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DISSERTATIONS FROM 2007

• Good women becoming 'queens': Young mothers on welfare as cultural readers, Kennaria Charlott Brown

• The Lacanian spectator: Lacanian psychoanalysis and the cinema, Ke-Ming Lin

• Accounting for taste: Film criticism, canons, and cultural authority 1996--2006, Jonathan D Lupo

• Social protest, freedom, and play as rebellion, Carmen L McClish

• Trait aggression and style of video game play: The effects of violent video game play on aggressive thoughts, Angela Paradise

• Finnish cultural discourses about the mobile phone communication, Saila Poutiainen

• Mass media appropriations: Communication, culture, and everyday social life, Michelle Scollo

DISSERTATIONS FROM 2006

• Psychoanalyzing communication: Language, subjectivity, symbolization, Garnet C Butchart

• All of us Americanos: Cultural exhibition and the rise of Latina/os within a national imaginary, Esteban del Rio

• 'Real women' and the struggle against spiritual forces of darkness: A transnational feminist analysis of Concerned Women for America, Kirsten Lynn Isgro

• Active voice and community engagement: Transforming United States public service media through strategic communication, Alicia M Kemmitt

• Becoming visible: Queer in postsocialist Slovakia, Viera Lorencova

• Emotion at work: Stories of teamwork, stress, and professionalism, Mark A Mierswa

DISSERTATIONS FROM 2005

• The visibility professionals: The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the cultural politics of mainstreaming, Vincent A Doyle

• 'Framing an execution': Death, lies, and videotape. ABC '20/20' and the rhetoric of law and order in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Thomas N Gardner

• Applied theatre in corrections: Community, identity, learning and transformation in the facilitated, collaborative processes of performative, artistic praxis, Janna L Goodwin

• Money makes a family: A genealogy of female-headed families, welfare and media representations, Janice L Haynes

• The green car: Television automobile advertising and the environmental attitudes of television viewers, Will Hughes

• Policy and culture in the digital age: A cultural policy analysis of the United States commercial radio industry, Nina B Huntemann

• Communication and the grammars of child protection: An analysis of interactions between social workers and their clients, Francois Huot

• 'When words fail, music speaks': How communication transforms identity through performance at the Berkshire Hills Music Academy (Massachusetts), Lauren Benotti Mackenzie

• Action movie Arabs and the American call to endless war: The role of American Orientalism in organizing the United States 'response' to the 9/11 attacks, Nessim John Watson

DISSERTATIONS FROM 2004

• Selling sexual liberation: Women-owned sex toy stores and the business of social change, Lynn Comella

• Exploring the complexities of personal ideologies, media literacy pedagogy and media literacy practice, Amy M Damico

• Strategies of the self: Negotiating cultural identities in anglophone and allophone Montreal (Quebec), Alissa Gail Sklar

• Deliberation and democracy: Ethnography of rhetoric in a New England town meeting, Rebecca M Townsend

• The prisons outside and the prisons in our heads: Television and the representation of incarceration, William Yousman

DISSERTATIONS FROM 2003

• Fast friends and queer couples: Relationships between gay men and straight women in North American popular culture, 1959--2000, James L Allan

• Recovering trauma: An ethnographic study of women's storytelling within contemporary support group environments, Alpha Selene Anderson Delap

• Cultural production and Zionist ideology: The case study of Gesher Theatre in Israel, Olga Gershenson

• Reading Lacan: Structure, ideology, and identity (Jacques Lacan), Guan-Hua Huang

• The desire to see: Western iconoclasm and the return of the empty image, Dora E Martinez-Ramos

DISSERTATIONS FROM 2002

• A Kenneth Burke lexicon: A reader's guide to selected terms in the major works of Kenneth Burke, 1931--1972, Charles Francis Carroll

• The communication of trauma in media culture: A poststructural analysis of women's experience of gender-based violence and healing, Heather Marie Karjane

• Whose nation is it anyway? Nationalism and the metaphorics of secular subjectivity (India, Partha Chatterjee, Jacques Derrida), Satish Kumar Kolluri

• Oral, literate, and television viewers' ways with health issues, Carol Melhem Moufarrej

• Communicating environment: Cultural discourses of place in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, Eric L Morgan

• Graphic design/graphic dissent: Towards a cultural economy of an insular profession, Matthew Alan Soar

• Stories matter: Media influence on Asian American identities and interracial relationships, Chyng-Feng Sun

• Women's ways of speaking about menopause and hormone replacement therapy: An American discourse on personhood, Cynthia Anne Suopis

DISSERTATIONS FROM 2001

• Exploring the meaning of work: A CMM analysis of the grammar of working among Acadian-Americans, John Chetro Szivos

• Recovery culture: The promotion of depression and consumption of mental health technologies in contemporary social practices, Paula M Gardner

• New technology, old medium: Internet, television, and audience, Oh-Hyeon Lee

• Atalanta's sisters: Sport, gender, and technology in popular press, 1921--1996, Susan C Leggett

• The Black, Jewish, other video dialogue: A case study of the social construction of transformative discourse, Rozanne T Leppington

• Mapping the pre-history of cyberspace and the making of social movement computer networks, 1973--1993, Brian Martin Murphy

• Communicative practices of Yiddish-speaking Jewish elders on South Miami Beach (Florida), Joel Saxe

• Producing the gay market: Sex, sexuality, and the gay professional-managerial class, Katherine Elizabeth Sender

• The modes of social emergences and the transformations of Taiwanese oppositional movements in the process of imperialist and capitalist stratification: A Deleuze-Guattari analysis (Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari), Tsu-Chuen Yang

DISSERTATIONS FROM 2000

• Discriminating technologies: Personal information in an age of computer profiling, Greg Elmer

• Media literacy in cyberspace: Learning to critically analyze and evaluate the Internet, Julie Danielle Frechette

• A social constructionist perspective on the Chinese lian/mian (face?) practices, Wenshan Jia

• Popular belief in gender-based communication differences and relationship success, Ann Michelle Johnson

• Owning culture: Authorship, ownership and intellectual property law, Kembrew McLeod

• Media images of Africa and African Americans' attitudes toward Africa, Ekra Miezan

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1999

• Paradox and promise in the dialogue on race: A case study analysis of the dialogues of the Springfield (Massachusetts) World Class City Commission, Patricia C Foley

• 'What does it mean to be a Puerto Rican woman?': A study on cultural identity, collective agency and representation, Jocelyn A Geliga Vargas

• Becoming a global audience: Music television in India, Vamsee Krishna Juluri

• Voices of anorexia: A study of voice, communication, and the body, Mary Ellen Olson

• 'Asia' [matter-of-fact] communication: A Finnish cultural term for talk in educational scenes, Richard John Wilkins

• Communicating culture: Public discourse and ritual action in a Jewish community, Karen Michelle Wolf

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1998

• Staging pornography: Code, culture and context (United States, Great Britain), John Michael Ernst

• Revolting bodies? The on-line negotiation of fat subjectivity, Kathleen LeBesco

• Conversation and culture in the Puerto Rican Cultural Center: An ethnographic exploration of communicating personhood (Massachusetts), Trudy Anne Milburn

• A 'chance for better television': PBS and the politics of ideals, 1967-1973, Laurie Jean Ouellette

• Policing the Web: Cyberporn, moral panics, and the social construction of social problems, Joseph Richard Panepinto

• The impact of international computer networks on news forms, distribution and access: Case studies in south-north and south-south flows of news, Madanmohan Alevoor Rao

• Generation multiplex: The image of youth in American cinema, 1981-1996, Timothy Matthew Shary

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1997

• This land is our land: The social construction of Kaho'olawe Island, Pua'ala'okalani D Aiu

• Coordination and conflict in a multicultural organization: A case study of communication among Koreans, Americans and Korean-Americans, Hyonsook Chong

• The social construction of whiteness: Teacher power, personhood and performance in the classroom, Julia Ruth Johnson

• Overdetermination in determination: An Althusserian Marxist critique of the postmodern/poststructuralist anti-totalization, Junghi Lee

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1996

• Alternative video at a crossroads: Towards a strategy of extended participation, Carlos I Fontes

• Power with responsibility: A framework for a free and democratic press in Africa, Peter Jones Kareithi

• On developing a radical imagination: Theatre and political resistance in the society of the spectacle, Suzanne Marie LaGrande

• The social construction of NAFTA: A CMM analysis of stories told in United States and Mexican newspapers, Liliana Castaneda Rossmann

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1995

• 'A bad time of it in this world': The construction of the 'unattractive' woman in American film of the 1940s, Madeleine Ann Cahill

• Enemies old and new: Foreign policy, the media and public opinion in the Reagan/Bush era, Andrew David Ruddock

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1994

• Kodak women: Domestic contexts and the commercial culture of photography, 1800s-1980s, Amy W Loomis

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1993

• Predicting the market for high-definition television: Selling and debating the 'television of tomorrow', David Francis Donnelly

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1992

• Student-patient perceptions of communication with the physician or nurse practitioner in a university health services setting: Implications for patienthood, Eleanor Margaret Turnbull

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1988

• The concept of power in family therapy: Toward a hegemonic analysis of discourse, Sara B Cobb

• The Rev. John Brown of Virginia (1728-1803): His life and selected sermons, John White Stuart

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1987

• HOLLYWOOD AND WORLD WAR II: ENLISTING FEATURE FILMS AS PROPAGANDA, RALPH R DONALD

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1983

• THERAPEUTIC CHANGE IN FAMILY SYSTEMS: A COMMUNICATION APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF CONVOLUTED INTERACTIVE PATTERNS, SHEILA MCNAMEE

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1982

• SITUATION COMEDY AND THE STRUCTURE OF TELEVISION: A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, BROOKS ROBARDS

DISSERTATIONS FROM 1981

• BAO CHI: THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA IN VIETNAM, 1960-1975, FRANCIS DONALD FAULKNER