Perturbation to Proud Boy: Understanding the Creation of Extremists Through Uncertainty Reduction Theory Bennet Nast Extremism is a ubiquitous phenomenon transcending nationality, religion, culture, and time. To better understand why this is, one must consider the role of ambiguity in the human condition, most readily analyzed using Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT), Anxiety and Uncertainty Management…
19th-Century Women’s Fashion: Diversity and Personal Experience in the Ottoman Empire Meara McClusky Introduction “A Street in Beyoglu”1 captures a slice of 19th-century Ottoman fashion. The image, published by Abdullah Frères, an Ottoman photography studio run by three brothers of Armenian descent, shows a street scene in the European district of Istanbul. The photo was…
Analyzing an Era of Change at the New York Times: The Feminist Approach Caitlin French “Food, Fashions, Family, and Furnishings” — these were the topics women were limited to writing about in the New York Times’ one-page section, “The Four F’s,” from 1955 to 1971 (Svachula, 2018). While the New York Times is one of…