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Fall 2013
This thesis will engage with a multitude of critical theories, sociological studies, and political legislation in an attempt to demonstrate the role female-centered literature is playing in the cultural revision of the Irish nation at the turn of the twenty-first century. In an effort to...
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Fall 2012
This dissertation is about the work of melancholy in the Victorian realist novel, particularly those texts written in the late 1840s. The representation of melancholy affords an examination of a wide scope of issues that relate to the family, generally, and to the role of the middle-class women...
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2012-01-01
Introduction: I can trade an interest in mothers and daughters throughout my academic career, from my undergraduate thesis as an English major on the development of the maternal role in the novels of Jane Austen to a later dissertation proposal on mothers and daughters in the novels of...
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2022
Over the last decade, the increased use of social media has led to an increase in hateful activities in social networks. An international issue that weakens the cohesiveness of civil societies is hate speech on internet social networks. Due to the lack of restrictions set by these sites for its...
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Accountability, Exile and Social Media: An Analysis of Contemporary Online Public Shaming Practices and "Cancel Culture"
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What is unique about contemporary online public shaming practices is the potential scope and reach facilitated by social media, where call-outs can go viral and a collective response can be provoked by reaching a massive audience in a short amount of time. Call-outs can at once be ephemeral (they...
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All in the Lacy Detail. Undressing the Victim and Stripping Back the Meaning: A Critical Discourse and Semiotic Analysis of the Use of the Underwear as Evidence in Rape Trials.
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This paper employs both a Semiotic perspective and Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the use of underwear in the Cork, Ireland rape case, exploring how meaning is constructed through gendered symbols when employed in legal and online settings. Research examines data samples extracted from...
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Alternative Social Media for Outreach and Engagement: Considering Technology Stewardship as a Pathway to Adoption
Download2020-01-01
Commercial social media (CSM) play a vital role in support of community outreach and engagement. Despite the apparent benefits of CSM, its widespread use raises important concerns about privacy and surveillance, limits on innovation, and data residency for the organizations that increasingly rely...
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Autonomous Mothers and Social Policy: How the CCTB, UCCB, and Alberta Child Care Subsidies Govern Women's Autonomy in Motherhood
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Liberalism’s conceit is the separation of the private from the public sphere, a conceit that, in turn, supports a common sense in which families are understood to be private entities that exist outside the purview of the state. And yet, Canadian income support programs clearly demonstrate the...