Becoming a media activist : linking culture, identity, and web design

Becoming a media activist : linking culture, identity, and web design

This dissertation explored two facets of media activism. It used a Life History research methodology to understand how someone becomes a media activist, and it employed a textual analysis to explain the visual interface choices made by a media activist on the Internet. Throughout, the study is inf...

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Main Author: Fineman, Elissa Arra
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Web design
Feminism
Marginalized groups
Activism
Aesthetics
Internet
Identity
Social psychology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4893
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Feminism
Marginalized groups
Activism
Aesthetics
Internet
Identity
Social psychology
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Feminism
Marginalized groups
Activism
Aesthetics
Internet
Identity
Social psychology
Fineman, Elissa Arra
Becoming a media activist : linking culture, identity, and web design
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