This research explored whether or not music videos remained an effective marketing tool for the music industry after the diffusion of the Internet in American culture. As a result of the transitions in media through which music...
Online forums for women using in vitro fertilization (IVF), or similar assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), provide a useful setting to further evaluate and understand women's expectations of motherhood, the relationship...
This project extends previous research on social media and self-image and focuses on the developmental phase of emerging adulthood. We measured individuals' reports of feeling of being in the emerging adult developmental period...
The use of interactive features in websites has become common place on the internet. People use these tools to help navigate and understand the content related to that website. However, due the large variety of websites it can...
Cyberbullying is a type of bullying that uses technology such as cell phones to harass or malign another person. To detect acts of cyberbullying, we are developing an algorithm that will detect cyberbullying in SMS (text)...
People often cite life experiences as evidence in political arguments, though personal experience is far from generalizable. How do these arguments work? In this paper, I consider the rhetorical dynamics of "autobiographical...
Since the inception of the Internet, much of our society's communication has become paperless and instantaneous. The speed at which information can be disseminated has not only changed the way in which we communicate with each...
LGBTQ adolescents, like all youth, face challenges: the push for high academic marks, the desire for positive relationships, and the right to be themselves in a safe environment. Unfortunately, LGBTQ youths are far more likely...
The rise in the use of social media and particularly the rise of adolescent use has led to a new means of bullying. Cyber-bullying has proven consequential to youth internet users causing a need for a response. In order to...
Digital information is omnipresent, and access is almost unavoidable. Technology advances and comes at us in waves that take over and then tend to linger. iGen is the first generation to be born into this advanced technology and...
Social media, mobile technology, and other innovations now expose the religious identity of communities and individuals to a global audience. While these innovations do not replace face to face interaction within religious...
Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, many children's programs were about fame and featured female protagonists while being written and produced by men. Despite being written by men, these shows clearly interpellate a young...
The alt-right was once seen an obscure subculture festering on sites like Reddit and 4chan. They were written off as a bunch of trolls and racists too scared to organize, and media outlets saw them as a fringe movement with...
The use of social media has shaped the landscape of how voters use and intake media. Social media services like Twitter give political platforms to issues that are traditionally ignored by mainstream televised media. Social...