Browsing ScholarWorks@Towson by Type "journal articles"
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Anthropocene and elemental multiplicity
(Duke University Press, 2017-03-01)Our hope in the present essay is to provide a figure for thought in response to what Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer first named "the Anthropocene." Our interest is not in providing a substitute for this concept, but in ... -
Are disability images in advertising becoming bold and daring? An analysis of prominent themes in US and UK campaigns
(Ohio State University Libraries, 2006)Advertisements featuring disabled people have become more noticeable in the United States (USA) and Great Britain/United Kingdom (UK) in the last decade. The focus of this article is to qualitatively analyze a selection ... -
Baltimore steel stories
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-11)The article offers information on the efforts to chronicle the economic and personal changes people have endured in Baltimore, Maryland, to make sense of their lives and represent the contradictions of capitalism which ... -
Beyond harem walls: redefining women's space in works by Assia Djebar, Malek Alloula and Fatima Mernissi
(Brill, 2009-01-01)Orientalist and colonial representations of harems have resulted in the association of North African women with domestic confinement. North African authors such as Assia Djebar (1980), Malek Alloula (1981) and Fatima ... -
Beyond the talk-back: performing autoethnography and the functions of critique
(University of California Press, 2017-10-26)Reflecting on my own experiences with talk-backs and audience responses, this manuscript uses metaphor to map the functions of autoethnographic performance critique. Through an exploration of vulnerability within performance, ... -
Broadsides on the Thames: the social context of The rape of the lock, II, 47-52
(Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1986)[From article]: As Reuben Brower has shown, allusion in Pope is a resource equivalent to metaphor and imagery in other poets1 1 R. A. Brower, Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion (Oxford, 1959). . Yet it is not merely ... -
Can a Gentleman Rage?: Ben Franklin on the Curve of Satire
(Central Piedmont Community College (Charlotte, N.C.), 2011)[From article]: It was the Golden Age of satire, the eighteenth century in England, and Swift, Pope, Gay, Addison and Steele, Fielding, and Jane Austen were the gold standard. Never has a country before or since produced ... -
Can online buddies and bandwagon cues enhance user participation in online health communities?
(Elsevier, 2014-08)Individuals are more likely to obtain information and support from online health communities than offer help to other users (Fox & Jones, 2009; Preece, Nonnecke, & Andrews, 2004). The current study attempts to resolve this ... -
Characterising social structural and linguistic behaviours of subgroup interactions: a case of online health communities for postpartum depression on Facebook
(Inderscience, 2020-07-10)Online health communities (OHCs) have become a major source of sharing knowledge and social support for people with health concerns. The present paper aimed to extend the previous understanding of community dynamics of two ... -
Civic Engagement and Gentrification Issues in Metropolitan Baltimore
(Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2009)Since the fall of 2006 a number of Towson University students concentrating in the discipline of anthropology have been part of a civic engagement and service-learning project focusing on an historic African-American ... -
A Cloud of Witnesses: External Mediation in Frodo’s Journey to Rivendell and Beyond
(The Mythopoeic Society, 2018)Applies Rene Girard’s mimetic theory to a study of Frodo’s motivations and role models in the early phases of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien’s incorporation of extensive background material deepens our understanding of his ... -
College students’ motivations for using podcasts
(National Association for Media Literacy Education, 2016-01-08)Despite potential benefits of podcasts for college education, little research has examined students’ psychological drives for using podcasts. To explore the relationship between the use of podcasts and college students’a ... -
Communicating art, virtually!: psychological effects of technological affordances in a virtual museum
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-05-27)Museums lean heavily on recent developments in communication technologies to create an authentic experience for online visitors of its galleries. This study examines whether three specific affordances of communication ... -
The Commutation Test and Chris Bacon’s Score for Source Code as a Framework for Film Music Pedagogy
(2018-05-10)This article lays out a theoretical foundation for the use of the commutation test as a film music-based pedagogical tool. The main titles sequence of Source Code (2011, directed by Duncan Jones) provides an effective ... -
Content & character: Disability publications in the late 1990s
(Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2000)Disability publications fit with other types of alternative or dissident media in U.S. society because they advocate on behalf of a distinctive U.S. group, which has come together to form a political and social community. ... -
Continental drift: the disjunction of north and sub-Saharan Africa
(Indiana University Press, 2011-01)Research and popular imaginative views of Africa in the last few decades have tended to leave out the northern region, even when referring to the continent as a whole. In many academic disciplines, “Africa” and “The Arab ... -
The critical lede: new media and ecological balance
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-01)As co-hosts of the podcast The Critical Lede (TCL), we find ourselves at a moment where new media projects are bursting onto the scene of not only communication/ performance studies but also all fields of academe. That we ... -
Diffusion and decoupling in the world heritage movement: exploring global/local tensions in Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-16)A common critique of world society theory is that it overemphasises processes of institutional expansion and isomorphism, and underemphasises instances of decoupling and local variation. We address this concern head-on ... -
Digital discourses: implementing technology within the public speaking classroom
(Indiana University, 2013-06)In this semester-long project, students will be able to utilize various digital tools to meet four outcomes within the Public Speaking classroom. First, we are focused on the student’s ability to demonstrate critical ... -
The (dis)appearance of Up your ass: Valerie Solanas as abject revolutionary
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-03-14)Through performative writing and using Cixous' notion of écriture feminine, this piece explores how the archival and treatment of Valerie Solanas' ‘lost’ manuscript Up Your Ass marks her as an abject body. Further, this ...