• No Place for a Girl? Women as Sports Reporters from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties 

  Siqueira Paranhos Velloso, Carolina (2019)

  This thesis examines some of the first women to write about sports for print media from 1870 to 1920. It also explains the social, economic and cultural circumstances from which early women sports journalists emerged. The ...

• Understanding Sticky News: Analyzing the Effect of Content Appeal and Social Engagement for Sharing Political News Online 

  Xu, Boya (2018)

  This dissertation investigates the concept of news stickiness and why certain news stories are shared more than others in an online environment. Building on theories of framing, uses and gratifications, and social psychology, ...

• What Could Have Been: The Mediated Life and Afterlife of Len Bias 

  Hudson, Justin (2018)

  This dissertation considers the role of sports journalists, politicians, activists, and other mythmakers in constructing the posthumous legacy of Len Bias, a black college basketball star who died of a cocaine overdose two ...

• Early and often: Can real-time intervention by trusted authorities help stop a tsunami of disinformation? 

  Zeitvogel, Karin (2018)

  A tsunami of disinformation is washing over the world, with social media helping it to spread quickly and widely. The purveyors of disinformation use it to press their agenda by adding untruths where previously there were ...

• “A CONSTANT FIGHT WITH OUR MORALS:” EXAMINING UKRAINIAN JOURNALISTS’ NORMATIVE DEMOCRATIC BELIEFS AMID PLURALISM, PROPAGANDA, AND WAR 

  Nynka, Andrew (2018)

  This work addresses a central problem in contemporary democratic theory. John Rawls, the American political philosopher, defined the potential problem of division in plural, liberal democracy: “How is it possible that there ...

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