Communication ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
INFLUENCES OF THE WESTERN PRESS ON NEWS FRAMING OF GLOBAL EVENTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: EXAMINING COVID-19 AND CLIMATE COVERAGE IN A BANGLADESHI NEWS ORGANIZATION, Arif Md Tareque Habib
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
“How I Dress is No one’s Business!”: Fashion as a Subversive Language of Resistance Among Female Christian Celebrities in Ghana, Amanda E. Gyesi
Health Infographics: An Examination of Breastfeeding Infographics from the World Health Organization, Naadiyahtu Iddrisu
MEDIA ROAD TO VIOLENCE: A PROCESS OF RACIALIZATION OF ROHINGYA ETHNIC MINORITY, Md Didarul Islam
Breaking the Silence: Autoethnographic Account of Communication in the Aftermath of Parental Suicide, Marissa L. Lucero
(DIS)CONNECTING INCOMMENSURABLE RELATIONALITIES: AESTHETICS OF DESIRABLE CITIZENSHIP & INTERETHNIC SOLIDARITY IN VIETNAMESE/AMERICAN DIASPORIC MEDIA, Anh A. T. Nguyen
TRANSNATIONAL(IZING) AFRICAN COMMUNICATION: A POST-/DECOLONIAL APPROACH TO NOLLYWOOD AND GLOBALIZATION, Tomide Oloruntobi
Reproducing and Challenging Islamophobia in News Framing of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, Two Prominent Muslim Women in U.S. Politics, Saiqa Shahzadi
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Saved Babies, Dead Doctors: Settler Colonial Anxiety and Strategic Rhetorics of/in the Anti-Abortion Cultural Narrative, Cassidy Ellis
Queer Crises: Movements from Queerness and Feelings of White Religion in the United States, Austin Williams Miller
The Role of Social Media Activism in Achieving Good Water and Sanitation in Ghana, Inusah Mohammed
THE INTERSECTION OF RACISM AND ABLEISM IN DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES, Carrie E. Mulderink
News Media Framing of Disabilities in Ghana: Journalistic Practices Amidst Advocacy Calls for Change, Pamela Ofori Boateng
SOCIALLY MEDIATED SELF-PRESENTATION, IMAGE-CONSTRUCTION, AND TWITTER: A MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF VICE PRESIDENTS ACROSS A CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour
Racialized Masculinities in Professional Basketball: Utilizing Mixedness to Challenge Commonplace Black/White Media Discourses About NBA Players, Anthony C. Peavy
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
HOW SOUTH ASIAN ACTIVISTS QUEER THE MODEL MINORITY MYTH: A CRITICAL ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, Noorie Baig
(Un)Matched: Racialized Narratives of U.S.-Based Japanese Men, Masculinity, and Heterosexuality in Online Dating Apps, Keisuke Kimura
Reimagining Rhetorical Ability: (Dis)Embodiments of Disabled Speakers in the StutterTalk Podcast and the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Katherine Mulle
Un-Earthing popular climate narratives: maintenance and prophecy In Settler World, Hannah Oxford
Coloniality and Paradoxes of Migrancy: Experiences of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica, Darcey Rydl
MELANCOLÍA X A PROJECTION OF QUEER OF COLOR AMBIVALENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY NEW MEXICO, Anthony Rosendo Zarinana
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Changing and Transitioning Name Narratives: The DE.E.P. Standpoints of Identities, Pauline C. Alvarez
Sisters Supporting Sisters: Photovoice & Diabetes Discourse Among Church-Based Women in New Mexico, Nina Mock Cooper
Effects of Message Frame and Cultural Orientations on COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors, Mika Hashimoto
Women’s Resilience through Bullying Vernaculars: A Visual Vernacular Discourse Analysis, Karla Ibet Ochoa
IINA DZIIL BE’AT’IIN (ON THE PATH OF A STRONG LIFE): DINE (NAVAJO) PERCEPTIONS OF SELF-CARE AND SOCIAL SUPPORT WITH DIABETES MANAGEMENT, Chenoa Bah Stilwell-Jensen
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
“This is How You Navigate the World”: Impacts of Mormon Rhetoric on White Queer Members' Identity Performances, Ben Brandley
Exploratory Study of Communication as a Psychosocial Factor Influencing Safer Sex Experiences Among Individuals Who Identify as Polyamorous, Cecilia Brooke Cholka
Capitalizing on Language: The Political and Economic (Re)Circulation of a National Imaginary, Joseph L. Flores
FARMERS’ PLACE-BASED DISCOURSE ABOUT WATER RELATIONS: WAYS OF KNOWING WATER AND MULTISPECIES SURVIVAL, Jeffrey Alan Hoffmann
"Fat is a Queer Issue, Too": Complicating Queerness and Body Size in Women's Sexual Orientation and Identity, Hannah R. Long
Painted Over in Brown: Border Art as Visual Discourse of Resistance, Nicole Rivera
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Framing of European Union borders in online news: Multimodal discourses of inclusion and exclusion, Ivana Cvetkovic
IT IS MORE THAN A GAME: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION TREATMENT OF RESILIENCE AS A KEY ELEMENT OF BASKETBALL CULTURE, Matthew Charles Higgins
"Is there really a way to prevent cancer?": Exploring cancer prevention information seeking among cancer patients and their caregivers, Kaitlin M. Magee
SEX, LABOR, AND DIGITAL SPACES: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GPGUIADELAS, A BRAZILIAN SEX WORKER TWITTER FEED, Ailesha L. Ringer
Genetically Modified Salmon and the Future of Food: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Twitter, Margaret Markham Siebert
A Cartography of Roots: An Exploration of plant communication, place, and story, Mariko Oyama Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A CHURCH’S APPROACH TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION ENCOUNTERS IN SHORT-TERM MISSIONS, Carolotta Anweiler
Translating Global Nature: Territoriality, Environmental Discourses, and Ecocultural Identities, José R. Castro-Sotomayor
REALIDADES CULTURALES DE ARGENTINA: DEMYSTIFYING (TRANS)NATIONAL IDEOLOGIES IN STUDY ABROAD CURRICULUM, Matthew Hoeg
Negotiating Culture in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Organizational Discourse in Ghana, Eric Karikari
KENYAN YOUTHS’ EXPERIENCES OF INTERCULTURAL CONFLICT: NEGOTIATING CONTEXT, INTERSECTIONALITIES, AND AGENCY, Lindsay Scott
"Health is an Achoot Beat": Factors Influencing Pakistani Journalists' Coverage of Polio Vaccination, Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Humanature Relations in Oman: Connections, Disconnections and Globalization, Maryam A. Alhinai
Reproducing the Ghanaian/African Subject: Ideological Tensions and Queer Subjectivities in Postcolonial Ghana, Godfried A. Asante
Common among wizards, popstars, and cowboys: Performance and participation in media fandom, Sebastiaan Gorissen
The Choose H2O Challenge #icH2Oose: Piloting a health communication campaign to encourage teens in rural New Mexico to drink more water, Emily A. Lilo
"Juntas": A Narrative Analysis on Social Support among Hispanic/Latina Breast Cancer Survivors, Gabriela I. Morales
Negotiating Identity, Home, and Belonging: Understanding the Experiences of African Women Refugees Resettled in the United States, Consolata Nthemba Mutua
Elements Affecting Adoption and Implementation of Health Literacy Initiatives in Healthcare Organizations: A Qualitative Study, Audrey C. Riffenburgh
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
FEMALE GENDER ROLE REPRESENTATION BETWEEN 1990 AND 2010 IN IMPORTED CHILDRENS CARTOONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATIVE YEMENI CULTURE, Fatima Al-Hattami
Hope as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: The Communication Processes Facilitating Hope at a Community-Based Support Program, Laura L. Burton
Un/Desirable Subjects: South Asian Racialization in the Age of Terror, Santhosh Chandrashekar
Cumulative Impact: Digital Ethnography of Environmental Activism in the Mountain View Community, Nina Cooper
TRANS/FORMATIONS: A PHOTOVOICE ASSESSMENT OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE’S WELLNESS, E. Ricky Hill
Sex Ed to Go- An Analysis of Comprehensive Sexual Education Mobile Phone Applications, Kerstin M. Kalke
User Experiences of Regret While Engaging with Social Media, Kimberly Oostman
Ecocultural Adjustment: A Peace Corps Sojourn, Melissa Michelle Parks
CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF COLOMBIAN IDENTITIES AND HUMANATURE IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE (1903-1952), Mónica Pérez-Marín
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Monstrosities, Money, & Machines: A Metaphoric Analysis of Fantasy Football as a Social World, Arthur Alexander Aguirre
Ungoverned Masculinities: Gendered Discourses of Neoliberalism in The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, Christopher Barnes
Reciprocal Negative Disclosures: An Application of Expectancy Violations Theory, China Billotte Verhoff
CENSURED MOTHERHOOD: COMMUNICATING THE DOUBLE BIND BETWEEN MOTHERHOOD AND THE PROFESSORIATE, Sarah Fuller
EMAIL AND ENRON: USING CMM TO MAKE BETTER SOCIAL WORLDS IN ORGANIZATIONS, Nicholas Noblet
Through Their Own Eyes: Exploring New Mexico High School Students' Perceptions of the Influences on Their Food Practices, Lynn Marie Walters
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Don't Put Me in "Quotes": Examining Communication Episodes of Health-Related Stigma, Ashley Archiopoli
The Process of Diagnosis Delivery of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Natasha A. Barnett
Reel Queer: Emergent Discourses and Contexts of Queer Youth Identity Constructions and Experiences in Digital Video Projects, Sarah Lindsey Beck
Identity Performance and Space in the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene, Edward Hakim Bellamy
Fantasy-Theme Analysis of Food Documentaries: Contention, Collaboration, and Consultation as Health Promotion Approaches, Vanessa Brandon
Walk Feminine, Talk Feminine:A Critical Textual Analysis of Femininities,Performances, and Representations, Reslie Cortes
Exploring Organizational Culture and Intercultural Communication Practices in a Teaching Hospital, Jaclyn R. Devine
MEDIATED NARRATIVES ON CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF DREAMER IDENTITIES IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE SURROUNDING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2012 DEFERRED DEPORTATION ANNOUNCEMENT, Marisa Garcia Rodriguez
ORGANIC IS MORE OF AN AMERICAN TERM--WE ARE TRADITIONAL FARMERS': DISCOURSES OF PLACE-BASED ORGANIC FARMING, COMMUNITY, HERITAGE, AND SUSTAINABILITY, Jeffrey Hoffmann
Communication as a resource for Latin American immigrant settlement in the United States: An ethnography of communication, Danielle Kvam
The Social Construction and Broaden-Build Effects of Appreciation, Recognition, and Reward at Work As Portrayed in Four Contemporary Films, Andrew Gavin Leach
Agenda setting, Framing and government's Influence on Tobacco-related News Coverage in China's People's Daily, Hengjun Lin
INTERRUPTING THE SILENCE: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A PILOT SEMINAR ON RACISM, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND WHITE PRIVILEGE, Angela Putman
A CONTENT ANALYSIS SPANNING 30 YEARS OF MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNICATION SCHOLARSHIP, Camille Velarde
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION: A STUDY OF LOCAL CONGREGATIONS OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, Alexandra Arjannikova
Tensions in (Agri)Culture: The Negotiation of Environmental Dialectics at an Urban Farmers Market', Jason Boys
"EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY, Kristen L. Cole
CONTESTED KNOWLEDGES: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF 'ECLIPSES FOR AUSTIN' BY PABLO VARGAS LUGO AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND SCIENCE, Carlos Rodrigo Guzman
NARRATIVE MEDICINE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICAL INTERVIEWING APPROACHES IN WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER, Wendy L. Hine
