UC Santa Barbara Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Parent: UC Santa Barbara
eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-09 | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9vc0q914 | An Industry of Indies: The New Cultural Economy of Digital Game Production | 11,884 | 558 | 3,796 | 5,649 | 1,881 |
| 7x21k82s | Porn Work: Adult Film at the Point of Production | 11,499 | 2,842 | 3,607 | 2,066 | 2,984 |
| 0g47b3rm | Taste and Gastropoetics in Traditional China, Ninth to Seventeenth Centuries CE | 7,758 | 467 | 6,202 | 449 | 640 |
| 32f9h4k6 | Digital Disidentifications: Affective Circuits of Meme Exchange, Viral Counterpublics, and Queer Ironic Consumption | 5,102 | 253 | 1,575 | 2,349 | 925 |
| 0kh5w89m | Local Landscapes: Fa Ruozhen (1613–1696) and the Making of Conquest Identities in Early Qing China | 4,808 | 563 | 2,517 | 543 | 1,185 |
| 8jt609kj | Mycelium is the Message: open science, ecological values, and alternative futures with do-it-yourself mycologists | 4,721 | 368 | 2,395 | 713 | 1,245 |
| 6sc5s990 | Metahistorical Gaming: Playing with History on Steam, Reimagining the Nation in China | 4,659 | 696 | 1,478 | 1,707 | 778 |
| 3924m17g | Haptic Media: Sexuality, Gender, and Affect in Technology Culture, 1959–2015 | 3,976 | 330 | 1,289 | 1,411 | 946 |
| 4hs1f3n6 | The Flower of Dharma Nature: Sexual Consecration and Amalgamation in Medieval Japanese Buddhism | 3,691 | 492 | 1,538 | 653 | 1,008 |
| 1m40335w | Left for Dead: Tactical Safe Spaces and Rogue Chinese Archives on the Gaming Platform Steam | 3,505 | 169 | 1,295 | 1,639 | 402 |
| 9t5166r6 | Networks of Heterodoxy: Shared Dissent and the Dynamics of Counter-Discourse | 3,439 | 177 | 1,069 | 1,612 | 581 |
| 44t875kp | Mexicanos en la Tercera Edad [Older Mexican Adults]: Exploring Subjective Experiences of Aging & Wellbeing with Regard to Culture | 3,255 | 860 | 608 | 890 | 897 |
| 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 | 3,251 | 254 | 1,034 | 1,517 | 446 |
| 6cz211x8 | Reading Between the Baselines: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Elite Women’s Tennis | 3,234 | 588 | 1,218 | 733 | 695 |
| 71b2q8bh | "White Nationalism is for Basement Dwelling Losers": An Exploration of Far-Right Political Extremism in Heavy Metal Music | 3,031 | 673 | 1,201 | 668 | 489 |
| 01q0c2n8 | Making Games Watchable: Broadcasting Video Games and Playing Attention | 2,885 | 237 | 920 | 1,259 | 469 |
| 4vt6f325 | Grim Grimoires: Pragmatic Ritual in the Magic Tantras | 2,873 | 485 | 1,468 | 544 | 376 |
| 6mr815cv | Constitutional Experiments in Republican China: Revolution, Science, and Differentiated Citizenship, 1922-1949 | 2,767 | 109 | 2,430 | 139 | 89 |
| 92b3q6pr | I love you: Normativity, power, and romance in metalinguistic commentary | 2,640 | 175 | 979 | 1,031 | 455 |
| 3kx5461s | Music as a Procedural Motive in the Filmmaking of Darren Aronofsky, Sofia Coppola, and Paul Thomas Anderson | 2,532 | 503 | 1,179 | 490 | 360 |
| 21x356wg | Flirting with Sexual Economies: A Study on The Latina Body in Popular Culture and Online Sex Work Industries | 2,471 | 679 | 1,080 | 250 | 462 |
| 5rp2h6f4 | A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding the Effect of Applying Multimedia Principles to a Minecraft STEM Lesson | 2,467 | 139 | 708 | 1,276 | 344 |
| 0cm2m7vs | Leisure’s Race, Power and Place: The Recreation and Remembrance of African Americans in the California Dream | 2,404 | 524 | 904 | 435 | 541 |
| 2bx184p9 | Hoop Streams: The Rise of the NBA, Multiplatform Television, and Sports as Media Content, 1982 to 2015 | 2,365 | 111 | 813 | 1,297 | 144 |
| 8xg8182x | A Matter of Death and Life: Necrographies of Hip-Hop in Contemporary Detroit | 2,343 | 357 | 950 | 661 | 375 |
| 0pz4b0bj | Possible Futures: Buddhist Prophecy in Medieval Tibet | 2,326 | 522 | 1,288 | 144 | 372 |
| 4dw6h0k2 | Shakespearean Fools in Dostoevsky: Toward an Ethics of Love | 2,285 | 531 | 1,058 | 381 | 315 |
| 978012mz | The Maoist Soundscape: Sonic Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1976 | 2,248 | 336 | 1,523 | 134 | 255 |
| 2109j3rs | “A Burmese Wonderland”: British World Mining and the Making of Colonial Burma | 2,229 | 495 | 1,015 | 307 | 412 |
| 5xj1r230 | Gender, Labor, and the Commodification of Intimacy in K-pop | 2,225 | 546 | 681 | 577 | 421 |
| 71m3f87j | Narrative (K)nots / Symbolic Seduction: Toward a Biopoetics of Second-Order Symbolism in the Storytelling Arts | 2,167 | 166 | 610 | 1,088 | 303 |
| 6vn2m2w9 | On the Uses and Abuses of History for Politics | 2,141 | 482 | 1,069 | 301 | 289 |
| 6q8686vv | Iron Mothers and Warrior Lovers: Intimacy, Power, and the State in the Nyiginya Kingdom, 1796-1913 | 2,126 | 670 | 997 | 203 | 256 |
| 02w8h7pv | Stateless in Shanghai: History, Memory and Cultural Representations of the Hongkou Jewish Ghetto 1933-1945 | 2,082 | 254 | 1,450 | 259 | 119 |
| 9pf6v1wt | The United States and the Barbary Pirates: Adventures in Sexuality, State-Building, and Nationalism, 1784-1815 | 2,081 | 303 | 638 | 404 | 736 |
| 77w2d0c3 | The Price of Prosperity: Inflation and the Limits of the New Deal Order | 2,022 | 406 | 1,348 | 89 | 179 |
| 62f4h37m | Structure and Dispersion of Active Matter in Confinement | 2,004 | 44 | 76 | 782 | 1,102 |
| 2xf1t6kx | La Mafia Global: Global Capitalism and the Struggle against Hyper-Incarceration | 1,989 | 390 | 687 | 293 | 619 |
| 8tj6x394 | Women Writing War Memories: Hayashi Fumiko, Nieh Hualing, and Zhang Ling | 1,974 | 175 | 1,320 | 227 | 252 |
| 2dj3k52s | A Union of Religion and Politics: Ngawang Tsültrim as Tibetan Regent and Imperial Preceptor | 1,930 | 243 | 760 | 387 | 540 |
| 6w28s7ft | The Legacy of Trauma: African American Intergenerational Trauma and Healing | 1,928 | 458 | 564 | 286 | 620 |
| 6kj6q609 | Conventions in Digital Communication: A Linguistic Analysis of Emojis and Human-Computer Interactions | 1,881 | 220 | 680 | 743 | 238 |
| 86v0x46f | Transgression, Conversion, Reformation: Atiśa Dīpaṃkara and Tantric Hermeneutics in the Later Propagation of Tibetan Buddhism | 1,874 | 337 | 871 | 298 | 368 |
| 07x7d15x | “A World of VICE”: The Visceral Economies of VICE’s Media Empire | 1,865 | 378 | 716 | 127 | 644 |
| 39c957wf | Honey Pie, Colors of Dreams, and Inner Light: Stylistic Expertise and Musical Topicality in the Beatles' Mid and Late 1960s Songs | 1,825 | 336 | 683 | 545 | 261 |
| 4q1931gr | On Evaluation and Efficient Post-training for LLMs | 1,822 | 145 | 506 | 895 | 276 |
| 0w17x548 | Self-Translation as Method: Modern Sinophone Self-Translators and their Transmediated Afterlives | 1,711 | 222 | 386 | 490 | 613 |
| 1sp3k2wk | Āveśa and Deity Possession in the Tantric Traditions of South Asia: History, Evolution, & Etiology | 1,685 | 367 | 461 | 484 | 373 |
| 9w27s169 | Beyond Background Beats: Lo-Fi Hip Hop as a Practice of Sonic Self-Insulation and Nostalgic Refuge | 1,672 | 240 | 531 | 663 | 238 |
| 0nh3k0ns | Boundary Affects: Race, Gender, Sex, and Species in the U.S. "War on Terror" | 1,669 | 337 | 573 | 438 | 321 |
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