Constructing a Culture

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In the years following World War II (1945 - 1955), film and print media created sources geared at the newly acknowledged teenage audience. In order to contain the rapidly expanding group, adults chose to "construct a culture" by impressing white, bourgeois values on the teens. 

"Constructing a Culture" was created by four graduate students enrolled in Professor Roshanna Sylvester's "Doing Digital History" course at DePaul University (HST 438 & DHS 460).

Using the course theme: "How to be Popular?" as our guide, each contributor selected and researched one primary-source piece of media. After composing an essay detailing our source in context, and adding our media to an Omeka site, our final project is to create a Scalar site. 

METHODS:
Each contributor was responsible for research on his or her own primary-source material. After brainstorming the theme for Scalar, students worked individually, yet collaboratively to develop the website. 

GRADUATE STUDENT BACKGROUND:
Micah Ariel

Jessica Martinez

Vince Sandri

Maureen Kudlik
Masters of English Literature and Digital Humanities Graduate student. Maureen focused on the rise of teenagers in photojournalist Nina Leen's photo-essay, "Tulsa Twins: They Show how much the Teen-age World has Changed". Exploration and promotion of conformity through uniformity in fashion and gender roles is discussed. 
 

 

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