April Cobos

Ph.D. studentOld Dominion University

acobo001@odu.edu

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"Rape Culture" and the Social Media

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April Cobos Old Dominion University

March 31, 2014
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"Rape Culture" and the Social Media social media sexual assault Circulating pain Curator's Note This is a large portion of the video made by a friend of one of the convicted men in the Steubenville rape case after he received photographs of ...
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The Impacts of Digital Media on Perspectives of Academic Authorship

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April Cobos Old Dominion University

February 25, 2013
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The Impacts of Digital Media on Perspectives of Academic Authorship Despite all of the collaboration that occurs in academia, there is still the tendency to veer towards the cultural illusion of the singular author feverishly creating in isolation and the ...

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In Media Res

Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

Different frames

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April Cobos Old Dominion University

Monday, March 31, 2014 — 8:26 pm
Building on Matt's earlier question about the differences in perception and Jamie's questions of the impacts of social media, the work I have done so far in analyzing the language use by the news media, and in social media outlets, suggests a di ...
In Media Res

Re: "Rape Culture" and the Social Media

Resistance

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April Cobos Old Dominion University

Monday, March 31, 2014 — 9:26 pm
I really like this idea of resistance, and find that to be one of the most difficult controversies in how the social media is used to circulate discussions of rape culture and sexual assault cases. In the India rape cases, I definitely saw it as a source ...