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Author:

Oeldorf-Hirsch, Anne

Title:

ENGAGEMENT WITH NEWS CONTENT IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

new
content sharing
social media
Facebook

File:

Download DissertationFINALAnneOeldorf-HirschAugust2011.pdf

Committee Members:

S. Shyam Sundar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Michael Grant Schmierbach, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Kuehn, Kathleen Mary

Title:

PROSUMER-CITIZENSHIP AND THE LOCAL: A CRITICAL CASE STUDY OF CONSUMER REVIEWING ON YELP.COM

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

new media
web cultures
prosumer theory
prosumer citizenship
consumer reviewing
user generated content
prosumption
consumer citizenship
citizen-consumer
consumer-citizen
the politics of consumption
Yelp
social network
social media
consumer generated content
participatory consumption
Internet
localism
hyperlocal media
Web 2.0
local 2.0
local listing sites

File:

Download Kuehn_Dissertation_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Robert Parsons, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Robert Parsons, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Elavsky, Committee Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Member
Michelle E Day, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Mimi

Title:

Brands all a Twitter: The influences of Twitter on brands and consumers

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

online word-of-mouth
tweet analysis
social media
Twitter

File:

Download MimiZhangDissertationFile.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernard James Jansen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernard James Jansen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member
Shawn Clark, Committee Member
James Landis Rosenberger, Committee Member
Abdur Chowdhury, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Ying

Title:

DETECTING OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIAS FOR PROTECTION OF ADOLESCENT ONLINE SAFETY

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

offensive language
children online safety
social media

File:

Download Ying_Chen_Master_Thesis_Dec_2011_3.pdf

Committee Members:

Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sencun Zhu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Juntiwasarakij, Suwan

Title:

Harnessing Social Media Collaborative Intelligence to Champion Enterprise Innovation

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

social media
social business
web 2.0
enterprise 2.0
innovation
complex adaptive systems
collaboration

File:

Download 2012_Juntiwasarakij_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Irene Johnston Petrick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heng Xu, Committee Member
Scarlett Rae Miller, Committee Member
Samuel Todd Hunter, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Shaoke

Title:

Babel or Great Wall: Social Media Use in an Acculturation Context

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

social media
social identity
cross culture
acculturation
SEM

File:

Download Shaoke_Zhang_20120726.pdf

Committee Members:

John Millar Carroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member

Author:

Faris, Michael James

Title:

Rhetoric, Social Media, and Privacy

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
social media
privacy
technology
digital media
literacies
digital literacy
writing studies

File:

Download Faris_Dissertation_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Stuart Selber, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Committee Member
Lynette Marie Yarger, Committee Member

Author:

Erickson, Lisa B

Title:

Hanging with the Right Crowd: Crowdsourcing as a New Business Practice for Innovation, Productivity, Knowledge Capture, and Marketing

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

crowdsourcing
innovation
new product development
social media
organizational change
grounded theory
case study

File:

Download L_B_Erickson_Final_dissertation_may_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Eileen M Trauth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Irene Johnston Petrick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eileen M Trauth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Sandeep Purao, Committee Member
Timothy William Simpson, Committee Member

Author:

March, Laura

Title:

Memes to an end: An analysis of online activist art from the Penn State Blue Out movement to end child abuse

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

meme
memes
social media
activist art
activism
Internet culture
art education

File:

Download LM_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Booker Stephen Carpenter Ii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kimberly Anne Powell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Walden, Justin Andrew

Title:

A Networked Work-life: A Study of Employee Use of Intranet Media and Organizational Communication

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

Interactive technology
social media
intranets
organizational communication
public relations

File:

Download Walden_diss_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Denise Sevick Bortree, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne M Hoag, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Dennis Stephen Gouran, Special Member