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Comm-Entary, Spring 2019 - Full Issue
Comm-Entary, Spring 2019 - Full Issue
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In this issue:
We Are the Crystal Gems: Themes of Identity in Steven Universe by Hannah Baum
A Media Analysis of ‘Nikes’ by Frank Ocean by Emily Bourne
Street Art: A Crime or a Movement by Taylor Chieffalo
Sorry (Not Sorry): Who Carries the Weight of Digital Public Shaming? by Eva Ford
Directed Versus Reflective Gestures by Jordan Kafka
How a Generation is Changing a Century-Long Stigma by Kristiana Osbourne
David Koresh: Irreverently Divine by Kieran Reardon
It’s Like, A Highlighter: A focus on responses to the ‘Focalizer Like’ by Matthew Santangelo
#Aerie Man: An Analysis by Grace Smith
Living …
The Anti-Internet Crusade: A Rhetorical Analysis, Kelsey Flannery
The Anti-Internet Crusade: A Rhetorical Analysis, Kelsey Flannery
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Honors Research Project.
Advised by Michelle Gibbons.
The purpose of this analysis is to understand the successful uses of rhetorical strategies in “tech backlash” discourse, taking Tristan Harris’s TEDTalk “How a Handful of Tech Companies Control Billions of Minds Every Day” and the website Center For Humane Technology as examples. Harris is one of the few speaking out on the necessity for a “tech backlash.” The tech back lash is a term created to explain the current reaction to increased technology use and internet dependence. I will introduce research completed on the creation of the digital society over the last …
Media In Crisis: Journalistic Norms In Natural Disaster Coverage, Lindsey Hall
Media In Crisis: Journalistic Norms In Natural Disaster Coverage, Lindsey Hall
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An honors thesis.
Advised by: Dr. Kate Zambon
Nearing the end of 2017, the United States and the Caribbean were struck with back-to- back natural disasters that left the country in shock and turmoil. Among the three hurricanes that struck sequentially, Hurricane Harvey landed in Texas approximately on August 25th, 2017 and Hurricane Maria hit the Caribbean and Puerto Rico around September 20th, 2017. These disasters were a test for the new presidential cabinet of how they would handle their first natural disaster. Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Harvey caused similar levels of destruction, with Maria being a category five storm …