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These digital collections include theses, dissertations, and faculty publications from the Department of Communication Studies. Due to departmental name changes, materials from the following historical departments are also included here: Speech and Theatre Arts; Speech Communication.

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Browsing Department of Communication Studies by Author "Anderson, Karrin Vasby, committee member"

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    A woman's place is in the (digital) resistance: politics and power in online communitie
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2019) Phipps, E. Brooke, author; Prasch, Allison, advisor; Anderson, Karrin Vasby, committee member; Martey, Rosa, committee member
    The 2017 Women's March on Washington marked a significant moment in contemporary U.S. political history as hundreds of thousands of women gathered on the National Mall in an expression of embodied dissent. Key women's movement groups, Pantsuit Nation and the Pussyhat Project, operated as powerful collectives in the time leading up to the 2016 presidential election and the subsequent 2017 Women's March. Their transition from sites of rhetorical secrecy to embracing the strategic publicity of the 2017 Women's March illuminates how ego-function, reversed symbolism, and consciousness raising impact social movements in our digital age. To understand how social movement groups navigate rhetorical secrecy and strategic publicity, this thesis explores how the ego-functional responses of Pantsuit Nation and the Pussyhat Project led to the deployment of specific rhetorical tactics to cultivate collective identities. I argue that the transitionary process from rhetorical secrecy to rhetorical publicity allows collectives to legitimate and orient themselves as key political actors. This thesis also calls scholars to mindfully attend to the ramifications digital technologies have on our understandings of rhetorical strategies and structures, particularly as they pertain to contemporary social movements.
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    From parks to presidents: political sensibilities of narrative political fiction
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2016) Willden, Seth J., author; Marx, Nick, advisor; Anderson, Karrin Vasby, committee member; Cloud, Doug, committee member
    This thesis examines the ways televised narrative political fiction can portray political sensibilities. Using the NBC program, Parks and Recreation (2009-2015), and the Netflix streaming service program, House of Cards (2013-2016), I explore how narrative television presents political philosophies to audiences, equipping them to discuss political discourse.
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    Unmasking the expert deceiver: grounded theory analysis of long-term, high-stakes deception expertise development
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2010) Bertrand, Heather, author; Merolla, Andrew, advisor; Unnithan, N. Prabha, 1952-, committee member; Anderson, Karrin Vasby, committee member
    The current study attempted to garner knowledge about expert deceivers by analyzing personal accounts of their deceptive behaviors. The goal was to understand the methods these individuals employed to become master deceivers. A selection of 12 autobiographical texts describing the exploits of three types of expert deceivers (i.e., confidence artists, espionage agents, and undercover law enforcement agents) were analyzed using a categorizational system derived from previous grounded theory research. The results from the analysis led to the development of the deception skill model, which illustrates the complex relationship of processes that occur during the development and utilization of deception expertise. Knowledge gained from this study adds to the existent body of deception research along with, potentially, adding a new avenue of deception research and practical applications for deception detectors.