The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of three keyword caption modes on the listening comprehension of Arab learners of English as a foreign language (N = 90) while viewing authentic video clips. The keyword caption modes contained approximately 10%, 30% or 50%…
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fauxlographic is a performative installation that takes place within an ethno-dysphoric cloning lab, where diasporic anxiety is analyzed through the process of fauxlographic cloning. The clones enact sonic rituals, singing in Farsi, English and Perz-ish [a faux diasporic languag…
This study focuses on the images of women in Arab music videos. The music video has been chosen because it is a new phenomenon in Arab culture, particularly in Arab Gulf countries. This study examined the representation of women in Arab music videos, a practice which started in …
The purpose of the study was to contribute to a better understanding of teaching strategies in interactive video distance learning classrooms. The study attempted to identify distance education teaching strategies that produce, foster, and enhance interactivity (motivation and p…
Urban exploration is a practice of researching, discovering and physically exploring temporary, obsolete, abandoned, derelict and infrastructural areas within built environments. Through charting the rise to prominence of a London urban exploration crew between 2008 and 2011, of…
This research is a practice-based, theory-led, examination of forms of extraction under capitalism. The thesis addresses the question of where and how does extraction take place, both in and outside of the wage relationship. Directly employing Marx's concept of surplus extractio…
How might the arts help to unveil and integrate realities so as to facilitate shared meanings and understandings between peoples and thus generate the conditions for the participatory, creative cultural diversity which may contribute to the construction of more democratic societ…
This research examines the issues and visual processes that arise in the production of self-representations derived from literary texts. The construction of a series of photographic and video installations drawing upon T. S Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' (1922) allowed for the ex…
Background. The prevalence of childhood overweight in the United States has increased by 50% in the last two decades (Schumann, Nichols X Lingston, 2002) and 25% to 30% of U.S. children between the ages of 6 and 17 are obese (Moran, 1999). Several studies show that sedentary act…
This project examines vernacular, soldier-produced and official, military-produced videos posted on YouTube during the War in Iraq. The purpose of this project is three fold: (a) to explore vernacular memorializing and argumentation on YouTube as an alternative to government and…
Real-time image and video communication is becoming common in commercial wireless systems. Images and videos have high bandwidth and low latency requirements. Therefore, joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has become very important for wireless image and video communication, espe…
This study looks at the pedagogical implications of pragmatic video clips in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting with native L1 Arabic speakers. Previous research on the use of video clips in pedagogy with this population of learners is limited. This study consists of…
Video is an increasingly ubiquitous part of our lives. Fast and efficient video codecs are necessary to satisfy the increasing demand for video on the web and mobile devices. However, open standards and patent grants are paramount to the adoption of video codecs across different…
This project analizes the use of the Arabic script in Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance (1988) and Kutlugˇ Ataman's Animated Words (2003) to understand the variety of interpretations made possible to audiences familiar and unfamiliar to Arabic. These artists' roles as Middle Ea…
Media shape feminist thought and feminist action, and this has been true for longer than is commonly acknowledged. This dissertation uses methods from media and technology studies, particularly Donna Haraway’s concept of cyborg feminism and its theoretical inheritors, to disrupt…