The Presenters

Thank you to the professionals who have volunteered to serve as judges!

Dr. Michael Johnson - Professor of Public Policy & Public Affairs & Special Assistant to the Chancellor, UMass Boston
Dr. Sarah Neville - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brown University; Member of Chelsea School Committee
Dr. Denise Patmon - Professor, College of Education and Human Development; Director, William Monroe Trotter Institute; and Director, Boston Writing Project - UMass Boston
Dr. Daniel Steele - Principal Research Advisor, Department of Innovation & Technology, City of Boston

Eliana Jean

Harassment, Sexism, and Inappropriate Content on Roblox.

From my research, I researched harassment, sexism and inappropriate content on Roblox. I employed a mixed methods approach with quantitative and qualitative research with a survey. In the survey, it had closed, ended questions which had a scale from one to five, which one being never five being all the time for the Quantitative portion. For the qualitative Portion, I had open-ended questions. The questions asked about the respondents experience on Roblox with harassment, sexism, and inappropriate content. To send my survey out to people, I posted it on various Reddit sub, Reddit, discord, servers, and the school. For my results, I found that Roblox players are very much exposed to harassment, sexism and inappropriate content on Roblox. The limitations of my research was that there was only 26 respondents even though Roblox is such a large platform. The implications of my research is that children are being exposed to these things on Roblox because Roblox has a primarily minor audience. And the second implication is that children are being prayed on from this inappropriate content on Roblox. This is because YouTuber jidion Has found and reported to different Roblox predators to the police for trying to meet up with a supposed 13-year-old girl they met on Roblox.

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Gianna Nahim

The importance of being American: why some British musicians are more incentivised to use American accents opposed to their own accent

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My research was about how American culture can influence musicians outside the United States to change their accents in order to appeal to American audience. The whole idea of being that the more American you are the more marketability you gain and therefore your chances of “breaking the United States” would be more successful. With an emphasis on older British performers' adoption of American accents, this study examines the ways in which American cultural hegemony impacted British popular rock music during the middle to late 20th century. By analyzing vocal performance and audience response, it investigates how musicians overcame American cultural dominance to establish their appeal on a global basis. Case studies show that while some artists adopted Americanized accents to improve their marketability and overall chances of success, others maintained their distinctive British accents as a form of cultural resistance against America. These findings also show off broader tensions between the evolving global music industry then and now, including those related to national identity, artistic expression, globalisation, and the need to appeal to an American audience while remaining non-American.

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