Critical Theory in a Digital Age, CCU, ENGL 483 2017 Main Menu Theory, English 483, CCU, 2017 Alisha Petrizzo, Reproducing a Classic Taking a look at how film can enhance or distort the authenticity of its original literature format Jocie Scherkenbach, Real Identity in a Virtual World: How Social Media Affects Identity Using the idea of cyborgs, as defined by Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto" the comparison is made between these cyborgs and social media users and how the public and private space converge and diverge within these spaces in order to form new and differing identities than the real-world identity. Kaitlin Schell, Electracy in #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo Mainstream hashtags that represent a movement in the physical world are explored in terms of Gregory Ulmer's theory of electracy and connotations. Kayla Jessop, The Uncanny Valley: Observations on Cyborgs within the Film Industry A scholarly observation on how film industries use Freud's idea of the uncanny and the uncanny valley within cyborgs and computer generated animation. Bilingualism Through An Electronic Hypertext and The Baroque Simulacrum it Creates By: Lindsey Morgan By: Lindsey Morgan Marcus Kinley, The Uncanny in Flatliners (1990) Tiffany Hancock, The Panopticon of Commodities Yaicha Ocampo - Marx's Favorite Latte The relationship between the simulacrum and the fetish commodity Leila Hassak-Digital Labor Through The Dystopian Film Hunger Games Elizabeth Tabor, From 'Token Girl' To 'Leading Lady' How The Rise In Female Fans Affects Modern Popular Culture Kyle Malanowski, The Uncanny Within Victor Cocco , The Wonderfully Mysterious World of the Uncanny Introduction Ariel Ellerson : The Public Sphere's Effect on Social Media and Church Tiffany Whisenant, Cyborg Prosthesis Looking at how technology is used to augment ourselves and how technology becomes extensions of our body and soul.

#BlackLivesMatter

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        Social media has provided a new way to fight racism. In fact, “the tools that we have to organize and to resist are fundamentally different than anything that’s existed before in black struggle” because of the ability to obtain the large outreach that social media provides as a grand result of electracy (Stephen). #BlackLivesMatter is global—people everywhere are becoming more aware of the struggle of blacks because of the hashtag; victims’ stories are being told and there is no surveillance to monitor what is being posted in the way that the telephone was controlled by a white operator. The raw truth does not have to be filtered anymore and it is creating a movement. #BlackLivesMatter creates a community among its victims, and even others sympathetic to their cause because of the publicity that the hashtag brings to itself. The connotations of Black Lives Matter can be different to the audience, whether it be positive or negative, sympathetic or not, but the story is still getting out there. It can make its readers cringe, or it can make them feel empowered. Regardless, the fact that social media can be used in such a positive way to shed light on a centuries old issue is groundbreaking. 
        The Black Lives Matter movement started in 2013 as a response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman. The entire history of the project can be read here.
 

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