A is for audience: an examination of audience construction, focalization, and politicization in contemporary children's ABC books
| dc.contributor.author | Campbell, Grant, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Diffrient, David Scott, advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Griffin, Cindy, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Coke, Pamela, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-28T14:34:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-08-28T14:34:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the ways contemporary children's ABC books can politically shape or frame the way audiences interpret and conceptualize content within the books. Using the children's ABC books A is for Activist (2013) and America: A Patriotic Primer (2002), I examine how children's texts can construct audiences, create a unique site of focalization--known as a focalized dialogue--for those audiences, and utilize phenomenological metaphors to politically shape the focalized dialogues that occur between readers of the books. In doing so, contemporary children's ABC books can wield social and political power that can function to characterize contemporary understandings of cultural artifacts and even children themselves. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | masters theses | |
| dc.identifier | Campbell_colostate_0053N_13029.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/167067 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2000-2019 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. | |
| dc.subject | children's books | |
| dc.subject | focalization | |
| dc.subject | audience | |
| dc.subject | phenomenology | |
| dc.subject | communication | |
| dc.title | A is for audience: an examination of audience construction, focalization, and politicization in contemporary children's ABC books | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dcterms.rights.dpla | This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Communication Studies | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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