Completed Dissertations, 2007

  • Dino Cardone ~ Programming the Apocalypse:  Recombinant Narrative in Cyberspace
  • Arul Chib ~ Network Influences in Health Initiatives:  Multimedia Games for Youth in Peru
  • Peter Chow-White ~ The Informationalization of Race:  Communication Technologies and Genomics in the Information Age
  • Carlos Godoy ~ Using Virtual Environments to Unobtrusively Measure Risk-Taking: Findings and Implications for Health Communication Interventions
  • Jeffrey A. Hall ~ Communication and Social Support of Parents of Children Treated at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
  • Craig Hayden ~ The Vulcan Rhetoric of Crisis:  Presidential Advisors and the War in Iraq
  • Seung-A Jin~ Effects of a Computer Game Designed for Stress Management Education
  • Younbo Jung ~ Role Enactment in Interactive Media: A Role-Play Perspective
  • Vikki Katz: ~ From Conversation to Conversion: Children's Efforts to Translate Their Immigrant Families' Social Networks into Community Connections
  • Ganna Kostygina ~ Mitigating Chernobyl's Lingering Threat:  What Messages Might Motivate Ukraine's Radiation-Exposed Youth to Seek Cancer Screening Tests
  • Ying Li ~ Digital Storytelling as Participatory Media Practice for Empowerment:  The Case of the Chinese Imigrants in the San Gabriel Valley
  • Namkee Park ~ User Acceptance of Computer-Based VoIP Phone Service: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model
  • Jordan Raphael ~ Four-Color Marvels:  Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and the Development of Comic-Book Fandom
  • Aram Sinnreich ~ Configurable Culture:  Mainstreaming the Remix, Remixing the Mainstream
  • Lu Tang ~ Interorganizational Knowledge Networks:  The Case of the Biotechnology Industry
  • Liuning Zhou ~ Technical Base, Interests, and Power in the Two-Level Game of International Telecom Standards Setting:  The Political Economy of China's Initiatives