Index Catalog // Arch : Northwestern University Institutional Repository

Description:: Systems of accountability for police who violate the U.S. Constitution are broken. Among other mechanisms of accountability, the judicial system should provide a path for victims to obtain a remedy when their constitutional rights are violated. Yet unless the law is clearly established beyond debate, the doctrine of qualified immunity...
Keyword:: constitutional law, qualified immunity, argumentation, rhetoric, excessive force, and civil rights
Subject:: Law, Rhetoric and Composition, and Communication
Creator:: Chanski, Sarah
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_985000 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16545

Description:: As machines take over the work of producing, organizing, and curating culture, it becomes increasingly important to examine the influence of algorithms in public memory work, through which the past is selectively and subjectively reconstructed to make meaning in the present. Accordingly, this dissertation intervenes at the intersection of public...
Keyword:: public memory, media archaeology, rhetoric, memorials, media studies, and algorithmic culture
Subject:: Rhetoric
Creator:: Lingo, Sarah Katherine
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_947105 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16370

Description:: This study is a response to the observation that people articulate meanings of rules in flexible and context-specific ways, but that literature on international legal, norm-based, strategic-logical, and ethical/moral rules typically treats them as pregiven, stable objects. By examining people’s evolving justifications of practices related to firefighting (protecting against and...
Keyword:: incendiary munitions, conflagrations, rules, and rhetoric
Subject:: International relations and Political science
Creator:: Dijmarescu, Horia M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15055 and etdadmin_upload_736297

Description:: Public memory studies in rhetoric have typically neglected how we use shared memories to form, maintain, and pass down social norms through the objects we encounter and the practices we participate in during our everyday lives. This is especially true for children’s toys, because they are understood as essential objects...
Keyword:: public memory, childhood, toys, gender, and rhetoric
Subject:: Gender studies and Rhetoric
Creator:: DeLaCruz, Lauren
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_660506 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14588

Description:: Between 1815 and 1830, the western Atlantic experienced a surge in maritime piracy. The United States was confronted with the ancient specter of hostis humani generis, the enemy of all, which threatened the safety and prosperity of the young maritime nation. Questions emerged: Who was responsible for policing international waters?...
Keyword:: postsovereignty, universal jurisdiction, nineteenth century, rhetoric, sovereignty, and piracy
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Robert Elliot Mills
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/22/2019
Date Modified:: 02/22/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This study examines rhetorical practices through which disenfranchised women developed tenable political identities and integrated themselves into the public realm in the Pacific Northwest between 1868 and 1912. Through close analysis of rhetorical activities in which thousands of women participated--including club discourse, public commemoration, legal advocacy, petition work, and publication--it...
Keyword:: woman's rights, social movements, Washington, rhetoric, suffrage, and Oregon
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Cindy Koenig Richards
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/07/2018
Date Modified:: 09/07/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This project examines the relationship between graphic design and public life in an effort to understand how graphic design functions as a mode of communication, how visual images present interpretive problems for communication scholarship, and how the increasing presence of visual images in public space inform and are informed by...
Keyword:: graphic design, billboards, public sphere, visual rhetoric, rhetoric, and imagination
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Brett Richard Ommen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-10-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In the age of what George W. Bush has called a global democratic revolution, the freedom to consume an ever-expanding variety of images and goods in the global marketplace is often equated with the conditions of democratic freedom. With just such rhetorical elisions in mind, this dissertation examines the discursive...
Keyword:: media and politics, spectacle, television, popular entertainment, rhetoric, and liberalism
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Meghan A Sutherland
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-10-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation

LIBRARIES | ARCH