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All Around the World Same Song: Blackness, Racism, and Popular Culture in China
(Journal of Media Sociology, 2009)
Introduction: Media Education: Dilemmas of Perspective, Policy, and Practice
(Television and New Media, 2003-11)
Strategic Negotiations: West Indian Women, Diasporic Identity and Television.
(2007)
This dissertation is an ethnographic study, relying on in-depth interviews and focus groups, of the influence of West Indian immigrant women’s engagement with mainstream television on their ongoing diasporic identity ...
Race in the Floodwaters: Constructing and Deconstructing Television News Coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
(2009)
This dissertation explores a puzzle that has troubled policymakers for some time: If there is widespread support for the norm of racial equality in America, why do Whites oppose policies designed to achieve that goal? ...
"This is How I Think": Skate Life, Corresponding Cultures and Alternative White Masculinities.
(2007)
This Is How I Think contributes to our understanding of the politics of youth consumer culture by discussing the ways in which white masculinity is presented in youth media and elaborating young men’s reactions to these ...
Articulations of Desire and the Politics of Contradiction: Magazine Advertising, Television Fandom, and Female Gender Identity Dissonance.
(2009)
Articulations of Desire and the Politics of Contradiction recognizes that there is an intrinsic link between mediated representations of feminine contradiction and the manner in which women develop, organize, and manage ...
Empowering Personal Privacy: The Control of Personal Information in the Digital Sphere.
(2009)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the institutional practices and mass behavior that structure personal information flow in the digital sphere. The central question is how the interplay among institutional, ...
Behind the Great Firewall: The Internet and Democratization in China.
(2009)
The Internet has changed China profoundly. For the government, the Internet offers prospects to develop economics, education, and technology. For the public, the Internet provides unprecedented opportunities for the free ...
Social Influences on User Behavior in Group Information Repositories.
(2009)
Group information repositories are systems for organizing and sharing files kept in a central location that all group members can access. These systems are often assumed to be tools for storage and control of files and ...