This area of research focuses on the use of video projections in the context of fine art. Emphasis is placed on creating a unique video installation work that incorporates assemblage and appropriation as a means to develop multiple complex geometrical surfaces for video projection. The purpose of this research is to document a working process within a pre-defined set of guidelines that is influenced from my past work and the study of other artist?s prior work. Research includes the demonstration of the entire working process to create this original work and recommendations for future artists who wish to work in this medium.

This thesis is an A/R/Tographically-based investigation of my appropriative studio approach, resulting in a series of multi-media collage works entitled Tonight’s Programming, dealing with issues of militarism and commercialism in our everyday lives. Through research regarding appropriation in art history, examination of personal artistic influences, and regarding the work through the lenses of Artist, Researcher, and Teacher, I gained a deeper insight into not only my appropriative practices, but how these practices could be applied in the high school art classroom.

Master of Visual Arts / We all play roles in life. This paper is a personal reflection on identity, and the questioning of this identity. The writer allows the reader into a dream like environment where a life role is acted out as autobiographical narrative through appropriation and reference to the other. Theoretical sources include Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and Joseph Kosuth. With reference to these sources, comparison is made between Jan Vermeer’s seventeenth century portraits of women and Bertolt Brecht’s early twentieth century epic theatre.

abstract: This dissertation explores the rhetorical significance of persecution claims produced by demonstrably powerful publics in contemporary American culture. This ideological criticism is driven by several related research questions. First, how do members of apparently powerful groups (men, whites, and Christians) come to see themselves as somehow unjustly marginalized, persecuted, or powerless? Second, how are these discourses related to the public sphere and counterpublicity? I argue that, despite startling similarities, these texts studied here are best understood not as counterpublicity but as a strategy of containment available to hegemonic publics. Because these rhetorics of persecution often seek to forestall movements toward pluralism and restorative justice, the analysis forwarded in this dissertation offers important contributions to ongoing theoretical discussions in the fields of public sphere theory and critical cultural theory and practical advice for progressive political activism and critical pedagogy. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Communication Studies 2011

Ce travail doctoral porte sur la mise en usage des outils de gestion par la qualité par les professionnels de santé à l’hôpital. A l’issue de la revue de littérature portant sur les objets dans les sciences humaines, nous recourons à une perspective sémiotique des outils de gestion. L’outil, en tant que signe constitué d’un artefact et d’un schème d’utilisation, est interprété par les acteurs et produit ainsi des fonctions instrumentales, prévues ou non par le concepteur de l’outil. Le cadre théorique retenu permet ainsi de comprendre les usages constatés au cours d’une étude de cas menée au sein d’un C.H.R.U.. Il permet au final de décliner cinq idéaux-types d’usage : l’application, le rejet, le déplacement, le détournement et l’adaptation. Pour une meilleure « gestion des outils de gestion », il faut apprendre à reconnaître ces types d’usage et les causes qui les amènent. / This doctoral work deals with the quality management tools’ use, by the professionals of health at the hospital. At the conclusion of a literature review concerning objects in the social sciences, we resort to a semiotic perspective of management tools. The tool, as a sign constituted by an artefact and a schema of use, is interpreted by the actors and so produces instrumental functions, planned or not planned by the designer of the tool. The chosen theoretical frame allows to understand the use noticed during a case study led within a C.H.R.U.. It allows finally to decline five ideals-types of usage: the application, the rejection, the movement, the diversion and the adaptation. For a better "management of management tools", it’s necessary to learn to recognize these types of usage and their causes.

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This thesis examines the dissemination of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" through the twentieth century. While scholars seem interested in "Prufrock" as an influential poem, it seems there is limited scholarship on how its influence was propagated. This thesis posits that Bohemianism was the cultural milieu by which "Prufrock" gained popularity and was subsequently appropriated. This thesis looks to Virginia Woolf's The Waves (1931), Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch (1963; English translation 1966), and Jack Kerouac's Big Sur (1962) as hypertexts of "Prufrock" and as examples of how Bohemianism acted as a factor in its appropriation. This thesis finds that Bohemianism, as a culture of collaboration built on its own myth, is a powerful source of intertextuality that likely could have subsumed "Prufrock" as part of that myth. / Master of Arts / This thesis is interested in the influence of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" on later novels of the twentieth century, focusing on Virginia Woolf's The Waves (1931), Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch (1963; English translation 1966), and Jack Kerouac's Big Sur (1962). "Prufrock" is a canonical text by T.S. Eliot and its contents (imagery, language, themes, etc.) were borrowed in later texts in a process known as appropriation. This thesis is specifically interested in why "Prufrock" was influential enough to be appropriated throughout the twentieth century and finds that the culture of Bohemianism is a possible explanation for that influence. Bohemianism describes an urban phenomenon of artists, writers, and intellectuals forming groups to discuss intellectual matters and collaborate on literary and artistic projects. This thesis finds that "Prufrock" contains qualities which appeal to Bohemian participants and as such it was taken up and appropriated as a poem by various Bohemian writers.

Drawing on previous literature in cultural gerontology, ageism and age relations, and cultural appropriation this study analyzes the recent grannyhair trend on instagram. Recently, younger women have been coloring their hair combinations of white, silver, and gray and posting images of their style on instagram with the #grannyhair designation. In this study we use an intersectional approach to age and gender relations to explore this phenomenon. Previous studies show that women's behaviors and presentations of aging are policed by cultural standards of age-appropriate appearance and performance, particularly in regards to their hair. Qualitative content analysis of #grannyhair images are examined to assess the extent of age-based stereotypes and policing of age-appropriate behavior and appearance. This study found that instagram users engaged in this trend did not challenge age relations. Rather, boundaries of age-appropriate behaviors enacted in the #grannyhair trend are largely set by younger users. The ways in which young users utilize ageist stereotypes as a way to emphasize the contrast between their stylistic choices and their status as young attractive women framed the #grannyhair trend as one of appropriation. That is, young women adopted gray, white, and silver hair as a cultural symbol and changed its original meaning as a marker of old age. Conversations among both young and old instagram users echoing previous literature that details the contentious relationships old women have with their aging bodies, and hair specifically. / Master of Science

Résumé : Confrontées à un environnement toujours plus turbulent et compétitif et à la nécessité de s'adapter avec souplesse et agilité, les entreprises ont de plus en plus recours aux technologies et aux applications informatiques collaboratives afin de créer et de mobiliser des équipes de projet. L'objectif sous-jacent est de les rendre aussi efficaces et efficientes que possible, indépendamment du lieu et du temps de travail. Dans ce contexte, les équipiers doivent s'approprier les technologies qui sont mises à leur disposition afin de se soutenir mutuellement et d'assurer la gestion des ressources dont ils disposent, de façon à produire leurs livrables efficacement et suivant le rendement attendu. L'objectif de cette thèse de doctorat est d'analyser si l'appropriation d'une technologie virtuelle de travail contribue effectivement à soutenir le fonctionnement interne et l'efficacité d'équipes de travail à durée déterminée, ainsi qu'à analyser le rôle médiateur du fonctionnement interne entre l'appropriation d'une part, et l'efficacité d'autre part. L'appropriation renvoie ici à la mesure dans laquelle les équipiers s'entendent a) sur les modalités d'utilisation (accord sur l'usage) de la technologie collaborative de travail qu'il partage et l'environnement virtuel qu'elle constitue, b) sur l'usage qu'ils en font, c) sur le sentiment de possession (appropriation psychologique) qu'ils peuvent exprimer à son égard. La présente recherche a été réalisée grâce à l'administration d'un questionnaire d'enquête auprès d'un échantillon de 304 personnes regroupées en 34 équipes de travail à durée déterminée. Les résultats obtenus permettent de constater que deux variables, soit l'appropriation psychologique et l'accord sur l'usage, sont liées positivement aux deux dimensions du fonctionnement interne de l'équipe, à savoir au soutien interpersonnel et à la gestion du travail d'équipe. L'accord sur l'usage est de surcroît lié aux trois critères d'efficacité, soit à la qualité de l'expérience groupale, à la pérennité et au rendement. L'appropriation psychologique n'est toutefois pas liée au troisième critère, soit au rendement. L'usage est lié uniquement au soutien interpersonnel et à la qualité de l'expérience groupale, et ce, de manière négative. Par ailleurs, les tests de médiation réalisés permettent de constater que le fonctionnement interne de l'équipe semble effectivement jouer un rôle médiateur entre, d'une part, l'appropriation psychologique et l'accord sur l'usage et, d'autre part, les trois critères d'efficacité. Cette thèse de doctorat contribue de plusieurs manières au développement de la connaissance. Elle permet d'abord de constater qu'il est possible de s'approprier psychologiquement un environnement virtuel de travail, et que cette appropriation est en lien avec le fonctionnement interne et l'efficacité des équipes de travail. De plus, elle permet aussi de constater que cette variable se distingue bien d'un autre construit, soit de l'accord sur l'usage. Il s'agit à ces égards d'une première qui a permis l'élaboration d'un instrument de mesure doté de propriétés psychométriques intéressantes. Elle contribue aussi à la généralisation possible d'une conception multidimensionnelle du fonctionnement interne et de l'efficacité des équipes de travail à durée déterminée. Le constat d'un rôle médiateur du fonctionnement interne entre deux formes d'appropriation et certains des critères d'efficacité constitue aussi une observation intéressante et inédite dans le contexte de l'usage d'une technologie collaborative au sein des équipes à durée déterminée. Ce cadre de mesure semble donc pouvoir s'appliquer aussi aux équipes de projet.||Abstract : Faced with an ever changing and compétitive environment, and with the necessity of adapting with agility and rapidly, companies rely more and more on technology and Groupware to create and mobilize project teams. The underlying objective is to make them as efficient and effective as possible, regardless of the time and place that members add their collaborations. In order to collaborate in such a context and to produce their work efficiently and according to the desired outcome, team members must first appropriate the technologies that are made available to them, whose purposes are mutual support and proper management of resources. The goal of this research is to analyze if the appropriation of a virtual office contributes effectively to support the team and the efficiency of project teamwork, as well as to analyze the mediating rôle of the internai functioning between appropriation and efficiency. In this case, appropriation refers to the measure of the team members' consent a) on the consensus on appropriation of the Groupware that they will be using and the virtual environment that it constitutes, b) on actual Groupware use, c) and on psychological appropriation towards the Groupware. This research was carried out by handing out a survey to a sample of 304 people grouped into thirty-four teams working on projects with fixed terms. The results of this study indicate that the two variables, psychological appropriation and consensus on appropriation, are positively correlated to the two dimensions of the internai functioning; interpersonal support and management of work. Moreover, the consensus on appropriatio is also linked to the three criteria for efficiency: the quality of the group work experience, the durability and the output. However, there is no indication of a corrélation between the psychological appropriation and the third factor of efficiency, output. The results do indicate that actual Groupware use is negatively connected to interpersonal support and to the quality of the group work experience. Indeed, the test for the mediating rôle of the internai functioning of the group indicate that there is, in fact, a relationship between the psychological appropriation and the consensus on appropriation, and the three factors of efficiency. This doctoral thesis contributes in many ways to the development of knowledge on this topic. Firstly, there is a clear démonstration that psychological appropriation is, in fact, possible for a virtual work environment, and that this appropriation has a link with the internai functioning and efficiency of a project team. Moreover, the research also helps to demonstrate that the psychological appropriation is distinct from other variables such as consensus on approproation. Indeed, this unique factor allowed for the création of an interesting new measuring device with psychometric attributes. The research also contributes to a certain généralization of the multidimensional conception of the internai functioning and efficiency of group work. Finally, the récognition of the mediating rôle of the internai functioning between two types of appropriation and some of the efficiency criteria is both interesting and un-heard of in the context of the use of Groupware by work group with fixed terms. So, it would seem that the measurement framework could also be applied to project teams.