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This dissertation will explore the merits of treating the recording as a musical object and goal unto itself, both from the angles of music creation and analytical thought. I will discuss the phenomena of recording as documentation of a different object as opposed to the paradig…

Social media has become an important tool used by citizens to assess police officers’ activities through user-generated videos that are posted online. However, little is understood about how police officers, who are the main actors of these videos, feel about this phenomenon. Em…

Recently the availability of hand-held recording devices has driven the immense growth of citizen-science repositories. While these repositories have the benefit of providing a well-distributed dataset, they also bring the challenge of analyzing recordings collected using device…