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Description:: This dissertation explores how dominant U.S. constructions of race, class, and gender are embedded into and inscribed onto artificially intelligent virtual assistants and the labors they perform. I examine virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana, interrogating their complex relationship to humanness, the tasks they are programmed...
Keyword:: haunting, media, labor, Black, domestic, and technology
Subject:: African American studies, Gender studies, and Film studies
Creator:: Owens, Golden M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16772 and etdadmin_upload_1014053

Description:: Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of infant morbidity worldwide. Approximately 380,000 babies are born prematurely in the USA every year. Estrogen (E2) and progesterone (P4) play essential roles during pregnancy and labor; a clear understanding of their action mechanisms, however, is lacking. E2 and P4 function by activating...
Keyword:: progesterone receptor, estrogen receptor, labor, genome-wide, ChIP-Seq, and RNA-Seq
Subject:: Obstetrics, Cellular biology, and Developmental biology
Creator:: Dotts, Ariel Janiece
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_908705 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16117

Description:: Between the 1880s and the 1980s, typography mutated from an entirely manual, craft-based practice to a comprehensively mechanized, then a fully digitized one. With the arrival of Apple’s Macintosh computer in 1984, the graphic design profession found itself in the midst of a deep transformation of its tools, techniques, and...
Keyword:: graphic design, postmodernism, labor, theory, typography, and capitalism
Subject:: Design, Art history, and American studies
Creator:: Brown, Jefferson Dakota
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15992 and etdadmin_upload_894059

Description:: This dissertation argues that the convergence of industrialized wage-labor, increased economic precariousness, close and partisan elections, and weak ballot laws dramatically increased the incidence of economic voter intimidation between 1873 and 1896. When this form of coercion primarily affected African American voters, as it did in the 1860s, politicians did...
Keyword:: elections, coercion, secret ballot, labor, race, and voter intimidation
Subject:: History, American history, and Political science
Creator:: Cohn-Postar, Gideon
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15213 and etdadmin_upload_759978

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