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
All the Science That Is Fit to Blog: An Analysis of Science Blogging Practices, Paige Brown Jarreau
Different Approaches to Investigatory Journalism in the Muckraking Era, Tim Vest Klein
What Female Candidates Need to Know: Current Research on Gender Effects in Campaigns and Elections, Lauren Michele Leist
Reporting for the State Department: Carl W. Ackerman's Cooperation with Government during WWI, Meghan Elizabeth Menard
Engagement Across the Pond: The NFL's Attempts to Increase Social Media Engagement Through the Cultural Targeting of Messages, Isabelle Moore
Gender Stereotypes and the Strategic Use of Emotions in the 2008 Elections, Newly Paul
Framing Theory and Its Application to the Fracking Controversy in St. Tammany Parish, Lindsay Colleen Rabalais
"Operation Red Campus”: An Experimental Analysis of CRNC Advertisements Targeting the Millennial Generation, Ellen Mullee Schmidt
The Unattainable Ideal: Walter Lippmann and the Limits of the Press and Public Opinion, Amy Solomon Whitehead
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