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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:: This dissertation examines the birth and rise of orthorexia nervosa, a proposed psychiatric diagnosis described as a pathological fixation with healthy eating. Orthorexia made its first public appearance in the pages of a popular magazine for yoga practitioners in 1997, and later in a self-help book on the subject. Despite...
Keyword:: health journalism, media, medicalization, orthorexia, and mediatization
Subject:: Mental health, Sociology, and Communication
Creator:: Ross Arguedas, Amy A.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/29/2020
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_715870 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14974

Description:: This project explores historical questions of televisual form and cultural production, centering on the proliferation of media texts that mobilize real-life misfortune as a form of entertainment in U.S. television and culture. Specifically, it examines how a variety of "reality" formats in contemporary television stage and exploit spectacles of failure,...
Keyword:: television, media, and schadenfreude
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Amber Eliza Watts
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/11/2018
Date Modified:: 09/11/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-12
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The aim of the present investigation was to examine the nature of individuals' parasocial relationships (one-sided attachments to media figures, Horton & Wohl, 1956). Five studies were designed to assess the prevalence and strength of individuals' attachments to their favorite television characters, manipulate exposure to the character or control targets,...
Keyword:: media, parasocial relationships, and belonging needs
Subject:: Psychology
Creator:: Megan Lynn Knowles
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/27/2018
Date Modified:: 06/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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