“More Gruesome a Chick Looks, the More I Respect Her Skills”: Toxic Masculinity, Emphasized Femininity, and Media Portrayal/Fan Consumption of the Emergence of Women’s Mixed Martial Arts through Shayna Baszler, Invicta FC, and Ronda Rousey, 2003-2013

This paper exams how online media and fans reacted to the presence of two female professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters, Shayna Baszler and Ronda Rousey, and the emergence of an all-women\u27s MMA promotion, Invicta FC, in the years between 2003 and 2013. By analyzing articles from major MMA news sites, along with attached fan commentary, this dissertation strives to answer whether traditional concepts of feminine behavior influenced media coverage and associated fan reactions regarding women in MMA and how often these remarks shifted into toxicity. One important finding was that the fans’ “male gaze” was omnipresent from the beginning to the end of the study period. Another significant discovery found that the online fans\u27 reaction to Baszler and Invicta FC contrasted to their dialogue around Rousey. The latter was more harshly criticized (and fans less open to positive sentiments) because she threatened the all-masculine preserve of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, i.e., the major leagues of MMA. There were four primary conclusions. First, over the 10-year study period fans became more willing to acknowledge female technical skill, but many toxic dissenters remained. Second, discussions of female fragility were few and far between. Third, the use of humor was common in transforming benign masculine statements into toxic ones. Most importantly, a sizable portion of the online fanbase felt that women competing in MMA defied traditional feminine roles and that resulted in a toxic masculine reaction

The BG News October 27, 1989

The BGSU campus student newspaper October 27, 1989. Volume 72 - Issue 41https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5995/thumbnail.jp

An aesthetics of touch: investigating the language of design relating to form

How well can designers communicate qualities of touch? This paper presents evidence that they have some capability to do so, much of which appears to have been learned, but at present make limited use of such language. Interviews with graduate designer-makers suggest that they are aware of and value the importance of touch and materiality in their work, but lack a vocabulary to fully relate to their detailed explanations of other aspects such as their intent or selection of materials. We believe that more attention should be paid to the verbal dialogue that happens in the design process, particularly as other researchers show that even making-based learning also has a strong verbal element to it. However, verbal language alone does not appear to be adequate for a comprehensive language of touch. Graduate designers-makers’ descriptive practices combined non-verbal manipulation within verbal accounts. We thus argue that haptic vocabularies do not simply describe material qualities, but rather are situated competences that physically demonstrate the presence of haptic qualities. Such competencies are more important than groups of verbal vocabularies in isolation. Design support for developing and extending haptic competences must take this wide range of considerations into account to comprehensively improve designers’ capabilities

Ressources et parcours pour l'apprentissage du langage Python : aide à la navigation individualisée dans un hypermédia épistémique à partir de traces

This research work mainly concerns means of assistance in individualized navigation through an epistemic hypermedia. We have a number of resources that can be formalized by a directed acyclic graph (DAG) called the graph of epistemes. After identifying resources and pathways environments, methods of visualization and navigation, tracking, adaptation and data mining, we presented an approach correlating activities of design or editing with those dedicated to resources‘ use and navigation. This provides ways of navigation‘s individualization in an environment which aims to be evolutive. Then, we built prototypes to test the graph of epistemes. One of these prototypes was integrated into an existing platform. This epistemic hypermedia called HiPPY provides resources and pathways on Python language. It is based on a graph of epistemes, a dynamic navigation and a personalized knowledge diagnosis. This prototype, which was experimented, gave us the opportunity to evaluate the introduced principles and analyze certain uses.Les travaux de recherche de cette thèse concernent principalement l‘aide à la navigation individualisée dans un hypermédia épistémique. Nous disposons d‘un certain nombre de ressources qui peut se formaliser à l‘aide d‘un graphe acyclique orienté (DAG) : le graphe des épistèmes. Après avoir cerné les environnements de ressources et de parcours, les modalités de visualisation et de navigation, de traçage, d‘adaptation et de fouille de données, nous avons présenté une approche consistant à corréler les activités de conception ou d‘édition à celles dédiées à l‘utilisation et la navigation dans les ressources. Cette approche a pour objectif de fournir des mécanismes d‘individualisation de la navigation dans un environnement qui se veut évolutif. Nous avons alors construit des prototypes appropriés pour mettre à l‘épreuve le graphe des épistèmes. L‘un de ces prototypes a été intégré à une plateforme existante. Cet hypermédia épistémique baptisé HiPPY propose des ressources et des parcours portant sur l‘apprentissage du langage Python. Il s‘appuie sur un graphe des épistèmes, une navigation dynamique et un bilan de connaissances personnalisé. Ce prototype a fait l‘objet d‘une expérimentation qui nous a donné la possibilité d‘évaluer les principes introduits et d‘analyser certains usages

The Whitworthian 1953-1954

The Whitworthian student newspaper, September 1953-May 1954.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/whitworthian/1037/thumbnail.jp

March 1992

Moreno Valley Study Adds Jobs 6 Cross white Reflects onCoachella Health Care Focus Bush Expands Private Industry Role Competing With Godzilla Bank $557 Billion Pumped Into Real Estate UCR Economist Proposes Restructuring U.S. Banking System Your Insurance Questions Answered Creative Conference New