Theses from 2015
Theses from 2014
"Les Miserables: The Twitter Revolution" : a study of fan activity, parasocial relationships, and audience-persona interactions, Lance Stephen Bordelon
Exploring Influences on Gender Equality in Photojournalism: Is the Field Picture-perfect?, Andrea Briscoe
Can You Hear Me Now: A Cross-National Analysis of Media, New ICTs, Press Freedoms and Sociopolitical Instability, Conflict, and Democracy., Britt Christensen
The future of broadcast television: online streaming infringement and the U.S. Supreme Court, Elizabeth Cuttner
Impression formation in the online amateur setting: an examination of transgender people, Minjie Li
Message appeals used by nonprofits on Twitter to increase public engagement, Lilliana Laura Lopez
Perceptions of Collegiate and Professional Black Male Athletes Based on the Media, Dionell McNeal
Art tweets: a content analysis of social media activity among six top art museums in the U.S.A., Patricia Ann Milford-Hoyt
Predictors of National Broadcast and Cable Television News Coverage of the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Jeremy Padgett
The rules of engagement : what formats, moderators, and news values tell us about the content of electoral debates, Jason Marc Turcotte
Leadership bias: the case of the Cherokee Freedmen, Kristi Barnett Williams
Safer to steal than score : press coverage of financial and sexual scandals, and electoral outcomes, Chance York
Theses from 2013
Moving toward a small-screen culture: examining the relationship between computer and smartphone user characteristics and online participation and creation, Amanda Bradford Cortright
Unconscious Awareness of a Branded Life: Consumer Disillusionment and the Cultivated Commercialization of Public Health, Laura H. Crosswell
When your good friends wear Prada : a study of parasocial relationships, attractiveness, and life satisfaction, Kristen Marie Higdon
Did you watch #TheWalkingDead last night? an examination of television hashtags and Twitter activity, Jessica Hutchinson
March madness for men, Gabrielle P. Jones
Medical issue or policy? a framing analysis of the medical marijuana issue in U.S. newspapers, Christopher Lee Kaiser
Chronic pain in entertainment media: using empathy to reduce stigma, Rebecca Lang
Interpreting Racial Politics: Black and Mainstream Press Web Site Tea Party Coverage, Benjamin Rex LaPoe II
American-Indian Media: The Past, the Present, and the Promise of Digital, Victoria Leigh LaPoe
Polygamy is creepy, wrong, and sick! (however, I find it fascinating) : parasocial comparison, parasocial processing, parasocial contact hypothesis, and polygamy, Thomas Phillip Madison
Segmentation in Hispanic-targeted marketing, Silvia Irene Medrano
Corporate use of social media, Viktorya Mirzoyan
The effects of interactivity and involvement on users' attitude toward and perception of brands and purchase intent on Facebook, Christina Persaud
Identity as a compass for understanding media choice, Emily Marie Pfetzer
An analysis of femininity : how popular female characters in the media portray contemporary womanhood, Stephanie Ortego Roussell
Burn, boil & eat : an intersection analysis of stereotypes in the most influential films of all time, Roslyn M. Satchel
Speak, and speak immediately : the risen subpoena, the executive branch, and the reporter's privilege, Matthew Schafer
Multitude of needs met by an online mom community, Shannon Alexis Snell
Examining the effect of innovation on the market structure of the U.S. Media industry, Thomas Edward Vizcarrondo
The rebranding of the Brooklyn Nets : a discourse analysis, Michael Shane Wunderlich
Theses from 2012
Partnership Representation in Public Communications: An Analysis of Community-Engaged Universities' Websites, Christy Kayser Arrazattee
From the viewbook to Facebook: a content analysis of universities' Facebook posts to measure organization-public relationships, Aariel Roxanne Charbonnet
Where the good times roll: New Orleans as a destination for sports event tourism, Kristen E. Chighizola
Texting laws and cell phone users: motivations for texting while driving, Jonathan Ferrante
An investigation into the moderating role of fear appeals on the relationship between regulatory fit and persuasion, Nam Young Kim
Making news in 140 characters: how the new media environment is changing our examination of audiences, journalists, and content, Ashley Elizabeth Kirzinger
Splitting a pair: playing the gender card and the race card in American politics, Amy Ladley
Volunteer based organizations: bridging the gap between political efficacy and civic engagement, Kristin Nicole Marks
Pressures, centralization, economics, technology, and ethics: factors that impact public information officer - journalist relationships, Christopher Jon McCollough
Man without a country: how character complexity primes racial stereotypes, Ben Miller
Playing the Christ Card: Courting Christians through Religious Appeals in Political Campaigns, Matthew Lee Thornton
Dissertations from 2011
Ethnic online newspapers vs. mainstream online newspapers: a comparison of the news coverage of the 2010 health care reform debate, Masudul Biswas
From "courtesy of the red, white, and blue" to "if you're reading this": patriotic themes in country music between 2000-2010, Claire S. Carville
The American Empire: a content and textual analysis of the media coverage of the 2009 U.S. and Colombia military base agreement, Britt Don Christensen
Fandom, media consumption, and college sports knowledge: a survey of college undergraduates, Theodore Charles Greener
Celebrity versus non-celebrity: parasocial relationships with characters in reality-based television programs, Nicole Webb Henry
The effects of fantasy football participation on team identification and NFL fandom, Jeremy Lee
Indexing and economic news: coverage of the 2009 economic stimulus debate, Portia Levasseur
There's an app for that: the ways young adults access digital information, Cydney Lauren Palmer
Crisis management in organizations: an exploratory study of factors that affect strategy formation and selection, Tulika Sinha
Stay calm and tweet: a best practice approach to the use of social media in a crisis situation, Elizabeth Barrow Tadie
HBCU crises and best practices in the discourse of renewal: a crisis communication case study of three institutions, Erica Courtney Taylor
Theses from 2010
In search of state government: the lack of state legislative coverage in local television news, German Adolfo Alvarez
Press independence in newspaper coverage of the 2009 health care debate, Matthew Holt Barnidge
A new focus for a university: designing a web site to feature community service, Andrea Louise Clesi
"Blessed be the critics of newspapers": journalistic criticism of journalism 1865-1930, Yasmine Tarek Dabbous
What content makes people want to use sports websites?, Cara Francesca De Carlo
Twittering to the top: a content analysis of corporate tweets to measure organization-public relationships, Haley Edman
Measuring consumer perceptions of credibility, engagement, interactivity and brand metrics of social network sites, Jeffrey Evan Forbes
Knowledge gap and cable music television: a survey of MTV, BET, and H1 target audience members, Katharine Claire Gavin
The role of race in television news coverage of shortcomings in U.S. secondary education, Jasmine Elise Haynes
Betties and broads: a qualitative examination of the maiden and whore archetypes in "The Golden Girls," "Designing Women," and "Sex and the City", Crystal Jackson
Staying objective: the effect of corporate public relations on video game journalists, Benjamin Jenkins
Engaging audiences: an analysis of social media usage in advertising, Emily Fay Mabry
The act of raising donors: an assessment of fund-raising stewardship practices in healthcare institutions, Megan Lee Moses
Creating brands online: third party opinions and their effect on consumers' trust in brands and purchase intentions, Pavel Mrazek
Public perception and the oil industry: an analysis of oil employees' and Nigerians' opinions regarding Exxon Mobil and Shell Oil's corporate social responsibility efforts, Liana L. Narcisse
The effects of comedic media criticism on media producers, Lindsay Nicole Newport
Communicating conservation: public relations practitioners' communication efforts to inform the public of the detriments of coastal erosion and wetlands loss, Stephanie Ellene Shaddock
Evaluating different health communicatioin theories to deter college binge drinking: a look at promising directions for future research, Kristen Meyer Sunde
The blame is in the frame: inter-reality comparisons of crime reports and local news crime coverage on the internet, Dana Marie Tumblin
Theses from 2009
The Plame Game: framing a political scandal, Misty Dawn Albrecht
The stereotypic portrayal of women in slasher films: then versus now, Chad Brewer
Forever New Orleans?: a look back and beyond, Blair Alexis Broussard
The Murrow Tradition: What Was It, and Does It Still Live?, Raluca Cozma
Nutrition and eating habits in adolescent television programs: a content analysis of food and beverage consumption on popular teen television, Carly Nicole Dickson
Culture and persuasion online: Predicting attitudes, cognitions, and behavioral intentions in a culturally diverse online marketplace, Gennadi Gevorgyan
Advocacy groups in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: who shapes coverage of wetlands loss, Paul Harang
An analysis of the social networks of local television reporters, Lisa R. Honore
U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran: structures, actors, and policy communities, Foad Izadi
Impact of endorser and message appeal on the success of an online AIDS PSA, Arti Kulkarni
The black press as a political institution: how the Chicago Defender portrayed Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama's historical presidential campaigns, Cristina Mislan
The changing face of the U.S. military: a textual analysis of U.S. Army and U.S. Navy recruiting advertisements from pre-9-11 to six years into the Iraq War, Maryann M. Rowland
United States propaganda in Iran: 1951-1953, Hakimeh Saghaye-Biria
A comparison of foreign news coverage in the mercantile and popular press of the 1830s, Virgil Ian Stanford
Theses from 2008
Foreign news and public opinion: attribute agenda-setting theory revisited, Asya A. Besova
The ownership of online news: a political economy analysis of www.FOXNews.com and www.news.yahoo.com, Shenid Bhayroo
Entertainment media and "backstage" event framing: how 24 defines torture, Skye Chance Cooley
Internet Use and Environmental Justice: An Exploratory Study, Jane Catherine Dailey
Message framing and interactivity in direct-to-consumer internet advertisements: visual and textual cues on web sites for prescription medications, Brooke Alayne Harrington
Conversations on citizenship: young people's perceptions and performances of democratic citizenship, Katherine Rhodes Knobloch
New media in new democracies: perceptions of good governance among traditional and Internet-based media users in Kyrgyzstan, Svetlana Viktorovna Kulikova
Grinding the Axe Body Spray: linking gamer experience and brand recall in Guitar Hero III, Miranda Coy Lemon