For my senior thesis project for my Bachelor's degree, I wrote a 27-page essay where I applied academic media & cultural theories to skate videos and skateboarding culture. Even though some parts of it need to be updated and the grammar could be improved (what should I expect - I wrote it over the course of six days and only did one draft), it is the thing I am most proud of producing from my college education. For research, I pored through so many of the magazines that I had in my collection at the time and clicked through the pages of Jenkem and other online publications. I even found an article (which I didn't end up using) on the chromeball incident, after combing through that blog. It was so much fun to write, and is really interesting to read now and see how things have changed since then.
I've been considering scanning and posting this for a few years now, and I figure that now is as good of a time as ever to do so. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me! If you love it, hate it, think I completely missed the point of something, or are upset at how harsh my evaluation of Nothing But The Truth was, please let me know either in the comments here or in an Instagram DM. I am genuinely interested in what you think of it.
Thank you for reading.
-Skate Media Nerd
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