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Graduate Student Theses Titles

2004 / 2003 / 2002 / 2001

2005

BRETT CAMPER
The Game Boy Advance Homebrew Scene: Negotiating Technology, Culture, and Law in an Amateur Development Community

JOELLEN EASTON
High Interactivity Radio: Using the Internet to Enhance Community Among Radio Listeners

BRIAN JACOBSON
Construction of Cinematic Space: Spatial Practise at the Intersection of Film and Theory

ANDREA McCARTY
Toying with Obsolescence: The Fisher Price PXL 2000 Camera

REKHA MURTHY
Street Media: Ambient Messages in an Urban Space

KAREN SCHRIER
Revolutionizing History Education: Using Augmented Reality Games to Teach History

PARMESH SHAHANI
Disco Jalebi: An Ethnographic Exploration of Gay Bombay

2004

R.J. BAIN
Rethinking the Informed Citizen in an Age of Hybrid Media Genres: Tanner '88, K-Street and the Fictionalization of the News

MICHAEL EPSTEIN
Moving Fiction: Novelists, Mobile Technology Designers, and the Art of Exchange

CLARA FERNANDEZ-VARA
Orson Welles' Intermedial Versions of Shakespeare in Theatre, Radio and Film

CRISTOBAL GARCIA-HERRERA
Spacing Innovation and Learning in Design Organizations

NEETI GUPTA
Grande Wi-Fi: Understanding What Wi-Fi Users Are Doing in Coffee-Shops

MONETA HO
From Physical to Virtual: Extending the Gallery Experience Online

MATTHEW WEISE
Understanding Meaningfulness in Videogames

YANNIS ZAVOLEAS
Representing, Replicating, Replacing. Dilemmas of Artistic Evaluation in the Media Age: Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and its Changing Artifactual and Artistic Status

2003

STEPHANIE DAVENPORT
Experiments in Corporate Collaboration: The Case of the Ars Electronica FutureLab

NADYA DIREKOVA
Biligual By Design: A Design Study of Bilingual Toys and Material Play Culture for Children Bilingual in French and English, age 6-8

ROBIN HAUCK
Popcorn Moms: Decoding Representations of Motherhood in Popular American Cinema, 1979-1989

ZHAN LI
The Potential of America's Army the Video Game as Civilian-Military Public Sphere

SUSANNAH MANDEL
"Under the Hood": Metaphors and Representation of Masculinity and Homosexuality in American Superhero Comics After 1985

HEATHER MILLER
The Book as Looking Glass: Improving works for and about children in early modern England

ASWIN PUNATHEMBEKAR
Kuch To Hota Hai: Desis and Hindi Films in the Diaspora

SANGITA SHRESTHOVA
Strictly Bollywood? Story, Camera, and Movement in Hindi Film Dance

PHILIP TAN
Tensions in Live-Action Roleplaying Game Design: A Case Study with the MIT Assassins' Guild

2002

CANDIS CALLISON
A Digital Assemblage: Diagramming the Social Realities of the Stikine River Watershed

ANITA CHAN
Collaborative News Networks: Distributed Editing, Collective Action, and the Construction of Online News on Slashdot.org

SOPHIE ORMEROD
The Medium Still Isn't the Message: Revisiting the Link Between Communication Technologies and Political Liberlization

QI WANG
Negotiating Realists: The Sixth Generation of Chinese Filmmakers

MARGARET WEIGEL
The Commoditable Block Party: Signs in Manhattan, 1881-1917

MICHELLE WOODWARD
The Construction of Photojournalism: Visual Style and Branding in the Magnum Photos Agency

2001

JAMES BIZZOCCHI
Ceremony of Innocence: A Case Study in the Emergent Poetics of Interactive Narrative

CYNTHIA CONTI
"Stepping Up to the Mic": Le Tigre Strategized Third Wave Feminist Activism through Music and Perfomance

DAVID SPITZ
Contested Codes: Towards a Social History of Napster

CHRISTA STARR
Spiritulacra and Spiritulation: Exploring Reality through the Ghost Story as a Form of Media and Entertainment

CHRISTOPHER YORK
The Anthropology of Primitivism: Poetics, Politics, and Culture in Modernist New Mexico


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