This series contains dissertations from the Annenberg School for Communication. For more information about University of Pennsylvania dissertation requirements and guidelines, please consult the dissertation manual.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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The Digital Bahdala: Recoding National Humiliation Across Postrevolutionary Lebanon And Egypt, Heather Jaber

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Disentangling The Reciprocal Causal Relationship Between Political Efficacy And Sharing Traditional And Humorous Political Information, Prateekshit Pandey

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A House’s Speech Divided: Novel Applications Of Text-As-Data For The Study Of Elite Polarization In The U.s. House Of Representatives (1983-2016), Jacob Pearl

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The Islamic State: Discursive Articulations Of Identity, Subjectivity, Community, And Statehood, Mohammed Amin Abdulqadir Salih

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Neural Synchrony In Successful Communication, Kristin Shumaker

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Responding To Media Coverage Of Gender-Based Violence In Argentina And The United States: A Mixed Methods Study Of The Intersecting Roles Of Gender, Class, And Racialized Ethnicity Among General And Activist Publics, Maria Celeste Wagner

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The Effect Of Source Credibility On Promising Belief Messages: A Message Pretesting Study To Address Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black Americans, Chioma Laura Woko

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How Do Digital Intermediaries Shape News Consumption? An Observational Study Based On A Large Web Panel In The Us (2016 To 2019), Tian Yang

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Characteristics Of The U.s. Digital News Landscape: Trends And Patterns In Audience Behavior, Alvin Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Turkish Tv Series In Bulgaria And Russia: The Terribly Charming Turk In The Global Media Matrix, Yasemin Yusufoff Celikkol

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Pop Culture Frameworks For Moral Expression In Left-Wing Political Talk, Megan Genovese

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Securing The Future Of Journalism: How Discourse, Logics, And Champions Clarify Information Security In Journalism And Journalism Education, Jennifer Henrichsen

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Moderating Roles Of Smoker And Vaper Identities In Tobacco Regulation Communication, Kwanho Kim

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Where The Two Trusts Meet: How Social Trust Influences Political Trust In The New Media Environment, Do Eon Lee

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Apocalyptic Authoritarianism In The United States: Power, Media, And Climate Crisis, Hanna Elizabeth Morris

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Censored, Commodified, And Surveilled: How Facebook's Self-Regulatory Governance Harms Marginalized Communities, Chloé Lynn Nurik

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Cultural Influences On Social Norm Development, Perception And Conformity, Rui Pei

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Becoming Party Activists: Grassroots Progressive Activism And The Democratic Party, John Remensperger

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Exploring Variation In How Media Depictions Of Tobacco Use Affect Norm Perceptions: The Roles Of Group Identity And Behavioral Similarity, Leeann Nicole Siegel

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Dismantling The Art Of Deception: Using "inoculation" To Combat Misinformation From Misleading Cigarette Advertising, Stefanie Kristen Gratale

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The Social Network Dynamics Of Category Formation, Douglas Richard Guilbeault

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Covering Scientific Uncertainty In Ongoing Research, Natalie Herbert

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Intergroup Dynamics Of Information Processing In Social Networks, Soojong Kim

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Intergroup Dynamics Of Information Processing In Social Networks, Soojong Kim

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How The Public Perception Of Political Polarization Affects American Social Life, Hye-Yon Lee

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News Reading Publics And Audience Fragmentation: Evidence From Online India (2014-2018), Subhayan Mukerjee

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Networked Memorialization: Victims Of Communism Memorials In Germany, Russia, And The U.s., Samantha Oliver

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Emergent Governance: The Politics Of Competition In Digital Markets, Pawel Popiel

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Infrastructure Of A Nation: Politics Of Connectivity In India, Revati Prasad

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Infrastructure Of A Nation: Politics Of Connectivity In India, Revati Prasad

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Journalism, Natacha Yazbeck

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Journalism, Natacha Yazbeck

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Contested Boundaries Of Digital Work, Opeyemi Akanbi

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The Role Of Mentalizing In Information Propagation, Elisa C. Baek

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The Influencer Industry: Constructing And Commodifying Authenticity On Social Media, Emily Dean Hund

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Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology, Jasmine Erdener

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Mapping Media Bias In China, Kecheng Fang

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The Technological Imaginaries Of Social Movements: The Discursive Dimension Of Communication Technology And The Fight For Social Justice, Elisabetta Ferrari

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Seeking Ourselves Onscreen: Brand Personality, Self-Congruence, And Media Preferences, Da Eun Kim

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Identifying Media Bias With Computer Vision, Yilang Peng

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Can’t Get You Out Of My Head: The Effects Of Avoidance Eliciting Anti-Tobacco Warning Messages, Jazmyne Sutton

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Not Simply The Best: The Grammy Awards, Race, And America, John Vilanova

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Variation On A Theme: Comparing Strategies For Choosing Health Communication Campaign Message Topics, Allyson Carol Volinsky

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Morality In Tobacco Control Messaging: Effects Of Moral Appeals On Persuasion And Retransmission, Sijia Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Selective Exposure To Misleading Information In The New Media Environment By At-Risk Youth: A Study Of Pro-Smoking Youtube Videos, Rosie Eungyuhl Bae

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The Network Dynamics Of Social Influence In The Wisdom Of Crowds, Joshua Becker

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Trafficking In Anti-Blackness: The Political Stakes Of “Modern Day Slavery” Discourse In Global Campaigns To End Human Trafficking, Lyndsey Beutin

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Contested Majority: The Representation Of The White Working Class In Us Politics From The 1930s To The 1990s, Christopher Cimaglio

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Doing It Ourselves: The Networked Practices Of Feminist Media Activism, Rosemary Clark-Parsons

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Misguided Benevolence: How ‘moments Of Need’ Came To Motivate American Journalism, David Conrad

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What Losing The Newspaper Means: Nostalgia And The U.s. Newspaper In Late Modernity, Nicholas Gilewicz

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Social Media Events, Katerina Girginova

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The Marathon And On: Disability, Endurance, Aspiration, Kevin Gotkin

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Radical (in)hospitality: American Media And Regulatory Stances Towards Immigration And Travel Bans, Nour Issam Halabi

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From Exposure To Effects: Examining The Cognitive Processes Underlying Effects Of "the Real Cost" Youth-Targeted Anti-Smoking Media Campaign, Elissa Claire Kranzler

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Durham’s Self-Help And The Financialization Of The Bull City: Development Without Displacement? Or Displacement Without Development?, Emily Ladue

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“what God Gave To Us”: Digital Habitus And The Shifting Social Imaginary Of American Evangelicalism, Corrina Laughlin

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Anyone Anywhere: Narrating African Innovation In A Global Community Of Practice, Eleanor Rosalind Marchant

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Desperately Seeking The Producer: Audiences, Identity, And The Margins Of The Internet, Elena Rosa Maris

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Selling The American People: Data, Technology, And The Calculated Transformation Of Advertising, Lee Mcguigan

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Spreading News: The Coverage Of Epidemics By American Newspapers And Its Effects On Audiences - A Crisis Communication Approach, Yotam Ophir

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Internet Markets: Exchange Relations On Craigslist, Ebay, And Silk Road, Jonathan Pace

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Neural And Psychological Bases Of Health News Sharing, Christin Scholz

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Design, Control, Predict: Cultural Politics In The Actually Existing Smart City, Aaron Murray Shapiro

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Exploring Thematic Diversity In News Coverage And Social Media Activity Of Political Candidates Using Unsupervised Machine Learning, Dror Walter

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Profits Over Principles: Redlining In The Newspaper Industry, Alex T. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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The Network Structure Of Collective Innovation, Devon Brackbill

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The Neural Mechanisms Of Conformity Across Socioeconomic Status And Development, Christopher N. Cascio

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Persuasive Technologies In Hiv Prevention: A Structural Intervention For African American Young Adults, Deepti Chittamuru

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A World Of Our Own: Climate Change Advocacy In The Anthropocene, Rowan Howard-Williams

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Assessing Civic Competence Against The Normative Benchmark Of Considered Opinions, Jin Woo Kim

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The Message As A Seed: Predicting The Diffusion Of Anti-Smoking Arguments From Message Construal, Stella Lee

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Track The Planet: A Web-Scale Analysis Of How Online Behavioral Advertising Violates Social Norms, Timothy Patrick Libert

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Effects Of Media Exposure On Descriptive Social Norm Perception Formation: Experimental And Observational Studies Of Why And How Repeated Exposure Matters, Jiaying Liu

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The Meaning Of Merit: The American Idea Of What We Have Earned, What We Deserve, And Whether We Got Lucky, Doron Taussig

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Integration: The Cultural Politics Of Migration And Nation In The New German Public, Kate Zambon

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Communicating History: The Mnemonic Battles of the 2011 Arab Uprisings, Omar Al-Ghazzi

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Politics As Sport: The Effects Of Partisan Media On Perceptions Of Electoral Integrity, Andrew Michael Daniller

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Data Epistemologies / Surveillance and Uncertainty, Sun Ha Hong

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Sharing in the Context of Tobacco and E-Cigarette Communication: Determinants, Consequences, and Contingent Effects, Michelle Jeong

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When Similarity Strikes Back: The Positive and Negative Role of Character-Audience Similarity in Anti-Smoking Campaigns, Minji Kim

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​How Church Bells Fell Silent: The Decline of Tower Bell Practices in Post-Revolutionary America, Deborah Lubken

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Situating The ‘maker Movement’: Tracing The Implementation Of An Educational Trend Within Public Libraries, Debora Lui

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Constructing the Exercising Self: Social Media Identity Work and Exercise Behavior, Shane Mannis

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The Boundaries of the Public: Mediating Sex in Postwar Lebanon, Sara Mourad

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The Evaluation of a Mass Media Campaign to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding in Vietnam, Danielle Amani Naugle

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Human Rights Through The Lens: A Study of the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Video Activism, Sandra Ristovska

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Gay Data, Yoel Roth

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Touching Paranoia: A Black Feminist Autoethnography On Race, Desire, And Erotic Massage, Jasmine Salters

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Towards A Radical Body Positive: Reading The Online Body Positive Movement, Alexandra Sastre

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Mammography Exemplars in online News Commentary: Prevalence of Exemplars, Effects on Risk Perceptions and Mammography Intentions, and Mechanisms of Action, Holli Hitt Seitz

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Viewer-Generated Comments to Online Health Policy News: Content, Dynamics, and Influence, Rui Shi

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China in the Media: Effects on American Opinion, Laura Ruth Silver

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Networked Social Influence: Online Social Network Physical Activity Interventions for Young Adults, Jingwen Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Constructing Religion in the Digital Age: The Internet and Modern Mormon Identities, Rosemary Avance

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Collective Action and Digital information Communication Technologies: The Search for Explanatory Models of Social Movement Organizations' Propensity to Use Dicts in Developed Democracies, Felicity Duncan

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The Rise of Brand Journalism: Understanding the Discursive Dimensions of Collectivity in the Age of Convergence, Kyung Lee

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Smoking-Related Self-Concepts and Value Expressive Messages: Effects on the Determinants of Smoking Cessation, Dina Shapiro-Luft

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Harnessing Hollywood Hype: Film Marketing Meets the Challenges and Opportunities of the 21st Century, Katherine Felsburg Wong

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Pro-Christian Humor and the Online Carnival, Timothy William Fallis