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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. ... -
Digitally Mediated Political Participation: Understanding the Democratic Impact of Internet Diffusion in the Asian Media Systems
This dissertation is devoted to an examination of the democratic impact that internet diffusion has on political participation in East and Southeast Asia. To begin with, I conceptualize digitally mediated political ... -
Do you speak English? Speech Codes relating to "English only" Language Policy within Multi-lingual Office Space in China
(2013-07-25)This three-year study focuses upon different narratives organizational members construct to make sense to the "English only" language policy within multinational organizations in China. Philipsen's speech codes theory has ... -
Ecology of Online Communities
How do competitive struggles for resources or symbiotic relationships that support a web ofinterdependent communities shape the evolution of online organizing? Most prior studies of online community success have focused ... -
Embodying Sisterhood: Community Politics of Black Cisgender and Transgender Womanhood
Embodying Sisterhood: Community Politics of Black Cisgender and Transgender Womanhood is an interdisciplinary project originating from my intellectual activism in the service of social justice to increase the chances of ... -
Expert Advocacy: The Public Address of Scientists in a Post-Truth Society
In this dissertation, using classical and contemporary rhetorical theory I examine the public advocacy efforts of American scientists as they respond to perceived threats by elected officials on the integrity of science ... -
Expressive Writing to Cope with Hate Speech: Assessing Psychobiological Stress Recovery and Forgiveness Promotion for LGBQ Victims of Hate Speech
(2012-09-13)Research has linked hate speech and discrimination to numerous negative physiological and psychological health outcomes (e.g., Williams, Neighbors, & Jackson, 2003; Williams & Mohammed, 2009). Scholars have identified hate ... -
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 ...