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Dissertations from 2024 2024

LEVELING UP: THE RISE OF CHINA’S GAMING INDUSTRY IN THE RECONFIGURATION OF TRANSNATIONAL CAPITALISM, Menglu Lyu

I’m Dreaming of a TV Christmas: Calendrical Experience and Collective Narratives from Dickens to Netflix, Max Romanowski

Transmission Rituals and Ritual Transmissions: A Reclamation of James Carey's Dichotomy, Zachary Sapienza

Dissertations from 2023 2023

Decoding the Public Service Announcements (PSAs) of HIV/AIDS: Evaluating Botswana's AIDS Messages and Their Impact on 15 - 24 Ages, Enole Ditsheko

PEOPLE’S SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HEALTH MISINFORMATION ON WECHAT IN CHINA, Lu Fan

FROM REAL TO REEL: WHITE SUPREMACY AND ITS EVERYDAY HAUNTING OF BLACK LIVES, Abimbola Iyun

The Politics of Mourning: Memory, Disobedience, and the Sewol Ferry Disaster, HyoJeong Lee

“TOWARD ADIPOSITIVITY”: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAT ACTIVISM IN INDIAN MASS COMMUNICATION FROM FILM TO PODCASTING, DIKSHA MITTAL

The Aesthetics of News: Narrative Construction and Media Illiteracy in Contemporary India, Shashidhar Nanjundaiah

Dissertations from 2022 2022

NETWORKED ISSUE AGENDAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLARIZED CAMPAIGNS, NEWS MEDIA, AND PARTY SUPPORTERS, Zahedur Rahman Arman

Dissertations from 2021 2021

THE REVOLUTION IS NOT HAPPENING ON THE LIFETIME NETWORK: A CONJUNCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ARTICULATIONS OF BLACK WOMANHOOD ON LIFETIME’S REALITY TELEVISION PROGRAMS IN THE #SAYHERNAME ERA, Steven Giannino

VISUAL NARRATIVES IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2020: A BATTLE OF BELIEFS, VALUES, & IDEOLOGIES, Marguerite Page

THE MAKING OF THE MAN’S MAN: STARDOM AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF NEOLIBERALISM IN HINDUTVA INDIA, Soumik Pal

Dissertations from 2020 2020

You Only Live Once: Bollywood, Neoliberal Subjectivity and the Hindutva State, Namrata Sathe

Dissertations from 2019 2019

SELECTIVE EXPOSURE THEORY IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA: EXAMINING SELECTIVITY ON TWITTER AMONG STUDENTS AT KUWAIT UNIVERSITY, Mohammad Alotaibi

JOURNALISM AT GROUND ZERO: IMPERIAL WARS AND PRECARIOUS LABOR IN FRONTLINE NEWS PRODUCTION IN PAKISTAN, SYED IRFAN ASHRAF

"IT'S SO HARD TO BE ME": REBELDE AND THE SUBGENRE OF THE TEEN TELENOVELA IN MEXICO, Laura Veronica Jimenez Morales

TALKING ABOUT RACE AND GENDER WITH TINDER: RACED AND GENDERED VISIBILITY OF NON-WHITE WOMEN, Jin Lee

FIRST COMES LOVE: RITUAL AND DOMESTICITY IN THE ASPIRATIONAL LEISURE-LABOR ECONOMY OF THE 21ST CENTURY, Jennifer Sigler

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Second Story Television: Multi-Camera Sitcom Spaces, Objects, and the Suburban Spatial Imaginary, Simone D. Becque

Tinkering with Student Speech in the Age of Social Media, Lola A. Burnham

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION AS A SITE OF STRUGGLE: STATE, CAPITAL, AND PRECARITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CHINESE DOCUMENTARY, Jiachun Hong

THE APPS OF MONTAGE: THE MOBILE SCREEN AND THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF IN SOUTH KOREA, Mi Young Park

Dissertations from 2017 2017

SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HIV/AIDS IN RURAL AMERICA: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN OPTIMIZING CARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS., Angela Anima-Korang

To Produce and Persist: A Dialectical Investigation of Purpose in Commercial Stereophony, Kelly Heath Caringer

Dating_MissRepresentation.Com: Black Women's Lived Love-Hate Relationship With Online Dating, James Henry Johnson

REVISITING THE COGNITIVE MEDIATION MODEL IN THE DIGITAL AGE: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF FACEBOOK AS A VENUE FOR NEWS AND POLITICAL INFORMATION SOURCES, FACEBOOK USE AND CREDIBILITY AMONG NEW MEDIA USERS IN SOUTH KOREA AND THE UNITED STATES, Chee Youn Kang

IN PURSUIT OF A BLACK IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA: CULTURE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN WEDDING REALITY TV SHOWS, TV AUDIENCE COMMENTS, AND WEDDING SPEECHES, Lindani Memani

EGGS UNDER THE RED FLAG AND BEYOND: THE CINEMA OF THE FIFTH GENERATION AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF CHILDHOOD, Haoyue Zhang

Dissertations from 2016 2016

MEDIA AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: ANALYSIS OF WAR AND PEACE FRAMES IN THE BOKO HARAM CRISIS COVERAGE, Ngozi Akinro

CRACKING THE WORLD SYSTEM: MEDIATING PUBLIC PEDAGOGIES FROM THE “WORLD REVOLUTION” OF 1848, James Kepley Anderson

TURKISH FANTASY FICTION FILMS THEN AND NOW: AN ANALYSIS OF FANTASY FILMS PRODUCED IN EARLY 1970s TURKEY, Iclal Alev Degim

Unbiasing Information Search and Processing through Personal and Social Identity Mechanisms, Benjamin A. Lyons

(RE)CONSTRUCTING ETHNIC IDENTITIES: DIGITAL MEDIA AS AN IMPORTANT PLATFORM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF KOREAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S., Jiwoo Park

Dissertations from 2015 2015

FROM "INDEXING" OFFICIALS TO "INDEXING" THE PUBLIC: KUWAITI NEWSPAPERS AGENDA BUILDING, NEWS INDEXING AND TWITTER USE IN KARAMAT WATAN PROTESTS, 2012, Fawaz M. Alajmi

THE USE OF FACEBOOK IN THE EGYPTIAN JANUARY 25TH REVOLUTION: THE SPIRAL OF VOICE PROCESS, Mohammed Abdulrahman Al-Emad

An examination of privacy in the socio-technological context of Big Data and the socio-cultural context of China, Tao Fu

Monitor Men: An Intertextual Analysis of Motion Pictures Directed by George Clooney, Mark Jefferey McCleerey

DIET, EXERCISE, AND SMARTPHONES - A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATIONS FOR WEIGHT LOSS, Rajvee Subramanian

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Addicted to the Addict: Hollywood's Sinuous Relationship With the Drug-Addict in the 1970s, Bryan Brown

Thinking Holistically versus Analytically: Exploring the Impact of Culture on Consumers' Cognitive Responses to Ads, Yang Feng

IN THE WEB WE CONNECT: USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA IN THE U.S., Mohammad Delwar Hossain

A Family Affair: The Political Economy of Media Ownership in the Republic of Korea (1998-2012), Chunhyo Kim

In Search of Home: How Kenyans Domiciled in the USA Negotiate Transnational Identities Online., Henry Edward Kyeyune

INTERMEDIA AGENDA-SETTING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLITICAL BLOGS AND LEGACY NEWS MEDIA: A STUDY OF THE `OBAMA-IS-A-MUSLIM' RUMOR, Md. Abu Naser

PATHWAYS TO DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP: THE MEDIATING ROLES OF DELIBERATION AND POLITICAL EFFICACY IN THE EFFECTS OF OLD AND NEW MEDIA USE ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN SOUTH KOREA, Chang Sup Park

Cinematic Accounts of a Neoliberal Hong Kong: Post-1997 Urban Cinema and the Human Cost of Neoliberalization, Mark Walters

Inflammatory and Conciliatory Rhetoric in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Content Analysis of How Three Newspapers Covered Two Provocative Events, Oliver R. Witte

Dissertations from 2013 2013

From Star Trek to Siri: (Dis)Embodied Gender and the Acousmatic Computer in Science Fiction Film and Television, Liz W. Faber

Mediating the Bubble: ESPN's SportsCenter's Coverage of the NCAA men's Basketball Bubble, Scott David Lambert

FARMING OUT THE NEWS: AN ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE COVERAGE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NEWSPAPERS USING THE CENTER - PERIPHERY MODEL, Sandra D. Robinson

DEVELOPMENT OR DEPENDENCY? THE EMERGING CHINESE CULTURAL-LINGUISTIC TV MARKET AND IDOL TV DRAMA IN TAIWAN AND CHINA, Yuhui Tai

Watching the Watchdogs: Defining Journalists in the United States, Wendy Marie Weinhold

Dissertations from 2012 2012

SAVE `US' AND LET `THEM' DIE: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF HOW NEW YORK TIMES SOLD U.S. POLICIES TOWARD RWANDAN GENOCIDE AND KOSOVO CRISIS, Kiran K. Bharthapudi

Image Bodies, Avatar Ontologies: Rendering the Virtual in Digital Culture, Adam M. Davis

MEN'S MAGAZINES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY IN TAIWAN, CHINGSHAN JIANG

"Was Anyone Out There Watching Last Night?": The Creation and Early History of New England Sport Network, 1980-1989, Tanya Lee Lovejoy

Monster Mothers and the Confucian Ideal: Korean Horror Cinema in the Park Chung Hee Era, Eunha Oh

Dissertations from 2011 2011

CONSTRUCTING THE WEST IN CHINESE MAGAZINE ADVERTISING: A CONTENT AND SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS, Ying Huang

WHAT EVOKES QUALITY OPINIONS ONLINE? AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF ONLINE POLITICAL DISCUSSION CONTENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING PEOPLE'S INTENTION TO EXPRESS DISAGREEMENT ONLINE, Xudong Liu

Dissertations from 2010 2010

ADVERTISING A VIRTUAL WORLD: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CHINESE AND U.S. VIDEO GAME ADVERTISEMENTS, Yong Cao

Youth-Generated Media in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, Joseph F. Khalil

Assimilation, Rejection or Convergence? The Role of the Bilingual Press in San Antonio, Texas, Mary O'Donnell

Campaigning for Real Beauty or Reinforcing Social Norms? An Analysis of the Correlation of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and Advertisements in Fashion Magazines, Sara J. Roedl

Dissertations from 2009 2009

Too Many Theories Or Too Many Skills? The Perceived Impact Of Theoretical Knowledge Of Mass Communication Among Journalists And Public Relations Practitioners, Ying Li

PUBLICIZING THE AFRICAN CAUSE: EVALUATING GLOBAL MEDIA DISCOURSES REGARDING THE CELEBRITY-LED "MAKE POVERTY HISTORY" CAMPAIGN, Dorothy Wanjiku Njoroge

Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema, Kwang Woo Noh

KAAY's Beaker Street 1966-1977: Late Nights Of Underground Radio Programming, From Little Rock To The Western Hemisphere, On The Airwaves Of The Nighttime Voice Of Arkansa, Richard Cyril Robinson

Climate Change in the Changing Climate of News Media: A Comparative Analysis of Mainstream Media and Blog Coverage of Climate Change in the United States and the People's Republic of China, 2005-2008, Lei Xie

Dissertations from 2008 2008

BOTTLED FANTASIES: COLLEGE STUDENTS' INTERPRETATIONS OF ALCOHOL ADVERTISING AND ITS EFFECTS, Yanjun Zhao