ScholarWorks@Towson: Recent submissions
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Suburban Fear, Media and Gated Communities in Durban, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)A disjuncture between the reality of crime and its perception has created a culture of fear within South Africa that bolsters gated community development and an accompanying fear industry that supports media, private ... -
Moral Panics in Suburban Texas
(EASA Media Anthropology Network, 2007-03-06)This paper details portions of an ethnographic study of a moral panic that surrounded the heroin overdose deaths of several teenagers in the American suburb of Plano, Texas. Media ethnography engages numerous individuals ... -
Anthropology By the Wire
(2012)Anthropology by the Wire is a multi-media research project on urban and visual anthropology in Baltimore that is part of a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates grant at Towson University. In ... -
Teaching Somewhat Serious Games
(American Anthropological Association, 2017-11)Durington writes, "I am biased to the awkward moments in ethnography when anthropologists are put into sticky situations and ethical dilemmas. These moments are often the crux of fieldwork and their successful navigation ... -
"The Anthropology of Media" and "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain"
(American Ethnological Society, 2004-02)Book reviews of "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain". Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu‐Lughod, and Brian Larkin, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press and "The Anthropology of Media: A Reader". Kelly Askew and ... -
The Ethnographic Semiotics of a Suburban Moral Panic
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)This article describes Worth’s notion of ethnographic semiotics as part of an overall strategy employing the anthropology of visual communication in ethnographic research focused on media portrayals of a suburban community ... -
Images of Disability in News Media: Implications for Further Research
(1997-11)Even in the 1990s, little research has focused on how local media can more often and more accurately cover the disability community and disability issues. Some positive news coverage arose in the late 1980s because of ... -
Disability Rights on the Public Agenda: Elite News Media Coverage of The Americans With Disabilities Act
(Temple University, 1995)This dissertation undertook a content analysis of U.S. elite newspapers and the three major news magazines (N=524), news photographs (N=171), and TV network news (N =24) to understand how the news media presented the ... -
How popular culture can help bridge the achievement gap
(2019-03-19)[From Chapter 1] The American education system has innumerable problems: safety, standards, class size, infrastructure, teacher retention, and student retention are just a few. Floating betwixt and between these problems ... -
Reflection of the face
(2019-03-19)[From Introduction] The portrait is one of the oldest genres in history. It is the “form” of a person, and an expression of their inner spirituality. It was developed by artists under the influence of the social environment, ... -
Utilization of a clinical testing battery to help identify suspected hidden hearing loss (HHL) in humans
(2019-03-19)Objective: The goal of the current study was to investigate the potential presence of hidden hearing loss (HHL) in adult participants with and without a reported history of noise exposure. Methods: Six normal hearing ... -
Contrast avoidance model: relationship to intolerance of uncertainty and fear of change
(2019-03-18)The current study aimed to examine the relationship between, Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) model (Dugas, Gagnon, Ladouceur, & Freeston, 1998b) and the Contrast Avoidance model (CAM) (Newman & Llera, 2011), two theories ... -
Dissociative disorder treatment in practice: an exploration of community clinicians’ adherence to expert recommended frequency of interventions
(2019-03-15)Few clinicians have been trained to treat patients with dissociative disorders (DD), despite their prevalence. An online educational program for DD patients and their clinicians was developed to make training for DD treatment ... -
Versus
(2019-03-15)Mario C. Sam's thesis, Versus, explores the compositions created by events, experiences, and emotions in our internal and external worlds. We begin as a unique combination of physical elements. Atop this come ephemeral ... -
Wrath of the narcissists: vulnerable narcissism predicts greater spiteful punishment of a third-party transgressor
(2019-03-15)Self-enhancement motivations underlie a bevy of behaviors with the purpose of achieving and maintaining high, healthy self esteem. However, in individuals with especially favorable self-views (i.e., narcissists), ... -
Coping styles and protective factors as moderators of adjustment after trauma exposure
(2019-03-14)Over 50% of individuals experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime which can range widely from a car accident to torture. These experiences are extremely aversive and result in negative life outcomes including ... -
A tutorial on the practice and implementation of teleaudiology for audiologists and hearing healthcare professionals
(2019-03-13)Telehealth is a mode of healthcare delivery that has been developed as a result of recent advancements in technology. It has been used to bridge the geographical distance between patients and healthcare providers, as well ... -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his Violin sonata in D minor: a lost romantic
(2019-03-13)[From Introduction] There are few composers of African descent in the history of western classical music who have achieved memorable and long lasting success. The few names that are often recognized are French composer ... -
Vestibular dysfunction and brain fog
(2019-03-12)Some patients with vestibular loss report experiencing a phenomenon called brain fog. While used relatively common, the exact meaning of the term is still unclear. In this study we attempted to understand the essence of ... -
An analysis of the influence of preceding precipitation on the signature of Baltimore’s surface urban heat island
(2019-03-12)Surface Urban Heat Islands (SUHI) are urban areas where temperatures exceed that of their rural counterparts. SUHIs are caused by alterations of the land surface by humans, generally from natural vegetated surfaces to urban ...