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Dissertations of Alumni of the Mass Media & Communication and other SCT Doctoral Programs (In Chronological Order)

[Note: MM&C is currently the only doctoral program in SCT, but this list includes dissertations from the former Rhetoric & Communication (R&C) and Speech-Language-Hearing (SLH) doctoral programs. It includes dissertation projects through the end of 2007. If you have corrections and/or additions, please contact us at mmc@temple.edu.]

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1970s   [ Top ]

Schwartz, Stuart H., January 1978 (MM&C) "A Q-Study of the Value Structures and Professionalism of 35 Reporters, Editors, and Photographers from Five Daily Newspapers in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts."

Compaine, Benjamin M., 1978 (MM&C) "The Daily Newspaper Industry in the United States (1977): An Analysis of Trends in Production Technology, Competition and Ownership, Economic Structure, Circulation, Advertising, Newsprint, and Labor."

Lashner, Marilyn A., 1979 (MM&C) "The Chilling Effect of a White House Anti-media Assault on Political Commentary in Network Television News Programs: Comparison of Newspaper and Television Vigorousness During the Nixon Administration." [Chair: Michael Kitross]

1980s   [ Top ]

Chow, Peter, May 1984 (MM&C) "Socialization of Scientists in China, 1949 to 1981: Content Analysis of People's Daily Editorials and Research Papers, and Theoretical Interpretation of Cross-Paradigm Communication."

McKenna, Donald, August 1985 (MM&C) "The Adoption of Two Technical Innovations by American Daily Newspapers: A Test of Diffusion Predictability."

Atkyns, Robert L., May 1986 (MM&C) "Adolescent Information Acquisition: Locus of Control, Lifestyle and Substance Abuse: A Social Market Segmentation for Health Communication Effectiveness." [Chair: Thomas Gordon]

Hemenway, Paul, May 1986 (MM&C) "Philadelphia Radio Before and After Deregulation: A Time-Series Care Study of News and Public Affairs Programming in the Nation's Fourth Market." [Chair: Norm Felsenthal]

Shapiro, Steven, May 1986 (MM&C) "A Consideration of Privacy Violations Inherent in Press Coverage of Criminal Proceedings Such as Commonwealth v. John Cordeiro et al. and Commonwealth v. Joseph Vieira and Daniel Silvia."

Kazan, Fayad, January 1987 (MM&C) "Relations Between Mass Media and Attitudes Toward Modernity and Psychological Stress of University Students and Civil Servants in Four Arabian Gulf Countries."

Mahoney, Eileen, January 1987 (MM&C) "Negotiating New Information Technology and National Development: The Role of the Intergovernmental Bureau for Informatics."

Siddiqqi, Mohammad, January 1988 (MM&C) "An Assessment of the Evolving Telematics Policies in Malaysia."

Hakanen, Ernest, August 1989 (MM&C) "Adolescent Identification of Heroes: A Study of Media Exposure and Perceptions of Public Figures."

Russial, John, August 1989 (MM&C) Pagination and the Newsroom: Great Expectations."

Tsao, Chien Chung, August 1989 (MM&C) "Health Communications: The Relationship of the Immune System to Relaxation, Music, Imagery and Emotional Arousal."

1990   [ Top ]

Bradbury, David E., May 1990 (MM&C) "A Uses and Gratifications Study of Three Audiences: Cable Decliners, Basic Cable Subscribers, and Pay Cable Subscribers." [Chair: Norm Felsenthal]

McGovern, Sr. Eileen, May 1990 (MM&C) "From Varela to Marti: Four Nineteenth Century Cuban ?igr?Newspapers.

Rhodes, Leara D., May 1990 (MM&C) "Haiti's Exiled Press: Development and Continuance." [Chair: John Lent]

Foulger, Davis A., August 1990 (R&C) "Medium as Process: The Structure, Use, and Practice of Computer Conferencing on IBM's IBMPC Computer Conferencing Facility." [Chair: Herbert W. Simons]

LeShay, Steven, August 1990 (MM&C) "The Image of Businesspeople on Prime-Time Network Television: A Content Analysis. [Chair: Sari Thomas]

1991   [ Top ]

Sholar, Sylvia, January 1991 (R&C) "Corporate Communicators: The Development of Business Communication Strategies in the 1970s and 1980s."

Kim (Jang), Hoonsoon, January 1991 (MM&C) "Cultural Continuity and Change: Characterization and Narratives Present in Korean Contemporary Films." [Chair: John Lent]

Hudson, Timothy, January 1991 (MM&C) "Graphic Depiction of Violent Material in Television news: News Directors' and Producers' Perceived Acceptability Levels." [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]

Welldon, Paula J., January 1991 (R&C) "From Swords to Shields: Tactical Uses of Role Reference in Committee Conversation."

Armson, Joy, May 1991 (SLH) [Chair: C. Woodruff Starkweather]

Incitti, Michael, May 1991 (MM&C) "News Room Learning Environments: Journalists' Perceptions of Organizational Communication Satisfaction at 11 Daily Newspapers in Eastern Pennsylvania." [Chair: Edward Trayes]

Evans, William, August 1991 (MM&C) "Media Presentation of Scientific Research: Press Coverage of Physical, Biological and Social Science." [Chair: Sari Thomas]

Kim, Myung Jun, August 1991 (MM&C) "Coverage of the Korean War by the New York Times and Ashahi Shimbun: Foreign Policy as the Key Constraint on the War Reporting." [Chair: John Lent]

Pugliese, Rudi, August 1991 (MM&C) "Predictors of Telecourse Withdrawal and Withdrawal/Failure: Loneliness, Communication Competence, Dyadic Communication Apprehension, and Locus of Control."

1992   [ Top ]

Kaiser, Daniel M., January 1992 (MM&C) "The Role of Social Maturation in Adolescent Media Use: Parent and Peer Relationships as Mediators of Teens' Perceptions of TV Versions of Social Relationships." [Chair: Richard Luker]

McCullough, Mary, January 1992 (R&C/CAS) "Black and White Women's Friendships' Claiming the Margins." [Chair: Joseph P. Folger]

McGoldrick, John, January 1992 (MM&C) "The Role of Offices of Consumer Advocate in Telecommunications Regulations." [Chair: Herbert Dordick]

Spisak, Frances, May 1992 (R&C) "Acquiring Communication Competence in a Dental Hygiene School: An Ethnographic Study." [Chair: Anita Pomerantz]

Celano, Donna C., August 1992 (MM&C) "Teacher Use of Channel One: An Ethnographic Study of One School." [Chair: Richard Luker]

Karpur, Shashi Rao, August 1992 (MM&C) "Factors Associated with Perceptions of Productivity and Usage of Information Technology in a Service Organization."

Quinn, Rosemary, August 1992 (SLH) "Mother-Infant Interactions Among Puerto Rican Dyads."

Saenz, Terry I., August 1992 (SLH) "Strategies for Obtaining Toys at Head Start."

1993   [ Top ]

Pena, Elizabeth, January 1993 (SLH) "Dynamic Assessment: A Non-Biased Approach for Assessing the Language of Young Children."

Bresnahan, Rosalind, May 1993 (MM&C) "The Post Vietnam Generation and Information-Seeking During the Persian Gulf Crisis and War with Iraq: Access to, Use and Credibility of Mass Media, Alternative Media and Other Alternative Information Sources."

Kyrish, Sandra, May 1993 (MM&C) "Predicting the Future: Assessing Predictions and Forecasts for Residential Broadband Services." [Chair: Stewart Hoover]

Igyor, Gerard, May 1993 (MM&C) "The Transfer of Telecommunications Technology to Nigeria." [Chair: Herbert Dordick]

Liu-Lengyel, Hongying, May 1993 (MM&C) "Chinese Cartoons as Mass Communication: The History of Cartoon Development in China." [Chair: John Lent]

Sparks, Suzanne, May 1993 (MM&C) "A Study of the Credibility of Advertising to Younger and Older Adults." [Chair: James Marra]

Stutzman, Ervin, May 1993 (R&C) "From Nonresistance to Peace and Justice: Mennonite Peace Rhetoric."

Goldstein, Brian (SLH)

Kay, Bonnie Kathryn, August 1993 (R&C) "Manager Interpersonal Communication Behaviors and Subordinate Motivation." [Chair: Joseph Folger]

Inyang, Young Dan, August 1993 (MM&C) "Information Technology and Sales Productivity in an Insurance Company." [Chair: Herbert Dordick]

Van Dusen, Donna, August 1993 (R&C) "The World View of a Singles' Organization: Singleness as a Transitional Status." [Chair: Joseph Folger]

Zhengzing, Fei, August 1993 (MM&C) "A Stylistic Analysis of the Films by Zhang Yimon and Tie Jin." [Chair: John Lent]

1994   [ Top ]

Lancioni, Judith, January 1994 (R&C) "Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Documentary: A Case Study of the Civil War." [Chair: Aram Aghazarian]

Sunderaj, Victor, January 1994 (MM&C) "Predictors of Social Mobility: Profile of Innovative and Non-Innovative Scheduled Castes of Rural Tamil Nadu." [Chair: John Lent]

Fry, Katherine, May 1994 (MM&C) "Old South, Agrarian Midwest and Frontier West: Discourses of Repression and Consumption in Southern Living, Midwest Living and Sunset Magazines." [Chair: Paul Swann]

Hanley, Barbara, May 1994 (MM&C) "Boundaries and Illusions: Prestige and Transgression in American Prime Time Television." Chairs: Thomas Gordon and Stuart Hoover]

Lynch, Christopher, May 1994 (R&C) "I Went on Television to Help My Sponsor, The Good Lord": The Television Rhetoric of Bishop Fulton Sheen." [Chair: Aram Aghazarian]

Brown, David, August 1994 (R&C) "Watered Down Wine: Secularization and Rhetorical Authority Management in American Baptist Preaching." [Chair: Marsha Witten]

Burrowes, Carl, August 1994 (MM&C) "Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970: The Impact of Modernity, Ethnicity and Power Imbalances on Government Relations." [Chair: John Lent]

Corvalan, Roz, August 1994 (MM&C) "Access to Use and Credibility of Mass Media, Alternative Media, and Other Alternative Information Sources During the Persian Gulf Crisis and War with Iraq: A Survey of Information Seeking by College Students of the Post Viet Nam Generation." [Chair: Thomas Gordon]

Elliott, Charles W., August 1994 (MM&C) "The People's News: Content and Values in the Press Releases of the New China News Agency 1950-1989." [Chair: John Lent]

Hyter, Yvette, August 1994 (SLH) "A Cross-Channel Description of Reference in the Narratives of African-American Vernacular English Speakers." [Chair: Aquiles Iglesias]

Santana, Maria, August 1994 (MM&C) "The Puerto Rican Independence Party as Covered in Local Elections: A Content Analysis of the Puerto Rican Press." [Chair: John Lent]

Yedes, Janet, August 1994 (R&C) "Social Justice Commitments and Communication in a Homeless Advocacy Organization." [Chair: Joseph Folger]

1995   [ Top ]

Haller, Beth, January 1995 (MM&C) "Disability Rights on the Public Agenda: Elite News Media Coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act." [Chair: Thomas Gordon]

Hsiao, Hsiang-Wen, January 1995 (MM&C) "Political Cartoons in Taiwan: Historical Profile and Content Analysis." [Chair: John Lent]

Mitnick, Andrea (Donath), January 1995 (R&C) "For the Woman Who Wasn't Born Yesterday: Middle Age as a Rite of Passage in Lear's." [Chair: Barbie Zelizer]

Viser, Victor, January 1995 (MM&C) "The Use of Children in American Magazine Advertising: 1940-1950." [Chair: Paul Swann]

de Montigny, Michelle C., May 1995 (MM&C) "Gender Differences in the Relationship Between the Self-Esteem and Television Viewing Habits of Young Adolescents." [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]

Kelly, Frank, May 1995 (MM&C) "Business Television in Corporate America: The History, Operation, Programming and Categorization of Satellite Business Television Networks." [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]

Livezey, Marlene, May 1995 (MM&C) "Writing and Physiology: An Analysis of Two Methods (Cathartic Freewriting and Writing for Insight) to Promote and Maintain Physical and Emotional Health." [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]

Merchel, Paulette Posluszny, May 1995 (MM&C) "Gavriel Salomon's Theory of Perceptions of Media and Amount of Invested Mental Effort in Processing Information: A High School Application with Implication for Learning From Television." [Chair: Thomas Eveslage]

Foti, Margaret A., August 1995 (MM&C) "Information Systems for Biomedical Scientists: Evolution, Current Practices, and Promise for the Future." [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]

Grabe, Maria E., August 1995 (MM&C) "Does Crime Pay: Tabloid vs. Highbrow News." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

Reich, Robert, August 1995 (MM&C) "The Role of Emotional Images in the Persuasive Effect of Television Commercials." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

Shi, Chyun-Fung, August 1995 (MM&C) "News Coverage and Representation of Female Candidates in Political Campaigns in Taiwan." [Chair: John Lent]

Yoon, Jae H., August 1995 (MM&C) "Social Networking Technology and Discourse of Communications Network and Information Services." [Chair: Thomas Gordon]

Ose-Mensah, Michael, November 1995 (MM&C) "Telecommunications Sector Reforms in Ghana: An Appraisal of Regulatory and Institutional Approaches." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

1996   [ Top ]

Denny, Harry, April 1996 (R&C) "Refiguring and Dismantling civil Rights: The Discursive Strategies Affecting Social Space and Bodies in Colorado's Amendment Two Campaign." [Chair: Cynthia Patton]

Brown, Hilary, July 1996 (MM&C) "Jamaican Youth, American Media Use and the Cultural Dependency Thesis." [Chair: John Lent]

Holderman, Lisa, August 1996 (MM&C) "The Public Construction of Expertise: How Experts are Portrayed in Popular U.S. Talk Shows." [Chair: Sari Thomas]

1997   [ Top ]

McLaurin, Patrick, January 1997 (R&C) "An Examination of Cross Gender Intimate Aggression in Urban African American Youth Culture: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach." [Chair: Joseph Folger]

McNamara, Raymond Timothy, January 1997 (MM&C) "Popular Music Use by Older Order Amish Youth in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." [Chair: Thomas Gordon]

Bakelaar, Philip, May 1997 (R&C) "The Issue Culture of the Gay and Lesbian Religious Controversy in the Ages of Aids: Moral Argumentation in American Mainline Religious Communities as a Symbolic Contest Between Competing Interpretations." [Chair: Herbert W. Simons]

Bishop, Ronald, May 1997 (MM&C) "Lose All the Weight You Want: An Examination of the Impact of Commercials for Weightloss Products on Body Image." [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]

Ditton, Theresa Bolmarich, May 1997 (MM&C) "The Unintentional Blending of Direct Experience and Mediated Experience: The Role of Enhanced vs. Limited Television Presentations in Inducing Source-Monitoring Errors." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

O'Dowd, Kathleen Shawn, August 1997 (MM&C) "Personal Competencies and Their Relationship to Mediated Interpersonal Enactments." [Chair: Sari Thomas]

1998   [ Top ]

Reed, Elaine Walls, January 1998 (MM&C) "Representations of Miscegenation During the Hays Office Years: How the Public Relations Efforts of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Helped to Institutionalize Racism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century." [Chair: Paul Swann]

King, Michael, May 1998 (R&C) "Fractured Dance: Steps and Missteps in Conversation and in Application of Gadamer to a Mennonite Debate on Homosexuality." [Chair: Herbert W. Simons]

Kitch, Carolyn L., May 1998 (MM&C) "The Girl on the Magazine Cover: Gender, Class, and the Emergence of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media, 1895-1930." [Chair: Patricia Bradley]

Larsen, Robin, May 1998 (MM&C) "The Closeup Shot in American Film, 1911-1921: A Marker for Expressivity and Identity." [Chair: Paul Swann]

Madia, Sherri, May 1998 (MM&C) "The Global News Race and the Branding of CNN." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

Puritz-Cook, Judi, August 1998 (MM&C) "Social Class Identification and Anxiety in Television Home-Shopping." [Chair: Sari Thomas]

Hyun, Daiwon, August 1998 (MM&C) "US Telecommunications Policy in the Global Market - The Role of USTR." [Chair: John Lent]

Peliggi, Mary, August 1998 (MM&C) "No Sex, No Drugs, Just Hardcore Rock? Using Bourdieu to Understand Straight-Edge Kids and Their Practices." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

Pudlinski, Christopher, August 1998 (R&C) "Giving Help on a Consumer-Run Warm Line: Ideological Dilemmas and Practices." [Chair: Anita Pomerantz]

1999   [ Top ]

Okamoto, Rei, January 1999 (MM&C) "Pictorial Propaganda in Japanese Comic Art, 1941-1945: Images of the Self and the Other in a Newspaper Strip, Single Panel Cartoons, and Cartoon Leaflets." [Chair: John Lent]

Souder, Lawrence G., January 1999 (R&C) "A Rhetorical Contextualist Analysis of the Literature on the Chinese Room Thought Experiments: Trying to Get a Grip on Virtual Reality" [Chair: Herbert W. Simons]

Kotani, Mariko, May 1999 (R&C) "Accounts in Two Speech Communities: Views and Practices of Japanese and English Speakers." [Chair: Joseph P. Folger]

Yu, Kie-Un, June 1999 (MM&C) "Development of Korean Animation Industry: Historical, Economic and Cultural Perspectives." [Chair: John Lent]

Park, Woong-Ki, August 1999 (MM&C) "Talking Back To Television: Parasocial Interaction and Parasocial Relationships." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

Alaswad, Saleh, December 1999 (MM&C) "Hollywood Shoots the Arabs: The Construction of the Arab in American Culture." [Chair: Paul Swann]

O'Leary, John, December 1999 (MM&C) "The Rockford Files: Television Textual Analysis and Institutional Demands." [Chair: Paul Swann]

2000   [ Top ]

Berens, Eileen, March 2000 (R&C) "Testing a Model of Intergenerational Conflict Initiation in Young-Old Adult Interaction." [Chair: Tricia S. Jones]

Campbell, Cheri, March 2000 (R&C) "An Analysis of Dialectical Tensions in College Classroom Interaction." [Chair: Tricia S. Jones]

Stine, Mark D., March 2000 (MM&C) "Development of a Selection Instrument for Identifying Traits of Radio and Television News Reports: Test Construction and Validation." [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]

Tunc, Asli, March 2000 (MM&C) "Beyond the Line: The Situation of Editorial Cartoonists as a Press Freedom Issue in Post-1980 Turkey."" [Chair: John Lent]

Lizie, Arthur, May 2000 (MM&C) "Community and Identity Formation in Cyberspace: Popular Music and the flow of Culture." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

Snyder-Duch, Jennifer June 2000 (MM&C) "The Evolution of Media Reviewing: A Content Analysis of Film and Television Reviews in The New York Times and The New York Daily News, 1967-1997." [Chair: John Lent]

Bracken, Cheryl M. Campanella, August 2000 (MM&C) "Children and Social Responses to Computers: Praise, Intrinsic Motivation, and Learning." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

Kelly, Christine, November 2000 (MM&C) "Entertainment-Education and American Social Issues in Prime Time Television Broadcasting." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

Pompper, Donnalyn, December 2000 (MM&C) "Framing the Public Policy Issue of Environmental Risk 1983-1997." [Chair: Priscilla Murphy]

2001   [ Top ]

Keeratikrainon, Monsinee, November 2001 (MM&C) "Development of Telecommunications Infrastructure and Policy in Thailand." [Chair: John Lent]

Choi, Hyunju, December 2001 (MM&C) "The Politics of Representations in Four Different Genres: Documentary Photography, Photojournalism, Government Public Relations, and Art Photography: A Comparative Analysis on FSA Photographs of the 1930s." [Chair: John Lent]

Kahlenberg, Susan G., December 2001 (MM&C) "The Interrelationship Among Intelligence, Sexuality and Attractiveness on Prime-Time Television." [Chair: Sari Thomas]

2002   [ Top ]

Monolescu Kliger, Dominique, January 2002 (MM&C) "Computer Mediated Videoconferencing: A Technology in Evolution in Distance Education." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

Moore, Aaron J., March 2002 (MM&C) "Teams as Software: An Examination of Mass Media Ownership in Professional Sports." [Chair: John A. Lent]

D'Angelo, Paul, April 2002 (MM&C) "Framing the Press: A New Model for Observing Press Frames in Presidential Campaign News." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

Zemel, Alan, May 2002 (R&C) "Participation and Standing in Consensus Decision-Making." [Chair: Anita M. Pomerantz]

Shiau, Hong-Chi, June 2002 (MM&C) "The Production and Consumption of Animation in Taiwan - The Interplay of Global Political and Economic Forces." [Chair: John A. Lent]

2003   [ Top ]

Radosh, Jodi Linder, January 2003 (MM&C) "Defining Sensationalism in Local Television News." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

Feeney, Brian, April 2003 (MM&C) "The Social Construction of Environmental Policy: From Oppositional Ideology to Social Learning Through Conflict Using a Case Study at Aberdeen Proving Ground." [Chair: Priscilla Murphy]

Marshall, David, April 2003 (MM&C) "The Uptown Coalition: A Case Study of the Intersection of Media Advocacy, Media Literacy and Social Change." [Chair: Carolyn Kitch]

Franzini, Amy, June 2003 (MM&C) "Sex on Television Programming Popular Among Teenagers: Correlates and Consequence." [Chair: Sari Thomas]

Kaynak, Mehpare Selcan, June 2003 (MM&C) "Scholarship in the News: An Epistemological Examination of the Public Discourse About Controversial Social Research." [Chair: Priscilla Murphy]

Allan, David, December 2003 (MM&C) "The Role of Personal Significance: Effects of Popular Music in Advertising on Attention, Memory, Attitudes, and Conation." [Chair: Andrew Mendelson]

2004   [ Top ]

Vilceanu, M. Olguta, April 2004 (MM&C) "Framing Science: International Media Coverage of Crop Biotechnology." [Chair: Priscilla Murphy]

Liu, Chang-de, May 2004 (MM&C) "Technology, Media Workers, and Labor Process: The ICTs' Influences on Taiwanese Newspapers' Journalists and Freelancers." [Chair: John Lent]

Alnor, Bill, June, 2004 (MM&C) "Borrowed or Stolen? A Study of Plagiarism in Religion, with an Emphasis on Contemporary Religious Media." [Chair: Patricia Bradley]

Lin, Mu, June 2004 (MM&C) "Investing in China's Media Market: Interplay of Ideology and Commercialization." [Chair: John Lent]

Tian, Yan, July 2004 (MM&C) "Reputation and Branding: A Cross-cultural Study of Corporate Web Presence in the US and China." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

Diaz, Mercedes, October 2004 (MM&C) "Drawing in 'Cuban': Examining the Life and Work of Expatriated Cuban Cartoonists." [Chair: John Lent]

Hwang, Ha Sung, October 2004 (MM&C) "Predictors of IM Use Among U.S. College Students: Gratifications Sought, Gratifications Obtained and Social Presence." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

2005   [ Top ]

Kim, Heeman, March 2005 (MM&C) "Cultural Differences in Human-Computer Interaction: A Content Analysis and an Experiment of Design Features of Organizational Home Pages." [Chair: Andrew Mendelson]

Owino, Levi Obonyo, May 2005 (MM&C) "Growing in the Cradle: History, Development, and Functions of Cartooning in Kenya." [Chair: John Lent]

Liu, Dandan, May 2005 (MM&C) "Stadium Out of Chinatown: A Case Study of the Interaction Between News Media and Social Change." [Chair: Patricia Bradley]

Karuchit, Sudjai, May 2005 (MM&C) "Imported Imperialism?  A Content Analysis of Thai Television and a Re-Evaluation of the Media Imperialism in Thailand." [Chair: Nancy Morris]

Sen, Nandini, May 2005 (MM&C) "Telecommunications Policy and Changing Rhetoric in India: Towards Technophilia, Markets and Structuralism." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

Park, Sung Bok, May 2005 (MM&C) "The Mechanics of Online Social Interaction: How Cyberspace and Physical Territory Interplay in Korean Computer-Mediated Communication Environments." [Chair: Jan Fernback]

Estwick, Evene S., July 2005 (MM&C) "Media Imperialism Revisited: A Historical Analysis of Television in Barbados." [Chair: Nancy Morris]

Akdenizli, Banu, September 2005 (MM&C) "The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on the Nation-State: Internet Policy and Turkey." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

Gil-Egui, Gisela, October 2005 (MM&C) "Framing the Internet as a Public or Private Good: A Network Text Analysis of Competing Discourses within the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force." [Chair: Concetta Stewart]

Selverian, Melissa E. Markaridian, November 2005 (MM&C) "Being there in the VLE: A Pan Pedagogical Model for the Enhanced Learning Through Perceptual States of Presence." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

2006   [ Top ]

Kwon, Jae-Woong, February 2006 (MM&C) "The Development of Digital Cultural Products in the Age of Globalization: Focusing on the Korean Digitalized Animation Industry." [Chair: John Lent]

Choi, Suhi, March 2006 (MM&C) "Korean War Caught in History and Memory: Examining the U.S. Media Coverage of the No Gun Ri Incident (1999-Present) with the Comparison of Korean Survivors' Testimonies." [Chair: Carolyn Kitch]

Simone, Maria A., March 2006 (MM&C) "The Public's Public Interest: Re-Visioning the Mediated Public Sphere." [Chair: Jan Fernback]

Horvath, Karl John, April 2006 (MM&C) "The Computer as Information Intermediary: Using Social and Spatial Cues to Evoke Presence in Computer Users and Optimize Human Computer Interaction." [Chair: Matthew Lombard]

Robinson, Susan Joan, December 2006 (MM&C) "'Someone Has to be in Control Here': The News Narrative and Journalist Authority Shifts in the Move from Newspapers to Cyberspace." [Chair: (Carolyn Kitch]

2007   [ Top ]

Poe, Pamela Zubow, February 2007 (MM&C) "'Health-Media Literacy' for the Elderly: How Do Older Persons Perceive Health Information and Marketing Messages in Print and Televised Drug Advertisements?" [Chair: Jan Fernback]

Chang, Li-Yuan, April 2007 (MM&C) "Measuring Participation as Communicative Action: A Case Study of Citizen Involvement in and Assessment of a City's Smoking Cessation Policy-Making Process." [Chair: Thomas Jacobson]

Hains, Rebecca Consentino, May 2007 (MM&C) "Negotiating Girl Power: Girlhood on Screen and in Everyday Life." [Chair: Carolyn Kitch]

Shi, Yunhe, July 2007 (MM&C) "Framing Corporate Reputation: A Comparative Study of the Images of Canary Wharf in the Media." [Chair: Michael Maynard]

 

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