Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Contextualizing The Role of Answerers' Gaze Orientation in Turn Taking, Cassidy Moore
Understanding Veteran Perceptions about Mental Health and its Treatment, Quinn Turner Stoddard
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Measuring Morality in the 2020 US Presidential Election, Scott Edward Atkins
Framing the Green New Deal and Climate Change: A Content Analysis of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Danielle Elizabeth Duffy
Confederate Statues in University Opinion Newspaper Articles: An Analysis of Themes and Attachment, Jamie Nicole Knopf
Scientology's FAQ: Sciencing, Tech-romancing, Simulacra, & Simulation an Estranged Content Analysis, David Scott Morrill
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Online Activism and Real Life Environmentalism, Emily Grace Anderson
The Worth of Risk: Political Participation and Risk Perceptions, Siri Grubb
Investigating Values in Discourse: Ideals and Social Plans, Luke Edward Hanst
Public Perception of Air Quality Risks in Portland, Oregon, Dawn Nolan
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
So Many Choices: an Experimental Study of Digital Television Choice, Customization, and Satisfaction, Johanna Lee Hoener
Social Media Use, Social Comparison, and Loneliness, Jordan Elena Johnson
Led Down the Garden Path: Cognitive Processing of English Language Idioms, Daniel Alan Vandehey
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
"Smart" Technology: Do You Buy It? Adoption of Digital Innovations, Laura Koyer Glass
HIV, Stigma, and Attribution of Causal Emotions, Zoe Elizabeth Larson
Stigmatization and Mental Illness: the Communication of Social Identity Prototypes through Diagnosis Labels, Justin Samuel Leverett
To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Self-Disclosure of Mental Health in the Workplace, Samantha Margaret Reynolds
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Judgments of Lethal Risk: a Comparison of Visual and Narrative Stimuli, Derek Anthony Bonniksen
"My Teacher Says I'm an Overachiever, but I Think He's an Overexpecter" : Teacher Expectations, Self-Concept, and Academic Success, Jennifer Lea Campbell
What's New Pussyhat? Men, Feminism, and Social Identity, Rachel Lee Crist
Framing Race and Blame in the Media: a Case Study on the Chapel Hill Shooting, Sara Abdullatif Galadari
Inclusion and Assimilation: Including Change in the Workplace, Marisa Jean Miller
Studying the Effects of Motivated Reasoning on Appraisals of Message Strength, Aric Christopher Powell
Affordances on Facebook, Stress, and Emotional Support, Caitlin Rose Rethwish
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
"First"-Matters: Projecting the Displacement of Responses to Questions in the Context of Presidential Primary-Campaign Debates, Kristella Marie Montiegel
Influence of the Presidential Inaugural Address on Audience Perceptions of Candidate Image and the State of the Nation, Kyle Alexander Rush
Newspaper Construction of Homelessness in Western United States Cities, Charlie Allan Sheese
Investigating Cable: the Potential and Actual Value of PEG & Franchise Fees, Duncan Chaz Stewart
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Gender Bias and the Evaluation of Players: Voice and Gender in Narrated Gameplay Videos, Robin April Crowell
Is Scholarship Advancing?: An Analysis of Fifteen Years of Framing Research, Joseph Zachary Provencher
Narratives of Native American Women and Tribal Courts: the Framing of the Violence Against Women Act of 2013 in Mainstream, Native American, and Tribal Press Coverage, Alesha Marie Sangster
A Relevance Rule Organizing Responsive Behavior During Projectably Multi-Unit Tellings, Anri Zama
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Metaphorical Framing of Obesity, Ryan Paul Hofer
Inspiring Action: Measuring the Effect of Motivational Frames on Social Movement Mobilization, Rebecca Louise Smith
Discursive Security: F.B.I. Stings and the Nature of Peace, Adam Testerman
Check-In Frequency with Friends on Location-Based Social Networks: A Look at Homophily and Relational Closeness, Jacqueline H. Vo
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Peer Conversations about Inter-racial and Inter-ethnic Friendships, Lana Lee Buckholz
Black and Blue and Read All Over: News Framing and the Coverage of Crime, Kalistah Quilla Cosand
Elaborating Patient Agency in Breast-Cancer Care: A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Patients Asserting Treatment Preferences, Rachel Sofia Erdman
Exploring Communicative Aspects of Client Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Retention in a Private, Non-profit Organization: A Qualitative, Interview-Based Study of Catholic Charities, Amanda Michelle Fortin
'This Would Be Much Funner in Person': A Qualitative Grounded Theory Analysis of Cybergrooming, Maurice Jason Gauz
Community Connections: Exploring the Constructive Potential of Facebook for Civic Engagement, Sarah Ruth Martin
"Your information station": A Case study of rural radio in the 21st century, William Jacob Amadeus Pinnock
Cross-Cutting Concerns: The Varying Effects of Partisan Cues in the Context of Social Networks, Benjamin King Smith
The Stories We Tell: A Qualitative Inquiry to Multiracial Family Storytelling, Mariko O. Thomas
It's Complicated: The Role of Facebook in Romantic Relationships Concerning Relational Certainty, Attachment, and Self-Esteem, Jenna Rae Tucker
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
International and Domestic Student Health-Information Seeking and Satisfaction, Stacy Theodora Austin
Talking the Talk: An exploration of parent-child communication about cyberbullying, Veronica Anne Droser
Self-Disclosure and Self-Efficacy in Online Dating, Andrew Christopher España
Metaphor Use in Interpersonal Communication of Body Perception in the Context of Breast Cancer, Jennifer Mary Fillion
Disjointed Cosmopolitanism: Climate Change and Lived Experience in Portland, Oregon, Stephen Wayne Flinn
Every Town Is All the Same When You've Left Your Heart in the Portland Rain: Representations of Portland Place and Local Identity in Portland Popular Lyrics, Meghan Andrea Kearney
Life Post 9/11: Experiences of Korean Americans Ten Years Later, Jay Lee
War's Visual Discourse: A Content Analysis of Iraq War Imagery, Mary Elizabeth Major
Grief Lives Online: An Empirical Study of Kübler-Ross' Categories of Bereavement on MySpace Profiles, Ilona Yurivna Malenkovich
Sexting Unleashed: The Social Phenomenon According to Youth Sexters, Jessica Marie McGraw
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Lived Experience of High School Policy Debate in Oregon, Ameena AnnaMaria Amdahl-Mason
Are We Cool Yet?: A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Nerd and Geek Representations in Popular Television, Christopher Louis Cardiel
Crafting a Space: A Feminist Analysis of the Relationship Between Women, Craft, Business and Technology on Etsy.com, Elizabeth Gillette Offensend
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Examining the Portland Music Scene through Neo-localism, Tyler James Brain
Who Gender-Bends and Why? A Qualitative Study of World of Warcraft, Clairellyn Rose Gregory
Performing Marginal Identities: Understanding the Cultural Significance of Tawa'if and Rudali Through the Language of the Body in South Asian Cinema, Lise Danielle Hurlstone
"You Can See it in Their Eyes:" A Communication Ethnography of a Humane Society, Sara Victoria Kaufman
A comparative case study of newspaper coverage of the Umatilla Chemical Weapons Depot/Incinerator from 1994 to 1998., Rogue Elliott Robertson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: How a Best-Seller Diffused Online, Melissa Ann Shavlik
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Impact of Humanitarian Photography on the Generation of Sympathy and on Donation Behavior, Marta Barberini
Investing and Vesting International Students' Expressive Resources in Social Capital at Portland State University, Mami Kikuchi
Public opinion and public engagement with genetically modified foods : a qualitative study, Celeste Laurana Moser
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Does the "News" Come First? Social Responsibility, Infotainment, and Local Television Newscasts in Portland, Oregon: A Content Analysis, Carey Lynne Higgins
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
The Effect of Using Averaged Versus Custom Real-Ear to Coupler Difference Values in the Desired Sensation Level Approach to Prescribing Hearing Instrument Gain, John Aaron Coverstone
Teacher Self-Disclosure From the Perspective of International Students in the Communication Classroom : A Case Study, Darlene J. Geiger
An Evaluation of Earobics I in Improving Phonological Awareness in 6- And 7-Year-Old Boys Who Are At-Risk for Reading Disabilities, Wendy Goughnour Gunter
Effects of Three Training Components in an AAC Intervention for an Adult With Severe Broca’s Aphasia, Bradley Josef Hendershott
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
A Longitudinal Study of the Career Maturity Patterns of Individuals with Clefts, Joyce Johnson Anderson
The Effectiveness of Hypermedia Training vs. Traditional Classroom Instruction in Stuttering, Micheal Dean Baran
Impact of Singing Intervention on Vocal Fatigue Effects : A Single Subject Study, Nancy Devine Ferguson
Speech Intelligibility of 4-Year-Old Children, M. Jane Firestone
Career Orientation Levels in Adolescents : A Comparison of Cleft and Noncleft Subgroups, Tara Darice Gaddis
Role of the Warrant in Presidential Debates : 1960, 1976, & 1996, Aaron Nicole Kaio
The Effect of Diastema Closure on the Remediation of Lateral /S/: A Case Study, Reta Price
Information Content in American Television Advertising : A Replication and Update, Laura Kathleen Sandgren
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Perceptions of Stuttering Intervention Services Received at Portland State, Franklin Wayne Bender
The Juice Is Loose?: A Qualitative Study of Employees’ Perceptions of Informal and Formal Communication Channels, Warren Jerome Brown
A Survey of Swallowing Symptoms Associated With the Premenstrual Cycle, Jill Gigi Calcagno
The Effectiveness of Planned Transitions Therapy in the Treatment of Three Children with Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia, Emily M. Campbell
An Ethnographic Study of Chinese Adolescent Identity in Taipei, Taiwan : Franchise Hangouts, Jui-fang Ruby Chen
Gross Estimation: A Study of the Clinical Validity for Measuring Intelligibility, Heather Gail Clarke
"Blame It on Intake” : A Critical Ethnography of the Negotiation of Access to Shelter Services in a Shelter for Homeless and Battered Women, Kathleen Marie Drew
First Language and Gesture Acquisition in Children with Cerebral Palsy, Ann Christine Friel
The Language of Transformation in a "Conversation for Possibility": A Metaphor Analysis, Deborah Jean Gabbert
Conflict Is Optional, Difference Is Not : Toward a Difference-Based Approach to Interpersonal Communication, James Arthur Gieseking Jr
An Ethnography of Classroom Interaction in Hoshuko: A Case Study of the Japanese Supplementary School Classroom, Nobuko Higashi
A Study of the Level of Knowledge of Adult Foster Care Home Providers in Multnomah County in the State of Oregon About Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Communication Strategies, Marsha Peters Johnson
Temporal Characteristics of Fluent Speech in the Stuttered Utterances of Children, Dixon Ira Kirsch