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Author:: Krakowiak, K. Maja
Title:: WHEN GOOD CHARACTERS DO BAD THINGS: EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF MORAL AMBIGUITY ON ENJOYMENT
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: morally ambiguous characters
enjoyment
transportation
suspense
perceived realism
need for cognition
ambiguity tolerance
File:: Download Dissertation_with_Vita__Maja_.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Matthew Mc Allister, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

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Author:: OToole, Kathleen Mary
Title:: Intercollegiate Football and Educational Radio: Three Case Studies of the Commercialization of Sports Broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: intercollegiate athletics history
educational radio history
John L. Griffith
Big Ten Conference
File:: Download OToole_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: John Spicer Nichols, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Spicer Nichols, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Member
Patrick Robert Parsons, Committee Member
Stephen F Ross, Committee Member
Ronald Austin Smith, Committee Member

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Author:: Ahern, Lee
Title:: Psychological responses to environmental messages: The roles of environmental values, message issue distance, message efficacy and idealistic construal
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: communications
environment
response efficacy
psychological distance
File:: Download Ahern_Dissertation_2008_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Fuyuan Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Francis Erin Dardis, Committee Member
Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Member

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Author:: Tate, Marsha Ann
Title:: Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.: The Emergence of a Canadian Contender in the International Media Milieu
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: Alliance Atlantis Communications
Canada
Toronto Ontario
Canadian cultural industries
media
television
Atlantis Films
globalization
media industries
File:: Download Tate_Marsha_Ann_PhdThesis_2007_May.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Jorge R Schement, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Theodore Roberts Alter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Denny Taylor, Committee Member
Patrick Robert Parsons, Committee Member

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Author:: Seamon, Marc
Title:: MEDIA AND CLAIMSMAKER FRAMING OF CONTROVERSIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: A FRAME MAPPING ANALYSIS OF MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL MINING
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: media
newspaper
framing
frame analysis
environmental
File:: Download seamon.pdf
Committee Members:: Shyam Sundar Sethuraman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Cohen, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member
James Ford Risley, Committee Member

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Author:: Brady, Miranda Jean
Title:: Discourse, Cultural Policy, and Other Mechanisms of Power: The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: Identity
Native
Museum
Native American
American Indian
Media
National Museum of the American Indian
discourse
cultural policy
cultural studies
Foucault
governmentality
File:: Download dissertation_m_brady_8_28.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeremy S Packer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Karl Davis, Committee Member
Mary Coffey, Committee Member
Carla Mulford, Committee Member
Jane Juffer, Committee Member

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Author:: Sanders, Meghan S
Title:: MAKING A GOOD (BAD) IMPRESSION: AN EXAMINATION OF DISPOSITION THEORY’S AND THE CONTINUUM MODEL’S TENETS OF IMPRESSION FORMATION
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: viewer-character relationships
continuum model
disposition theory
impression formation
media entertainment
File:: Download MSSanders.pdf
Committee Members:: Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Gasper, Committee Member

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Author:: Balaji, Murali
Title:: TRAP(PED) MUSIC AND MASCULINITY: THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF SOUTHERN HIP-HOP AT THE INTERSECTION OF CORPORATE CONTROL AND SELF-CONSTRUCTION
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: political economy
black masculinity
cultural production
hip-hop
File:: Download MB_Final_Revised_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Matthew Mc Allister, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Mc Allister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Elavsky, Committee Member
Matthew Frank Jordan, Committee Member
Keith B Wilson, Committee Member
Ronald Ward Jackson, Committee Member

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Author:: Lim, Ming Kuok
Title:: BLOGGING AND DEMOCRACY: BLOGS IN MALAYSIAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: Political Communications
Web 2.0
User-generated Content
Blogs
Malaysian Politics
New Media
Deliberative Democracy
Southeast Asia
File:: Download LIM_Doctoral_Dissertation_2009.pdf
Committee Members:: Amit Schejter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amit Schejter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Denny Taylor, Committee Member
Jorge R Schement, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member

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Author:: Tsay, Mina
Title:: Is Watching Others Self-Disclose Enjoyable? An Examination of the Effects of Depth and Mode of Information Delivery in Entertainment Media
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: information delivery
self-disclosure
media effects
entertainment
personal disclosure
disclosure
depth
mode
File:: Download Tsay_2007_Final_eTD.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Committee Member

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