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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 ... -
Multimedia in the Mainstream: Analyzing Legacy News Traditions in Online Journalism
(2012-09-13)Newspapers, radio stations, and television stations are balancing the demands of a legacy product with the demands of putting material on the Web. Today information can be conveyed in multiple content forms--text, images, ... -
New Economy, Who Dis?: A comparative analysis of technology and economic recovery in the business press
Recently, terms such as the “fourth industrial revolution”, or the “second machine age”, have been used both in the business press and by academics to describe the current era of technological development. Embedded in these ... -
Not like us?: The professional boundaries of American and British journalism in the digital age
Journalists increasingly face challenges to their professional autonomy. The internet allows anyone with a computer or mobile device to post content online, making it easy for individuals with little or no journalistic ... -
One Voice Among Many: Forepersons, Juries, and the Importance of Communication
Jury forepersons are fundamental to the deliberations over which they preside, and thus our justice system. This dissertation explored who became jury forepersons, how they were selected, how they communicated and behaved ... -
Ordinary Outsiders: Transnational Content Creation and the Reclamation of Agency by “Foreign” Women in South Korea
This project explores the online content and lived experiences of “foreign” women who create social media content about their lives in South Korea. The commercialization of social media has led to increased pressure to ... -
The “Other-Words”: Connecting Integrity, Respect, and Responsible Disagreement about Science
In this dissertation, using an assemblage of contemporary moral philosophy, and classical and modern-day rhetorical theory I examine “responsible disagreement” in historical and current contexts of science. Analyzing such ... -
Political discussion and deliberative democracy in immigrant communities
(2013-07-23)In this dissertation, I set out to build our understanding of how Latino immigrants learn to participate in and talk about politics in the United States. First, I develop a framework for analyzing political discussion from ... -
The Problem of Perversion: Zizek, Rhetoric, and Materiality
(2014-02-24)Within rhetorical studies, the last decade and a half has witnessed a substantial resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis. This thesis situates the resurgence of psychoanalysis within the broader context of ... -
The Process of Networked Civic Innovation: Examining the Role of Values, Resources, and Power in Community-Based Technology Projects
This dissertation examines the social organizational implications of community-based innovation processes. Expanding upon existing literature, I study new forms of organizing in new innovation contexts. I call this process ... -
Production Misalignment: a Threat to Public Knowledge
On Wikipedia, when a high-interest topic is poorly-covered—either it is incomplete or contains inaccurate information—public knowledge is threatened. Contributors on Wikipedia are volunteers: they’re not assigned to track ...