Browsing by Subject "Communication"
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Augmented Reality as a new Medium: Remediation and Novel Form
(2015-08-28)This dissertation is a pioneering exploration and mapping of the vast terrain of Augmented Reality (AR) as a new medium experienced from the unique perspective of being both a practitioner and academic researcher working ... -
Brotherly Love: Remaking Homosociality and Masculinity in Fan Fiction
(2017-07-27)Studies on fan fiction have traditionally employed ethnographic or literary methods to study the activities of fans. Since the 1980s scholars have focused particularly on slash fiction as unique and subversive, but this ... -
"Clickers" Give Students a Voice in Large-Sized Classrooms
(2012)The PRS technology, or “clickers”, can help extend and observe student participation in large-sized classrooms. It allows for students to engage with course material in different ways, and may also encourage them to address ... -
Climate Change and Popular Culture: reframing climate change to incite action
(2017)Anthropogenic, or human caused climate change is no longer a hypothetical, future risk. It is wreaking havoc on our landscapes and weather patterns, and the effects of it will only continue to increase in severity and ... -
Collaborating for Better Outcomes: Exploring the Link Between Nurse-Nurse Collaboration and Nurse Job Satisfaction
(2016-09-20)As Registered Nurses (RNs) are crucial to delivering care, it is important to determine the factors which contribute to a healthy work environment for nurses and positive outcomes for patients. Past research has focused ... -
Conceptual Constraints and the Graphic Design Process: An Investigation into Creativity and How Self-imposed Conceptual Constraints Can Affect Banal Information
(2015-12-16)The discipline of graphic design has an important role to play in developing how information is conveyed and consumed. This thesis has focused on uncovering how including self-imposed conceptual constraints in the design ... -
Confess the Gay Away? Media, Religion, and the Political Economy of Ex-Gay Therapy
(2015-08-28)The “ex-gay” movement does not encourage people to pray the gay away but confess it away. As a loose organization of mostly Christian ministries and psychotherapy practices offering “freedom from homosexuality,” the movement ... -
Deaf and Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Impact on Child and Family
(2016-09-20)The goal of this study was to identify similarities and differences between individuals who are Deaf, who are hearing with ASD and those who are both Deaf and have ASD on measures of communication, behaviour, and social ... -
Denial of Service in Web-Domains: Building Defenses Against Next-Generation Attack Behavior
(2016-11-25)The existing state-of-the-art in the field of application layer Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection is generally designed, and thus effective, only for static web domains. To the best of our knowledge, our work ... -
Emotion Does Not Have to Cause Harm to an Argument
(2009)The presence of emotion does not necessarily harm an argument. Emotion can play a role in traditional, logic-based theories of argumentation. -
Enhancing the VANET Network Layer
(2017-07-27)The aim of this thesis is to examine existing VANET network layer functionality and to propose enhancements to the VANET network layer to facilitate vehicular (V2X) communication. This thesis proposes three enhancements ... -
Experimental Results and Proposed Electromechanical Model for Vibrational Communication in Mining and Oil-Gas Drill Strings
(CSME-SCGM, 2018-05)In borehole mining and oil and gas drilling, the drilling process is invisible from the surface, which is why a two-way communication method between the drill head and the surface is a must. The popular industrial ... -
Feral Ecologies: A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Media
(2017-07-27)This dissertation wonders what non-human animals can illuminate about media in the visible contact zones where they meet. It treats these zones as rich field sites from which to excavate neglected material-discursive-semiotic ... -
Folkloric Flux
(2016-09-20)This paper accompanies the authors original symphony for large orchestra, folkloric flux. Although primarily based on traditional symphonic formal and developmental features, folkloric flux also employs narrative to guide ... -
Giving Voice to Expressions of Quality of Life for Persons Living With Dementia Through Story, Music, and Art
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc., 2005-01)The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to give voice to expressions of quality of life for persons who live with dementia and who reside in long-term care, primarily on locked cognitive support units.With ... -
Global Narratives and the Vulnerable Frontiers: A critical assessment of global climate change communication processes and traditional retentions
(2019-07-02)Contemporary ecological issues compound environmental communications primary challenge of raising public consciousness and effectively mobilizing agency to mount robust systemic and practical actions. This fundamental ... -
Identity and Pragmatic Transfer: The Role of Omani EFL Learners' Identities in Their Pragmatics Choices in English
(2016-11-25)Several researchers contend that learners identities influence their understanding and use of L2 pragmatics (e.g., Blum-Kulka, 1991; Kasper & Schmidt, 1996). They observe that L2 learners might be aware of L2 sociopragmatic ... -
If I had a talking picture of you
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Individualised Environmentalism(s): The Deadly Sins of Environmental Organisations
(2015-12-16)This study utilises the theories of Harold Innis to discern how environmental organisations in Toronto, Ontario are impeded by consumer capitalist biases toward mechanisation, individualisation, quantification, and the ... -
Mangos with Chili: Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour Performance as Social Movement Building
(2015-08-28)Mangos with Chili (MWC) is a two-spirit, queer and trans people of color (2-QTPOC) performance arts cabaret based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This research focuses on MWC performance content and personal interviews with ...