Media Studies PhD Alumni

Dissertation Title

Democratic Values in the 21^st Century: Addressing our Transforming Society

Dissertation Chairs

Shu-Ling Berggreen & Rick Stevens

Dissertation Title
The Family Audience: Class, Taste,and Cultural Production in Late Modernity

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Muslims in the American Social Imagination: Muslim Archetypes in U.S. Mainstream and Muslim Alternative Media

Dissertation Chair
Michael Tracey

Dissertation Title
The Kinder, Gentler Gaze of Big Brother Reality TV in the Era of Digital Capitalism

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

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The Implications of Digital Technologies for the LDS Church and for Orthodox, Heterodox, and Post-Mormon Identity

Dissertation Chair

Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
The Mythologies of Modernity with a Schizophrenic Network Dynamic

Disseration Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Disseration Title
American Idolatry: Celebrity, Commodity, and Reality Television

Dissertation Chair
Elizabeth A. Skewes  

Dissertation Title
The Development of Close-Captioned Television: Technology, Policy, and Cultural Form

Dissertation Chair
Willard D. Rowland Jr. 

Dissertation Title
Revolution and Restoration: Mediating the Experience of the Red Brigades    

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese        

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Revenue, Representation, and ‘Rooby-Roo’: Hanna-Barbera and the Business of Television Animation

Dissertation Chair

Polly Bugros McLean

Dissertation Title
FOR-GET: Identity, Media, and Democracy in Michelle Bachelet's Chile (2006-2010)

Dissertation Chair
Michael Tracey        
 

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Activist Media: Radical Filmmaking and Networked Social Movements

Dissertation Chair
Nabil Echchaibi

Dissertation Title
Media and Religion in the Ghanian Pentecostal Diaspora

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Case Studies of How Community Media Enact Media Literacy and Activism in the Public Sphere

Dissertation Chair
Shu-Ling Berggreen

Dissertation Title
Media, Identity, and the Environment: Popular Religiosity and Spectacular Nature

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Identity, Discourse, and Media Audiences: A Critical Ethnography of the Role of Visual Media in Religious Identity-Construction Among U.S. Adolescents

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
From Mediascape to Meaning and Back Again: An Interactionist Analysis of Spiritual Tourism in Sedona, Arizona

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
What is the Digital Divide?

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager

Dissertation Title
Caring About Speech: A Feminist Perspective on Freedom of Expression and the Problem of Hate Speech

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager

Dissertation Title

What We Don’t Know: The Media Legacy of the Columbine Massacre and Present-Day Prevention

Dissertation Chair

Elizabeth A. Skewes

Dissertation Title
The Pathology of Modernity? Cultural Dialogue and Taiwan's Small-Scale Media

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title
The Expert, the Interested, and the Engaged: An Examination of the Role and Impact of the Subgovernment in Telecommunications Policy

Dissertation Chair
Willard D. Rowland Jr.

Dissertation Title
English by Popular Demand: American Prestige Press Discourses on Language and Globalization in a Post Cold War World

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title

Whose Journalism Is It Anyway? Vernacular Modernity, Balance and Silence on Indian Maoism, 2018

Dissertation Chair

Polly Bugros McLean

Dissertation Title
Elusive Autonomy: Brazilian Communications Policy in an Age of Globalization and Technological Change

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title
Civil Society on the Line: Examining the Relationship between Media and Activist Groups along the Arizona/Sonora Border

Dissertation Chair
Shu-Ling Berggreen

Dissertation Title
Barren or Bountiful? Analysis of Cultural Values in Popular Media Representations of Infertility

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
The Spirituality of Sustainability: Healing the Self to Heal the World through Healthy Living Media

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Renovating TV, remodeling gender: Home Improvement Television and Gendered Domesticities, 1990-2005

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Disseration Title
The Wired Community: An Exploration of the Cultural Practices of the Citizens of Cyberspace

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
And Knowing is Half the Battle: How Endorsements for War Were Embedded in CNN's Coverage of the Conflict with Iraq

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Dissertation Title
This Ain't NASCAR: Framing the Pacers-Pistons Brawl

Dissertation Chair
Elizabeth A. Skewes

Dissertation Title
Zine Fanz, Zine Fiction, Zine Fandom: Exchanging the Mundane for the Woman-Centered World

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

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Marginalized, Ostracized and Omitted: What an Examination of Non-News Claims Reveals about Press Coverage of Tent City 4

Dissertation Chairs
Janice Peck, Elizabeth Skewes

Dissertation Title
Onto a Reconsideration of Androgyny: A Comparative Analysis of Modern and Postmodern Discourse and Imagery

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Consistent Exclusion?: An Analysis of Local Television News Coverage of Communities of Color

Dissertation Chair
​Robert Trager

Dissertation Title
The Local News Audience and Sense of Place: A Home in the Global Village

Dissertation Chair
​​Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title

Network of Many Loves: A History of Alternative Media in the Polyamory Movement

Dissertation Chair

Polly Bugros McLean

Dissertation Title

Digital Coming Out: The Politics of LGBTQ Culture in Social Media, 2018

Dissertation Chair

Polly Bugros McLean

Dissertation Title
Re-imagining Nation as Brand: Globalization and National Identity in Post-Communist Bulgaria

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover
 

Dissertation Title
Beltway Power Brokers: An Examination of the Heritage Foundation

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title

Encoded Inequality: Hacking the Gender Bias in Technology

Dissertation Chair

Nabil Echchaibi

Dissertation Title
War, Gaming, and Masculinity in the Military Entertainment Complex: A Case Study of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Dissertation Chair
​​Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Rewriting the Rulebook, Revamping an Industry: Objectivity and Professional Journalism in Transition in the Modern Media Ecology

Dissertation Chair
​​Robert Trager

Dissertation Title
The Politics of Mediating Female Sexual Subjectivity: Feminist Pornography and the Production of Cultural Variation

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
News in the Shadow of War

Dissertation Chair
Hun Shik Kim

Dissertation Title
The Transformation of Children's Television from Communism to Global Capitalism in Hungary

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title
Government Support of National Film Industries:A Study of Policies and Institutions to Maintain State Influence Over Cinematic Production and Representation in the Republic of Ireland

Dissertation Chair
Willard D. Rowland Jr.

Dissertation Title
The Domestic War on Terror: Communications, Media and Police Militarization at Protests

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title
Levees, Looters and Lawlessness: Race Rumor and the Framing of Hurricane Katrina

Dissertation Chair
Polly McLean

Dissertation Title
Communication as Capital: Audience Labor Exploitation in the Digital Era.

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Dissertation Title
Cultural Conflicts and Problems of Free Speech: Comparative Free Speech in Japan and the United States as Exemplified by Limits on Sexual Expression

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager

Dissertation Title
Perscribo Malum: Framing, Re-Framing and Making Sense of Clergy Sexual Abuse

Dissertation Chair
Michael McDevitt

Dissertation Title

Frontiersmen Are the “Real Men” in Trump’s America: Hegemonic Masculinity at Work on U.S. Cable Version of Blue-Color Reality

Dissertation Chair

Polly Bugros McLean

Dissertation Title
Lottizzazione in RAI: Public Service Journalism and the Parties' System in Italy

Dissertation Chair
Michael Tracey

Dissertation Title
Media, Religion, and Culture in Contemporary Korea: Production and Reception of Religious Symbolism in a Daily TV Serial

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
There and Back Again But Where? Tourism,The Lord of the Rings, and Media Power

Disseration Chair
Shu-Ling Berggreen

Dissertation Title

Voiceless Icons No More: The Self-Representations of Muslim American Lives in Digital Media

Dissertation Chair
Nabil Echchaibi

Disseration Title
Islamic Piety and the Discourse Production of HIV/AIDS in Indonesia

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover  

Dissertation Title
From Izzatt to Heimat: Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Identity in the Cinema of the South Asian Diaspora

Dissertation Chair
Michael Tracey 

Dissertation Title
Re-Interpreting Mexican Rock Music: Contemporary Youth, Politics, and the Mexican State  

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager        

Dissertation Title
Imaginative Resistance: The Rise of Cultural Studies as Political Practice in Britain

Dissertation Chair
Willard D. Rowland Jr.

Dissertation Title
Network Affiliate TV News Directors: Becoming Managers in the Eye of a Storm

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager

Dissertation Title
Selling Europe: Citizenship, Identity and Communication in the European Union's InstitutionalDiscourse

Dissertation Chair
Michael Tracey

Dissertation Title
Hate Speech in Social Media: An Exploration of the Problem and its Proposed Solutions

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager

Dissertation Title

Domestic Surveillance in the United States: World War II to Vietnam

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Dissertation Title
Harvesting Memory: Creativity and the New Technologies of Expression

Dissertation Chair
Michael Tracey

Dissertation Title
For Their Families' Sake: An Interpretive Analysis of the Role of Mass Media in Single Parents' Everyday Life and Their Meaning-Making Practices

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
The Tyranny of the Majority: The Culture of Conformity in the Local Television Newsroom

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager

Dissertation Title
The Making of Modernity in South Korea: A Discourse Analysis of Jazz in the Mass Media from the 1920s to 2011

Dissertation Chair
Shu-Ling Berggreen

Dissertation Title

Korean Therapeutic Culture and Reconstruction of Housewife Subjectivities

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Dissertation Title
The Cultural War on Drugs: The Language of Drug Discourse, 19th Century to the Present

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title
The Privatization of Standardization: Enclosure of Knowledge and Policy in the Age of Digital Information

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Mickey and Minnie Aren't Married? Disney, Family Values, and Corporate America

Dissertation Chair
Michael Tracey

Dissertation Title
The Quilt and Deconfiguration of Popular AIDS Discourse: A Mass Communication Perspective on the AIDS Memorial Quilt

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
The Wounds of the Wild West: Analysis of the Online Debate about Guns at the Local and National Level

Dissertation Chair
Rick Stevens

Dissertation Title
Publics and Counterpublics on the Front Page off the Internet: The Cultural Practices, Technological Affordances, Hybrid Economics and Politics of reddit's Public Sphere

Dissertation Chair
Kathleen Ryan

Dissertation Title
The Technological Sublime vs. The Frankenstein Complex: Utopia, Dystopia, and Christianity in the Internet Debate

Dissertation Chair
Willard D. Rowland Jr.

Dissertation Title
Commercial Speech on the Internet

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager

Disseration Title
Morality, Politics and Media: The Collaborative Reproduction Controversies in the United Kingdom

Dissertation Chair
Michael Tracey

Disseration Title

Media of Resistance: A Communication History of the Communist Movement in the Dutch East Indies, 1920-1926

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Dissertation Title

Untapped: Fermenting Feminism through the Craft Beer Movement, 2016

Dissertation Chair

Polly Bugros McLean

Dissertation Title
Maintaining an Imaginary, Creating Myths: An Examination of Japanese Self-Portrayal in Export Media

Dissertation Chair
Shu-Ling Berggreen

Dissertation Title
The Denial of Development: A Critical Study of a Palestinian Internet Center

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Dissertation Title
Policy for Culture's Sake? Cultural Theory, Popular Music, and the Canadian State

Dissertation Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title
Critical Media Literacy in Action: Uniting Theory, Practice and Politics in Media Education

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Looking at the Big Picture: High Definition Television and Prospects for Democratic Policy Making

Dissertation Chair
​Robert Trager

Dissertation Title
Glasnost and Deception: The Media, Diplomacy, and intelligence in the Gorbachev Reformation in the USSR 1985-1991

Dissertation Chair
​​Michael Tracey

Dissertation Title
Political Foundations of Information Infrastructure Policy in the European Union: Prospects for Public Space and Citizenship in the Information Age

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Serbian Spaces of Identity and Belonging: Narratives of Serbian Nationalism by the last Yugo Generation

Faculty Chair
Andrew Calabrese

Dissertation Title
Unobtrusive Measures and Unreasoned Actions: PSAs and the Strength of Drug-Related Attitudes

Dissertation Chair
​​Michael Tracey

Dissertation Title
Discourse and Policy in the Philippines: The Construction and Implementation of the Strategic IT Plan

Dissertation Chair
​​Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Form and Ideology: Human Interest Journalism and the U.S. Print Media's Coverage of U.S. Military Deaths in the Iraq War, 2003-2007

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Dissertation Chair
Polly McLean

Dissertation Title
Ideology and Pedagogy: The Uses of and Justifications for Computers and the Internet in Elementary Schools

Dissertation Chair
Stewart M. Hoover

Dissertation Title
Classical Liberalism and Press Theory: An Analysis of Metanarradival Influence in the Creation of Press Narratives About Attempts to Reform the General Mining Law of 1872

Dissertation Chair
Robert Trager

Dissertation Title
Seeing it Now: A Reconsideration of Form in American Television Documentary

Dissertation Chair
Janice Peck

Dissertation Title
Media and Minkaohan Uyghurs: Representation, Reaction, and Resistance in a Post-911 Context

Dissertation Chair
Marguerite Moritz