UC Santa Barbara Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Parent: UC Santa Barbara
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5mn8f7tn | Fault-tolerant superconducting qubits | 11,926 | 11,316 | 610 | 94.9% |
| 9vc0q914 | An Industry of Indies: The New Cultural Economy of Digital Game Production | 11,806 | 457 | 11,349 | 3.9% |
| 7x21k82s | Porn Work: Adult Film at the Point of Production | 9,992 | 650 | 9,342 | 6.5% |
| 0g47b3rm | Taste and Gastropoetics in Traditional China, Ninth to Seventeenth Centuries CE | 8,409 | 929 | 7,480 | 11.0% |
| 8jt609kj | Mycelium is the Message: open science, ecological values, and alternative futures with do-it-yourself mycologists | 5,237 | 300 | 4,937 | 5.7% |
| 32f9h4k6 | Digital Disidentifications: Affective Circuits of Meme Exchange, Viral Counterpublics, and Queer Ironic Consumption | 5,232 | 2,763 | 2,469 | 52.8% |
| 0kh5w89m | Local Landscapes: Fa Ruozhen (1613–1696) and the Making of Conquest Identities in Early Qing China | 4,906 | 513 | 4,393 | 10.5% |
| 6sc5s990 | Metahistorical Gaming: Playing with History on Steam, Reimagining the Nation in China | 4,711 | 4,482 | 229 | 95.1% |
| 3924m17g | Haptic Media: Sexuality, Gender, and Affect in Technology Culture, 1959–2015 | 4,087 | 341 | 3,746 | 8.3% |
| 1m40335w | Left for Dead: Tactical Safe Spaces and Rogue Chinese Archives on the Gaming Platform Steam | 3,671 | 850 | 2,821 | 23.2% |
| 4hs1f3n6 | The Flower of Dharma Nature: Sexual Consecration and Amalgamation in Medieval Japanese Buddhism | 3,628 | 936 | 2,692 | 25.8% |
| 9t5166r6 | Networks of Heterodoxy: Shared Dissent and the Dynamics of Counter-Discourse | 3,410 | 3,218 | 192 | 94.4% |
| 44t875kp | Mexicanos en la Tercera Edad [Older Mexican Adults]: Exploring Subjective Experiences of Aging & Wellbeing with Regard to Culture | 3,311 | 3,194 | 117 | 96.5% |
| 0sh7h0bv | Worlds Within Worlds: Allomythic Worldviews & Worldmaking in Fantastika – Their Nature & Genesis, Analyzing the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, Philip Pullman, Madeline L’Engle, Ayn Rand, & William Luther Pierce, with Supporting Appendices & Excurses; or, Kairology: The Making of Meaningful Situations – Understanding Fictional Worldviews & Ways of Life | 3,256 | 2,767 | 489 | 85.0% |
| 6cz211x8 | Reading Between the Baselines: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Elite Women’s Tennis | 3,206 | 592 | 2,614 | 18.5% |
| 62f4h37m | Structure and Dispersion of Active Matter in Confinement | 3,027 | 539 | 2,488 | 17.8% |
| 9pf6v1wt | The United States and the Barbary Pirates: Adventures in Sexuality, State-Building, and Nationalism, 1784-1815 | 2,946 | 397 | 2,549 | 13.5% |
| 01q0c2n8 | Making Games Watchable: Broadcasting Video Games and Playing Attention | 2,880 | 594 | 2,286 | 20.6% |
| 71b2q8bh | "White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers": An Exploration of Far-Right Political Extremism in Heavy Metal Music | 2,734 | 1,294 | 1,440 | 47.3% |
| 6mr815cv | Constitutional Experiments in Republican China: Revolution, Science, and Differentiated Citizenship, 1922-1949 | 2,721 | 56 | 2,665 | 2.1% |
| 21x356wg | Flirting with Sexual Economies: A Study on The Latina Body in Popular Culture and Online Sex Work Industries | 2,704 | 1,000 | 1,704 | 37.0% |
| 4vt6f325 | Grim Grimoires: Pragmatic Ritual in the Magic Tantras | 2,701 | 506 | 2,195 | 18.7% |
| 92b3q6pr | I love you: Normativity, power, and romance in metalinguistic commentary | 2,578 | 2,206 | 372 | 85.6% |
| 5rp2h6f4 | A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding the Effect of Applying Multimedia Principles to a Minecraft STEM Lesson | 2,509 | 2,275 | 234 | 90.7% |
| 3kx5461s | Music as a Procedural Motive in the Filmmaking of Darren Aronofsky, Sofia Coppola, and Paul Thomas Anderson | 2,453 | 359 | 2,094 | 14.6% |
| 2bx184p9 | Hoop Streams: The Rise of the NBA, Multiplatform Television, and Sports as Media Content, 1982 to 2015 | 2,358 | 489 | 1,869 | 20.7% |
| 2dj3k52s | A Union of Religion and Politics: Ngawang Tsültrim as Tibetan Regent and Imperial Preceptor | 2,307 | 239 | 2,068 | 10.4% |
| 8xg8182x | A Matter of Death and Life: Necrographies of Hip-Hop in Contemporary Detroit | 2,254 | 523 | 1,731 | 23.2% |
| 71m3f87j | Narrative (K)nots / Symbolic Seduction: Toward a Biopoetics of Second-Order Symbolism in the Storytelling Arts | 2,236 | 1,553 | 683 | 69.5% |
| 4dw6h0k2 | Shakespearean Fools in Dostoevsky: Toward an Ethics of Love | 2,165 | 349 | 1,816 | 16.1% |
| 6vn2m2w9 | On the Uses and Abuses of History for Politics | 2,145 | 93 | 2,052 | 4.3% |
| 978012mz | The Maoist Soundscape: Sonic Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1976 | 2,140 | 169 | 1,971 | 7.9% |
| 0cm2m7vs | Leisure’s Race, Power and Place: The Recreation and Remembrance of African Americans in the California Dream | 2,122 | 385 | 1,737 | 18.1% |
| 0w17x548 | Self-Translation as Method: Modern Sinophone Self-Translators and their Transmediated Afterlives | 2,103 | 1,037 | 1,066 | 49.3% |
| 02w8h7pv | Stateless in Shanghai: History, Memory and Cultural Representations of the Hongkou Jewish Ghetto 1933-1945 | 2,090 | 141 | 1,949 | 6.7% |
| 5xj1r230 | Gender, Labor, and the Commodification of Intimacy in K-pop | 2,057 | 1,310 | 747 | 63.7% |
| 2109j3rs | “A Burmese Wonderland”: British World Mining and the Making of Colonial Burma | 1,967 | 124 | 1,843 | 6.3% |
| 2xf1t6kx | La Mafia Global: Global Capitalism and the Struggle against Hyper-Incarceration | 1,960 | 165 | 1,795 | 8.4% |
| 0pz4b0bj | Possible Futures: Buddhist Prophecy in Medieval Tibet | 1,921 | 311 | 1,610 | 16.2% |
| 4q1931gr | On Evaluation and Efficient Post-training for LLMs | 1,921 | 463 | 1,458 | 24.1% |
| 1sp3k2wk | Āveśa and Deity Possession in the Tantric Traditions of South Asia: History, Evolution, & Etiology | 1,913 | 547 | 1,366 | 28.6% |
| 8tj6x394 | Women Writing War Memories: Hayashi Fumiko, Nieh Hualing, and Zhang Ling | 1,865 | 94 | 1,771 | 5.0% |
| 4zr7639m | Analyzing and Securing Firmware for IoT Devices | 1,859 | 147 | 1,712 | 7.9% |
| 6kj6q609 | Conventions in Digital Communication: A Linguistic Analysis of Emojis and Human-Computer Interactions | 1,816 | 1,543 | 273 | 85.0% |
| 6w28s7ft | The Legacy of Trauma: African American Intergenerational Trauma and Healing | 1,756 | 141 | 1,615 | 8.0% |
| 3395g78s | Interrogating the ‘science of climate accountability’: Allocating responsibility for climate impacts within a frame of climate justice | 1,741 | 374 | 1,367 | 21.5% |
| 39c957wf | Honey Pie, Colors of Dreams, and Inner Light: Stylistic Expertise and Musical Topicality in the Beatles' Mid and Late 1960s Songs | 1,737 | 1,119 | 618 | 64.4% |
| 77w2d0c3 | The Price of Prosperity: Inflation and the Limits of the New Deal Order | 1,661 | 54 | 1,607 | 3.3% |
| 86v0x46f | Transgression, Conversion, Reformation: Atiśa Dīpaṃkara and Tantric Hermeneutics in the Later Propagation of Tibetan Buddhism | 1,636 | 142 | 1,494 | 8.7% |
| 9w27s169 | Beyond Background Beats: Lo-Fi Hip Hop as a Practice of Sonic Self-Insulation and Nostalgic Refuge | 1,612 | 1,530 | 82 | 94.9% |
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