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Digital Media and Presidential Campaigning in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Study of the 2016 Election in Ghana
The dissertation is a study of how presidential campaigns in new democracies in Sub-Saharan Africa use digital media to organize their teams and mobilize voters, with a focus on the 2016 presidential election in Ghana. ... -
Data science of the social: How the practice is responding to ethical crisis and spreading across sectors
This dissertation is based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork within the Data Science Environment at the University of Washington. Employing a practice-based approach, it focuses on two processes involved in "data ... -
The Rhetoric of Bitcoin: Money, Politics, and the Construction of Blockchain Communities
The rise of Bitcoin and related digital currencies has been accompanied by a proliferation of discourse about these technologies, including debates about their value and status as forms of money. This dissertation examines ... -
Constructing Journalism Practice Between the Global and the Local: Lessons From the Rwandan Journalism Field
This dissertation shows how the journalism field in Rwanda is constructed, including how journalists learn their social role, how they decide what news they will publish, and what factors enable some journalists to produce ... -
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 ... -
Creativity Readiness in Crisis Communications: How Crisis Communicators’ Ability to be Creative is Impacted at the Individual, Work Team, and Organizational Levels
In recent years, the global environment in which modern organizations operate has been dominated by a 24-hour news cycle, rapid information flows, demanding increased sensitivities to diverse populations, and intense ... -
Building Recovery Capital: The Role of Cooperative Behavior in a Community Support Institution
Contemporary scholars and addiction professionals agree that person- and community-centered approaches to recovery from substance misuse are most effective in establishing sustainable change. Recovery Capital is one concept ... -
Whiteness in American Life: Communication and Race in the Era of Donald Trump
This thesis explored how a collection of individuals self-identifying as white liberals communicated about race in a challenging U.S. cultural moment. Within a few weeks of the white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, ... -
Density dependence without resource partitioning on an online petitioning platform
Online petitions are a collective action tactic that leverages digital affordances in pursuit of discursive opportunities. Prior efforts to explain why some petitions are more successful than others emphasize signer ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Speaking up: Down-ballot candidate communication, Clinton, Trump, and the election that surprised America
This dissertation examined legislative candidates’ public communications about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, via three forms of analysis. Specifically, I employed content analysis ... -
Talking About Mindfulness: Portrayals in Diverse Communication Communities
Mindfulness as a concept and a practice has gained significant recognition, referenced and employed in academic studies and the popular press, among other communities. Within these literatures, broad conclusions are often ... -
Converging Media and Divergent Bodies: Articulations of Powerful Women in the Ultimate Fighting Championship
Most television channels, websites, mobile applications, and video games dedicated to sports reveal a stark underrepresentation of female athletes even though girls and women avidly participate in athletics. Feminist ... -
Feast or Famine in the Public Sphere: A Content Analysis of Links Shared in Civic Conversations on Reddit
It is axiomatic that a functional public sphere depends on quality information, and the traditional source of that information has been legacy news media, most particularly major metro newspapers. The ongoing contraction ... -
Situated Knowledge, Transnational Identities: Place and Embodiment in K-pop Fan Reaction Videos
This paper explores the K-pop reaction video as a transnational mode of representing place and embodiment. In my analysis, I examine the performances of individual and communal identities in videos created by North American ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ...
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