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Theses from 2023

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The Contribution of Saudi Female Journalists in Newspapers: Before and After Saudi Vision 2030, Razan Aljohani

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Memes, Themes, and Rhetorical Schemes: Analyzing the themes and rhetorical devices used by meme creators in American political internet memes in the first week of the Ukrainian-Russian War, Edward B. Zimmerman

Theses from 2022

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“Better Than We Found It”: A Persuasive Narrative & Its Impact, Alexandra Holzworth

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The Identity of Yoga: Contemporary Vs. Traditional Yogic Discourse, Octavia Nasr

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Hijacked Christianity: How An Aberrant Eschatology Enables A Grievance Culture That Supplants Christian Grace For An Extremist Meritocracy, David Sharp

Theses from 2021

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The Influence of Relatedness on Emotional Brand Attachment with Fitness-Oriented Non-Profits: A Self-Determination Theory Approach, Alexander Castiglione

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Mammies, Sapphires, and Jezebels Don’t Marry: Televised Media, Black Stereotypes, and Low Marriage Rates, Aysha LaBon

Theses from 2020

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Jammu and Kashmir during the Communication Blackout: A Textual Analysis of Indian News Coverage, Akansha Sirohi

Theses from 2018

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Stronger: An Examination of the Effects of the Strong Black Woman Narrative through the Lifespan of African American Women, Verinique Bailey

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Attitudes Towards Depression And Suicide: An Analysis Of News Coverage and Online Comments on Nigerian News Sites, Oluwamayomikun Lawal

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The Curvy Girl Handbook vs. the Industry: A Unique Body Image in a One-Track Business, Jessica Wise

Theses from 2017

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Content Is President: The Influence of Netflix on Taste, Politics and The Future of Television, Alanna Esack

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The Chinese Image in Sino-Hollywood Co-Produced Blockbusters During the Era of Globalization, Zhewen Song

Theses from 2016

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Interactive Social Selling and Relationship Management on WeChat, Ying Sun

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“Beloved Be the Ones Who Sit Down”: Aesthetics and Political Affect in Roy Andersson’s “Living” Trilogy, Ella Tucan

Theses from 2015

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The Chromophilic Chromophobe: Transference of Racial Otherness in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Reginald Hill

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Legislation as a Site of Contested Meaning in United States Congressional Debates, John Rountree

Theses from 2014

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Step Into a Blue Funk: Transversal Color and Derek Jarman's Blue, Daren Fowler

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Global Audience Participation in the Production and Consumption of Gangnam Style, Soo keung Jung

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The Nonhuman Lives of Videogames, Cameron Kunzelman

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Making it in America: How Charles Dickens and His Cunning Manager George Dolby Made Millions from a Performance Tour of The United States, 1867-1868, Jillian Martin

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The Clinton Administration's Use of Hermeneutic Opportunities in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide During the Bosnia and Rwanda Genocides, Kimberly Overmier

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Ethics in Photojournalism: Authenticity and Sensitivity in Coverage of Tragic Events, Minla Linn Shields

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Untouchable Hunger: Framing Of Childhood Poverty In India, May 2012-April 2014, Amber L. Welch

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Comparative Modalities of Network Neutrality, Kyle Wrather

Theses from 2013

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Practicing Work, Perfecting Play: League of Legends and the Sentimental Education of E-Sports, Neal C. Hinnant

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Health Safety-Net Crisis: A Case Study of News Discourse, Cecilia F. Mitchell

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The Reality Of Televised Jezebels and Sapphires: Blogs and the Negative Stereotypes of African American Women on Reality Television, Safiya E. Reid

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The Bulgarian Horrors Through the Eyes of an American Journalist: J. A. MacGahan's Role in the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire 1876-1878, Miglena Sandmeier

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American Masculinity and Homosocial Behavior in the Bromance Era, Diana Sargent

Theses from 2012

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Discussing Online: The Slow Food Movement Quickens with New Media, Carolyn Bender

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Image Trends in Corporate Environmental Reporting: Bolstering Reputation through Transparency or Widening the “Sustainability Gap”?, Sarah E. Brooks

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Representations of Haiti in Western News Media: Coverage of the January 2010 Earthquake in Haiti, Hillary L. Brown

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Playing for Resistance in MMORPG: Oppositional Reading, Emergence, and Hegemony in the Lineage II "Bartz Liberation War", Yoon Sang Cho

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First Impressions, Second Appraisals: Going Beyond the “Paratextual Contract” in The American Televisual Opening Title Sequence, Erik K. Clabaugh

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Abracadabra: Key Agents of Mediation that Define, Create, and Maintain TV Fandom, David H. Gardner

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Another Brick in the Wall: Public Space, Visual Hegemonic Resistance, and the Physical/Digital Continuum, Daniel Gilmore

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Understanding Diversity: Top Executives' Perceptions of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Public Relations, Amber H. Irizarry

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Engaging Mexican and Mexican-American Mothers in Schools: Using Culture, Acculturation, and the Situational Theory of Publics to Motivate Parental Involvement, Linda C. Perez

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Product Placement Decisions On-Set, Maria Flavia T. Pulliam

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Friend Request Accepted: A Case Study of Facebook's Expansionary Network Strategies in India, Devna Thapliyal

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Remember, Anthony C. Vines

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Deadly Viper Character Assassins: Cyber Discourse on Asian American Marginalization and Identity, Eileen Wang

Theses from 2011

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Team Edward or Team Jacob? The Portrayal of Two Versions of the "Ideal" Male Romantic Partner in the Twilight Film Series, Paola A. Bedoya

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Communicating with the World: History of Rhetorical Responses to International Crisis and the 2007 U.S. National Strategy for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication, Laurel R. Berryman

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"To Blaze Forever in a Blazing World": Queer Reconstruction and Cultural Memory in the Works of Alan Moore, Michael T. Besozzi

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No Angel: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Nadja Benaissa in the U.K., U.S. and Germany, Elizabeth A. Cantrell

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Identification is Persuasion: Eisenhower’s Call for Unity and the Founding of NATO’s Military Headquarters, Debra N. Fossum

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The Flow of the Water: Contemporary American Realisms, Justin Horton

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The Glitch Aesthetic, Rebecca Jackson

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Online Gaming and Teamwork, Lakshmi Jagad Ms.

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A House in the Middle of the Road: Serbia's Otpor Movement and its Strategies of Nonviolent Resistance, Jelena Kelava

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Disney's Portrayal of Nonhuman Animals in Animated Films Between 2000 and 2010, Oana Leventi-Perez

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Rhetoric and Rupture: A Theory of the Event, Robert Mills

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Veiled Politics: Legitimating the Burqa Ban in the French Press, Anne Roberts

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Discourse Analysis of Public Debate over U.S. Government Faith-Based Initiative of 2001, Vincente S. Scott

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Twitter's Impact on Sports Journalism Practice: Where a New Medium Meets and Old Art, Kyle Sears

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Constructing Asian/American Women on Screen, Charleen M. Wilcox

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Imagining Queerness: Sexualities in Underground Films in the Contemporary P. R. China, Jin Zhao

Theses from 2010

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Framing Autism Causes and Prevelance: A Content Analysis of Television Evening News Coverage--1994 Through April 2010, Angela S. Colson

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[Redacted Text] and Surveillance: An Ideographic Analysis of the Struggle between National Security and Privacy, Eric M. Connelly

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Cultural Play at the Crazy Horse Colossus: Narrative, Thomas M. Cornwell

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A Balancing Act Between Nationalism and Globalism: A Comparison of Two Chinese Official Newspapers in Portrayal of America 1989-2009, Shuhua Dai

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Nadya Suleman and Kate Gosselin in the Media: Exploring Images of Motherhood and Reproductive Technology, Lisa A. Hanna

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The Failed NC-17 Rating, Screen Violence and Sexuality, and the Viability of the Current MPAA Ratings System, David Wesley James

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The Radical Voice in the Rhetoric of the Tea Party Movement, Joel M. Lemuel

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History in the Making: The Impact of Ideology in Lynne Cheney's Children's Books, Samuel Miller

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What Do They Expect? A Study of the Rhetoric of Job Expectations for First Post-College Jobs Found on Career Webpages of Gender-Dominant Organizations, Catherine Franklin Neiner

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Media Literacy in the United States: A Close Look at Texas, Ava Katherine Ward-Barnes

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The Game of Unity?: The 2007 Cricket World Cup as a Catalyst toward Caribbean Identity Construction, Peta-Gaye J. Wiggan

Theses from 2009

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L337 Soccer Moms: Conceptions of "Hardcore" and "Casual" in the Digital Games Medium, Steven Andrew Boyer

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In the Culture of Truthiness: Comic Criticism and the Performative Politics of Stephen Colbert, Justine Schuchard Holcomb

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The Rhetorical Dimensions of Place-making: Texts, Structures, and Movement in Atlantic Station, Brook Alys Irving

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Radiohead: The Guitar Weilding, Dancing, Singing Commodity, Selena Michelle Lawson

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Hurricane Katrina and the Third World: A Cluster Analysis of the "Third World" Label in the Mass Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina, Paul E. Mabrey III

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Appropriation of Yoga and Other Indigenous Knowledge & Cultural Heritage: A Critical Analysis of the Legal Regime of Intellectual Property Rights, Lok Raj Pokhrel

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Changes in Branding Strategy: A Discourse Analysis of NATO Publications and Speech Regarding its Russian Relationship and the NATO-Russia Council, Alexandra Kornilia Sowers

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Organizational Accessibility and Community Connections: Examining Changes in the Spatial Proximity of Pubic Housing Residents to Social Service Providers and Providers' Responses to Redevelopment, Kimberly Ann Stringer

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Communication Channels, Social Support and Satisfaction in Long Distance Romantic Relationships, Lijuan Yin

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Racial Satire and Chappelle's Show, Katharine P. Zakos

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Gaming Realism in Second Life, Dan Zhang

Theses from 2008

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The Effect of Gay Visual Exemplars on Issue Perceptions in Newspaper Reports, Anita Atwell

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For Better or for Worse? Media Coverage of Marital Rape in the 1978 Rideout Trial, Melissa Anne Bazhaw

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Mourning and Message: Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 Atlanta Funeral as an Image Event, Rebecca Poynor Burns

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Georgia Newspaper Coverage Discovering Conventional Practices of the 'Cherokee Question': Prelude to the Removal, 1828-1832, James Hollister Hobgood, Jr.

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What’s the Story? Framing of Health Issues by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Major Newspapers: A Qualitative Analysis, Kathryn O'Neill Karnes

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Plaza Fiesta: A Re-Imagined Homeland Contributing to Latino Identity and Community, Sarah Lindley Marske

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Contagion from Abroad: U.S. Press Framing of Immigrants and Epidemics, 1891 to 1893, Harriet Moore

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E-health and the Internet: Factors that Influence Doctors' Mediation Behaviors with Patients, Erin Robinson

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UPS and Zoo Atlanta: A Case Study on Corporate Social Responsibility, Karen Saghini

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A Genealogy of Absence & Evil: Tracing the Nation's Borders with Captain America, Christian J. Steinmetz

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Dialectical Relationships in Pre 9/11 and Post 9/11 White Supremacist Discourse, Abigail Smith Williams

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Satellites, Neoliberal Globalization and Global Corporatism, Fangjie Xu

Theses from 2007

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An Internal Communications Analysis of a U.S. Credit Reporting Agency, Styletta Carter

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"My Loss is Your Gain": Examining the Role of Message Frame, Perceived Risk, and Ambivalence in the Decision to Become an Organ Donor., Elizabeth Leigh Cohen

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Civil Religion and Pastoral Power in the George W. Bush Presidency, Kristina E. Curry

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A New Approach to an Old Story: How Generation Y Views and Disseminates Echoes of Vietnam Films as seen in Videos Created by Troops in Iraq, Lindsey Ann Hagan

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Communicating a Crisis: The Public Information Officer's Perspective, Susan Hale

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"Pro-Ana" Web-Log Uses and Gratifications towards Understanding the Pro-Anorexia Paradox, Dana G. Mantella

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Patronizing Speech in Interability Communication toward People with Cognitive Disabilities, Vann Morris