Theses/Dissertations from 2023
"Smells Fishy": Exploring Sense of Place Salience in Community Rejection of Closed Net-Pen Aquaculture in Frenchman Bay, Maine, Gabriella Gurney
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Developing an LGBTQIA2+ Affirming Curriculum and Testing its Impact on Allyship, Tausif Karim
Rethinking the Future of News Literacy Education: Results from a Mixed Methods Study, Judith Rosenbaum, Jennifer Bonnet, and R. Alan Berry
From Self-Help to Self-Harm: Rhetoric in the Self-Help Industry, Grace S. Royle
Searching for a Solution to Political Polarization in the U.S. Through a Feminist Ethics of Care, Marissa Smith
Submissions from 2021
Teaching News Literacy During a Pandemic: Adapting to the Virtual Learning Environment, R. Alan Berry, Jennifer L. Bonnet, and Judith E. Rosenbaum
Using Photovoice to Navigate Social-ecological Change in Coastal Maine: a Case Study on Visibility, Visuality, and Visual Literacy, Kevin P. Duffy
Greta Thunberg's Disruptions: How Rhetoric Breaks Trained Incapacities to Climate Change, Mackenzie Peacock
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Influence of Message Type, Environmental Attitude, and Political Ideology on Perceptions of Aquaculture in the United States, Tabitha C. Boze
The Influencer Experience: Identity Performance, Commodification, and Agency in YouTube Influencers, Aysha M. Vear
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Social Identity Theory and the #Vanlife Movement, Jessica Bergstrom
Understanding Substance Use and Recovery in Maine: A Culture-Centered Approach, Carter Hathaway
Sound Commodity: Contemporary Public Radio and Podcasting, Casey R. Kelly
A New Materialist Rhetoric: Theorizing Movement from a Rhetorical Ethnography of Hiking, Bryan Picciotto
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Looking at Innovation Dialogically: Teaching Communication and (Social) Change in the Innovation Engineering Program at the University of Maine, Mark J. Congdon Jr.
Melting Hardened Desires: Confronting the Far Right by Cultivating Reflective Taste, Adam J. Goldsmith
Gain vs. Loss and Near vs. Far Spatial Distance Message Framing and Support for Aquaculture Among U.S. Seafood Consumers, Sandaruwan P. Kumara
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Playing at Women and Men: A Discourse Analysis of Gender and Sexuality Performance in an Online Play-by-Post Role-Playing Game, Caitlin M. Smith
Grassroots Diplomacy and Vernacular Law: The Discourse of Food Sovereignty in Maine, John Welton
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Heteronormativity and Representation of Gay Sexuality in HBO's Looking, Quang Ngo
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
From the University of Maine to the University For Maine: Faculty as Leaders and Agents of Change, Bethany Jorgensen
Single Mother Storytelling: "I Have Something I Need to Say to You", Allison M. Noonan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Inside and Out: A Phenomenology of Young Women's Sexiness, L. Shelley Rawlins
Science Teachers' Perceptions of Google Earth for Inclusive Classroom Instruction, Emily J. Rice
Intersections of Science, Policy & the Media in Sustainability Science: A Mixed Method State Analysis, Hollie M. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Communication and Resilience in Collaboration, Social-Ecological Systems, and Discourse, Bridie McGreavy
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Facilitating Organizational Innovation: Strengthening Maine's Sustainability Solutions Network through Communication Research, Colleen Budzinski
The Development of Relationships Among Fans and Professional Athletes on Facebook: A Discourse Analysis of Parasocial and Social Interaction, Lindzay Marie Chapman
Feminism on the Final Frontier: Perceptions of Gender Performativity in Joss Whedon's Firefly, Mandi Favreau
Reading Bitch Magazine: Audience Interaction with Third Wave Feminism, Chelsea L. Grieve
The Emergence of the Transsexual in Surgery: A Genealogical Analysis, Amanda L. Hallett
Drinking, Eating, Exercising, and Smoking: Instances of Health Behavior Portrayals in Contemporary Broadcast Soap Operas, Ashley Rae Nemer
Performing Identity Through Hot Pot: Chinese Sojourning Students in Maine, Hui Qian
Opera Enormous: Arias in the Cinema, Benjamin Speed
Supporting the Micmac Farms Through Ethnographic Communication Research, Anthony Sutton
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Watching TV in Maine: A Cultivation Analysis of Crime Prevalence Estimates and Fear of Victimization, Rebecca Rae Blais
Communicating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at Home: The Arab-American Institute and Its Use of the Internet and External Media Sources, Wesley K. Colbath
Dissecting Dexter: Television Portrayal of Self-Disclosure as a Relational Control Tool, Jeremiah Miner
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
[Re]Doing Christianity: An Ideological and Rhetorical Critique of The 700 Club and God's Politics, Sarita Joyce Field
The Virtual World of Social Support: Communicating in Second Life, Sara Green-Hamann
Not Quite "Every Bit the Fantasy": Sex and Consequences on Teen Television, Christina G. LeBlanc
Framing a Killing: The Stuart Murder Hoax, the Boston News Media, and the Politics of Modern Racism, Brian Lepine
Is This England? Exploring National Identity in This Is England (2007), Anastasia Bernadette Lima
Search for the Other: National Geographic's Search of the Afghan Girl as Neocolonial Discourse, Shane Perry
Mightier than the Pen: A Combination Framing Analysis of the Mission Accomplished Speech Coverage in Five Major Dailies, Joshua Gerry Sammer
Have Some Self Respect!: A Critical Analysis of 30 Rock's Neoliberal Discourse, Eleanor Joyce Seitz
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Culinary Tourism with Anthony Bourdain: Cultural Colonialism, Masculinity and the Exotic "Other", Amy L. Fagan-Cannon
Performative Writing in Performance Studies: Filling in Missing Spaces, Margaret A. Haberman
Environmental Values and Conflict: The Decision-Making Process and Environmental Communication for a Town-Owned Ski Area in the Northeast, Peter Ingraham Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Communication Experience of Relationship Dissolution: A Grounded Theory Approach, Sandra M. Fetterman
Following the Evangeline Trail: Acadian Identity Performance Across Borders, Adrienne Marie Pidacks
Discourse on Race and Racism: A Phenomenological Analysis of Responses to Black.White., Kristen M. Riley
A Growing Obsession: An Idealogical Critique of the War on Obesity & Big Medicine, Imke Schessler-Jandreau
Mapping U.S. Civic Engagement Discourse: A Geo-Critical Rhetorical Wandering, Scott Tulloch
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
A Tale of Two Women: The Journalistic Narrative of Nancy Reagan, Jennifer L. Babcock
Touching is Good: An Eidetic Phenomenology of Interface, Interobjectivity, and Interaction in Nintendo's "Animal Crossing: Wild World", Bryan G. Behrenshausen
Paradoxical Communication in Office Space, Nikole R. Bonenberger
Storytelling Home: A Zimbabwean Women's Performance, Jlynn J. Frazier
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Blues Story: Narratives of Cultural Identity, N. Eugene Baquet
No Longer an Island: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge, Jessica Brophy
"Tastes Like Home": Women Performing Immigrant Identity through Food, Sarah D. Crossman
A Rhetorical Criticism: Bill Clinton's A Man from Hope; Bringing Together Myth, Identification and Civic Engagement, Benjamin M. Erickson
Youth Culture and Identity: A Phenomenology of Hardcore, Brian J. Kochan
Communication in Women's Weblogs: Narrative, Connection, and Identity, Amy LeMoine
Electronic Access to Courtrooms: Television as an Educational Socializing Agent on the Judiciary, Jessica Ossinger
Submissions from 2005
Belonging, Bridges, and Bodies, Sheena Malhotra and Kimberlee Pérez
1-800-(Re)Colonize: A Feminist Postcolonial and Performance Analysis of Call Center Agents in India Performing U.S. Cultural Identity, Kimberlee Perez
Copyright Law Inadequacies in the Case of Digital Sampling: Adding Color to a Grey Area, Andre Sirois
Childhood Gender Nonconformity, Parent-Child Relationships, and the Development of Internalized Homophobia in Gay Men, Jeffrey A. Wickersham
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
MFK Fisher: Food and Feminist Identity, Diane F. Allen
Violence as (Masculinist) Epistemic Rhetoric: A Case for Memento, Robert Avery
"The Paths to be United:" A Postcolonial Critical Retorical Reading of Korean Reunification Rhetoric, Min Wha Han
Interrogating Discourses of Gun Culture in Bowling for Columbine, Michelle Hart
Television newsmagazines and the audience: a textual analysis and audience survey, Kendra Rudolph
We Feed Off Each Other: A Study of Bulemic Women's Personal Narratives as Performances of Identity From a Feminist Perspective, Julie-Ann Scott
A Communication Approach to Mimesis and Gender Performance: What Difference does Difference make in the NBA?, Eric T. Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Friendship Formation and Maintenance: Examining Friendship Patterns of Homosexual Men and Heterosexual Women in Close Relationships, Amanda G. Goodwin
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Foot on the Rope: Corporate Apologia and the Discourse of Vince McMahon, Bryce McNeil
The Value of Inaugurals: Analysis of Construction, Joseph M. Valenzano III
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Being in Difference: A Phenomenology of the Migrant Condition, Zornitsa D. Keremidchieva