Completed Dissertations, 2008

  • Elaine Chan ~ Females' Video Game Playing Motivation and Performance:  Examining Gender Stereotypes and Competence Goals
  • Rebecca Herr Stephenson ~ Kids as Cultural Producers:  Consumption, Literacy, and Participation
  • John Kephart III ~ A Man Like the One that Married Dear Old Mom:  Nostalgia and Masculinity Crisis in Late 20th Century American Culture
  • Seungyoon Lee ~ The Coevolution of Multimodal, Muiltiplex, and Multilevel Organizational Networks in Development Communities
  • Zoltan Majdik ~ The Gene is Out of the Bottle:  The Communication of Genetic Complexity in Direct-To-Consumer Genetics
  • Matthew Matsaganis ~ Rediscovering the Communication Engine of Neighborhood Effects:  How the Interaction of Residents and Community Institutions Impacts Health Literacy and How It can be Leveraged to Improve Health Care Access
  • Carrie Anne Platt ~ Focusing the Family: The Rhetorical Construction of ‘Family Values’ in Contemporary Cultural Politics
  • Araba Sey ~ Mobil Communication and Development:  A Study of Mobil Phone Appropriation in Ghana
  • Hayeon Song ~ Acculturation and Latino Immigrants’ Health Attitudes and Behaviors:  A Bi-Dimensional Acculturation Model
  • Cara Wallis ~ Technomobility in the Margins: Mobile Phones and Young Rural Women in Beijing