Bathroom Graffiti: Writings on the Stall

• In Event: Posters I

Abstract

The primary aim of this project is to examine and analyze male latrinalia on a college campus. This study seeks to use symbolic interactionism as a theoretical tool to examine how graffiti has communicative meaning and how graffiti functions as a medium for social interaction. In addition, this study seeks to answer three basic questions:

1. What types of graffiti are prevalent on the a local college campus?
2. Where is the location of the graffiti?
3. How was the graffiti written?

Author

• Thomas Lively, Eastern Kentucky University