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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 ... -
A Few Words from the Bench: Judges' Communication to and about the Jury
(2014-02-24)A judge holds an important position during a jury trial. In a context that is typically unfamiliar and unknown to jurors, the judge regularly holds the highest amount of respect and is thought to be the most just, fair, ... -
Framing and Source Credibility in American Political Discourse About Climate Change
Climate change represents the greatest threat humanity faces. Despite the widely acceptedscientific basis that climate change is human caused, the United States has largely failed to curb its greenhouse gas emissions, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Full-Time Side Hustle: The Position and Production of Fitness Influencer and Creators on Instagram
This dissertation seeks to understand who gets to be a social media Influencer or content creator within the fitness industry, as well as the strategies they use and the content they produce. As new forms of celebrity ... -
The future church: identity and persuasion on congregational Websites
(2007)Because of demographic shifts in church attendance over recent decades, rising secularism, and the influence of other world religions, religious leaders are engaging more frequently in discussions about future directions ... -
Generating Latinas: Online Images and the Mechanisms of the Google Search Engine
(2014-02-24)Latinos have recently become the largest minority group in the United States, and their growing presence is perceived as both a threat and an opportunity. The Latina body acts as a site where discourses about Latinos as a ... -
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 ...