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Are Americans ready for take-off? A rhetorical analysis of president George W. Bush and his administration's September 11, 2001, crisis communication rhetoric

Myers, Jessica Joy (2005-12)

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks created a noticeable decline in commercial aviation travel because Americans lost faith in the safety of the commercial airline system. Although a weakening in commercial airline ...
Journalistic gender stereotyping of first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton

Wachai, James Njoroge (2005-12)

This study investigates media stereotyping of American First Ladies Laura Welch Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton principally using quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The research explores the amount and qualities ...
Will you be my friend? An analysis of friendster.com

Hendra, Amelia (2006-05)

Friendster.com was launched in California in 2002 with 20 users. Today, it has more than 27 million members and it is especially popular among Southeast Asian women. It differs from other online dating sites in that users ...
The end and the beginning:a model for analyzing visual/verbal news broadcasts of protest coverage

Tash, Andrew (2006-05)

This project brings together two areas of prior research: framing and visual rhetoric. Framing as it relates to news coverage of protests constitutes the core theoretical foundation. In using prior research by McLeod, ...
Singapore airlines: a study in exemplary crisis communication

Tan, Ee Ling J. (2006-05)

On October 31, 2000, Singapore Airlines’ Flight SQ0006 crashed into construction equipment 11 seconds after take off and exploded into three pieces. The flight was bound for Los Angeles from Taipei’s Chiang Kai-Shek Airport. ...
Will this picture help win the war? A textual thematic analysis of recruiting themes in Guadalcanal Diary

Dodds, Cori Lyn (2006-05)

This study is a textual thematic analysis that sought to identify recruiting themes embedded in a World War II combat film, Guadalcanal Diary (1943). The film was chosen on the basis of its representative ness of the combat ...
"On the cover of a Rolling Stone": a content analysis of gender representation in popular culture between 1967-2004

Binns, Rebecca Kay (Wichita State University, 2006-05)

Compared to the large body of research on female gender roles, little research has focused on male gender representation. This study addresses male and female gender representation as portrayed on the cover of Rolling Stone ...
Discovering voices among peculiar quietness: an analysis of U.S. Mennonite women’s rhetoric in the church press 1963-1977

Swartzendruber, Rachel D. (Wichita State University, 2006-05)

This research is a quantitative content analysis and qualitative rhetorical analysis of U.S. Mennonite women’s rhetoric in two prominent Mennonite publications, The Gospel Herald and The Mennonite, between 1963 and 1977. ...
What happened in Vegas? The use of destination branding to influence place attachments

Grillot, Kateri M. (2007-05)

In 2000, the city of Las Vegas broke away from traditional tourism marketing and started using the destination brand of “adult freedom” in their promotional campaigns. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitor’s Authority not ...
Learning from the ads: A triangulated examination of the assault on the last bastion of hegemonic masculinity: the super bowl 2003-2007

Ponder, James D. (2007-05)

This study was a thematic analysis that attempted to understand what messages television commercials send to the viewing audience concerning appropriate gender roles. Specifically, this study examined the Super Bowl ...
The Blackboard™ jungle: A case study of instructor and student perceptions of the learning technology tool Blackboard™

Wilson, Jeffrey W. (2007-05)

This case study investigates instructor and student perceptions of the learning technology tool Blackboard Academic Suite™ (hereafter known as Blackboard). A questionnaire was used to gather responses from instructors (n ...
A study of the differences between appropriate and inappropriate interpersonal self-disclosure in a work environment

Myers, Andrew (2007-05)

Every interpersonal communication event is unique because the information being self disclosed within each dialogue an individual has with others is distinctive. This preliminary study explores the difference between ...
Political bias: a look into the college classroom

Harvell, Lindsey Anne (2007-05)

This study examines the effects of political bias on students‟ willingness to speak out. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann‟s Spiral of Silence theory is used to test this. Convenience sampling is used in order to gain an undergraduate ...
Women in reality: a rhetorical analysis of three of Henrik Ibsen’s plays in order to determine the most prevalent feminist themes

Bradford, Lesa M. (2007-05)
A rhetorical history of the North Korean nuclear crisis: How three presidents talked about the bomb

Hamilton, Cade (Wichita State University, 2008-05)

This research attempted to analyze the North Korean nuclear crisis using a rhetorical history that evaluated the discursive framings of the George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush administrations. I used ...
Moms in the middle: Parenting magazines, motherhood texts and the “mommy wars.”

Eaves, Katherine L. (Wichita State University, 2008-05)

This research examines the role of parenting magazines and popular texts about motherhood in the social construction of the “mommy wars,” or the cultural tug-of-war between women who work for pay and women who stay home ...
Cybernetic answer to who, what, where, when and how: Comparative analysis of online and print newspapers in Serbia, Great Britain, and the United States

Petrovic, Jelena (Wichita State University, 2009-05)

The number of online newspapers has increased more than 50% since 2003. Meanwhile, print newspapers’ circulation has declined in North America and most of Europe. Since their first appearance in the early 1990s, online ...
Rhetoric, identity and the Obama racial phenomenon: exploring Obama’s title as the “first black president”

Cole, Krystal S. (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

In 2008, a nearly 200 year U.S. historical precedent was overturned when Barack Obama was named the “first Black president.” Although Obama is of mixed heritage, he adopted an almost singularly Black identity and has ...
A culture-centered approach to analyzing the community-grounded partnership between falling links and rural Harvey County Kansas

Archiopoli, Ashley Marie (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

This thesis conducted a secondary analysis of Falling LinKS Stage 1 data using the alternative frame of the culture-centered approach. The secondary analysis assessed 1) what insights the culture-centered approach offered ...
Barack Obama and world peace, a rhetorical inquiry

Nze, Samuel Onyenachi (Wichita State University, 2010-05)

The thesis, entitled Barack Obama and World Peace: A Rhetorical Inquiry, is a qualitative research paper that appraises President Obama's commitment to global peace, through a thematic analysis of a cross section of his ...