Dissertations from 2009

It's 'a good thing': The commodification of femininity, affluence, and whiteness in the Martha Stewart phenomenon, Melissa A Click

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The people and me: Michael Moore and the politics of political documentary, Jon Scott Oberacker

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 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, 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, 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

The modes of social emergences and the transformations of Taiwanese oppositional movements in the process of imperialist and capitalist stratification: A Deleuze-Guattari analysis, 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, 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

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

A communication analysis of power in small claims court: A feminist perspective, Kathryn A Wiss

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