Dissertations and Theses - Communication
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Communicative Ecology of Contraception in Online China: A Culture-centered Approach to Explore Discourse
(2018-11-08)This dissertation explores the role of new media for reconfiguring different components of contraceptive discourses and reconnecting different actors in contraceptive processes. Echoing recent literature, high rates of ... -
Communication as Sequences: Evaluating the Structure and Content of Patient Handoff Communication
(2018-09-25)Handoff communication is a threat to patient safety as they are a source for medical errors. However, there is limited research exploring the nuanced process of handoff communication. Using the theoretical foundations of ... -
#NoBanNoWall: The Executive Order Protests, Connective Action, and Anti-Geopolitics on Twitter
(2018-11-29)This study explores how networked publics collectively negotiate boundary-setting practices of the state, via digital networking tools. Specifically, this research examines the #NoBanNoWall hashtag on Twitter, used ... -
Whose Feminism Is It Anyway? The ‘Empowered Woman’ in Bollywood
(2018-11-20)Mainstream Bollywood has historically represented women within a few static categories be it as a signifier of national identity or as a caricature in the virgin/whore trope. The repurposing of these in contemporary ... -
Tumblr as Platform Architecture, User Experience, and Interaction Artifacts
(2018-07-26)This study of the digital social media platform Tumblr.com that adopts three distinct perspectives in explicating the affordances and constraints that the platform and account holders co-create in patterns of every-day ... -
When A Nobody Becomes A Somebody: Understanding Beauty Bloggers in Thailand
(2018-04-04)This dissertation explores the rise of microcelebrity beauty bloggers in Thailand. It considers beauty blogging as one instance of a larger global phenomenon. The phenomenon includes new types of non-professional cultural ... -
Virtual Space for the Public: Social Media Discussions on the Chinese Two-child Policy
(2017-11-20)China’s newly implemented two-child policy has profoundly affected every family in China as well as its population structure and economic development. It also created much heated discussion among Chinese citizens on social ... -
Old Bridge as a Symbol of Multiculturalism: Global Discourse and Local Narratives in Mostar
(2017-11-28)This ethnographic study explores contested meanings attached to Old Bridge in Mostar, a unique, divided public space and also a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Heritage Site where ... -
Weirdness Takes Work: Using Cultural Capitals to Understand How Freeform Radio DJs Choose Music
(2017-12-01)Despite the wide variety of music available, most listeners tend to consume only a small fraction of it. While studies of musical taste and consumption have noted this problem, there is little (if any) work on musical ... -
Chinese Cyber Nationalism: The 2012 Diaoyu Islands Dispute on Sina Weibo
(2017-11-22)The dissertation examined the dynamics of the 2012 Diaoyu Islands dispute on Sina Weibo across three layers: users, content, and role of platform. At the user layer, the research identifies the prominent users as elite ... -
A Networked Family: How Fans Talk About The Bachelor on Twitter
(2017-11-17)This thesis aimed to research the topic of reality TV, specifically The Bachelor. It discussed how fans perceive and discuss reality TV on Twitter, with methodological interest in qualitatively assessing framing, public ... -
Going Abroad, Staying Connected: Contemporary Media Technology and the Study Abroad Experience
(2017-10-20)The role of study abroad programs in U.S. colleges and universities has grown significantly in recent decades. As the number of student participants in these programs continue to increase, so have questions regarding the ... -
The Privacy of Others
(2017-08-08)Much of the previous work on privacy has centered on the discloser-based behaviors of users and corresponding relational implications of privacy. This dissertation flips the view of privacy and explores information acquisition ... -
Examination of Ehealth Literacy and Health Information Technology Among Persons with Brain Injury
(2017-04-14)The use of online information portals for health information-seeking continues to increase. Particular interest is in the use of these technologies for persons with chronic illnesses, such as brain injury. However, despite ... -
Framing Spaces, Asserting Values: Developing the Global City
(2016-11-21)Achieving global city status has become an apparent priority for city leaders worldwide. Many embrace the global city ideal as a frame for urban development. In arguments for development that align with the global city ... -
Myth, Math and the Money: Media Framing of the U.S. Gender Wage Gap debate from 1980-2014
(2016-11-29)This study seeks to ascertain the possible correlational role media framing plays in public discourse, public opinion, and policy formation related to the contemporary U.S. gender wage gap issue. I consider the linkages ... -
See/Hear: Seeking the Urban ‘Authentic’ in Chicago’s Pilsen, A “Mexican Neighborhood without the Mexicans”
(2016-11-16)As an effect of the globalized economy, the production of urban space in post-industrial cities is catalyzed by its consumptive opportunities rather than by its industrialized labor capacity. These consumptive opportunities ... -
Homosexuality and Premarital Sex Taboos: A Textual Analysis of Six Bollywood Films
(2016-10-19)Indian society has always been steeped in conventions and traditions. Various forces, among them Bollywood in recent times, have helped in scripting changes in society, in the way people react to old ways and embrace the ... -
Exploring Locavores' Perceptions of Place and Mobility
(2016-10-18)As conscious consumerism rises in popularity in wealthy, capitalist nations like the United States, scholars have lamented the lack of similarly widespread support for other, potentially more effective forms of activism. ... -
A Gesture Theory of Communication
(2016-10-18)Framed in a critique of digital and new media studies, this dissertation returns to the roots of the study of communication and interaction in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics to develop ...
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