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Description:: This dissertation explores how dominant U.S. constructions of race, class, and gender are embedded into and inscribed onto artificially intelligent virtual assistants and the labors they perform. I examine virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana, interrogating their complex relationship to humanness, the tasks they are programmed...
Keyword:: haunting, media, labor, Black, domestic, and technology
Subject:: African American studies, Gender studies, and Film studies
Creator:: Owens, Golden M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16772 and etdadmin_upload_1014053

Description:: The experiences and environments of working-class children vary dramatically from their more affluent peers. I update Bronfenbrenner’s (1986) ecological systems theory to account for the technology children interact with and child social class, using Lareau’s (2003) frameworks that establish class differences in parenting practices. I position child technology devices at...
Keyword:: technology, occupation, working class, aspirations, home, and children
Subject:: Social research and Communication
Creator:: Hightower, Brianna
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_759910 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15212

Description:: Sight-singing skills are a key component in empowering choristers to make music independently. Advances in technology have made visual feedback displaying the accuracy of a sight-singing attempt available to singers. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of computerized visual feedback provided by the SmartMusic interface on...
Keyword:: technology, sight-singing, vocal sight reading, and feedback
Subject:: Music education
Creator:: White, Adam Griffith
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15406 and etdadmin_upload_780876

Description:: Television's history has at numerous points been punctuated by pronouncements that technological innovations will improve its programming, empower its audiences, and heal the injuries it has inflicted on American society. This enduring faith in the inevitability and imminence of television's technological salvation is the subject of this dissertation. "TV Repair"...
Keyword:: technology, convergence, television, and new media
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Bret Maxwell Dawson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/08/2018
Date Modified:: 10/08/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This study in media anthropology uses participant observation, interviews, questionnaires, and recorded broadcasts to analyze how people use FM radio technology in the Koutiala area of southeast Mali, and particularly how they use FM radio to produce locality by relating audience members to one another, to the dominant national culture,...
Keyword:: technology, cultural representation, Media anthropology, Africa, politics, and language ideology
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Craig Tower
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/19/2018
Date Modified:: 09/19/2018
Date Created:: 2008-06-02
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: It's quite common for the novice musician to forget their place in the song, miss the change to a new section, or be unable to play in the key or at the tempo chosen by the leader. Every type of improvisational playing requires the player to follow a set of...
Keyword:: technology, music, education, computer aided instruction, and jazz
Subject:: Music Technology
Creator:: Marc Jacoby
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/26/2018
Date Modified:: 06/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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