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1. Fetishizing Blackness: The Relationship Between Consumer Culture and Black Identity as Portrayed on BET

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Open Access
Author:
Sims, Ashley
Title:
Fetishizing Blackness: The Relationship Between Consumer Culture and Black Identity as Portrayed on BET
Graduate Program:
Media Studies
Keywords:
consumer culture
Black identity
commodity fetishism
BET
television
File:
Download Fetishizing_Blackness_final_thesis_for_submission.pdf
Committee Members:
Matthew Mc Allister, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

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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

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

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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

4. THE EFFECT OF RACIAL IDENTIFICATION AND MASCULINITY ON EVALUATIONS OF ADVERTISING MODELS

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Open Access
Author:
Johnson, Curtis J.T.
Title:
THE EFFECT OF RACIAL IDENTIFICATION AND MASCULINITY ON EVALUATIONS OF ADVERTISING MODELS
Graduate Program:
Media Studies
Keywords:
attitude toward the model
atttitude toward the ad
racial identification
racial identity
masculinity
advertising
perceived masculinity
self-identification
self-image congruity
purchase intention
File:
Download Curtis_Johnson_Thesis_December_2008.pdf
Committee Members:
Francis Erin Dardis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Francis Erin Dardis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

5. JAPAN INC. AND THE GROWTH OF NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS

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Open Access
Author:
Toula, Christopher M.
Title:
JAPAN INC. AND THE GROWTH OF NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
Graduate Program:
Media Studies
Keywords:
Ideology
Japan Inc.
Neoliberalism
Japan
Economics
File:
Download Christopher_Toula_-_2010_-_Japan_Inc._and_the_Growth_of_Neoliberal_Ideology.pdf
Committee Members:
Matthew Frank Jordan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Frank Jordan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

6. FROM THE BIRTH OF A NATION TO HAVOC: THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL BLACKFACE TO MODERN RACIAL PASSING IN U.S. CINEMA

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Author:
Randall, Dorian Clarissa
Title:
FROM THE BIRTH OF A NATION TO HAVOC: THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL BLACKFACE TO MODERN RACIAL PASSING IN U.S. CINEMA
Graduate Program:
Media Studies
Keywords:
minstrelsy
racial passing
cinema
File:
Download NewMastersThesis2009.pdf
Committee Members:
Matthew Frank Jordan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matt Jordan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

8. World Cup or World War? War Metaphors in Newspaper Coverage of the 2010 World Cup

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Open Access
Author:
DeIuliis, Daniel Thomas
Title:
World Cup or World War? War Metaphors in Newspaper Coverage of the 2010 World Cup
Graduate Program:
Media Studies
Keywords:
The London Times
World Cup
military
The New York Times
The Sunday Times
war
File:
Download Daniel_DeIuliis_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Marie Hardin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marie Hardin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Ford Risley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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

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Open Access
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