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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Genre And Persona In Activist Websites

Boreman, Margaret M.F. 01 January 2004 (has links)
Digital texts present significant challenges to technical communicators in terms of genre and persona. Because of the ubiquity of electronic media, we increasingly embrace digital formats over print-based documents. As a result, technical communicators must now devise the means to cue audiences to the purposes of digital documents in any given discourse community. We can only convey meaning to our Internet audiences through the use of appropriate standards and elements recognizable generic forms and rhetorical cues that we designate as conventions in specific digital discourse. Just as we use file and folder office metaphors for information stored on computers, digital activist communities use campaign metaphors to signal the intentions of their electronic pages. Although these electronic pages, such as Take Action, Donate, Lobby, and Speak Out, have the same names as their print-based counterparts, they represent digital generic forms, such as letters, flyers, and receivables, which occur in a virtual world rather than genres that exist in a physical community. If we examine activist sites in terms of digital-format texts, we can become familiar with the genre and forms of activist sites and determine site-visitor responses to the personas of the sites, which will help us to determine our ability to inform our audiences and call them to action. This study looks at six activist websites in terms of genre and persona to identify electronic-text conventions and forms that must be recognizable to site visitors in order for digital activists to effectively communicate. Activist organizations were among the first to understand the power of digital media as tools to disseminate information, lobby decision-makers, boycott corporations, broadcast opportunities for real and virtual legal protests and civil disobedience, and engage in subversive activities. Activist websites already use a number of text forms and visual rhetorical elements to cue the site visitor; many of these text forms are common to the activist websites examined for this thesis and constitute an identifiable and distinct genre. In terms of persona, this study examines the electronic public self of activist websites. The arena is a metaphor for the virtual world; the rhetors are the activist sites; and the debate the intertextual conversation is the digital discourse that occurs among website users, activist sites, and targets. By categorizing activist sites in terms of their primary activities helping, protest, and revolutionary - we determine which elements of genre repeat according to categories and we ultimately gauge the intensity of the outcome that the website rhetor hopes to create in the user. Designers and owners of activist sites have goals which can only be reached by means of effective, well-considered, digital genre and persona. Because many technical communicators and students of technical communication first experience the profession through service learning for a nongovernmental organization often an activist organization this study will help those technical communicators to reconsider their own assumptions about genre and persona and may lead those students to understand the importance of privileging genre and persona when designing and redesigning digital texts. This study provides a framework that both experienced and new technical communicators can apply to documents in order to (1) cue site visitors to the meaning of electronic texts and (2) construct effective public personas in the digital forum.
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"In The Drowning City" And Other Stories

Segarra, Malyn Matilde 01 January 2007 (has links)
In the Drowning City and Other Stories is a collection of fiction written and revised during Malyn Segarra's graduate studies at the University of Central Florida. Most of the collection examines the transient nature and fragility of identity and shifting roles within the family unit. All focus on a particular span of time, the transition into young adulthood. Each character is faced with an obstacle or event that tests his or her beliefs, integrity and sense of self. As each one struggles to make a unique and permanent impression in the world, he or she must come to terms with the past, in some cases, breaking away from it. Although the characters come from varying backgrounds, the themes that thread the collection are universal. The three stories that serve as the backbone of the collection, "Slashing, Tripping and Other Offensive Plays," "In the Drowning City," and "This Is Just a Modern Love Song" find the protagonists striving to adapt to their newly transformed environments. As the situations they face become more complicated and the resolutions exceedingly compromised, the innocence and certainty associated with childhood is jeopardized.
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L'écriture inclusive : analyse définitionnelle et socio-discursive d'un phénomène linguistique

Drouin, Samuel 29 September 2021 (has links)
En 2017, la publication d’un manuel scolaire par la maison d’édition française Hatier a fait polémique du fait de son usage de l’écriture inclusive. La présente thèse, « Écriture inclusive : analyse définitionnelle et socio-discursive d’un phénomène linguistique », analyse 10 études publiées entre les années 2017 et 2019 inclusivement. Son objectif est de mettre en relief la lutte idéologique qui se joue autour de cette « écriture » en examinant les différentes définitions qui en sont données, ainsi que les divers arguments qui sont invoqués en sa faveur ou en sa défaveur. Nous commençons par présenter les origines du phénomène et nos assises théoriques et méthodologiques avant de consacrer nos deux principaux chapitres à l’analyse des définitions de l’écriture inclusive et des arguments avancés. Puisque ce travail se situe dans une démarche avant tout féministe, nous empruntons de nombreux outils et concepts de ce domaine scientifique, notamment l’écriture féministe, le point de vue situé, le féminisme matérialiste et la notion de genre. À partir d’une approche transdisciplinaire combinant notamment la linguistique, le féminisme, la théorie queer et l’analyse du discours, nous tentons de mieux comprendre le phénomène de l’écriture inclusive et la part plus ou moins scientifique qu’y jouent les spécialistes qui s’y intéressent. Nos résultats montrent une variété de définitions qui se recoupent néanmoins sur les critères suivants : constituer un ensemble de pratiques linguistiques, contrer la règle grammaticale du « masculin qui l’emporte sur le féminin » et inscrire l’entièreté des genres sociaux du spectre. Les arguments évoqués par les auteurs révèlent que ces derniers se situent parfois du côté de la scientificité, de celui du militantisme, ou parfois dans un mélange des deux. Cette vue d’ensemble nous a permis de dégager une définition générale du phénomène et une méthode pour appréhender le positionnement objectif et subjectif des personnes qui s’y intéressent.
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L’intersection du handicap et du genre : emploi des femmes handicapées chinoises

Pan, Yanni 07 December 2023 (has links)
Cette thèse porte sur l’emploi des femmes handicapées chinoises. Elle a pour objectif de documenter l’expérience des femmes handicapées chinoises sur le marché du travail, d’explorer comment les oppressions de genre et de handicap sont interreliées pour construire leur situation d’emploi spécifique, de refléter leurs réactions à une telle situation d’emploi et de comprendre leurs besoins spécifiques en matière d’emploi pour fournir des conseils au gouvernement chinois sur l’élaboration, la promulgation ou l’amélioration des lois et des règlements à leur égard. Elle cherche à répondre aux questions : comment les femmes handicapées chinoises vivent-elles leur relation au marché du travail ? Dans quelle mesure les femmes handicapées ont-elles des difficultés à entrer sur le marché du travail et à se maintenir en poste ? Comment réagissent-elles les femmes handicapées à une telle situation d’emploi ? Comment peut-on améliorer leur emploi du point de vue des femmes handicapées ? Elle est réalisée à partir de 13 entretiens semi-dirigés avec des femmes handicapées âgées de 18 à 54 ans. Elle combine la perspective de Revillard, qui propose de comprendre le handicap par l’expérience sociale du handicap, avec l’approche féministe matérialiste, l’approche féministe intersectionnelle et la perspective des droits de la personne pour comprendre les obstacles que rencontrent les femmes handicapées chinoises en ce qui a trait à l’emploi.
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"Cirkeln är svaret" : En studie om etiska och religiösa teman i Cirkeln / "The circle is the answer" : A study on ethical and religious themes in Cirkeln

Sandström, Isabelle, Sandberg, Sara-Lisa January 2022 (has links)
In this study we have analyzed the Swedish fantasy novel Cirkeln by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren (2011). The aim of the analysis was to investigate how the fantasy genre is influenced by christian ethics, and whether it is possible to use this novel when teaching students in upper secondary school about the core values expressed in the school curriculum, which is based on the values and ethics of western christian society. We also ask if the novel Cirkeln carries other religious influences that might deepen the student’s understanding of the world outside of their own. The study showed that there are many parallels to both christianity and the pagan religion wicca in the novel, which makes it an excellent foundation for conversations about religion, values and moral dilemmas in school.
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Treacherous, Deviant, and Submissive: Female Sexuality Represented in the Character Catwoman

Lecker, Michael 26 March 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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The Changing Face of the Western: An Analysis of Hollywood Western Films from Director John Ford and Others During the Years 1939 to 1964

Spicer, Jeffrey A. 09 May 2012 (has links)
No description available.
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Progress, Process and the Critique of Development: The Interplay of Gender and Genre in The Morgesons

Graber, Janet E. January 1984 (has links)
No description available.
219

FOUR TWENTIETH-CENTURY SONATINAS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO

HÖHMANN, REIKO CHRISTINE 03 April 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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Hybrid Genre and Character Representation: Noir, Fantasy, and Fantasy Noir in Constantine, Pushing Daisies, and The Dresden Files

Campos, Brielle R. 01 June 2016 (has links)
No description available.

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