Completed Dissertations, 2012

  • Joyee Chatterjee ~ Encoding Women:  Popular Culture & Primetime Indian Television
  • Shawna Kelly ~ Running with Newbies:  Understanding Online Communities Through the Eyes of Second-Generation Gamers
  • Lori Kido Lopez ~ Asian American Media Activism:  Past, Present, and Digital Futures 
  • Drew Margolin ~ The Evolution of Social and Semantic Networks in Epistemic Communities
  • Janel Schuh ~ The Social Functions of Celebrity Gossip Among Adolescent Girls
  • Susana E. Smith Bautista ~ The Changing Nature of Museology in the Digital Age:  Case Studies of Situated Technology Praxis in U.S. Art Museums