1990
Bradbury, David E., May 1990 (MMC)
A uses and gratifications study of three audiences: Cable decliners, basic cable subscribers and pay cable subscribers. [Chair: Norm Felsenthal]
Foulger, Davis A., August 1990 (R&C)
Medium as process: The structure, use and practice of computer conferencing on IBM’s IBMPC computer conferencing facility. [Chair: Herbert W. Simons]
LeShay, Steven, August 1990 (MMC)
The image of businesspeople on prime-time network television: A content analysis. [Chair: Sari Thomas]
McGovern, Sr., Eileen, May 1990 (MMC)
From Varela to Marti: Four nineteenth century Cuban newspapers. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Rhodes, Leara D., May 1990 (MMC)
Haiti’s exiled press: Development and continuance. [Chair: John A. Lent]
1991
Armson, Joy, May 1991 (SLH)
A study of laryngeal muscle activity during stuttering episodes: Searching for an invariant physiological correlate. [Chair: C. Woodruff Starkweather]
Evans, William, August 1991 (MMC)
Media presentation of scientific research: Press coverage of physical, biological and social science. [Chair: Sari Thomas]
Hudson, Timothy, January 1991 (MMC)
Graphic depiction of violent material in television news: News directors’ and producers’ perceived acceptability levels. [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]
Incitti, Michael, May 1991 (MMC)
Newsroom learning environments: Journalists’ perceptions of organizational communication satisfaction at 11 daily newspapers in eastern Pennsylvania. [Chair: Edward Trayes]
Kim (Jang), Hoonsoon, January 1991 (MMC)
Cultural continuity and change: Characterization and narratives present in
Korean contemporary films. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Kim, Myung Jun, August 1991 (MMC)
Coverage of the Korean War by the New York Times and Ashahi Shimbun: Foreign policy as the key constraint on the war reporting. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Pugliese, Rudi, August 1991 (MMC)
Predictors of telecourse withdrawal and withdrawal/failure: Loneliness, communication competence, dyadic communication apprehension and locus of control. [Chair: Thomas Gordon]
Sholar, Sylvia, January 1991 (R&C)
Corporate communicators: The development of business communication strategies in the 1970s and 1980s. [Chair: Jeanne Allen]
Welldon, Paula J., January 1991 (R&C)
From words to shields: Tactical uses of role reference in committee conversation. [Chair: Robert T. Craig]
1992
Celano, Donna C., August 1992 (MMC)
Teacher use of Channel One: An ethnographic study of one school. [Chair: Richard Luker]
Kaiser, Daniel M., January 1992 (MMC)
The role of social maturation in adolescent media use: Parent and peer relationships as mediators of teens’ perceptions of TV versions of social relationships. [Chair: Richard Luker]
Karpur, Shashi Rao, August 1992 (MMC)
Factors associated with perceptions of productivity and usage of information technology in a service organization. [Chair: Thomas Gordon]
McCullough, Mary, January 1992 (R&C/CAS)
Black and white women’s friendships’ claiming the margins. [Chair: Joseph P. Folger]
McGoldrick, John, January 1992 (MMC)
The role of offices of consumer advocate in telecommunications regulations. [Chair: Herbert Dordick]
Quinn, Rosemary, August 1992 (SLH)
Mother-Infant interactions among Puerto Rican dyads. [Chair: Aquiles Iglesias]
Saenz, Terry I., August 1992 (SLH)
Strategies for obtaining toys at Head Start. [Chairs: Aquiles Iglesias and Anita Pomerantz]
Spisak, Frances, May 1992 (R&C)
Acquiring communication competence in a dental hygiene school: An ethnographic study. [Chair: Anita Pomerantz]
1993
Goldstein, Brian, May 1993 (SLH)
The evidence of phonological processes of three- and four-year-old Spanish speakers. [Chair: Aquiles Iglesias]
Igyor, Gerard, May 1993 (MMC)
The transfer of telecommunications technology to Nigeria. [Chair: Herbert Dordick]
Inyang, Young Dan, August 1993 (MMC)
Information technology and sales productivity in an insurance company. [Chair: Herbert Dordick]
Liu-Lengyel, Hongying, May 1993 (MMC)
Chinese cartoons as mass communication: The history of cartoon development in China. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Kay, Bonnie Kathryn, August 1993 (R&C)
Manager interpersonal communication behaviors and subordinate motivation. [Chair: Joseph Folger]
Kyrish, Sandra, May 1993 (MMC)
Predicting the future: Assessing predictions and forecasts for residential broadband services. [Chair: Stewart Hoover]
Pena, Elizabeth, January 1993 (SLH)
Dynamic assessment: A non-biased approach for assessing the language of young children. [Chair: Aquiles Iglesias]
Sparks, Suzanne, May 1993 (MMC)
A study of the credibility of advertising to younger and older adults. [Chair: James Marra]
Stutzman, Ervin, May 1993 (R&C)
From nonresistance to peace and justice: Mennonite peace rhetoric. [Chair: Herbert Simons]
Van Dusen, Donna, August 1993 (R&C)
The world view of a singles’ organization: Singleness as a transitional status. [Chair: Joseph Folger]
Zhengzing, Fei, August 1993 (MMC)
A stylistic analysis of the films by Zhang Yimon and Tie Jin. [Chair: John A. Lent]
1994
Bresnahan, Rosalind, August 1994 (MMC)
Access to, use and credibility of mass media, alternative media and other alternative information sources during the Persian Gulf crisis and war with Iraq: A survey of information-seeking by college students of the post-Vietnam generation. [Chair: Thomas Gordon]
Brown, David, August 1994 (R&C)
Watered down wine: Secularization and rhetorical authority management in American Baptist preaching. [Chair: Marsha Witten]
Burrowes, Carl, August 1994 (MMC) Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830–1970: The impact of modernity, ethnicity and power imbalances on government relations. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Elliott, Charles W., August 1994 (MMC)
The people’s news: Content and values in the press releases of the new China news agency 1950–1989. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Fry, Katherine, May 1994 (MMC)
Old south, agrarian midwest and frontier west: Discourses of repression and consumption in southern living, midwest living and sunset magazines. [Chair: Paul Swann]
Hanley, Barbara, May 1994 (MMC)
Boundaries and illusions: Prestige and transgression in American prime time television. [Chairs: Thomas Gordon and Stuart Hoover]
Hyter, Yvette, August 1994 (SLH)
A cross-channel description of reference in the narratives of African American vernacular English speakers. [Chair: Aquiles Iglesias]
Lancioni, Judith, January 1994 (R&C)
Rhetorical analysis and historical documentary: A case study of the Civil War. [Chair: Aram Aghazarian]
Lynch, Christopher, May 1994 (R&C)
I went on television to help my sponsor, the good lord: The television rhetoric of Bishop Fulton Sheen. [Chair: Aram Aghazarian]
Santana, Maria, August 1994 (MMC)
The Puerto Rican independence party as covered in local elections: A content analysis of the Puerto Rican press. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Sunderaj, Victor, January 1994 (MMC)
Predictors of social mobility: Profile of innovative and non-innovative scheduled castes of rural Tamil Nadu. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Yedes, Janet, August 1994 (R&C)
Social justice commitments and communication in a homeless advocacy organization. [Chair: Joseph Folger]
1995
de Montigny, Michelle C., May 1995 (MMC)
Gender differences in the relationship between the self-esteem and television viewing habits of young adolescents. [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]
Foti, Margaret A., August 1995 (MMC)
Information systems for biomedical scientists: Evolution, current practices, and promise for the future. [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]
Grabe, Maria E., August 1995 (MMC)
Does crime pay: Tabloid vs. highbrow news. [Chair: Matthew Lombard]
Haller, Beth, January 1995 (MMC)
Disability rights on the public agenda: Elite news media coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. [Chair: Thomas Gordon]
Hsiao, Hsiang-Wen, January 1995 (MMC)
Political cartoons in Taiwan: Historical profile and content analysis. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Kelly, Frank, May 1995 (MMC)
Business television in corporate America: The history, operation, programming and categorization of satellite business television networks. [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]
Livezey, Marlene, May 1995 (MMC)
Writing and physiology: An analysis of two methods (cathartic freewriting and writing for insight) to promote and maintain physical and emotional health. [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]
Merchel, Paulette Posluszny, May 1995 (MMC)
Gavriel Salomon’s theory of perceptions of media and amount of invested mental effort in processing information: A high school application with implication for learning from television. [Chair: Thomas Eveslage]
Mitnick, Andrea (Donath), January 1995 (R&C)
For the woman who wasn’t born yesterday: Middle age as a rite of passage in Lear’s. [Chair: Barbie Zelizer]
Ose-Mensah, Michael, November 1995 (MMC)
Telecommunications sector reforms in Ghana: An appraisal of regulatory and institutional approaches. [Chair: Concetta Stewart]
Reich, Robert, August 1995 (MMC)
The role of emotional images in the persuasive effect of television commercials. [Chair: Matthew Lombard]
Shi, Chyun-Fung, August 1995 (MMC)
News coverage and representation of female candidates in political campaigns in Taiwan. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Viser, Victor, January 1995 (MMC)
The use of children in American magazine advertising: 1940–1950. [Chair: Paul Swann]
Yoon, Jae H., August 1995 (MMC)
Social networking technology and discourse of communications network and information services. [Chair: Thomas Gordon]
1996
Brown, Hilary, August 1996 (MMC)
Jamaican youth, American media use and the cultural dependency thesis. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Denny, Harry, May 1996 (R&C)
Refiguring and dismantling civil rights: The discursive strategies affecting social space and bodies in Colorado’s Amendment Two campaign. [Chair: Cynthia Patton]
Holderman, Lisa, August 1996 (MMC)
The public construction of expertise: How experts are portrayed in popular U.S. talk shows. [Chair: Sari Thomas]
1997
Bakelaar, Philip, May 1997 (R&C)
The issue culture of the gay and lesbian religious controversy in the ages of Aids: Moral argumentation in American mainline religious communities as a symbolic contest between competing interpretations. [Chair: Herbert W. Simons]
Bishop, Ronald, May 1997 (MMC)
Lose all the weight you want: An examination of the impact of commercials for weight loss products on body image. [Chair: Thomas F. Gordon]
Ditton, Theresa Bolmarich, May 1997 (MMC)
The unintentional blending of direct experience and mediated experience: The role of enhanced vs. limited television presentations in inducing source-monitoring errors. [Chair: Matthew Lombard]
McLaurin, Patrick, January 1997 (R&C)
An examination of cross gender intimate aggression in urban African American youth culture: A symbolic interactionist approach. [Chair: Joseph Folger]
McNamara, Raymond Timothy, January 1997 (MMC)
Popular music use by older order Amish youth in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [Chair: Thomas Gordon]
O’Dowd, Kathleen Shawn, August 1997 (MMC)
Personal competencies and their relationship to mediated interpersonal enactments. [Chair: Sari Thomas]
1998
Hyun, Daiwon, August 1998 (MMC)
U.S. telecommunications policy in the global market: The role of USTR. [Chair: John A. Lent]
King, Michael, May 1998 (RC)
Fractured dance: Steps and missteps in conversation and in application of gadamer to a mennonite debate on homosexuality. [Chair: Herbert W. Simons]
Kitch, Carolyn L., May 1998 (MMC)
The girl on the magazine cover: Gender, class and the emergence of visual stereotypes in American mass media, 1895–1930. [Chair: Patricia Bradley]
Larsen, Robin, May 1998 (MMC)
The closeup shot in American film, 1911–1921: A marker for expressivity and identity. [Chair: Paul Swann]
Madia, Sherri, May 1998 (MMC)
The global news race and the branding of CNN. [Chair: Concetta Stewart]
Peliggi, Mary, August 1998 (MMC)
No sex, no drugs, just hardcore rock? Using Bourdieu to understand straight-edge kids and their practices. [Chair: Concetta Stewart]
Pudlinski, Christopher, August 1998 (R&C)
Giving help on a consumer-run warm line: Ideological dilemmas and practices. [Chair: Anita Pomerantz]
Puritz-Cook, Judi, August 1998 (MMC)
Social class identification and anxiety in television home shopping. [Chair: Sari Thomas]
Reed, Elaine Walls, January 1998 (MMC)
Representations of miscegenation during the Hays Office years: How the public relations efforts of the motion picture producers and distributors of America helped to institutionalize racism in the first half of the twentieth century. [Chair: Paul Swann]
1999
Kotani, Mariko, May 1999 (R&C)
Accounts in two speech communities: Views and practices of Japanese and English speakers. [Chair: Joseph P. Folger]
Okamoto, Rei, January 1999 (MMC)
Pictorial propaganda in Japanese comic art, 1941–1945: Images of the self and the other in a newspaper strip, single panel cartoons, and cartoon leaflets. [Chair: John A. Lent]
Park, Woong-Ki, August 1999 (MMC)
Talking back To television: Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationships. [Chair: Matthew Lombard]
Souder, Lawrence G., January 1999 (R&C)
A rhetorical contextualist analysis of the literature on the Chinese room thought experiments: Trying to Get a Grip on Virtual Reality. [Chair: Herbert W. Simons]
Yu, Kie-Un, August 1999 (MMC)
Development of the Korean animation industry: Historical, economic and cultural perspectives. [Chair: John A. Lent]