Department of Communication Studies
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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Engaging text-based co-cultural dialogue (Module Y materials) - OER project materials
This is a 3-week module of 6 class periods in which students will be divided into small groups and actively use the theories and knowledge gained during the Core Module to discuss personal standpoints and engage intersectional ... -
Co-cultural communication syllabus and schedule - OER project materials
This published collected of materials is designed for the "Co-Cultural Communication" course at Colorado State University, but it can be generatively used and/or adapted for any course related to diversity and difference ... -
Engaging face-to-face co-cultural dialogue (Module X materials) - OER project materials
This is a 3-week module of 6 class periods in which students will be divided into small groups and actively use the theories and knowledge gained during the Core Module to discuss current events and cases involving ... -
Power of the player: embodied social activism of professional athletes, The
Designed to contribute to conversations about the political nature of sports, this thesis proposes a new type of rhetorical activism that is utilized by professional athletes. The figure of the athlete activist has a long ... -
Mobility in the Bakken: rhetorical place-making in contested Native and white rural space
This thesis engages the intricacies of oil extraction in and around the Bakken region through confronting rhetorical modes by which settler colonialism is practiced and resisted in a modern context. Today, oil boomtowns ... -
Made you laugh: the interpretation of interactive laughter within friendships
Although past scholars have studied laughter as a form of communication, prior research is scarce on how laughter is perceived by interactants. This mixed methods study deepens scholarly understandings of laughter as both ... -
Online spaces: technological, institutional, and social practices that foster connections through Instagram and Twitch
We are living in an increasingly digital world. In the past, critical scholars have focused on the inequality of access and unequal relationships between the elite, who controlled the media, and the masses, whose limited ... -
"France deserves to be free": constituting Frenchness in Marine Le Pen's National Front/National Rally
This thesis employs constitutive rhetoric to analyze French far-right politician Marine Le Pen's discourse. Focusing on ten of Le Pen's speeches given between 2015 and 2019, I argue that Le Pen made use of Kenneth Burke's ... -
Tumblr Porn Ban: the platform triad and the shaping of online spaces, The
This thesis considers social media platforms and the fluid nature of online spaces. Specifically, I examine the social network site (SNS) Tumblr and the controversy that surrounded its recently amended community guidelines ... -
SPCM 334 introduction to co-cultural communication - OER project materials
This is a set of materials collected for the OER project funded by the Colorado OER Council Grant (AY 2019-20). The following materials are included in this report for SPCM 334 Introduction to Co-Cultural Communication. ... -
"POTS equals uncertainty": exploring uncertainty and privacy management of people with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) is a rare, incurable, and invisible disability. POTS is an understudied illness in the medical field and even more so in academia. The importance of studying the experiences ... -
Remembering capitalism: A. Philip Randolph, Eugene V. Debs, and the town of Pullman
Through an analysis of the Pullman National Monument, and President Obama's speech commemorating the town, this thesis demonstrates how the memory of the labor movement within Pullman is framed through a progressive narrative ... -
Barstool consequences: college students' risk perceptions when interacting with Barstool Sports' modeling of the college experience through Instagram
This study focuses on how college students engage with the various Instagram accounts run by Barstool Sports (e.g., @chicks, @barstoolsports, @5thyear, and college-affiliated Barstool Instagrams) and how engagement influences ... -
Art of love: using arts engagement as a promoter of relational maintenance in couples with dementia, The
Previous communication scholarship has thoroughly examined the use of relational maintenance behaviors as outlined by Canary and Stafford (2003) on various types of relationships. These relational maintenance behaviors ... -
"We will be the last mass shooting": Emma González's tactical subjectivity through differential consciousness, affect, and silence
The purpose of this thesis is to uncover the rhetorical strategies employed by Emma González throughout her "We call BS!" speech (i.e., February 17, 2018) and her "March for Our Lives" speech (i.e., March 24, 2018). Chela ... -
Woman's place is in the (digital) resistance: politics and power in online communities, A
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 ... -
Stunting death: affect, attraction and authenticity in Rated-R superhero cinema
Stunt work is an ever-present and typically overlooked aspect of film production. The labor goes unseen by design; traditionally, Hollywood studio hierarchies regarded a good stunt performer as one who altogether eluded ... -
Anxieties and artificial women: disassembling the pop culture gynoid
This thesis analyzes the cultural meanings of the feminine-presenting robot, or gynoid, in three popular sci-fi texts: The Stepford Wives (1975), Ex Machina (2013), and Westworld (2017). Centralizing a critical feminist ... -
Dangerous message: the material effects of Enough, A
Domestic violence is a cultural epidemic in U.S. society. How we define, perceive, and treat domestic violence is a product of the material rhetorics about it. Since film is a prominent mode of rhetorical discourse, I ...
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