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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

The Impact of Follower-Influencer Relationship Stages on Consumers’ Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions in the Context of Influencer Marketing , Khalid Obaid Alharbi

The Effect of Social Media (Instagram) Use Patterns on The Cultural and Athletic Identity of Black Female Collegiate Athletes’ Body Image Dissatisfaction , Shelbretta Kar’Anna Ball

Contextualizing Search: An Analysis of the Impacts of Construal Level Theory, Mood, and Product Type on Search Engine Activity , Jackson Everitt Carter

Words Evaporate, the Images Remain: Testing Visual Warnings in the Context of Intentions to Vape Among U.S. Adults as an Expansion of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) , Carl Arland Ciccarelli

Risk Propensity in Journalists: An Analysis of Journalists’ Personality Traits and How They Direct Behavior in the Field , Ellen Katherine Dunn

Online Information-Seeking and Cancer Screening Intention: An Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey 2022 , Rachel Aileen Ford

Always on Display: South Carolina Civil Rights Lawyer Matthew J. Perry Jr. Expanding the Civil Sphere Through the Courts and the News Media, 1954-1963 , Christopher G. Frear

Exploring the Agenda-Setting Dynamics Between Traditional Newspapers and Twitter During Mass Shooting Event , Yujin Heo

Extreme Persuasion: Analyzing Meaning Creation and Persuasive Strategies Within Extreme Discourse on Alternative Social Media , Naomi Kathryn Lawrence

Framing Police Brutality: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Walter Scott’s Murder , Shamira S. McCray

Understanding Podcast Advertising Processing and Outcomes: An Analysis of Podcast Ad Types, Message Types, and Media Context on Consumer Responses , Colin Piacentine

The Unsung Heroes for Intercollegiate Athletics: Examining the Dialogic Principles of Communication in Community College Athletic Departments , Matthew Alan Stilwell

Exploring Trustworthiness Issues About Disaster-related Information Generated by Artificial Intelligence , Xin Tao

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Effect of Emotional Intensity, Arousal, and Valence On Online Video Ad Sharing , Chang Won Choi

“Power, Poison, Pain & Joy”: Applying a Critical Race Conceptual Model of Implicit Racial Bias to Narratives Framing Blackness in Black Sports Columns, Black Music, and Black Journalism , Christina Lauren Myers

Gatekeeping Blackness: Roles, Relationships, and Pressures of Black Television Journalists at a Time of Racial Reckoning , Denetra Walker

The Binge Viewing Index: Creating and Testing a New Measure , Larry J. Webster Jr.

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Portion of Profit Donations: CSR as Public Relations Strategy and its Relationships with Trust and Purchase Intentions , Branden Dylan Cameron Birmingham

The Role of Sexting in the Development of Romantic Relationships , Max Bretscher

Let’s Be Friends: Examining Consumer Brand Relationships Through the Lens Of Brand Personality, Engagement, and Reciprocal Altruism , Daniel D. Haun

Go with The Flow: Testing the Effects of Emotional Flow on Psychophysiological, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Changes , Chris R. Noland

Brand New: How Visual Context Shapes Initial Response To Logos and Corporate Visual Identity Systems , Robert A. Wertz

Inoculating the Public Against Misinformation: Testing The Effectiveness of “Pre-bunking” Techniques in the Context of Mental Illness and Violence , Nanlan Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Gun Violence and Advocacy Communication , Minhee Choi

The Role of Third-person Perceptions in Predicting the Public’s Support for Electronic Cigarette Advertising Regulations , Joon Kyoung Kim

Conservative Media’s Coverage of Coronavirus on YouTube: A Qualitative Analysis of Media Effects on Consumers , Michael J. Layer

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Problem Chain Recognition Effect and CSR Communication: Examining the Impact of Issue Salience and Proximity on Environmental Communication Behaviors , Nandini Bhalla

The Games Behind the Scenes: Newspaper Framing of Female African American Olympic Athletes , Martin Reece Funderburk

Effectiveness of a Brand’s Paid, Owned, and Earned Media in a Social Media Environment , Anan Wan

Providing Prevention Education About Child Sexual Abuse to Parents: Testing Media Effects on Knowledge, Behavioral Intentions and Outcomes , Jane Long Weatherred

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Creating an Online Social Movement in Socially Conservative Societies: A Case Study of Manshoor Blog Using Frame Alignment Process , Noura Abdullah Al-Duaijani

How S. C. Daily Newspapers Framed the Removal of the Confederate Flag from the State House Grounds in 2015 Through Letters to the Editor and Editorials , Thomas Craig Anderson

Breaking The Silence: Extending Theory To Address The Underutilization Of Mental Health Services Among Chinese Immigrants In The United States , Jo-Yun Queenie Li

Fandom In Politics: Scale Development And Validation , Won-Ki Moon

Fatal Force: A Conversation With Journalists Who Cover Deadly, Highly-Publicized Police Shootings , Denetra Walker

Domestic Extension Of Public Diplomacy: Media Competition For Credibility, Dependency And Activation Of Publics , Yicheng Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Hydraulic Fracturing In the United States: A Framing Analysis , Kenneth Stephen Cardell Jr.

Network vs. Netflix: A Comparative Content Analysis of Demographics Across Prime-Time Television and Netflix Original Programming , James Corfield

Framing Marijuana: A Study of How us Newspapers Frame Marijuana Legalization Stories and Framing Effects of Marijuana Stories , Hwalbin Kim

The Allure of Isis: Examining the Underlying Mechanisms that Helped the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria , Alexander Luchsinger

International Twitter Comments About 2016 U.S. Presidential Candidates Trump And Clinton: Agenda-Building Analysis In The U.S., U.K., Brazil, Russia, India and China , Jane O’Boyle

Is That Online Review Fake News? How Sponsorship Disclosure Influences Reader Credibility , Mark W. Tatge

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Measuring Strategic Communications , Jeffrey A. Ranta

Public Perceptions Of Genetically Modified Food On Social Media: A Content Analysis Of Youtube Comments On Videos , Nanlan Zhang

Toward A Situational Technology Acceptance Model: Combining the Situational Theory of Problem Solving and Technology Acceptance Model to Promote Mobile Donations for Nonprofit Organizations , Yue Zheng

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Promoting HPV Vaccination for Male Young Adults: Effects of Social Influence , Wan Chi Leung

Redneckaissance: Honey Boo Boo, Tumblr, and the Stereotype of Poor White Trash , Ashley F. Miller

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Conflicted Union: Culture, Economics and European Union Media Policy , Daphney Pernola Barr

Beating Down the Fear: The Civil Sphere and Political Change in South Carolina, 1940-1962 , Sid Bedingfield

The State v. Perry: Comparative Newspaper Coverage of South Carolina's Most Prominent Civil Rights Lawyer , Christopher G. Frear

(MASCOT) NATION: EXAMINING UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENT ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS’ FACEBOOK PAGES , Matthew J. Haught

Innovation Among Georgian Journalism Educators: A Network Analysis Perspective , Ana Keshelashvili

Emotional Bond between the Creator and the Avatar: Changes in Behavioral Intentions to Engage in Alcohol-Related Traffic Risk Behaviors , Hokyung Kim

Handcuffing Speech: Federal Fraud Statutes and the Criminalization of Advertising , Carmen Maye

Social Movements, Media, and Democratization in Georgia , Maia Mikashavidze

Am I in Danger? : Predictors and Behavioral Outcomes of Public Perception of Risk Associated with Food Hazards , Sang-Hwa Oh

Parental Mediation of Adolescent Movie Viewing , Larry James Webster Jr.

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Political Advertising In Kuwait - A Functional Discourse Analysis , Jasem Alqaseer

The Westernization of Advertisements Published In Kuwaiti Newspapers From 1992 to 2012; A Content Analysis , Farah Taleb Alrefai

What Can Reader Comments to News Online Contribute to Engagement and Interactivity? A Quantitative Approach , Brett A. Borton

Exploring a paradigm shift: The New York Times' framing of sub-Saharan Africa in stories of conflict, war and development during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras, 1945-2009 , Zadok Opero Ekimwere

Mental Health On Youtube: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Media to Change Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors About Mental Health , Caroline Belser Foster

That's News to Me: An Exploratory Study of the Uses and Gratifications of Current Events On Social Media of 18-24 Year-Olds , John Vincent Karlis

Making Stewardship Meaningful For Nonprofits: Stakeholder Motivations, Attitudes, Loyalty and Behaviors , Geah N. Pressgrove

An Alternative Path: The Intellectual Legacy of James W. Carey , Matthew Ross

The Corporation in the Marketplace of Ideas: The Law and Economics of Corporate Political Speech , Matthew W. Telleen

Child Sexual Abuse In the Media: Is Institutional Failure to Blame? , Jane Long Weatherred

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

The Relationship Between Facebook Use and Religiosity Among Emerging Adults , Heidi D. Campbell

Attribute Agenda Setting, Attribtue Priming, and The Public's Evaluation of Genetically Modified (GM) Food in South Korea , Soo Yun Kim

What's Mine is Yours: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes and Conceptions About Online Personal Privacy In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , Patrick Sharbaugh

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

How Journalists Perceive Internal and External Influence: A Qualitative Assessment of Local Television Reporters' Ethical Decision-Making , Beth Eckard Concepcion

Collective Memory of the War In Iraq: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor and Public Opinion Polls, 2003-2008 , Lisa Cash Luedeman

A Framing Analysis and Model of Barack Obama in Political Cartoons , Anthony Palmer

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Breaking Down the Fear' -- John H. Mccray, Accommodationism and theFraming of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948 , Sid Bedingfield

Do You See What I See?: A Comparative Content Analysis of Iraq War Photographs As Published In the New York Times and the Tehran Times , Garen Cansler

Exploring Intention to Adopt Mobile Tv Services In the U.S.: Toward A New Model With Cognitive-Based and Emotional-Based Constructs , Seoyoon Choi

Media Representations and Implications For Collective Memory: A Grounded Theory Analysis of TV News Broadcasts of Hillary Clinton From 1993-2008 , Mary Elizabeth McLaughlin

Resonance and Elaboration: the Framing Effect of Chinese Product Safety Issue Coverage , Ji Pan

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Communication Studies Theses, Dissertations, and Professional Papers

This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Communication Studies. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

The Role of Face Threats in Understanding Target’s Interpretation of a Tease , Shawn M. Deegan

RETROSPECTIVE AND INTERACTIVE ANALYSES OF PARENT-ADOLESCENT STORYTELLING ABOUT ALCOHOL , Kiersten Marie Falck

A CASE OF WATER: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE ARIZONA V. NAVAJO NATION SUPREME COURT CASE , Mykel Patrick Greene

To Revise Or Not To Revise: How Feedback Type, Interpersonal Liking, and Messenger Credibility Influence Revision , Rachel Jane Jensen

The National Football League's Problem , Marley R. Merchen

Menopause in The Public Sphere: The Consciousness-Raising Practices of Technical and Experiential Experts , Emma J. Murdock

Minimizing Toxicity and Maximizing Social Connection in Collegiate Esports Teams , Julia Kay Tonne

EXPLORING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENTS WITH CONSIDERATION TO COMMUNICATION ACCOMMODATION THEORY , Wendy K. Yeboah

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

COMEDY, CAMARADERIE, AND CONFLICT: USING HUMOR TO DEFUSE DISPUTES AMONG FRIENDS , Sheena A. Bringa

Navigating Toxic Identities Within League of Legends , Jeremy Thomas Miner

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA RICHNESS AND SOCIAL PRESENCE: EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF MEDIA CHANNELS ON INDIVIDUALS’ LEVELS OF LONELINESS, WELL-BEING, AND BELONGING , Ashley M. Arsenault

CANCELING VS. #CANCEL CULTURE: AN ANALYSIS ON THE SURVEILLANCE AND DISCIPLINE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BEHAVIOR THROUGH COMPETING DISCOURSES OF POWER , Julia G. Bezio

DISTAL SIBLING GRIEF: EXPLORING EMOTIONAL AFFECT AND SALIENCE OF LISTENER BEHAVIORS IN STORIES OF SIBLING DEATH , Margaret C. Brock

Is Loss a Laughing Matter?: A Study of Humor Reactions and Benign Violation Theory in the Context of Grief. , Miranda B. Henrich

The Request Is Not Compatible: Competing Frames of Public Lands Discourse in the Lolo Peak Ski Resort Controversy , Philip A. Sharp

Patient Expectations, Satisfaction, and Provider Communication Within the Oncology Experience , Elizabeth Margaret Sholey

Psychological Safety at Amazon: A CCO Approach , Kathryn K. Zyskowski

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Discourse of Renewal: A Qualitative Analysis of the University of Montana’s COVID-19 Crisis Communication , Haley Renae Gabel

Activating Hope: How Functional Support Can Improve Hope in Unemployed Individuals , Rylee P. Walter

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

THE HOME AS A SITE OF FAMILY COMMUNICATED NARRATIVE SENSE-MAKING: GRIEF, MEANING, AND IDENTITY THROUGH “CLEANING OUT THE CLOSET” , Kendyl A. Barney

CRISIS AS A CONSTANT: UNDERSTANDING THE COMMUNICATIVE ENACTMENT OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE WITHIN THE EXTENSION DISASTER EDUCATION NETWORK (EDEN) , Danielle Maria Farley

FOSTERING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION: EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FOUNDATIONS TRAINING , Shanay L. Healy

Belonging for Dementia Caregivers , Sabrina Singh

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Making the Most of People We Do Not Like: Capitalizing on Negative Feedback , Christopher Edward Anderson

Understanding the Relationship Between Discursive Resources and Risk-Taking Behaviors in Outdoor Adventure Athletes , Mira Ione Cleveland

Service Failure Management in High-End Hospitality Resorts , Hunter A. Dietrich

Fear, Power, & Teeth (2007) , Olivia Hockenbroch

The climate change sublime: Leveraging the immense awe of the planetary threat of climate change , Sean D. Quartz

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Relationship Between Memorable Messages and Identity Construction , Raphaela P. Barros Campbell

Wonder Woman: A Case Study for Critical Media Literacy , Adriana N. Fehrs

Curated Chaos: A Rhetorical Study of Axmen , Rebekah A. McDonald

THE ROLE OF BIPOLAR DISORDER, STIGMA, AND HURTFUL MESSAGES IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS , Callie Parrish

Cruising to be a Board Gamer: Understanding Socialization Relating to Board Gaming and The Dice Tower , Benjamin Wassink

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

STEAMED: EXAMINATIONS OF POWER STRUGGLES ON THE VALUE FORUM , richard E. babb

Beyond the Bike; Identity and Belonging of Free Cycles Members , Caitlyn Lewis

Adherence and Uncertainty Management: A Test Of The Theory Of Motivated Information Management , Ryan Thiel

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Redskins Revisited: Competing Constructions of the Washington Redskins Mascot , Eean Grimshaw

A Qualitative Analysis of Belonging in Communities of Practice: Exploring Transformative Organizational Elements within the Choral Arts , Aubrielle J. Holly

Training the Professoraite of Tomorrow: Implementing the Needs Centered Training Model to Instruct Graduate Teaching Assistants in the use of Teacher Immediacy , Leah R. Johnson

Beyond Blood: Examining the Communicative Challenges of Adoptive Families , Mackensie C. Minniear

Attitudes Toward Execution: The Tragic and Grotesque Framing of Capital Punishment in the News , Katherine Shuy

Knowledge and Resistance: Feminine Style and Signifyin[g] in Michelle Obama’s Public Address , Tracy Valgento

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

BLENDED FRAMEWORK: BILL MCKIBBEN'S USE OF MELODRAMA AND COMEDY IN ENVIRONMENTAL RHETORIC , Megan E. Cullinan

THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL DRAMAS ON PATIENT EXPECTATIONS OF PHYSICIAN COMMUNICATION , Kayla M. Fadenrecht

Diabesties: How Diabetic Support on Campus can Alleviate Diabetic Burnout , Kassandra E. Martin

Resisting NSA Surveillance: Glenn Greenwald and the public sphere debate about privacy , Rebecca Rice

Rhetoric, participation, and democracy: The positioning of public hearings under the National Environmental Policy Act , Kevin C. Stone

Socialization and Volunteers: A Training Program for Volunteer Managers , Allison M. Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

THIRD PARTY EFFECTS OF AFFECTIONATE COMMUNICATION IN FAMILY SUBSYSTEMS: EXAMINING INFLUENCE ON AFFECTIONATE COMMUNICATION, MENTAL WELL-BEING, AND FAMILY SATISFACTION , Timothy M. Curran

Commodity or Dignity? Nurturing Managers' Courtesy Nurtures Workers' Productivity , Montana Rafferty Moss

"It Was My Job to Keep My Children Safe": Sandra Steingraber and the Parental Rhetoric of Precaution , Mollie Katherine Murphy

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Free Markets: ALEC's Populist Constructions of "the People" in State Politics , Anne Sherwood

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPECTATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF EXPECTATIONS REGARDING MOTHERS IN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION , Jordan A. Allen

Let’s talk about sex: A training program for parents of 4th and 5th grade children , Elizabeth Kay Eickhoff

"You Is The Church": Identity and Identification in Church Leadership , Megan E. Gesler

This land is your land, this land is my land: A qualitative study of tensions in an environmental decision making group , Gabriel Patrick Grelle

The Constitution of Queer Identity in the 1972 APA Panel, "Psychiatry: Friend or Foe to Homosexuals? A Dialogue" , Dustin Vern Edward Schneider

The Effect of Religious Similarity on the Use of Relational Maintenance Strategies in Marriages , Jamie Karen Taylor

Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture , Dana Whitney Underwood

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Collective Privacy Boundary Turbulence and Facework Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of South Korea and the United States , Min Kyong Cho

COMMUNICATING ARTIFACTS: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW MUSEUMS COMMUNICATE ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY DURING TIMES OF CONTROVERSY AND FINANCIAL STRAIN , Amanda Renee Cornuke

Communication Apprehension and Perceived Responsiveness , Elise Alexandra Fanney

Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Health Care context , Charlotte M. Glidden

What They Consider, How They Decide: Best Practices of Technical Experts in Environmental Decision-Making , Cassandra J. Hemphill

Rebuilding Place: Exploring Strategies to Align Place Identity During Relocation , Brigette Renee McKamey

Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family , Jasmine Rose Zink

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States , Kathleen Maire de Onis

Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement , Rachel Gregg

In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month , Kira Stacey Jones

Jihad as an Ideograph: Osama bin Laden's rhetorical weapon of choice , Faye Lingarajan

The Heart of the Matter: The Function and Relational Effects of Humor for Cardiovascular Patients , Nicholas Lee Lockwood

Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters , Whitney Eleanor Marie Maphis

Making A Comeback: An Exploration of Nontraditional Students & Identity Support , Jessica Kate McFadden

In the Game of Love, Play by the Rules: Implications of Relationship Rule Consensus over Honesty and Deception in Romantic Relationships , Katlyn Elise Roggensack

Assessing the balance: Burkean frames and Lil' Bush , Elizabeth Anne Sills

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

The Discipline of Identity: Examining the Challenges of Developing Interdisciplinary Identities Within the Science Disciplines , Nicholas Richard Burk

Occupational Therapists: A Study of Managing Multiple Identities , Katherine Elise Lloyd

Discourse, Identity, and Culture in Diverse Organizations: A Study of The Muslim Students Association (University of Montana) , Burhanuddin Bin Omar

The Skinny on Weight Watchers: A Critical Analysis of Weight Watcher's Use of Metaphors , Ashlynn Laura Reynolds-Dyk

You Got the Job, Now What?: An Evaluation of the New Employee Orientation Program at the University of Montana , Shiloh M. A. Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Because We Have the Power to Choose: A Critical Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies Used in Merck's Gardasil Campaign , Brittney Lee Buttweiler

Communicative Strategies Used in the Introduction of Spirituality in the Workplace , Matthew Alan Condon

Cultures in Residence: Intercultural Communication Competence for Residence Life Staff , Bridget Eileen Flaherty

The Influence of Sibling Support on Children's Post-Divorce Adjustment: A Turning Point Analysis , Kimberly Ann Jacobs

TALK ABOUT “HOOKING UP”: HOW COLLEGE STUDENTS‟ ACCOUNTS OF “HOOKING UP” IN SOCIAL NETWORKS INFLUENCES ENGAGING IN RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR , Amanda J. Olson

The Effect of Imagined Interactions on Secret Revelation and Health , Adam Stephens Richards

Teaching Intercultural Communication Competence in the Healthcare Context , Jelena Stojakovic

Quitting versus Not Quitting: The Process and Development of an Assimilation Program Within Opportunity Resources, Inc. , Amanda N. Stovall

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

IMAGES AS A LAYER OF POSITIVE RHETORIC: A VALUES-BASED CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN VISUAL AND VERBAL ELEMENTS FOUND ON A RURAL NATURAL RESOURCES NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WEBSITE , Vailferree Stilwell Brechtel

Relational Transgressions in Romantic Relationships: How Individuals Negotiate the Revelation and Concealment of Transgression Information within the Social Network , Melissa A. Maier

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

THE SOCIALIZATION OF SEASONAL EMPLOYEES , Maria Dawn Blevins

Friends the family you choose (no matter what: An investigation of fictive kin relationships amoung young adults. , Kimberly Anne Clinger

Public relations in nonprofit organizations: A guide to establishing public relations programs in nonprofit settings , Megan Kate Gale

Negotiated Forgiveness in Parent-Child Relationships: Investigating Links to Politeness, Wellness and Sickness , Jennifer Lynn Geist

Developing and Communicating Better Sexual Harassment Policies Through Ethics and Human Rights , Thain Yates Hagan

Managing Multiple Identities: A Qualitative Study of Nurses and Implications for Work-Family Balance , Claire Marie Spanier

BEYOND ORGANIC: DEFINING ALTERNATIVES TO USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC , Jennifer Ann von Sehlen

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues , Clair Owen Canfield

Verbal negotiation of affection in romantic relationships , Andrea Ann Richards

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Art of forgiveness , Carrie Benedict

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Media Studies Theses and Dissertations

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Media Studies, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Networks of Resistance: A Regional Analysis of Extractive Conflicts in Central America , Giada Ferrucci

Construction of Political Subjectivity: Media Representation of Muslims in Lynching Violence of India in Three Cases 2015-2017 , Sananda Sahoo

Arts-Informed Storytelling: How Arts-Informed Research was Used with Six Indigenous Peoples in London, Ont. , Percy Sherwood

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Witnessing Conspiracy Theories: Developing an Intersectional Approach to Conspiracy Theory Research , David Guignion

Canadians Redefining R&B: The Online Marketing of Drake, Justin Bieber, and Jessie Reyez , Amara Pope Ms.

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Instagram Influencers and their Youngest Female Followers , Amanda Jenkins

A descriptive analysis of sport nationalism, digital media, and fandom to launch the Canadian Premier League , Farzan Mirzazadeh

Influencer Engagement Pods and the Struggle Over Measure in Instagram Platform Labour , Victoria J. O'Meara

Radiant Dreams and Nuclear Nightmares: Japanese Resistance Narratives and American Intervention in Postwar Speculative Popular Culture , Aidan J. Warlow

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

More barriers than solutions: Women’s experiences of support with online abuse , Chandell E. Gosse

Heavy Metal Fundraisers: Entrepreneurial Recording Artists in Platform Capitalism , Jason Netherton

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Resistant Vulnerability in The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Captain America , Kristen Allison

Unwrapping the Toronto Christmas Market: An Examination of Tradition and Nostalgia in a Socially Constructed Space , Lydia J. Gibson

Trauma, Creativity, And Bearing Witness Through Art: Marian Kołodziej's Labyrinth , Alyssa Logie

Appropriating Play: Examining Twitch.tv as a Commercial Platform , Charlotte Panneton

Dead Men Walking: An Analysis of Working-Class Masculinity in Post-2008 Hollywood Film , Ryan Schroeder

Glocalization in China: An Analysis of Coca-Cola’s Brand Co-Creation Process with Consumers in China , Yinuo Shi

Critiquing the New Autonomy of Immaterial Labour: An Analysis of Work in the Artificial Intelligence Industry , James Steinhoff

Watching and Working Through: Navigating Non-being in Television Storytelling , Tiara Lalita Sukhan

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Hone the Means of Production: Craft Antagonism and Domination in the Journalistic Labour Process of Freelance Writers , Robert Bertuzzi

Invisible Labour: Support-Service Workers in India’s Information Technology Industry , Indranil Chakraborty

Exhibiting Human Rights: Making the Means of Dignity Visible , Amy J. Freier

Industrial Stagecraft: Tooling and Cultural Production , Jennifer A. Hambleton

Cultural Hybridity in the Contemporary Korean Popular Culture through the Practice of Genre Transformation , Kyunghee Kim

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Regarding Aid: The photographic situation of humanitarianism , Sonya de Laat

The Representation of the Canadian Government’s Warrantless Domestic Collection of Metadata in the Canadian Print News Media , Alan Del Pino

(Not) One of the Boys: A Case Study of Female Detectives on HBO , Darcy Griffin

Pitching the Feminist Voice: A Critique of Contemporary Consumer Feminism , Kate Hoad-Reddick

Local-Global Tensions: Professional Experience, Role Perceptions and Image Production of Afghan Photojournalists Working for a Global Audience , Saumava Mitra

A place for locative media: A theoretical framework for assessing locative media use in urban environments , Darryl A. Pieber

Mapping the Arab Diaspora: Examining Placelessness and Memory in Arab Art , Shahad Rashid

Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentary Governance of Indigenous Life in Canada and its Disruption , Danielle Taschereau Mamers

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Finding Your Way: Navigating Online News and Opinions , Charlotte Britten

Law and Abuse: Representations of Intimate Partner Homicide in Law Procedural Dramas , Jaime A. Campbell

Creative Management: Disciplining the Neoliberal Worker , Trent Cruz

No hay Sólo un Idioma, No hay Sólo una Voz: A Revisionist History of Chicana/os and Latina/os in Punk , Richard C. Davila

Shifting Temporalities: The Construction of Flexible Subjectivities through Part-time Retail Workers’ Use of Smartphone Technology , Jessica Fanning

Becoming Sonic: Ambient Poetics and the Ecology of Listening in Four Militant Sound Investigations , David C. Jackson

Capital's Media: The Physical Conditions of Circulation , Atle Mikkola Kjøsen

On the Internet by Means of Popular Music: The Cases of Grimes and Childish Gambino , Kristopher R. K. Ohlendorf

Believing the News: Exploring How Young Canadians Make Decisions About Their News Consumption , Jessica Thom

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Narrative Epic and New Media: The Totalizing Spaces of Postmodernity in The Wire, Batman, and The Legend of Zelda , Luke Arnott

Canada: Multiculturalism, Religion, and Accommodation , Brittainy R. Bonnis

Navigating the Social Landscape: An Exploration of Social Networking Site Usage among Emerging Adults , Kristen Colbeck

Impassioned Objects And Seething Absences: The Olympics In Canada, National Identity and Consumer Culture , Estee Fresco

Satirical News and Political Subversiveness: A Critical Approach to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report , Roberto Leclerc

"When [S]He is Working [S]He is Not at Home": Challenging Assumptions About Remote Work , Eric Lohman

Heating Up the Debate: E-cigarettes and Instagram , Stephanie L. Ritter

Limitation to Innovation in the North American Console Video Game Industry 2001-2013: A Critical Analysis , Michael Schmalz

Happiest People Alive: An Analysis of Class and Gender in the Trinidad Carnival , Asha L. St. Bernard

Human-Machinic Assemblages: Technologies, Bodies, and the Recuperation of Social Reproduction in the Crisis Era , Elise D. Thorburn

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Evangelizing the ‘Gallery of the Future’: a Critical Analysis of the Google Art Project Narrative and its Political, Cultural and Technological Stakes , Alanna Bayer

Face Value: Beyond the Surface of Brand Philanthropy and the Cultural Production of the M.A.C AIDS Fund , Andrea Benoit

Cultivating Better Brains: Transhumanism and its Critics on the Ethics of Enhancement Via Brain-computer Interfacing , Matthew Devlin

Man Versus Food: An Analysis of 'Dude Food' Television and Public Health , Amy R. Eisner-Levine

Media Literacy and the English as a Second Language Curriculum: A Curricular Critique and Dreams for the Future , Clara R. Madrenas

Fantasizing Disability: Representation of loss and limitation in Popular Television and Film , Jeffrey M. Preston

(Un)Covering Suicide: The Changing Ethical Norms in Canadian Journalism , Gemma Richardson

Labours Of Love: Affect, Fan Labour, And The Monetization Of Fandom , Jennifer Spence

'What's in a List?' Cultural Techniques, Logistics, Poeisis , Liam Cole Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Distinguishing the 'Vanguard' from the 'Insipid': Exploring the Valorization of Mainstream Popular Music in Online Indie Music Criticism , Charles J. Blazevic

Anonymous: Polemics and Non-identity , Samuel Chiang

Manufacturing Legitimacy: A Critical Theory of Election News Coverage , Gabriel N. Elias

The Academic Grind: A Critique of Creative and Collaborative Discourses Between Digital Games Industries and Post-Secondary Education in Canada , Owen R. Livermore

We’re on This Road Together: The Changing Fan/Producer Relationship in Television as Demonstrated by Supernatural , Lisa Macklem

Brave New Wireless World: Mapping the Rise of Ubiquitous Connectivity from Myth to Market , Vincent R. Manzerolle

Promotional Ubiquitous Musics: New Identities and Emerging Markets in the Digitalizing Music Industry , Leslie Meier

Money, Morals, and Human Rights: Commercial Influences in the Marketing, Branding, and Fundraising of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch , Danielle Morgan

If I Had a Hammer: An Archeology of Tactical Media From the Hootenanny to the People's Microphone , Henry Adam Svec

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Watching High School: Representing Disempowerment on Teen Drama Television , Sarah M. Baxter

Will Work For Free: Examining the Biopolitics of Unwaged Immaterial Labour , Brian A. Brown

Social Net-working: Exploring the Political Economy of the Online Social Network Industry , Craig Butosi

Watching the games: Critical media literacy and students’ abilities to identify and critique the politics of sports , Raúl J. Feliciano Ortiz

The Invisible Genocide: An Analysis of ABC, CBS, and NBC Television News Coverage of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. , Daniel C. Harvey

It's Complicated: Romantic Breakups and Their Aftermath on Facebook , Veronika A. Lukacs

Keeping Up with the Virtual Joneses: The Practices, Meanings, and Consequences of Consumption in Second Life , Jennifer M. Martin

The (m)Health Connection: An Examination of the Promise of Mobile Phones for HIV/AIDS Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa , Trisha M. Phippard

Born Again Hard : Transgender Subjectivity in Paul Chadwick's Concrete , Justin Raymond

Communicating Crimes: Covering Gangs in Contemporary Canadian Journalism , Chris Richardson

Online Social Breast-Working: Representations of Breast Milk Sharing in the 21st Century , Cari L. Rotstein

Because I am Not Here, Selected Second Life-Based Art Case Studies. Subjectivity, Autoempathy and Virtual World Aesthetics , Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez

Day of the Woman?: Feminism & Rape-Revenge Films , Kayley A. Viteo

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

"Aren't They Keen?" Early Children's Food Advertising and the Emergence of the Brand-loyal Child Consumer , Kyle R. Asquith

Immediacy and Aesthetic Remediation in Television and Digital Media: Mass Media’s Challenge to the Democratization of Media Production , Michael S. Daubs

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These MSc dissertations have been selected by the editor and deputy editor of the Media@LSE Working Paper Series and consequently, are not the responsibility of the Working Paper Series Editorial Board.

No 313 The App Keeps the Score: Period-Tracking Apps, Self-Empowerment and the Self as Enterprise , Martina Sardelli

No 312 Envisioning Solidarity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese NGO Communications on Philanthropic Campaigns , Han Zheng

No 311 Examining the Western Media's Representation of Present-Day China Through the Lense of of Orientalism: A critical discourse analysis on BBC News’ coverage of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics , Danrong (Miko) Xiang

No 310 Bodies That Pain: An Emergent Resistance in Neo/Non-Liberal China. Exploring Weibo Hashtag Activism #FacingBirthInjuries From an Affective-Ethical Perspective , Jialu Sun

No 309 'The Algorithm Will Battle Against You': A Qualitative Study on Disabled Content Creators’ Perspectives and Understanding of the Challenges Presented by Algorithmic Systems on Social Media Platforms , Ishana Rhea Ramtohul

No 308 Why They Don't Trust Us: Chilean Mainstream Media, Metajournalistic Discourses and Repairing Journalism , Phillip Duran Pástene

No 307 A ‘Canary in the Coalmine' for Synthethic Media Regulation: The Emerging Threat of Deepfake Image Abuse , Olivia Otts

No 306 Communicating Inside to People from the Outside: How junior international employees in strategic communications companies in London perceive workplace well-being through internal communications , Nam Nghiem

No 305 The Voices That Build America: Theorizing the Labor Union as a Media Technology , Grace Nelson

No 304 "Art on Wheels": A Semiotic and Visual Discourse Analysis of Graffiti on Nairobi’s Matatus , Frank Mutulu

No 303 News Diversity and Morality in the Climate Reparations debate: A Quantitative Content Analysis of British and Irish News Coverage of the COP27 Negotiations about Loss and Damage , Marlene Jacobse

No 302 'We're all going through it': How the Construction of ‘Mental Health’ in One Pandemic HuffPost Series Positions Readers , Clare Lombardo

No 301 F rench Ecocinema and Young Audiences Environmental Mobilistations: An Exploration of the Intersection Between Film and Politics , Lola Messica

No 300 Balancing Digital Selves: Mediated Self-Presentation of Migrant Women in Germany on LinkedIn , Maya Hemant Krishna

No 299 Solidifying Social Immobility: Representation of Sex Workers within Human Trafficking Discourse in the Philippines , Olivia Austria Kemble

No 298 'Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together': Illusions of A Global village. A Critical Discourse Analysis of Meta Platforms’ Discursive Construction of the Global Citizen , Nelli Jouhki.

No 297 Enabling Empowerment by Establishing Indian Feminity , Sanskriti Bhhatkoti

No 296 The Forces of Development: Communicating Indigenous Identity in Brazil , Alan Gabrielli Azevedo

No 295 Can women really have it all? A Discourse Analysis of Neoliberal Feminist Discourse’s Roles in the Construction of Media Representation of Professional Working Women in Indonesia , Moudy Alfiana

No 294 Framing Utopia In Emerging Technology: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Financial Media Representation of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality , Chuyue Zhan

No 293 Understanding Brand-Culture Interaction: A Social Semiotic Analysis of an Emerging Form of Brand Communications on Bilibili , Xinyu Yang

No 292 ‘We don’t chase clicks, we chase public interest’: Investigative Journalism Between Democratic Ideals and Economic Realities , Lara Wiebecke

No 291 A Health Risk Community or A Cultural Tourism Destination? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Intertextual Representation of Wanhua District in Taiwanese Mass Media Coverage of 2021 COVID-19 Outbreak in Taipei City and Official Tourism Promotion , Min Tu

No 290 A Duality of Shifting Values in Journalism: ‘Responsible Capitalism’ and Public Service Mission – An Analysis of the News Trade Press , Hanna Siemaszko

No 289 Mediated Social Class Identity Articulation and Performance Over Social Media , Shivani Rao

No 288 Emotions running high – do they catch the reader’s eye? A quantitative content analysis on emotional frames in climate change news – the case of a significant global news publisher’s Cop26 coverage , Sara Nuder

No 287 Selling Surveillance by Fixing Femininity: Exploring the Representation and Discursive Construction of the Gaze Between Women in Indian Advertisements , Vaishnavi Nair

No 286 Development as its own Antithesis: Towards a Multi-disciplinary Exploration of the Neoliberalization of Development , Lisar Morina

No 285 Can creative labor coexist under an industrial capitalist model? A qualitative analysis of worker subjectivity in production work in Vancouver’s film and television industry , Emily Mckenna Arbogast Larman

No 284 Nothing to Hide – Everyone to Suspect: A case study of Neighbor, Neoliberal Security Governance and Securitization , Julia Kopf

No 283 Building a Social Contract for the Network Society: A Discursive Study of How Meta Mediates its Relationship to Users and Society Through Public Policy Communications , Hunter Morgan

No 282 Big Brother Watch’s campaign against COVID Pass and its implications for science communication , Zichen Jess Hu

No 281 “Everyone Was Talking About It”: A Thematic Analysis of Audience Interpretation of Squid Game on IMDb , Junhan Gina Fu

No 280 ‘An Existential Threat’: Right-wing Media and the Formation of Racialised Moral Panics , Sarah Campbell

No 279 ‘Stay at Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of UK Government Covid-19 press conferences , Morwenna Backhouse

No 278 Datafied Gay Men’s Dating: Ordering of Sexual Sociality on Blued , Hao Wu

No 277 Calculating newsworthiness: Investigating the role that probability plays in newsification and journalistic decision-making , Selina Swift

No 276 Platformisation as Development: Discourse and Justification in the South American Gig Economy , Lucas Stiglich

No 275 Branding for New Futures: Brand Activism’s Mediation of Collective Prospective Remembering , Kelly M. Smith

No 274 ‘It wasn’t meant to be mine, yea?’ – The impacts of automation on the Brazilian Welfare State A case study of the Covid-19 data-driven emergency aid Auxílio Emergencial , Melissa Lima Silva

No 273 ‘Toward a better future’: A critical discourse analysis of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting on the corporate websites of three large multinational corporations (MNCs) , Kanhai A. Parasharya

No 272 Looking through the mirror: Finding Hybridity in Al Jazeera English’s Journalism Metadiscourse , Zoe Maria Pace

No 271 How many more Emoji do we need? Examining the Unicode Consortium’s Vision of World Standard of Emoji , Yuka Katsumata

No 270 Hate in the Mainstream: Proposing a ‘Keyness-Driven’ Framework to Surface Toxic Speech in the Public Domain , Pica Johansson

No 269 Mapping Networks of Moral Language on U.S. Presidential Primary Campaigns, 2016-2020, Kobi Hackenburg

No 268 The Role of Selective Exposure in ‘A New Era of Minimal Effects’: The Mediating Effect of Selective Exposure on the Relationship between Personal Characteristics and Conspiracy Theory Beliefs , Eunbin Ha

No 267 ‘Thick girls get low’: Representations of gender, fatness, blackness and sexuality in music videos by Lizzo , Alexandra Grinfeld

No 266 We are raising our voices: The use of TikTok for the public self-representation of indigenous identity in Latin America , Camila Figueroa-Zepeda

No 265 The Silenced Sound of Drill The Digital Disadvantage, Neocapitalist Media, and Hyper- Segregation , Alexandra Farje

No 264 Blockchain Island: A critical discourse analysis of the colonial construction of a Puerto Rican crypto utopia , María De Los Milagros Colón Cruz

No 263 From Artists to Creators, From Music to Audio: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Spotify’s ‘Audio First’ Strategy , Ryan Carraro

No 262 Imprisoned by Partisanship? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Bias of United States Print and Online Media in Reporting of Bipartisan Issues through the First Step Act , Kimberly Burton

No 261 “This Art of Being French” A Critical Discourse Analysis on Nostalgia and National Identity in Emmanuel Macron’s Speeches , Capucine Bourges

No 260 Freedom for whom? Investigating notions of freedom in European media and communications policy, 1989-2021 , Jakob Angeli

No 259 ‘Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life’? A Critical Discourse Analysis on How Douyin Justifies Its Data Extraction and Shapes Public Values in The Platform Society , Jing An

No 258 Changing Humanitarianism For The Better? Virtual Reality and the Representation of the Suffering ‘Other’ in Humanitarian Communications , Francesca Liberatore Vaselli

No 257 We Are Humans Too: Refugees’ Perceptions of Representations of Migration in European News , Hannah Traussnigg

No 256 The Matter of Online Political Participation: A New Materialist Experiment on Emerging Adult Participatory Practices in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands , Hanne M. Stegeman

No 255 Rap Music As Evidence: A Prosecutorial Tactic of Institutionalizing Racism , Claire Ruder

No 254 Put Students Before Your Public Image: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Strategic Communications in the University of Warwick Rape Chat Scandal , Clara Héroux Rhymes

No 253 Set The Record Straight: The Significance of Counter-Archives in Contemporary Struggles of Justice for Apartheid-Era Crimes , Ra’eesa Pather

No 252 Can Stories Change How We Feel About People: The Effect of Older People’s Online Personal Stories on Mitigating Younger Korean Ageism , Jeongwon Leah Park

No 251 The ‘Silent Majority': A Critical Discourse Analysis of Counter-Movement Key Opinion Leaders’ YouTube Coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests , Limichi Okamoto

No 250 Man Up! A Qualitative Analysis of Representations of the Male Body on Instagram and Body Image Among Young Flemish Men , Femke Konings

No 249 Manufacturing The Mapped Metropolis: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Cartographic Representations of Gentrification and Displacement in New York City , Johanne Lahlum Hortman

No 248 The Police Have Confirmed all 39 Victims Were Chinese The Mis/Recognition of Vietnamese Migrants in Their Mediated Encounters Within UK Newspapers , Linda Hien

No 247 Brother A-Zhong For the Win: A Qualitative Analysis of Chinese Fan Communities’ Nationalist Practice of Cyber Expedition , Yannan Du

No 246 Police Facial Recognition in Progress: The Construction of The Notion of Accuracy in the Live Facial Recognition Technology Used by the MET Police in London , Romina Colman

No 245 Polarflation: The Inflationary Effect of Attention-Optimising Algorithms on Polarisation in the Public Sphere , Samuel Caveen

No 244 Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Examining How Representation and Accessibility Impact Each Other With Relation to Visual Impairment , Rebecca Sophie Brahde

No 243 Narrating Economics and The Social Vision of a $100 Billion Fund: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Financial Media Representation of Softbank’s Venture Capital Investments in Digital Technology , Carl Bakenhus

No 242 Look Back in Rebellion: Radical Transparency As Refusal of Surveillance , Beatrice Bacci

No 241 The Quantified (Female) Self: Examining the Conceptualisation of Female Health, Selfhood and Embodiment in Fitbit Strategic Communication Campaigns , Jourdan Webb

No 240 Transitioning from Analogue to Digital Broadcast: A Case Of Communicative Inequality , Boikhutso Tsikane

No 239 “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” A Critical Discourse Analysis of Representations of the Figure of the Child in Western Media Coverage of the Yemeni Conflict , Nadine Talaat

No 238 Embodying Disability: Problematising Empathy in Immersive Experiences of Non-Normative Bodies , Pablo Agüera Reneses

No 237 Democratising Bridge or Elite Medium: An investigation into political podcast adoption and the relationship with cognitive social capital , Steve Rayson

No 236 Manufacturing Consent: An Investigation of the Press Support Towards the US Administration Prior to US-led Airstrikes in Syria , Malavika Mysore

No 235 Intercultural dialogue, ordinary justice and indigenous justice in Bolivia: Between challenges, possibilities or utopias , Johanna Lechat

No 234 When a Woman Meets a Woman: Comparing the Use of Negativity of Female Candidates in Single and Mixed-Gender Televised Debates , Emil Støvring Lauritsen

No 233 “Let me tell you how I see things”: The place of Brexit and the Entente Cordiale in Macron’s strategic narrative of and for France on the international scene , Maud-Lily Lardenois-Macocco

No 232 The Pleasures of Solitude? A qualitative analysis of young Chinese women’s daily-life vlog viewing practices , Yue Jin

No 231 Hegemonic Femininity: A Laughing Matter? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy in the United States on the Issue of Female Reproductive Rights , Isabella Hastings

No 230 Nice People Take Drugs: An investigation into the communicative strategies of drug policy reform organisations in the United Kingdom from a social movement perspective , André Belchior Gomes

No 229 The Branded Muslim Woman: A Qualitative Study into the Symbolic Boundaries Negotiated around the Portrayal of Muslim Women in Brand Cultures , Nuha Fayaz

No 228 The Uncertain Decorum of Online Identification: Study in Qualitative Interviews , Samuel DiBella

No 227 Decentring Eurocentrism in Communication Scholarship: A Discursive Analysis of resistance in influential communication journals , Sara Demas

No 226 From Asthetic Criticism to News Reporting: Rethinking the concept of Ecstatic News through the Lens of French Print Cultural Journalism , Elisa Covo

No 225 Datafication of Music Streaming Services: A qualitative investigation into the technological transformations of music consumption in the age of big data , Jingwen Chen

No 224 Transnational, Gendered, and Popular Music in the Arab World: A Content Analysis of a Decade (2010-2019) , Dana J. Bibi

No 223 We the Ragpickers: A case-study of participatory video and counterhegemony , Suyash Barve

No 222 Audience Engagement with Ten Years and the Imagination of Hong Kong Identity: Between Text, Context and Audience , Zhi-Nan Rebecca Zhang

No 221 Straightening out Same Sex Marriage for ‘all’ Australians: A content analysis study of prejudices in Australia's campaign for marriage equality ,Tate Soller

No 220 In Search for ‘Liveliness’: Experimenting with Co-Ocurrence Analysis Using #GDPR on Twitter , Sameeh Selim

No 219 ¿Dónde está mi gente? A qualitative analysis of the role of Latinos in the context of the Hillary for America 2016 presidential campaign , Andrea P. Terroba Rodríguez

No 218 Red, White and Blue for Who? A critical discourse analysis of mainstream media coverage of Colin Kaepernick and Take a Knee , Kim M Reynolds

No 217 ‘Algorithmic Bias’ through the Media Lens: A Content Analysis of the Framing of Discourse , Rocío Izar Oyarzun Peralta

No 216 Civic State of Mind: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Celebrity Language on Citizenship and Democracy , Hannah Menchhoff

No 215 Encoding the Social: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mark Zuckerberg's Construction of Mediated Sociality , Sam McGeachy

No 214 White for White: An Exploration of Gay Racism on the World's Most Popular Platform for Gay and Bisexual Men , Aubrey T. A. Maslen

No 213 Agent of Change? Malaysian Millenials' Social Media Consumption and Political Knowledge, Participation and Voting in the 2018 General Election , ZiQing Low

No 212 The Netflix Phenomenon in India: A qualitative enquiry into the urban Indian youth's engagement with Netflix , Richa Sarah George

No 211 Do the ‘Rich’ Get Richer? Exploring the Associations between Social Media Use and Online and Offline Political Participation Activities among Kenyan Youth , Eric Gatobu Ndubi

No 210 The Weinstein Effect and mediated non-apologies: Evaluating the role of #MeToo public apologies in western rape culture , Eleanor Dierking

No 209 ‘No Script At All’. A Study of Cultural Context and Audience Perceptions of Authenticity in Reality Television , Yun Ting Choo

No 208 “It’s funny ‘cause it’s true”. A critical discourse analysis on new political satire on television in the United States , Darren Chan

No 207 In a Mediated Society, Can Indigenous Knowledge Survive? A Network Ethnography Examining the Influence of Internet Use on Indigenous Herbal Knowledge Circulation in a Remote Yao Community , Anran Wang

No 206 Beauty and the Blogger: The Impact of Instagram Bloggers on Ideals of Beauty and Self-esteem , Sanjana Ahuja

No 205 Memories of Babri: Competing Discourses and contrasting constructions of a media event , Sanaya Chandar

No 204 Habitus, Social Space and Media Representation: The ‘Romantic’ Contemporary Taiwanese ‘Wenyi Qingnian’ Discourse in the Local Lifestyle Magazine ‘One Day’ , Hoi Yee Chau

No 203 Stories Untold? A qualitative analysis uncovering the representation of girls as victims of conflict in the global south , Tessa Venizelos

No 202 What is the Norm? A study of heteronormative representations in Bollywood , Saachi Bhatia

No 201 Live Streaming and its Audiences in China: Making sense of authenticity , Qisi Zhang

No 200 Berniebros and Vagina Voters: Content Analysis of Gendered Facebook Communication in the 2016 U.S. Democratic Presidential Primary , Meredith Epstein

No 199 ‘Othering’ the ‘Left-Behind’? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the representation of Leave voters in British broadsheets’ coverage of the EU referendum , Louise S. Thommessen.

No 198 Social Media as Civic Deliberation Space: A content analysis study of the public discussion about the legalization of surrogacy on Weibo and Zhihu , Liu Yu

No 197 Stories of Dismantling the White Patriarchy: A thematic narrative analysis of the imagined futures in 2015 science fiction films , Kylie Courtney

No 196 Too Small to Succeed? The Case of #NoAlVotoElectrónico and the Limits of Connective Action , Juan Floreal Graña

No 195 How we remember and forget via Facebook: The Mediatization of Memento and Deletion Practices , Jacopo Villanacci

No 194 Mediated Japanophile? Media consumption and Chinese people’s attitudes towards Japan among different generations , Han Xiao

No 193 Digital Mediatization in the Lifestyle Sport Slacklining , Friedrich Enders

No 192 Recipe for Success: A qualitative investigation into the role of social capital in the gendered food blogosphere , Fiona Koch

No 191 Access and Beyond: An Intersectional Approach to Women’s Everyday Experiences with ICTs , Fatma Matin Khan

No 190 Not Manly Enough: A Quantitative Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Mexican Political Advertising, 2010‐2016 , Enrique López Alonso

No 189 Loudspeaker Broadcasting as Community Radio: A qualitative analysis of loudspeaker broadcasting in contemporary rural China in the framework of alternative media Shutong Wang

No 188 21st Century Cholos Representations of Peruvian youth in the discourse of El Panfleto Esteban Bertarelli

No 187 Representations of Calendar Girls and An Ideology of Modernity in 1930s Republican Shanghai Yifan Song

No 186 Reality Television as a Neoliberal Technology of Citizenship? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Điều Ước Thứ Bảy Vu Anh Ngoc Nguyen

No 185 Truth on Trial: Indigenous News Media and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Tomas Borsa

No 184 No Place Like Home: Analysing Discursive Constructions of ‘Home’ in Canadian Mainstream Newspaper Coverage of the Elsipogtog Protest Brooklyn Tchozewski

No 183 Modiplomacy and Diaspower: The discursive construction of modernity and national identity in Narendra Modi’s communication with the Indian diaspora Saanya Gulati

No 182 “The centre must hold”: Partisan dealignment and the rise of the minor party at the 2015 general election Peter Carrol

No 181 ‘Rapefugees Not Welcome’. Ideological Articulations of Media Discourses on Migrants and Refugees in Europe: New Racism and Othering – A Critical Discourse Analysis Monica Ibrahim

No 180 Constructing Connectivity: A Qualitative Analysis of the Representation of the Connected and Unconnected Others in Facebook’s Internet.org Campaign Minji Lee

No 179 Space and Place: The Communication of Gentrification to Young People in Hackney Kimberley Brown

No 178 Adherence to the protest paradigm? An examination of Singapore’s news coverage of Speakers’ Corner protests from 2000 to 2015 Joann Tan

No 177 The system is rigged: A discursive analysis of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Jessica Cullen

No 176 An Examination of American Mainstream Media Discourse of Solidarity and Citizenship in the Reporting of the Black Lives Matter Campaign Eilis Yazdani

No 175 Are All Lives Valued? Worthy 'Us', Unworthy 'Others'. A Comparative Content Analysis of Global News Agencies’. Pictorial Representation of the Paris Attacks and the Beirut Bombings . Dokyum Kim

No 174 Imperial remains: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Televised Retelling of the Portuguese Colonial Period Beatriz Serra

No 173 Unmasking USAID Pakistan’s Elite Stakeholder Discourses: Towards an Evaluation of the Agency’s Development Interventions Anum Pasha

No 172 Boundary Work between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Global News Agencies’ Double Standard on the Construction of Forced Migrants by Geographical Proximity Woo-chul Kim

No 171 Why Did Our Watchdog Fail? A Counter Perspective on the Media Coverage of the 2007 Financial Crisis Tran Thuy-Anh Huynh

No 170 Unmasking ‘Sidekick’ Masculinity: A Qualitative Investigation of How Asian-American Males View Emasculating Stereotypes in U.S. Media Steffi Lau

No 169 The Silence of the Lamb: Animals in Biopolitics and the Discourse of Ethical Evasion Sana Ali

No 168 The Tartan Other: A qualitative analysis of the visual framing of Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party in the British Press Ross Alexander Longton

No 167 The Unmasking of Burmese Myth in Contemporary Thai Cinema Pimtong Boonyapataro

No 166 Neoliberal Capitalism, Transnationalism and Networked Individualism: Rethinking Social Class in International Student Mobility Nguyen Quynh Tram Doan

No 165 The New Media Elite: How has Participation been Enabled and Limited in Leaders Live Online Political Debates Matilde Giglio

No 164 Constructing a Sense of Place through New Media: A Case Study of Humans of New York Mariele O’Reilly

No 163 The failure of cosmopolitanism and the reinforcement of hierarchical news: managing the visibility of suffering throughout the Multimodal Analysis of the Charlie Hebdo versus the Baga terrorist attacks Maria Paola Pofi

No 162 Imagining (In)security: Towards Developing Critical Knowledges of Security in a Mediated Social World Kathryn Higgins

No 161 Tweens Logged In: How Social Norms and Media Literacy Relate to Children’s Usage of Social Media Kalina Asparouhova

No 160 Finding Ferguson: Geographic Scale in the United States’ National Nightly Network News John Ray

No 159 Solidarity as Irony: Audience Responses to Celebrity Advocacy Isabel Kuhn

No 158 Phantasmagoric Nationalism: State power and the diasporic imagination Felicia Wong

No 157 Investigating Music Consumption ‘Circuits of Practice’ Eva Tkavc Dubokovic

No 156 A complex history turned into a tale of reconciliation: A critical discourse analysis of Irish newspaper coverage of the Queen’s visit to the Republic of Ireland Ciara Spencer

No 155 Economic power of e-retailers via price discrimination in e-commerce: price discrimination’s impact on consumers’ choices and preferences and its position in relation to consumer power Arina Vlasova

No 154 Exploring the Boundaries of Crowd Creation: A study on the value of voice in neoliberal media culture Ana Ecaterina C. Tan

No 153 “Songs of Guilt”: When Generosity is to Blame - A Content Analysis of the Press and Social Media Reactions to U2’s “Songs of Innocence” Giveaway on iTunes Alessandro Volonté

No 152 Hybridity within Peer Production: The Power Negotiation of Chinese Fansub Groups Zongxiao Rong

No 151 Writing On the Wall: Conversations with Beirut's Street Artists Zeina Najjar

No 150 'Gaining Control with the Power of the Gun and Maintaining Control with the Power of the Pen': A Content Analysis of Framing the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in the People's Daily Yuanyuan Liu

No 149 Let My Voices be Heard: A Qualitative Study of Migrant Workers' Strategies of Mediation Resistance in Contemporary China Yijun Chen

No 148 'Popular Politics': A Discourse Theory Analysis of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's TV/radio Program Citizen Link Veronica Leon Burch

No 147 A Comparative Analysis of Chinese, Western and African Media Discourse in the Representation of China's Expansion of Economic Engagements in Africa Tong Wei

No 146 Ideological Trafficking of God and the Other Sultana Haider

No 145 The Maasai and the Internet: Online Civil Participation and the Formation of a Civic Identity in Rural Kenya Stine Ringnes Wilhelmsen

No 144 Wood in Water Does Not a Crocodile Make: Migrants Virtual Place-making, Ontological Security and Cosmopolitanism in the Transnational Social Field Sheetal Kumar

No 143 Droning On: A Critical Analysis of American Policy and News Discourse on Drone Strikes Sadaf Khan

No 142 The Impact of Mass Media Sentiments on Returns and Volatility in Asset Markets: Evidence from Algorithmic Content Analysis Panu Kuuluvainen

No 141 Problematising the Self-Representation of Race and Gender in Vines: Who has the Last Laugh? Shaikha Nurfarah Mattar

No 140 Corporate Public Apologies, or Capitalism in Other Words Nina M Chung

No 139 Agenda Setting and Framing in the UK Energy Prices Debate Nicholas Davies

No 138 'It is of Inestimable Benefit': Communicating American Science Policy in the Post-Cold War Era Mercedes Wilby

No 137 Beyond Twenty Cents: The Impact of the Representation of Violence on the Coverage of the Brazilian Protests of June 2013 by the Mass Media Margarida Gorecki Telles

No 136 Framing Françafrique: Neo-colonial Framing Practices in Le Monde 's Coverage of the French Military Interventions in Mali and the Central African Republic Lucie Gagniarre

No 135 Representing Persia: A Discourse Analysis of The American Print Media's Coverage of Iran Kyle Bowen

No 134 From Fat Cats to Cool Cats: CEOs and Micro-celebrity Practices on Twitter Julia Regina Austmann

No 133 Critically Imagining Ineternet Governance: A Content Analysis of the Marco Civil da Internet Public Consultation João Carlos Magalhães

No 132 The Ambiguous ICT: Investigating How Tablet Users Relate to and Interact with Their Device Jessica Blank

No 131 Threats, Parasites and Others: The Visual Framing of Roma Migrants in the British Press Grace Waters

No 130 Fifty Years of Negativity: An Assessment of Negative Compaigning in Swedish Parlimentary Election Campaigns 1956-2006 Gustav Gidenstam

No 129 The Talking Dog: Representations of Self and Others in Japanese Advertising Eryk Salvaggio

No 128 The Selfie Protest: A Visual Analysis of Activism in the Digital Age Clare Sheehan

No 127 Negativity and Australian Political Discourse: A Case Study of the Australian Liberal Party's 2013 Election Television Advertising Clare Creegan

No 126 What are You Laughing at? A Social Semiotic Analysis of Ironic Racial Stereotypes in Chappelle's Show Cindy Ma

No 125 Reconsidering Agenda Setting and Intermedia Agenda Setting from a Global Perspective: A Cross-National Comparative Agenda Setting Test Christoph Rosenthal

No 124 Big Data Exclusions and Disparate Impact: Investigating the Exclusionary Dynamics of Big Data Phenomenon Charly Gordon

No 123 Tabloidisation of the Norwegian News Media: A Quantitative Analysis of Print and Online Newspaper Platforms Celine Storstad Gran

No 122 Red, White and Afro Caribbean: A Qualitative Study of Afro-Caribbean American Identity During the Olympic Games Ashley Gordon

No 121 The City without Gates: Facebook and the Social Surface Andrew Crosby

No 120 Yes I Do Mind: Constructing Discourses of Resistance against Racial Microaggressions on Tumblr Abigail Kang

No 119 Tensions in Urban Street Art: a Visual Analysis of the Online Media Coverage of Banksy Slave Labour Elisabetta Crovara

No 118 The Sticky Case of Sticky Data: An Examination of the Rationale, Legality, and Implementation of a Right to Data Portability Under European Competition Law Paul T. Moura

No 117 Pinning Pretty: A Qualitative Study of Pinterest Users' Practices and Views Elizabeth White

No 116 Comparing Perceptions of NGOs and CSR: Audience Evaluations and Interpretations of Communications Gitanjali Co Devan Anderson

No 115 What is Web-Populism doing to Italian Politics? The Discursive Construction of 'Grillini' vis-a-vis the Antagonist Other Isadora Arredondo

No 114 Yellow Skin-White Prison: A Content Analysis of French Television News Broadcast Ngo Bossoro

No 113 A Revisionist Turkish Identity: Power, Religion and Ethnicity as Ottoman Identity in the Turkish series Muhteşem Yüzyıl Esra Doğramacı

No 112 Behind the Curtain: Women's Representations in Contemporary Hollywood Reema Dutt

No 111 From Liberal Conservative to Conservative Conservative : David Cameron's Political Branding Ignacio José Antonio López Escarcena

No 110 'Micropolitics' and Communication: An Exploratory Study on Student Representatives' Communication Repertoires in University Governance Nora Kroeger

No 109 Ideology No More: A Discourse of Othering in Canadian Mainstream Newspaper Representations of the Idle No More Movement Christian Ledwell

No 108 Media Representation of Nationalism and Immigration: A Case Study of Jamie's Great Britain Xin Liang

No 107 You're Not Alone : Virtual Communities, Online Relationships & Modern Identities in the Military Spouse & Blogging Community Elizabeth M. Lockwood

No 106 Harperist Discourse: Creating a Canadian 'Common Sense' and Shaping Ideology Through Language Mashoka Maimona

No 105 The Spiral of Silence and Social Media: Analysing Noelle-Neumann's Phenomenon Application on the Web during the Italian Political Elections of 2013 Cristina Malaspina

No 104 Participatory Culture on YouTube: A Case Study of the Multichannel Network Machinima Bryan Mueller

No 103 Up the Cascade: Framing of the Concession of the Highway between San Jose and San Ramon Marie Garnier Ortiz

No 102 Science in the Headlines: The Stakes in the Social Media Age Sasjkia Otto

No 101 Representing Disease: An Analysis of Breast Cancer Discourse in the South African Press Lauren Post

No 100 Blob and Its Audience: Making Sense of Meta-Television Giulia Previato

No 99 Streaming the Syrian War: A Case Study of the Partnership between Professional and Citizen Journalists in the Syrian Conflict Madeline Storck

No 98 Immigration Policy Narratives and the Politics of Identity: Causal Issue Frames in the Discursive Construction of America's Social Borders Felicity P. Tan

No 97 Behind 'gift-giving': The Motivations for Sharing Fan-Generated Digital Content in Online Fan Communities Mengchu Wang

No 96 Smartphone Location-based Services in the Social, Mobile, and Surveillance Practices of Everyday Life Carey Wong

No 95 The Impacts of Design on Voluntary Participation: Case Studies of Zimuzu and Baike Li Zeng

No 94 Mediated Politics and Ideology: Towards a New Synthesis. A case study from the Greek General Election of May 2012 Angelos Kissas

No 93 E-Arranged Marriages: How have Muslim matrimonial websites affected traditional Islamic courting methods? Ayesha Ahmed

No 92 Hospitality in the Modern Mediapolis: Global Mediation of Child Soldiers in central and east Africa Bridgette Bugay

No 91 Media Framing of the 2009-2010 United States Health Care Reform Debate: A Content Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage Christina Brown

No 90 Behind the Laughter: Mediating Hegemony through Humour Ningkang Wang

No 89 Saving Europe online? European identity and the European Union’s Facebook communication during the eurozone crisis Johannes Hillje

No 88 Like it? Ritual Symbolic Exchange Using Facebook’s ‘Like’ Tool Kenneth J. Gamage

No 87 Understanding representations of low-income Chinese migrant workers through the lens of photojournalists Lee Zhuomin

No 86 The Modernization of Irish Political Campaigning: The 2011 General Election Liam Murphy

No 85 Online Freedom?Film Consumption in the Digital Age Luane Sandrin Gauer

No 84 Audience Reception of Charity Advertising: Making Sense, Interpreting and Decoding Advertisements That Focus on Human Suffering Magdalini Tsoutsoumpi

No 83 Beneath the Anthropomorphic Veil: Animal Imagery and Ideological Discourses in British Advertising Manjula Kalliat

No 82 Mobile Discourses: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Reports of Intergovernmental Organizations Recommending Mobile Phones for Development Maria Paola de Salvo

No 81 We the People: The role of social media in the participatory community of the Tea Party movement Rachel Weiler

No 80 SOPA Deliberation on Facebook: Deliberation and Facilitation or Mere Mobilization? Ray Wang

No 79 Discerning the Dominant Discourse in the World Summit on the Information Society Ria Sen

No 78 The impact of online health information on the doctor-patient relationship. Findings from a qualitative study Susanne Christmann

No 77 The Influence of Weibo Political Participations on the Political Efficacies of Weibo Users Wenxu Wang

No 76 In what Forms and Patterns does Inequality Exist in the Weibosphere? Xiao Han

No 75 Creating Scandal to Avoid Panic: How the UK Press Framed the News of the World Phonehacking Scandal Zuzanna Natalie Blaszkiewicz

No 74 Measuring media pluralism in the convergence era: The case of News Corp’s proposed acquisition of BSkyB Davide Morisi

No 73 Observers, Witnesses, Victims or Activists? How Inuit Voices are Represented in Mainstream Canadian Newspaper Coverage of Global Warming Patricia H. Audette-Longo

No 72 Global journalism, local realities: Ugandan journalists' views on reporting homosexuality Rachael Borlase

No 71 Why pay if it's free? Streaming, downloading, and digital music consumption in the "iTunes era" Theodore Giletti

No 70 Peacebuilding and Public Service Media: Lessons from Star Radio and media development in Liberia Elizabeth Goodfriend

No 69 The Discourse of Protest: Using discourse analysis to identify speech acts in UK broadsheet newspapers Stefan Brambilla Hall

No 68 Life With or Without the Internet: The Domesticated Experiences of Digital Inclusion and Exclusion Mark Holden

No 67 We are all well (and undisrupted) in the shelter - the 33 of us: Narratives in the rescue of the Chilean Miners as a Live Media Event César Antonio Jiménez Martínez

No 66 Critical Failure: Class, Taste and the Value of Film Criticism Moses Lemuel

No 65 The Story of Egypt: Journalistic impressions of a revolution and new media power Thomas Ledwell

No 64 Political Fandom in the Age of Social Media: Case Study of Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign Komal H. Parikh

No 63 Against all odds: Evidence for the 'true' cosmopolitan consumer A cross-disciplinary approach to investigating the Cosmopolitan Condition Saskia Scheibel

No 62 Relating to 'Ohio' in Political Advertisements: Interpreting Representations of Culture in Narratives, Myths, and Symbols from Democratic Spots in the 2010 Gubernatorial Campaign Daniel Schwarz

No 61 Youth Understanding of Climate: Towards a theory of social adaptation to climate change in Africa Hardi Shahadu

No 60 Translating China:A case study of Chinese-English translation in CCTV international broadcasting Yueru Zhang

No 59 From watchdog to lapdog?The impact of government intimidation on the public watchdog performance of peace media in processes of democratisation Michael Spiess

No 58 From Hardback to Software: How the Publishing Industry is Coping with Convergence Lauren Christina Sozio

No 57 Witnessing War: Blogs from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Jessica Siegel

No 56 Mediated Cosmopolitanism? The Other’s Mediated Dialogical Space on BBC World’s Hardtalk Andrew Rogers

No 55 Reconceptualising IT? Policy Learning and Paradigms of Sustainability in the ICT Policy of the European Union Jussi Nokkala

No 54 ‘Alive with Possibility’: Brand South Africa and the Discursive Construction of South African National Identity Yasuko Murai

No 53 The Journalistic Identities of Liveblogging A Case Study: Reporting the 2009 Post-Election Protests in Iran David McDougall,

No 52 Blogging the Gap: A survey of China bloggers Kerry Arnot

No 51 Young People’s Adoption and Consumption of a Cultural Commodity – iPhone Hui Jiang

No 50 Preserving the Liberal World Order in an Age of Globalization: Representing the People’s Republic of China in the American Prestige Press Jasmine Chan

No 49 In the Name of Allah? Alison Jarrett

No 48 An Investigation into the Meaning of Locally Produced Entertainment Media to Lebanese Women:A Concentration on the Film Sukkar Banat (Caramel) Carol Haidar

No 47 ‘Discuss This Article!’ Participatory Uses of Comment Sections on SPIEGEL ONLINE: A Content Analysis Eilika Freund

No 46 Fleeting Racialisation?: Media Representation of African Americans During the California Proposition 8 Campaign - App 1 - App 2 Tiana Epps-Johnson

No 45 The Big Society Will Not Take Place: Reading Postmodernism in Contemporary Conservative Discourse Matthew Eisner Harle

No 44 Situating the imagination:Turkish soap operas and the lives of women in Qatar Dima Issa

No 43 guardian.co.uk: online participation, ‘agonism’ and ‘mutualisation’ Mariam Cook

No 42 Freedom or intervention: What is the role of the regulator in achieving competitive pay-TV markets? Yi Shen Chan

No 41 The united states of unscreened cinema: The political economy of the self-distribution of cinema in the U.S. Bajir Cannon

No 40 Constructing the virtual body: Self-representation, self-modification and self-perfection in pro-eating disorder websites Gillian Bolsover

No 39 The Altruistic Blockbuster and the Third-World Filmstar Olina Banerji

No 38 The Modernisation of Australian Political Campaigns: The Case of Maxine McKew Evie Watt

No 37 Platform-based Open Innovation Business Models: Bridging the gap between value creation and value capture Michael Seminer

No 36 Transmit/Disrupt: Why does illegal broadcasting continue to thrive in the age of liberalised spectrum? Justin Schlosberg

No 35 Domestic Conflict or Global Terror? Framing the Mumbai Terror Attacks in the U.S. Print Press Kamla Pande

No 34 Information plurality, the financial sector, and the fate of Reuters News agency: Policy and problems surrounding the Thomson Reuters merger Leila Lemghalef

No 33 The Contested Framing of Canada’s Military Mission in Afghanistan: The News Media, the Government, the Military and the Public Brooks Decillia

No 32 UK community radio: policy frames and outcomes Helen Charles

No 31 Bunny Talk: Teenagers Discuss The Girls Next Door Jennifer Barton

No 30 Psephological Peer Production Tim Watts

No 29 Domestication of the Cell Phone on a College Campus: A Case Study Madhuri Shekar

No 28 The Visuals of Violence Sofie Scheerlinck

No 27 All Work and No Play - Does it Make Jack a Dull Boy? Ece Inanç

No 26 Perusing Perez: How do Taste Hierarchies, Leisure Preferences and Social Status Interact among visitors to Perez Hilton's Celebrity Gossip Blog? Ellen Hunter

No 25 Exploring the 'Americanization of Political Campaigns: Croatia's 2003 and 2007 General Elections Milly A. Doolan

No 24 Acts of Negotiation Rajana Das

No 23 Banal Environmentalism: Defining and Exploring an Expanded Understanding of Ecological Identity, Awareness, and Action Ryan Cunningham

No 22 Letting the Other Solitude be Heard: On the Media's Role as a Forum for Multilingual Conversation in Canada Marc Chalifoux

No 21 Multilateral Institutions and the Recontextualization of Political Marketing: How the World Intellectual Property Organization's Outreach Efforts Reflect Changing Audiences Sandra Bangasser

No 20 Branding in Election Campaigns: Just a Buzzword or a New Quality of Political Communication? Manuel Adolphsen

No 19 A Study on Self-regulatory Initiatives in China's Internet Industry Lijun Cao

No 18 An Exploration of the 2006 Electoral Campaign for the Re-election of Walter Veltroni for Mayor of Rome Maddalena Vianello

No 17 Creating Global Citizens? The Case of Connecting Classrooms Mandeep Samra

No 16 Audience Reception of Health Promoting Advertising Cristian Raftopoulou

No 15 The Game of (Family) Life: Intra-Family Play in the World of Warcraft Holly Peterson

No 14 Global TV and Local Realities: Constructing Narratives of the Self Sunandini Pande

No 13 Twitter: Expressions of the Whole Self Edward Mishaud

No 12 Crowdsourced News: The Collective Intelligence of Amateurs and The Evolution of Journalism Melissa Metzger

No 11 To Support or Distort: An Analysis of Ontario Referendum Campaign Websites Anna Mather

No 10 Political Handbags: The representation of women politicians Eva Markstedt

No 9 Free Speech, Political Correctness and the Public Sphere in a Talk Radio World Michele Margolis

No 8 Propaganda, Grassroots Power, or Online Public Sphere? Zheng Liu

No 7 Preventing Drug Abuse in China: Anti-Drug Campaigns in the Eyes of a Drug User Bo Li

No 6 Taming Technology: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Families and Their Domestication of the Internet Josh Hack

No 5 Keeping up Appearances: Candidate Self-Presentation through Web Videos in the 2008 US Presidential Primary Campaign Nisha Gulati

No 4 The End of the Media's '"War on Terror"? An Analysis of a Declining Frame Dominik Cziesche

No 3 Fantasizing Reality: Wetware, Social Imaginaries, and Signs of Change Jennifer Cross

No 2 The Colbert Nation: A Democratic Place to be? Kristen Boesel

No 1 Media Constructions of Extreme Female Thinness Nelly Abranavel

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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Examining Localized Communication, Political Action, and Polarization in the 108th Senate , Mitchell Popovic

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Consumer Purchase Intent in Opinion Leader Live Streaming , Jihong Huo

Organizing and Communicating Health: A Culture-centered and Necrocapitalist Inquiry of Groundwater Contamination in Rural West Bengal , Parameswari Mukherjee

HIV Stalks Bodies Like Mine: An Autoethnography of Self-Disclosure, Stigmatized Identity, and (In)Visibility in Queer Lived Experience , Steven Ryder

"Queen of the Mother-Tucking (Western) World": Authenticity and Nationality on Drag Race , Zane A. Willard

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Reviving the Christian Left: A Thematic Analysis of Progressive Christian Identity in American Politics , Adam Blake Arledge

Organizing Economies: Narrative Sensemaking and Communciative Resilience During Economic Disruption , Timothy Betts

The Tesla Brake Failure Protestor Scandal: A Case Study of Situational Crisis Communication Theory on Chinese Media , Jiajun Liu

Inflammatory Bowel Disease & Social (In)Visibility: An Interpretive Study of Food Choice, Self-Blame and Coping in Women Living with IBD , Jessica N. Lolli

Florida Punks: Punk, Performance, and Community at Gainesville’s Fest , Michael Anthony Mcdowell Ii

Re-centering and De-centering ‘Race’: an Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Organizational Websites , Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez

The Labors of Professional Wrestling: The Dream, the Drive, and Debility , Brooks Oglesby

Outside the Boundaries of Biomedicine: A Culture-Centered Approach to Female Patients Living Undiagnosed and Chronically Ill , Bianca Siegenthaler

The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Identity Salience on Online Political Expression and Political Participation in the United States , Jonathon Smith

Grey’s Anatomy and End of Life Ethics , Sean Micheal Swenson

Informal Communication, Sensemaking, and Relational Precarity: Constituting Resilience in Remote Work During COVID , Tanya R.M. Vomacka

Making a Way: An Auto/ethnographic Exploration of Narratives of Citizenship, Identity, (Un)Belonging and Home for Black Trinidadian[-]American Women , Anjuliet G. Woodruffe

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

When I Rhyme It’s Sincerely Yours: Burkean Identification and Jay-Z’s Black Sincerity Rhetoric in the Post Soul Era , Antoine Francis Hardy

Explicating the Process of Communicative Disenfranchisement for Women with Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (COPCs) , Elizabeth A. Hintz

Mitigating Negativity Bias in Media Selection , Gabrielle R. Jarmoszko

Blue Rage: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Policing, Whiteness, and Racial Surveillance , Wesley T. Johnson

Narratives of Success: How Honors College Newcomers Frame the Entrance to College , Cayla Lanier

Peminist Performance in/as Filipina Feminist Praxis: Collaging Stand-Up Comedy and the Narrative Points in Between , Christina-Marie A. Magalona

¿De dónde eres?: Negotiating identity as third culture kids , Sophia Margulies

The Rise of the "Gatecrashers": The Growing Impact of Athletes Breaking News on Mainstream Media through Social Media , Michael Nabors

Learning From The Seed: Illuminating Black Girlhood in Sustainable Living Paradigms , Toni Powell Powell Young

A Comparative Thematic Analysis of Newspaper Articles in France after the Bataclan and in the United States of America after Pulse , Simon Rousset

This is it: Latina/x Representation on One Day at a Time , Camille Ruiz Mangual

STOP- motion as theory, method, and praxis: ARRESTING moments of racialized gender in the academy , Sasha J. Sanders

Advice as Metadiscourse: On the gendering of women's leadership in advice-giving practices , Amaly Santiago

The Communicative Constitution of Environment: Land, Weather, Climate , Leanna K. Smithberger

Women Entrepreneurs in China: Dialectical Discourses, Situated Activities, and the (Re)production of Gender and Entrepreneurship , Zhenyu Tian

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Constructing a Neoliberal Youth Culture in Postcolonial Bangladeshi Advertising , Md Khorshed Alam

Communication, Learning and Social Support at the Speaking Center: A Communities of Practice Perspective , Ann Marie Foley Coats

A Visit to Cuba: Performance Ethnography of Place , Adolfo Lagomasino

Elemental Climate Disaster Texts and Queer Ecological Temporality , Laura Mattson

When the Beat Drops: Exploring Hip Hop, Home and Black Masculinity , Marquese Lamont McFerguson

Communication Skills in Medical Education: A Discourse Analysis of Simulated Patient Practices , Grace Ellen Peters

Hiding Under the Sun: Health, Access, and Discourses of Representation in Undocumented Communities , Jaime Shamado Robb

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Walking Each Other Home: Sensemaking of Illness Identity in an Online Metastatic Cancer Community , Ariane B. Anderson

Widow Narratives on Film and in Memoirs: Exploring Formula Stories of Grief and Loss of Older Women After the Death of a Spouse , Jennifer R. Bender

Life as a Reluctant Immigrant: An Autoethnographic Inquiry , Dionel Cotanda

“It’s A Broken System That’s Designed to Destroy”: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Healthcare Providers’ Stories About Race, Reproductive Health, and Policy , Brianna Rae Cusanno

Representations of Indian Christians in Bollywood Movies , Ryan A. D'souza

(re)Making Worlds Together: Rooster Teeth, Community, and Sites of Engagement , Andrea M. M. Fortin

In Another's Voice: Making Sense of Reproductive Health as Women of Color , Nivethitha Ketheeswaran

Communication as Constitutive of Organization: Practicing Collaboration in and English Language Program , Ariadne Miranda

Interrogating Homonationalism in Love, Simon , Jessica S. Rauchberg

Making Sense at the Margins: Describing Narratives on Food Insecurity Through Hip-hop , Lemuel Scott

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Telling a Rape Joke: Performing Humor in a Victim Help Center , Angela Mary Candela

Becoming a Woman of ISIS , Zoe D. Fine

The Uses of Community in Modern American Rhetoric , Cody Ryan Hawley

Opening Wounds and Possibilities: A Critical Examination of Violence and Monstrosity in Horror TV , Amanda K. Leblanc

As Good as it Gets: Redefining Survival through Post-Race and Post-Feminism in Apocalyptic Film and Television , Mark R. McCarthy

Managing a food health crisis: Perceptions and reactions to different response strategies , Yifei Ren

Everything is Fine: Self-Portrait of a Caregiver with Chronic Depression and Other Preexisting Conditions , Erin L. Scheffels

Lives on the (story)Line: Group Facilitation with Men in Recovery at The Salvation Army , Lisa Pia Zonni Spinazola

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Breach: Understanding the Mandatory Reporting of Title IX Violations as Pedagogy and Performance , Jacob G. Abraham

Documenting an Imperfect Past: Examining Tampa's Racial Integration through Community, Film, and Remembrance of Central Avenue , Travis R. Bell

Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia and Quality-of-Life: Ovarian and Uterine Cancer Patients and the Aesthetics of Disease , Meredith L. Clements

Full-Time Teleworkers Sensemaking Process for Informal Communication , Sheila A. Gobes-Ryan

Volunteer Tourism: Fulfilling the Needs for God and Medicine in Latin America , Erin Howell

Practical Theology in an Interpretive Community: An Ethnography of Talk, Texts and Video in a Mediated Women's Bible Study , Nancie Hudson

Performing Narrative Medicine: Understanding Familial Chronic Illness through Performance , Alyse Keller

Second-Generation Bruja : Transforming Ancestral Shadows into Spiritual Activism , Lorraine E. Monteagut

The Rhetoric of Scientific Authority: A Rhetorical Examination of _An Inconvenient Truth_ , Alexander W. Morales

Daniel Bryan & The Negotiation of Kayfabe in Professional Wrestling , Brooks Oglesby

Improvising Close Relationships: A Relational Perspective on Vulnerability , Nicholas Riggs

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

When Maps Ignore the Territory: An Examination of Gendered Language in Cancer Patient Literature , Joanna Bartell

From Portraits to Selfies: Family Photo-making Rituals , Krystal M. Bresnahan

Spiritual Frameworks in Pediatric Palliative Care: Understanding Parental Decision-making , Lindy Grief Davidson

Blue-Collar Scholars: Bridging Academic and Working-Class Worlds , Nathan Lee Hodges

The Communication Constitution of Law Enforcement in North Carolina’s Efforts Against Human Trafficking , Elizabeth Hampton Jeter

“Black Americans and HIV/AIDS in Popular Media” Conforming to The Politics of Respectability , Alisha Lynn Menzies

Selling the American Body: The Construction of American Identity Through the Slave Trade , Max W. Plumpton

In Search of Solidarity: Identification Participation in Virtual Fan Communities , Jaime Shamado Robb

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Straight Benevolence: Preserving Heterosexual Authority and White Privilege , Robb James Bruce

A Semiotic Phenomenology of Homelessness and the Precarious Community: A Matter of Boundary , Heather Renee Curry

Heart of the Beholder: The Pathos, Truths and Narratives of Thermopylae in _300_ , James Christopher Holcom

Was It Something They Said? Stand-up Comedy and Progressive Social Change , David M. Jenkins

The Meaning of Stories Without Meaning: A Post-Holocaust Experiment , Tori Chambers Lockler

Half Empty/Half Full: Absence, Ethnicity, and the Question of Identity in the United States , Ashley Josephine Martinez

Feeling at Home with Grief: An Ethnography of Continuing Bonds and Re-membering the Deceased , Blake Paxton

"In Heaven": Christian Couples' Experiences of Pregnancy Loss , Grace Ellen Peters

“You Better Redneckognize”: White Working-Class People and Reality Television , Tasha Rose Rennels

Designing Together with the World Café: Inviting Community Ideas for an Idea Zone in a Science Center , William Travis Thompson

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Crisis Communication: Sensemaking and Decision-making by the CDC Under Conditions of Uncertainty and Ambiguity During the 2009-2010 H1N1 Pandemic , Barbara Bennington

Communication as Yoga , Kristen Caroline Blinne

Love and (M)other (Im)possibilities , Summer Renee Cunningham

The Rhetoric of Corporate Identity: Corporate Social Responsibility, Creating Shared Value, and Globalization , Carolyn Day

"Is That What You Dream About? Being a Monster?": Bella Swan and the Construction of the Monstrous-Feminine in The Twilight Saga , Amanda Jayne Firestone

Organizing Disability: Producing Knowledge in a University Accommodations Office , Shelby Forbes

Emergency Medicine Triage as the Intersection of Storytelling, Decision-Making, and Dramaturgy , Colin Ainsworth Forde

Changing Landscapes: End-of-Life Care & Communication at a Zen Hospice , Ellen W. Klein

"We're Taking Slut Back": Analyzing Racialized Gender Politics in Chicago's 2012 Slutwalk March , Aphrodite Kocieda

Informing, Entertaining and Persuading: Health Communication at The Amazing You , David Haldane Lee

(Dis)Abled Gaming: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Decreasing Accessibility For Disabled Gamers , Kyle David Romano

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

African Americans and Hospice: A Culture-Centered Exploration of Disparities in End-of-Life Care , Patrick Dillon

Polysemy, Plurality, & Paradigms: The Quixotic Quest for Commensurability of Ethics and Professionalism in the Practices of Law , Eric Paul Engel

Examining the Ontoepistemological Underpinnings of Diversity Education Found in Interpersonal Communication Textbooks , Tammy L. Jeffries

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Media and Communication Ph.D. Dissertations

Dissertations from 2022 2022.

Reclaiming the “C” in ICT4D: A Critical Examination of the Discursive (Un)Freedoms in Digital State Policy and News Media of Bangladesh and Norway , Mohammad Ala-Uddin

From the Boardroom to the Bedroom: Sexual Ecologies in the Algorithmic Age , Bernadette Bowen

Trolling of #MeToo: Audiences' Perceptions , Blessy McWan

Dungeons & Dragons & Figurations: A D&D Player's Place within a Sea of Media Objects , Jules Marcel Patalita

"That's a very big deal": An examination of the social support process for victims/survivors of sexual assault , Jaclyn Rae Shetterly

Dissertations from 2021 2021

The Community Industry: An Analysis of Reddit and /r/socialism , Richard E. Babb

Identity and Romantic Relational Meaning-making After Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence , Aimee Jeanne Burns

Bridging the Gaps: Advancing the Communication Theory of Identity , Kimberly Kuiper

The Legitimacy of Online Feminist Activism: Subversion of Shame in Sexual Assault by Reporting it On Social Media , Tarishi Verma

The Functions of Psychological Reactance and Persuasion Knowledge in the Context of Narrative Engagement and Attitude Change , Tanja Vierrether

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Rio 2016's Promise to be Different: The Role of Social Media in Struggles Over Urban Imaginaries and Social Justice , Sasha Allgayer

Stories To Tell: Examining Experiences And Identities Of Individuals With Hashimoto's Thyroiditis , Cody M. Clemens

How Message Strategies, Visual Strategies and Technology Affordances Influence Donation on Facebook Fundraiser Pages , Kisun Kim

Metaperceptions and Identity Negotiation Strategies of Perceived Middle Eastern Immigrants in the U.S. , Esen Saygin Koc

Dissertations from 2019 2019

How Do Credibility of For-profit and Non-profit Source and Sharer, Emotion Valence, Message Elaboration, and Issue Controversiality Influence Message Sharing to Imagined Audience on Facebook? , Chang Bi

Women on YouTube: Exploring identity performances of female creators using intersectionality and media ecology , Alyssa N. Fisher

Rhetorical Complexity of Advocating Intercultural Peace: Post-World War II Peace Discourse , Emi Kanemoto

Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of School Closure in Latina/o Detroit , Chad M. Nelson

The Mass-Personal Divide: Bridging Scholarship and Paving Ground Through the Lens of Environmental Discourse on Public Land Use , Laura A. Seroka

Identity Gaps: An Analysis of Chinese Academic Mothers' Transnational Communicative Experiences in the U.S. , Xiaoli Wen

Angry White Men: How Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead Predicted the Trumpian Zeitgeist , Graeme John Wilson

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Health Crisis in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Study of Saudis' Knowledge of Coronavirus, Attitudes toward the Ministry of Health's Coronavirus Preventive Campaigns, and Trust in Coronavirus Messages in the Media , Saud Abdulaziz Alsulaiman

Victim, Terrorist, or Other?: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Alternative News Media Depictions of the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis , Scott Owen Chappuis

Gatekeeping Breaking News Online: How Social Media Affect Journalists' Crime News Sourcing and Dissemination in India , Dhiman Chattopadhyay

Superheroes & Stereotypes: A Critical Analysis of Race, Gender, and Social Issues Within Comic Book Material , Gabriel Arnoldo Cruz

Caregiving and social support: Feminist health communication approach to understanding doulas in China , Zehui Dai

Remaking Albania: Public Memory of Communist Past , Nina Nazmije Gjoci

How do Chinese college students seek information to prevent unwanted pregnancy? A study of online information seeking for contraception , Weiwei Jiang

More Than an Athlete: A Qualitative Examination of Activist Identities Among NCAA Division I Student-Athletes , Yannick Kluch

Instructional Design and Engagement in K-12 Public Schools: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Instruction , Tonya Renee Sanders

Voluntary Professional Relational Loss: The Intersectionality Between Workplace Relationships and Organizational Identity , Christian Thompson

Detection of Eating Disorders Among Young Women: Implications for Development Communication , Shrinkhala Upadhyaya

Predicting Healthy Eating Behavior: Examination of Attitude, Subjective Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Factors , Fang Wang

Why do We Choose This App? A Comparison of Mobile Application Adoption Between Chinese and US College Students , Chenjie Zhang

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Consumers' Engagement with Local and Global Brands on Facebook in Saudi Arabia , Mohammad Hatim Abuljadail

A Rhetorical Examination of the Fatwa: Religion as an Instrument for Power, Prestige, and Political Gains in the Islamic World , Abdulrahman Ibrahim Aljahli

Simulated Social Justice? Paradoxical Discourse and Decision-Making Within Educational Video Games Designed For Social Change , Erika M. Behrmann

Digital Whiteness Imperialism: Redefining Caucasian Identity Post-Boston Bombing , Benjamin Brojakowski

An Intersectional and Dialectical Analysis and Critique of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's Ambivalent Discourses in the New Racism , Linsay M. Cramer

Toward a Better Understanding of Social Enterprises: A Critical Ethnography of a TOMS Campus Club , Jeanette M. Dillon

Contesting the Keys to Freedom: Rhetoric, K-12 Education Policy, and Whiteness as a Cultural Practice , Andrew R. Donofrio

A Hyperlink and Sentiment Analysis of the 2016 Presidential Election: Intermedia Issue Agenda and Attribute Agenda Setting in Online Contexts , Youngnyo Joa

#underestimated: an intersectional approach to the exploration of girl athlete identities through photographic self-representations , Chelsea Ann Kaunert

Latent Network Construction of Men's Movement Organizations Online , Brian Krol

Documentary Dialogues: Establishing a Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Documentary Fandom-Filmmaker Social Media Interaction , Julia E. Largent

The Role of American Islamic Organizations in Intercultural Discourse and Their Use of Social Media , Adnan Osama Shareefi

Countering the Misconceptions of Media Portrayal Using Creative Expression: An Examination of Veterans With PTSD and the Complexity of Identity Gaps , Stormy P. Trotter

Effect of product review interactivity, social inequality, and culture on trust in online retailers: A comparison between China and the U.S. , Liu Yang

Building and Negotiating Religious Identities in A Zen Buddhist Temple: A Perspective of Buddhist Rhetoric , Fan Zhang

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Invasion, Surveillance, Biopolitics, and Governmentality: Representations from Tactical Media to Screen , Michael V. DelNero

Media, Globalization and Nationalism: The Case of Separate Telangana , Sumanth Inukonda

Towards a Re-discovery of the Public Sphere: Myanmar/Burma's 'Exile Media's' Counter-hegemonic Potential and the U.S. News Media's Re-framing of American Foreign Policy , Brett R. Labbe

Teen Pregnancy and Media Engagement: A Uses and Gratifications Study , David Michael Strukel

Stories of Teal: Women's Experiences of Ovarian Cancer , Dinah A. Tetteh

The Cultural Rhetorics of After-Dinner Speaking , Courtney J. Wright

The effect of partisan media and news slant on Americans' perception of China and Chinese products: an experimental study in an online news environment , Chen Yang

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Bridging the Last Mile: An Exploration of ICT Policy Through Bharatnet , Deepti Bharthur

College Students' Positive Strategic SNS Involvement and Stress Coping in the United States and China , Ling Fang

Assessing Source Credibility On Social Media–––An Electronic Word-Of-Mouth Communication Perspective , Xiao Hu

The Rhetorical Landscape of Itaewon: Negotiating New Transcultural Identities in South Korea , Eun Young Lee

Inoculation Information Against Contagious Disease Misperception about Flu with Heuristic vs. Systematic Information and Expert vs. Non-Expert Source , SangHee Park

"Killing in Silence: Alternative and Mainstream Media Coverage of U.S. DRONE STRIKES." , Brion White

Knowledge (K), Attitude (A), and Practice (P) of Women and Men about Menstruation and Menstrual Practices in Ahmedabad, India: Implications for Health Communication Campaigns and Interventions , Arpan Shailesh Yagnik

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Lying in Familial Relationships as Portrayed in Domestic Sitcoms Since the Recession: An Examination of Family Structure and Economic Class , Nancy Bressler

Cross-Border Film Production: The Neoliberal Recolonization of an Exotic Island by Hollywood Pirates , Anthony Frampton

Laughing at American Democracy: Citizenship and the Rhetoric of Stand-Up Satire , Matthew Meier

Measurements of Media Reputation of Firms , Xiaoqun Zhang

Dissertations from 2013 2013

Nomadic Subjectivity and Muslim Women: A Critical Ethnography of Identities, Cultures, and Discourses , Marne Leigh Austin

Knowledge, Cultural Production, and Construction of the Law: An Ideographic Rhetorical Criticism of Copyright , Suzanne Berg

Negotiating Roma Identity in Contemporary Urban Romania: an Ethnographic Study , Anca Birzescu

Breast Cancer in the Media: Agenda-Setting and Framing Effects of Prevalent Messages on College-Aged Women , Sarah Henize

Come a Little Closer: Examining Spillover Priming Effects from a Network Perspective , David Morin

The Making of Laborer Subjectivity and Knowledge in the Information Industry: Gender Dimensions of Free and Open Source Development , Yeon Ju Oh

An Examination of Relationships Between Exposure to Sexually Explicit Media Content and Risk Behaviors: A Case Study of College Students , Alexandru Stana

Torture Survivor Advocacy Nonprofits and Representation on the Internet: The Case of Freedom From Torture , Sean Watkins

Relational Communication about Religious Differences among In- Laws: A Case Study about the Quality and Health of In-Law Relationships in Orthodox Christian Families , Anastasia Widmer

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Patient-Centered Care and Mindfulness in Hospice Volunteer Communication Experiences , Laura Cooley

The Effects of Body Ideal Profile Pictures and Friends' Comments on Social Network Site Users' Body Image: A SIDE Model Approach , Mark Flynn

The Sports Mall of America: Sports and the Rhetorical Construction of the Citizen-Consumer , Cory Hillman

The Logic of Ironic Appropriation: Constitutive Rhetoric in the Stewart/Colbert Universe , Christopher Medjesky

Only God Knows the Opposition We Face: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Free Methodist Women’s Quest for Ordination , Christy Ellen Mesaros-Winckles

Manufacturing Identity: Peasant Workers' Spatial Production in China , Kang Sun

The Media is the Weapon: The Enduring Power of Balkan War (Mis)Coverage , Christian Vukasovich

Digitizing Third World Bodies: Communicating Race, Identity, and Gender through Online Microfinance/A Visual Analysis , Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey

The Rhetorical Uses of Multiculturalism: An Ideographic Analysis of the European Union and Macedonian Discourses in the Dialogue for EU Accession , Linda Ziberi

Dissertations from 2011 2011

YouTubing Difference: Performing Identity in Online Do-It-Yourself Communities , Samara Anarbaeva

Sugar, Salt, and Fat: Michelle Obama's Rhetoric Concerning the Let's Move! Initiative, Binary Opposition, Weight Obsession, and the Obesity Paradox , Jenny A. Armentrout

Isolated Incidents or Deliberate Policy? Media Framing of U.S. Abu Ghraib and British Detainee Abuse Scandals During the Iraq War , Ramune Braziunaite

The Virtual Hand: Exploring the Societal Effects of Video Game Industry Business Models , Mark Cruea

Negotiating Gendered Expectations: The Basic Social Processes of Women in the Military , Manda Hicks

Constructing the End: Framing and Agenda-setting of Physician-assisted Suicide , Kyle Holody

Tracing the Path of Power through the Fluidity of Freedom: The Art of Parkour in Challenging the Relationship of Architecture and the Body and Rethinking the Discursive Limits of the City , Matthew D. Lamb

As Seen on TV: Brand Placement and Its Influence on the Identity of Emerging Adults , Brittany Rowe-Cernevicius

Communicating Support: Where and how Army Spouses Seek Community , Brigit Talkington

Religious Media Use And Audience's Knowledge, Attitude, And Behavior: The Roles Of Faith Motivation, Program Appeals, And Dual Information Processing , Kisung Yoon

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Millennial Students Relationship with 2008 Top 10 Social Media Brands via Social Media Tools , Alisa L. Agozzino

Re-Producing Masculinities on YouTube: A Cyberethnography of the MighTMenFTM Channel , Brett Billman

Style Matters: Worship Preferences of University Students Regarding the use of Music and Technology , Daniel D. Fultz

Internet Technology Use and Economic Development: A Case Study of the Rural Population of Ihiala Village in Southeastern Nigeria , Primus Chuks Igboaka

I've Got a Story to Tell: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness and Narrative Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Census Categories , Candice J. LeFlore-Munoz

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College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) senior theses can be archived in the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue online library . Honors theses are a permanent part of the University’s intellectual legacy. Deep Blue makes these works accessible to the scholarly community for the long term, providing a single, permanent URL for reference. Please use the information below as reference to search for past Communication and Media senior theses in the library database.

Ava Ben-David : Can’t Get Off the Kishkes: Unpacking Jewish Representations in Seinfeld

Adviser: Hollis Griffin

Reilly Buckley : “It’s About All of Us”: Discussions of Race and Racism in Children's Television Post-George Floyd

Adviser: Hollis Griffin

Calista Clouse : Waves of Division?: How Podcasts Fuel Political Disinformation and Polarization in Partisan Media

Adviser: Brian Weeks

Qingyu Dai : Contentious and Clashing Feminism---Unpacking the Bot-Mediated Feminist Discourses on Weibo

Adviser: Cara Wallis

Gabrielle Gjerding : “Sex Sells,” But at What Cost? The Impact of Sexualized Instagram Beauty Advertisements on Women’s Body Satisfaction and Self-Objectification

Adviser: Sonya Dal Cin

Austin Knapp Rueffer : The Desire to be Desired: A Socio-Linguistic Understanding of Gay Men’s Perpetuation of Hookup Culture

Adviser: Holllis Griffin

Thejas Varma : Identity and Belonging: South Asian Americans Navigating K-pop Industry and Fandom

Adviser: Jimmy Draper

Muziyi Wang : Choose to Chore? A Sentiment Study over Audiences on TikTok #Housewife Influncers’ Vlog

Adviser: Yanna Krupnikov

Remi Zhang : Deconstructing Beauty Ideals: Presentation of Beauty on Douyin and Young Chinese Women's Perspectives

Adviser: Scott Campbell

Yiheng Zhang : Cyber Impressions: The Impact of Social Media Dynamics on International College Student Vloggers

Adviser: Hang Lu

Dalton Barthold : Inflating the Monster: The Systematic Co-Optation, Commodification, and Colonization of Critical Race Theory in the News Media -- A Critical Analysis of CRT News Coverage

Adviser: Jamie Moshin

Eleveny Shiyi Chen : The Era of the Great Schism: Is Liberal-Conservative Still a Valid Ideological Categorization in American Society? Adviser: Josh Pasek

Keyin (Chloe) Fan : Influencer Femininity on the Chinese Social Media Platform Red

Nina A. Fazio : A Whole New Ball Game: Media Coverage of Male and Female Professional Athletes Following Public Mental Health Disclosures Adviser: Jimmy Draper

Yuewei Gao : Uses and Gratifications of "A Day in the Life of a College Student" Vlogs

Adviser: Kristen Harrison

Samantha M. Gay : The American Fairytale of A Black Male Athlete: Investigating the Characterization of Black Male Athletes in American Sports and Entertainment Media

Adviser: Devon Powers

Julia Goldish : Abortion! Abortion! Read All About It!: News Coverage of Abortion After the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Decision

Jingjing (Jenny) Han : The Optimal Timbre for Advertisements’ Background Music: Examine the Causality Between Timbre and Ad Viewers’ Cognitive and Emotional Reactions

Ethan Jensen : Collective Action and State Intervention: The Attempted Rail Strike of 2022

Shujun Li : BM or BMI? Cross-Platform Comparison: Brandy Melville and Its Effects on Female College Students’ Self-Evaluation of Body Image

Yilin Sun : Beauty in RED: How Social Media Influencers Construct Aesthetic Norms of Chinese Women

Rowena Tang : Flow Theory in Digital Media Platform: What is affecting your watching experience?

Adviser: Jan van Den Bulck

Ruowen Wang : "Defending the Water and Mother Earth": Indigenous Anti-Pipeline Campaigns on Twitter

Jaewoo Yim : Authenticity is Key: The Relationship between Perceived Brand Authenticity and Customer-Based Brand Equity in Fashion Retail

Adviser: Scott Campbell

Aiyla Arif : Fan Perception of Athlete Activism on Instagram

Adviser: Sitong Guo

Barbara Collins: Political Participation and Work Style: Changes in Civic Engagement

Adviser: Josh Pasek

Princess Ewang : Who is Guilty and Who is Innocent?: An Experimental Study of Drug Depiction in Media and Blame Placement on Racial Groups

Rachel Pordy : Fashion for a Select Few: The Role of Stereotyping and Underrepresentation of Plus-Size Fashion in The Media

Rachel Rollman : The Anthropocene: The Fate of All of Humanity Relies on a Sustainable Diet

Advisers: Sol Hart and Scott Campbell

Kayleah Son : Distortion in Democratic Discourse: How Deepfakes Impact Individual Truth-Bias in Disinformation Detection

Eliz Akgun : The Paradox of Mindfulness-Meditation Applications: A Path for Solitude in the Digital Age

Juliana Braga Beduschi : “Beauty Knows No Boundaries:”Bathing Suits, Beauty, and Black Lives Matter in the 2020 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

Marie Louise Grace : Originalism and Our Media; A Supreme Court Case Analysis

Adviser: Faith Sparr

Valerie Le : Young Queer Asian American Engagement with Media Representations

Daniela Lugo : The Misrepresentation of Women of Color in the Fashion Industry and its Effects on Women of Color

Daniela Mirell : Fighting for Racial Equality in a World of Gender Inequality: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Newspapers’ Coverage of Professional Athletes and Social Justice in 2020

Madison Mueller : Post Social Media Use Guilt, Predispositions, and Motivations: A Correlational Study

Madeline Mustion : Media Portrayal Interpretation of Mental Health and Masculinity for Male Athletes at the University of Michigan

Clare Elizabeth Oliver-DiPaola : Brand affinity: Consumer reception of physically disabled models and prosthetics in fashion advertising

Joseph Kyuhyun Sim : Online Support Networks and Attitudes Towards Substance Abuse and Eating Disorders

Jiatong Song : User Behaviors and Attitudes towards Short-video Platforms and Live Streaming–A Case Study of Douyin

Elizabeth Williams : News in 280 Characters: Examining Political News Social Media Posts

Ellery Benson : #Ad: The Effects of Explicit and Stealth Branding on Instagram on Attitudes Towards Health Influencers and Brands Adviser: Kristen Harrison

Marialaura Garcia : Title missing

Adviser: Caitlin Lawson

Hannah Hansen : Is Orange the New Black?: Investigating Fictional Character Portrayals and Real World Prison Reform Perceptions

Adviser: Jan Van den Bulck

Mary Jo Kelly : Title missing

Anna S. Lear : How the Nature of Sportswear Advertising Affects Consumer Values and Brand Perceptions

Adviser: Ariel Hasell

Callie Lisee : Not Your Average Hero: Trauma, Fatherhood, and Complex Masculinities in Video Games

Adviser: Susan Douglas

Xinyuan Luo : Young Women's Attitudes Towards Chinese Beauty Apps

Kayla R. Waterman : The new norm?: Descriptive norms of online expression on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat

Ziyuan Zhang : Beyond liking and subscribing: How college women perceive and navigate their relationships with beauty YouTubers

Fangwei Zhao : Imagination of Mobile Media Through Advertising: Thematic Analysis of 4G and 5G Ads in China and the US

Amber Bates - A Hostile Online Environment: Toxic Masculinity and Aggression Resulting from Unregulated YouTube Content

Adviser: Muniba Saleem

Tia Burton - “Are you Afro-Latina because you’re wearing an afro?”: Identifying Constructions of Afro-Latinidad, an Intersectional Identity, in American Media

Jaqcueline Delgado - Queer Latina Representation in the Media

Sydney Foy - When Will They #BelieveHer?: The Role of Partisanship and Framing of Sexual Misconduct in the News

Adele Gendron - “Brighten myself back up a bit” : 13 Reasons Why, Conversation and Reaching Out

Allie Koestler - Don’t Skip the Ad: Evaluating the Influence of Empowering YouTube Advertisements on Self-Help Content

Katherine Mercer - #AerieFAKE?: Exploring the impact of commodity feminism on young female audiences

Bashair Pasha - #RepresentationMatters: Effects of Muslim Media Portrayals on Muslim American College Students

Mekenna Eisert : #13ReasonsWhy: Understanding Suicide Interpretations in Today's Media Atmosphere

Ellie Homant : LGBTQ-Tube: The Construction of an Authentic and Expert Self in Beauty Videos by LGBTQ-Identified YouTubers

Adviser: Katherine Sender

McKinley Horwitz : Through the Altered Looking Glass: How Social Pressures on Instagram Influence Female Users' Self-Perception

Kelsye Hurt : Eating in the Digital Age: Students' Food Choices, Consumer Behavior, and Food App Usage

Emily Johanson : Making Meaning Out of Marvel: Exploring How Fan Perceptions of & Interactions with the Actor Influence Use of the Superhero Charachter in Fan Practices

Ian Leach : Elite Bird Watching: Evaluating Newspaper Sourcing of Barack Obama's and Donald Trump's Presidential Tweets

Ramia Mitchell : Consistently #TeamNatural: How Natural Hair Brands Intersect Natural Hair, Black Culture, and Community-Building Using Social Media

Adviser: Andre Brock

Xiaolei Wang : Do You Trust Doctors?: Framing and Blame Attribution in Medical News Stories

Sara Benson : Google Misconduct: Implications of Digital Media for Juror Impartiality

Emily Harmon : Social Media Screening and Job Hiring: Comparing Applicant Concerns about Facebook and LinkedIn

Adviser: Muzammil Hussain

Lindsay Hurwitz : Can’t Stop Watching: The Emotional Implications of Binge Watching

Emily Levy : From “Ew” to “Oh!”: Study of Graphic Images and Desensitization on Twitter

Adviser: Jan Van den Bulck

Danielle Litwak : R.I.P. SOPA: A Critical Analysis of the Discourse Surrounding the 2011 Failed Legislation

Joanna McKelvey : Sex Q & A: Sexual Health Content in Print and Online Advice Platforms in 2006 and 2016

Eli Scheinholtz : BuzzFed: How Digital News Quality Affects Candidate Knowledge and Preferences

Adviser: Josh Pasek

Gabrielle Wesseldyk : (Don’t) Do it for the Gram: Upward Social Comparison, Self-Discrepancy and Body Shame among College-Aged Instagram Users

Jenna Wilamowski : Imagine That!: Implications of Posting to the Imagined Audience on Facebook for User Behavior and Attitude

Amie Diamond : Explaining Users’ Attitudes Toward Online Targeted Advertising: The Roles of User and Advertisement Characteristics

Madeleine Kimble : Online Gendered Harassment and Violence: Naming the Harm and Punishing the Behavior

Jacquelyn Goldman : Docusoap Celebrities: Attributes That Lead to Success Beyond Reality Television

Marjorie McCurry : Can Happiness Buy Money? The Implication of Emotion on Donations to Humanitarian Causes Through Video Advertisements

Ellen Wagner : Can Tweeting about Television Shows Build Social Capital? Evidence From a Novel Approach

Adviser: Joshua Pasek

Gia Tammone : Not Sanctioned by the State: Radical Criminals, the Press, and the Twentieth Century

Adviser: Derek Vaillant

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Communication and Media Studies

Master of Arts (MA)

Thesis-based program

Program overview.

This graduate program offered by the Department of Communication, Media and Film invites students to pursue their academic interests in the critical study of communication and media. We offer a dynamic environment, a community of students from around the world, and a faculty dedicated to fostering a setting where students can reach their full academic potential.

We also offer interdisciplinary scholarship and rigorous theoretical and methodological grounding, and encourage students to develop unique programs of study that reach beyond the boundaries of traditional academic subjects.

Our approach is primarily qualitative, producing research with a tangible impact for diverse communities.

Completing this program

Core Courses: Topics include interdisciplinary approaches to communication and media studies, communication theory and research methods.
Thesis: Students will be required to submit and defend an original research thesis.
Additional Courses: Topics may include critical media studies, communication infrastructure, environmental communication issues, media and politics and more.

Academic careers; private sector: communication/media/film related companies, companies dependent on digital media, wifi services; public sector: non-profit organizations, government positions dependent on digital communication.

A master’s degree in communication and media studies will give you the pre-requisite for a PhD.

Students are required to prepare a thesis and successfully defend in an open oral defense.

Three core courses and three electives

Learn more about program requirements in the Academic Calendar

Classroom delivery

Time commitment.

Two years full-time; three years part-time; four years maximum

A supervisor is required, but is not required prior to the start of the program

See the Graduate Calendar for information on fees and fee regulations, and for information on awards and financial assistance .

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Learn about faculty available to supervise this degree. Please note: additional supervisors may be available. Contact the program for more information.

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Gregory Taylor

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Admission Requirements

A minimum of 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 point system, over the past two years of full-time study (a minimum of 10 full-course equivalents or 60 units) of the undergraduate degree.

Minimum education

A completed four year baccalaureate degree in Communications Studies, Culture Studies or related field.

Work samples

Two samples of written work.

A statement of research intent (250-500 words)
A detailed curriculum vitae

Reference letters

Test scores, english language proficiency (elp).

An applicant whose primary language is not English may fulfill the English language proficiency requirement in one of the following ways:

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iB T including TOEFL iBT Home Edition) minimum score of 86 (Internet-based, with no section less than 20).
International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 6.5 (with no section less than 6.0).
Cambridge C1 Advanced or Cambridge C2 Proficiency minimum score of 180.
Pearson Test of English (PTE) score of 59 or higher
Canadian Academic English Language test (CAEL) overall score of 70 (no section less than 60).
Academic Communication Certificate (ACC) minimum of B+ in each course.
Duolingo English Test obtaining a minimum score of 125 (with no sub-score below 105).

*Please contact your program of interest if you have any questions about ELP requirements.

For admission on September 1:

Canadians and permanent residents: Dec. 1 application deadline
International students: Dec. 1 application deadline

If you're not a Canadian or permanent resident, or if you have international credentials, make sure to learn about international requirements

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MASTER'S IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Program information.

College: Communication & Information Degree: Limited Access: Yes Contact: Natashia Hinson-Turner, Graduate Coordinator Address: School of Communication Suite 3100, University Center C, FSU P.O. Box 3062664 Tallahassee, FL USA 32306-2664 Phone: (850)-644-5034 Email: [email protected]

Connecting, Creating, Growing

A graduate degree in Communication could help to transform your career. The School of Communication’s Media and Communication Studies Master’s Program is designed for graduate students interested in studying communication theory, research, analysis, media content, and media effects. Our program offers two tracks .

The thesis/creative project track is for students interested in getting involved in discovery through doing their own research. This track is encouraged if the student desires to later pursue a terminal degree in communication.
The coursework track is for students who want to learn as much as they can about what is going on in the discipline from the research and writings of various scholars in the field.

Both tracks offer theoretical and practical knowledge that can help students begin or shore up a career in communication or communication-related professions. We also offer a School-wide Ph.D. in Communication where students can choose to obtain a terminal degree in their area of interest with the support of highly esteemed and award-winning teaching and research scholars.

Excited by the possibility of becoming a research analyst, project director, station manager, or other communication professional? Join our progressive faculty and prepare yourself for a variety of careers in the dynamic field of communication with a master’s degree in Media and Communication Studies (MCS).

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Program's Overview

Program structure.

Minimum of 33-36 hours of coursework; usually requires 4 semesters to complete
Creative project, thesis or courses-only option

Program Objective

The Media and Communication Studies program is designed for students interested in studying communication interactions in society, including communication theory, research, analysis, and media content and effects. Check out the MCS Courses page to find out more out courses and Sample Program of Study to view a sample program. Upon completion of the program, students obtain a Master’s in Communication.

Career Opportunities

The program prepares students for positions in media, communication agencies, or other political, social, and public sector organizations. The program also serves as preparation for doctoral work in communication, leading to a teaching or research position.

Benefits and Skills

Introduction to theory, research methods, history, and contemporary social issues pertaining to the following:

Human communication, such as social interaction and gender studies
Political communication, rhetoric, and persuasion
Mass media criticism, policy, processes, and effects
Application of theories of communication studies, rhetoric, and mass communication, using various research methods
Analysis of content and effects of traditional and new media
Development of tools for analyzing communication campaigns: political, public, and advocacy
Creation of digital media

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Program's courses.

Courses in the Media and Communication Studies program are broken into Foundation Courses, Concentration Courses, Cognate Courses and a Capstone Experience. The program consists of 33-36 credit hours taken over two years: 33 credit hours for a program that includes a capstone experience and 36 credit hours for the courses-only option. Courses are designed to prepare students for a variety of careers in the dynamic field of communication.

The following course list is meant to give a general overview of the program. A specific plan based on student interest will be developed with an advisor after admission to the program. Students may choose to focus their program based on their personal area of interest. For an example of a typical student course load during the program, please see the sample program .

Foundation Courses

All students must take Analysis of Communication Theory (COM 5401) and then choose one of the following research courses:

COM 5312 — Communication Research Methods
COM 5348 — Qualitative Methods
COM 5340 — Historical Critical Methods
SPC 6236 — Contemporary Rhetorical Theory & Criticism

Concentration Courses

(Choose 4-5 courses)

Although most concentration courses will come from this list, it is not a comprehensive list of all courses offered. To see a how a concentration area might be developed, please see the sample program .

MMC 6469 — Communication and Change: Diffusion of Innovations
RTV 5702 — Communication Regulation and Policy
RTV 5325 — Documentary Video Production
COM 5364 — Foundations of Digital Media
COM 6015 — Gender and Communication
COM 5340 — Historical-Critical Methods
MMC 5600 — Mass Communication Theory and Effects
COM 5426 — Media, Culture, and the Environment
RTV 5253 — New Communication Technology Theory and Research
COM 5546 — Political Communication
COM5646 — Political Economy of Media
SPC 6236 — Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
COM 5348 — Qualitative Research Methods
COM 5545 — Studies in Persuasion
MMC 5305 — Systems of Mass Communication
SPC 6306 — Topics in Interpersonal Communication

Please see the Graduate Bulletin for specific course descriptions.

Cognate/Minor Area

Students are required to pursue a cognate or minor area that relates to or enhances their program. Students are strongly encouraged to explore areas in departments across the university. Possible areas from which to select cognate courses include the following:

African Studies
Studies in Aging
American Studies
Asian Studies
Classical Greek Studies
Criminology & Criminal Justice
Digital Video Production Certificate
Educational psychology/research
Gender Studies
Geography & World Systems
Hispanic Marketing Communication Certificate
Information Science
Integrated Marketing Communication
International Affairs
Peace & Conflict Studies
Political Economy
Political Science
Religious Studies
Social Psychology
Sociology of the Family
Theater Studies

Capstone Experience

Students select one of three options to complete the master’s program: Capstone Creative Project, Thesis or Courses-Only Option.

Capstone Creative Project

This creative project should represent a student’s complete mastery of the skills and knowledge covered in his or her program of studies.

Sample Creative Projects:

Some examples can include but aren’t limited to:

The student may choose to produce, direct, and edit a documentary video.
The student may choose to produce, write, and direct one or more episodes of a news or public affairs program.
A student who has expertise in web design may create a website.
The student may develop a marketing and communication campaign (must include design elements).
The student may write a screenplay or adaptation of a novel.
The student may create a script for a theater performance.

For more information, download the guidelines here .

The goal of a master’s thesis is to add to our general knowledge about communication. This goal can be reached in two ways: (1) conducting research, providing analysis or offering critical evaluation of an original topic; or (2) replicating previous research, providing a fresh analysis, or offering a new critical evaluation of a topic in light of recent developments in communication scholarship. The thesis option is highly recommended for those who intend to pursue advanced graduate studies.

Courses-Only Option

In place of the capstone experience, students may complete additional coursework in the MCS area.

Certificate Programs

Students are encouraged to consider the following certificate programs:

Certificate in Digital Video Production
Certificate in Multicultural Marketing Communication
Certificate in Project Management

Graduate Admissions

Application deadlines.

Fall admission -- April 1
Spring admission -- November 1
Summer admission -- March 1
Doctoral program -- December 15

Application Requirements

Florida state university graduate admission requirements.

Complete and submit the University Admissions Office's Online Application Form.
Pay a non-refundable application fee of $30. Application packets will not be reviewed until the fee has been paid.
Submit a completed Residency Affidavit . All applicants must submit this form, which is completed online.
Arrange for an official transcript from each college or university attended to be sent to the Office of Admissions. Transcripts may be sent digitally, but must come directly from the institutions attended. An unofficial transcript may be uploaded for the School of Communication for review.

NOTE: As of July 8, 2019, the GRE requirement will be waived for outstanding Master's applicants meeting at least ONE of the following criteria:

A completed Master's, JD, MD, PhD, or other comparable terminal degree with a GPA of 3.0 or higher from a North American accredited institution.
Five years of professional communication-related experience and a 3.0 or higher upper‐division undergraduate GPA from a North American accredited institution.
FSU undergraduate communication majors (main campus) with an upper‐division communication GPA of 3.6 or higher and an overall GPA of 3.6 or higher.

Applicants must provide evidence to satisfy the criteria being applied. To request a waiver, complete the online Entrance Exam Waiver Request Form. Applicants with a competitive GRE score will still be able to apply to the program and will not be held to these additional criteria.

Otherwise, the minimum GRE scores for potential Master's students are 148 for the Verbal component and 144 for the Quantitative component; however, the GRE is just one aspect of the overall file. All application materials are reviewed holistically, and strong consideration is given to other components such as GPA, personal statement, letters of recommendation, related field experience, etc.

School of Communication Graduate Admission Requirements

An excellent undergraduate academic record, from accredited universities, to include a minimum 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale). In addition, doctoral applicants should have a minimum of a 3.3 in their master's degree work.
Three letters of recommendation.
What are your career goals; that is, what do you plan to be doing in five years and in 10 years?
Why have you chosen to apply to our master's or doctoral program?
What experiences and competencies make you a strong candidate for our program (research skills, computer literacy, teaching experience, awards, etc.)?
A resume or writing sample (optional for master's students; required for doctoral students).

Additional requirements for international students:

Provide proof of proficiency in both spoken and written English language: An international applicant whose native language is not English, or who has not completed a degree at an English-language university, must have taken the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) exam (or FSU Graduate School approved alternative test) within the past five years. The Educational Testing Service administers this test. For more information: ets.org/toefl
Provide Certification of Financial Responsibility. This required form may be downloaded online or requested from the university. NOTE: The completed CFR is submitted to the International Center. Instructions and address are on the form.

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Questions about school admission requirements:, questions about university admissions requirements:, questions about communication graduate programs:, questions about doctoral programs:, program's faculty.

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Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs

Clayton, Russell B.

Associate Professor, Distinguished Teaching Professor

Houck, Davis

Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies

Jordan Jackson, Felecia F.

Laurents, Michelle

Teaching Professor

Nudd, Donna Marie

Proffitt, Jennifer

Theodore Clevenger Professor in Communication

Sample Program

The Media and Communication Studies Program consists of 33-36 credit hours taken over two years. The following sample program is offered as an example of a student’s course load for the duration of the program. Students are given a great deal of flexibility to design a program of study that best meets their educational and career goals. A specific plan based on student interest will be developed with an advisor after admission to the program.

Fall Semester

Requirement: Analysis of Communication Theory (COM 5401) Requirement: Communication Research Methods (COM 5312) Concentration: Student choice — see examples below Cognate: Student choice — see examples on MCS Courses page

Spring Semester

Concentration: Student choice – see examples below Concentration: Student choice – see examples below Cognate or Concentration: Student choice Cognate: Student choice — see examples on MCS Courses page

Summer Semester

Concentration: Student choice – see examples below Cognate: Student choice — see examples on MCS Courses page Capstone Experience: Student choice

Additional Coursework: Students may choose the course work only option in place of the capstone experience by completing six hours of MCS coursework in addition to their concentration area.

Capstone Experience: Creative Project or Thesis Generally the capstone experience is begun in the fall of the second year. Depending on the capstone choice, it may be completed the same semester or completed in the spring. For details on the various capstone experience options please see the MCS Courses page.

Examples of Concentration Courses

Students, with assistance from committee members, will select 12 to 15 hours of concentration courses in a specific area of media and communication studies (taught by one of the Media and Communication Studies faculty). For instance, students interested in media studies might be advised to take classes in media regulation and policy, media effects, and audience analysis. Students interested in politics and communication might be advised to take classes in rhetoric, persuasion, and political communication. Students interested in creating media content might be advised to take classes in digital video production and new communication technologies.

To give students a sense of how a concentration area might be developed, we offer a few examples:


MMC6489:Communication and Change: Diffusion of Innovations	RTV5702: Communication Regulation and Policy	RTV5253: New Communication Technology: Theory & Research
RTV5253: New Communication Technology: Theory & Research	SPC5545: Studies in Persuasion	COM5314: Measurement of Listener-Viewer Attitudes and Responses
RTV6425: Advocacy Video Production	RTV6425: Advocacy Video Production	COM5316: Statistical Methods in Communication
COM6400: Foundations of Digital Video Production	COM6400: Media, Culture and the Environment	COM6400: Qualitative Research Methods
COM5325: Documentary Video Production	COM6400: Gender and Communication	ADV5505: Media Market Research

  Can I earn the degree completely online?

No. Currently we do not offer an online degree.

Do I have to take the GRE and what are the required scores?

FSU has implemented a GRE waiver for all Master’s applicants for all application terms in 2022-2026. Typically though, a GRE score is needed unless the student meets the GRE waiver requirements as stipulated below. Minimum GRE scores considered for the program are 148 verbal and 144 quantitative.

As of July 8, 2019, the GRE requirement will be waived for outstanding Master’s applicants meeting at least ONE of the following criteria:

A completed Master’s, JD, MD, PhD, or other comparable terminal degree with a GPA of 3.0 or higher from a North American accredited institution.
Five years of professional communication-related experience and a 3.0 or higher upper‐division undergraduate GPA from a North American accredited institution.
FSU undergraduate communication majors (main campus) with an upper‐division communication GPA of 3.6 or higher and an overall GPA of 3.6 or higher.

What English language proficiency tests do you accept and what are the required scores?

The School of Communication accepts the following tests and minimum scores.

TOEFL	IELTS	Cambridge English Scale	Michigan Assessment Level	Duolingo
100	7	190	72	120

How much does it cost?

For up-to-date costs, please see the FSU Tuition & Fees page,  https://studentbusiness.fsu.edu/tuition-fees

Do you offer assistantships/funding?

The School of Communication offers several assistantships to graduate students in the fall, spring and summer semesters. For more information about assistantships, please visit: https://comm.cci.fsu.edu/about-the-school/financial-aid/assistantships/

How long to complete the program?

We recommend students take three classes each semester (9 credit hours). Our programs require 33 – 36 credit hours depending on the chosen capstone project (PIMC requires 36 for all capstone options). Following these guidelines, a student can finish their program in 4 semesters.

What are the capstone options and do I have to write a thesis?

In PIMC the capstone options are courses-only, creative project, or thesis (all options require 36 credit hours). In MCS, capstone options are courses-only (36 credit hours), creative project (33 credit hours), or thesis (33 credit hours).  In IMC, capstone options are courses-only (36 credit hours), residency (33 credit hours), creative project (33 credit hours), or thesis (33 credit hours).

What is the difference between an MA and MS?

Students who received a BA degree also qualify for the MA degree so you have the option to select the MS or MA degree.

Students who received a BS degree will need to take additional language courses to qualify for a MA, but qualify for a MS degree without taking any additional courses.

Please see below the BULLETIN’s description of the Master of Arts requirements.

Graduate Bulletin:

“In addition to the requirements for the MS, candidates for the Master of arts degree must meet the following requirements.

Proficiency in a foreign language demonstrated by certification by the appropriate language department, or completion of twelve (12) semester hours in a foreign language with an average grade of at least 3.0 (“B”), or four years of a single language in high school.
Six (6) or more semester hours of graduate credit in one or more of the following fields: art; classical language, literature, and civilization; communication; (not to include speech correction); english; history; humanities; modern languages and linguistics; music; philosophy; religion; and theatre.”

Who should write my letters of recommendation?

The best letters of recommendation are written by instructors with whom you have had one or more classes. Choose someone who knows you and your work well and who can honestly speak of your strengths. 

I was not a Communication major do I need to take prerequisites?

No, we do not require prerequisites to starting the major area of study for our graduate programs. 

Can I have the application fee waived?

No, the application fee of $30 cannot be waived.

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Major in Communication
Academic Opportunities

The Communication Thesis

An honors or ComPS thesis allows students to take a deep dive into their chosen research topic, learning how to ask and answer big questions about our world.

Senior Honors theses and Communication and Public Service (ComPS) Capstone theses offer Senior Comm Majors an exciting intellectual opportunity to thoroughly investigate a Comm-related subject of their choice. Annenberg provides unique support to thesis students through the required two-semester Honors/ComPS Thesis Seminar and one-on-one mentorship by two faculty members. Thesis projects often serve as a qualifying experience for graduate education or, equally, may offer important evidence to employers of your skills in research and analytical thinking.

Senior Comm Majors’ thesis projects can be quantitative (e.g., surveys, experiments, content analyses) or qualitative (e.g., interviews, focus groups, textual analyses) research. Prior theses have focused on a wide range of communication topics including:

Emotional chatbots and loneliness
Mental health and children’s TV
A comparison of Boomer and Millennial political rhetoric
Diva worship on Twitter
Street art at the US/Mexico border wall
Understanding of social media privacy policies
U.S. hurricane news coverage
The U.S. immigration debate
And many more Comm-related topics!

Copies of previous theses are available for review in the Annenberg Library .

Interested students should contact Dr. Kim Woolf , Academic Advisor and Research Director, Undergraduate Studies.

The thesis is a two-semester course for Communication majors, taken during the senior year.

During the first semester, students write a research proposal that includes a literature review and detailed methodology.
During the second semester, students conduct data collection and analysis and write the results and discussion to complete the thesis describing this work.

Students work with two professors throughout the course — a designated faculty supervisor and a thesis seminar supervisor — and receive one advanced course credit toward the Communication major for each semester completed.

Communication majors are strongly encouraged, though not required, to complete a thesis. On average, 15 to 20 percent of all majors write a thesis.

General Requirements

The thesis is a two semester course. Students are required to successfully complete both semesters of the course to complete the thesis.
Obtain a faculty supervisor
Obtain written certification from the faculty supervisor that the student has the required technological and editing skills needed
Notify Dr. Kim Woolf of their intention to complete a documentary thesis
The thesis must be original work not completed in a previous course or undertaken in a current course outside the thesis seminar. In some cases, the thesis may continue work initiated in an Independent Study or in COMM 395 completed prior to the fall semester of senior year. Prior written approval by both thesis supervisors is required to ensure that an appropriate amount of new research is conducted for the thesis.
Studies may be quantitative (e.g., surveys, experiments, content analyses) or qualitative (e.g., interviews, focus groups, textual analyses of magazines, TV shows, speeches, etc.).

Eligibility for the Thesis

Annenberg offers two undergraduate thesis options with different eligibility requirements:

Honors Thesis Eligibility

By the end of the junior year, students must have achieved a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50 in all University of Pennsylvania courses.
By the end of the junior year, students must have completed the research methods requirement for the Comm major.
Students' academic records to date should be predictive of success in a program that requires excellent time management, organizational, and intellectual skills.
Students with outstanding incompletes are not eligible.
Students must maintain a 3.50 cumulative GPA through the end of the first semester of senior year AND obtain a grade of B+ or higher in the first semester of the thesis seminar. Students who fail to meet the eligibility requirements at the end of the first semester thesis course may not enroll in the second semester thesis course, but will receive one advanced credit towards the Communication major for the first semester.

Note: Eligibility for the Honors thesis does not guarantee a degree in Communication with Honors. To obtain Honors, students must complete all major requirements, achieve a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher in all University of Pennsylvania courses at the conclusion of coursework, and earn a grade of A- or higher for the completed thesis in the second semester.

ComPS Capstone Thesis Eligibility

A thesis is required for all students who graduate with the ComPS designation.

Note: ComPS students who meet the requirements for a degree with Honors may designate the Capstone thesis as a Capstone Honors thesis.

Students who withdraw from the ComPS program at the end of the first semester of the thesis may continue in the second semester of the seminar only if they meet honors thesis eligibility requirements. Students who are not eligible to enroll in the second semester thesis seminar will receive one advanced credit towards the Communication major for the first semester.

“Writing a ComPS Honors thesis my senior year undoubtedly was the most rewarding experience I had throughout my four years at Penn. It taught me that when you identify a passion, through hard work and a focused effort, you can cultivate it and transform those beliefs or ideas in your head into something tangible and important. I re-read my thesis every few months and am constantly reminded of how pertinent my words still are and how proud I am that I created this body of work with Annenberg's support.” –Amanda Damon C'19, “ The Immigrant Debate in America: The Civil Rights Question of Our Time? ”

Seminar Enrollment Requirements

Requirements for enrollment in the first semester seminar comm 4797 (formerly 494).

Meet the eligibility requirements listed above.
Designated faculty supervisors may be Annenberg faculty members , secondary faculty members , or some approved lecturers . These faculty members are listed on the Annenberg website. Ideally, the faculty supervisor is one with whom you have taken one or more classes.
Students should begin the process of identifying a thesis topic and faculty supervisor during the junior year.
Submit a research topic statement approved and signed by the designated faculty supervisor (not the thesis seminar supervisor) by the second class in the Fall Semester of senior year. Failure to submit a research topic statement approved by a designated faculty supervisor will prevent enrollment in the thesis seminar.

Required Forms

Honors Thesis Topic Statement ComPS Capstone Thesis Topic Statement

Prepared in consultation with the designated faculty supervisor, the research topic statement should be approximately 3-5 pages long. It should include:

A review of relevant scholarship on the thesis topic
Research questions or hypotheses to be addressed in the thesis research
A brief description of the proposed methodology

Successful Completion of the First Semester Seminar

During proposal and thesis preparation, students will work jointly with the designated faculty supervisor and the seminar supervisor.

By the end of the first semester, all thesis students are required to submit a completed thesis proposal approved by both thesis supervisors. The proposal must include a detailed literature review and approved methodology. Completed coding manuals, experimental manipulations, questionnaires, and other instruments appropriate for the study methodology should be included in the proposal.

Applications for review of studies involving human subjects should be submitted to the Institutional Review Board in a timely manner, normally before the end of the first semester.

Requirements for enrollment in the Second Semester Seminar, COMM 4897 (formerly 495) or COMM 4997 (formerly 499)

A completed thesis proposal signed by both thesis supervisors.
Honors students must continue to maintain a 3.50 cumulative GPA and obtain a grade of B+ or higher in the first semester seminar.
ComPS thesis students must continue with the ComPS designation. Those who drop out of the ComPS program are not eligible to continue with the second semester unless they meet Honors thesis requirements.

Successful Completion of the Thesis

Students will complete the thesis on a schedule specified by the thesis seminar supervisor. Every thesis must have four main components:

Literature review (review of prior research)
Methodology
Results/Findings

There are no minimum page requirements for the thesis. The maximum length of the thesis is 100 pages, not including references or appendices. Students may apply for an exception to the maximum page limit; decisions will be made on a case by case basis. Formatting requirements will be distributed in the thesis seminar.

A thesis is not complete until all necessary revisions have been made, and both thesis supervisors have signed off on the final draft.

Additional Requirements

To successfully complete the thesis, students must also:

Meet regularly with both thesis supervisors to discuss progress toward completion
Attend all required classes and individual meetings of the thesis seminar for both semesters
Meet all deadlines laid out in the thesis course syllabus
Present the thesis at a public forum at the end of the second semester. Length, date, time and format will be determined by the thesis seminar supervisor.

Thesis Awards

The Annenberg School offers two thesis awards at graduation . Honors thesis students are eligible for the George Gerbner Award. ComPS Capstone thesis students are eligible for the Communication and Public Service (Eisenhower) Award. ComPS students who are also Honors students are eligible for both awards.

Students who submit their completed thesis on or before the final completion date set by the department are eligible to be nominated for these awards.

Past Theses

Honors and ComPS theses span a wide variety of topics. Scroll below to see thesis titles of some past students.

Lilianna Gurry C'20: “Transforming the Media Regime in 47 Volumes: The Pentagon Papers Case and the Rise of Partisan Media”

Elena Hoffman C'20: “A Good Neighbor? Examining Presidential Rhetoric on Wilsonian Foreign Policy in Central America”

Tiffany Wang C'20: “East Meets West: Evaluating the Impact of American Films on Taiwanese Political Perspectives”

Jose Carreras-Tartak C'19: “A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis and Comparison of Online U.S. Hurricane News Coverage”

Arielle Goldfine C'19: “Shaken Baby Syndrome in the Courtroom: A Rhetorical Study of Scientific Iconography and Prosecutorial Persuasion”

Nicholas Hunsicker C'19: “Yaaaaas Gaga: Diva Worship, Identity Formation, and Communities of Gay Men on Twitter”

Evangeline Giannopolous C'18: “The Comparative Effects of American and Norwegian Television Sexual Content on American Adolescent Sexual Intentions, Attitudes, and Knowledge”

Jaslyn McIntosh C'17: “Identity in the Age of Swiping: An Exploration of Identity Formation on Tinder Social”

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100 Best Media Topics For Research Writing

We know you need the best media topics for your next papers. Otherwise, why would you be reading this blog post? The good news is that you have picked the best place to look for topics. Our experienced writers have put together a list of the best media topics for high school and college students. Furthermore, we work hard to keep the list fresh. This means that these ideas will be most likely original. They will work great in 2023 because the list of media essay topics is updated periodically.

The Importance of Great Media Topics

You are probably wondering why we are putting so much emphasis on getting you the best media topics to write about. There are several reasons for it, but we will only tell you about 3 of them:

Your professor will greatly appreciate your willingness to dedicate the time and effort to finding excellent topics . Trust us, professors know how to make the difference between students based solely on the topics they choose for their papers.
It is much easier to write essays if you choose good media essays topics . A topic you know something about is the best choice. Also, a good topic enables you to quickly find plenty of information on the Internet. Following this advice you’ll easily write your literature review and the following components of your paper.
By choosing a great topic, your essay will immediately stand out from all the rest . Your professor is surely bored of reading papers written about the same things over and over again. An interesting idea will entice him to award you at least some bonus points.

Mass Media Topics

Mass media is something of great importance in modern times, so why not write your papers on some mass media topics? Here are some great examples:

The effect of mass media on psychological health
Mass media and emotional health
Mass media addiction in the US
The role of mass media in politics
The First Amendment in mass media
Promoting sexuality in mass media

Media Research Topics

Did your professor ask of you to write a research paper? No problem, we have some excellent media research topics in our list. Check them out below:

Discuss children media
Violence in mass media in the US
Video games in the media
Controversial topics in the media in Europe
Discuss post-truth in the media
Media regulations in China

Media Analysis Essay Topics for Presentation

Would you like to write a media analysis paper for a presentation? It’s not difficult to do, if you pick the right media analysis essay topics for presentation. Here are some excellent ideas:

Is the media creating events or reacting to them?
Media and public relations links
Discuss 3 major types of media
The use of media in education (one of the most interesting mass media research paper topics)
Influence of virtual reality on the media (one of the best media analysis essay topics)
Discuss journalism ethics

Media Research Paper Topics for High School

Are you a high school student looking for some awesome topic for his next research paper on media? Here are some excellent examples of media research paper topics for high school:

Major innovations in 21st century media
Compare mainstream media in India and China
What makes an outlet a reliable source?
Advertisements in media
Benefits of mass media for society
Compare traditional media with mass media

Mass Media Research Topics

If you need to write a research paper and want to talk about something in mass media, we have some very nice ideas right here. Check out our mass media research topics:

The right of expression in mass media
Journalism in mass media
Compare TV, film and radio
Mass media in democracy
The war against terror in mass media
Discuss the rise of mobile media

Media Research Topics for College Students

College students who are looking to research topics about media should choose something that can bring them a top grade. Here are our best media research topics for college students:

Influences of technology on media
Latest innovations in media
Discuss media censorship in China (a recommended media related topic)
What is media propaganda?
Mass media and its preemptive effects

Complex Media Related Research Topics

Do you want to try your hand at some difficult topics? If you want to impress your professor, we advise you to select one of these complex media related research topics:

Mass media violating civil rights
Does media benefit the economy of the US?
Define media addition and discuss its effects
Perform a qualitative analysis of 3 media outlets
Media’s scare strategies: a case study
Media influencing a rise in violence in the UK

Controversial Media Topics

Why should you be frightened by controversial topics? You are free to write about them, of course. Here are our best and most controversial media topics:

Exercising the First Amendment in media in the US
Promoting gun violence in mass media
Mass media effects on terrorism
Digital media is destroying traditional media
Artificial intelligence in mass media
Media effects on the death penalty in China

Digital Media Topics

Discussing digital media is a very good way to impress your professor. Let’s face it; the digital realm is extremely popular these days. Here are some brand new digital media topics:

Define and discuss digital media
Climate change in digital media
What is mobile media?
The fate of journalism in the 21st century (one of the best digital media research topics)
Effects of digital media on politics

Media Analysis Topics

Writing a media analysis essay can be a very difficult task, especially if you don’t have much academic writing experience. Here are some media analysis topics that should make things easier:

How Trump lost the media war
Biden’s coverage in mass media in the United States
Advertising revenue in media outlets
Analyze screen time
What are deepfakes and how to spot one?
The crisis of journalism in the 21st century

Easy Media Related Topics

The perfect choice for times when you simply cannot afford to spend too much time writing your essay, our list easy media related topics is right here:

Define mass media in the United Kingdom
Should children watch the news?
Promoting violence in mass media
Spreading awareness via media
Are newspapers still relevant today?
The very first occurrence of mass media

Research Topics in Media and Communication

Would you like to talk about media and communication? It is not an easy subject to write about, but we can make things easier. Here are the easiest research topics in media and communication:

Discuss body image in media
Analyze children’s advertising tactics
Freedom of speech in the media
Copyright law in the media
Define symmetrical dialogue in the media

Media Debate Topics

Are you interested in a media debate? Getting the best topics for 2023 should be your primary concern in this case. We have some very interesting media debate topics right here:

The impact of public relations on communities
Location-based advertising in modern media
Analyze the concept of yellow journalism
Good news vs bad news in the media
Discuss the concept of proportionality in media

Brand New Media Topics

Just like you, our writers are interested in writing about the latest topics. Why don’t you pick one of our brand new media topics?

Is radio still an important part of media?
Newspapers going bankrupt in 2023
Sexual content on TV shows
Politicians’ love for the media
Is the backing of the media important for a president?

Media Ethics Topics

Discussing ethics in relation to media is a very interesting choice. It can also get you an A+ on your next paper. Here are some exceptional media ethics topics:

Including graphic images in media
Depicting terrorism on TV
Regulating newspapers in Europe
Celebrity gossip in the media
The influence of large media corporations

Media Law Topics

Yes, there is such a thing as media law. Would you like to write an essay about it? Here are some great ideas for media law topics:

Discuss the First Amendment and media
The responsibilities of journalists
Journalists in war zones
Fake news in the media
Showing unsuitable content to children

Research Topics in Communication and Media Studies

Writing about communication and media studies has the potential to help you get a top grade. Here are our best research topics in communication and media studies:

Analyze media bias in the United States
Is digital media addictive?
Influence of media on religion

Interesting Media Topics

We know, you want the most interesting media topics to write about. Pick one of these and write a paper that will impress your professor:

State-controlled media in China
Effects of media coverage on criminal trials
The power of mass media in 2023

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Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts

Phd, media, culture, and communication, digital timber: remediating resource economies and automating sustainable futures.

Megan Wiessner

Through a study of the emerging mass timber industry in the Pacific Northwest of North America, this dissertation shows how manufacturing supply chains and resource futures are co-constituted with media technologies and the conceptual architectures that underpin them. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork following supply chains for architectural timber across Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, I demonstrate that when architectural sustainability is assessed and managed through media forms that privilege connectivity, modularity, and optimization, it becomes reimagined as an ecologistical challenge to which commodity lumber is uniquely suited. While taking those formal logics seriously, the dissertation offers a view of industrial digitization as a set of practices and beliefs inevitably grounded in older political ecologies and unfurling in their affective wake. The first chapter shows how ecological concepts, managerial systems discourse, and computational imaginaries are articulated to the Pacific Northwest’s specific history as a resource economy and to current debates over that legacy, through a reading of projects to redesign supply chains for low-carbon timber architecture. The second analyzes software for calculating carbon flows across a building’s life cycle. By showing how debates about forest management and the region’s contested history of logging materialize in data methodologies, I theorize architects and engineers’ use and development of this software as participation in a kind of distributed industrial rhetoric. My third chapter shows how, under current conditions and in relation to earlier forms of standardization developed in the forest products industry, the tools that people use to work with timber incentivize modular design and industrial automation, and thus reveals how low-carbon construction is entangled with wider industrial imperatives. My fourth chapter shows what is left out of the imaginary of the sustainable manufacturing system by constructing an alternative picture of the supply chain oriented around labor. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate how attempts to use technology to manage the built environment and to design socially productive flows of carbon tie timber into new affective, industrial, and political relations. As digital media systems and informatic imaginaries redefine sustainability as a logistical endeavor, a resource economy is remediated, revived, and reinvested with new meanings.

Digitizing Law: Legal Pluralism and Data-Driven Justice

Salwa Tabassum Hoque

States, tech-companies, and law-firms worldwide have been advocating to digitize and automate law to improve the course of justice and provide a fairer legal system. This dissertation problematizes this view by locating the harms of using digital technologies for legal decision-making support. A critical contribution of this research is expanding on the concept of legal pluralism – which decenters studying law from a Eurocentric and state-centric perspective – and applying it to study how law is mediated in the construction of digital technologies. I apply the concept of legal pluralism to note the failures of AI in the legal landscape by analyzing law as a broader category and including perspectives from alternate frameworks of justice such as Islamic legal thought and community-based justice systems. The goal is to show how these exclusions can result in unjust and prejudiced outputs (by humans and machines) that discriminate against marginalized communities, particularly Muslim women in South Asia and beyond. To demonstrate my argument, I conducted two years of ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and semi-structured interviews to examine Bangladesh’s state court and community-based non-state court called shalish to compare how law is datafied and represented in the design of two prominent technologies: 1) digital legal databases (that are used to store and retrieve data), and 2) AI Judge models (that use artificial intelligence systems to (help) generate the verdict of cases). My research demonstrates how the construction of databases and AI Judge models are not neutral, highlighting how preexisting offline social biases and modern legal epistemic frameworks of state law are reinscribed in the digitizing and automating of law; shalish, Islamic legal thinking, and rural women’s experiences of law are erased and distorted in this process. This dissertation bridges digital media studies, legal anthropology, and Bangladesh postcolonial feminist theory to show how the discriminatory outputs are tied to gendered and racialized power structures that are in part a legacy of colonialism. Dismantling the binary between online-offline spheres and studying their interdependent relationship shows how power plays a central role in the design of digital technology, and aids in reinscribing the marginalization of those who are already in the margins.

Grime Refusal: Navigating the Sounds of Crisis and Resistance Through Grime Music

Cheraine Donalea Scott

This dissertation explores the impact of Grime music on British youth culture and politics, recognizing it as a cultural force that extends beyond entertainment. Utilizing listening as a critical methodology, the study examines audible moments when Grime challenges established norms, unveiling its subversive potential within the political, social, and cultural landscape of contemporary Britain. It scrutinizes the role Grime played in the UK 2017 and 2019 general elections, serving as a significant tool for young people advocating for social change. Investigating this fusion of music and activism, the dissertation explores Grime's pivotal role in providing a platform for collective resistance, fostering community bonds, and facilitating political mobilization. Additionally, it critically analyzes the British establishment's tendency to downplay Grime's cultural relevance and its disparaging treatment of Grime artists. The study uncovers hidden influences contributing to transformative moments in Grime, exposing disparities in public discourse. It demonstrates how Grime disrupts the prevailing status quo and amplifies the voices of marginalized communities. Drawing from various academic disciplines, including British cultural studies, Black studies, visual culture, sound studies, and musicology, this interdisciplinary study employs ethnographic methods. These methods allow for an exploration of how Grime intersects with various aspects of young people's lives, challenging and reshaping societal norms across diverse dimensions such as race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.

Unsettling the Contemporary: Race, Redress, and Revolutionary Times in South African Anticolonial Visual Culture (1994 – 2021)

Anna Stielau

Unsettling the Contemporary: Race, Redress, and Revolutionary Times in South African Anticolonial Visual Culture (1994 -2021) investigates how post-apartheid artists and activists use visual media to reclaim – and remake – time itself, contending with some of the most insidious legacies of colonization. In South Africa, as elsewhere, efforts to transform institutions and remedy racial inequalities have been driven by liberal ideals of inclusion, inviting African artists into histories, archives, and museums. Drawing on 12 months of interviews, observations, and archival research, I theorize the limitations of these approaches by attending to an underlying imperial drive to arrest otherness baked into those very structures, where time has long been composed to sustain racial domination. I explore how local artists develop a more radical methodological agenda by identifying temporality as a site of persistent colonial violence, as well as a critical problem, resource, and instrument for decolonial struggle. Each chapter tracks the implementation and effects of a racialized regime of temporal capture and elaborates a set of tactics for intervening in that regime. By connecting recent scholarship in queer and media studies to mid-twentieth century anticolonial literatures, I show how the post-apartheid state homogenizes populations to one clock, forcing consensus around key issues of history, heritage, and identity even as experiences of the present diverge along race lines. I argue that local artists working in various media employ alternative strategies for organizing time – from repurposed queues to collaborations with decomposition – to restage these issues, with implications for studying race, redress, and art’s history more broadly. I locate their methods in the context of regional settler colonialism and in relation to the history and reproduction of racial inequalities, demonstrating that artistic expression in the Global South can not only engage the colonial past anew, but also envision decolonized futures. Taken together, the artists I study ultimately activate a new sense of art’s “contemporary”: ways of being, knowing, and relating that remain generatively out of synch with a homogenous national present.

Starting-Up With the State: Computing, Entrepreneurship, and the Governance of Aspiration in India

Sandeep Mertia

This dissertation examines the imaginaries, infrastructures, and practices of digital future-making at the intersections of the state and technology start-ups. The federal government’s flagship ‘Startup India’ program, launched in 2016, now has 1,00,000+ registered start-ups, many also supported by allied initiatives of state governments across small cities. Rajasthan—widely considered to be an ‘economically backward’ (Bimaru) state—set up India’s largest “Techno-Hub” in Jaipur in 2018 to incubate 700 start-ups. In addition to mentorship and monthly stipends, the state offers start-ups a dedicated platform called RajStack—India’s only “one-stop digital infrastructure” to access government Application Programming Interfaces. Based on two years of in-person and virtual ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and eighty in-depth interviews in New Delhi, Jaipur, and Jodhpur, this dissertation is the first long-term, critical study of India’s booming digital start-up ecosystem. By ethnographically studying Startup India—and its acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic—this dissertation critically investigates how narratives of digital futures are re-assembled at a human scale in postcolonial and global South contexts. Drawing on archival research at Software Technology Parks of India (est. 1991), the first section of my dissertation offers a novel history of the shifting ontologies and territorialities of computing in the global South in the period from Y2K to the “cloud.” The second section focuses on public digital infrastructures that allow the state and start-ups to interface with each other and with growing collectives of smartphone users to cultivate data and aspirational subjectivity as raw materials for future-making. The third section offers an ethnographic account of the normalization of the pandemic—which commenced as my fieldwork began—as a ‘dreamy disruption’ among entrepreneurs who leveraged remote work to re-spatialize digital futures in small cities. Mapping the growing mediascapes of start-up success stories—even as more than ninety-percent of start-ups fail—the final chapter theorizes the emergence of a digital media-enabled, post-democratic governance of aspiration in contemporary India and beyond. Bridging Media Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Anthropology, this dissertation contributes to a growing body of interdisciplinary work that seeks to expand the current geography of critical understandings of computing and digital media.

Data and Borders: Tracking Media Technologies of Migration Control in Europe

Michelle Pfeifer

Data and Borders: Tracking Media Technologies of Migration Control in Europe examines how media-technological state projects use language and algorithmic analysis for the purposes of border control in Germany and Europe. Chapter I traces the history of technological reform in response to political framings of migration as crisis by analyzing electronic registration and identification infrastructures in relation to the history of the German Central Foreigners Register. Chapter II traces the shift from expert linguistic analysis to automated language recognition used in asylum administration to demonstrate how the voice manifests as a border that extends into the nation’s spatial limits, what I call border sonics. Chapter III provides a genealogical account of sound recordings made in a German prisoner of war camp during WWI to show that the administrative, scientific, and spatial infrastructures of listening and captivity resonate in the present. Chapter IV analyzes the practice of smartphone data extraction in relation to discourses on smart borders to argue that while smart borders’ supposed immateriality is constructed as a more humane form of migration and border policing, they are coterminous with bodily and material violence. Drawing on 18 months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Europe, archival research, and critical documents, policy, and discourses analysis I demonstrate that data-driven projects that are framed as governmental reforms purportedly meant to fix the perceived crises of migration function to deepen inequalities and enhance border policing. This data-driven form of border and migration control reorders articulations of personhood, belonging, and recognition by valorizing racial and ethnic identification as means of surveillance and policing. I situate contemporary border technologies within a colonial genealogy of producing cultural and racial difference in Europe. This genealogical approach decenters temporalities of crisis and emergency and reveals the postcolonial continuities of digital border regimes. My research contributes to critical analyses of algorithmic bias and race focused on Germany and Europe and in the areas of border and migration control and, thus, sheds light on how discrimination is enhanced and reproduced through digital border policing.

Queer Enchantment: Contours, Cruising, Crystal Visions, and Other Queer Tactics for (Not) Being Seen

Harris Kornstein

This dissertation examines the intersections of queerness and surveillance capitalism, proposing “queer enchantment” as a set of tactics by which queer and transgender people have avoided, mitigated, or directly challenged observation in ways that deviate from standard discourses of privacy. Surveillance against queer and transgender individuals has historically taken many forms in the US: from the historic policing of national and municipal “decency” laws to attempts to computationally classify “deviant” gay faces, voices, and behaviors. While both mainstream LGBTQ and privacy organizations often promote values of equity, openness, and transparency in response, such approaches often fail to adequately respond to asymmetries of information, finances, and computing resources that state and corporate actors wield. Drawing on media theories of obfuscation, misuse, and refusal, I propose queer enchantment as a contrasting mode for resisting extractive forms of data collection and processing, not by concealing information, but by foregrounding practices of hyper-visibility, play, and intuition. I focus on three case studies of queer enchantment in San Francisco in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as a hub not only of Silicon Valley technology but also queer arts and activism. I draw on multiple methods including ethnographic interviews, discursive analysis of media objects and platforms, and art-practice-as-research that directly experiments with technologies. In Chapter 1, I argue that drag queens’ performative transformations (including drag makeup) offer a unique theory of information that privileges noise over signal by adding rather than withholding data. In Chapter 2, I consider how the car service Homobiles, which directly inspired ride-sharing services like Lyft, engages queer approaches to data through techniques of ignorance, ephemerality, and intimacy. In Chapter 3, I explore queer femmes’ engagement with mystical practices of tarot, astrology, and witchcraft, comparing their algorithmic and ludic qualities to digital media, arguing that these mystical practices function as alternative technologies of self-tracking and prediction, albeit rooted in intuition, agency, and doubt. Thus, rather than promoting values of “fairness, accountability, and transparency” common within critiques of computing, queer enchantment reflects on-the-ground queer tactics that overwhelm both the senses and the sensors.

Landscapes of Violence: Documentary Media, Countervisualities, and Archival Resistance on the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands

Ramon Resendiz

This dissertation examines how visual documentary media both reify and contest the imagined and material boundaries of the U.S. by analyzing settler-colonial state museums as historical archives, documentary films, and documentary media production practices. My research reveals: 1) how the culture of settler colonialism is visually encoded and sustained in everyday life; 2) the oral and storytelling practices of memory, remembrance, and resistance by Chicanx and Indigenous peoples against settler violence; and 3) how documentary filmmakers perform acts of countervisual refusals that reject settler mythologies of a Texas devoid of Mexican, Indigenous, and First Nations peoples prior to settler arrival. The first part takes a photoethnographic approach to examine the dominant settler narratives of Texas and borderlands history as visualized by state museums and public monuments, such as in San Antonio’s Historic downtown district. I demonstrate how state archival institutions co-construct and render visible the modern U.S.-Mexico border and the racial geographies of the U.S. from the Texas Revolution (1835-1836) and the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), to the passing of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and the current era of the U.S. border wall. I investigate how settler colonial discourses frame historical imaginings of terra nullius, national history, the state, and the whitewashing of violence against Indigenous peoples to literally see the borderlands as legitimate products of manifest destiny The second part discusses the works of sixteen award-winning filmmakers who expose systemic racial violence through interviews and documentary analysis. I show how these filmmakers create documentary media that resist the dominant visualities and settler narratives of state museums and monuments, foregrounding questions about production practices, politics, and professional experience. This section crystallizes the power of documentary media and the labor of cultural producers to contest state violence, especially in refuting white supremacist amnesiac processes like white replacement theory. Through my findings, I interrogate the visual and archival processes that enforce the “borders” on the material and racial geographies of Texas, the U.S., Mexico, and the borderlands. My research posits that documentary filmmakers create counternarratives that destabilize dominant conceptions of nationalism, race, and the logics of geographic borders themselves.

Kumva Meze Neza: Sounding Blackness in Rwanda

Victoria Grubbs

Twenty-seven years after the ethnic divisions of a colonial imaginary, decades of resultant civil war, and widespread genocidal violence turned ordinary Rwandan citizens collectively against themselves, Rwanda is celebrated domestically and internationally for its peace and security. In August 2017, Rwandan President Paul Kagame was re-elected for a third consecutive term with a public vision “to construct a united, democratic and inclusive Rwandan identity”. Key to this official state project of national unity is the narration and careful policing of a pre-colonial, de-ethnicized banyarwanda (people of Rwanda) identity. Despite these efforts, the production and circulation of popular music in contemporary Rwanda defies a politics of identity rooted in singular and anachronistic national origins. Alternatively, Rwandan popular music circulates feelings of blackness in the aftermath of genocide to produce the impossible condition of reconciliation. Drawing from long-term ethnographic field work amongst Rwandan music industry professionals and their audiences, this dissertation argues that collective investments in the sensory experience mobilized by Rwandan popular music result in the formation of a collective social body that exceeds traditional organizing categories. By connecting Charles Peirce’s semiotic theory of qualia to critical interventions in black studies and sound studies, this ethnography reveals how popular Rwandan musicians, their audiences, and the technocultural systems that connect them invoke, perform, and give meaning to blackness as a sensory experience and socio-ontological formation.

Television Siyasat: Genealogies of Electronic Media and Extralegal Politics in Pakistan

Asif Ali Akhtar

This dissertation on television siyasat (an Urdu term which can refer to both politics and order) considers the appearance of politics on private electronic media in Pakistan over two decades since the eclipse of the longstanding state monopoly on televisual broadcast in 2002. The regulatory laws promulgated under the military regime of General Pervez Musharraf (1999-2008) foreshadowed the emergence of private satellite and cable TV channels broadcasting news, current events, and political analysis around the clock. This development has certainly affected political discourses and practices. However, in view of the present media political impasse facing Pakistan, it will be argued that the electronic media apparatus has itself become implicated in the production of a crisis of politics. Approaching Pakistani television siyasat in its specific cultural context in terms of its conditions of possibility requires sustained genealogical analysis. The research methodology developed for this study entails a combination of archival research and ethnographic fieldwork to facilitate precisely such an analysis of antecedent practices and concepts associated with siyasat, regulation, and media. The genealogical account moves backwards from a recent point of rupture situated at the dawn of the twenty-first century to consider the colonial and pre-colonial eras, before returning to critically analyze the contemporary era. The Bengal Presidency under the East India Company between 1793-1823 has been identified as a prior point of rupture where media technologies, regulatory techniques, and political practices become bound up in mutually transformative processes of legal, technological, and epistemic change. This particular transformation of siyasat in conceptual and practical terms, as evidenced by colonial documents, significantly coincides with the emergence of print media technologies and regulatory techniques. The first three chapters present archival excavations of antecedent configurations of media technologies, regulations, and siyasat. The critical concepts and media artifacts retrieved from past eras will aid the interpretation of empirical data gathered from ethnographic fieldwork in Pakistan during 2017-18, documented in the later chapters. The principal object of critical analysis of this investigation entails the present political scenario [siyasi surat-e-hal] as it appears on television. The antecedent pre-colonial and colonial-era refractions of siyasat therefore inform this interrogation of the modes of technical production and regulation of political appearances in the present.

The Carceral Media Regime: Technologies of Disaggregation, Pacification, and Rebellion in US Prisons

Ian J. Alexander

The Carceral Media Regime follows a range of media technologies through their implementation in the US prison system over the last century: radio, mail, solitary confinement, telephone, cell phones, and digital tablets. As a series of media histories, each chapter tracks the specific conditions and effects of its media technological innovation at a different moment in the prison regime’s tumultuous history, affording different and often unforeseen uses for both captors and captives. As a more continuous history of the prison and the prisoners’ movement, the dissertation follows recurrent problems and contradictions across the prison’s implementation of media technologies. A central contradiction of the prison becomes visible in its media technological systems as multiple opposed groups mobilize the same technologies for radically different goals. Prison reformers and reformist administrators have historically plied prison media for educational and “rehabilitative” projects, while more revanchist wardens and guards have deployed them for punishment, torture, and more coercive forms of repression. They find agreement in their support of total surveillance. Meanwhile prisoners, and in particular imprisoned radicals, revolutionaries, and abolitionists, have used, evaded, produced, and hacked prison media systems for political education projects, better access to family and friends, and for what Stephen Wilson calls “dis-organizing the prison.” These contradictory affordances of prison media technology register (again) the prison and its media regime as sites of warfare so asymmetric that it can be difficult to recognize key moments of resistance against it. The Carceral Media Regime’s media historical approach opens new archives and methods for locating and understanding the prison regime and prisoners’ movements. The dissertation insists on the urgency of struggles over prison media technologies, from mailroom rules to digital tablet setup, as struggles over the very conditions of possibility for building and maintaining a strong prisoners’ movement. What appears to be a haphazard constellation of media systems coheres in the carceral media regime that isolates individuals, disaggregates groups, stymies prisoner organization, and endlessly strives to pacify rebellion inside and outside the prison.

Tropical Unknown: Technological Expansion and Racialized Territorial Formations in Colombia

Ángela Arias Zapata

This dissertation examines the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure and collective political action around land ownership in rural Colombia. I argue that the promise of technology-enhanced emerging markets generating material and social wellbeing relies on bringing to the present a racialized narrative of “empty warm lands,” inhabited by peoples “stuck in the past.” Drawing on archival materials, fieldwork, and interviews, I connect cultural imaginaries of territory, nature, and race characteristic of the late nineteenth-century —the period that saw Colombia’s consolidation as an independent republic— with the onset of the neoliberal economic and political turn in the late-1980s and early-1990s. I start by showing that late nineteenth-century political elites articulated their justifications to expand the reach of telegraphy and telephony around the need to erase racial differences and incorporate hinterlands into the nation. I then analyze the political and cultural context of the 1989 National Plan for Rural Telecommunications (NPRT), a national program to provide satellite telephony to rural populations. Finally, I engage with the struggles of the Indigenous movement from the Southwestern region of Cauca in the aftermath of the neoliberal turn. I show how Indigenous organizations have managed to sustain negotiations with different governments, in order to create and implement a Differential Policy for Indigenous Communications. Beyond the case of Colombia, this dissertation broadens the scope of inquiry about the obstacles to effectively provide access to telecommunication for rural racialized communities in the global South, with the intention to overcome the paradigm of stakeholder participation in civil society.

Conduits of (Im)Possibility: Mediating Solidarities

This dissertation examines questions of political solidarity across uneven difference by focusing on how processes of information coordination, production, and circulation shape social movements formations. I demonstrate how shifting relationships between marginalized people and institutions of state and corporate power shape how groups differently engage and use technologies within social movements. Drawing on insights from multiracial and working class social movements alongside histories of computing and technology, this dissertation contributes to broader concerns in studies of critical race, digital media, and social movements by insisting upon both racial and class consciousness within projects of communication. This project addresses the question of contemporary digital media and social movements from a historical perspective by situating the emergence of different political subjectivities, particularly racialized, working class claims-making and politics, through political economic, technological and policy changes. Chapter 1 introduces Asian America as a mediated political formation to complicate presumptions around technology and solidarity, given its historical entanglements and encounters around U.S. capital, empire, and militarism, all of which also undergird histories of technological innovation. Chapter 2 draws from the archival materials of the Third World Women’s Alliance (1968-1979) to offer an alternate history of networking that foregrounds the politics of difference and highlight ways liberal individualism within dominant computing narratives can be a security threat to collective safety. Chapter 3 looks at the technological conditions for solidarity by juxtaposing the creation of information sharing infrastructures by state actors and progressive left movements during the 1990s, which is marked by both the popularization of the Internet alongside the expansion of anti-immigration and carceral policy reforms that created new punitive codes of racialization. These histories lead up to Chapter 4, which assesses how organizers navigate the competitive information marketplace in today’s digital landscape. Here, I discuss the convergence between the optimization of technological performance—the maximizing of efficiency, speed, and capacity—and performances of solidarity.

The Empire of Informatics: IBM in Brazil Before Modern Computing

Colette Perold

The Empire of Informatics: IBM in Brazil Before Modern Computing tracks the expansion of the International Business Machines (IBM) into Brazil, from its entrance into the country in the 1910s through its contribution to the U.S.-backed overthrow of Brazil’s democratically elected president in 1964. Despite the persistent impact that IBM had on Brazil for much of the twentieth century, there is little scholarship on IBM’s Brazil operations. This historiographic gap is surprising, as Brazil was in fact a strategic site for IBM’s global expansion prior to the advent of modern computing, as it housed the first major IBM subsidiary outside the United States, and was the largest and most stable market for IBM operations in Latin America for much of the twentieth century. With its regional manufacturing and services base in Brazil and a history of measurable influence on Brazilian policy, IBM was able to achieve near-monopoly status in South American markets by the 1960s. Using archival research and interviews, this dissertation documents the ways in which the firm’s complex negotiation of political upheaval, through both coups and revolutions, enabled it to capture South American markets at moments when other information-processing firms were forced out. It reveals how IBM was able to make itself, and as a result, information technology, indispensable to successive governments through the infrastructural power it wielded and the political coalitions it formed. Crucially, it argues that IBM’s ability to transnationalize across South America prior to modern computing owes to three under-explored sources: its embrace of the United States’ imperial relationship to Latin America, its close collaboration with Brazil’s twentieth-century authoritarian regimes, and its strategic location developing the data infrastructure for a hemispheric liberal order in the Americas. Placing Brazil at the foundations of modern computing and IBM alongside U.S. foreign policy actors, this dissertation reveals how data processing’s earliest corporate pioneers became central players in the maintenance of U.S. hegemony in the postwar period.

Steering by Sight: Data, Visualization, and the Birth of an Informational Worldview

Alexander Campolo

During the second half of the twentieth century, scientists across disciplines faced the problem of creating knowledge from a threatening deluge of information. Steering by Sight analyzes how data visualization emerged as a response to this crisis in knowledge. While most histories of the Cold War sciences focus on militarized cybernetic rationalities, algorithmic optimization, or formal modes of objectivity, this dissertation follows a heterodox group of thinkers who instead studied limits to rationality and the inability of digital computers to solve complex problems. As an alternative, they developed techniques to approach information through visual experience. Ultimately, they sought to rethink empiricism in a world of data. This history of sense and data draws new connections between actors and institutions to offer a different perspective on the midcentury sciences and our digital present. These include Allen Newell and Herbert Simon, who developed a psychology that conceived cognition and perception in terms of information; the French cartographer Jacques Bertin, who worked with structuralists to make hidden or unconscious relations visible; and the data analyst John W. Tukey, who opposed over-mathematization and even objectivity in statistics, advocating instead for visual methods of exploring data. Circulating between RAND, Bell Labs, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, these ideas crystallized at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in Silicon Valley. Data visualization became a technique of human-computer interaction, both to augment cognition and control knowledge work. Today, data visualization is part of a wider informational worldview, a foundational element of the data sciences but also new modes of digital surveillance and control. Steering by Sight concludes by analyzing the political effects of this visual mode of knowledge. How might we resist both government by algorithm and insidious attempts to turn the limits of reason into obedience? One strategy, suggested by those studied in this work, is to develop new techniques of pluralism and creativity, against a data-driven world.

Climate and Class: A U.S.-U.K Comparison of Socially Stratified Knowledge Production in Digital Information Networks

Timothy Neff

Using Pierre Bourdieu's field theory and the comparative media systems perspective, this dissertation examines the relationship between socioeconomics and discourse about the social problem of climate change in news published on U.S. and U.K. news websites and on the social media platform Twitter. Algorithmic content analyses, coupled with manual content analyses, network analyses, and ethnographic techniques, indicate that news outlets with audience demographics leaning toward higher socioeconomic strata tend to produce news about climate change that foregrounds elite, expert-driven discourse. U.K. tabloid newspapers serving working-class audiences often use such discourse in spectacular ways that generate clicks or invite mockery while also producing news that emphasizes tangible, civil society dimensions of climate change. However, audience segmentation in the U.K. provides a structural condition for audience crossover, bringing expert information about climate change to audiences often skeptical of such information. On Twitter, discursive networks that form around climate change-focused hashtags are dominated by users among higher class strata. As Twitter discourse unfolds largely in the absence of the journalistic mediation of experts from the fields of science and economics, it predominantly features political and civil society voices. Moments of agonistic politics, such as protests, can shift Twitter discourse toward civil society concerns for global-scale issues and away from the more elite, expert-driven details of political processes. The dissertation underscores that although knowledge about climate produced in fields of expertise needs to find ways out of these fields and into the hands of democratic publics, it is a mistake to believe that this alone will persuade people to engage with the social problem of climate change. Knowledge about climate change is produced on a socially stratified terrain, and this terrain produces resonances and dissonances in the dissemination of that knowledge. Climate communication efforts that overlook these socioeconomic distinctions risk undercutting the engagement and inclusion of the broadest swath of democratic publics in addressing the social problem of climate change.

Feeling Fort Greene: On Spatial Mediations of Race, Affect, and Collective Being

Kavita Kulkarni

If ideology interpolates us as social subjects, space contours the dimensions of that process, serving as the site of discursive articulation and struggle over systems of signification, and over our adherence not only to certain identities, but to the subject form itself. This dissertation is a testament to the latter, and considers how social difference is mediated - that is, made material - in and by the spaces we inhabit. It builds off Henri Lefebvre's thesis that the production of space is a production of the social, and, as a field of practice and struggle, determines the reproduction of both. It also attempts to bear witness to lesser-examined ways in which social reproduction takes place: that is, through structures of feeling and ways of looking that mediate the affective register of racialized space and spaces of social difference. It asks, how do processes of social reproduction that take place in and through the social production of racialized space and the spatialized production of social difference mediate affect, but also affectability as a human capacity? To answer this question, this dissertation studies three cases of the production of space in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, a historically Black neighborhood since white flight in the 1960s, which was home to a nexus of art and cultural production in the 1980s and 1990s, and which underwent what geographer Neil Smith termed third-wave gentrification in the early 2000s, transforming the use value of Black space into surplus and exchange value. Assuming an archaeological approach to this transformation of Fort Greene, this dissertation considers the mediations of affect and affectability in 1) the production of racialized space in New York City's postwar housing crisis; 2) in the making of the Sunday Tea Party, an alternative space of participatory art and culture in the 1990s; and, 3) in the production of the Soul Summit Music Festival, an outdoor, free, and open-to-the-public house music dance party that has taken place in Fort Greene Park since 2001. It finds that the mediation of affects and affectability in the first case - in the production of space marked by state and capital's logic of liberal humanism and corporate welfarism - directed social reproduction in a way that reproduced the social value of individualism, and in the latter two cases - in the production of space marked by the cultural logics of joy, care, and a radical humanism - reproduced a more collective sense of being.

An Art of Ambivalence: On Jean Rouch, African Cinema, and the Complexities of the (Post)colonial Encounter

Jamie Berthe

French anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch made over 100 films throughout his long career, the bulk of which were recorded in West Africa. Founder of the cinéma-vérité movement and pioneer of techniques like 'shared anthropology' and 'ethno-fiction,' Rouch used the medium of film to stimulate new ways of thinking about anthropological knowledge, cross-cultural encounters, and the apparent fixity of social roles in the (post)colonial world order. Furthermore, in his drive to 'share' anthropology, Rouch sought to use his skills and resources to assist his African collaborators in their own ambitions to make films, either with him or independently. But as a French man working in West Africa both prior to and following French colonial rule, Rouch's practice evolved out of a historical moment fraught with complexities and ambiguities. And in spite of Rouch's efforts to use film as a means to transform anthropology into a more collaborative and dialogic undertaking, many African filmmakers accused Rouch of having an imperialist vision of his African subjects. Rouch was also criticized - and not only by Africans - for his aversion towards politics and for what some perceived as a tendency to avoid political controversy in his films. This dissertation examines the evolution of Rouch's filmmaking practice, looking, in particular, at the role that French imperial culture and the colonial situation played in shaping his ideas about both anthropology and film. Rouch's life and work took shape in dialogue with both France's imperial project and West Africa's struggle for independence from (neo)colonial power. In light of this, I argue that Rouch's story needs to be retold, as one that is not altogether unique, or even specifically French, but rather, as part of a narrative about Franco-African (post)colonial history. Unpacking this history helps to resituate Rouch's film work as part of a larger discussion about the complexities of the (post)colonial encounter, and about the role that visual artifacts can play in helping contemporary thinkers work through those complexities.

Before Truth: Memory, History and Nation in the Context of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

Naomi Angel

The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in June 2008, and focuses on the mistreatment and abuse of Aboriginal children in the Indian Residential School (IRS) system. The system, run by the government of Canada and the Presbyterian, Anglican, United and Catholic Churches, separated Aboriginal children from their families and placed them in the Indian Residential School system. Children at the schools were forbidden from speaking their traditional languages or practicing their cultural and religious beliefs. When parents objected to having their children taken, their children were often forcibly removed. Many former students have now spoken out about the physical, emotional and sexual abuse that took place at the schools. The IRS system is now recognized as one of the major factors in the attempted destruction of Aboriginal cultures, languages and communities in Canada. Through an analysis of archival photographs from the Indian Residential School system, testimony taken at TRC gatherings, and popular representations of the IRS legacy in media and literature, this dissertation focuses on the complicated terrain of reconciliation in Canada. In particular, I concentrate on how reconciliation influences and is influenced by 1) understandings of Canadian nationhood, 2) the ways in which visibility and invisibility are negotiated through truth commissions, and 3) the dialectical relationship between remembering and forgetting. To discuss these three themes, I focus on the cultural dynamics and various mediated forms (performance, photography, artwork) involved in the representation of the Indian Residential School legacy. My project seeks to understand the normative orders of remembrance as dictated through the IRS TRC, and the ways in which individuals and communities take up/negotiate/and push back against these imperatives. By framing reconciliation as a way of seeing, I focus on the ways in which reconciliation is mediated through visual culture.

Book Typography and the Challenge to Linear Thought

Katherine Brideau

This is a shape-based study of typography as a medium. The analysis herein focuses on the structure, and to a lesser extent the infrastructure, of one of our most omnipresent yet overlooked media. Typographical shapes have been neglected by works in media studies that address "print media" and the threat of "digital media," and also by design fields that study the semiotic, socio-historical, or classificatory sides of typography. In contrast, I maintain that it is shape that most notably set the typographical medium apart from handwriting, and also that that which is essential to typography is its visuality, not the linguistic function to which it is often put. The motivation for this project is epistemological. Media philosopher Vilém Flusser argues that when we lack immediate access to an object, knowing that object requires we learn to read media. Building on his work, this project assumes an epistemological necessity to study the media we use to record, store, and communicate ideas. It explores how the structure of typography influences the structures of our daily thought. However, typography makes this structural analysis challenging, because of an inherent tension between typography's visuality and function--when we read type we most often fail to see type. In both practice and study, we ignore the visual thing before us, and instead look through typography at its linguistic, social, and symbolic functions. Both critiquing and bracketing these traditional function-focused studies of typography, this dissertation uses Flusser's concept of the techno-image and the model of the diagram, to propose a shape-based analysis of this medium. It identifies a series of features that come to the fore when one studies typography as shape, and it sketches out a diagrammatic analysis of eighteen character forms. The new typographical system proposed here highlights typography's technologies and its non-linear, quantized structure; and through the diagram it promotes typography as a functional visualization in which function no longer obscures visuality. This project presents an understanding of typography that better reflects its many details, an approach to media that stresses structure and infrastructure, and contributes to the study of visualization's role in knowledge production.

Digital Afterlives: From the Electronic Village to the Networked Estate

Tamara Kneese

Everyone with a web presence has the potential to live on as information. Today, numerous stories in the popular press examine the afterlives of social data, asking what happens to our online profiles, feeds, blogs, and accounts after we die? This dissertation traces the rise of digital estate planning, a new cultural field that organizes individuals' various online accounts and bequeaths control of these materials to designated kin members. I locate the origins of digital estate planning in the aftermath of the campus shootings at Virginia Tech in April 2007, when victims' loved ones petitioned Facebook to keep the profiles of those who were killed as virtual, interactive shrines. Virginia Tech was a particularly networked place, and the Blacksburg Electronic Village already shaped campus life. By connecting the valorization of Facebook pages to a longer history of web memorialization practices that appeared during 1990s net culture, I show how Web 2.0 logics about user-generated content and collaboration enabled profiles to become valuable objects worthy of preservation. Based on qualitative interviews with digital mourners and digital estate planning startup company founders alike, I discuss how Facebook memorialization precipitated the emergence of digital estate planning as a way of capturing what I call communicative traces, or the electronic ephemera people constantly create over a dense ecology of interfaces, platforms, and devices. In aggregate, communicative traces are speculatively valuable because of their connection to data mining as well as their potential to become meaningful heirlooms transferred across generations. Some digital estate planning websites are tied to transhumanism, a movement that promises immortality by uploading human consciousness into computers, thus connecting mundane actuarial practices to loftier techno-utopian goals. For surviving kin members, digital remains are complicated by the burdens of caring for them, which requires physical infrastructures, perpetual upkeep, and affective labor. Do we have obligations to digital souls, and what are the ethical, legal, emotional, and material implications of this kind of afterlife?

Divination Engines: A Media History of Text Prediction

Xiaochang Li

This dissertation examines the historical development of text prediction technologies and their role in the rise of so-called “big data” and machine learning. Historically, efforts to grapple with text computationally have played a pivotal yet largely unexamined role in both the technical development and popular imagination of computing, artificial intelligence, and data processing. In the present, predictive text systems continue to saturate our everyday experience, from the minute interventions of “autocomplete” and “autocorrect” software in our most mundane communications to the influence of text-mining as a core component for data analytics in areas such as business intelligence and public policy. Through archival research and original interviews, I map the discursive and material arrangements that brought language under the purview of data processing and the corresponding development of statistical techniques that today underwrite applications across diverse fields, generating financial models, genome sequences, and web search results alike. The pursuit of text prediction, I argue, prepared the conceptual terrain for predictive analytics as a distinct and pervasive form of knowledge work, where information could be unanchored from the demands of explanation. At the same time, it drove technical developments in natural language processing that were pivotal in making data “big,” transforming previously “unstructured” text into vast troves of computer-processable data used in modeling everything from cholera outbreaks to purchasing habits. Centering on two pivotal encounters between statistical modeling and text processing—first in speech recognition research beginning in the 1970s and then in text-mining in the 1990s—this project offers an account of how data processing became a means of not only transmitting, but also generating knowledge. By drawing out the history of its epistemic underpinnings, this research wrests data-driven analytics from the quarantine of technical inevitability, and highlights the sociotechnical arrangements in which such practices became not only technically feasible, but thinkable and desirable in the first place.

Far Corners of the Earth: A Media History of Logistics

Matthew Hockenberry

“Far Corners of the Earth” narrates the media history of logistics. In so doing, it follows the transformation of early forms of logistical media in order to historicize their impact on the development of decentralized manufacture and the arrangement of the productive apparatus over the prior two centuries. This argues for an understanding of logistics as a second-order operation, the optimization and encapsulation of networks already well understood. To this end, I examine the extent to which emergent mediators—sites like the warehouse, small shop, and factory; documents like the bill of lading, parts list, and catalogue—came to be inscribed within the pattern of production externalized by technologies of telecommunication like the telegraph, telephone, and telex. In developing these accounts, I consider how these mediators circulated between actors as they engaged in historic debates about the nature of production. By reading media forms like advertisements, pamphlets, and reports not only as functional documents, but as emblems and spokes-things reinforcing particular patterns of association, these forms emerge as the very mechanisms defining emergent practices of manufacture and trade. They become not only the raw material for new patterns of association, but often the very means through which those associations became durable. By leveraging manufacturing networks into pathways for product distribution, some early twentieth century companies were able to marshal vast numbers of suppliers as sources for other businesses. For the readers of their supply catalogues or owners of their order books, this promised a singular point of origin for material needs. The incarnation of modern production that has followed from these promises arose not, I argue, from some “logistics revolution,” but rather from the steady march of these communication technologies as they formed new assemblies of assembly. Through the work of the telecommunication and electrical industries—the companies of the Bell System, electrical manufacturers like Western Electric, and nascent computing concerns like IBM—the language of logistics has, I argue, become ingrained within the mechanisms of modern mediation.

Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Psychoanalysis and the Subjectivity of Survival

This dissertation examines the psychic effects of cancer, in particular how cancer disrupts the security with which a body ordinarily feels coincident with the self. Using psychoanalytic theory and literary analysis of atypical pathographies, the study shows how cancer prompts a loss of feelings of unity, exposing the vulnerability of bodily integrity and agency. The thesis analyzes how three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, grapple with life-threatening illness that is compounded with other violences to their identities, such as racism and homophobia. Cancer's destruction demands from each a creative response that mediates their relationship to morbidity and mortality. Freud's sixteen-year ordeal with a prosthetic jaw, the result of oral cancer, demonstrates the powers and failures of a prosthetic object in warding off physical and psychic fragmentation. Lorde's life writing reveals how losing a breast to cancer recapitulates the loss of the original "first object," the maternal breast, and the reassurance of wholeness and protection that it promises. Drawing on Lorde's critique of breast prostheses, I interpret the social pressure to reconstruct the absent breast as fetishistic. Sedgwick's memoir and breast cancer advice column function as explicitly reparative projects that seek to come to terms with impending death by disseminating a public discourse of love and pedagogy. I conclude by interrogating reparative efforts at the rival Freud Museums. In London, where Freud fled to "die in freedom," the analyst's possessions are mobilized to symbolically defy his death, while in Vienna, photographs taken prior to Freud's exile are recruited to compensate for the Museum's material and historical losses. Affliction has the capacity to uncover knowledge that is typically repressed in quotidian existence, for instance, awareness of death's immanence in life. Psychoanalytic intervention clarifies problems that physical trauma can pose, which cut across the tenuous divide between the conscious and unconscious. I argue that the habitual threat to life forces the unconscious to become conscious, a process that is disconcertingly destabilizing and itself divisive. However, the prospect of imminent destruction paradoxically incites a creativity that I suggest is a requisite albeit inadequate reparative endeavor.

Homework and the Bedroom-Study: Work, Leisure and Communication Technology

Elizabeth Patton

(Home)work and the Bedroom-Study: Work, Leisure and Communication Technology, investigates the myth of the bedroom as a space of sex and privacy and the disruption of the myth through the introduction of communication technology. This project examines the bedroom as a site of work, although it is commonly associated with modern notions of what constitutes the private sphere. Privacy has historically been reflected in the separation of home and work, the private and public spheres, respectively. However, as I argue, the bedroom has always been a space where the line between public and private is blurred. This research examines representations of the bedroom (and its co-evolution with the study/home office) to argue that the bedroom has always been a space of work within the system of capitalism. Within the home, the bedroom is a key site for this intersection of leisure and work. In examining the bedroom as a social space, this project reveals how representations in popular culture of the bedroom depict persistent and shifting American ideologies about family life, class, gender, and the relationship between work and leisure and potentially challenges them. Furthermore, this research reveals how the production and design of the hybrid bedroom-study have helped alter and consequently reveal transformations in the meaning of leisure and work life. That practices of the bedroom-study reveal how media and communication technologies have transformed social and labor relations within and outside the home by undoing spatial divisions between the sites of leisure (formerly coded as unproductive by disregarding unpaid labor) and sites of work/labor. This research contributes to the interdisciplinary areas of cultural studies, communication and media studies by combining the social history of the bedroom and media studies to understand the influence of long-term social processes on the present and to determine connections between media, space, technological development, and structures of power. Specifically, this research examines the social organization of space as a site of ideological meaning, where markers of difference such as class and gender are contested, negotiated, and transformed, and the role of communication technologies in those processes.

Humanity's Publics: NGOs, Journalism, and the International Public Sphere

Matthew Powers

As legacy news outlets slash foreign news budgets, international NGOs have been discussed as sources of both promise and caution with respect to the future of foreign news - for journalists, for advocates and for citizens. To optimists, NGOs provide original, insightful reporting from neglected areas of the world. To skeptics, the influence of such groups augurs a worrisome conflation of the lines between advocacy and journalism, with deleterious consequences befalling both parties. This dissertation tests these competing claims by asking what the information work of NGOs is, what types of news coverage they support and whether NGOs expand or reinforce established patterns of international news attention. The dissertation puts forward three primary findings. First, NGO information work is neither singular nor shaped entirely by the preferences of the news media. Instead, both NGOs and news media are internally differentiated between elite and general public sectors and the international differentiations correspond to different relations across sectors - making interactions between elite-oriented NGOs and the prestige press much more likely than interactions, and vice versa. Second, different relationships between NGOs and news outlets shape different types of news coverage, including a policy/elite set of discussions conducted in the prestige press and oriented towards high-level decision-making; and also a discourse of donation and charity in search of potential donors. Third, the capacity of NGOs to live up to their stated missions of raising awareness of neglected parts of the world depends on where they seek publicity. A group's capacity to bring countries from outside the media spotlight into it is most likely to occur in the prestige press, not the broadcast media. The dissertation concludes by evaluating the normative implications of the research findings. If one sees the role of public communication as mediating between experts, the data provide room of cautious optimism. NGOs that align with the prestige press constitute a modest expansion of elites and allow for civil society perspectives to be articulated in elite discussions. If, however, one sees the role of NGOs as raising general public awareness of issues outside the media spotlight, the space for optimism diminishes greatly.

Image Objects: An Archaeology of 3D Computer Graphics, 1965-1979

Jacob Gaboury

Image Objects: An Archaeology of 3D Computer Graphics, 1965-1979 explores the early history of 3D computer graphics and visualization with a focus on the pioneering research center at the University of Utah. The University of Utah is one of the most significant sites in the history of computing, but has been largely neglected by historians and digital media scholars alike. From 1965-1979 almost all fundamental principals of modern computer graphics were developed by Utah graduates and faculty, many of whom went on to found some of the most important research and technical organizations of the past fifty years, including Adobe, Pixar, Netscape, and Atari. The project begins with this history, but looks to pull apart familiar narratives of invention and innovation by engaging the challenges and failures of early research into computer visualization. As such the project is organized around a set of technical and cultural objects of particular significance to the early history of graphics. Chapter One introduces the project and its research site and the University of Utah, discussing methods, archives, and the history of the Utah program. Chapter Two offers a meditation on questions of vision and visibility, structured around the development of the "hidden surface algorithm" for graphical display from 1965-1969. Chapter Three offers an analysis of memory and materiality through the lens of early graphics hardware, with a focus on the development of the first commercial framebuffer in 1973. Chapter Four investigates objects and ontology through an analysis of the "Utah Teapot", a famous graphical object standard developed in 1974 and used widely in contemporary software, film, and research demonstrations. Finally, Chapter Five offers an analysis of language and text through an exploration of the object-oriented paradigm first conceived by Alan Kay at the University of Utah. By looking to the first moments in which visual computing is made possible this project critiques popular narratives that view the digital image as an extension of earlier visual forms, arguing instead that the development of 3D interactive graphics marks the moment at which computer science develops a concern for ontology and the simulation of objects in the world. Ultimately the project seeks to make the familiar strange, offering a theory of the digital image that refuses a genealogy of the visible.

Listening Intently: Towards a Critical Media Theory of Ethical Listening

Jessica Feldman

This dissertation considers how advances in the surveillance of cell phone data, decentralized mobile networks, and vocal affective monitoring software are changing the ways in which listening exerts power and frames social and political possibilities. The low- and middle-level design limitations and broad implementations of these communication media frame cultural circumstances in terms of what kinds of emotional expressions and social relations are both perceptible and acceptable. The first chapter looks at recent and contemporary software that seeks to identify emotions in the acoustic voice by ignoring words and instead measuring quantifiable parameters of sound. The design of these algorithms shows a change in their conception of the human emotional system as they evolve from truth-telling to predictive machines. The chapter views this techno-psychological shift as the enactment of an emerging mode of surveillance, which serves the risk economy by claiming to predict subjects’ behavior by coding and categorizing their emotional motivations. The second chapter traces the development and global dissemination of cell phone surveillance programs. Here, the research draws on declassified white papers, interviews, and legal scholarship to make a “fear-based standing” argument against ex-ante mass surveillance, showing how the capture and storage of real-time communications can cause low-level psychological trauma, and how the chilling effect obstructs political progress and experimentation. The third chapter considers non-hierarchical models for listening, consensus, and community governance, as practiced in the “movements of the squares”, together with a handful of emerging, but marginally adopted, circumvention apps and peer-to- peer networking tools that these movements developed in order to overcome blocking and surveillance. It concludes that these social movements experimented with autonomous zones of horizontal connectivity, but failed to sustain themselves in part because of a lack of resilient communications infrastructures to mirror and facilitate their politics. The fourth chapter is a whitepaper outlining the requirements elicitation for the amidst project, an ad-hoc peer-to- peer decentralized network for mobile devices, which is a collaboration between the author and three engineers. This project proposes a remedy to the critiques of surveillance, blocking, and infrastructural weakness elucidated throughout previous chapters.

Retreat: Hurricane Sandy, Home Buyouts, and the Future of Coastal Cities

Elizabeth Koslov

This dissertation explores the social and cultural dimensions of urban climate change adaptation through an ethnographic study of “managed retreat.” As storms grow stronger and sea levels rise, one response is to move away from certain places entirely, to “retreat” by relocating people, clearing land, and restricting future development. Research in urban and environmental studies consistently shows the devastating impacts of forced relocation; however, climate change is now rendering some places increasingly vulnerable – even uninhabitable. What are the social, political, and cultural consequences of these changes? How do individuals and communities mediate bodies of knowledge about climate change, risk, and vulnerability in ways that are in tension with government policies meant to alleviate those risks? Who decides when it is time to retreat, and how does this form of collective movement reshape the urban landscape and everyday life? While managed retreat is conventionally understood as a top-down process, this dissertation charts the rise of communities organizing from the bottom-up to enlist government support to move. It draws on fieldwork over four years in the New York City borough of Staten Island, where residents mobilized in favor of retreat after Hurricane Sandy, lobbying the government to buy out their damaged houses and return their neighborhoods to wetlands rather than rebuilding. It shows how this mobilization for retreat emerged and spread, analyzes the conflicting government responses to residents’ demands, and explores the fraught determination of which places are sufficiently at risk to be permanently un-built. Examining the paradoxical process of a community organizing to disperse itself, the dissertation argues that retreat is not the direct result of individual decisions or objective measures of imminent danger but rather is mediated by social and cultural dynamics, government policies, and contested technologies of representing risk. Understanding the lived experience of retreat on Staten Island, where moving away from the waterfront came to mean, for many, an empowering act of personal sacrifice for the greater good, but was ultimately only possible for a select few, lends insight into the complexities of responding to climate change in ways that are both environmentally sustainable and socially just.

That Sognal Feeling: Emotion and Interaction Design from Smartphones to the "Anxious Seat"

Charles Luke Stark

This dissertation examines how computational interaction design has been influenced by theories of emotion drawn from the psychological sciences, and argues that the contemporary field of interaction design would be impossible without the developments in psychology that allowed human emotions to be understood as orderable and classifiable. Interaction design, or the process by which digital media are created and modified for human use, has grappled with theories of human emotion since its inception in the early 1980s. The project examines how the longer histories of psychology and psychiatry have changed conceptualizations of emotion in relation to cognition and behavior, and how shifts in these theories have shaped the development of a burgeoning array of digital tools for tracking and managing human emotions. Examining the continuum of humans and machines desired and configured by individuals throughout this history, the project explores how these subject identities, both imagined and made, have reflected broader changes in the exercise of social power and authority. The research draws on materials from several archives, including newspaper reports; the published works and archival materials of psychologists and computer science researchers; materials from the West Coast Computer Faire tradeshow in the late 1970s; interviews with designers; and psychological texts and textbooks. Alongside a design assessment of smartphone apps for mood tracking grounded in Values in Design (VID) scholarship, the project deploys historical, philosophical, and qualitative methods, including close reading and discursive and thematic analysis. The key mechanism for understanding emotion's role in digital media design is the drive to make human feelings both technically ordinal and scalable. Through these conceptual mechanisms, human feelings have become increasingly classifiable not only horizontally as different categorical types, but also hierarchically in ways that differentiate and assign value to the emotions and moods of individuals in relation to a larger mass of data. Accomplished through both natural and symbolic language, these mechanisms combine qualitative and quantitative modes of classification, enabling sociotechnical phenomena ranging from personal applications for digital mood tracking to the analysis of emotional "Big Data" by social media platforms.

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exploring cross-cultural communication strategies and solutions of international students in academic environments with consideration to communication accommodation theory, wendy k. yeboah. theses/dissertations from 2023 pdf. comedy, camaraderie, and conflict: using humor to defuse disputes among friends, sheena a. bringa. pdf
Media Studies Theses and Dissertations
Media Literacy and the English as a Second Language Curriculum: A Curricular Critique and Dreams for the Future, Clara R. Madrenas. PDF. Fantasizing Disability: Representation of loss and limitation in Popular Television and Film, Jeffrey M. Preston. PDF (Un)Covering Suicide: The Changing Ethical Norms in Canadian Journalism, Gemma Richardson. PDF
Media Communication Journalism: COMS & JOUR Theses
UC Media and Communication, & Journalism theses. Below is a list of Masters and PhD theses in Media and Communication (formerly Mass Communication) and Journalism (1994 - present) sorted in descending year order. Theses that are available online can be accessed by following the links below.
PhD, Media, Culture, and Communication
Five research areas operate as guiding frameworks for intellectual inquiry across the department: Global Communication and Media, Technology and Society, Visual Culture and Sound Studies, Media Industries and Politics, Interaction and Experience.. Your work as a doctoral student will be shaped by our faculty's commitment to:. Engaging with theoretical concepts from a range of disciplines ...
Theses and Dissertations (Communication Science)
A conceptual framework for social-media crisis communication to build stakeholder relationships in Ghana Tella, Fortune ( 2023-01 ) People are spending more time on social media, which means that public-relations professionals need to pay more attention to managing the reputation of their organisations.
Media@LSE MSc Dissertation Series
These MSc dissertations have been selected by the editor and deputy editor of the Media@LSE Working Paper Series and consequently, are not the responsibility of the Working Paper Series Editorial Board. 2022-23. No 313 The App Keeps the Score: Period-Tracking Apps, Self-Empowerment and the Self as Enterprise, Martina Sardelli.
Communication Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2022. PDF. Reviving the Christian Left: A Thematic Analysis of Progressive Christian Identity in American Politics, Adam Blake Arledge. PDF. Organizing Economies: Narrative Sensemaking and Communciative Resilience During Economic Disruption, Timothy Betts. PDF.
Media and Communication Ph.D. Dissertations
Dissertations from 2022. Link. Reclaiming the "C" in ICT4D: A Critical Examination of the Discursive (Un)Freedoms in Digital State Policy and News Media of Bangladesh and Norway, Mohammad Ala-Uddin. Link. From the Boardroom to the Bedroom: Sexual Ecologies in the Algorithmic Age, Bernadette Bowen. Link.
Communication Studies Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Performing Stereotypical Tropes on Social Media Sites: How Popular Latina Performers Reinscribe Heteropatriarchy on Instagram, Ariana Arely Cano. PDF. NEGOTIATING STRATEGIES: AN EFFECTIVE WAY FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES TO COMMUNICATE FOR SERVICES, Dorothea Cartwright. PDF. A COMMUNICATION GUIDE FOR EX-OFFENDERS, Richard Anthony ...
(PDF) Social Media, Culture, and Communication
Social media encompass web-based programs and user-generated content that allow people to communicate and collaborate via mobile phones, computers, and other communication technologies. Unlike ...
Past Thesis Topics
Past Thesis Topics. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) senior theses can be archived in the University of Michigan's Deep Blue online library. Honors theses are a permanent part of the University's intellectual legacy. Deep Blue makes these works accessible to the scholarly community for the long term, providing a single ...
Communication and Media Studies
Completing this program. Core Courses: Topics include interdisciplinary approaches to communication and media studies, communication theory and research methods. Thesis: Students will be required to submit and defend an original research thesis. Additional Courses: Topics may include critical media studies, communication infrastructure ...
Media and Communication Studies
The School of Communication's Media and Communication Studies Master's Program is designed for graduate students interested in studying communication theory, research, analysis, media content, and media effects. Our program offers two tracks. The thesis/creative project track is for students interested in getting involved in discovery ...
The Communication Thesis
The thesis is a two-semester course for Communication majors, taken during the senior year. During the first semester, students write a research proposal that includes a literature review and detailed methodology. During the second semester, students conduct data collection and analysis and write the results and discussion to complete the ...
Top 100 Media Topics To Write About In 2023
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Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts
The thesis analyzes how three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, grapple with life-threatening illness that is compounded with other violences to their identities, such as racism and homophobia. ... That practices of the bedroom-study reveal how media and communication ...
Cliff Asness Says Markets Are Less Efficient
Cliff Asness says he sounds like an "old man whinging," but that's not stopping him from writing 23 pages on his latest thesis: Financial markets these days aren't what they were.. The ...