Theses completed in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Arts in the College of Communication.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Existential Crisis of the New World Digital: How Centralization Stole the Internet and What Blockchain Technology Could Offer the User, David Gustafson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Backward glances: The cultural and industrial uses of nostalgia in 2010s Hollywood cinema, Matthew Cooper
Catastrophic failure: How COVID-19 was relayed from the media to the public, Samuel D. Johnson, Jr.
The fan/producer duality in microfandoms: Examinations of collaboration, creativity, and capital, Abby Kirby
Communication after a romantic breakup, Kayleigh Jordan Mahoney
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
"#does this count as poetry?": A genre analysis of Tumblr poetry, Selena Cotte
Built bodies: Representations of monstrous transsexuality in the Frankenstein film, 1945-1975, Carmilla M. Morrell
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Must-stream TV: The reemergence of NBC's must-see TV in the streaming era, Bri Mattia
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Globalizing Pakistani Identity Across The Border: The Politics of Crossover Stardom in the Hindi Film Industry, Dina Khdair
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Race discourse online: How do we discuss Blackness in popular digital media?, Kovie Biakolo
Masked Victims: Examining the Violence of Femme Fatales in Contemporary Film Noir Cinema, Alexx Bonovich
Ideology, the Counterculture, and the Avant Garde: Positioning the Filmmaker and the Spectator in Four Films of Late-1960s America, Mary Bronstein Cantoral
THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS TO FOSTER CONNECTIONS, COLLABORATION, AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING AMONG GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED TEAMS, Carmen Ramson-Herzing
Love Conquers All: The Power of the Indian Film to Free the Audience from Orientalism, Margaret Redlich
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Russian Women and Belly Dancing: Body Work, Fun and Transformation, Galina Khartulari
Gangstas, Thugs, Vikings, and Drivers: Cinematic Masculine Archetypes and the Demythologization of Violence in the Films of Nicolas Winding Refn, Christopher John Olson
(Re)mixing ‘school spirit’: spectacular youth subcultures as resistance to cultures of control, Evangeline L. Semark
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Exploring Professional Identity, Scott G. Banghart
Cameron McGill Dark Times: The Pursuit of Objectivity in a Subjective Medium, Benjamin Bateman
From Panels to Primetime: Made-for-TV Movies Adapted from Marvel Comics Properties, Jef Burnham
WHICH COMPANY DO I WORK FOR? ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION IN THIRD PARTY ORGANIZATIONS, Angela Dawson
THE IMPOSITION OF THE EGO: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND THE CINEMATIC APPARATUS, James Driscoll
That’s So Meta: Contemporary Reflexive Television and its Textual Strategies, Katherine Lander
Dynamics of International Nonprofit Capacity Building Partnerships, Julia Sparkman
Identity in Flux: Cinematic Destabilization in Narrative and Form, Eli Steenlage
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Other and Self-Representation: A Pentadic Criticism of Kosovar Muslim and Roma Identity as Represented in Photographs by James Nachtwey and Djordje Jovanovic, Melody S. Follweiler
Through a Feminist Lens: Language, Power and Identity in Catalan Nationalism, Christine Gallagher Kearney
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
George Bush doesn’t care about black people: An ideological rhetorical criticism of whiteness and racism, Kate Braden
Deceptive Affection in Romantic Relationships, Hailey Gillen
"WHAT ARE YOU CRYING ABOUT? IT'S NOT YOUR REAL JOB!” EMOTIONAL LABOR AND COMMUNICATIVE SENSEMAKING IN RETAIL CUSTOMER SERVICE POSITIONS, Danielle M. Harkins
The Internet’s Influence on Environmental Awareness, Jessica Vandrick
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Palimpsests: Salvage, Sacrifice, and the Subject of Truth in Photographs, Joshua L. Comer
Stopping the Wind-An Exploration of the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movmement, Krystle R. Klein
REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN ATHLETES IN THE MEDIA, Sarah Kustok
SELLING TRUE STORIES: A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF MANUFACTURED REALISM IN THE DOCUDRAMA CRIME FILM, Jamie Schleser
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Linguistic Ambiguity in Language-based Jokes, Sarah Seewoester