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Dissertations from 2025

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Covering China at the Crossroads: Unpacking the Community of Chinese Transnational Journalists, Weile Zhou

Dissertations from 2024

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A Friendlier White Genocide Myth: How Framing Influences Support for Bigoted Immigration Policy, Allison Betus

Dissertations from 2023

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Black Genealogies Matter in U.S. Genealogy Tourism: A Content Analysis of Family Heritage Books and Plan for the HBCUHeritageHome.com, Pamela E. Foster

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Addressing Rural America’s Suicide Disparity Among Men: How Mental Health Stigma Is Communicated Through Storytelling Networks, Lindsey Hand

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Motivations for Providing Social Support on Social Media, Yuehan Liu

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The Interplay of Technological Affordances, Audience, and Context in Shaping Feminist Discourse: A Study of #Neverthelessshepersisted on Twitter and Instagram, Virginia Massignan

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Rhetorics of Cancer in America, Christopher J. Wernecke

Dissertations from 2022

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Memory in the time of COVID, William HY Canter

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Naturalism and Process Ontology for Rhetorical Theory and Methodology: Reconsidering the Ideological Tautology, Caleb M. Cates

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Image Frames, Cascading Activation, and Formation of Foreign Policy: A Case Study of the 2012 Benghazi Attacks, Michael Jablonski

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Expanding Identities and Advancing Global Citizenship of Underrepresented U.S. Higher Education Students Through International Virtual Exchange, Janita Poe

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Receiver Factors and Persuasive Communication: Strategies to End Factory Farming that Encourage Meat Reduction among American Flexitarians, Allen Zimmerman

Dissertations from 2021

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Webs of Social Support for Mental Health: An Examination of College Students' Social Support Seeking Behavior on Social Media, Dilan Sinem Basaran

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Identity Tetris: Transnational Muslim NGOs within Global Contexts, Nagham El Karhili

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Imagined Economics: An Analysis of Non-state Actor Economic Messaging, Ayse Lokmanoglu

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“Maintaining Frame” in the Incelosphere: Mapping the Discourses, Representations and Geographies of Involuntary Celibates Online, Meredith L. Pruden

Dissertations from 2020

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How Do Teachers’ Childhood and Adolescent Bullying Victimization Experiences Influence Their Responses to Bullying in the Classroom?, Kelley D. Alexander

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Displacing the "Black Mecca": Romanticizing or Witnessing African American Historical Trajectories in the Case of the Atlanta BeltLine, Rhana Gittens

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The impacts of new technologies on physical activities: Based on fitness app use and fitness social media postings, Hyungmin Kim

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Contested Patrimony: A Thematic Analysis of Guyana’s Newspaper Framing of Oil Discoveries, Journalistic Challenges Navigating the Sector and Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Media Representation, Carolyn B. Walcott

Dissertations from 2019

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Democratic Social Movement Framing Dynamics: Framing of the Oromo Protest Movement by the International News Media, Oromo Activists, International Human Rights Groups, and the Ethiopian Government Officials, Seifu A. Adem

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The Love of My Sisters: Exploring Black Women Academics’ Narratives on the Uses and Benefits of Sister Circles, LaVette M. Burnette

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The Henrietta Hypothesis: Redefining Crisis Communication Practice For Women’s Health Organizations, Monica L. Ponder

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Visceral Whiteness: Public Memory and (Dis)Comfort in 'Post-Racial' Narratives about Slavery and Civil Rights in America, John Russell

Dissertations from 2018

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Privacy in the age of Snowden: The Affective Infrastructure of Late Liberalism., Jason Derby

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Dissecting Visual Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of ISIS and the Egyptian Military's Photographs in 2016-2017, Kareem El Damanhoury

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Forgiveness Communication During End-of-Life: Perspectives From Surviving Loved Ones, Carmen Goman

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The Filibuster As Populist Transcendence: The Deliberative, Dramatic, And Spectacular Forms Of Talking A Bill To Death, Evan Layne Johnson

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Beyond the Scripted Presidency: Heckling's Affective Ripples, Milene Ortega Ribeiro

Dissertations from 2017

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Love, Touch and the Documentary Project, Laurel Ahnert

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Neo-Fascism and the State: The Negotiation of National Identity in Modern Russia, Hanna Baranchuk

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Transnational Presidential Rhetoric and the Global Imaginary: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, Zoe Carney

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Cinemas of Endurance, Adam Cottrel

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A Hip-Hop Joint: Thinking Architecturally About Blackness, Lauren Cramer

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Discourse and Network Analysis of Iran Expertise in the U.S., Esmaeil Esfandiary

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Newsworthiness Guidelines for a Socially Responsible Press: Aligning Definitions at the Intersection of Journalism, Ethics, and the Law, Megan Hodgkiss

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To (A)Void: Rhetorical Shifts, Significant Absences, and Absent Signification in The Bush Administration’s Justificatory Iraq War Rhetoric, Mina Ivanova

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Narrative Change in Professional Wrestling: Audience Address and Creative Authority in the Era of Smart Fans, Christian Norman

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Celebrities’ Climate Change Advocacy on Twitter and its Effects on Public Perception and Behavioral Change, Sejung Park

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Fear vs. Hope: Do Discrete Emotions Mediate Message Frame Effectiveness In Genetic Cancer Screening Appeals, Matthew C. Sones

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New International Broadcasters and the Global Economy: Sites of Contestation, Christopher M. Toula

Dissertations from 2016

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Imagining the Housewife: Mediated Representations of Gender in Post-War America, Nicole Barnes

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Exploring the Obesity-Related Lifestyle Attitudes and Behaviors of African-American Women and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Women in Metro Atlanta, Georgia, Melany Chambers

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Case Study of the “No On 37” Coalition Against the Deceptive Food Labeling Scheme: Public Relations Strategies & Tactics, Ethically Problematic Communication, and the First Amendment, Eugenia Pia Ferrero

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Bodies That Scatter: Sound, Cinema, Figure, Form, Justin Horton

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Doc Mcstuffins: How African American Preschoolers Interpret Entertainment-Education Messages, Shajobia Keys

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Queering Images of Citizenship: Rhetoric, Representation, and LGBTI Refugees, Emily Kofoed

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Likes, Posts, and Tweets Oh My: Social Media and The Practice of Excellence in Public Relations Within Professional Sports Organizations, Trayce Leak

Dissertations from 2015

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The February 20th Movement Communication Strategies: Towards Participatory Politics, Houda Abadi

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Presidential Rhetoric at the United Nations: Cosmopolitan Discourse and the Management of International Relations, Andrew D. Barnes

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Entertainment-Education To Increase Self-Efficacy And Reduce Counterarguing: HIV/AIDS Prevention And African Americans, Tonia N. East-Phanor

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Representations of African American Women on Reality Television After the Great Recession, Steven Herro

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Viewers' Involvement and Responses to an Entertainment Narrative in the Personal Television Environment, Sangmi Lee

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Sonic Vocality: A Theory on the Use of Voice in Character Portrayal, Cindy Milligan

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Comparing Effects of Public Service Announcements on Young Adults' Perception of the R-word, Vangelia Morris

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"Hello Shoppers?" - Themed Spaces, Immersive Popular Culture Exhibition, and Museum Pedagogy, Ian Peters

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The Digital Logic of Death, Steven Pustay

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Global Playground: Mutualism, the Ethic of World Citizenship, and the Films of Dayyan Eng, Munib Rezaie

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A Rhetorical Analysis of George Jackson's Soledad Brother: A Class Critical and Critical Race Theory Investigation of Prison Resistance, Nick J. Sciullo

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Seeking Sexual Health Information from Romantic Partners: Testing an Application and Extension of the Theory of Motivated Information Management, Michael Tannebaum

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The Evolution of Cable Network Branding: Time Warner in the Post-Network Era, 2001-2011, Darcey West

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Post-Feminism, Shaming, and Wedding-Themed Reality Television, Katharine P. Zakos

Dissertations from 2014

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From Splicing To Dicing: Film Sound Design Goes Digital In The 1990s, Vanessa Ament-Gjenvick

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The Mobile Savage: Presidential Peace Rhetoric and the Perpetuation of Enemies, Stephen Heidt

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Digital image politics: The visual rhetoric of Anonymous, Jason Jarvis

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Institutionalized Speech: The Presidency and the Domestic Auto Industry, Steve A. Stuglin

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The Rhetorical City: (Re)Arranging and (Dis)Placing Atlanta's Urban Space, Scott Tulloch

Dissertations from 2013

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Oblique Optics: Seeing the Queerness of Ec-static Images, Kristopher L. Cannon

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The Rhetoric of Louis E. Martin, "Godfather of Black Politics", Kristina E. Curry

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The Role of The Media in a Precarious Plural Democracy: The Case of Lebanon, May Fawaz

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I am a Revolutionary Black Female Nationalist: A Womanist Analysis of Fulani Sunni Ali's Role as a New African Citizen and Minister of In-formation in the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa, Rondee Gaines

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Profit Margins: The American Silent Cinema and the Marginalization of Advertising, Jeremy W. Groskopf

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Nothing But the Truthiness: A History of Television News Parody and its Entry into the Journalistic Field, Curt W. Hersey

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The Ontological Scandal of Corporate Personhood and Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis of Key Supreme Court Decisions, Nneka Logan

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The Last Stone is Just the Beginning: A Rhetorical Biography of Washington National Cathedral, Teresa F. Morales

Dissertations from 2012

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Vernacular Posthumanism: Visual Culture and Material Imagination, Drew R. Ayers

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Phenomenal Bodies: The Metaphysical Possibilities of Post-Black Film and Visual Culture, Michele P. Beverly

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Subterranean Dissent in the Okefenokee Swamp: The Life and Politics of Walt Kelly's 1950s POGO, James E. Black Dr.

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Exploring Subtext Processing in Narrative Persuasion: The Role of Eudaimonic Entertainment Use Motivation and a Supplemental Conclusion Scene, Elizabeth L. Cohen

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Strategies of Narrative Disclosure in the Rhetoric of Anti-Corporate Campaigns, Richard A. Herder

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Reconsidering Testimonial Forms and Social Justice: A Study of Official and Unofficial Testimony in Chile, T. Randahl C. Morris

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The Critical Eye: Re-Viewing 1970s Television, Karen C. Petruska PhD

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Mass Media and Representation: a Critical Comparison of the CCTV and NBC Presentations of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games, James R. Schiffman

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"Doing it For The Dudes": A Comparative Ethnographic Study of Performative Masculinity in Heavy Metal and Hardcore Subcultures, John Ike Sewell Jr.

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Black Public Creative Figures in the Neo-Racial Moment: An Analysis of Tyra Banks, Tyler Perry and Shonda Rhimes, 2005-2010, Danielle E. Williams

Dissertations from 2011

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Rhetorical Failures, Psychoanalytic Heroes: A Psychorhetoric of Social Change, Kimberly D. Huff

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Webs of Resistance: The Citizen Online Journalism of the Nigerian Digital Diaspora, Farooq A. Kperogi

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Competing Image Vernaculars in the Anti-lynching Movement of the 1930's, Samuel P. Perry

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Facebook Friendships between College/University Instructors and Students: Deciding Whether or Not to Allow Students as Friends, Communicating with Students, and the Individual Differences that Influence Instructors' Impression Management on Facebook, Melissa S. Plew

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The Playful Audience: Professional Wrestling, Media Fandom, and the Omnipresence of Media Smarks, Shane Matthew Toepfer

Dissertations from 2010

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Jake Wells Enterprises and the Development of Urban Entertainments in the South, 1890-1925, Eric Dewberry

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Corruptions of the Flesh: The Body, Subjectivity, Postmodernity, Larrie Dudenhoeffer

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Unnamed Sources: A Longitudinal Review of the Practice and its Merits, Matt J. Duffy

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Strategic Positioning: UNESCO's Use of Argumentation to Encourage a U.S. Return to Membership, Jared L. Johnson

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Recovering Hyperbole: Re-Imagining the Limits of Rhetoric for an Age of Excess, Joshua R. Ritter

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Mexican Cinema in a Global Age: The Films of Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu, Stacy S. Rusnak

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The Paranoid Style in an Age of Suspicion: Conspiracy Thinking and Official Rhetoric in Contemporary America, Chara Kay Van Horn

Dissertations from 2009

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Constructing Professionalism: Reifying the Historical Inevitability of Commercialization in Mass Media Communication, RuAnn Rae Keith

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Building Subcultural Community Online and Off: An Ethnographic Analysis of the CBLocals Music Scene, Bryce James McNeil

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Self-Presentation and Social Interaction on Blogs: A Structural Equation Modeling of the Uses and Gratifications of Blogging, Qing Tian