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Author:

Verderosa-Ishakarah, Ashanti Tashi

Title:

A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF THE MISSISSIPPI... BELIEVE IT! CAMPAIGN POSTERS: GEO-BRANDING AND IMAGE REPAIR STRATEGIES

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

image
stereotypes
posters
semiotic analysis
Mississippi
geo-branding
rhetorical analysis
tourism

File:

Download ultimatethesis21.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin J Hagopian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kevin J Hagopian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Frank, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Herring, Courtney Celiese

Title:

"A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Portrayals of Haiti and Haitians Following the 2010 Earthquakes on American 24-hour Cable News Networks"

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

Earthquakes
News ethics
Disaster communication
Semantic strategies
Critical Discourse Analysis
Natural disasters
Haiti
Poverty
Hegemony

File:

Download CHerring_thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brown, India Latina

Title:

Media Representation of Young Women in the Dominican Republic: An Ethnographic Study of Dominican Women's Perceptions of Beauty and Blackness

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

women
dominican republic
beauty
enthnography
blackness
media representation

File:

Download IndiaBrown_FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Al Khatib, Aya

Title:

Arab Media Representations of the Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Textual Analysis of Jordanian, Egyptian, Emirati, and Kuwaiti Press

Graduate Program:

Communications

Keywords:

Syrian
refugee
Jordan
Egypt
Kuwait
UAE
Migrants
Asylum Seekers
Newspaper

File:

Download MA_Thesis-_Al_Khatib.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Olorunnisola, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Lee Plaisance, Committee Member
Yael Warshel, Committee Member

Author:

Swayne, Matthew

Title:

Clear, Compelling, and Convincing Science Communication: Designing an Online Science Communication Learning Module for STEM Graduate Students

Graduate Program:

Communications

Keywords:

science communication
health communication
risk communication
science communication training

File:

Download SwayneMastersThesisScienceCommunication11-9CORRECT.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee A Ahern, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jessica Gall Myrick, Committee Member
Juliet Pinto, Committee Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair

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:

Al Rawi, Ahmed

Title:

A PROPOSAL FOR A LAW TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT DIGITAL PRIVACY FOR AMERICAN CITIZEN

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

Surveillance
Privacy
Communications Law and Policy
Government Security Agencies

File:

Download Ahmed_Alrawi_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

BENJAMIN W. CRAMER, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
FORD RISLEY, Committee Member
PATRICK PARSONS, 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:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

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