The operation of ubiquitous computing networks at three scales: the body scale, the architectural scale and the urban scale.
The City Expressed: Everyday Media Production and the Urban Environment
Our interactions with the city are increasingly mediated through a complex array of technologies, including location-aware mobile devices and a vast number of online platforms.
The Hidden Activism: Media Practices and the Media Opportunity in Chinese Politics of Resistance
“My thesis discusses the hidden and non-adversarial nature of resistance in authoritarian countries through the perspectives of media practices and media opportunity structure.”
Information Visualization as Creative Nonfiction
Narrative thinking as an orienting concept to support the production and evaluation of information visualizations.
From Huelga! to Undocumented and Unafraid!: A Comparative Study of Media Strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
Rogelio Lopez’s thesis, examining media strategies by emphasizing concrete media practices of movement actors.
Televisual Sports Videogames
Abe Stein’s thesis on how these videogames are situated in the sports media industrial complex of North America and how their design is meaningful for fans.
Game Worlds: A Study of Video Game Criticism
This thesis explores the relation between criticism and establishment of narrative forms and genres, focusing on the cultural situation of video games.
