Browsing ESC Graduate Student Conference Papers by Issue Date
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What became of Rosie the Riveter?
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The influence of a celebrity chef: a rhetorical analysis of the "Emeril Live," a television cooking show
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Tiger takes on the world: a cosmopolitan beer or a traditional brew?
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Will you be my friend : a qualitative content analysis of friendster.com
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Desperate culture: an analysis of “I Love Lucy” and “Desperate Housewives”
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2006-04-28) -
Las Vegas, capitalist sin city to new capital of American freedom: a case study of the use of branding and metaphor
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The Blackboard™ jungle: A case study of instructor and student perceptions of the learning technology tool Blackboard™
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2007-04-27)Each of our lives has been forever changed by the introduction of new electronic technoligies that help us communicate on a global, instantaneous scale. Nowhere has that change been more felt than in education. College ... -
Move it and consume it: Media constructions of childhood obesity
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2008-04-25)Between 1980 and 2004, the number of overweight children in the U.S., ages 6 to 19, nearly tripled from 5% to 18.8% [1]. Currently there are approximately 25 million U.S. children “at risk of becoming overweight” or ... -
Will you be my Facebook friend?
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2008-04-25)Launched in February 2004 by students at Harvard University, Facebook is an online social networking site initially designed to replace the University’s paper student directory. Following its launch, it quickly spread to ... -
Where is the love? How parenting magazines discuss the “mommy wars” and why it matters
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2008-04-25)In June 1990, Newsweek coined the term “mommy wars” to describe the cultural tug-of-war between women who work outside the home and women who stay home to care for children. Historical and contemporary literature on ... -
Instability of journalistic objectivity: The future of the code is in asking how not how much
(Wichita State University. Graduate School., 2008-04-25)American press both praises and stumbles upon objectivity. This study tries to close this gap by providing communication professionals and academia with a definition that understands objectivity, not as a set of ... -
Cybernetic answer to who, what, where, when and how: Comparative Analysis of online and print newspapers in Serbia, Great Britain and the United States
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2009-05-01)In the last 8 years, the number of the Internet users worldwide increased by 305%, and the number of online newspapers has increased more than 50% since 2003. In the light of these developments, this study questions if ... -
Transparency and readability assessments of childhood obesity websites
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2009-05-01)Currently, there are over 25 million U.S. children who are overweight or obese [1 & 2]. Approximately 113 million or 80% of adult Americans regularly seek health information on the Internet [3]. Parents whose children are ... -
Not dying from disease: A narrative analysis of HIV/AIDS in the film rent
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2009-05-01)Set when AIDS was the scourge of New York City the film adaptation of Rent follows the lives of eight characters struggling to live their lives in the early 1990s; four of whom are HIV positive or have AIDS. This research ... -
Commitment communication and length of marriage: Scratching the seven-year itch
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2009-05-01)Previous research indicates that marriage has been shown to be a relationship based in serious investment, which requires maintenance behaviors in order to remain satisfying. With this in mind I wanted to determine why the ... -
The anatomy of teenage cliques: Communication behavior at the 2008 Kansas State Fair and in popular media
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2009-05-01)Assumptions are often made about teenagers, and how they interact with one another within groups. These stereotypes are influenced largely by how teenagers are portrayed in the media and popular culture, and are indicative ... -
Wichita "Twitters" about the 2008 Presidential election: Fantasy theme analysis of messages during three election night time phases.
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2009-05-01)The internet application Twitter, according to a description from its website is, "A free social messaging utility for staying connected in real time."[1] The number of users is estimated at more than one million. An average ... -
Editorial: response to president Obama's school speech
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2010-04-23)This study seeks to determine if editorial coverage was supportive or critical of Obama's September 8, 2009 school speech. Newspapers serve as the government's "Fourth Estate" by shining a spotlight on politicians and ... -
Car talk: Gender-specific observer communication at the Kansas state fair nostalgic car show
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2010-04-23)The Kansas State Fair (KSF) Nostalgic Car Show provides an environment where both male and female observers can showcase their communication style. The focus of this research was designed to address the research question: ... -
Customer service in financial, communications and business service companies in Nigeria: Impressions of Lagos industry executives
(Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2010-04-23)Nigeria is the eighth largest oil producer in the world, and the largest in Africa. Yet, instead of transforming the country into one of the most prosperous in the continent, Nigeria's abundant natural resources have ...