Completed Dissertations, 2009

  • Linda Alexander ~ "Under the Radar":  The Relative Effectiveness of Gay-Vague, Gay-Explicit and Control Anti-Smoking Messages for Targeted and Non-Targeted Audiences
  • Amelia Arsenault ~ Connected:  Information and State Power Between the United States and South Africa
  • Christopher Chavez ~ Hispanic Advertising as Social Orientation:  An Examination of the Advertising Industry as a Field of Cultural Production
  • Marcia Dawkins ~ Impurely Raced//Purely E-Raced:  Toward a Rhetorical Theory of (Bi)Racial Passing
  • Heather Hether ~ Social Media and Health:  Social Support and Social Capital on Pregnancy-Related Social Networking Sites
  • Meghan Moran ~ The Role of Social Identity in Adolescent Smoking Behavior
  • Shawn Powers ~ The Geopolitics of the News:  The Case of the Al Jazeera Network
  • Paolo Sigismondi ~ Shifting Paradigms in the Global Mediascape:  From the Catalina Bison to the Digital Glocalization of Entertainment
  • Kimberlie Stephens ~ The Role of Capabilities in New Alliance Creation and Performance:  A Study of the Biotechnology Industry