SUMMER 2000

Mass Communications

Chinedu Eke – “AIDS as International News: A Comparative Analysis of Two Western

and One African Press Coverage of a Pandemic” (Barton)

Alison Plessinger – “Race, Gender, and Spike Lee: An (R)evolution in Filmmaking”

(Munson)

Media Studies

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Telecommunications Studies

Beibei Ye – “

FALL 2000

Mass Communications

Scott Forbes – “Broadening the Playing Field: Modernizing Twentieth-Century American

Telecommunications Access Policy to Include the Public Interest” (Schement)

Scott McHugh – “Organizational Impact on Journalistic Roles: A Changing Relationship

(Nichols)

Loubna Skalli – “Articulating the Local and Global: A Case Study in Moroccan

Women’s Magazines” (Davis)

Nelson Smith – “The Cultivation of Social Reality: The Interaction of Active Television

Viewing with the Case of Music Videos” (Nichols)

Media Studies

Shannon Cain – “’I Have to Praise You Like I Should’: Defining the Auteurism and Artistry of Music Video Directors” (Hall)

William Reader – “Anonymity in Newspapers’ Reader Forums: Policies and Practices Applied to Letters to the Editor and Anonymous Call-In Forums” (Barton)

Telecommunications Studies

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SPRING 2001

Mass Communications

Xueping Du – “Foreign Investment and Participation in China’s Telecommunications:

Lessons for Development” (Taylor)

Serene Lim – “An Ethnographic Study of the Effect of Cultural Diversity on Decision

Making and Conflict in a Multinational, Multicultural Newsroom” (Nichols)

Media Studies

Sabine Henlin – “A Certain Tendency of the Independent Cinema” (Barton)

Dana Weaver – “Crisis Preparation Within U.S. Organizations” (Bernstein)

Telecommunications Studies

Margot Alcock – “Copyright, Enough and as Good”

Apur Parikh – “Digital Cinema: Bringing Motion Picture Exhibition into the Digital Age”

SUMMER 2001

Mass Communications

Pin-Hao Chen – “National Identity and Media: The Taiwanese Case” (O’Connor)

Rex Martin – “Cardboard Warriors: The Rise and Fall of an American Wargaming

Subculture, 1958 – 1998” (Schement)

Media Studies

Dana Broussard – “Seeing is Believing: White Viewers’ Perceived Realism of African-

American and White Couples in Situation Comedies” (Frank)

Ming Cao – “Perceptions of the Impact of On-Line Communications of Media Relations:

A Study of Public Relations Professionals and Journalists”

Walter Espy –“BET 20 Years Later: Case Study of an African-American Media Entity”

Michael Freeman – “Eros and Pedagogy: (Re)Sexing the Ivory Tower”

Telecommunications Studies

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FALL 2001

Mass Communications

Justin Brown – “Free Expression Implications of Broadband Open Access Policies”

(Frieden)

John McGrath –“ Integrated Marketing Communications: An Empirical Test of Its

Effectiveness” (Oliver)

Robert Trumpbour – “The New Cathedrals; The Sports Stadium and Mass Media’s

Role in Facilitating New Construction” (Barton)

Media Studies

Veena Raaman – “ (Davis)

SPRING 2002

Mass Communications

Sunetra Narayan – “Globalization, Localization and the Role of the State: A Study of

Television Liberalization in India (1990 – 2001)” (Nichols)

Media Studies

Jonathan Cavallero – “A 10-90 Italian American?: The Immigrant Experience and the

Films of Frank Capra” (Jordan)

John Harvey – “The Peer Editor Development Program: Formulating and Analyzing

a Training Model for Student Editors” (Risley)

Telecommunications Studies

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SUMMER 2002

Mass Communications

Josephine Dumas –“ICT and Gender Equity Policy: Lessons of the Mali Telecentres”

(Taylor)

Chi-Jen Hsieh – “From ‘The MP3 Revolution’ to Pay to Play: The Political Economy of

Digital Music” (Bettig)

Erik Jones – “The Use of Religious Media Among a Community of African-American

Baptists: An Ethnographic Study” (Barton)

Sriram Kalyanaraman – “Attitudes toward Personalized Content: An Experimental

Investigation of the Psychological Effects of Customized Web Portals”

(Sethuraman)

Carla A. Santos – “A Study of Tourism Discourse: The New York Times Travel Section

Coverage of Tourism in Portugal” (Davis)

Media Studies

Rukiya Eaddy – “An African-American Mayor or a Mayor Who Happens to Be African-

American? A Case Study Investigating the Image Success of Mayor Anthony Williams” (Richards)

Ndidi Moses – “Muscular and Manly, Waiflike and Womanly: Ideal Body Images and

Music Video Content” (Oliver)

Patricia Michael – "Print vs. Computer Screen: Effects of Medium on Proofreading

Accuracy."

Hope White – “Cross-Racial Behavior Among Child Characters in Popular Children’s

Television Programming” (Jackson)

Telecommunications Studies

George Otto – “An Integrative Media Approach to Virtual Reality Stem Design and

Assessment” (

FALL 2002

Mass Communications

Monica Brasted – “The Values of the Consumer Culture Reflected in the

Advertisements of the Saturday Evening Post: 1900-1929” (Mander)

NoKon Heo – “The Effects of Screen Size and Content Type on Viewers’ Attention,

Arousal, Memory, and Content Evaluations” (Sundar)

Media Studies

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Telecommunications Studies

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SPRING 2003

Mass Communications

Charu Uppal – “Cultural Representations of Environmental Activism:  A Comparative

Press Analysis of Indian and American Newspaper Coverage of Hydropower

Debate” (Barton)

Media Studies

Curtis Chan – “Legal Watches’ and Dead Voters: How the Philadelphia Inquirer

Monitors Voting Problems”

Sojourner Marable – “The Cincinnati Boys Must Not Die: Over-the-Rhine Perspectives

and Newspaper Framing of the April 2001 Cincinnati Uprising” (Frank)

Meghan Sanders – “Making it Personal: How Personality Affects Identification and

Enjoyment of Media Characters” (

Telecommunications

Shiela Sager – "Telecentre Development: Providing Access to Rural Communities"

(Schement)

SUMMER 2003

Mass Communications

Jing Yin – “Eris or Erinyes: Comparing News Representations of Anti-Globalization

Movements” (Davis)

FALL 2003

Mass Communications

David Kaszuba – “ They Are Women, Hear Them Roar: Female Sportswriters of the

1920’s” (Risley)

Raymond Niekamp – “"Audience Activity Among Users of the World Wide Web"

(Parsons)

Jian Qian – “The Global Business of Television: A Case of China" (Taylor)

Media Studies

Matthew Broussard – “"Understanding the ‘Village’: A Personal and Theoretical

Narrative About the Documentary Film Production Process."

James Butler – “Sexualized Images of Female Athletes in Media” (

Sean Thompson – “

Telecommunications

Jessica Matthews – “

SPRING 2004

Mass Communications

Amy Fast – “Phenomenology and Film: Heidegger and Truth in Documentary Film"

(Mander)

Chen-Ling Hung – “"The Political Economy of the Digital Divide in Taiwan" (Bettig)

Chris Russill – “"Toward a Pragmatist Theory of Communication" (Barton)

Judy Woodside – “Advantages of an Arrested Development: The Onscreen

Adolescence of Mickey Rooney" (Hall)

Media Studies

Amanda Rotondo – “The Effects of Sex-Specific Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical

Advertisements on Self-Esteem and Stress” (Oliver)

Telecommunications

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SUMMER 2004

Mass Communications

Sang Lee – “To vary or not: The effects of ad variation” (Sethuraman)

Srividya Ramasubramanian – “Effects of Media Stereotypes on Implicit and Explicit Racial Attitudes” (Oliver)

Marc Seamon – “” (Sethuraman)

Media Studies

Thomas Smee – “Does a News Anchor’s Gender Influence Audience Evaluations of the

Anchor? (Oliver)

Nathaniel Frederick – “Fight the Power: The Literary Response of Negro Digest/Black World to the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movement” (Frank)

Nalova Westbrook – “” (Olorunnisola)

Telecommunications

Becky Kinard – “” (Parsons)