Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Attractability and Virality: The Role of Message Features and Social Influence in Health News Diffusion, Hyun Suk Kim
Sell (It) Yourself: Marketing Pleasure in Digital DIY, Tara Janine Liss-Marino
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Mobocratic City: Race, Space and Citizenship in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia, Andrew Crocco
Communities of Journalists and Journalism Practice at Radio Free Europe during the Cold War (1950-1995), Susan D. Haas
Development and Persuasion Processing: An Investigation of Children's Advertising Susceptibility and Understanding, Matthew Allen Lapierre
Toxic? The Nature and Effects of Mothers' Exposure to Pediatric Environmental Health information in the Media, Susan L. Mello
Customizing Message Content to Facilitate Decisions about Participating in Genomics Research: A Reasoned Action Approach, Ryan S. Paquin
Political Appetites: Food as Rhetoric in American Politics, Alison Perelman
Buying in: Socially Conscious Consumption and the Architecture of Choice, Elizabeth Roodhouse
Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation, Emily Thorson
Raising the Volume: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party, Khadijah Lorraine White
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Use of the Internet for Alternative Views on Health, Angel Bourgoin
The Casualization of Intimacy: Consensual Non-Monogamy and the New Sexual Ethos, Brittany Griebling
Mothers' Cognitions and Structural Life Circumstances as Predictors of Infants' and Toddlers' Television and Video, Sarah E. Vaala
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
"We Are the Revolutionaries": Visibility, Protest, and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism, Dan Berger
Narrative “Flow”: A Model of Narrative Processing and its Impact on Information Processing, Knowledge Acquisition and Persuasion, Jean M. Brechman
A Communication Model of the Impact of Presidential Candidate Character Traits on Vote Preference, Bruce W. Hardy
Keeping Children Healthy - How the Effects of Normative Messages on Parent Intentions vary with Social Normative Beliefs and Personality, Nehama Lewis-Persky
Evaluating Preschoolers’ Comprehension of Educational Television: The Role of Viewer Characteristics, Stimuli Features, and Contextual Expectations, Jessica T. Piotrowski
COMMUNICATING CANCER PREVENTION INFORMATION TO U.S. LATINOS: THE MODERATING ROLE OF ACCULTURATION, A Susana Ramirez
Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing, Michael Serazio
Identity, Identification, and Media Representation in Video Game Play: An audience reception study, Adrienne Shaw
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Suspect Until Proven Guilty, a Problematization of State Dossier Systems via Two Case Studies: The United States and China, Kenneth N. Farrall
Effects of Messages About Genetics, Race, and Health on Public Opinion About Personalized Medicine and Health Policy, Jocelyn Landau
Geek Cultures: Media and Identity in the Digital Age, Jason Tocci
Online Political Participation in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: Mobilizing or Reinforcing?, Kenneth M. Winneg
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Good Consumer: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in the United States, 1840-1940, Josh Lauer
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
The Guilty Pleasure of Watching Like Big Brother: Privacy Attitudes, Voyeurism & Reality Programs, Lemi Baruh
Ties out of bloodshed: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of Timothy McVeigh, Jody Lynee Madeira
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The History Of Election Day In Philadelphia: A Study In American Political Ritual, Mark Winston Brewin
Can People Talk Politics? A Study of Deliberative Democracy, David Dutwin
Mass Media and Memory Traces: Multilevel Explanation of Encoded Exposure to Television Content, Brian G. Southwell
Cure Without Communication: Self-Help Books and Popular Notions of Self and Communication, 1860-2000, M. Louise Woodstock
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Evaluations and Emotion: Influencing Public Health Policy Preferences via Facial Affect, Courtney Bennett
Whose News? How Television News Fails Political Discourse, James Devitt
Women, Press, and the Presidency, Erika A. Falk
Documenting Death: Photojournalism and Spectacles of the Morbid in the Tabloid and Elite Press, Jessica Morgan Fishman
Factors Shaping the Effects of Visual Media Texts on Viewer Understandings, Alice E. Hall
Attack, Pain, and Danger in Group Life: "Thrown to the Wolves", Marc L. Ostfield
Putting the World on the Couch: Cultural Authority as a Dimension of Mid-20th Century Popular Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, David W. Park
A Visual Representation and the Prediction of Emotion, Susan A. Sherr
As Time Goes By: Ritualized Remembering Through Wedding Photography, Michele M. Strano
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of News Media Messages on Health Behaviors, Jo E. Stryker
For To All Those Who Have, More Will be Given: The Matthew Effect, Nonprofit Organizations, and the Adoption of Internet Technology, Eric A. Zimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Alcohol Advertising over the Public Airwaves: A Study of Radio Station Managers' Clearance of Alcohol-Related Advertisements, A. Joseph Borrell
The Role of Discrete Emotions in Advertising Context Effects, Stacy M. Davis
May the Best History Win: Documentary Production and the Politics of Historical Representation Amidst the Downsizing of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Nicole Marie Keating
Do Friends Matter?: The Role of Peer Influence on Adolescent Risk Behavior, Kimberly Maxwell
Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity, Marsha Siefert
Constructing the Cable Television Market in Latin America: A Structurational Approach to Organizational Knowledge in U.S. Cable Networks, John L. Sullivan
Deliberation in Practice: Deliberative Theory, News Media, and Political Conversation, Paul Waldman
Alternative Explanations: Examining Exposure Recall, Selective Perception, And Response Bias In The Evaluation Of A Domestic Violence Prevention Radio Campaign, Richard Jeffers Wray
Mass Media, Social Control, and Health Behavior Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media Effects on Drunk-Driving Behavior, 1978-1995, Itzhak Yanovitzky
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
News As a Political Resource? A Case Study of the Media Strategies and Media Representation of the National Organization for Women, 1966-1980., Bernadette Barker-Plummer
Behavioral Planning and the Cognitive Antecedents to Behavior An Experiment Over the Internet Concerning Physical Activity, Andrew M. Maxfield
Communities Through the Lens: Grassroots Video in Philadelphia as Alternative Communicative Practice, Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Accuracy And Distortion In Judgment And Recall Of Political Discourse, Darin William Klein
Political Orientations and the Influences of Cohort Membership and Time: Patterns of Change in Tolerance, Confidence, and the Strength of Party Affiliation, Chien Joanna Lei-Lee
How Cartoons Became Art: Exhibitions and Sales of Animation Art as Communication of Aesthetic Value, William Anthony Mikulak
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
How Brand Names Brand Societies: A Comparative Study of Brand Names Registered in Selected English-Speaking Countries 1870-1980, Charles Augustus McClure
Conversation About Aids and the Media Environment in Thailand: Mass Media Roles in Context Building and Content Providing for Interpersonal Discourse, Yoshimi Nishino
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Dirty Discourse: Birth Control Advertising in the 1920s and 1930s, Amy C. Sarch
Social Influence As A Component of Contextual Effects: A Study of Diarrheal Treatment in Zaire, Zhong Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Homeless and Hopeless: Resignation in News Media Constructions of Homelessness as a Social Problem, Bernadette R. McNulty
State Power and Record-Keeping: the History of Individualized Surveillance in the United States, 1790-1935, Pamela L. Sankar
The Corporate Closet Managing Gay Identity on the Job, James D. Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Choices and Consequences: A Cross-National Evaluation of Telecommunication Policies in Developing Countries, Nikhil SInha
Development Communication: Interpretations in Organizational Contexts, Karin Gwinn Wilkins
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Cinematic Competence and Directorial Persona in Film School: A Study of Socialization and Cultural Production, Lisa Helen Henderson
Of Us and Other "Things": The Content and Functions of Talk by Adult Visitor Pairs in an Art and a History Museum, Lois Helayne Silverman
"Covering the Body": The Kennedy Assassination and the Establishment of Journalistic Authority, Barbie Zelizer
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
The Telephone War: Interconnection, Competition, and Monopoly in the making of the universal telephone service, 1894-1920, Milton L. Mueller
The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis and Salience in the Context of Health Maintence Organizations and the Elderly, Ann-Marie Nazzaro
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
The Collective Communication of Social Choice Messages, Thomas Howard Wickenden
The Representation of American English Dialects in Prime Time Network Television Dramatic Programs, Michael John Willmorth
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Power, Pain, and Pleasure in Pornography: A Content Analysis of Pornographic Feature Films, 1972-1985, Stephen Robert Prince
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
The Family's Construction of the Concept of 'Family', Jane Jorgenson
Family Houses and Social Identity: Communicational Perspectives onThe Homes of Ridge County, Christopher Richard Musellor Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
The 700 Club as Religion and as Television: A Study of Reasons and Effects, Stewart Hoover
Communication and Ethnic Community: The Case of Landsmanshaftn, Hannah Kliger
Constraints to Knowledge Gain and Behavior Change in Response to a Multi-media Health Education Project in Gambia, West Africa, Judith A. McDivitt
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Art as Social Communication: The Ridge County Amateur Art World, Robert Steven Aibel
Sacred Space: Spatial Communications Patterns in an Irish American and Slovak American Roman Catholic Parish, Barbara Ann Lynch
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Camera Clubs and Fine Art Photography: Distinguishing Between Art and Amateur Activity, Dona Beth Schwartz
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Some Communicational Aspects of Patient Placement and Careers in Two Nursing Homes, Stuart Jay Sigman
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Socialization Patterns and Children's Television and Film-Related Play, Carla Joan Sarett
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Film Talk: Viewers Responses to a Film as a Socially Situated Event, George Frederick Custen
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Communication, Social Organization and the Redefinition of Death A Case Study in the Institutionalization of an Idea, Leslie Ann Rado
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
An Exploration of the Origins of Objectivity in American News Reporting, Daniel Toby Schiller
Gandhi and Mao As Communicators: A Comparative Study of Practice and Theory, Kusum Jitendra Singh
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Some Aspects of the Interaction of Speaker and Hearer in the Construction of the Turn at Talk in Natural Conversation, Charles Goodwin
Learning About Crime: Conceptions of Crime and Law Enforcement as They Relate to Use of Television and Other Information Sources, Susan Schwartz McDonald
The Relationship Between Daytime Serials and Their Viewers, Sari T. Thomas