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Author:: Peng, Xiaoyue
Title:: Is Faking It the New Making It? Virtual Influencer in Mental Health Campaign
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications (PHD)
Keywords:: Virtual Influencer
Mental Health Campaign
Anthropomorphism
Narrative
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Committee Members:: Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Fuyuan Shen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jessica Myrick, Major Field Member
Burt Monroe, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Heather Shoenberger, Major Field Member

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Author:: Yin, Evelyn Gelan
Title:: Visibility Through Vlogs?: Lala Vloggers in China's Digital Space
Graduate Program:: Media Studies (MA)
Keywords:: lala
China
Bilibili
Neoliberalism
Queer
Feminism
Homonormativity
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Committee Members:: Sara Liao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matt Mc Allister, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Committee Member

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Author:: Liao, Meng Qi
Title:: How should AI talk to users when collecting their personal information? Effects of role framing and self-referencing on Human-AI interaction
Graduate Program:: Communications
Keywords:: Human-AI Interaction
Human Machine Communication
Privacy concerns
File:: Download MA_Thesis_Mengqi_Liao_final.pdf
Committee Members:: S. Shyam Sundar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Member
Amulya Yadav, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Xu, Qing
Title:: Game streaming as pandemic relief: how might gratifications of viewing gameplay combat mental stress
Graduate Program:: Media Studies (MA)
Keywords:: Game streaming
COVID-19
Stress
Twitch
YouTube gaming
Uses and gratification
Recovery
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Committee Members:: Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Christofer J Skurka, Committee Member

Open Access

Author:: Nazer Fassihi, Azadeh
Title:: Women’s rights as neo-Orientalism: A netnographic analysis of “My Stealthy Freedom” online movemenet
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: Neo-Orientalism
Postcolonialism
my stealthy freedom
postcolonial feminism
orientalism
self-orientalism
File:: Download Dissertation_Fassihi_23July.pdf
Committee Members:: Matthew Paul Mcallister, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Robert Parsons, Committee Member
Michelle Lyn Rodino, Committee Member
J Dumas, Outside Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Open Access

Author:: Yang, Guolan
Title:: Advertising Recognition and Persuasion in the Context of Sponsored Influencer Content: Effects of Disclosure Prominence, Message Involvement, and Persuasion Knowledge
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications
Keywords:: sponsorship disclosure
persuasion knowledge
involvement
native advertising
advertising recognition
resistance
File:: Download GuolanYang_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Fuyuan Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuyuan Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Denise Sevick Bortree, Committee Member
Francis Erin Dardis, Committee Member
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Outside Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Chen, Cheng
Title:: Communicating Racial Bias in AI Algorithms: Effects of Training Data Diversity and User Feedback on AI Trust
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications (PHD)
Keywords:: algorithmic bias
empirical studies in HCI
training data diversity
AI trust
user feedback
The HAII-TIME model
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Committee Members:: Michael Schmierbach, Major Field Member
Saeed Abdullah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mary Oliver, Major Field Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Open Access

Author:: Perez-Reyes, Eduardo
Title:: Scared Senseless: The Rise of Sensory Horror
Graduate Program:: Media Studies (MA)
Keywords:: film
horror
sense
blindness
deafness
File:: Download thesis_defense_draft_7-19.pdf
Committee Members:: Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Kevin J Hagopian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matt Mc Allister, Committee Member
Lisa Sternlieb, Committee Member

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Author:: Kim, Nahyun
Title:: Corporate Social Advocacy, Corporate Misconduct, and Perceived Corporate Hypocrisy
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications (PHD)
Keywords:: Perceived Corporate Hypocrisy
Corporate Social Advocacy
Corporate Misconduct
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Committee Members:: Michael Schmierbach, Major Field Member
Fuyuan Shen, Major Field Member
Lijiang Shen, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Denise Bortree, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Walter, Ashley
Title:: "We didn't do it, and we won't do it again": Class-action sex discrimination lawsuits at news organizations in the 1970s
Graduate Program:: Mass Communications (PHD)
Keywords:: journalism history
women's labor
media
mass communications
feminist history
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Committee Members:: Katherine Maich, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Russell Frank, Major Field Member
James Risley, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephanie Madden, Major Field Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

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