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1	Who Gender-Bends and Why? A Qualitative Study of World of Warcraft Gregory, Clairellyn Rose 01 January 2011 (has links) According to a 2009 study, 68% of American households played video games (Entertainment Software Association). With this number continually on the rise, video games and their cultures are in need of further scholarly exploration. A video game of particular interest is a massive online game known as World of Warcraft, drawing over twelve million players worldwide (Blizzard Entertainment, 2010). With a cyberspace-based culture, World of Warcraft exposes its players to phenomenon that are unique to it, and thereby not easily understood through the same measures and evaluations offered by society at large. One such phenomena is that of gender, or more specifically the bending of gender by which players assume characters of the opposite gender. Although a common practice in video games like World of Warcraft, its motivations have yet to receive adequately scholarly attention. The present study seeks to explore the process of gender selection in the massive online game World of Warcraft through qualitative methods utilizing interviews, texts, and field notes. The data is then analyzed using Kellner's (2003) methods of critical analysis of media and Langian's (1975) work on thematization. Communication Gender-bending WoW World of Warcraft (Game) Video games -- Social aspects Gender identity
2	The Creation of a Christian Identity in a Christianized Empire: Eulalia, Agnes, and Gender-Bending in Prudentius' Peristephanon Liber III and XIV Baldwin, Ryan Masato 01 June 2019 (has links) While Constantine worked diligently to unite the Roman Empire under the banner of Christianity in the early fourth century after the Edict of Milan and Council of Nicaea, it was the Edict of Thessalonica in 380 under Theodosius I that made Christianity the Roman state religion. During this time of conversion and great change within the empire, as well as earlier in the fourth century, new adherents to the religion were unsure about what it meant to be a Christian as well as how one should act in order to present themselves as a true believer. Many were still very familiar with their ancestral and polytheistic traditions, but were unsure of the character of this new, singular God. They had questions concerning their identity within this new framework. Was everything different now that they had accepted Christianity? Were their actions supposed to be entirely different than what their ancestors had taught them? To address the issue of Christian identity during this period, Prudentius, a Spanish Christian, composed many works in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, including his Peristephanon Liber, a compilation of fourteen Christian martyr texts. In these texts, Prudentius used gendered language to show the superiority of the Christian martyrs. The Christians were depicted as having self-control, active, and having a willingness to die while the pagan persecutors and judges were seen as being filled with wrath, unjust, and unable to properly govern. By using gendered language that was familiar to the new converts of the Roman Empire with respect to sexuality and masculinity, Prudentius sought to help create a masculine Christian identity that was both recognizable and superior to the masculinity of the previous regime. In order to prove this, an analysis on gender in the ancient world and its scholarship will be summarized. I will then describe the two martyr texts that portray women as the protagonist: Eulalia and Agnes. By analyzing the gendered language of these texts, I hope to show how Prudentius used gender, something that the Romans already understood, to invert traditional gender roles and present the Christians as the more masculine and the pagans as more feminine. By bending gender, Prudentius sought to teach these new Christians that being a Christian made a person not only masculine, but also a superior masculine figure than if they still believed in paganism. By focusing on the language of these texts and using secondary sources, I show that Prudentius, like previous Christian authors, used gendered language and female protagonists in order to show these new Christians what it meant to be a true believer, thus attempting to create a superior Christian identity in a newly Christianized society. Prudentius Peristephanon Liber Eulalia Agnes gender gender-bending martyr hagiography Arts and Humanities
3	Erosão e/ou neutralização da flexão de gênero na língua hebraica israelense: relações morfossintáticas entre numerais cardinais e/ou pronomes com substantivos e configurações verbais do futuro em textos selecionados a partir do século XXI / Erosion and / or neutralization of gender bending in Israeli Hebrew: morphosyntactic relations between cardinal numbers and/or pronouns with nouns and future verbal settings on selected texts of the starding of the XXI century Silva, Candido Sousa da 21 November 2016 (has links) A presente tese de doutoramento insere-se no debate sobre a temática da erosão e/ou neutralização da marca de gênero da Língua Hebraica Israelense nas relações morfossintáticas entre numerais cardinais e/ou pronomes com substantivos e configurações verbais do futuro em textos selecionados a partir do século XXI. O trabalho está fundado na percepção, derivada da literatura especializada sobre o tema, de que existe uma tendência da perda da marca de gênero nestas relações morfossintáticas estabelecidas, além de outras nuances como o apagamento do gênero feminino nas 2ª e 3ª pessoas plurais do sistema verbal no tempo futuro. Em termos de estratégias de pesquisa, a investigação fundamenta-se no estudo da formação e consolidação da identidade israelense e suas implicações equalizadoras no plano linguístico quanto ao uso da flexão de gênero tornando-os como unidade empírica. Nosso objetivo é examinar o funcionamento deste fenômeno linguístico, como isso é expresso na escrita e quais suas implicações na fala. A hipótese de trabalho para esta pesquisa é que o fenômeno de erosão e/ou neutralização da marca de gênero no Hebraico tem causado profundas transformações na estrutura da língua que se caracteriza na distinção clara de dois gêneros, seja nos nomes e numerais ou, ainda, no sistema verbal. Neste quadro, pretendo validar ou refutar conceitos tradicionais utilizados no estudo do Hebraico, tomando como base a medida da variação diglóssica. Por fim, desejamos, através dos dados obtidos nas obras selecionadas, apresentar nossas reflexões e apontar possíveis motivações para uma tendência erosão e/ou neutralização das configurações pesquisadas. / This doctoral thesis is part of the debate on the issue of erosion and / or neutralization of gender brand of Israeli Hebrew Language in morphosyntactic relationship between cardinal numbers and / or pronouns with noun and verb of the future settings on selected texts from the XXI century. The work is based on the perception, derived from the specialized literature on the subject, that there is a trend of the lost gender brand in these morphosyntactic relationships established, beyond other nuances like erasing female gender in 2nd and 3rd plural people of the verbal system in the future tense. In terms of research strategies, the investigation is based on the study of the formation and consolidation of Israeli Identity and their equalizing implications the linguistic plan in the use of gender bending making them as empirical unit. Our objetive is to examine the functioning of this linguistic phenomenon, as it is expressed in writing and what its implications in speech. The working hypothesis for this research is that the erosion phenomenon and / or neutralization of the gender brand in Hebrew has caused profound changes in the structure of language that characterized the clear distinction between two genres, whether the names and numerals, or more the verbal system. In this presentment, I intent to validate or refute traditional concepts used in the study of Hebrew, based on the measurement of diglossic variation. Finally, we wish through the data in the selected works, present our ideas and to point possible motivations for an erosion trend and / or neutralization of the surveyed settings. Erosão Erosion Flexão de gênero Gender bending Hebrew Language Língua Hebraica Neutralização Neutralization Obras selecionadas Séc. XXI Selected works XXI Century
4	Erosão e/ou neutralização da flexão de gênero na língua hebraica israelense: relações morfossintáticas entre numerais cardinais e/ou pronomes com substantivos e configurações verbais do futuro em textos selecionados a partir do século XXI / Erosion and / or neutralization of gender bending in Israeli Hebrew: morphosyntactic relations between cardinal numbers and/or pronouns with nouns and future verbal settings on selected texts of the starding of the XXI century Candido Sousa da Silva 21 November 2016 (has links) A presente tese de doutoramento insere-se no debate sobre a temática da erosão e/ou neutralização da marca de gênero da Língua Hebraica Israelense nas relações morfossintáticas entre numerais cardinais e/ou pronomes com substantivos e configurações verbais do futuro em textos selecionados a partir do século XXI. O trabalho está fundado na percepção, derivada da literatura especializada sobre o tema, de que existe uma tendência da perda da marca de gênero nestas relações morfossintáticas estabelecidas, além de outras nuances como o apagamento do gênero feminino nas 2ª e 3ª pessoas plurais do sistema verbal no tempo futuro. Em termos de estratégias de pesquisa, a investigação fundamenta-se no estudo da formação e consolidação da identidade israelense e suas implicações equalizadoras no plano linguístico quanto ao uso da flexão de gênero tornando-os como unidade empírica. Nosso objetivo é examinar o funcionamento deste fenômeno linguístico, como isso é expresso na escrita e quais suas implicações na fala. A hipótese de trabalho para esta pesquisa é que o fenômeno de erosão e/ou neutralização da marca de gênero no Hebraico tem causado profundas transformações na estrutura da língua que se caracteriza na distinção clara de dois gêneros, seja nos nomes e numerais ou, ainda, no sistema verbal. Neste quadro, pretendo validar ou refutar conceitos tradicionais utilizados no estudo do Hebraico, tomando como base a medida da variação diglóssica. Por fim, desejamos, através dos dados obtidos nas obras selecionadas, apresentar nossas reflexões e apontar possíveis motivações para uma tendência erosão e/ou neutralização das configurações pesquisadas. / This doctoral thesis is part of the debate on the issue of erosion and / or neutralization of gender brand of Israeli Hebrew Language in morphosyntactic relationship between cardinal numbers and / or pronouns with noun and verb of the future settings on selected texts from the XXI century. The work is based on the perception, derived from the specialized literature on the subject, that there is a trend of the lost gender brand in these morphosyntactic relationships established, beyond other nuances like erasing female gender in 2nd and 3rd plural people of the verbal system in the future tense. In terms of research strategies, the investigation is based on the study of the formation and consolidation of Israeli Identity and their equalizing implications the linguistic plan in the use of gender bending making them as empirical unit. Our objetive is to examine the functioning of this linguistic phenomenon, as it is expressed in writing and what its implications in speech. The working hypothesis for this research is that the erosion phenomenon and / or neutralization of the gender brand in Hebrew has caused profound changes in the structure of language that characterized the clear distinction between two genres, whether the names and numerals, or more the verbal system. In this presentment, I intent to validate or refute traditional concepts used in the study of Hebrew, based on the measurement of diglossic variation. Finally, we wish through the data in the selected works, present our ideas and to point possible motivations for an erosion trend and / or neutralization of the surveyed settings. Erosão Flexão de gênero Língua Hebraica Neutralização Obras selecionadas Séc. XXI Erosion Gender bending Hebrew Language Neutralization Selected works XXI Century
5	Costuming as Inquiry: An Exploration of Women in Gender-Bending Cosplay Through Practice & Material Culture Turk, Rebecca Baygents 09 July 2019 (has links) No description available. Art Education costume costuming cosplay gender-bending costume design practice as research material culture art and design education performativity play adaptation narrative collage arts based research
6	A Study of Gendering Culture of New Taiwanese Children in Their Kindergarten Classrooms Chou, Yu-Hui 26 August 2011 (has links) No description available. Early Childhood Education Feminist Poststructuralism Postcolonialism Gender Culture Identity Education Acquisition Gendered Social Order Knowledge Gender-doing Gender-bending Cross-culture Confucianism Immigrant Taiwan Derida Foucault Reconceptualize Discourse
7	In Real Life (Or Elsewhere) : om kreativa processer och parallella verkligheter i dokumentärfilm Nevanti, Kirsi January 2017 (has links) Reality isn’t what it appears to be. Contexts are not always clear and visible. People don’t always say what they really mean. And they don’t always mean what they say. When life is your stage manager, anything can happen. I often say, life is hard, my head is harder. Making documentaries is not for the faint-hearted.This PhD project explores creative processes and parallel realities in documentary film, and discusses and conceptualizes the artistic practice of documentary filmmaking. The project consists in part of artistic works and essays that are critical reflections on the creative process and how that process can be conceptualized. The cinematic centerpiece of the thesis is entitled Images and the Worlds of Being (2011–2016). Previous subprojects are A Shift Between Worlds (2013–2015) and an essay book entitled In Real Life (or Elsewhere) (2013). Between 2013 and 2017, more essays were written, some of them translated to English. All the Swedish essays are available in PDF format. All of the works in the PhD project explore creative processes and parallel realities in two different ways: A Shift Between Worlds (2013–2015) explores identity and parallel realities in the gendered world. These works are based on two workshops led by Diane Torr, “Man for a Day” and “Woman for a Day.” They resulted in several component works, including two video essays, two audio works and two large-format photographic works, the latter in collaboration with photographer Johan Bergmark, as well as a short commentary film entitled Diane Speaks Out (2016). Images and the Worlds of Being (2011–2016) – a VR Classic Style film – explores what happens when documentary images are shown on four screens forming the walls of a room. This work also focuses on the view through the camera lens through which the filmmaker meets the world, in a hypnotic tapestry of parallel realities in a tenderly portrayed, runaway present. A sort of logical reasoning about the illogic of our era, in search of elusive reality (to paraphrase Jean Baudrillard) – the presence in the act of seeing. An experiment in the forms of visual knowledge, outside the traditional display windows. Shooting location: The World. ethics documentary film situational understanding authenticity reality parallel realities creative processes know thyself Images and the Worlds of Being A Shift Between Worlds director film team world in real life (or elsewhere) IRL VR Virtual Reality AR Augmented Reality life as stage manager reflections on space journey snippet of time interpretation of reality protagonist cinema cinematic means universe imagination artistic research presence of the camera existence the act of seeing visual knowledge intuition practical knowledge communication fictional gender bending identity visual art vantage point unreality art vision photography cinematography sound design editing directing life science Arts Konst

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