Browsing RPI Theses Open Access by Author "Deery, June"

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    • Experiencing memorial space in "a Land of Refuge" 

      Lauzon, Robb Conrad (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-05)
      This dissertation explores how a nation’s identity becomes inscribed in memorial spaces and how these spaces are experienced by citizens. I argue that understanding the composition of memorial spaces and how individuals ...

    • Moments of play : uncovering the performances of videogame play 

      Hanford, Nicholas A. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-12)
      Lastly, through the temporal data collection and situational analysis methods, I am able to further elucidate the roles that luck plays in videogames—an undertheorized arena of gameplay experience. I provide three distinct ...

    • MoveOn and E-motion : the paradox of cyberactivism in consumer society 

      Dincki, Sandrine (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2006-08)
      The relationship between media and democracy has always been characterized by a tension between public and private interests with a tendency for the latter to prevail. Mediated politics and consumption in a democratic ...

    • Recollecting La Technique : industrial heritage sites and the rhetoric of technology 

      Adamczyk, Christopher Lee (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)
      Industrial heritage sites are locations that exemplify both public memory and the rhetoric of technology. In this dissertation, I interpret three examples of industrial heritage sites to identify and characterize their ...

    • Remembering the Iraq War : the rhetoric of public memory and the memory of publics 

      Rancourt, Michael A. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-05)
      In this dissertation, I analyze representations of the Iraq War beginning with texts produced while the war was still in its early stages to gain a sense of how these texts and their underlying discourses were and are ...

    • Updates : technologies of media change 

      Comer, Joshua (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-12)
      Whether as status notifications in news feeds or interactive prompts in online video services, updates punctuate the background routines of media by bringing a variety of changes to the attention of users. In this dissertation ...