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Journalism & Digital Communication, 2017-2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2017-2018 for the Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism and Digital Communication.

Graphic Design, 2017-2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2017-2018 for Graphic Design.

From Portraits To Selfies: Family Photo-Making Rituals, Krystal M. Bresnahan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

From family-style portraits to selfies, who is photographer and/or photographed varies as families engage, stage, and interpret the visual. How families participate in photo-making changes how individual family members feel about and relate to not only their photographs, but also each other. In this dissertation, I examine photographs as visual and material objects, and include the communication processes and ritual practices of producing, consuming, curating, viewing, and circulating these photos. By framing family photo-making as ritual, I explore how families do photo-making in everyday life, and identify the patterns of choice embedded in the genre of family photography, which symbolically …

Instattack: Instagram And Visual Ad Hominem Political Arguments, Sophia Evangeline Gourgiotis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this project is to examine the visual political ad hominem arguments used on Instagram during the 2016 presidential campaign. Using Walton’s (2007) five subtypes of ad hominem arguments, this study analyzes the “attack ads” posted on Instagram from five of the 2016 presidential candidates into each subtype. This project seeks to understand how ad hominem arguments within political rhetoric function when they are visual. This study uses Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) theory of modality and Rose’s (2012) compositional interpretation to analyze compositional structure of the image and parallels this analysis with ad hominem subtypes.

Findings reveal …

Poster Madness, Jennifer Collins

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Drop, Cover, And Hold On: Analyzing Fema's Risk Communication Through Visual Rhetoric, Samantha Jo Cosgrove

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This project seeks to understand the relationship between visual rhetoric and power structure between FEMA’s Earthquake publications and their audience. Research shows images leave a longer impression on readers than text, causing more studies to focus on visuals rather than just text in technical communication. Author uses Critical Discourse Analysis to analyze the images in relation to text, design, and intended audience to determine what information is being privileged. It is determined that homeowners are being privileged with information over non-homeowners, established through a collection of images and image types. The lack of information for non-homeowners could result in injury …

A New Materialist Approach To Visual Rhetoric In Photoshopbattles, Jonathan Paul Ray

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this project is to examine the visual rhetoric of one online community. Drawing heavily from the work of Laurie Gries (2015), I track the evolution of an image as it circulates through a forum of photo manipulators in the group “PhotoShopBattles.” While Gries’ work traced the evolution of the iconic Obama Hope poster and its iterations in various media, this project restricts its observations to the images posted to one webpage, focusing on one evolutionary chain. By narrowing the focus to one internet forum page that evolved over the course of one week, we can observe linear …

Subtext Of Decisions: Literacy Practices In The Context Of Coding, Julia Hagge

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation I present findings from a qualitative case study of five early adolescents engaged in an online programming community. As a researcher, I was interested in how early adolescents designed digital media as they learned how to code within an online programming community known as Scratch. My research was guided by two questions: (1) What are the literacy practices and processes embedded in the design and collaboration of products created within an online programming community? (2) In what ways do participants make decisions in the design of their projects created in Scratch? The data collected for …

Application Of Spatial And Descriptive Analysis Methods To Determine Relationship Between Hardware Subsidies And The Sanitation Marketplace, Danielle Devuyst

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Sanitation marketing is an emerging approach of strengthening the local private sector to implement scalable and sustainable improved sanitation coverage in developing countries, specifically among the poor. It encourages the enhancement of sanitation market supply and demand by developing distribution infrastructure and stimulating consumer interest. Unlike interventions that provide hardware subsidies to initiate sanitation demand, financial support for sanitation marketing is used exclusively for the research and development of the market; this encourages the private sector to become independent and self-sufficient. Qualitative data suggests that while sanitation marketing projects have been successful at implementing replicable and sustainable sanitation coverage, they …

Songbird Distress Calls As An Improved Method For Detecting Red-Shouldered Hawks (Buteo Lineatus), Jessica L. Burnett, Kathryn E. Sieving

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

English, 2016-2017, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2016-2017 for the Bachelor's of Arts in English.

Journalism & Digital Communication, 2016-2017, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2016-2017 for the Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism and Digital Communication.

Graphic Design, 2016-2017, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2016-2017 for Graphic Design.

Undergraduate Catalog, 2016-2017, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Exploratory Study Of Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Distance Clinical Supervision, Brittani Fiore Munchel

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Many forms of distance clinical supervision (DCS) have been used in the last decade, but a sparse amount of research addressing (DCS) in counselor education exists to date. The author used random and snowball sampling to survey American Counseling Association members, with a analytic sample total of 96 participants. In the sample, 54.2% of participants were licensed counseling professionals and 39.6% were student or post-masters level interns. The average participant age was 43, ranging from 23 to 74 years. Participants had a mean of 8.1 years of experience. A total of 37.5% of participants had used DCS at some point …

Digital Journalism And Design, Master's Of Arts, 2015-2016, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2015-2016 for the Master's of Arts in Digital Journalism and Design.

Graphic Design, 2015-2016, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2015-2016 for the Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Graphic Design.

Journalism And Media Studies, 2015-2016, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

The Academic Learning Compact for 2015-2016 for the Bachelor's of Arts in Journalism and Media Studies.

Undergraduate Catalog, 2015-2016, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, November 17, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 17, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm For Ordered And Unordered Sets, Ravikiran Krishnan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Designing generalized data-driven distance measures for both ordered and unordered set data is the core focus of the proposed work. An ordered set is a set where time-linear property is maintained when distance between pair of temporal segments. One application in the ordered set is the human gesture analysis from RGBD data. Human gestures are fast becoming the natural form of human computer interaction. This serves as a motivation to modeling, analyzing, and recognition of gestures. The large number of gesture categories such as sign language, traffic signals, everyday actions and also subtle cultural variations in gesture classes makes gesture …

Poster Presentation Skills Workshop, Johnny El-Rady

9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium and Celebration

No abstract provided.

Agenda, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, April 18, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda from the April 18, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Agenda, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, April 4, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda from the April 4, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Agenda, General Education Day, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, March 21, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda from the March 21, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Communication As Yoga, Kristen Caroline Blinne

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, I am in conversation with the following questions: How can individuals and communities teach and learn to engage more peacefully, nonviolently, and compassionately with each other? Further, how can one practice a style of communication that helps at least one person suffer less each day? In asking these questions, my goal has been to imagine as well as attempt to actualize a world where individuals and communities work together to create less suffering in each other's lives by first developing compassionate awareness of our interconnectedness, then "waking up" not only to our own divinity but also to …

Undergraduate Catalog, 2014-2015, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, December 15, 2013, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Regional Chancellor's Award for Civic Leadership - Honorable Rick Baker; Outstanding Graduate - Charles Matthew Hamm;

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, October 11, 2013, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda and minutes from the October 11, 2013, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Advisory Board To Help Shape First Food Writing And Photography Certificate Program, September 27, 2013, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

No abstract provided.