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Description:: This thesis investigates Deaf culture through football at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. It is a multimedia documentary project about Shelby Bean, a Hard of Hearing man with Goldenhar Syndrome who came to Gallaudet as a student athlete in 2009 and became a football coach after he...
Author:: D'Autremont, Catherine
Keyword:: Disability, Athletics, Sports, Gallaudet, Football, and Deaf
GW Unit:: New Media Photojournalism
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Sterner, Susan
Committee Member(s):: Bulisova, Gabriela
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This photo documentary project focuses on Deale, Maryland, a village with an active charter boat fleet on the Western Shore of Chesapeake Bay. It is an exploration of past and present, with the photographer returning to the place of his childhood to capture images that were fading from memory....
Author:: O'Hara, Michael Brendan
Keyword:: Deale, Childhood, Charter Fishing, Chesapeake, and Memory
GW Unit:: New Media Photojournalism
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Bulisova, Gabriela and Sterner, Susan
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This thesis concerns a family and their five-year-old daughter who lives with Sjögren-Larsson Syndrome, a rare genetic condition that effects approximately 100 people in the United States. Through photographs, video, and text, the work documents this family in Fairfax, Virginia from June 2012 to...
Author:: Rizzo, Meredith Lynn
Keyword:: orphan diseases, sjogren-larsson syndrome, healthcare, orphan drug act, medical, and rare diseases
GW Unit:: New Media Photojournalism
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Bulisova, Gabriela and Sterner, Susan
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The District of Columbia's Child and Family Services Agency introduced me to the family of two documented here. Photojournalism and audio clips depict the growing bond between a mother and adopted daughter, with unshared pasts to foster a new feeling of home. They have been together for just over...
Author:: Lutty, Aurora
Keyword:: family, documentary, domestic photography, adoption, Child and Family Services Agency, and neuroplasticity
GW Unit:: New Media Photojournalism
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Bulisova, Gabriela and Sterner, Susan
Committee Member(s):: Elfers, Steve, Turner, Tyrone, and Beasley, Toren
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This thesis documents the story of a non-mainstream, community-powered radio station--Radio CPR--which broadcasts from the diverse neighborhood of Mount Pleasant in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1998, Radio CPR is a hyper-local, collectively-run media platform that operates independent of...
Author:: Feld, Laurie E.
Keyword:: Media Justice, Low-Power FM, Community-Powered Radio, Radio CPR, Collectively-run, and Hyper-local media
GW Unit:: New Media Photojournalism
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Sterner, Susan
Committee Member(s):: Bulisova, Gabriela, Frankfurter, Michelle, and Paperny, Tanya
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This documentary conducted in Washington, D.C. (Ward 7 and 8), along the Anacostia River, and nearby Southeast D.C. between February 2012 and April 2013, Anaquash, explores local residents' relationship to the river. The Anacostia is a historically polluted body of water, running through racially...
Author:: Harlan, Rebecca
Keyword:: Photojournalism, Washington, River, Fishing, Anacostia, D.C., and Photography
GW Unit:: New Media Photojournalism
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Sterner, Susan
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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