| Mass Communications
Chinedu Eke – “AIDS as International
News: A Comparative Analysis of Two Western and One African Press
Coverage of a Pandemic”
Alison Plessinger – “Race, Gender,
and Spike Lee: An (R)evolution in Filmmaking”
Scott Forbes – “Broadening the Playing
Field: Modernizing Twentieth-Century American Telecommunications
Access Policy to Include the Public Interest”
Scott McHugh – “Organizational Impact
on Journalistic Roles: A Changing Relationship”
Loubna Skalli – “Articulating the Local
and Global: A Case Study in Moroccan Women’s Magazines”
Nelson Smith – “The Cultivation of
Social Reality: The Interaction of Active Television Viewing with
the Case of Music Videos”
Xueping Du – “Foreign Investment and
Participation in China’s Telecommunications: Lessons for Development”
Serene Lim – “An Ethnographic Study
of the Effect of Cultural Diversity on Decision Making and Conflict
in a Multinational, Multicultural Newsroom”
Pin-Hao Chen – “National Identity and
Media, The Taiwanese Case”
Rex Martin – “Cardboard Warriors: The
Rise and Fall of an American Wargaming Subculture, 1958 –
1998”
Justin Brown – “Free Expression Implications
of Broadband Open Access Policies”
John McGrath –“ Integrated Marketing
Communications: An Empirical Test of Its Effectiveness”
Robert Trumpbour – “The New Cathedrals;
The Sports Stadium and Mass Media’s Role in Facilitating New
Construction”
Sunetra Narayan – “Globalization, Localization
and the Role of the State: A Study of Television Liberalization
in India (1990 – 2001)”
Josephine Dumas –“ICT and Gender Equity
Policy: Lessons of the Mali Telecentres”
Chi-Jen Hsieh – “From ‘The MP3
Revolution’ to Pay to Play: The Political Economy of Digital
Music”
Eric Jones – “The Use of Religious
Media Among a Community of African-American Baptists: An Ethnographic
Study”
Sriram Kalyanaraman – “Attitudes toward
Personalized Content: An Experimental Investigation of the Psychological
Effects of Customized Web Portals”
Carla A. Santos – “A Study of Tourism
Discourse: The New York Times Travel Section Coverage of Tourism
in Portugal”
Monica Brasted – “The Values of the
Consumer Culture Reflected in the Advertisements of The Saturday
Evening Post, 1900 – 1929.”
Media Studies
Shannon Cain – “’I Have to Praise
You Like I Should’: Defining the Auteurism and Artistry of
Music Video Directors”
William Reader – “Anonymity in Newspapers’
Reader Forums: Policies and Practices Applied to Letters to the
Editor and Anonymous Call-In Forums”
Sally Heffentreyer – "John Fenno in
the Early Partisan Press Era: Connection and Context"
Sabine Henlin – “A Certain Tendency
of the Independent Cinema”
Dana Weaver – “Crisis Preparation Within
U.S. Organizations”
Dana Broussard – “Seeing is Believing:
White Viewers’ Perceived Realism of African American and White
Couples in Situation Comedies”
Ming Cao – “Perceptions of the Impact
of On-Line Communications on 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”
Jonathan Cavallero – “A 10-90 Italian
American? The Immigrant Experience and the Films of Frank Capra”
John Harvey - “The Peer Editor Development
Program: Formulating and Analyzing a Training Model for Student
Editors”
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”
Ndidi Moses – “Muscular and Manly,
Waiflike and Womanly: Ideal Body Images and Music Video Content”
Hope White – “Cross-Racial Behavior
Among Child Characters in Popular Children’s Television Programming”
Telecommunications Studies
Margot Alcock – “Copy Right: Enough
and as Good”
Apur Parikh – “Digital Cinema: Bringing
Motion Picture Exhibition into the Digital Age”
George Otto – “An Integrative Media
Approach to Virtual Reality Stem Design and Assessment”
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