Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Ling, Qi (2018), Televising feminism: the Chinese television industry, female television professionals, and neoliberal empowerment
Tuwei, David Kiplagat (2018), Communication technology, capabilities and livelihoods: the role of mobile money in facilitating financial inclusion and development in rural Kenya
Wellman, Mariah (2018), Gold’s Gym as a “home”: exploring the tensions between traditional bodybuilders and fitness influencers in a commercially branded space
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Carviou, James (2017), Modern family and Family guy: representation and relevancy among Twitter fans
Igram, Sarah E. (2017), Image repair and media coverage following sexual assault in college athletics: two case studies
Krajewski, Joanna Marie Thrift (2017), Media, influence, and agriculture: understanding the clashing communication about Iowa’s water quality crisis
Miller, Kyle Joseph (2017), Educational engagement: college radio, digital media, and organizational change
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Chen, Li (2016), Talking about health and health-related issues: an inquiry into the social media use of Chinese celebrity physicians and their fans
Harmsen, Shawn Paul (2016), Love and marriage and local TV news: an analysis of news coverage of same-sex marriage during elections since legalization in Iowa
McGinnis, Klinton Charles-Jones (2016), Body-centered constructivism and lived religion in photojournalism: visual analyses and a creative case study
Mielczarek, Natalia (2016), Lives of iconic news images online: appropriations of 'big pictures' and their rhetorical work in digital participatory culture
Miles, Stephanie Anne (2016), A dual-process approach to stigma reduction using online, user-generated narratives in social media messages
Schwartz, David Asa (2016), Shifting signifier on the sidelines : memory and boundary work in the construction of Joe Paterno
Weare, Andrea M. (2016), Beauty work : a case study of digital video production and postfeminist practices on YouTube's Icon Network
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Kananovich, Volha (2015), "Execute not pardon": the Pussy Riot "affair" and the use of legal and discursive means for purposes of marginalizing dissent in Putin's Russia
Liu, Ruoxi (2015), The media, the public and the courts under Chinese governmentality: case study of a highly publicized trial in a transitional society
Smith, Christina Carolyn (2015), Weekly newspapering : Iowa's small-town newspapers, their news workers, and their community roles
Smith, Gareth Ross (2015), The myth of the underdog in press photo images of the Syrian Civil War
Stang, Katy Leigh (2015), The role of fashion and fatshion blogging in college women's negotiation of identity
Walkner, Tammy J. (2015), Managing your private personal summer: how hormone replacement treatments are marketed to women
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Arif, Rauf (2014), Social movements, YouTube and political activism in authoritarian countries: a comparative analysis of political change in Pakistan, Tunisia & Egypt.
Chang, Chia Yu (2014), Visualizing brand personality and personal branding : case analysis on Starbucks and Nike's brand value co-creation on Instagram
Liu, Zhengjia (2014), "Trendingworthiness" and "prosumers" on Weibo: social media doxa and consumerism in a ritual field
Moody, Kyle Andrew (2014), Modders : changing the game through user-generated content and online communities
O'Gara, Erin K. (2014), It happens here too: examining community newspaper coverage of gender roles and intimate partner violence in rural Iowa
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Lee, Hye Jin (2013), All kids out of the pool!: brand identity, television animations, and adult audience of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim
Oviedo, Marilda Janet (2013), Growing up Latinita: Latina girls, online 'zine production, and identity formation
Sears, Michael D. (2013), The formation of issue publics during the Great Recession: examining the influences of news media, geography, and demographics
Sikanku, Godwin Etse (2013), Barack Obama's Identity Construction and International Media Representations During The 2008 Presidential Election: A Discursive and Comparative Framing Analysis
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Glassco, Michael Alan (2012), Contested images: the politics and poetics of appropriation
Gutsche Jr., Robert Edward (2012), Mediated constructions and lived experiences of place: an analysis of news, sourcing, and mapping
Kim Cho, Yeon Kyeong Erin (2012), Becoming "American" and maintaining "Korean" identity through media: a case study of Korean married immigrant women in Mizville.org
Liu, Zhaoxi (2012), Journalism culture in Kunming: market competition, political constraint, and new technology in a Chinese metropolis
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Han, Choong Hee (2010), The politics of memory in journalistic representations of human rights abuses during the Asia-Pacific War: discursive constructions of controversial "sites of memory" in three East Asian newspapers
Johnson, Robin Scott (2010), The digital Illusio: gender, work and culture in digital game production
Martin, MaryAnn Elizabeth (2010), Immigrant family, national borders: mainstream and diasporic news media, audiences, and the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Farquhar, Lee Keenan (2009), Identity negotiation on Facebook.com
Peterson, Ashley Shiels (2009), Standing at the crossroads of progress and pessimism: HIV/AIDS coverage in African American magazines and its relevance for female readers
Simmons, Arlecia Deandra (2009), "Serving sinners, comforting saints and increasing faith": the Reverend Edythe Stirlen's imagined radio church community
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Vujnović, Marina (2008), Forging the Bubikopf nation: a feminist political-economic analysis of Ženski list, interwar Croatia's women's magazine, for the construction of an alternative vision of modernity
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Oates, Thomas Patrick (2004), On the block: race, gender, and power in the NFL draft
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Davey, Gerald John (1992), Understanding Photographic Representation : Method and Meaning in the Interpretation of Photographs
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Newbrough, William Bruce (1969), UHF television in a small Iowa market, 1968