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MA Research Thesis Titles 2008-present
Quiroz, Annia: "Didn't We Want to Know? Comparative Framing Analysis of
GMO Labeling in Local vs National News,” (4/2015) Gangadharbatla, Tracey,
Collinge (ENVS).
Mazzo, John: ”Gamifying Education Influences Long-term Positive Learner
Affect,” (5/2015) Voakes, Bergreen, Winokur (ENGL)
Opraseuth, Albert: “The National Endowment for Democracy: Theory, Context
and Practice,” (5/2015) McLean, Tracey, Boulding (PSCI)
Cordova, Hugo: "The NFL: The Cultural Stage for A Shifting American
Landscape,” (5/2015) Hoover, Echchaibi, Jones.
Benn, Jesse: "Anti-Intellectualism in the Age of Contested Knowledge
Production: Perpetual Inaction, When Ideas Constrain Discourse,” (2015)
McDevitt, Tracey, Sassower (UCCS)
Durham, Nicolene: “Media Tales of Two Coastal Cities: Exploring the coverage
of sea level rise in New York City and New Orleans. (2014) Berggreen, Logan,
Boykoff (ENVS).
McMillon, Kevin: Representation of Children and the ‘Other’ in Black Hawk
Down (2001) and Hotel Rwanda (2004) (2014) Ryan, Berggreen, Aydin (FILM)
Hannon, Victoria: Buycotting Chick-fil-A: a tale of religion, politics and
consumption (2013) Echchaibi, Berggreen, Whitehead (RLST)
Higgins, Lucy: Underreported Stories on Climate Change and Coral Reefs in
These Times of Diminishing International Reporting: Mining the Scholarly
Literature Through Regular Annotated Bibliographies (2013) Mody, Fish,
McDevitt.
Kharitonova, Olga; “Pins, Portals & Purchases: Examining the Potential for
Carryover Effects on Pinterest,” (2013). Tracey, Stevens, Miaskiewicz (CompSci)
Palmer, Lucia; “Traveling to Dangerous and Far-Flung Locales”:
Representations of the “Other” in Web-Based Travel Journalism (2013).
Berggreen, Echchaibi, Peck.
Bosworth, Brendon; Spreading the Word: Communicating About Veganism
(2012) Crow, Malesh (Comm), Echchaibi.
Collebrusco, Anthony: “YOU’VE GOT TO BE REALISTIC”: THE POLITICAL
AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS IN
BOULDER AND DENVER, COLORADO” (2012) Calabrese, Ryan, Daniel Boord
(Film St.)
Donovan, Robin: Communitarian and Care Ethics: A Return to the Community
in the Digital Age (2012) Voakes, Skewes, McDevitt
Hires, Brian: “Media Coverage of Climate-Change Policy: A Content Analysis of
How U.S. Newspapers Frame the Policy Solutions to Climate Change,” (2012)
Crow, Boykoff (ENVS), Yulsman.
Dean, Jenny; “In Search of an Effective Citizen Journalism Platform: A Case
Study of the Resolving Door Project” (2011) . Skewes, Stevens, Fish
Goodman, Erica; "On the Horizon: A Case Study of Rural Migration in the Digital
Age,” (2011) McLean, Mody, Hunter (SOC).
Hemmendinger, Mathias: Building News Communities Online: Opportunities in
Digital Journalism (2011). Ryan, Kornish (Bus), Skewes.
Isaac, Adrienne; " Reality is the first casualty of war: photographic
representations of war casualties in print media and the sociology of
gatekeeping," (2010) McDevitt, Sheeler, Calabrese.
Jesse, Amy; "Resisting Change; Women's Magazines' Framing of Workplace
Equality and Abortion, 1966 to 1973," (2010), McDevitt, Whitt, Bayard de Vollo
(WmSt)
Labbe, Brett: "ICTs & Burma: A contextual analysis," (2010). Mody, Calabrese,
Revi Sterling (ATLAS).
Owens, Cara Bottjen; Is Your Newspaper Helping You Understand Technology?:
The Framing of Network Neutrality in U.S. Newspapers,” (2010), Calabrese,
McDevitt, Stevens.
Perez, Rolando; Media and the Re-signification of Social Protest, Change and
Power Among Evangelicals: The Peruvian Case (2010). Hoover, Echchaibi, Irvine
(Soc)
Spratte, Tobin; For the Good of All Mankind: Public Opinion and the Morality of
Capitalism in the United States (2010), Tracey, Calabrese, Lee Alston (Econ).
Steinbruegge, Robert; Nick is Kids: Nickelodean and the Branding of
Childhood” (2010), Berggreen, Peck, Flores (Comm).
White, Joanne; “The Latent Sphere of the Network Society,” (2010). Echchaibi,
Hoover, Slayden, Leysia Palen (Comp. Sci.)
Cohen, Adrienne; Equal Opportunity Mockery: A Content Analysis of The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart (12/2009). Skewes, Calabrese, Whitt
Eulberg, Tyera: The Cold War Reformulated?: The Clash of Civilizations in
Literary Journalism (2009). Trager, Hoover, Whitt
Smith, Cassie; Re-Interpreting an Icon: The Rhetorical Function of “Earthrise”
(2009). Crow, Troester Nunez, Redal
Figg (Byrd), Krystina; In the Wake of the Sleeping Dragon: A Study of the US
Audience’s Perception of China (2008). McLean, Jones, Voakes
Finkelstein, Rodrigo; The Constitutive Role of Occupational Safety in Chile and
its Unintended Consequences (2008). McLean, Deetz (Comm), Jones
Ingersoll, Alex Monroe; Place in Flows: A Continuum of Virtual Transduction and
the Work of Locating the Mobile Mob (2008). Peck, Calabrese, Tim Oakes
(Geography).
Lubeck, Marisa; War of Words and Crisis Warnings: The Role of Environmental
Media in American Wartime Culture (2008). Yulsman, Tracey, McCabe (Anthro)
McDonald, Aubri; A CSI Effect Investigation Media, Curiosity and the Pursuit
Closure (2008). Tracey, Voakes, Potter (Sociology)
Stencel, Daniel J.; Communication-Related Knowledge Production on Our
Neighbors to the South: A bibliometric analysis of U.S. doctoral dissertations in
communication, journalism and mass media on Latin America (2008). Mody,
Moritz, Echchaibi