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The guise of deliberation: a rhetorical criticism of arguments in the Yucca Mountain site authorization controversy
(2005)A contemporary controversy in the United States over nuclear waste concerns the 2001 decision to site a national high-level nuclear waste repository in Yucca Mountain in Nevada. This dissertation is a rhetorical criticism, ... -
Handmade Future: A Field-based Inquiry of Innovation through Making and Craft
This project analyzes the impact of mediated discourse on the skills, materials, and tools of innovation through a multi-method, three-part study of “making” practices— a growing method of Do-It-Yourself technology design ... -
Hope for Sustainable Hospitality: Learning to Listen Ethically through Discourses of Difference and Dialogic Philosophy
There are ways of being in the world that create a good and flourishing life and other ways that restrict that life, both for ourselves and others. Listening, as an active communication process that shapes our individual ... -
How teens who are at risk for suicide and who have conflict with parents characterize their parents' communicative behavior
(2002)To better understand how troubled teens perceive their parents' communicative behavior, 77 interviews with teens were analyzed. All of the teens met criteria for being at risk for suicide and all identified conflict with ... -
“I Am a Binary Trans Man and I Love Being Pregnant”: Making Meaning of Pregnancy in Seahorse Dad Narratives
Although there are many ways one can start a family, the culture considers pregnancy one of a woman’s most important life achievements. In other words, the culture privileges biological ties above all else. These cultural ... -
“I Believe All of Us Together Can Raise My Child”: Understanding the Familial Network, Social Support Strategies, and Communication Resilience of Single Black Mothers
Almost a quarter of all U.S. children live in a one-parent household (23%), more than three times the national average of children from any other country worldwide (Livingston, 2018). For decades, this percentage has risen, ... -
Identifying Overlapping Speech Communities through Holographic Methodology: The Case of Signing Communities in Panama
(2014-02-24)In this paper, I offer Holographic Methodology as a new approach for identifying the largely unexplored phenomenon of overlapping speech communities. Based conceptually on recent technological advances in holography, ... -
Identities that divide, identities that unite: News portrayals of intergroup encounters and their effects on outgroup orientations
Media messages help construct and express intergroup perceptions, define boundaries between ingroups and outgroups, and shape a sense of belonging to social groups. Drawing upon social psychology, intergroup and mass ... -
In the Darkroom: International Development Photography and the Naturalistic Enthymeme
This paper compares the darkroom as a transformative space where film photographers developnegative images to international development organizations that aim to bring light to the nearly 1.2 billion people who live without ... -
Interpreting Peace Journalism in East Africa: Individual, Organizational, and Professional Influences
Despite rising scholarly attention to peace journalism content and theory in recent decades, journalists’ perceptions of peace journalism are less well understood. This relative disparity matters to the extent that ... -
Language and media in the promotion of the Breton cultural identity in the European Union
(2001)Prior to the explosion in the number of global communication links in the 20th century, nation-states were the primary international communicators. However, with these new developments, groups both larger and smaller than ... -
Listening Across Difference: Mapping StoryCorps’ Affective Archives
This dissertation explores the affective potential of telling and listening to stories of racialized trauma and resistance in an equity-focused digital storytelling project. I investigate tensions that arise when testimonials ... -
A Little Healthy Competition: The Effects of Press-Government Competition on Institutional Trust
(2014-04-30)This dissertation examined the relationship between the press and the government, and what effect competition between the two institutions has on trust in government and the news media. To do so, it combined a content ... -
Local television crime news visuals and concern about crime: exploring the cultivation process through recall and meaning of visual images
(1994)This study explores cognitive processes involved in cultivation by examining recall and meaning of visual images in local television crime news and their relation to concern about crime. Data were gathered through a content ... -
Manufacturing Consensus: Computational Propaganda and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
This dissertation is an investigation of the ways three political actor groups used and interacted with bots and computational propaganda during the 2016 Presidential Election in the United States of America: political ... -
Media constructions of Scottish national identity though the prism of the new Scottish parliament
(2001)This dissertation examines the media's influence in developments surrounding the implementation of the new Scottish parliament and executive in 1999. Focusing on the central role of the Scottish press, it analyzes the ... -
Mental Health Challenges and Barriers to Telemedicine for Postpartum Women of Color During COVID-19: Examining the Role of Communication Technology
This research examines mental health in postpartum women of color (WOC) during COVID-19 including risk for development of postpartum depression (PPD). Barriers and challenges to PPD treatment via telemedicine are also ... -
Migrants’ Reported Use of Communication Behaviors that Enact Family across Distance
This study investigates reported migrant family communication. It starts by identifying the four key characteristics that combine to distinguish migrant families from other family types: 1) the condition of distance between ... -
Moment or Movement? U.S. News Coverage of Racial Issues in a Digital Era
This dissertation examined how reporters cover racial issues at a time when violence by police against African Americans has risen to a new level of salience among journalists. Drawing on Democratic Theory, I created a ... -
Moving Forward Together: Partisans’ Motivations for Seeking Out Cross-partisan Contact
Affective polarization in American politics is having a detrimental effect on our ability to function as a society, but intergroup contact between people with different political views has the potential to reduce some of ...