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Author:

Jean, Elisabeth

Title:

An Analysis of the Clif Bar & Company brand, LUNA Bar's Equal Pay Campaign

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

feminist
commodity feminism
marketplace feminism
Pay inequality
Celebrity feminism
Gender marketing
race marketing
Clif Bar & Company
LUNA Bar
Critical Theory
Female athletes
Pay equality
Racial equality
Institutional racism
Narrative analysis
Semiotic Analysis
Friendly-feminism
Corporate feminism
social justice
Social activism
Cause branding
Cause-branding
Black feminism
Western feminism
Feminist critical analysis
Athletes
Pay gap
USWNT
USSF
mainstream feminism
ethics
capitalism
racial justice
women athletes
professional football
professional soccer
soccer

File:

Download Elis._Jean_Final_graduate_thesis_.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amira Rose Davis, Committee Member
Ann Marie Major, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dooley, Anne

Title:

For Better or Worse?: The Effects of Interactivity and Perspective on Identification, Social Comparison, and Self-Esteem in Video Games

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

video games
text-based games
interactivity
identification
social comparison
self-esteem
media effects

File:

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Frank Dardis, Committee Member

Author:

Drivas, Magdalayna

Title:

Make me pretty: The role of customization in the effects of attractive avatar use on self-image

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

video games
avatars
Proteus effect
social comparison theory
customization
body image

File:

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Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Owusu, Eva

Title:

Focusing on Wakanda: Sampling African and African American Responses to Cinematic Afrofuturism in Black Panther

Graduate Program:

Media Studies (MA)

Keywords:

Black Panther
film
Afrofuturism
history
African Diaspora
audience
Black Panther
film
Afrofuturism
history
African Diaspora
audience
Black Panther
film
Afrofuturism
History
African Diaspora
audience

File:

Download MAThesis_EOwusu.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair
Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin J Hagopian, Committee Member
J. Marlena Edwards, Committee Member

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

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

File:

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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

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