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Description:: As machines take over the work of producing, organizing, and curating culture, it becomes increasingly important to examine the influence of algorithms in public memory work, through which the past is selectively and subjectively reconstructed to make meaning in the present. Accordingly, this dissertation intervenes at the intersection of public...
Keyword:: public memory, media archaeology, rhetoric, memorials, media studies, and algorithmic culture
Subject:: Rhetoric
Creator:: Lingo, Sarah Katherine
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_947105 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16370

Description:: This project addresses the uses of coalition in US political imaginaries throughout the 1930s and 1960s. Throughout this period, public familiarity with “coalition” undergoes a marked transformation: whether deployed as argument, performance, or organizational form. Analysis focuses on three case studies: accounts in the national and Black press of a...
Keyword:: Black freedom, Chicago Freedom Movement, coalition, political imagination, New Deal, and March on Washington
Subject:: African American studies and Rhetoric
Creator:: Molina, David Miguel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/06/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_845267 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15764

Description:: Pablo Escobar is not only part of Colombia’s cruel past but also of its very difficult present. Escobar was one of the first major modern drug traffickers, and the founder and head of the Medellín Cartel. He was responsible for more than four thousand deaths. He had an incalculable fortune...
Keyword:: Pablo Escobar, Colombian Newspapers, Persona, Humor, Metaphor, and The War on Drugs
Subject:: Journalism, Rhetoric, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Uribe Rincón, Catalina
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_761642 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15225

Description:: There is a paradox at the center of twenty-first century American poverty. On the one hand, American poverty seems to have become an object of significant interest (at least to scholars and to the reading public)—as evidenced through the surge of wildly successful non-fiction books about poverty. On the other...
Keyword:: Poverty, Precarity, America, Inequality, and Poor
Subject:: Economic history, Rhetoric, and American studies
Creator:: Olson-Mayes, Liam Carlyle
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:15376 and etdadmin_upload_779729

Description:: Recent decades have seen fan and “geek” culture become widely popular as the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero stories that used to be the preserve of a smaller subculture of die-hard fans conquered the box office, our televisions, and the best-seller lists. In that same time period, the Internet has...
Keyword:: fan entitlement, fandom, and fan culture
Subject:: Rhetoric and Communication
Creator:: Kaudel, Donna
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15054 and etdadmin_upload_736093

Description:: They Left Us Dead: Anti-Black Violence, Black Evidence, and The Insistence of Black Life examines the mercurial, though seemingly fixed, notion of evidence as it is brought into relation with anti-blackness, Black death and, ultimately, Black life. They Left Us Dead queries how and why certain forms of documentation and...
Keyword:: Law, Black Life, Evidence, Anti-Blackness, Black Death, and Visual Culture
Subject:: African American studies, Law, and Rhetoric
Creator:: Ward, LaCharles Travell
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14842 and etdadmin_upload_686422

Description:: Public memory studies in rhetoric have typically neglected how we use shared memories to form, maintain, and pass down social norms through the objects we encounter and the practices we participate in during our everyday lives. This is especially true for children’s toys, because they are understood as essential objects...
Keyword:: public memory, childhood, toys, gender, and rhetoric
Subject:: Gender studies and Rhetoric
Creator:: DeLaCruz, Lauren
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_660506 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14588

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