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| Dissertation
Research |
Some
of the best examples of research conducted at Ohio University
is research produced by doctoral students of the School of Telecommunications.
As a Ph.D. granting institution, the School has been awarding
doctoral degrees to advanced students since 1983. Listed below
are samples of this research since 1994.
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| Akir,
Ziad I. Impact of Information and Communication Technology
on Teaching and Training: A Qualitative Systematic Review.
Advisor:Don Flournoy |
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| Boateng,
Kwasi. Bringing new media to Ghanaians: The political economy
of Internet deployment. Advisor: Duncan Brown |
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| Lee,
Joon Seong. Digital Spirituality and Governmentality: Contextualizing
Cyber Memorial Zones in Korea. Advisor: Karen Riggs |
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| Matic,
Igor. Digital Divide in Istria. Advisor: Karen E. Riggs
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| Paragas,
Fernando. Eccentric Networks: Patterns of Interpersonal Communication,
Organizational Participation, and Mass Media Use Among Overseas
Filipino Workers. Advisor: Drew McDaniel |
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| Benitez,
José Luis. Communication and collective identites in
the transnational social space : a media ethnography of the
Salvadoran immigrant community in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan
area. Advisor: Karen Riggs |
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| Bratic,
Vladimir. In search of peace media: examining the role of
media in peace developments of the post-Cold War conflicts.
Advisor: David Mould |
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| Chitnis,
Ketan S. Communication for Empowerment and Participatory
Development: A Social Model of Health in Jamkhed, India.
Advisor: David Mould |
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| Evusa,
Juliet E.Information Communication Technologies as Tools
for Socio-Economic and Political Development: The National
Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) Huruma Community Telecenter
as a Case Study. Advisor: Norma Pecora |
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| Kaswoswe,
Wenceslous. The politics of broadcasting policy reform in
Zimbabwe, 2000--2004: Breaking away from the past? Advisor:
Duncan Brown |
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| Foo,
Tee-Tuan. Managing the content of Malaysian television drama
: producers, gatekeepers and the Barisan Nasional government.
Advisor: Drew McDaniel |
| Legg,
J. Robert. Job satisfaction at selected university licensed
CPB qualified public radio stations : an application of Herzberg's
motivation-hygiene theory. Advisor: Charles Clift. |
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Algan, Ece. Courting via talk radio : an ethnography of local
media and youth in southeast Turkey. Advisor: Slade,J. |
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Bosch, Tanja Estella. Radio, community and identity in South
Africa : a rhizomatic study of Bush Radio in Cape Town. Advisor:
Nelson,J. |
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| Brooten,
Lisa B. Global communications, local conceptions : human rights
and the politics of communication among the Burmese opposition-in-exile.
Advisor: McDaniel,D. |
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Currie, Traci E. Spoken word in the media : a 30 year historical
analysis of spoken word. Advisor: Cromwell,A. |
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| Kanayama,
Tomoko. Strategic Web use by nonprofit organizations in Appalachian
Ohio : the influence of resource dependency and institutional
expectations. Advisor: Brown,D. |
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Lagos Valle, Fabio Israel. Another electoral year of insufferable
political commercials : a case study of televised political
advertising and its impact on the Honduran electorate. Advisor:
Slade, J. |
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Malik, Saadia I. Exploring aghani al-banat : a postcolonial
ethnographic approach to Sudanese women's songs, culture,
and performance. Advisor: Pecora,N. |
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Pombo, Monica
Teixeira. Video production in Ohio high schools : the role
of media pedagogy in youth identity. Advisor: Pecora, N. |
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Suriyasarn, Busakorn. Analysis of Thai Internet and telecommunications
policy formation during the period 1992--2000. Advisor: McDaniel,D. |
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Smith-Cooper, Tia L. Contradictions in a hip-hop world : an
ethnographic study of Black women hip-hop fans in Washington,
DC. Advisor: Cromwell, A. |
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Valeda, Maria Emelita Parilla. Gender frame and news frame:
Local newspaper coverage of the 1999 Indianapolis mayoral
election (Indiana). Advisor: Slade,J. |
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Zechowski, Sharon. Howard Stern and the women who love him:
Working-class subjectivity and the discourse of male talk.
Advisor: Korn,J. |
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| Anantho,
Siriwan. Changing telecommunications policies to promote access
to education in Thailand: An analysis of the policy-making
process. Advisor: Brown,D. |
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Blevins, Jeffrey Layne. The political economy of an Internet
portal: A case study of Disney's Go Network. Advisor: Brown,D. |
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CheLah, Nawiyah. The development and adoption of direct broadcast
satellites and satellite television programming in Malaysia.
Advisor: Cambridge, V. |
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McLaughlin, Eileen Marie. Media use and acculturation: A comparative
study of Puerto Rican communities. Advisor: Rota,J. |
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Podber,
Jacob J. The electronic front porch: An oral history of
the early effects of radio, television, and the Internet
on Appalachia and the Melungeon community. Advisor: Mould,D.
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Taha, Mustafa Hashim. Web campaigning and the 2000 presidential
election: A new paradigm in political communication. Advisor:
Flournoy,D. |
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| Wang,
Chun-Lei. Reporting on China: What the elite American news
media say: A content analysis (1990--1995). Advisor: Rota,J.
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| Blankson,
Isaac Abeku. Independent and pluralistic broadcasting development
in Ghana: Perceptions of audiences in Accra (Ghana). Advisor:
Cambridge, V. |
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Campbell, John William. A longitudinal comparative study of
American television news coverage of the Hong Kong handover
(China). Advisor: Clift,C. |
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Irwin, Mark Thompson. The role of radio broadcasting in Kyrgyzstan
in the democratization process, 1991--2000. Advisor: Flournoy,D. |
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Johnson, Randall D. Herbert Hoover and the aeronautical
telecommunications system: His influence on its development
and deployment, as Secretary of Commerce, 1921--1927. Advisor:
Flournoy,D. |
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Storr,
Juliette Marie. Changes and challenges: A history of the
development of broadcasting in the commonwealth of The Bahamas,
1930--1980. Advisor: Cambridge, V. |
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Zacharias, Usha. The question of the author: Television and
cultural politics in the time of the 'Ramayana' (India). Advisor:
Mould,D. |
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Akindes, Fay Yokomizo. Hawaiian-music radio as diasporic habitus:
A rhizomatic study of power, resistance, and identity. Advisor:
Nelson,J. |
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Grubb, Max Vernon. Political and economic reforms of post-Communist
broadcast systems: A case study of Estonia. Advisor: Clift,C.
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Lamnadi, Ahmed El Madkour. Communication policymaking and
electronic media in Morocco: The introduction of private television.
Advisor: McDaniel,D. |
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Lee, Sangchul. Adoption of Internet broadcasting among radio
stations in the United States. Advisor: Flournoy,D. |
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Lootah, Hessah Abdullah . Unveiling the mask: Representation
of women on Dubai (United Arab Emirates) television. Advisor:
Sandell,K. |
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Souder, Mary J. From the bottom up: A study of mission and
strategy in public broadcasting at the community level. Advisor:
Rota,J. |
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Windborne, Janice Kelly. Media, markets and messages: Radio
as a tool for development for Ghana's market women. Advisor:
Rota,J. |
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al-Dhaheri, Amina Khamis. Images of women in Arab music videos.
Case study: Arab Gulf states music videos. Advisor: Sandell,K.
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Al-Tamimi, Qais Mohammed. Demographic factors influencing
the diffusion and individuals' adoption of direct broadcasting
system services in the United Arab Emirates. Advisor: Sandell,K.
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Cromwell, Arthur Carrall. Jazz Mecca: An ethnographic study
of Chicago's South Side Jazz community. Advisers: Nelson,J
& Descutner,D. |
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Fox, Kathleen A. Radio station mergers and acquisitions: An
analysis of employee reactions to the acquisition process.
Advisor: Clift,C. |
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| Frontani,
Michael Roy. The Beatles as sign: Their transformation from
moptops to Gramscian intellectuals (Richard Dyer, Antonio
Gramsci). Advisor: Slade,J. |
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Kanayama, Tsutomu. Japanese television broadcast regulation
in transition: From analog to digital broadcasting, 1987-1997.
Advisor: Flournoy,D. |
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McKenna, Katelyn Yael Aisling. The computers that bind: Relationship
formation on the Internet. Advisor: Rota,J. |
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Kanyongo, Willmore Tapiwa. International advertising: Strategies
employed by American companies with business interests in
foreign markets. Advisor: Cambridge,V. |
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Taylor, Gwendolyn C. A few in a thousand: The experiences
of African-American female general managers of broadcast radio
and television stations. Advisor: Clift,C. |
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| Adhoum,
Mounir. Deregulatory trends of television broadcasting in
North Africa: The case of Tunisia's response to the advent
of direct broadcast satellite television. Advisor: McDaniel,D.
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Antwi, Ransford Kwame. Communication and development: The
impact of the Sasakawa Global 2000 agricultural project in
the southern and central zones of Ghana. Advisor: Cambridge,V.
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Dilawari, Sudesh Rani. Communicating the Indian tradition:
A hermeneutic study of the Mahabharata television serial.
Advisor: Mould, D. |
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Kraidy, Marwan Michel. Towards a semiosphere of hybrid identities:
A native ethnography of glocalization. Advisors: McDaniel,D
& Descutner,D. |
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McClean, Lisa Anne. 'Caribscope': A forum for development
news? Advisor: Mould,D. |
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Murphy, Patrick Douglas. Television and popular culture in
central Mexico: An audience ethnography. Advisor: McDaniel,D.
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Turner, John Stephen, II. Panopticism and popular culture:
A genealogy of new surveillance technology, discourse, and
ideology. Advisor: Miller,W. |
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van der Veur, Paul Roscoe. Colonial legacies in mass education
and mass communication in southern Africa with special reference
to radio broadcasting in Botswana: 1920-1995. Advisor: Cambridge,V.
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Barner, Mark R. Gender, domestic work, and leisure: An ethnographic
study of videotape renting. Advisor: Miller,W. |
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Ford-Ahmed, Trevellya L. 'Money Is' developing multimedia
instructional materials: An exploration of the self-explicated
economic world of Appalachian high school students. Advisor:
Nelson,J & Cambridge,V. |
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Gaines, Elliot Ira. Celebrities and ideology in television
news: The semiotic demise of Tonya Harding. Advisor: Korn,J. |
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Gonzalez-Pinto, Raul E. Ethnographic teletheory: A kaleidoscopic
view of organizational discourses (a case study). Advisor:
Nelson,J. |
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Kaltefleiter, Caroline K. Revolution girl style now: Trebled
reflexivity and the Riot Grrrl network. Advisor: Nelson,J.
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Kapoor, Priya. Wisdom of interplay: Dialogues on development
and fertility among women in India. Advisor: Sandell,K &
Nelson,J. |
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Lengel, Laura Beth. Empowering stages: Contemporary women
performers, music and the mass media in Tunisia. Advisor:
Nelson,J & Sandell,K. |
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Shen, Jinguo. Reshaping television culture and modernity:
A critical inquiry of Chinese television series and communication
praxis. Advisor: Nelson,J. |
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| Sun,
Mine-Ping. Effects of new media use on adolescents' family
lives: Time use and relationships with family members in Taiwan.
Advisor: Sandell,K. |
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Williams, Kevin Clark. Musical visuality: A phenomenological
essay on music television. Advisor: Nelson,J |
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Ziyati, Abdelali. An ethnographic study on media use and cultural
articulation: The case of Moroccan migrants in Paris, France.
Advisor: Sandell,K. |
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Park, Chun Il . A comparative analysis of the selection process
and content of television international news in the United
States and Korea: A case study of the United States CNN PrimeNews,
Korean KBS 9 O'clock News and SBS 8 O'clock News programs.
Advisor: Clift,C. |
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Rodriguez, Clemencia. Dissent in the realm of the symbolic:
A cross-cultural analysis of citizens' media. Advisor: Rota,J.
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Seaton, Kathleen Rodrigues. A study using American movies
to increase language proficiencies in an EFL/ESL classroom
at Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan (1992-1994). Advisor:
Sandell,K & Thomas,D. |
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Abdulrahman Ibrahim. An analysis of TV news in three Arab
countries (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia). Advisor: Flournoy,
Don M., and Stempel, Guido H., III. |
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| Nedeljkovich,
Mihajlo. Japanese R&D: An organizational analysis. Advisor:
Flournoy, Don. |
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| Srikandath,
Sivaram. Ethnicity and cultural identity in the diasporas
and opportunities for niche media marketing: An audience analysis
of the Jains of North America. Advisor: Nelson, Jenny. |
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| Chinwah-Adegbola,
Lovette Ayobami. Reportage of Africa on United States commercial
television networks: An assessment of the New World Information
Order. Advisor: Hazzard, Maisha. |
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| Lee,
Varnell McAfee. The growth and development of basic cable
services, and a case study of The Nashville Network. Advisor:
Clift, Charles. |
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| Evuleocha,
Stevina Uchenna. The New International Information and Communication
Order: Continuity or change in international communication
relations? Advisor: Rota, Joseph. |
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| Wolff,
Richard Frank, Jr. A semiotic phenomenological study of ecclesiastic
and televisual religious experience. Advisor: Nelson, Jenny
L. |
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| Sadig,
Haydar Badawi. Cross-cultural communication and double-consciousness:
African student experiences of United States media and culture.
Advisor: Hazzard, Maisha, and Nelson, Jenny. |
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| Cambridge,
Ovril Patricia. Music as message facilitator: A content analysis
of musical elements within the visual and verbal contexts
of United States presidential campaign spots, 1968-1988. Advisor:
Hazzard, Maisha L. |
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| Allen,
M. Austin, III. Visual hunger: The hailing and denial of an
Africaness presence within American public television. Advisor:
Hazzard, Maisha. |
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| George,
Amiso Margaret. Situationalized mass media audience research
for urban teen family planning: A sense-making approach to
information needs assessment for social change and development.
Advisor: Hazzard, Maisha L. |
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| Hammoud,
Mahmoud Mohammad. The role of communication in the preservation
of national and cultural identity of a nation in exile: The
Palestinian case. Advisor: Rota, Josep. |
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| Gwamna,
Bitrus Paul. Multicultural programming as a strategy in public
diplomacy: Leo Sarkisian, and the Voice of America's "Music
Time in Africa." Advisor: Hazzard, Maisha L. |
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| Silva,
Regina Coeli Vieira da Silveira. Agenda-setting and corporate
video news: A content analysis of corporate news at EMBRATEL
in Brazil and at Ford in the United States of America. Advisor:
Hazzard, Maisha L. |
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| Ganzert,
Charles Ford, Jr. Platter chatter and the pancake impresarios:
The re-invention of radio in the age of television, 1946 to
1959. Advisor: Clift, Charles. |
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| Drushel,
Bruce Eugene. Job satisfaction among broadcast station employees.
Advisor: Sandell, Karin L. |
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| Li,
Xiaohong.Chinese students in the United States: Their uses
and perceptions of American television. Advisor: Sandell,
Karin. |
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| Tobing,
Sumita. Development journalism in Indonesia: Content analysis
of government television news. Advisor: McDaniel, Drew. |
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| Kennedy,
Laurel Beatrice. Privatization and its policy antecedents
in Malaysian telecommunications. Advisor: McDaniel, Drew O.
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| Hoggatt,
Dutch W. Transformational leadership: An investigation of
top-performing television station executives. Advisor: Clift,
Charles. |
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| Denski,
Stan Walter. An examination of popular music preferences and
functions by the contemporary popular music audience. Advisor:
Sandell, Karin. |
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| Al-Oofy,
Abdellatif D. The usages, status, and effects of video cassette
recorders on other media, audiences, and the new Islamic awareness
in Saudi Arabia. Advisor: McDaniel, Drew. |
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| Cambridge,
Vibert Compton. Mass media entertainment and human resources
development: Radio serials in Jamaica from 1962. Advisor:
Hazzard, Maisha, and Rota, Josep. |
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| Hassan,
Salleh. Rural broadcasters' orientations toward audience participation
in rural broadcasting in Peninsular Malaysia. Advisor: McDaniel,
Drew. |
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| Snyder,
Robert John. Producing news that is not remembered: A participant-observation
and content analysis of three local television stations' information-processing
problems originating from the gatekeeping process. Advisor:
Sandell, Karin. |
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| Kumar,
Raj. Historical analysis of the administration of All India
Radio school broadcasting in India. Advisor: McDaniel, Drew
O. |
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| Peroutka,
Shirley Ann. The Cheap Repository Tracts: The archaeology
of an early mass media propaganda movement. Advisor: Sandell,
Karin. |
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| Kramer,
Eric Mark. Television criticism and the problem of ground:
Interpretation after deconstruction. Advisor: Sandell, Karin. |
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| Parker,
James Edward. Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone":
A critival examination of religious and moralistic themes
and motifs presented in the film noir style. Advisor: Berman,
Joseph. |
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| Tumas-Serna,
Jane Anne. An investigation of the primitive in rock and roll
performance: Steps toward a cultural approach to the analysis
of mass media texts. Advisor: Sandell, Karin. |
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| Hatar,
Augustin. Distance education for developing countries: An
examination of learners' preferences in Guyana. Advisor: McDaniel,
Drew. |
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| Brodgon,
Lenora Ruth. Development of television policy Belize: A Thirld
World case study. Advisor: McDaniel, Drew. |
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| Gershon,
Richard A. Pay cable television: Historical development and
selected case studies. Advisor: Rightmire, Roderick. |
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| Sholle,
David Jonathan. An archeology of critical studies of the media.
Advisor: Sandell, Karin. |
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| Chilcoat,
Charles Mark. Televised presidential debates: Paralinguistic
factors of source credibility and status in the 1980 Carter-Reagen
debate. Advisor: Berman, Joseph. |
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| Oliveira,
Omar Souki. Analysis of the differential effects of exposure
to Mexican and U.S. television on consumer attitudes in Northen
Belize. Advisor: McDaniel, Drew. |
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| De-Goshie,
Joe. Mass media and national development: A content analysis
of Nigerian developmental television drama series--"Cock
Crow at Dawn". Advisor: McDaniel, D. |
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| Carter,
Douglas. A cross media narrative analysis of "The Martian
Chronicles": Novel, radio, theater, film and television.
Advisor: Mays, C., and Miller, W. |
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| Anast,
Adrian Kathleen. The role of content and scheduling in patterns
of program audience duplication. Advisor: Webster, J. |
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| Stemen,
Gregory Donald. Patterns of television viewing in the United
States. Advisor: Sandell, K. |
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| McConell,
Robert Ronald. The television criticism of Michael Arlen,
1966-1981: A study of Arlen's aesthetic standards. Advisor:
Clift, C. |
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| Haque,
S. M. Mazharul. A descriptive content analysis of the new
content of the prestigious Indian dailies. Advisor: McDaniel,
D. and Stempel, G. |
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