Activism is all around us, but its mechanics are little understood and explanations are often idiosyncratic, focusing on particular activism efforts rather than empirically exploring broad patterns. In an effort to create ...
Through an audience reception analysis, this paper exposes and explores issues surrounding the expression of Asian/American masculinity and argues the importance of transnationality in intercultural communication and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The process of communicating relational meaning is complex and involves the interplay of relational goals, messages, and frames. Relational meaning is often sent through nonverbal cues, which are important sources of social ...
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 ...
Despite their increasing visibility in mainstream popular culture, problems in Asian American representation continue to manifest. For example, there is renewed interest in infantilizing, colonial images of Asian women, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...