Essays about: "trans representation"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the words trans representation.
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6. Medicalizing Me Softly: An Autoethnography of Refusal
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This autoethnographic study explores intra-community discursive boundary constructions around the category of transgender articulated by truscum trans men on Reddit. It does so through reflections on how the author negotiates the medical model of trans, his own gender identity, the medico-juridical interlock governing access to trans healthcare and trans livability, and tensions of closeness/distance to those they interview. READ MORE
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7. Sexy 16-Year-Old Baby-Eater: Gendered, Sexualized, and Racialized Discourses in Exalted, Second Edition
University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologiAbstract : Previous research finds roleplaying games, as well as the wider spectrum of geek culture that they exist within, to be defined by discourses favoring a white, heterosexual, cis-male viewpoint, drawing up and reproducing stereotypes and tropes that are inherently misogynist, homophobic, and racist. Heretofore, research into discourses of gender, sexuality, and race in roleplaying games has focused overwhelmingly on market leader Dungeons & Dragons (1971- ongoing), largely neglecting to scrutinize other well-established titles that may adhere to or break from the same tendencies. READ MORE
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8. Zero-shot, One Kill: BERT for Neural Information Retrieval
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : [Background]: The advent of bidirectional encoder representation from trans- formers (BERT) language models (Devlin et al., 2018) and MS Marco, a large scale human-annotated dataset for machine reading comprehension (Bajaj et al., 2016) that made publicly available, led the field of information retrieval (IR) to experience a revolution (Lin et al. READ MORE
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9. Trans Play : Imagining the future of trans games and research from an insider's perspective
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologiAbstract : The discussion of LGBT, and specifically, trans identity and its place in games is oneflourishing with more and more research from scholars. Though a glaring issue stillseems to haunt the field, as the voice of LGBT creators and gamers seems to be missingfrom the video game industry and research alike, which is counterproductive to theultimate goal of bettering the environment of games for LGBT gamers and creators. READ MORE
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10. Modelling the European High-voltage electricity transmission
University essay from KTH/EnergiteknikAbstract : This Master’s thesis describes modelling of the cross-border electricity transmission network of Europe. Under this work an extension of The Open Source Energy Model Base for the European Union (OSeMBE) was developed, implementing interconnections to the already existing model. READ MORE