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Media and Communication Ph.D. Dissertations

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Negotiating Gendered Expectations: The Basic Social Processes of Women in the Military, Manda Hicks

Constructing the End: Framing and Agenda-setting of Physician-assisted Suicide, Kyle Holody

Tracing the Path of Power through the Fluidity of Freedom: The Art of Parkour in Challenging the Relationship of Architecture and the Body and Rethinking the Discursive Limits of the City, Matthew D. Lamb

As Seen on TV: Brand Placement and Its Influence on the Identity of Emerging Adults, Brittany Rowe-Cernevicius

Communicating Support: Where and how Army Spouses Seek Community, Brigit Talkington

Religious Media Use And Audience's Knowledge, Attitude, And Behavior: The Roles Of Faith Motivation, Program Appeals, And Dual Information Processing, Kisung Yoon

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Millennial Students Relationship with 2008 Top 10 Social Media Brands via Social Media Tools, Alisa L. Agozzino

Re-Producing Masculinities on YouTube: A Cyberethnography of the MighTMenFTM Channel, Brett Billman

Style Matters: Worship Preferences of University Students Regarding the use of Music and Technology, Daniel D. Fultz

Internet Technology Use and Economic Development: A Case Study of the Rural Population of Ihiala Village in Southeastern Nigeria, Primus Chuks Igboaka

I've Got a Story to Tell: Critical Race Theory, Whiteness and Narrative Constructions of Racial and Ethnic Census Categories, Candice J. LeFlore-Munoz

Scripts for Online Dating: A Model and Theory of Online Romantic Relationship Initiation, Bridget L. Long

Resisting and Reconciling a Virtual Age: Performing Identities and Negotiating Literacies in Shifting Mid-life Workspaces and Immersive Online Environments, Sue Ellen McComas

An Examination of the Implications of Intrinsic Religiousness and Social Identification with Religion on Intercultural Communication Apprehension and Conflict Communication in the Context of Cultural Adaptation, Deepa Oommen

Dancing in the Tension between the Global and National: Seeing Chinese Television Industry through Phoenix Satellite TV, Shuang Xie

World War II Internment Camp Survivors: The Stories and Life Experiences of Japanese American Women, Precious Vida Yamaguchi

Dissertations from 2009 2009

Why do I have to switch to DTV? An Analysis of Public Interest in the Digital Television Transition, James A. Baumann

Examining the Meaning-Making of Hiv/Aids Media Campaign Messages: A Feminist Ethnography in Ghana, Phyllis Dako-Gyeke

“I’m Not as Bad as I Seem to Be”: Understanding the Identities of Female Ex-Offenders, Nikki D. Howard

Patterns of Access and Use of Online Health Information among Internet Users: A Case Study, Rucha S. Kavathe

An Examination of Individual Differences in Communication-Related Social Cognitive Structures in Association with Selling Effectiveness, Michael J. Meredith

A Tradition Her Own: Womanist Rhetoric and the Womanist Sermon, Toniesha Latrice Taylor

Investigation of the Relationships among Socially Interactive Technologies, Communication Competence, Social Cognition, and Formal Written Discourse, Jacob Stephen Turner

Dissertations from 2008 2008

Victim offender communication in felony cases: An archival analysis of Ohio's Office of Victim Services dialogue program, Ian M. Borton

Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912-2004, Aaron V. Burton

Cultural Values and Expectations of Female Leadership Styles in Non-Profit Organizations: A Study of Rotary Clubs in Taiwan and the United States, Chin-Chung Chao

Dragging Identity: A Critical Ethnography of Nightclub Space (s), Andrea M. Davis

The Re-Construction of the Taiwanese Identity in the Process of Decolonization: The Taiwanese Political Songs Analyses, Pei-Ling Lee

University Diversity Training Needs Assessment: The Perspectives of African, Latina/o, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American Students, Emily A. Monago

HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, Involvement, and Predictors of Condom Use Among African American College Students: Implications for Communication Strategies for HIV/AIDS Prevention, DaKysha Moore

The Fattening House: A Narrative Analysis of the Big, Black and Beautiful Body Subjectivity Constituted On Large African American Women, Angela Denise Prater

Technoculture in Practice: Performing Identity and Difference in Social Network Systems, Natalia Rybas

Like the Last 30 Years Never Happened: Understanding Detroit Rock Music Through Oral History, Jason M. Schmitt

Ethics of Identification in the Organizational Production of the War on Terror: The Rhetoric of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ross B. Singer

Family webs: The impact of women's genealogy research on family communication, Amy M. Smith

Emerging Forms of Globalization Dialectics: Interlocalization, a New Praxis of Power and Culture in Commercial Media and Development Communication, Eva Szalvai

Foreigners’ Archive – Contemporary China in the Blogs of American Expatriates, Qi Tang

The Chinese Cultural Perceptions of Innovation, Fair Use, and the Public Domain: A Grass-Roots Approach to Studying the U.S.-China Copyright Disputes, Dexin Tian

Layered Motherhood for Chinese Mother Bloggers: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis, Yahui Zhang

Dissertations from 2007 2007

Creation and Adaptation of Norms in a Tire-Mold Manufacturing Organization, Cheri Hampton-Farmer

Identities in Motion: An Autoethnography of an African American Woman's Journey to Burkina Faso, Benin, and Ghana, Renata Harden

“I’ll be There for You” if You are Just Like Me: An Analysis of Hegemonic Social Structures in “Friends”, Lisa Marie Marshall

Communication Policy and Public Interests: Media Diversity in Public and Commercial Broadcast Television in the U.S., Kim McCann

Balancing Faculty Careers and Family Work: Tenure-Track Women’s Perceptions of and Experiences with Work/Family Issues and Their Relationships to Job Satisfaction, Nicole J. Schultz

Arab Americans Unveil the Building Blocks in the Construction of Our Cultural Identity, Gaby Semaan

Accounting for Student Voice Within Critical Communication Pedagogy: An Ethnomethodological Exploration of Student Perceptions and Expectations, Nicholas Alexis Zoffel

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Taken to the Extreme: Heavy Metal Cover Songs – The Impact of Genre, Isaac Brunner

Culturing on the Borderlands—A Critical Ethnography on Taiwanese and Chinese Transnational Practices, Hsin-I Cheng

A Content Analysis of Editorial Regionalism in the 1960s: Midsize Newspaper Coverage of New York Times v. Sullivan (1960-1964), Jeffrey B. Hedrick

A Rhetorical Examination and Critique of Hezbollah, the Party of God, Souhad Kahil

The Symbolic Rape of Representation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Black Musical Expression on Billboard's Hot 100 Charts, Richard S. Koonce

I Knit Therefore I Am: An Ethnomethodological Study of Knitting as Constitutive of Gendered Identity, Kristina M. Medford

Political Reelism: A Rhetorical Criticism of Reflection and Interpretation in Political Films, Jennifer Lee Walton

Corporate Leadership and the Perceptions of Chief Executive Officer Computer-Mediated Communication Effectiveness, Mark C. Zeller

Dissertations from 2005 2005

Gender Relations in the Arab World: A Rhetorical Criticism of Naguib Mahrouz's Awlad Haratina, Hoda Al-Mutawah

Reaching Others: The Rhetoric of Proselytizing and Community of a Christian Campus Organization, Benjamin J. Cline