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Title: Improved recoverability of microbial colonies from marine sponge samples.
Creator: Olson, Julie B., Lord, C. C., McCarthy, Peter J.
Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2783209
Subject Headings: Microbiology --Cultures and culture media, Sponges
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Communicating space and time perception and ideology in online texts.
Creator: Dushi, Nava., Florida Atlantic University, Scodari, Christine
Abstract/Description: This thesis emerges from the realization of the paradox that lies beneath online technology which promises to change the way we think, yet penetrates our lives by employing a systematic simulation of our most basic cognitive skills. In order to understand this paradox in terms of space and time, the research examines the ways in which time and space are communicated on two disparate Internet websites. The assembled data are analyzed using an interdisciplinary approach that leads to a textual...
Show moreThis thesis emerges from the realization of the paradox that lies beneath online technology which promises to change the way we think, yet penetrates our lives by employing a systematic simulation of our most basic cognitive skills. In order to understand this paradox in terms of space and time, the research examines the ways in which time and space are communicated on two disparate Internet websites. The assembled data are analyzed using an interdisciplinary approach that leads to a textual analysis based in theories of semiotics. The study finds that the Internet is fundamentally framed in spatial terms. The space bias is ideologically significant; commercial websites use it to produce a textual environment that assimilates the user and, thus, enables the promotion of conspicuous consumption.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12905
Subject Headings: Mass media--Semiotics, Internet--Social aspects, Digital media, Mass media and culture
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Title: Closed tubular cultivators: an innovative system for commercial culture of microalgae.
Creator: Spektorova, L., Creswell, R. LeRoy, Vaughan, David E., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007418
Subject Headings: Microalgae--Cultures and culture media, Algae culture--Technique, Aquaculture
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Veg-gendered: a cultural study of gendered onscreen representations of food and their implications for veganism.
Creator: Aguilera, Paulina, Scodari, Christine, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description: This thesis is an exploration of popular media texts that influence veganism, with either explicit representations or implicit messages that implicate vegans. Research focuses on the question: How does the gendering of food in popular media texts implicate veganism? Theories used include a combination of cultural, film, and feminist studies, including Stuart Hall’s audience reception, Laura Mulvey's male gaze, R.W. Connell’s hegemonic masculinity, Carol Adams' feminist-vegetarian critical...
Show moreThis thesis is an exploration of popular media texts that influence veganism, with either explicit representations or implicit messages that implicate vegans. Research focuses on the question: How does the gendering of food in popular media texts implicate veganism? Theories used include a combination of cultural, film, and feminist studies, including Stuart Hall’s audience reception, Laura Mulvey's male gaze, R.W. Connell’s hegemonic masculinity, Carol Adams' feminist-vegetarian critical theory, and Rebecca Swenson's critical television studies. A print and television advertisement analysis demonstrates the gendering of food, and subject-object relationship of meat, women, and men. A film analysis of texts with vegan characters and horror film texts with implicit vegan and feminist messaging follows, thus revealing interesting trends and developments in the characterization of vegans on films, and hidden messages in the horror films studied. Lastly, an examination of competitive and instructional cooking shows ends the analysis, with interesting challenges to hegemony present in these television texts. The thesis concludes with examples of modem media feminizing veganism through food associations, the problematic imagery of women and meat as fetishized objects, along with challenges to hegemony that exist in some explicitly vegan texts.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004177, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004177
Subject Headings: Feminist theory, Mass media and culture, Veganism, Vegetarianism
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The bioprocess–technological potential of the sea.
Creator: Pomponi, Shirley A.
Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2826598
Subject Headings: Aquaculture, Aquatic invertebrates --Cultures and culture media, Marine resources, Marine pharmacology, Mariculture --Management
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Title: ADVANCING THE CULTIVABILITY OF SOIL BACTERIA USING A DYNAMIC SOIL ENVIRONMENT AND SOIL EXTRACT METHOD.
Creator: España, Erick, Brooks, Randy W., Esiobu, Nwadiuto, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract/Description: Bacteria are inarguably the most ubiquitous and adaptive organisms on the planet. The vast, diverse community of microbes residing in soil are mostly studied using sequencing technologies because over 99% of them are currently uncultivable in the laboratory. This lack of diverse bacterial cultivation presents a serious challenge for modern microbiological and medical science where the discovery of novel antibiotic producers and microbial products has been outpaced by the rise in drug...
Show moreBacteria are inarguably the most ubiquitous and adaptive organisms on the planet. The vast, diverse community of microbes residing in soil are mostly studied using sequencing technologies because over 99% of them are currently uncultivable in the laboratory. This lack of diverse bacterial cultivation presents a serious challenge for modern microbiological and medical science where the discovery of novel antibiotic producers and microbial products has been outpaced by the rise in drug resistance. This study designed and tested two new cost-effective culture systems called the “Dynamic Soil Environment” and Soil Extract Systems with the goal of increasing the cultivable communities of diverse bacteria in a soil sample over standard methods. Illumina MiSeq sequencing and DADA2 pipeline protocols were used to analyze community DNA from cultivated samples and source soil metagenomes. Autoclaved soil extract media in the Soil Extract Experiment yielded a statistically significantly greater Shannon’s (p = 0.008) and Simpson’s diversity (p = 0.007) of bacteria over pH modified (6.4) nutrient agar media over 30 days of incubation. Autoclaved soil extract media was also able to cultivate, on average, 33% of species in bulk soil sequences compared to 27% from standard nutrient agar however these differences weren’t statistically significant. The length of incubation had a lesser effect than media type on yield of bacteria over 30 days in batch culture conditions. Species richness and diversity generally decreased over time except in soil extract samples. In the Dynamic Soil Environment experiment, membrane plates placed on a live soil environment produced a slightly higher diversity than autoclaved membrane plates and control plates without soil, however, these differences were not statistically significant except when analyzed with Chao1 diversity (0.041). Cultivated bacterial diversity and communities differed more according to media type than soil environment with statistically significant differences between standard and pH modified nutrient agar. Media with a 5.8 pH buffer produced a significantly higher relative abundance of the well-known antibiotic-producers, Actinobacteria (t(10) = -5.715, p < .000) and also Proteobacteria (t(10) = -10.127, p < .000). This study establishes cost-effective methods of cultivating more diverse bacterial communities for low-funded laboratories. Culture conditions for the reliable cultivation of higher relative abundances of bacterial groups belonging to Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria are also established with the Dynamic Soil Environment Experiment.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013304
Subject Headings: Bacteriological Techniques--methods, Bacteriology--Cultures and culture media, Soil
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Form and function of the primary spines of two bathyal echinothuriid sea urchins.
Creator: Emson, Roland H., Young, Craig M., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1998
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174085
Subject Headings: Sea urchins, Echinoidea, Sea urchin culture, Sea urchin aquaculture, Sea urchins--Cultures and culture media, Sea urchins--Husbandry
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Cellular Basis of Sponge-Sponge Associations.
Creator: Conkling, Megan, Pomponi, Shirley A., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract/Description: Marine sponges interact and coexist with many different organisms. A two-sponge association between Amphimedon erina and Geodia gibberosa commonly occurs in the Florida Keys. Previous studies have only focused on the ecological influence of the association; they did not examine the cellular basis of the association. This association between A. erina and G. gibberosa was used in the development of an in vitro model to further the understanding of the cellular basis of natural sponge-sponge...
Show moreMarine sponges interact and coexist with many different organisms. A two-sponge association between Amphimedon erina and Geodia gibberosa commonly occurs in the Florida Keys. Previous studies have only focused on the ecological influence of the association; they did not examine the cellular basis of the association. This association between A. erina and G. gibberosa was used in the development of an in vitro model to further the understanding of the cellular basis of natural sponge-sponge associations. In this study, sponge cells were cultured individually and in co-cultures and their responses related to apoptosis, cell death, and proliferation were monitored using high content imaging. Co-cultured cells of species that form sponge-sponge associations did not have the same cellular responses compared to co-cultured cells of species that do not form sponge-sponge associations. Protein expression analyses demonstrated that the model that was established does not mimic the cellular response of the association in nature, but this model can be used to test in vitro cellular interactions of sponge species that do not form associations in nature. In addition, the protein expression data that were obtained revealed that sponges use similar apoptotic pathways as humans and suggest that sponge cells may shut down cell cycling in order to repair damaged DNA. This research is a small piece to the puzzle that is sponge cell culture research.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004848, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004848
Subject Headings: Sponges--Habitat--Florida., Marine invertebrates--Florida., Aquatic invertebrates--Cultures and culture media., Apoptosis., Cell culture., Symbiosis.
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Title: Spatial analysis and functional gene clustering between lens epithelium and fiber cells.
Creator: Cowell, Tracy L., Florida Atlantic University, Kantorow, Marc
Abstract/Description: Purpose. To identify genes important for maintaining the specialized functions of lens epithelial and fiber cells. Methods. The expression profiles of 22,215 genes between human lens epithelial and fiber cells were analyzed using oligonucleotide microarray hybridization and RT-PCR. Selected genes were functionally clustered using the EASE bioinformatics software package. Results. Analysis of microarray hybridizations revealed 1430 transcripts that were significantly increased and 901...
Show morePurpose. To identify genes important for maintaining the specialized functions of lens epithelial and fiber cells. Methods. The expression profiles of 22,215 genes between human lens epithelial and fiber cells were analyzed using oligonucleotide microarray hybridization and RT-PCR. Selected genes were functionally clustered using the EASE bioinformatics software package. Results. Analysis of microarray hybridizations revealed 1430 transcripts that were significantly increased and 901 transcripts that were significantly decreased. Microarray data was confirmed using RT-PCR on 11 randomly selected genes. Functional clustering of the identified gene expression patterns revealed altered gene expression in cellular pathways including oxidative stress, cell proliferation, and apoptosis. The methionine sulfoxide reductase class of enzymes were further analyzed and demonstrated to be expressed throughout the human body, indicating a significant protective role. Conclusions. These data reveal novel and previously identified gene expression differences that provide insight into those mechanisms that may be important for lens cell differentiation.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13193
Subject Headings: Gene mapping--Statistical methods, Eye--Physiology, Epithelium--Culture and culture media, Cell culture--Analysis
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Title: Deconstructing the politics of culture jamming: true cost economics.
Creator: Seidl, Jana, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Culture Jammers, an activist guerilla-like movement, entered the global scene in the 1990s and, through public performances, attempt to draw attention to their claim that the US economic structure is facing a fundamental need to shift away from a consumer-oriented capitalist economy. As an alternative, the activists propose--True Cost economics, a model that would include the costs of negative production and consumption externalities in the pricing of commodities. In this paper, I focus on...
Show moreCulture Jammers, an activist guerilla-like movement, entered the global scene in the 1990s and, through public performances, attempt to draw attention to their claim that the US economic structure is facing a fundamental need to shift away from a consumer-oriented capitalist economy. As an alternative, the activists propose--True Cost economics, a model that would include the costs of negative production and consumption externalities in the pricing of commodities. In this paper, I focus on culture jammers' critique of neoclassical economics, more specifically, the clash of the--new paradigm (True Cost economics) and the old paradigm (neoclassical economics). In evaluating whether True Cost economics is a feasible alternative, I graphically examine how the True Cost solution and the neoclassical market model correct for negative externalities to reveal similarities in the two models.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77690
Subject Headings: Consumption (Economics), Social aspects, Neoclassical school of economics, History, Microeconomics, Mass media and culture
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Title: Microalgae culture protocol.
Creator: Jaramillo, Juan C.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3359270
Subject Headings: Microalgae--Cultures and culture media, Microalgae--Handbooks, manuals, etc., Laboratory Techniques and Procedures, Laboratory Techniques and Procedures--Laboratory Manuals
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Title: Minority representation in popular culture.
Creator: Miller, Jeffrey, Youngberg, Quentin, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This thesis focuses on the continuous misrepresentations that appear throughout different outlets of popular culture and the negative impacts of these misrepresentations. In the first chapter, the focus will be on the films The Last of the Mohicans and The Mission and the origins and implications of the misrepresentation of Indians in film. The second chapter uses rap music videos such as 50 Cent’s In Da Club, Nelly’s Tip Drill, LMFAO and Lil John’s Shots, Where Da Hood At, Tupac’s Hit ‘Em up...
Show moreThis thesis focuses on the continuous misrepresentations that appear throughout different outlets of popular culture and the negative impacts of these misrepresentations. In the first chapter, the focus will be on the films The Last of the Mohicans and The Mission and the origins and implications of the misrepresentation of Indians in film. The second chapter uses rap music videos such as 50 Cent’s In Da Club, Nelly’s Tip Drill, LMFAO and Lil John’s Shots, Where Da Hood At, Tupac’s Hit ‘Em up, and N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton as primary texts to demonstrate the one dimensional and problematic representations of African American Identity in the rap music industry. The third and final chapter uses the video games Grand Theft Auto III and Gun as examples of the negative representations that occur and are repeated quickly in the rapidly improving world of video games. While the misrepresentations are achieved and perpetuated differently in each medium, their ubiquitous presence in popular culture calls for discussion.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004139, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004139
Subject Headings: African Americans in popular culture, Ethnicity, Mass media and culture, Native Americans in motion pictures, Popular culture -- United States, Race awareness, Social classes in mass media, Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Title: Cultural imperialism: The Caribbean's case of colonization, media imperialism, and tourism.
Creator: Sabga, Nicole., Florida Atlantic University, Fejes, Fred A.
Abstract/Description: This study focuses on some of the complexities of cultural imperialism in the Caribbean. Five hundred years of colonization by Europe, as well as the hegemonic influence of United States' international broadcast media, has contributed to the multiple identities that Caribbean peoples recognize and possess. Tourism and the development of consumer societies has contributed to the consumption of Caribbean culture. These issues, colonization, media imperialism, and tourism, are discussed with...
Show moreThis study focuses on some of the complexities of cultural imperialism in the Caribbean. Five hundred years of colonization by Europe, as well as the hegemonic influence of United States' international broadcast media, has contributed to the multiple identities that Caribbean peoples recognize and possess. Tourism and the development of consumer societies has contributed to the consumption of Caribbean culture. These issues, colonization, media imperialism, and tourism, are discussed with regard to their influences on Caribbean identities and consumption of Caribbean culture. The efforts of international organizations and the defenses of Caribbean countries are also discussed regarding the effects of cultural imperialism.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15147
Subject Headings: Tourist trade--Caribbean area, Caribbean area--Social life and customs, Mass media and culture--Caribbean area, Imperialism
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Title: The Impact of Native American Activism and the Media on Museum Exhibitions of Indigenous Peoples: Two Case Studies.
Creator: Fiorillo, Patricia, Fradkin, Arlene, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a critical study of two exhibits, First Encounters Spanish Exploration in the Caribbean and A Tribute to Survival. The objective of the thesis was to understand if and how indigenous activists, using the media as tool, were able to change curatorial approaches to exhibition development. Chapter 1 is broken into three sections. The first section introduces the exhibits and succinctly discusses the theory that is applied to this thesis. The second section discusses the objectives...
Show moreThis thesis is a critical study of two exhibits, First Encounters Spanish Exploration in the Caribbean and A Tribute to Survival. The objective of the thesis was to understand if and how indigenous activists, using the media as tool, were able to change curatorial approaches to exhibition development. Chapter 1 is broken into three sections. The first section introduces the exhibits and succinctly discusses the theory that is applied to this thesis. The second section discusses the objectives of the project and the third provides a brief outline of the document. Chapter 2 discusses the historical background of American museums in an attempt to highlight changes in curatorial attitudes towards the public, display, interpretation, and authority. Chapter 3 gives a more in-depth overview of the methodology and materials utilized in the thesis. Chapter 4 is a critical analysis of the literature for both First Encounters and A Tribute to Survival. Chapter five is a summary of the thesis and offers a conclusion of the effectiveness of using the media as a tool.
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Date Issued: 2015
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004498, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004498
Subject Headings: Ethnological museums and collections -- Social aspects, Indians of North America -- Material culture, Indians of North America -- Museums, Indigenous peoples -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Social aspects, Material culture, Media and culture, Museum exhibits -- Moral and ethical aspects, Museums -- Philosophy
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Title: Personality and the news: the Five-Factor Model and headline preferences.
Creator: Curry, Mila., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: The current study examines the relationship between the Five-Factor Model of Personality and preferences for news headlines. This is an online study in which participants were presented two headlines and were asked to choose one of them. Next, participants were asked to fill out a personality inventory. In the results we examine whether certain personality types are more likely to read certain news stories. Authors created five news headline domains, which were intended to map onto the Five...
Show moreThe current study examines the relationship between the Five-Factor Model of Personality and preferences for news headlines. This is an online study in which participants were presented two headlines and were asked to choose one of them. Next, participants were asked to fill out a personality inventory. In the results we examine whether certain personality types are more likely to read certain news stories. Authors created five news headline domains, which were intended to map onto the Five-Factor Model of Personality. As hypothesized, Openness to Experience significantly (p < .05) predicted selection of items within the news headline domain entitled Culture. The study also found that personality can be predicted from news headline selection.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77663
Subject Headings: Personality and culture, Emotional intelligence, Image (Psychology), Mass media, Psychological aspects, Five-Factor Model of Personality
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The intersection of gender and Italian/Americaness: hegemony in The Sopranos.
Creator: Wilson, Niki Caputo., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: This dissertation uses a multiperspectival approach that analyzes production, text, and audience consumption to explore representations of gender and ethnicity in The Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) original program The Sopranos. I first present the social, political, and economic factors that contributed to the continued critical and commercial success of the show. The hybrid genre of the show - an intermingling of the gangster and soap opera genres - proves particularly significant in its...
Show moreThis dissertation uses a multiperspectival approach that analyzes production, text, and audience consumption to explore representations of gender and ethnicity in The Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO) original program The Sopranos. I first present the social, political, and economic factors that contributed to the continued critical and commercial success of the show. The hybrid genre of the show - an intermingling of the gangster and soap opera genres - proves particularly significant in its representation of gender and ethnicity. Both textual and audience analyses allow me to respond to the question central to this dissertation: Does The Sopranos reinforce or challenge hegemonic notions of masculinity, femininity, and ethnicity? My textual and paratextual analysis identifies the embodiment of hegemonic masculinity in the male characters, including the ways in which that hegemonic behavior leads to male violence, as depicted in the narrative, and reveals the performances of emphasized femininity and pariah femininities, class, and Italian/Americaness at play amongst the female characters in The Sopranos. Audience analysis reveals that The Sopranos broadly appeals to many Italian/Americans and self-proclaimed feminists, yet the vast majority of fans, particularly those who create fan fiction and frequent chat rooms, are drawn to the show for its violence, sexist imagery, and macho male characters. Thus, the multiperspectival approach of this dissertation proved particularly useful in determining that The Sopranos, in its entirety, ultimately repackages, but yet still reinforces hegemonic notions of gender and Italian/Americaness.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2979374
Subject Headings: Sopranos (Television program), Mass media and culture, Group identity, Television viewers, Ethnicity
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Title: Un-resistive reproduction? Medical hegemony, pregnancy, and reality television.
Creator: Bruno, Serena R., Florida Atlantic University, Scodari, Christine
Abstract/Description: A new trend of unscripted, reality television programming chronicling the real-life childbirth experiences of American women and families has gained considerable ground in recent years. These programs, especially Discovery Health's BirthDay and The Learning Channel's A Baby Story, record, edit and broadcast the prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal health care of "everyday" women volunteers, including their physical, social, and emotional concerns. This research study focuses attention on the...
Show moreA new trend of unscripted, reality television programming chronicling the real-life childbirth experiences of American women and families has gained considerable ground in recent years. These programs, especially Discovery Health's BirthDay and The Learning Channel's A Baby Story, record, edit and broadcast the prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal health care of "everyday" women volunteers, including their physical, social, and emotional concerns. This research study focuses attention on the authoritative, technological and therefore, medically hegemonic perspective of this type of programming, illuminating through content, textual, focus group, and survey analyses the abundance of medically hegemonic meanings in both the discursive and visual aspects of these texts as well as the negotiations of their target audience.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13300
Subject Headings: Reality television programs, Mass media and culture, Television program genres, Television--Social aspects, Childbirth, Television--Psychological aspects
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Title: Multiple birth families, religion, and cultural hegemony: patriarchal constructions in reality television.
Creator: Cittadino, Emily M., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description: Reality television programming chronicling the daily workings of multiple birth families within American culture has gained notoriety in recent years. Such programs, especially Discovery Health and TLC's 17, 18 Kids and Counting and TLC's Jon and Kate Plus Ei8ht, film, edit and broadcast the "everyday" life of these families. This research study focuses attention on hegemonic ideologies surrounding family values, motherhood, gender roles and religious faith, illuminated through textual and...
Show moreReality television programming chronicling the daily workings of multiple birth families within American culture has gained notoriety in recent years. Such programs, especially Discovery Health and TLC's 17, 18 Kids and Counting and TLC's Jon and Kate Plus Ei8ht, film, edit and broadcast the "everyday" life of these families. This research study focuses attention on hegemonic ideologies surrounding family values, motherhood, gender roles and religious faith, illuminated through textual and audience analysis. Working from an interdisciplinary approach combining feminist media and cultural studies, this study finds that hegemonic notions of family values, gender representations, religious faith and conceptions of motherhood are evident to varying degrees in the television texts and accepted by fans who negotiate their meanings online.
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Date Issued: 2010
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2684311
Subject Headings: Mass media and culture, Feminist theory, Popular culture, Women in popular culture, Reality television programs, Social aspects, Television program genres, Sex role in popular culture
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Towards a feminist funny: exploring myth, power and postfeminism in the work of Chelsea Handler.
Creator: Walleser, Lauren., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Abstract/Description: Chelsea Handler is a comedian and host of the TV show Chelsea Lately. She has been successful in the late night comedy talk show genre to a degree that no woman has before. While she represents the most significant advancement for women in the genre, she also plays to patriarchal themes in order to maintain her foothold. In my thesis, I locate Handler within the history of women's stand-up comedy, analyzing her appeal via the figure of "The Unruly Woman" and other image types. I apply a...
Show moreChelsea Handler is a comedian and host of the TV show Chelsea Lately. She has been successful in the late night comedy talk show genre to a degree that no woman has before. While she represents the most significant advancement for women in the genre, she also plays to patriarchal themes in order to maintain her foothold. In my thesis, I locate Handler within the history of women's stand-up comedy, analyzing her appeal via the figure of "The Unruly Woman" and other image types. I apply a mythic analysis as I look for Handler's manifestation of mythic types, including archetypal Goddess representations. I analyze her treatment of violence against women, exploring how Handler approaches these themes in ways that allow her into the "old boys club." I use textual and audience analysis to assess Handler's ability to be a transformative and empowering figure for women in comedy and beyond.
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Date Issued: 2011
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3322513
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Women in popular culture, Feminist theory, Performance art, Social aspects, Mass media and women
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Title: The Politics of Silence: The Public and Private Matter of Theresa Marie Schiavo.
Creator: Reinson, Kyle F., Tracy, James F., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Theresa Marie Schiavo died March 31, 2005. The 41-year-old's human and communicative faculties were so deficient that a feeding tube was necessary to nourish her and she had been silent for 15 years. In her final month, Ms. Schiavo's health, the dispute between her husband and parents concerning the removal of her feeding tube, and her subsequent death were covered extensively by American broadcast, online and print media. As she lay silent in a Florida hospice, the U.S. Congress, the...
Show moreTheresa Marie Schiavo died March 31, 2005. The 41-year-old's human and communicative faculties were so deficient that a feeding tube was necessary to nourish her and she had been silent for 15 years. In her final month, Ms. Schiavo's health, the dispute between her husband and parents concerning the removal of her feeding tube, and her subsequent death were covered extensively by American broadcast, online and print media. As she lay silent in a Florida hospice, the U.S. Congress, the president and the courts intervened, and those who spoke about her matter and the news media propelled her human tragedy toward the top of the public agenda. News stories, reports and analyses of the case from Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post and St. Petersburg Times are analyzed using a critical-qualitative approach to framing.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000954
Subject Headings: Schiavo, Terri,--1963-2005, Right to die--Moral and ethical aspects, Political sociology, Mass media and culture, Privacy, Right of, Journalism--Objectivity
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