing on newspaper, movement correspondence, and interview data, I examine the tactical selection and (in)visibility of a lesbian and gay student group, Gay Student Services (GSS), in a hostile university campus in Texas ...
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Miles, Caitlin Marie (2019-11-21)This dissertation is an ethnographic exploration of how journalism is defined and performed within the daily lives of journalists in Istanbul, Turkey. Based on nine months of embedded ethnographic fieldwork, extensive ...
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Collins, Megan E (2014-06-11)The focus of this research is the emergence and encouragement of the false self in our society and how this is portrayed through four reality television shows: Toddlers and Tiaras, Hoarders, Sister Wives and Catfish: The ...
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Whittle, John C. (2010-07-14)The video game is, as we know, one of the most popular and quickly growing mediums in the United States and the world in whole. Because of its success, the video game industry has been able to use their resources to advance ...
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Kamath, Krishna Y (2013-05-28)Real-time social systems are the fastest growing phenomena on the web, enabling millions of users to generate, share, and consume content on a massive scale. These systems are manifestations of a larger trend toward the ...
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Lu, Haokai (2017-12-04)Many large-scale information sharing systems including social media systems, questionanswering sites and rating and reviewing applications have been growing rapidly, allowing millions of human participants to generate and ...
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Hsu, Chiao-Fang (2010-07-14)Large-scale socially-generated metadata is one of the key features driving the growth and success of the emerging Social Web. Recently there have been many research efforts to study the quality of this metadata - like ...
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Khabiri, Elham (2013-04-18)One of the key features driving the growth and success of the Social Web is large-scale participation through user-contributed content – often through short text in social media. Unlike traditional long-form documents – ...
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Cui, Xi (2012-10-19)This dissertation explores the production, circulation, and regulation of Shanzhai online videos in order to understand how people's everyday lives are governed and how the governing power is resisted through the media ...
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Bedenbaugh, Robin Adrienne (2018-05-01)TThis dissertation provides an historical analysis of libraries and discusses the broader system of scholarly communication and publishing using mixed methods from critical media studies, library studies, organizational ...
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Lu, Jia (2010-01-14)This study is to explore how Chinese software users perceive the issues of software copyright and piracy. Tianya Community, the largest online public forum in China, was selected as a site to study users' online communication ...
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Earhart, Amy; Ives, Maura; Burkart, Patrick; Ezell, Margaret; Harner, James; Ramasubramanian, Srividya; Vieira de Castro, Filipe; Morris, Jeff; Dox, Donnalee; Urbina, Eduardo; Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Carpenter, B. Stephen II; Davis, Trina J.; Yadav, Manjit; Herbert, Bruce; Akleman, Ergun; Furuta, Richard; Shipman, Frank; Vedlitz, Arnold (2009)We propose the creation of a Center for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture (formerly titled Texas Center for Digital Humanities and New Media). The Center will address two related grand challenges: the need to investigate ...