Graduate - Thesis Titles
| Semester/Year | Name | Exam Date | Thesis Title | Degree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer 2007 | ||||
| Jolene Zywica | 6/13/2007 | Facebook Prom Queens: Personality, Self-Esteem, and Desire to Look Popular | MA | |
| Spring 2007 | ||||
| Marisha Pathak | 3/7/2007 | Framing the United Nations During the Iraq War | MA | |
| Guenther Lengauer | 1/9/2007 | A Transnational Media Logic? A Content Analysis of TV Election Coverage in Germany and the United States | MA | |
| Soo Jeong An | 2/9/2007 | Self-Presentation and Identity Management: Gender Similarities and Differences on Social Network Service | MA | |
| Fall 2006 | ||||
| Ming Zhang | 8/21/2006 | College Students' Attitudes Toward Google AdWords Advertising | MA | |
| Ericka Menchen Trevino | 8/10/2006 | Social Bookmarks: Personal Organization and Collective Discovery on the Web | MA | |
| Ajantha Suriyanarayanan | 10/19/2006 | Indian Culture in American Wrappers | MA | |
| James Duhig | 10/25/2006 | The Role of Physician Prescribing Data in Pharmaceutical Sales Representative Behavior | MA | |
| Summer 2006 | ||||
| Lina Luo | 6/12/2006 | Cultural Representation of the East Asia: A Critical Analysis of Intercultural Communication Textbooks | MA | |
| Lauren S. Fishman | 2/10/2006 | Constructing the Graduate Teaching Assistant Experience: An Auto-ethnographic Exploration | MA | |
| Francisco Seoane Perez | 6/28/2006 | Political Activism in the Digital Age: Internet Use for Political Engagement Among Meet-up Attendees | MA | |
| Michael A. Vari | 4/11/2006 | Crisis Of Faith: Religious Rhetoric in U.S. Presidential Campaigns & the Decline of the Democratic Party | MA | |
| Spring 2006 | ||||
| Maria Paula Cobo Arango | 11/23/2005 | Frame Analysis of El Tiempo's Coverage of Political Unrest in Colombia | MA | |
| Fall 2005 | ||||
| Angela Lawson | 11/18/2005 | Department of Space and Land Reclamation: A Postmodern Fantasy Theme Analysis | MA | |
| Morgan Anne Bayat | 9/29/2005 | Perceptions of Organizational Culture on Company Web Sites | MA | |
| Thomas J. Walecka | 10/14/2005 | Idea Diversity Within News Content | MA | |
| Summer 2005 | ||||
| Han N. Lee | 6/28/2005 | Race in Cyberqueer Space: Looking at Race in Online Personal Advertisements for Men Seeking Men | MA | |
| Fall 2004 | ||||
| Felicia J. Slattery | 10/26/2004 | Gender Role Prescriptions in Self-Help Books | MA | |
| Summer 2004 | ||||
| Vinita Agarwal | 6/14/2004 | A Study of Rhetorical Practices of Governance that Underlie Ideology Formation on Indymedia Websites | MA | |
| Sreela Sarkar | 6/2/2004 | Street-Level: The Rhetorical Construction of Identity in a Community Video Art Group | MA | |
| Thomas Edward Delamare Shipp | 5/12/2004 | Constructing British National Identity in Relation to the U.S. "Other" | MA | |
| Fall 2003 | ||||
| Camille Johnson | 6/16/2003 | Social Interaction and Meaning Construction Among Community Websites | MA | |
| Nicole J. Seidlitz | 2/11/2002 | Nixon, Clinton and the New York Times: A Comparative Look at "Scandal" Coverage | MA | |
| Summer 2003 | ||||
| Luciana Juliao de Oliveira | 4/29/2003 | Support for Land Reform Versus the Landless Workers Movement: A Framing Analysis of Brazilian Press | MA | |
| Smret Smith | 7/8/2003 | Cross-Cultural Training Programs: Team Building in the Midst of Cultural Differences | MA | |
| Spring 2003 | ||||
| Hung-ta Lin | 10/29/02 | Group Influence on Inter-group Flaming on the Usenet: A Content Analysis | MA | |
| 2002 | ||||
| Hairong Feng | - | Politeness Strategies in Chinese Gift-Giving Behavior | MA | |
| Aparnaa Narayanan | - | Communicating Effectively While Treating Women with HIV/AIDS | MA | |
| 2001 | ||||
| Maria Lettiere | - | Reel History: Film, Cultural Authority, and History | MA | |
| 2000 | ||||
| Hallie Blair Crawford | - | Entry-Level Professors' Perceptions of their Classroom Role and its Relationship to Classroom Communication | MA | |
| Jing Zhao | - | Comparing the Credibility of the Print Version and the Online Version of the Chicago Tribune | MA | |
| 1999 | ||||
| James Costigan | - | A Comparison of Representations in Collaborative Virtual Learning Environments | MA | |
| Barbara Diane Chin | - | Conflict Without Confrontation: Communication Strategy and the Roman Catholic Contraception Controversy | MA | |
| Toni R. Harris | - | Credibility of Newscasters to African-American and Anglo-American Television Viewers | MA | |
| Stephanie Kucker | - | Undergraduate Use of Email for Peer Relationships | MA | |
| Lisa L. Lockard | - | Expectations and Values of Incentives Perceived by Lapsed Members of a Professional Association | MA | |
| Pamela Renee Williams | - | Media Usage and Parasocial Interactions | MA | |
| 1998 | ||||
| Nancy Susan Namowicz | - | Perceptions of Affinity Behaviors in Service Encounters: Men's and Women's Evaluations of Relational Messages | MA | |
| Victoria C. Pierce | - | Communication Apprehension in an Immersive Networked Virtual Learning Environment | MA |
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