Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Discussing Online: The Slow Food Movement Quickens with New Media, Carolyn Bender
Image Trends in Corporate Environmental Reporting: Bolstering Reputation through Transparency or Widening the “Sustainability Gap”?, Sarah E. Brooks
Representations of Haiti in Western News Media: Coverage of the January 2010 Earthquake in Haiti, Hillary L. Brown
Playing for Resistance in MMORPG: Oppositional Reading, Emergence, and Hegemony in the Lineage II "Bartz Liberation War", Yoon Sang Cho
First Impressions, Second Appraisals: Going Beyond the “Paratextual Contract” in The American Televisual Opening Title Sequence, Erik K. Clabaugh
Abracadabra: Key Agents of Mediation that Define, Create, and Maintain TV Fandom, David H. Gardner
Another Brick in the Wall: Public Space, Visual Hegemonic Resistance, and the Physical/Digital Continuum, Daniel Gilmore
Understanding Diversity: Top Executives' Perceptions of Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Public Relations, Amber H. Irizarry
Product Placement Decisions On-Set, Maria Flavia T. Pulliam
Friend Request Accepted: A Case Study of Facebook's Expansionary Network Strategies in India, Devna Thapliyal
Remember, Anthony C. Vines
Deadly Viper Character Assassins: Cyber Discourse on Asian American Marginalization and Identity, Eileen Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Team Edward or Team Jacob? The Portrayal of Two Versions of the "Ideal" Male Romantic Partner in the Twilight Film Series, Paola A. Bedoya
Communicating with the World: History of Rhetorical Responses to International Crisis and the 2007 U.S. National Strategy for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication, Laurel R. Berryman
"To Blaze Forever in a Blazing World": Queer Reconstruction and Cultural Memory in the Works of Alan Moore, Michael T. Besozzi
No Angel: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Nadja Benaissa in the U.K., U.S. and Germany, Elizabeth A. Cantrell
Identification is Persuasion: Eisenhower’s Call for Unity and the Founding of NATO’s Military Headquarters, Debra N. Fossum
The Flow of the Water: Contemporary American Realisms, Justin Horton
The Glitch Aesthetic, Rebecca Jackson
Online Gaming and Teamwork, Lakshmi Jagad Ms.
A House in the Middle of the Road: Serbia's Otpor Movement and its Strategies of Nonviolent Resistance, Jelena Kelava
Disney's Portrayal of Nonhuman Animals in Animated Films Between 2000 and 2010, Oana Leventi-Perez
Rhetoric and Rupture: A Theory of the Event, Robert Mills
Veiled Politics: Legitimating the Burqa Ban in the French Press, Anne Roberts
Discourse Analysis of Public Debate over U.S. Government Faith-Based Initiative of 2001, Vincente S. Scott
Twitter's Impact on Sports Journalism Practice: Where a New Medium Meets and Old Art, Kyle Sears
Constructing Asian/American Women on Screen, Charleen M. Wilcox
Imagining Queerness: Sexualities in Underground Films in the Contemporary P. R. China, Jin Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Framing Autism Causes and Prevelance: A Content Analysis of Television Evening News Coverage--1994 Through April 2010, Angela S. Colson
[Redacted Text] and Surveillance: An Ideographic Analysis of the Struggle between National Security and Privacy, Eric M. Connelly
Cultural Play at the Crazy Horse Colossus: Narrative, Thomas M. Cornwell
Nadya Suleman and Kate Gosselin in the Media: Exploring Images of Motherhood and Reproductive Technology, Lisa A. Hanna
The Failed NC-17 Rating, Screen Violence and Sexuality, and the Viability of the Current MPAA Ratings System, David Wesley James
The Radical Voice in the Rhetoric of the Tea Party Movement, Joel M. Lemuel
History in the Making: The Impact of Ideology in Lynne Cheney's Children's Books, Samuel Miller
What Do They Expect? A Study of the Rhetoric of Job Expectations for First Post-College Jobs Found on Career Webpages of Gender-Dominant Organizations, Catherine Franklin Neiner
Media Literacy in the United States: A Close Look at Texas, Ava Katherine Ward-Barnes
The Game of Unity?: The 2007 Cricket World Cup as a Catalyst toward Caribbean Identity Construction, Peta-Gaye J. Wiggan
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
L337 Soccer Moms: Conceptions of "Hardcore" and "Casual" in the Digital Games Medium, Steven Andrew Boyer
In the Culture of Truthiness: Comic Criticism and the Performative Politics of Stephen Colbert, Justine Schuchard Holcomb
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Place-making: Texts, Structures, and Movement in Atlantic Station, Brook Alys Irving
Radiohead: The Guitar Weilding, Dancing, Singing Commodity, Selena Michelle Lawson
Hurricane Katrina and the Third World: A Cluster Analysis of the "Third World" Label in the Mass Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina, Paul E. Mabrey III
Appropriation of Yoga and Other Indigenous Knowledge & Cultural Heritage: A Critical Analysis of the Legal Regime of Intellectual Property Rights, Lok Raj Pokhrel
Changes in Branding Strategy: A Discourse Analysis of NATO Publications and Speech Regarding its Russian Relationship and the NATO-Russia Council, Alexandra Kornilia Sowers
Organizational Accessibility and Community Connections: Examining Changes in the Spatial Proximity of Pubic Housing Residents to Social Service Providers and Providers' Responses to Redevelopment, Kimberly Ann Stringer
Communication Channels, Social Support and Satisfaction in Long Distance Romantic Relationships, Lijuan Yin
Racial Satire and Chappelle's Show, Katharine P. Zakos
Gaming Realism in Second Life, Dan Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Effect of Gay Visual Exemplars on Issue Perceptions in Newspaper Reports, Anita Atwell
For Better or for Worse? Media Coverage of Marital Rape in the 1978 Rideout Trial, Melissa Anne Bazhaw
Mourning and Message: Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 Atlanta Funeral as an Image Event, Rebecca Poynor Burns
Georgia Newspaper Coverage Discovering Conventional Practices of the 'Cherokee Question': Prelude to the Removal, 1828-1832, James Hollister Hobgood, Jr.
What’s the Story? Framing of Health Issues by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Major Newspapers: A Qualitative Analysis, Kathryn O'Neill Karnes
Plaza Fiesta: A Re-Imagined Homeland Contributing to Latino Identity and Community, Sarah Lindley Marske
Contagion from Abroad: U.S. Press Framing of Immigrants and Epidemics, 1891 to 1893, Harriet Moore
E-health and the Internet: Factors that Influence Doctors' Mediation Behaviors with Patients, Erin Robinson
UPS and Zoo Atlanta: A Case Study on Corporate Social Responsibility, Karen Saghini
A Genealogy of Absence & Evil: Tracing the Nation's Borders with Captain America, Christian J. Steinmetz
Dialectical Relationships in Pre 9/11 and Post 9/11 White Supremacist Discourse, Abigail Smith Williams
Satellites, Neoliberal Globalization and Global Corporatism, Fangjie Xu
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
An Internal Communications Analysis of a U.S. Credit Reporting Agency, Styletta Carter
"My Loss is Your Gain": Examining the Role of Message Frame, Perceived Risk, and Ambivalence in the Decision to Become an Organ Donor., Elizabeth Leigh Cohen
Civil Religion and Pastoral Power in the George W. Bush Presidency, Kristina E. Curry
A New Approach to an Old Story: How Generation Y Views and Disseminates Echoes of Vietnam Films as seen in Videos Created by Troops in Iraq, Lindsey Ann Hagan
Communicating a Crisis: The Public Information Officer's Perspective, Susan Hale
"Pro-Ana" Web-Log Uses and Gratifications towards Understanding the Pro-Anorexia Paradox, Dana G. Mantella
Patronizing Speech in Interability Communication toward People with Cognitive Disabilities, Vann Morris
Strangers in their Own Land: A Cultural History of Japanese American Internment Camps in Arkansas 1942-1945, Dori Felice Moss
Media Framing of Female Athletes and Women's Sports in Selected Sports Magazines, Stacey Nicely
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: An Analysis of a Potential Meme, Jo Howarth Noonan
Black Press Coverage of the Emmett Till Lynching as a Catalyst to the Civil Rights Movement, Michael Randolph Oby
Media Messages and Womens' Body Perceptions in Egypt, Shaima Ragab
Legislating after Terrorism: September 11, the News Media and the Georgia Legislature, Rachel Tobin Ramos
Ethnic Media and Identity Construction: Content Analysis of the Visual Portrayals of Women in Latina and Glamour Magazines, Patricia Ricle Mayorga
When It Hits the Fan: A Public Relations' Practitioners' Guide to Crisis Communication, Joshua Lee Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Computer Mediated Communication: Interaction and Interactivity, Mark Agle
March's Gendered Madness: An Analysis of Print Media Representations of a Female Division I NCAA Women's Basketball Coach - Pat Summitt, Cindy Marie Allen
Framing Hillary Clinton: A Content Analysis of the New York Times News Coverage of the 2000 New York Senate Election, Amy Beth Busher
The Television Portrayals of African Americans and Racial Attitudes, Joni G V Dubriel
Observations on the News Factory: A Case Study of CNN, Andree Marie Grogan
Tabloidization in the Modern American Press: A Textual Analysis and Assessment of Newspaper and Tabloid Coverage of the “Runaway Bride” Case, Nichola Reneé Harris
Excellence in Incompetence: The Daily Show Creates a Moment of Zen, Megan Turley Hodgkiss
In Search of Communication Satisfaction at the State Bar of Georgia, Christopher Tyler Jones
Gender Role Identity and Audience Perceptions of Music Videos, Melissa M. Legaspi
Uncovering the Range of Intentions and Interpretations Associated with N-Word Usage in American Film, Nneka Logan
Alice Hamilton: The Making of a Feminist-Pragmatist Rhetor, Vicki J. McCoy
The Discourse of Planned Parenthood of the Atlanta Area: 1964 – 1972, Melissa N. Miller
The Political Use of "Family Values" Rhetoric, Elizabeth Caroline Powell
A Community of Smarks: Professional Wrestling and the Changing Relationship between Textual Producers and Consumers, Shane Toepfer
The Rhetoric of Volunteerism: Strategies to Recruit and Retain Volunteers in Nonprofit Organizations, Terry Bell Woods
Alternative Realities/The Multiverse: A Metaphysical Conundrum, Freda A. Wynn
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Gender Images and Power in Magazine Advertisements: The Consciousness Scale Revisited, Lorie N. Bonham
Preserving the American Community Newspaper in an Age of New Media Convergence and Competition, Stephen Michael Wilson