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Thesis (M.A. (Human Rights))--Mahidol University, 2003.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-153).

Univ., Diss.--Wien, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inaug.-Diss.--Rostock. / "Literatur-verzeichnis": p. [57]-58.

Thèse--Genève. / At head of title: Droit public général. "Ouvrages cités": p. [155]-156.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1941. / Typescript. Includes abstract and vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-331).

xvii, 183 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted to address unequal access to technology by K-12 schools and public libraries in the United States. The federal government has since spent over $21 billion in the E-Rate program. The purpose of the study was to document E-Rate expenditures and technology usage patterns and to investigate the effectiveness of the federal diffusion project in influencing technology behaviors in one rural school district in Oregon. Data collected on E-Rate reimbursements and the use of these funds were collected for the school district over a 10-year period. The amount of bandwidth utilization and the capability of individual school networks increased at each school each year over the 10-year period. The school district also found ways to meet the substantial paperwork requirements imposed by the federal agencies in charge of the program. At the end of 10 years, the school district addressed their long-term connectivity needs by installing and paying for their own district managed fiber network. The E-Rate program appeared to be successful in supporting diffusion of the technology innovations and was probably necessary for the school district to be able to utilize the Internet and the World Wide Web. Other factors may or may not have been as important as the E-Rate funds in diffusion of the innovations. Recommendations are made for future research. / Adviser: Diane Dunlap

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A travers l’étude des musées de la Smithsonian Institution dans les décennies qui suivent la Seconde Guerre mondiale, cette thèse propose des pistes méthodologiques pour penser le nationalisme aux Etats-Unis. La Smithsonian Institution regroupe des activités de recherche, financées par des fonds indépendants et par des subsides fédéraux, et les Musées Nationaux, essentiellement financés par l’Etat fédéral. Ces musées sont pour la plupart situés sur le National Mall à Washington, dans le centre monumental de la capitale fédérale. Ils sont un observatoire privilégié du nationalisme : en effet, ils se situent à l’articulation entre le pouvoir fédéral et l’activité des professionnels des musées, ce qui permet d’évaluer le degré d’implication de l’Etat dans les Musées Nationaux et la contribution de ce dernier à l’entretien du sentiment national en leur sein. Par ailleurs, la création de nouveaux musées et de nouvelles expositions pose la question de la temporalité dans laquelle s’inscrivent les pratiques nationalistes. Enfin, le rôle des musées, entre explication des phénomènes universels et représentation de la nation, reflète la tension entre l’universel et le particulier qui fonde le nationalisme, compris comme une manière nationale d’être au monde. / This dissertation focuses on the Smithsonian Museums in the decades following World War II and tests ways of conceptualizing nationalism in the United States. The Smithsonian Institution includes some research bureaus, which are funded with federal and independent funds, and the National Museums, mostly run with federal funds. Almost all National Museums are situated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., at the monumental heart of the federal capital. They provide an observatory of nationalism, as they are a contact zone between the federal power and museum people, which brings to light the degree to which the government gets involved in the National Museums and the federal contribution to the maintenance of national feelings through museums. Besides, the creation of new museums and new exhibitions suggests that nationalist practices develop within a specific time frame. Finally, as museums oscillate between the exhibition of universal phenomena and that of national features, they magnify the tension between universalism and particularism that is the basis for nationalism, defined as a national way of belonging to the world.