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A Little Healthy Competition: The Effects of Press-Government Competition on Institutional Trust
(2014-04-30)This dissertation examined the relationship between the press and the government, and what effect competition between the two institutions has on trust in government and the news media. To do so, it combined a content ... -
Local television crime news visuals and concern about crime: exploring the cultivation process through recall and meaning of visual images
(1994)This study explores cognitive processes involved in cultivation by examining recall and meaning of visual images in local television crime news and their relation to concern about crime. Data were gathered through a content ... -
Media constructions of Scottish national identity though the prism of the new Scottish parliament
(2001)This dissertation examines the media's influence in developments surrounding the implementation of the new Scottish parliament and executive in 1999. Focusing on the central role of the Scottish press, it analyzes the ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...