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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, ... -
Public meetings and public officials: officeholders' accounts of participatory and deliberative democratic encounters with citizens
(2002)Despite their potential democratic value, public meetings between citizens and officeholders are poorly understood sites of political participation and community planning. Although there has been a recent rise in scholarly ... -
Quevedo Family Oral History
(2013-07-25)This project is comprised of oral history interviews from the Quevedo-Bedoya family. The themes explored in these interviews include migration, enculturation, Indigenous identity and cultural perseverance. -
(Re)negotiating Speech Codes in an Online Language Learning Community
(2012-09-13)This dissertation examines the local, situated speech within the Eloqi community of practice. Eloqi is a pseudonym for an organization that built an online, voice-enabled, interactive learning platform connecting English ... -
Reclaiming publicness in the face of sexual assault: Social media, disclosure, and visibility
In recent years, social media have supported a host of viral campaigns aiming to increase awareness of, accountability for, and social justice around sexual assault (e.g., Maas, McCauley, Bonomi, & Leija, 2018; Provenzano, ... -
Relational turning point events and their outcomes in college teacher-student relationships from students' perspectives
(2008)This study investigates relational turning point events and their outcomes reported to occur by students in college teacher-student relationships. Six hundred and forty college students were asked if they could identify a ... -
Resilience in Free/Libre/Open Source Software: Do founder decisions impact development activity after crisis events?
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) is perhaps the most studied of the information-based communal public goods. In this piece, I conceptualize development resilience and founder decisions as two important characteristics ... -
Rhetoric and Ethics of Free Speech Discourse on Gab
Gab is a social media platform that brands itself as a champion of free speech. Users engage in a variety of extremist speech, including arguments for free speech absolutism. I argue that if free speech arguments on Gab ... -
Rhetorical Topographies of Post-Earthquake L'Aquila: Locality, Activism, and Citizenship Engagement
This dissertation examines citizens' activism in the city of L'Aquila, Italy, after the destructive earthquake of April 6, 2009. A natural catastrophe such as L'Aquila earthquake brings up feelings of human powerlessness ... -
The right thing to do: Global warming and the conservative press
(2010-12)Deemed an issue of the ideological left, global warming is a contentious issue in today’s political landscape. In 2006, environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, narrated by former vice-president Al Gore, was ... -
Securing Technologies of Freedom after the Arab Spring: Policy Entrepreneurship and Norms Consolidation Practices in Internet Freedom Promotion
This dissertation is an investigation of the aftermath of the Arab Spring protests of 2011-2012 and their consequences for impacting contemporary discussions and efforts to promote "internet freedom" by Western democratic ... -
Self-Disclosure of Sexual Desires as a Decision-Making Process
Sexual self-disclosures involve individuals revealing or discussing their beliefs, attitudes, or desires about sexual topics (Byers & Demmons; Harris et al., 2014). To learn more about this process, this dissertation applied ... -
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 ... -
The Slashdot effect: analysis of a large-scale public conversation on the World Wide Web
(2001)Slashdot bills itself as the source of "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters." The site itself is a collective "web log" ( blog), a way of concentrating news and other information from the web and commenting upon it. In ... -
Small talk with friends and family: does text messaging on the mobile phone help users enhance relationships?
(2002)Text messaging on the mobile phone is a recent and significant global phenomenon requiring an inquiry. Billions of messages are sent each month worldwide. One may question what the act of exchanging short text messages on ... -
Social application of the arts: making a difference through art
(2001)The arts have been used in the service of individuals, communities and societies for years. While many applications of the arts have been attempted, research into the effectiveness of the arts is limited and what research ... -
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 ... -
Stand, Speak, Act: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to evaluate a sexual assault bystander intervention campaign on a tri-campus university
In response to alarmingly high rates of sexual assault on college campuses, the U.S. government has called on universities to help prevent sexual assault through various programs, trainings, and campaigns. Bystander ... -
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 ... -
Structural constraints and situational information seeking: a test of two predictors in a sense-making context
(1985)This study examines the existing controversies of mechanistic versus non-mechanistic and individual versus structural conceptualizations of human information seeking behavior in communication research. In examining ...