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Methods Project Posters, Fall 2020

 


Tyler Anderson
'And For That Reason, I'm Out':
Identification in ABCs Shark Tank

 


Haley Black
What Happened in Kenosha?:
Media Framing of Kyle Rittenhouse and the Kenosha Unrest Shooting

 


Sarah Bowen
Old Glory, or Just Old?:
Using the American Flag to Signal Political Affiliation in the Age of Polarization

 


Isaac Chivers
The Dichotomy Between
Being Valuable and a Threat in Watch Dogs 1 & 2

 


Mario Foltz
Fey, Feminism, and Female Comedies:
How Mean Girls is Read and Constructs its Femininities

 


Connor Moland
Cuties and the Not-so-Cute:
A Netnographic Analysis of Online Reactions to Cuties

 


Audrey Payton
Midsommar Madness:
Navigating Scream Queens, the Horror Genre, and Feminism

 


Valeria Salgado
Broad City:
The Use of Humor in a Serious World

 


Aidan Sweeney
'Who's Got the Blues?':
How the Blues Shaped American Music and Continues to Do So

 


Hannah Thompson
Watching and Being Watched:
The Intersection of Masculinity and Surveillance in the BBC's Bodyguard

 


Thomas Volpe
Trump's Twitter:
Power and a Problematic Rhetoric

 


Ryan Wilburn
'Real Hot Girl Shit':
Negotiating Ideologies of Gender and Race in Megan Thee Stallion's New York Times 2020 Op-Ed

 

Methods Project Posters, Spring 2020

 


Abby Adams
It's Just a Prank, Bro:
How Logan Paul's Infamous 'Suicide Forest' Video is a Part of a Larger, More Problematic Community on YouTube

 


Sara Anderson
Houston Astros Scandal:
Hysterical Internet Trolls vs. the Facts

 


Alexis Barrientez
Called Into Action--Do You See What He Sees?:
Twitter and Interpellation

 


Michael Glode
The Futsal Shuffle:
'Yo, Sing This Sh*t. Are Ya'll F**ckin' Dumb?''

 


Nathan Goldman
'The Day of Defiance':
Textual Analysis of Winston Churchill's 'We Shall Fight on the Beaches' Speech

 


Abby Grant
Savage x Fenty:
A Shift to a More Inclusive Fashion Show

 


Savannah Laporte
The All-American Boyband:
Brockhampton Tests the Boundaries of Performativity and Identity in Hip-Hop

 


Regan Mashburn
'Keeping it Tighter Than the Babysitter':
How Popular Media Reacted to Peloton's 2019 Holiday Commercial

 


Davin Masur
Cancelling Myles Garrett:
Twitter Outrage Culture and NFL Suspensions

 


Claire Misfeldt
Anakin vs. Anakin:
How Different Adaptations of Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars Represent Hegemonic Masculinity

 


William Pendygraft
Gospel Sounds of the Ghetto:
How Rod Wave Relates to His Audience in the Emotional Album Ghetto Gospel

 


Sam Ramon
The Discourse of Hip-Hop
How DJ Screw's All Screwed Up Rhetorically Embodies Its Own Subject of 'Addiction'

 


Kate Russell
The Circle of Performativity:
How Netflix's Reality TV Show The Circle Displays Digital Human Interaction, Performativity, and Surveillance

 


Molly Selz
Happily Never After:
How This 'Must Marry' TV Show Perpetuates Gender Binaries

 


Sydney Ward
A Golden Afterlife:
Nostalgic Fan Expressions and Prosthetic Memory of The Golden Girls

 


Daniel Winkler
'We Don't Care What People Say':
Higher Education, Race, and Success according to Kanye West's The College Dropout

 

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