Browsing by Subject "Media"
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"All of My Business": Governmental Social Media and Authoritarian Responsiveness
(2017)How would authoritarian regimes react to the emergence of social media compared to traditional media? What role(s) would media play in authoritarianism? This study focuses on China, the largest existing authoritarian regime, ... -
“Chinese Whispers”? The “China” that Disappears from Lossy Communications
(2021)In 1949, Bell Lab mathematician Claude Shannon modeled telephone communication by assigning statistic regularity to the rather irregular usage of human language. His lab mate Warren Weaver took a step further, putting the ... -
Coverage of Burma in Six Elite Newspapers
(2011-12-09)This project compares the United States, United Kingdom and Thailand’s print media coverage of Burma. Examining six newspapers’ coverage of Burma in 2008 and 2010, the project studies how newspapers frame Burma differently ... -
Déjà-Vu News: How do Local Print and Broadcast Websites Present News?
(2009-12-04)News websites produced by local U.S. newspapers and television news stations appear to most significantly distinguish themselves by having characteristics similar to those of their original medium. As audiences increasingly ... -
Endless Question: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan
(2014)Young people in Japan contend with shifting understandings of family and friends, insecure jobs, and changing frames around global and national identities. The category of youth itself is unsettled amid a long period of ... -
¿Feminicidio? Media Framing of Ciudad Juárez Feminicidios
(2020-11-30)Although the brutal murders of the women in Ciudad Juárez have captured the attention of the international media and human rights organizations, little research has been conducted on the local media’s reporting about the ... -
Imagining Irelands: Migration, Media, and Locality in Modern Day Dublin
(2011)This dissertation explores the place of Irish-Gaelic language (Gaeilge) television and film media in the lives of youths living in the urban greater Dublin metropolitan area in the Republic of Ireland. By many accounts, ... -
The Dream Refinery: Psychics, Spirituality and Hollywood in Los Angeles
(2016)This ethnography examines the relationship between mass-mediated aspirations and spiritual practice in Los Angeles. Creative workers like actors, producers, and writers come to L.A. to pursue dreams of stardom, especially ... -
The Iranian Hostage Crisis: A War of Words, not Worlds
(2008-10-20)U.S. media presented the Iranian hostage crisis as a decisive attack against America and therefore the American people. Initially, the media discussed only factual information on the crisis and referred to the players according ... -
The People's Republic of Capitalism: The Making of the New Middle Class in Post-Socialist China, 1978-Present
(2013)My dissertation, "The People's Republic of Capitalism: The Making of the New Middle Class in Post-Socialist China, 1978-Present" draws on a range of visual cultural forms - cinema, documentary, and fashion - to track the ... -
Waves of Life: A Study of Radio in Bhutanese Refugee Camps in Nepal
(2013-04-19)This paper explores the use of radio by Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. Radio is the primary, and often only, media outlet accessible to refugees and they rely on it heavily for information as well as recreation. Radio is woven ...
