Completed Dissertations, 2011

  • Patrick Belanger ~ Negotiating Injustice:   Public Memory and Nationhood(s) 
  • John Cheney-Lippold ~ Identity Bytes:  Computer Algorithms and Digital Identification
  • Lauren Bethany Frank ~ Contagious:  Social Norms about Health in Work Group Networks
  • Jessica Gould ~ Examining Affect and Transactive Communicative Processes in Organizational Teams
  • Deborah E. R. Hanan  ~ National Transgressions:  Representing the Mobile, Boundary-Busting American during Periods of Major Economic Crisis
  • Lauren B. Movius ~ The Struggle for Communication Rights:  Global Civil Society and Internet Governance
  • Courtney Schultz Pade ~ Yours is Mine, But is Mine Yours?  Examining Social Exchange Relationships in Transactive Memory Systems 
  • Shuya Pan ~ Online Communities and Older Adults:  The Potential of Social Networks Formed in the Online Community in Enhancing Social Support, Social Connectedness and Subjective Well-Being Among Chinese Older Adults
  • Joe Jin Phua ~ The Social Groups Approach to Quitting Smoking:  An Examination of Smoking Cessation Online and Offline through the Influence of Social Norms, Social Identification, Social Capital and Social Support
  • Rabindra Ayyan Ratan ~ Self-Presence:  Body, Emotion, and Identity Extension into the Virtual Self
  • Nupur Tustin ~ Patient Delay:  An Experimental Study in Reducing Time Taken to Seek Medical Help for Cancer
  • Nicole Usher ~ Making Business News in the Digital Age