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Walking The Line Between Reality And Fiction In Online Spaces: Understanding The Effects Of Narrative Transportation, Sarah Gretter, Aman Yadav, Benjamin W. Gleason
Walking The Line Between Reality And Fiction In Online Spaces: Understanding The Effects Of Narrative Transportation, Sarah Gretter, Aman Yadav, Benjamin W. Gleason
Education Publications
Recent contentions about "fake news" and misinformation online has shed light on the critical need for media literacy at a global scale. Indeed, digital stories are one of the main forms of communication in the 21st century through blogs, videos-sharing websites, forums, or social networks. However, the line between facts and fiction can often become blurry in these online spaces, and being able to distinguish between reality and fantasy can have important consequences in the lives of young Internet users. Using contemporary examples from news stories, fan- fiction, advertising, and radicalization, this article outlines the features, affordances, and real-life implications ...
Sufficiency, Iris Woolery
Cold Feet, Mariah Mcguire
An Open Letter To Rape Culture, Mariah Mcguire
Labor Pains, Samantha Nimmo
The Hunger Games Are Playing On Loop— And I Am Tired Of Watching, Brianna R. Burke
The Hunger Games Are Playing On Loop— And I Am Tired Of Watching, Brianna R. Burke
English Publications
Say you wanted to take over the world—how would you do it? Let’s agree it looks much like the world we live in today, where some countries hold inordinate power over the lives of people in others; where global systematic racism, the shameful legacy of colonization and imperialism, has contrived to keep many humans poor and struggling. Now, let’s add climate change to that picture. How would you take over the world as landmasses slip underwater due to rising ocean levels, storms become more and more destructive, droughts decimate the agricultural stability of multiple countries (like in ...
Graphic Novels: Creation Of "The Bloody Man", Taylor Buckley
Graphic Novels: Creation Of "The Bloody Man", Taylor Buckley
Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression
I created a 26-page comic book, created to be a teaser trailer into a ongoing series. In my work, I sought to create rich, dynamic characters that functioned in a fantasy world grounded in reality. Special care was given to create logical costumes and destroy common tropes found in fantasy literature. I also worked to improve my technical skills in drawing the dynamic figure on motion, my understanding of color, and composition.
I broke my project down into two semesters. In the fall, I created the sketch work for the pages. This included small panel thumbnails, research (architectural, kinetic, photographic ...
Punchline Vendetta, Jessica Yehle
The Urge, Jiovanni Tapia
Fog, Sarah Loghry
The Watermark, Seth Bacon
A Work Of Life In Progress, Aaron Kelly
Hoarding, Sarah Pillman
Chasing Metaphors, Mark P. Widrlechner
Chasing Metaphors, Mark P. Widrlechner
Books
This brief new collection of poems (and one short story) explores the Jungian world of archetypes, myth-making, and the collective unconscious, pondering metaphors in the broadest sense.
La Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y Adversidades, Chad M. Gasta
La Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y Adversidades, Chad M. Gasta
World Languages and Cultures Books
La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades is considered the world’s first picaresque novel and its prototype. Published in 1554 concurrently in Spain and Antwerp by an unknown author, the book tells the story of Lazarillo, an orphaned boy who becomes an apprentice to a series of masters, each of whom train him in the ways of the world. As the adult narrator, Lázaro explains how through cunning, deception, and wit, he has been able to overcome his ignoble birth to ascend socially and prosper materially. But in the process of reading his story ...
Cervantes In Perspective, Julia Domínguez
Cervantes In Perspective, Julia Domínguez
World Languages and Cultures Books
Cervantes in Perspective brings together original essays on Miguel de Cervantes´s life and literature written by nine significant Cervantes scholars. Readers and scholars of Early Modern Spanish literature will find a discussion of current theories of fiction, the latest analyses of individual texts, new comparative approaches to Cervantes, and unique studies on the impact of Cervantine fiction on both early modern Spain and contemporary U.S. culture. Cervantes in Perspective also marks the first time that recent scholarly approaches emerging from the annual Chicago Cervantes Symposium have been published
Layover, Kyle Hurst
Getting Older, Kara Landhuis
R.I.P. R.F.B., Emery Thanathiti
Caller Id, Abby Merchant
The Games Of Rome, Laura Webber
What He Did, Molly Carpenter
The Perfect Gift, Christopher Kent
The Passages, Seth Bacon
In The Place Of Forgotten Things, Genevieve Dubois
In The Place Of Forgotten Things, Genevieve Dubois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A young woman deals with an unwanted inheritance, searching for an explanation of its origin as she comes to terms with the losses her family has experienced. This fictional narrative involves themes of identity, place, and family, and explores the connection between reality and story.
Benny, Madeleine Kobus
Another Shot, Emily Kienzle
Ariadne In South Africa, Alexandra Stanislav
Shadows On The Horizon, Jessica Yehle
Requiem, Emily Ergenbright