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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...