Communication ETDs
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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
"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
A PROGRAM OF ATTRACTION RATHER THAN PROMOTION: ENCOURAGING NEWCOMERS TO KEEP COMING BACK'', Miwa Kimura
Traversing Invitational Spaces: The Beautiful Iraqi Women Project, Carmen Lowry
Trust as an Ethical Construct in Community Based Participatory Research Partnerships., Julie Ermalinda Lucero
FARMING AND FIGHTING AS PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY: A PROCEDURAL FIELD ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL GAMES, Alexis Pulos
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Seeds of Resistance; Harvesting Justice: An exploration of spaces where native seeds grow, Jaelyn deMaría
Social-environmental Entrepreneurs' Communicative Actions in Communication Networks, Alice Hopkins-Loy
Immigration in rural Newfoundland: Individual and community change, Willow Jackson Anderson
Ending Poverty? Critical Interrogations of Class Subjectivities, Agency, and Ideologies in Discursive and Embodied Texts From a U.S. Nonprofit, Brandi Lawless
Social Support Seeking Processes in Japan and the United States: A Multi-layered Approach, Satoshi Moriizumi
SOUTH ASIAN AND (UNDOCUMENTED) LATINO/A IMMIGRANT BLOGGERS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH IMMIGRATION DISCOURSES, Anjana Mudambi
NEGOTIATING CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN ZIMBABWE: POSTCOLONIAL TRANSITIONS AND ENDURANCE, Cleophas Taurai Muneri
Transcending Traditional Approaches to Sexuality Education: A Case Study in Communicating, Constructing, and Defining Sex-Positive Sexuality Education, Jessica A. Nodulman
The Monstrous Side of Humanity: A Generic, Narrative, and Audience Reception Analysis of True Blood, Stacey M. Overholt
And Now I'm Here: An Ethnography of Communication Inquiry into Asking for Help Practices at a Homeless Shelter', LaRae D. Tronstad
"I Have To Be Everything" Voices of International Working Mothers: Negotiating Work-Life Balance in the United States, Qingjing Xu
Adolescent Sexuality and Gender Discourses in Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, and Teen: A Frame Analysis of Online Teen Magazines, Krystal Ann Zaragoza
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement, Claudia Alejandra Anguiano
Nopalitos Mean Something: Communicating Identity in Mother-Daughter Relationships through Food and Recipe, Darla Antoine
Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do: A Case Study in Communication-Centered Leadership, Jo Carter
It's like a giant game of telephone: Physicians' perceptions of effective communication in the emergency department context', Marleah Dean
Forms and Fragments: Enactment of Cultural Identification in an Online Community of Chinese Living Overseas, Haibin Dong
Patient-Provider Encounter: The Contemporary Cameroonian Story, Eudaline Patricia Hell
The Elusive End of the Rainbow: A (Queer) Rhetorical Analysis of Rainbow Sash Rhetoric, Kenneth Lythgoe
Borders, Bridges, and Beer: Performances of Cultural Identities in the Washington Birthday Celebration, Diana Carolina Ramos
OBAMA'S PRESIDENTIAL (MIXED) RACE: FRAMING AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BLOGS AND NEWS, Iliana Rucker
The Materiality of the Self: A Multimodal, Communicative Approach to Identity, Sachi Sekimoto
