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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Fat-positive worldmaking in the body positive movement: queering, decolonizing, intersecting
This dissertation uses a queer rhetorical approach augmented by a critical/cultural sensibility and autoethnographic performance to examine how body positive activists, influencers, and public figures carve out moments for ... -
Hong Kong's Umbrella and Hard Hat revolutions: toward a theory of the ideology of protest strategies
In this study, I analyzed Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Revolution and 2019 Hard Hat Revolution to answer two research questions: (1) What ideologies characterize the protest strategies of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution and ... -
Supernatural friendships: parasocial relationships and the provisions of social support
Parasocial relationships and social support both have independently rich literatures within the field of communication. However, until this study, parasocial relationship partners had not been considered as social support ... -
Race, sexual orientation, and childbirth: locating identity in the framework of social support
Social support is a growing field in Communication Studies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines have studied the influence of social support on health, but there is a need for more research which considers how identity ... -
Tensions in service-oriented temporary organizations: the emergence and management of tensions in student organizing
Previous communication scholarship has focused on tension as a component of everyday organizing. However, minimal research has explored it in tandem with temporary organizing and servant leadership. This case study explores ... -
Wonder women in the virtual world: how female Shepard redefined the female hero archetype in video games
AAA video game protagonists typically represent the white, heterosexual male. While standards are changing, there remains a considerable discrepancy between the number of male and female protagonists available. This study ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ...
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