UC Irvine Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Parent: UC Irvine
eScholarship stats: History by Item for May through August, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 | 2026-05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8fj6n1ht | Entertainment Capital: Hit Games Production, Corporate Data, and the Science of Viral Demand in America’s Games Industry | 17,981 | 2,940 | 4,079 | 1,377 | 9,585 |
| 0638n6x6 | Simulation and Efficiency: Interaction Design Analysis of Virtual Reality Games | 10,777 | 3,635 | 5,770 | 959 | 413 |
| 82x776k4 | Examining Tilt as Emotional Dysregulation in Gaming | 9,196 | 3,222 | 3,797 | 1,826 | 351 |
| 1x6317k3 | Beyond Mischief Managed: Understanding Socio-Technical Forms of Governance in Kid-/Family-friendly Minecraft Servers Using Mixed Methods | 7,359 | 2,079 | 3,698 | 1,024 | 558 |
| 8cf3955q | Scrap: The Social Life of Recyclable Metals in the United States and India | 6,524 | 4,637 | 1,576 | 170 | 141 |
| 4q04s8jv | Korean Animation: Aesthetics in the Age of Globalized Production | 6,503 | 2,312 | 2,682 | 947 | 562 |
| 9fh8t3d2 | Combatting Exhaustion and Reclaiming Leisure: Radical Slowness and the (Re)Generative Potential of Play | 4,742 | 1,484 | 2,022 | 837 | 399 |
| 7br694vk | Social Experience in World of Warcraft: Technological and Ideological Mediations | 4,517 | 1,550 | 2,077 | 701 | 189 |
| 8mr1365r | From Administrative Science to Chinese Statecraft: The Local Governance of Central Politics School and Its Political Modernity, 1927-1945 | 4,331 | 3,563 | 232 | 311 | 225 |
| 2jm9q0dv | Saving Cinema: Circulation and Preservation in the Age of Computational Film | 3,893 | 1,157 | 1,866 | 554 | 316 |
| 7f22p0p5 | Online Stars and the New Audience: How YouTube Creators Curate and Maintain Communities | 3,610 | 1,263 | 1,573 | 605 | 169 |
| 3br4624x | Choices in Economics: From Movie Videos, Leisure to Migration Decisions | 3,535 | 827 | 1,336 | 691 | 681 |
| 5qr1q4r9 | Server Worlds: Preservation, Virtualization, and Infrastructures of Control in Online Gaming | 3,420 | 1,325 | 1,448 | 497 | 150 |
| 1585b5nz | Trees, Refining, and Combinatorial Characteristics | 3,414 | 577 | 945 | 990 | 902 |
| 4206d7bs | The Existential Crisis in Pío Baroja and Fyodor Dostoevsky: The novel as the vehicle for the analysis of national and spiritual distress. | 3,227 | 1,484 | 651 | 708 | 384 |
| 73s8t92n | Authorship & Ownership: Towards a Prehistory of Intellectual Property in Ancient Greece | 3,224 | 1,927 | 334 | 673 | 290 |
| 7nk4v18m | You Are Whom You Eat: Cannibalism in Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Film | 3,204 | 1,952 | 228 | 749 | 275 |
| 19x7m1wm | Playful Places in Online Playgrounds: An Ethnography of a Minecraft Virtual World for Children with Autism | 3,194 | 946 | 1,123 | 650 | 475 |
| 5kd5f3dj | Martyrs, Models, and Miscreants: The “Communist Child” in Wartime North China, 1937-1948 | 3,091 | 2,280 | 296 | 362 | 153 |
| 0f12b36b | Universal People: Audiovisual Experiments in Black Science Fiction, 1980-1986 | 2,869 | 928 | 1,168 | 533 | 240 |
| 4xk023h8 | Blooming, Contending, and Staying Silent: Student Activism and Campus Politics in China, 1957 | 2,577 | 1,585 | 217 | 464 | 311 |
| 06x098tm | DoomScroll: Modding Among Us to Combat Misinformation | 2,372 | 684 | 1,005 | 453 | 230 |
| 3sv6d7sx | The Global Staff of Life: Wheat, Flour, and Bread in Britain, 1846-1914 | 2,337 | 1,084 | 474 | 472 | 307 |
| 6854g2zx | American Idle: An examination of leisure guilt, time use, and well-being | 2,239 | 756 | 519 | 533 | 431 |
| 6x08k529 | Anachronism Effects: Ventriloquism and Popular Media | 2,238 | 817 | 809 | 364 | 248 |
| 77p7m7t4 | Expanding the Catalyst and Monomer Scope of Ring-Opening Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly | 2,238 | 846 | 907 | 301 | 184 |
| 5gw3v7bf | "Watching Their Souls Speak": Interpreting the New Music Videos of Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter | 2,226 | 776 | 845 | 441 | 164 |
| 9zw2m574 | Requiem for a National Wound in Three Dictatorship Novels Underscoring Sovereignty of the Self by Chile's Fernando Alegría | 2,199 | 583 | 340 | 906 | 370 |
| 53g740ff | The Art of Duration: Echoes of Untimeliness in Chinese Cinematic Experiments | 2,135 | 1,338 | 94 | 250 | 453 |
| 7q10071k | The Not So Tender Trap: Romantic Comedy and Revolt in the Fifties and Fifty Years Later | 2,110 | 506 | 219 | 687 | 698 |
| 8j5167zf | It’s Painful Being A Wisp Of Smoke | 2,109 | 640 | 1,023 | 336 | 110 |
| 45n2q4v3 | "Arcadias and Avalons: Reframing Real Estate, Radicalism, and Race in the Cooperative Commonwealth of Los Angeles, 1893 - 1929" | 2,082 | 904 | 255 | 372 | 551 |
| 2313z71q | Modernity, Gender and Poetics: Chen Jitong (1852-1907) and the Cross-cultural Intellectual and Literary Writing Practices in Late Qing China | 2,078 | 1,659 | 120 | 170 | 129 |
| 8q14k213 | iXercise: An Immersive Exergaming Platform to Promote Physical Activity in the Pediatric Population | 2,024 | 650 | 888 | 301 | 185 |
| 5355t51n | Savage Vernacular: Performing Race, Memory, and Hip Hop in Filipino America | 1,987 | 557 | 755 | 405 | 270 |
| 2673832q | Dribbling with the Left and Shooting with Right: Soccer, Sports Media, and Populism in Argentina and Chile, 1940s-1950s | 1,975 | 532 | 890 | 333 | 220 |
| 6s94d4dt | Feeling Engaged: College Writers as Literacy Tutors | 1,966 | 663 | 120 | 675 | 508 |
| 9z4511gj | Frame-Perfect: Temporalities in Competitive Gaming | 1,940 | 614 | 832 | 316 | 178 |
| 9ws5n61j | Obscenity Regulation and Film Exhibition: Policing Gay and Feminist Media Industries in Southern California, 1960 to 1979 | 1,909 | 468 | 878 | 312 | 251 |
| 2g9629xv | Huntington’s disease astrocyte and brain-microvascular endothelial cell dysregulation | 1,908 | 330 | 404 | 649 | 525 |
| 0nn81170 | Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity Studies on Transition Metal Amidophenolate Complexes | 1,792 | 370 | 457 | 447 | 518 |
| 9fs2g9jc | Playing with the Double Bind: Authenticity, Gender, and Failure in Live Streaming | 1,782 | 933 | 323 | 252 | 274 |
| 5zr456hm | Industrialization of Play: Technology, Culture, and the Digital Economy of Korean Esports | 1,646 | 833 | 301 | 295 | 217 |
| 6t68t86j | Development of Polydisulfide Polymers for RNA Delivery | 1,622 | 971 | 251 | 166 | 234 |
| 8nf958vh | Ida Rosenthal and her Maidenformidable Empire: Dreamy Advertising and Booming Business in Postwar U.S. | 1,583 | 334 | 533 | 380 | 336 |
| 9tf0q68d | "Overpowered by Laughter"? Spanish Humor under Franco | 1,577 | 435 | 576 | 264 | 302 |
| 1s995322 | Advanced Dynamic Music: Composing Algorithmic Music in Video Games as an Improvisatory Device for Players | 1,570 | 478 | 525 | 295 | 272 |
| 6cb9h85z | Illiberal Insecurities: Distrust and Post-Truth Populism in Anti-Gender Movements in Mexico | 1,570 | 741 | 363 | 398 | 68 |
| 3dh8426m | And If the World Should End Tonight…: Racial Capitalism, Sexual Mythmaking, and Tumblr’s Queer-of-Color Worlds of Resistance | 1,559 | 349 | 309 | 442 | 459 |
| 0xf0h1p2 | Fractured Imaginaries - an Ethnography of Game Design | 1,539 | 822 | 176 | 233 | 308 |
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