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    Embrace: the journey to empathy and compassion
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Wadhwa, Sumanma, author; Gravdahl, John, advisor; Muntoreanu, Roberto, committee member; Chien, Claire, committee member; Aronis, Carolin, committee member
    The world right now faces a continual gap in opportunities and access to benefits between different social groups. Oppression and Marginalization are not just driven by income, but also by gender, ethnicity and culture, race, sexual orientation, class, and religion. There is a need to accept these social boundaries and unleash the humanity's potential to thrive with its boundless creativity, mutual respect and provide people with meaning. Design has the power to convert this noble thought into a movement that creates change, which is the aim for this campaign, "Embrace." I want to use design to reach masses and create a visual language to be adopted at grassroot level, allowing people to build a stable and accepting society. Throughout my graduate studies, I have created awareness about social issues including breastfeeding taboo and maternity leave. This awareness campaign is about a variety of social concerns which will nudge our thoughts towards becoming a more balanced society. Specifically, I have created "Embrace" symbols depicting and creating consciousness about the principles of gender balance, income, racial, ethno-diasporic equality, and family bonding. These symbols, at their core, represent the balance between our intelligence and emotional quotient. By creating a visual communication method through symbols, I want to create an awareness campaign using which, I would like to introduce a path for people to not only be aware but be proud of associating with this campaign. Through this campaign, I also hope to encourage corporations to transform their practices and embrace people of all types in their policies and use my symbols as a badge of acceptance of their socio-economic performance. I want to promote these symbols and this campaign as a representation of human-centric responsibility among corporations, thus, helping create a more equitable society. In future, I would want to see this campaign added as an 18th goal among UN's sustainability and development goals where embracing emotional intelligence will bind together and enable the achievement of all the other 17 goals.
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    Gender performance and the hyper-feminized cowgirl: a CTDA analysis of the @wprarodeo Tik Tok
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Esposito, Cassidy L., author; Arthur, Tori Omega, advisor; Abrams, Katie, committee member; Aronis, Carolin, committee member
    This study evaluates the Women's Professional Rodeo Association TikTok as a social media platform that uses video to represent rodeo culture and portrays the cowgirl identity. This representation is centered within a male-dominant sport that falls under the agriculture industry and is rooted in other agriculture practices and history. It is important to understand how this androcentric experience in professional rodeo functions on social media through the @wprarodeo TikTok because social media representation in different forms is used to construct and reconstruct culturally situated identities. Using CTDA (Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis) this study found three cultural ideologies including: the cowgirl appearance, athletic performance, and women empowerment through collective identity, which are present on the @wprarodeo TikTok as a representation of female narratives in professional rodeo, which are bolstered through Tik Tok's affordances. Tik Tok in an increasingly integrated digital space with highly intuitive user-based content and interaction.