Theses from 2024
Coming to America: Exploring the Cross-Cultural Adaptation of African International Students at a PWI and HBCU in the U.S. South, Adwoa F. Baffour
Invasion Edition: A Comparative Study of NPR Coverage of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq and Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, Ashlyn F. Barclay
A Qualitative Look Inside the Post-Pandemic Lives of Black Mothers, Hope Hickerson
Journalism Beyond Homeland: Motivations, Challenges, and Crafting Identities - A Qualitative Inquiry into Bangladeshi Diaspora Journalists in the U.S., Mohammad Delwar Hosen
EMOTIONAL DIPLOMACY FROM TEL AVIV TO BAGHDAD: ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF EMOTIONAL APPEALS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT, Soheil Kafiliveyjuyeh
Do #BLM at the Plantation: A Study of Plantation Tourism after the Racial Reckoning of 2020, Denetria N. Lee
Media, Marginalization, and Mishegas: Examining and Unraveling Identity and Influence in Antisemitic Digital Discourse, Lyric L. Mandell
Euphemism in AI Discourse as Colonial Harm & Effect: Learnings from Subaltern Puerto Rico, Jacqueline Oquendo
Healthcare-Seeking Behavior in A Toxic Landscape: Investigating Cancer Care Awareness in Louisiana's Cancer Alley, Moumita Roy
Unpacking Influence: Dissecting Engagement Drivers and Dynamics for Effective Influencer Marketing Strategies, Nichole W. Santee
This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Matters of Marginalization in the Attention Economy, Kyle Stanley
“EVERYTHING IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS”: DISCOVERING PUBLIC RELATIONS IN BUSINESS SECTORS IN VIETNAM, Ba-Anh-Tu Truong
Theses from 2023
Cultural Expression and Relevancy Communicated Through Marching Band Performance in Louisiana, Nicholas Ashton
What Happens Online Doesn't Stay Online: Female Elected Officials' Experiences with Online Harassment, Sarah M. Carpenter
Examining Framing of Local and National Media Coverage of Sandy Hook and Robb Elementary School Shootings, Gabrielle L. deBruler
Watching Sports Online: Evaluating the Viewing Motivations of Sports Streaming Service Users, Jordan Dove
Institutional Rhetoric and Campus Reactions: A Multi-Method Case Study Exploring University Communication and Social Responsibility In a Racial Crisis, Rockia K. Harris
BUILDING SOLIDARITY BETWEEN MINORITY GROUPS, Seonwoo Kim
From Empowerment Movement to Hijacked Hashtag: A Thematic Analysis of #ShoutYourAbortion, Sidney R. Reynen
News(?)papers: A Typology of Fake News, 1880-1920, Olivia G. Romaguera
A NEW TEST OF THE NEWS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND CNN COVERAGE OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE, Hannah Ross
Effects of Stereotypes on Black Women Audiences, Darian M. Shorts
Framing Addiction: How Variations of News Stories Affect Attitudes Toward Addicts, James A. Smith
Media Literacy in Public Education: A Mixed-Method Exploration, Jessica Wyers
Theses from 2022
THE EFFECTS OF COVID 19-RELATED SOCIAL MEDIA HATE CRIME ON ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICANS' SELF-ESTEEM, Saachi Chugh
Exploring Cognitive Associations of Athletes’ Activism Through Social Issue Primes: A Convergent Analysis, Anthony Ciaramella
Preventing Brand Activism From Backfiring: How the Use of an Ingroup Model Can Limit the Negative Effects of One-Time CSR History, Cole C. Dunnam
A Comparative Content Analysis of How Print Media Framed the Heroin Epidemic and the Opioid Crisis, Quincy Hodges
Languages of Reform: Populist Revolution or Middle-class Progressivism?, Timothy Vest Klein
Influence in Digital Spaces: How Social Media and Political Influencers Shape Political Expression, Partisan Identity, and Resistance Efforts, Pamela Anne Labbe
CHANGES IN FOX NEWS COVERAGE: TONE SHIFTS BETWEEN PRESIDENCIES, Jessica Maki
The Future of Name, Image, and Likeness in Advertising, Olivia E. Nuss
Parasocial Relationships with Online Influencers, Sydney Reynolds
Cross-Issue Agenda Setting from Racism to Immigration: Spreading Activation or Group Threat?, Martina Santia
Availability, Readability, and Accessibility: Content Analysis Study of Privacy Information on Smart Device Websites, Jessica Y. Shaw
"News at Its Best:" A Case Study of Boundary Crossing In Social Media Journalism, Bailey L. Williams
Theses from 2021
BALANCING ACT: WHEN GENDER AND MEDIA COLLIDE IN SPORTS, Kimberly Friedman
BALANCING ACT: WHEN GENDER AND MEDIA COLLIDE IN SPORTS, Kimberly Friedman
How "Lyingnewspapers" Made Huey Long the Ruler of His State: A Model of Press-Populist Dynamics, Christina A. Georgacopoulos
Colorism in Modern Advertising, Brianna Jones-Williams
“At the Service of the Government": American Journalists in the Great War and the Agent Model of Government-Press Relations, Meghan Menard McCune
A Critical Examination of Media Images of the Civil Rights Movement and their Role in Shaping Collective Memories among Northern White Audiences, Martha Ramirez
Challenging the Illusion of Diversity: A New Theoretical Paradigm Towards Newsroom Inclusion., Paromita Saha
TELLING A NEW STORY OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: NARRATIVE VERSUS ARGUMENT COMMUNICATION EFFECTS ON OCD STIGMA AND RECOGNITION, Ashlyn Blaire Soileau
Operating the Digital Space in the Age of Protest Participation, Kyle Stanley
Dissertations from 2020
Agenda Cueing in Aggregated Newsfeeds, Kirill Bryanov
Theses from 2019
Social Justice through Social Media: The Use of Twitter as a Tool for Activism in the #MeToo #BlackLivesMatter Era, Laura L. Coleman
TOXIC CULTURE: AN EMOTION AND SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL FANS IN RELATION TO CONTROVERSY AND WIN-LOSS RECORDS, Joshua R. Jackson
Health Information Seeking as a Coping Strategy to Reduce the Stress of Informal Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Dementia, Nia Francis Mason
Race, Geography, and News Coverage of the Opioid Epidemic, Nicholas B. Robert
Making the Commercial Non-Commercial: Traditional Ad Effects on TV Billboards, Ian M. Skupski
Key Users, Hashtags, and Topics: Network Analyses of Twitter During Natural Disasters, Rui Wang
#WhyIDidntReport: Using social media analysis to inform issues with sexual assault reporting, Jordyn Warren
Can Cooler Heads Prevail? New Media Technology and Affective Polarization, Brian Kendall Watson
“I Need to Believe That Something Extraordinary Is Possible”: Effects of Transcendent Media Experiences on the Destigmatization of Mental Illness, Stephanie Whitenack
Theses from 2018
From Party to Publicity: The Transitional Role of Three Publicity Experts on the Road to Modern Campaigning, Meagan H. Collman
“Breathless Zeal and Careless Confidence”: German Propaganda in World War I (1914-1918), Elisabeth Fondren
Local vs. National: How Twitter Reflects News Coverage of Colin Kaepernick Protests, Jared Paul Joseph
How Do New Media Environments Influence Consumer Responses to Advertising? A Meta-Analytic Approach to Ad Avoidance, A-Reum Jung
Political #Tweet-Talkin': How Reporters and Politicians Use Twitter in State Government, Jennifer Korth
“All of Our Skinfolk Ain’t Our Kinfolk;” a Triangulation Study of the Impact of Black Racial Identity on the Discourse of Media Practitioners’ Coverage of Social Justice, Political and Celebrity News, Gheni Nicole Platenburg
How Courts Analyze Voter Identification Laws under the First Amendment, Joby Len Richard
Political Giving as Civic Participation: Identifying Donors and Motivating Giving, Robyn Lynn Stiles
The Uneasy Beginnings of Public Diplomacy: Vira Whitehouse, the Committee on Public Information, and the First World War, Lauren Claire West
Wonder Women: How Race and Gender Influenced News Coverage in the 2017 New Orleans and Atlanta Mayoral Elections, Sirdaria I. Williams
Theses from 2017
In-Group Effects of News Use on African Americans, Folasade A'lyce Adesanya
Social Media Activism and Activist Publics: Testing an Integrative Model of Activism on Contentious Issues, Myounggi Chon
An Impossible Direction: Newspapers, Race, and Politics in Reconstruction New Orleans, Nicholas F. Chrastil
Journalist and Hoaxer: William Francis Mannix and the Long History of Faked News, Madelyn Kay Duhon
Advancing Democracy One Tweet at a Time, Landon T. Hester
From Products to Politics: Understanding the Effectiveness of a Celebrity Political Endorsement, Melissa Sanati
NCAA Student-Athletes and Defamation: Understanding Plaintiff Classification and First Amendment Protection, Lacey Elizabeth Sanchez
Ethnic Audiences In a Fragmented Media Era: Ethnic Audiences' Selective Exposure to Likeminded Media, Mingxiao Sui
Theses from 2016
Exploring Intermedia Agenda Setting Effects of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Andrew Abad
Framing the Ebola Outbreak: Systemic Influences on News Coverage, Adaobi Vivian Duru
Planned Parenthood In Crisis: Social Media Strategies And Frames, Lauren Hudel Goodman
Strategic Use of Language in White House Twitter Communications, Margo L. Jolet
Examining Local Law Enforcement Public Relations, Lindsay M. McCluskey
Adding Flesh to Sullivan’s Bones: The Legacy of St. Amant v. Thompson, Eric P. Robinson
Dissertations from 2015
Communicating Sustainability with Visuals: Issue Perception and Issue Engagement, Zeynep Melis Altinay
How Local Nonprofit Organizations can use Narratives to Build Organizational-public Relationships on Digital Media, Ryan Patrick DeLaune
Public Perception of Male Athletes Vs. Female Athletes in the Media, Kaleigh Elizabeth Dickson
Organizational Twitter Use: A Qualitative Analysis of Tweets During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Pratiti Diddi
Defining Dad: Media Depiction Of The Modern Father In Print Advertising, John Robert Evans
Sourcing and Framing Analysis of Source Messages in the Coverage of Armed Conflicts by American and British Foreign Reporters, Ellada Gamreklidze
Natural Order: The Case for Applying Biomimetic Design Principles to Mass Communication Technology Design, William Glass
Compromising the Craft: A Mixed-Methodological Analysis of the Products and Processes of Storytelling in Local Television and Digital News, Keren Esther Henderson
Correcting the Conversation: An Argument for a Public Health Perspective Approach to University Timely Warnings about Sexual Assault, Ashley Hesson
In the Shadow of Big Oil A Media Content Analysis of the 'Big Oil' Stigma, Camille Nicole Ivy-O'Donnell