Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Aghilidehkordi, Bamdad
- 1Aizouky, Zeina
- 1Au, Kara Wai-Fong
- 1Barnard, Sara H.
- 1Barnes, Kateryna Sarah Ellwood
- 1Beyer, Jocelyn Ann
Results for "departments_tesim:"digital humanities""
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Fall 2020
This thesis analyzes a compilation of tweets from a specific digital social movement, Amnesty International’s #TakeAction. This campaign was a strategy from the humanitarian organization to transform the refugee crisis from a global into a personal concern for millions of people. The main...
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Spring 2019
The use of interventionist art to effect the neoliberal status quo was studied through a research creation at The University of Alberta in the form of a guerilla style art show. The main goal was to apply Chantal Mouffe’s theory of Agonistic Space, Donella Meadows’ Leverage Points, and Lawrence...
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Fall 2020
Machine translation is one of the most important tasks in the automatic processing of the natural languages, but its systems are still very far from achieving any performance close to ideal human translation due to many obstacles and difficulties. For example, grammatical rules between different...
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Fall 2019
The 2008 debut of Bitcoin marked the first large-scale implementation of blockchain technology, and its decentralized approach to monetary systems has since been abstracted to more generalized purposes like distributed computing. Platforms like Ethereum, which function as a global, decentralized...
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Comfort Quest: Designing a Game to Help People with Anxiety Disorder Through Wellness Strategies and Comfort
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Comfort Quest is a game to help people ridden with anxiety disorders take back control of their lives and minds by providing a safe and comfortable world and teaching wellness strategies. By deciding what elements of design are shown to decrease stress in reality and how one can design a video...
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Spring 2020
In a world inundated with information that is becoming increasingly more digital by the day there is value in unique academic disciplines that can make sense of this new landscape—interdisciplinary fields like the Digital Humanities (DH). DH scholars have the ability to breach the divide between
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Fall 2021
On July 24th 2020, members of Beaver Hills Warriors, Black Lives Matter YEG, Treaty Six Outreach, community Elders, and the Crazy Indian Brotherhood set up camp on a piece of land near downtown Edmonton in protest of police violence targeting unhoused people in the city. For the next four months...
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Embracing the Friction: Towards a computationally aware approach to humanistic data interfaces
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Inherent to interdisciplinary work is the negotiation of two or more sets of—often contradictory—domain epistemologies and methodologies. In the context of the Digital Humanities, the friction between its composite domains is particularly strong with respect to data processing and display, where
the ambiguity, complexity, and nuance that characterise humanities data stand in opposition to the binary and discrete representations required by computationally compatible encodings. Digital Humanities data interfaces have historically submitted to the simplification and categorisation imposed by
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Enabling Access to the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives: A Case Study in Digital Archive Design
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In the 1930s, over 2 300 former enslaved people were interviewed, taped, and photographed as part of the American Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). No other initiative recorded to such a great extent the voices of the formerly enslaved. Although this collection has great utility for scholarly...
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Fall 2020
The way that people play games has changed. This is especially true for both highly competitive games and online games. Expert play, a category of play undertaken by players who have a strong understanding of the game they are playing and are trying their best to excel at, is particularly...