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Author:

Igwe, C. Frank

Title:

BEYOND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE INTO COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF COMMUNITY WEBLOGS IN BUILDING OLDENBURG’S VIRTUAL THIRD PLACES IN BLACK AMERICA

Graduate Program:

Information Sciences and Technology

Keywords:

content analysis
social support
third place
community
blogs
HIV/AIDS
African-American

File:

Download Igwe_Dissertation_Final4.pdf

Committee Members:

Lynette Kvasny, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Sawyer, Committee Member
Andrea H Tapia, Committee Member
Russell Richard Barton, Committee Member

Author:

Paton, Jamie Lee

Title:

Softball's Olympic defeat: A content analysis of the online presence of women on international sports federation websites

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

content analysis
gender
sports federations
websites

File:

Download JPatonMAThesis_FinalVersion.pdf

Committee Members:

Colleen Connolly Ahern, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Colleen Connolly Ahern, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Young, Mary Myrtle

Title:

A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS OF STATE LOBBY DISCLOSURE LAWS

Graduate Program:

Public Administration

Keywords:

state legislatures.
content analysis
lobbying
policy design
lobbying disclosure laws

File:

Download Revised_PSU_Final_Dis.pdf

Committee Members:

Beverly Ann Cigler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Ames Peterson, Committee Member
Harold Bundick Shill Iii, Committee Member
Michael King, Committee Member

Author:

Shearer, Rick L

Title:

Transactional Distance and Dialogue: An Exploratory Study to Refine the Theoretical Construct of Dialogue in Online Learning

Graduate Program:

Adult Education

Keywords:

dialogue
distance education
transactional distance
content analysis
speech acts

File:

Download R_L_Shearer_Final_Dissertation_for_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Michael Moore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Grahame Moore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Kuhne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan G Strauss, Committee Member
Priya Sharma, Committee Member
Melody M Thompson, Committee Member

Author:

Fraustino, Julia Daisy

Title:

Corporate Ability or Social Responsibility? A Quantitative Content Analysis of Fortune 500 Companies' Message Strategies and Consumer Responses on Facebook

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

public relations
corporate social responsibility
message strategies
Facebook
content analysis
Fortune 500

File:

Download Fraustino_Julia_Daisy_M_A__Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Colleen Connolly Ahern, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Nichols, Cherie Noelle

Title:

Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and the Global Village: A Content Analysis of Language and Formatting in Social Media

Graduate Program:

Humanities

Keywords:

social media
content analysis
global village

File:

Download Master_Thesis_Cherie_N_Nichols.pdf

Committee Members:

Carl Patrick Burrowes, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Paukett, Michelle

Title:

Agricultural Sustainability in the Local Context

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

Mortierella spp.
sustainable agriculture
soil microbiome
content analysis
Fusarium solani
on-farm networks
soybean
biocontrol
local knowledge
disease-suppressive soils

File:

Download Paukett_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sharifa Crandall, Major Field Member
Alyssa Anne Collins, Special Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Program Head/Chair
John Pecchia, Major Field Member
Paul Esker, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charlie White, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Sallai, Gaby

Title:

Interpreting doctoral engineering attrition: Investigating doctoral stress and coping, costs of persistence, and underlying structural causes of attrition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

graduate students
engineering
engineering education
qualitative methods
interviews
coping
stress
costs
attrition
persistence
policy
qualifying exams
graduate school milestones
departmental reform
doctoral engineering students
COPE inventory
expectancy-value theory
systems approach
systems theory
content analysis
thematic analysis
maximum variation sampling
premature departure
mastering out

File:

Download gsallai_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jacqueline O'Connor, Major Field Member
Catherine Berdanier, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jessica Menold, Major Field Member
Shelley Stoffels, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Gerthe, Jessica

Title:

Suicide Gatekeeper Trainings: A Content Analysis

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

suicide
gatekeeper training
suicide prevention
suicide intervention
content analysis
suicide gatekeeper

File:

Download Gerthe_Dissertation_FINAL_6-17-24.pdf

Committee Members:

Elizabeth Prosek, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Kenneth Levy, Outside Unit Member
Brian Belland, Outside Field Member
Elizabeth Prosek, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristen Nadermann, Major Field Member