Due to its workings as a global financial nexus, activists critical of capitalism have used the City of London to stage a number of large-scale direct actions since the 1983-84 Stop the City protests. By examining protest at this renowned site of intensified observation, I argue…
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“(Re)Incarceration through Group Homes: Testimonios from Chicana/Latina Rebels” examines young women’s experiences of group homes—locked and staff secured facilities that offer youth mediated forms of freedoms in a liminal space between foster homes and juvenile hall. Through te…
The application of big data analytics on data and any information collected, enables mobile operators to profile customers, depending on the historical and real time habits at certain locations and times. The results generated of big data analytics and carried by mobile operator…
In this interdisciplinary dissertation, I propose a relational and nonhuman-centered ethical disposition for street photography. I argue that an ethical disposition is necessarily relational, since to exist is to exist in relation—to human and nonhuman others. This dissertation …
This thesis chronologically examines U.S. sex offender registration law through three theoretical lenses - populist punitiveness, labeling, and performance – beginning during the period of Chinese Exclusion and ending in the present. Using qualitative legal and textual analysis …
The bidirectional link between work and health is well established and working towards mitigating disparities in these areas could have substantial impacts on the lives of those that are deeply impacted by poor health and a lack of work. The specific aims of this project were to…
This project focuses on the relationship between religion and technology as it is portrayed in Science Fiction (SF). This thesis explores the SF genre rhetorically by examining the 2002 movie Minority Report (MR), which signaled the importance of surveillance and the need to pre…
This dissertation argues that surveillance and social control in North Korea was always more complex than often depicted, even in the decades preceding the famine of the 1990s and early 2000s. At the same time, disobedience and resistance among the grassroots population did not …
In response to the threat of pandemic flu outbreaks, emerging novel influenza surveillance systems, such as syndromic surveillance, now utilize pre-diagnostic data to monitor flu activities. Biases due to the changes in health related behavior, and the background noise caused by…
Aim: The aim of this study is to identify a partial-mouth periodontal examination (PMPE) protocol which closely approximates a full-mouth periodontal examination (FMPE) protocol in estimating prevalence, severity and extent of periodontitis. Methods: First, articles published in…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the impact of dominant discourses on welfare on the everyday lives of women caught up within the American welfare system. In the early 1990s, a moral crusade against welfare emerged, marking poor women as lazy, immoral, dependent, a…
Surveillance systems on a massive scale can be a vital tool for law enforcement agencies. In fact, an effective surveillance system automatically monitors all available data feeds in search of known suspects. These data could be directly linked to individuals as biometrics (face…
This dissertation explores historical and social contexts through which governments employ technology to identify individuals through their bodies. It poses the question of why these programs are necessary and investigates the promise and limitations of these technologies' influ…
This dissertation is an examination of the UK's counter-terrorism policies and practices that have been adopted since the attacks of 9/11 in the United States. Using a theoretical framework of 'power' and 'hegemony' to guide the research, and an investigative research approach, …
The global spread, economic impact and public health implications of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) have attracted the attention of the international health and scientific communities to the importance of avian influenza virus (AIV) research and surveillanc…
This thesis starts from the premise that Geopolitics is performative, an iterative discourse “of visualising global space…reproduced in the governing principles of geographic thought and through the practices of statecraft” (Agnew 1998:11). During the last decade, two dominant d…
Two essays in this dissertation make a contribution to monitoring the HIV/AIDS epidemic and two focus on the behavioral dynamics that feed it. Following advances in medical technology, HIV testing is now often included in community-based surveys and that raised expectations for …
The war on terror, like many other historical American wars, has brought about various policy changes. Particularly, foreign policy measures, homeland security, personal liberty issues and treatment of aliens have all experienced transformations. This research examines such tran…
20. yüzyılın son çeyreğinde, küresel çapta bir dönüşüme neden olan iletişim teknolojisi alanındaki gelişmelerle kullanıcı sayısı her gün artan sosyal ağların kullanımı önem kazanmaya başlamıştır. Bireyin sosyal medyada kendisini bulabilmesi ve sosyal medyayı amacına uygun kullan…