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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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Spring 2020
My thesis examines how digital community heritage projects use care practices based in community participation and co-creation to build a care-based collection model. These grassroots initiatives aim to gather and document community history by engaging community members in the collection building...
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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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Spring 2022
Using an online survey, this research explores public opinion related to ethical concerns and the portrayal of human-like characteristics by Virtual Assistants (VAs), such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. This research is centered around two research questions: 1) What ethical concerns, if...
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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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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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Educating and Empowering Teen Activists in Public Libraries: A Case Study of the Impact of Reading on Young Adult Social Justice Actions
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In recent years, young adult (YA) fiction has, like its Generation Z audience, turned to social justice issues and activism. At the same time, the discussion of social responsibility in librarianship has begun to include human rights and social justice. This thesis investigates the relationships...
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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...