Browsing by Department "Communication and Journalism"
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Public school teachers during COVID-19: A study of performance using job demands-resources theory
(2021-07-14)
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public school teacher performance. The study uses job demands-resources (JD-R) theory to view the overall relationship between the positives and negative aspects ...
Queering the Princess Role: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Disney's Frozen
(2017-04-17)
Using a critical cultural approach, I articulate a queer reading of Disney’s Frozen. In establishing the significance of this study, I address how queer readership positions are formed and why such practices are important. ...
Questioning the Role of Evolution in Understanding Ourselves: A Critical Discourse Analytic Study of Scientific Articles in TIME Magazine
(2007-08-15)
This study is a critical analysis of language-use in scientific cover stories in TIME magazine over the course of the past 15 years. It focuses specifically on articles that apply concepts of evolution to aspects of human ...
The Role of the Internet Portals as an Alternative Medium in South Korea
(2009-04-16)
This thesis explores the role of the Internet as an alternative to traditional news media. More specifically, I examined the correlation between the agenda of traditional news media (two newspapers and two television news ...
Scapegoating Saviors: Presidential Rhetoric in U.S. Government Shutdowns
(2019-07-12)
This project extends research on how and why rhetors create enemies in political discourse. Previous literature has examined the construction of enemies for a number of purposes. One of these purposes is scapegoating. To ...
Sensemaking, Screenwriting, and Transgressive Women: Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Career Sensemaking in the Male-Dominated Screenwriting Industry
(2020-04-15)
Screenwriting is a creative industry characterized by a high level of male-dominance
within the broader male-dominated Hollywood landscape. As a result, many women who pursue
careers in screenwriting find themselves ...
Social Media and Impacts of Frames on User Engagement in the Fashion Industry
(2018-07-23)
The purpose of this study was to understand how fashion brands use social media to engage social media users. In doing so, this study aimed to address the academic gap in understanding how major fashion brands use social ...
Sorry, Mario, but Our Better Representations of Women are in Another Video Game: A Qualitative Study on Women’s Perspective of Women Video Game Characters
(2021-04-19)
The representations of women characters in video games have always been scrutinized for their stereotyped and sexualized appearance by scholars and gamers. Yet these arguments have not focused enough on the players that ...
Standpoints of reentry: A qualitative analysis of female maternity leaves with corporate communication implications
(2022-01-03)
Navigating motherhood is a complex and cumbersome task. Many women in contemporary society are electing to take on motherhood while maintaining full time employment, necessitating a maternity leave. Because the U.S. does ...
Stereotypes and signifiers of cultural change: Situating Disney presentations of mental health conditions as feminine
(2018-04-24)
The purpose of this paper is to study portrayals of mental health conditions in animated children’s film, situating them as feminine. Specifically, it aims to add to the understandings of Disney-Pixar’s portrayals of mental ...
The Strength of Attractiveness and the Power of Visual Nonverbal Communication When Rating One's Communicative Competence
(2006-05-15)
The effect that actual communicative competence, attractiveness, and method of observation have on one’s perceived competence was examined. Four hundred and thirty-three participants either watched video or listened to an ...
Tackling disease and denials: The image repair strategies of the National Football League’s response to CTE and concussions
(2020-04-17)
This study discusses the National Football League’s (NFL) response campaign to concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) primarily focusing on the response during the tenure of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. ...
"This is definitely a wake-up call for our generation": A Discussion on Self-Esteem and Body Image in Sororities
(2011-03-30)
This study was conducted using a thematic analysis of four focus groups. The goal of this study was to better understand the issues of self-esteem and body image from the perspectivee of sorority women and determine the ...
Today's "Modern Family": A Textual Analysis of Gender in the Domestic Sitcom
(2011-08-04)
This thesis utilizes a textual analysis with an emphasis on gender to analyze the Emmy award-winning sitcom, Modern Family. The program’s overwhelming popularity among television audiences and media critics alike gives ...
The Tragedy of the Gamer: A Dramatistic Study of GamerGate
(2019-04-16)
In August 2014, a small but active group of gamers began a relentless online harassment campaign against notable women in the videogame industry in a controversy known as GamerGate. In response, game journalists from several ...
Transcendent voices: Heteroglossia and the Power of Female Identity in Three Films by David Lynch
(2011-05-20)
In this thesis, I perform a feminist-semiotic analysis of three of David Lynch’s movies—Twin
Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. I use Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of
heteroglossia as the ...
What prevents a person from becoming an immigration activist?: Understanding the impact fear of isolation and the level of privacy has on individuals
(2020-04-30)
The current study aims at gaining a deeper understanding of the impact of spiral of silence on social media regarding a specific immigration issue; refugees or asylum-seekers in the United States. There is a focus on how ...
“Who Said What?”: Effects of Message Framing and Source Type Toward COVID-19 Vaccinations Intentions Among College Students
(2022-04-27)
Since 2020 the world has experienced a change in our everyday lives due to the
COVID-19 disease. As the world tries to return to a place of normalcy, the COVID-19 vaccine
aims to do that. Considerable research has examined ...
A “Whole New World”: Race and Representation in Disney’s Live-Action Remakes of Aladdin, The Lion King, and Mulan
(2018-11-15)
When Disney began adapting their animated classics into live-action remakes, the studio assumed that this representational shift would be a perfect fit for their audiences. However, these films, specifically quickly became ...
Will Millennials Change the face of Relationship Management in the Public Relations Profession?
(2010-07-20)
This study was conducted using a Web-based survey instrument, which was administered to public relations students and practitioners. It examines the perceptions and attitudes of the Millennial generation concerning various ...