Media Studies MA Alumni

Thesis Title
Anti-Intellectualism in the Age of Contested Knowledge Production: Perpetual Inaction, When Ideas Constrain Discourse

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McDevitt

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Spreading the Word: Communicating About Veganism

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Crow

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Equal Opportunity Mockery: A Content Analysis of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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Skewes

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You've Got to Be Realistic: The Political and Economic Challenges of Documentary Filmmakers in Boulder and Denver, CO

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Calabrese

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The NFL: The Cultural Stage for A Shifting American Landscape

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Hoover  

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The People's Media: Peer Production, the Networked Public Sphere, and the Future of News

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Peck 

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In Search of an Effective Citizen Journalism Platform: A Case Study of the Resolving Door Project    

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Skewes        

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An Interpretive Study of Meaning in the Advertisements Found in Teen and Sassy Magazines

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Peck        
 

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Communitarian and Care Ethics: A Return to the Community in the Digital Age

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Voakes

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Media Tales of Two Coastal Cities: Exploring the coverage of sea level rise in New York City and New Orleans

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Berggreen

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The Cold War Reformulated?: The Clash of Civilizations in Literary Journalism

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Trager

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In the Wake of the Sleeping Dragon: A Study of the US Audience's Perception of China

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McLean

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The Constitutive Role of Occupational Safety in Chile and its Unintended Consequences

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McLean

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Africans Seeking Asylum in Israel

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On the Horizon: A Case Study of Rural Migration in the Digital Age

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McLean

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Buycotting Chick-Fil-A: a Tale of Religion, Politics and Consumption

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Echchaibi

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Building News Communities Online: Opportunities in Digital Journalism

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Ryan

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Underreported Stories on Climate Change and Coral Reefs in These Times of Diminishing International Reporting: Mining the Scholarly Literature Through Regular Annotated Bibliographies

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Mody

Thesis Title
Media Coverage of Climate-Change Policy: A Content Analysis of How U.S. Newspapers Frame the Policy Solutions to Climate Change

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Crow

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Place in Flows: A Continuum of Virtual Transduction and the Work of Locating the Mobile Mob

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​​Peck

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Reality is the first casualty of war: Photographic representations of war casualties in print media and the sociology of gatekeeping

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McDevitt

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Resisting Change; Women's Magazines' Framing of Workplace Equality and Abortion, 1966 to 1973

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McDevitt

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Pins, Portals & Purchases: Examining the Potential for Carryover Effects on Pinterest

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Tracey

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ICTs & Burma: A contextual analysis

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Mody

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Arrested Self-Worth: A Look at the Negative Effect Mass Media Have on Females' Body Image and the Ways in Which Girls and Women Are Finding Empowerment Against It

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Mody

Thesis Title
War of Words and Crisis Warnings: The Role of Environmental Media in American Wartime Culture

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Yulsman

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Politics of the V-Chip

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Peck

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Mediating Renewables: How Newspapers Report Clean Energy

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Peck

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Gamifying Education Influences Long-term Positive Learner Affect

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Voakes

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A CSI Effect Investigation Media, Curiosity and the Pursuit Closure

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​Tracey

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Representation of Children and the 'Other' in Black Hawk Down

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​​Ryan

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The National Endowment for Democracy: Theory, Context and Practice

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​​McLean

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Is Your Newspaper Helping You Understand Technology?: The Framing of Network Neutrality in U.S Newspapers

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McDevitt

Thesis Title
Traveling to Dangerous and Far-Flung Locales

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​​Berggreen

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Media and the Re-signification of Social Protest, Change and Power Among Evangelicals: The Peruvian Case

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Hoover

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Didn't We Want to Know? Comparative Framing Analysis of GMO Labeling in Local vs National News

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Gangadharbatla

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Disordered Eating: Why Athletes are at a Greater Risk

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Gangadharbatla

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Objectivity or Mindless Neutrality? Critical Analysis of Press Coverage of Reagan's Economic Policy

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Peck

Thesis Title
Re-Interpreting an Icon: The Rhetorical Function of 'Earthrise'

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Crow

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For the Good of All Mankind: Public Opinion and the Morality of Capitalism in the United States

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Tracey

Thesis Title
Communication-Related Knowledge Production on Our Neighbors to the South: A bibliometric analysis of U.S. doctoral dissertations in communication, journalism and mass media on Latin America

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Mody

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The Latent Sphere of the Network Society

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Echchaibi