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Digitally Mediated Political Participation: Understanding the Democratic Impact of Internet Diffusion in the Asian Media Systems
This dissertation is devoted to an examination of the democratic impact that internet diffusion has on political participation in East and Southeast Asia. To begin with, I conceptualize digitally mediated political ... -
‘We report the world as it is, not as we want it to be’: Journalistic negotiation of news routines, roles and responsibilities when reporting on suicide
Media coverage of suicide can play a pivotal role in raising public awareness of an important public health issue. But research suggests that reporting on suicide can potentially influence vulnerable individuals to emulate ... -
Competing "Host" Discourses: Appropriation of Australian Aboriginal Culture in the Tourism Borderzones
As one of the largest global industries (WTTC, 2012), tourism is a powerful force in shaping intercultural knowledge (Bunten, 2010; Causey, 2003; Diamond, 2011). Through marketing and globally projected websites, government ... -
The American Newsroom: A Social History, 1920 to 1960
One of the most important centering places in American journalism remains the newsroom, the heart of the occupation’s vocational community since the middle of the nineteenth century. It is where journalists have engaged ... -
The Rhetoric of Social Robots: How Consumerism is Shaping Perceptions of Robotic Ontology
Early producers of robots in the emerging social robotics space rely heavily upon polysemy to present their products as both possessing an anthropomorphic ontology and being consumer products for sale. The receptional ... -
Digital Media and Campaign Practices in Nigeria: Ekiti State Governorship Election
This is a study of the digital campaign practices of a winning opposition candidate in a governorship election in Ekiti state, Nigeria. The study was conducted through i) qualitative content analysis of news reports and ... -
“TEACH US THE TRUTH” The Controversy Over Advanced Placement United States History
In fall of 2014, the College Board released a new Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH) framework written over seven years by a panel of professional historians. By shifting the focus of the framework from content ... -
Caring for Caregivers: Assessing the Influence of Expressive Writing on Cancer Caregivers’ Emotional Well-being, Relational Satisfaction, and Comforting Sensitivity
The reception of social support is a known predictor of psychological and physical well-being, with research suggesting that increases in recipient well-being are more likely to ensue when a support provider offers high ... -
The Public Imperative: Civic Engagement, News Media, and Digital Politics in the Tea Party Movement
This dissertation explored a dimension of American political culture that is likely to be relevant to individuals and social movements seeking political change. I proposed that we share a familiar, yet mostly implicit, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Corpus-Linguistic Analysis of News Coverage in Kenya's Daily Nation and Great Britain's Times
This study uses institutional theory and corpus linguistics to understand the differences between press systems. Institutional theory suggests that institutions, including the press, develop some shared characteristics ... -
From the Village to the Global Village: An Alternative Model of Collective Action in Digital Media Networks
This dissertation tests whether the difference in numbers of civic digital campaigns across countries, normalized by population and number of internet users, is explained by a multi-theoretical perspective that integrates ... -
Supporting the Supporter: Social Support, Stress, and Well-being among Caregivers of Children with Severe Disabilities
The social, economic, and physical costs associated with providing long-term care for a person with disabilities can be debilitating. Caregivers frequently experience burnout, emotional distress, and significant health ... -
Channel Choice as a Relational Message
The process of communicating relational meaning is complex and involves the interplay of relational goals, messages, and frames. Relational meaning is often sent through nonverbal cues, which are important sources of social ... -
Alpha, Beta, Gamma Males: Asian/American Men and Audience Research
Through an audience reception analysis, this paper exposes and explores issues surrounding the expression of Asian/American masculinity and argues the importance of transnationality in intercultural communication and ... -
Activism Success: A Concept Explication
Activism is all around us, but its mechanics are little understood and explanations are often idiosyncratic, focusing on particular activism efforts rather than empirically exploring broad patterns. In an effort to create ... -
Validating Vaccines: Understanding the Rhetorical Dynamics of Expertise Amid a Manufactured Controversy
This dissertation examined the rhetorical dynamics of expertise around a manufactured science-based controversy. Using the ongoing debate surrounding vaccine-induced autism as a case study, this work explored the persuasive ... -
The Frictions and Flows of Data-Intensive Transformations: A Comparative Study of Discourses, Practices, and Structures of Digital Health in the U.S. and India
This dissertation examined the social and organizational implications of data-intensive transformations in healthcare through studying digital health and processes of informationalization in the U.S. and India. These ... -
Storytelling and Networking on Tibet: Relationships between narratives, framing and networks within and between two oppositional issue networks
This study is centered on issues of storytelling, persuasion, and politics on websites: how stories are made accessible on the web and how these stories are asserted as truths. This study analyzes these issues through ...
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