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(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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Using Female Empowerment as a Cover Story for Whiteness and Racial Hierarchy in Pop Culture: Interrogating the Intersections of Racial Appropriation and Feminist Discourse in the Performances of Fergie, Gwen Stefani, and Lady Gaga
(2012-09-13)This project contends that the pop cultural production of the subject of third wave feminism -- an empowered sexy yet tough, glamorous yet powerful woman -- is deeply entangled in racial symbolism that ultimately re-assert ... -
Celebrity as Cultural Authority: Media, Representation and the Politics of Fame
(2013-02-25)Fame is a powerful source of cultural authority in early 21st-century media culture. Celebrities, and celebritizing discourses, are a staple of sanctioned knowledge and an important point of intervention in the study of ... -
Civic (Re)Socializing: The Transformative Potential of Deliberative Public Sphere Structures
(2013-04-17)This dissertation presents a model for public sphere discourse that situates alienating and deliberative communication norms and practices at opposite ends of a spectrum. Alienating communication routines act as a counter-force ... -
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 World's "Exceptional" Neighbor: Comparative Perspectives on American Exceptionalism in Presidential Discourse and the Effects at Home and Abroad
(2013-07-23)This dissertation examines the idea of American exceptionalism from both production and effects perspectives. First, it identifies the distinct ways that U.S. presidents have articulated this idea in major domestic and ... -
We Are Patriots: National Identity Discourse in the Tea Party Movement and an Echoing Press
(2013-07-25)This dissertation explored the communicative means through which a social movement might connect its identity and goals with the national identity. It focused on invocations of the nation by Tea Party activists and in news ... -
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. -
Created Differences: Rhetorics of Race and Resistance in Intellectual Property Law
(2013-07-25)Intellectual property law, specifically that governing trademarks, copyrights, and patents, is increasingly dominated by a narrative of "theft" in which racialized thieves steal knowledge produced by white creators, ... -
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 ... -
Anxieties, expectations, and truths of contemporary journalism: A case study of the Mike Daisey scandal
(2013-07-25)In the tradition of studies that examine journalistic breaches, this thesis analyzes a journalistic scandal: This American Life's (TAL) radio broadcast and subsequent retraction of the story "Mr. Daisey and the Apple ... -
Unbelievable Bodies: Audience Readings of Action Heroines as a Post-Feminist Visual Metaphor
(2013-07-25)In this paper, I employ a feminist approach to audience research and examine the individual interviews of 11 undergraduate women who regularly watch and enjoy action heroine films. Participants in the study articulate ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
A Woman's Place: Gender Politics and Twitter in the 2012 Elections
(2014-02-24)This dissertation examined how men and women candidates constructed their online self- presentations when running for U.S. Senate in 2012, and how such self-presentations impacted the public's perceptions of the candidates. ... -
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 ...