Dissertations from 2013
Critical Rhetoric in the Age of Neuroscience, Brett Ingram
Remember Where We Came From: Globalization And Environmental Discourse In The Araucania Region Of Chile, Niall Stephens
Dissertations from 2012
Rebranding Diversity: Colorblind Racism Inside The U.S. Advertising Industry, Christopher Boulton
Irony & ideology: Oppositional politics and cultural engagement in post-September 11th America, Viveca S Greene
The partially digital: Internet, citizenship, social inequalities, and digital citizenship in South Africa, Tokunbo Toks D Oyedemi
Engaging identities: Globality and communicative practices in education for democratic citizenship, Sangeeta V Rao
"Beyond words": Exploring the cultural limits of the communicable, Brion van Over
Dissertations from 2011
Expanding the third person effect: Parents' perceptions of positive and negative media effects on their own children compared to other children, Andrea M Bergstrom
Reclaiming America for Christian Reconstruction: The Rhetorical Constitution of a "People", Joanna L. Brook
Utopian Gender: Counter Discourses in a Feminist Community, Jolane Flanigan
Neil Postman's Missing Critique: A Media Ecology Analysis of Early Radio 1920-1935, Donna Lee Halper
The new Asian female ghost films: Modernity, gender politics, and transnational transformation, Hunju Lee
Listening faithfully with Friends: An ethnography of Quaker communication practices, Elizabeth Molina-Markham
Dissertations from 2010
Gossip Talk and Online Community: Celebrity Gossip Blogs and Their Audiences, Erin Ann Meyers
Andrea and me: A digital autoethnographic journey into the past, Carlos Salsedo
Dissertations from 2009
A new "era": Media literacy in eating disorder treatment, Lori B Bindig
It's 'a good thing': The Commodification of Femininity, Affluence, and Whiteness in the Martha Stewart Phenomenon, Melissa Anne Click
Seeing Lesbian Queerly: Visibility, Community, and Audience in 1980s Northampton, Massachusetts, Susan E. McKenna
The People and Me: Michael Moore and the Politics of Political Documentary, Jon Scott Oberacker
Online audiences for foreign language films: Implications of the Internet as the new cultural arena, Haijing Tu
Dissertations from 2008
Hate speech as cultural practice, David Boromisza-Habashi
A mind/body exploration of adolescent girls' strategies & barriers to their success or survival in physical education, Jennifer L Fisette
"Words apart": Performing linguistic and cultural identities in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia, Erna MacLeod
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 U.S. 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
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 US 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, Lauren Benotti Mackenzie
Action movie Arabs and the American call to endless war: The role of American Orientalism in organizing the U.S. "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, 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, 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, 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, Joel Saxe
Producing the gay market: Sex, sexuality, and the gay professional-managerial class, Katherine Elizabeth Sender
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, 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, 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
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 U.S. 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