As depicted by American cultural standards, the mass-produced perfect body used to exist only in high-budget advertisements, Hollywood productions, and glamorous photographs. The creation of mass media drastically altered distribution rates and content accessibility, redefining self-perception through millions of mediated images. Over the past 40 years, and especially since the...
Breaking the Bard is an interactive documentary experience geared toward making the works of William Shakespeare more accessible to a modern audience. Through the analysis of the historical, societal, and political environment in which the plays were written and first performed, specifically Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth, users will be...
I created the short pilot for an animated series reflecting on the environment called Trash Island. The project entails the script, storyboard, directing, and animating every aspect of the process, including audio recording. In this four-minute episode of Trash Island, the three main characters accidentally activate a trash monster who...
This study integrates perspectives from professionals working within college sports as well as student athletes to provide a deeper understanding of the aspects that comprise and impact athletes’ individual branding efforts at the collegiate level. In addition, the study offers insight into how the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) proposed...
The ICA Loop is a theoretical concept turned physical/virtual installation that stands for (I)nformation Overload, (C)yberchondria, and (A)ttention Economy, the three components that feed into each other to create the infinite cycle.
NCAA athletes are placed at the bottom of a hierarchy that renders them incredibly vulnerable to abuse by superiors who misuse their power. In the NCAA environment, superiors are more likely to misuse their power because of the pressure that surrounds their position. Athletes need the system in which they...
Women have consistently faced various forms of oppression, one of which has been everlasting pay inequalities in the workplace. As these discrepancies have persisted, many scholars have researched and continue to study these inequalities through various frameworks. These frameworks have led to vast differences in conclusions on discrimination and...
This study employed a content analysis of 414 New York Times articles to better assess how the elite news media has covered the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. While prior studies have reviewed economic coverage in the midst of recessions, this study focuses exclusively on the unique COVID-19 circumstances, and...
The Creation of Redstone Hollows is a thesis about the visual design of what it took to kickstart a small indie video game into development by Cera Kocher. This thesis includes inspirations, research, technical decisions, environmental design, process, drafts, and realities when it came to the start of the indie...