Communication Studies
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/141075
2024-03-29T09:16:54ZIraqi women and U.S. occupation : decolonizing online resistance
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/214031
Iraqi women and U.S. occupation : decolonizing online resistance
Thompson, Brianna Jo
In March 2003, the United States military invaded Iraq and altered the history, geography, and culture of the country forever. To justify this invasion, the Bush administration framed Iraqi women as citizens needing to be ‘saved’ from their government and people. During times of war, women are left to care for their nation through upholding family values, culture, and economic prosperity. However, because women take on the significant role of upholding a nation during war, they also experience the most violence. This research locates how female Iraqi citizens experienced and resisted the colonizing powers of the U.S. while upholding the culture and nation. This work decentralizes oppressive western rhetoric by honoring female Iraqi experiences. Utilizing a critique of vernacular discourse, I locate Iraqi women’s ability to affirm their culture while simultaneously opposing Eurocentric power structures through online discourse.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZDoin it for the Gram : an exploration of black women comedians online vernacular
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/214008
Doin it for the Gram : an exploration of black women comedians online vernacular
Shaheed, Aliyah Khadijah
Comedian Mo’Nique’s use of Instagram to engage in a critical vernacular about the racist
and sexist discrimination that she encountered, spoke to the contemporary relationship that
Black women have to labor. As cultural critics, Black women comedians work often
accounts for the ways that the intersections of race, class, and gender shape their lived
experiences and their ability to participate in their livelihoods. While Mo’Nique spoke to
her experiences as a Black woman comedian and actor, I argue that the struggles she
articulated are a microcosm of the historical and ongoing relationship that Black women
have to labor. Her criticism of these realities are key to understanding the ways that Black
women comedians as cultural critics can engage in Black feminist practice through their
use of vernacular and how social media sites like Instagram function as an emerging
platform for these world making discourses to be expressed.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe new frontier of colonialism : exploring tourism rhetoric in the Philippines
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/213980
The new frontier of colonialism : exploring tourism rhetoric in the Philippines
Olive, Julie Anne
The Republic of the Philippines has a tumultuous history, wrought with nearly 400 years
of Spanish colonization, and in the early 20th century, U.S. imperialism and occupation.
Colonialism & imperialism leave cultural remnants behind long after foreign rule has
passed. In this thesis, I explore how the complex concept of national identity is
communicated in the advertisement campaign entitled “It is More Fun in the Philippines”
through use of critical rhetorical analysis, framed by postcolonial theory, tourism
discourse theories, and Orientalism. This research describes the complexity and nuance
of the Philippine’s postcolonial cultural location as they appear in the chosen artifact,
which has the power to influence the construction of national identity for Filipinos at
home and abroad. Future communication scholarship can benefit by considering these
constructions when unpacking Filipino identity and history.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZExploring resilience after trauma with Photovoice
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/213940
Exploring resilience after trauma with Photovoice
Lockyer, Sue
A crucial aspect of healing from trauma is the capacity to cope with, reintegrate and
bounce back from painful and disruptive life experiences. Resilience is the process by
which a person overcomes and flourishes after experiencing traumatic emotional and/or
physical pain. This study examines resilience in the lives o f survivors of human
trafficking taking a communicative approach, which acknowledges that resilience is an
unfolding process that is constituted and sustained through discourse. The methodology
employed is Photovoice, a participatory photography research approach that promotes
and makes available participants’ insights. Through analysis o f interviews with
trafficking survivors, the analysis identified two major themes o f how participants
understand resilience. The first, valuing relationships, describes how participants value
and positively orient to relationships with others and with themselves. The second
theme, strategies for engaging with reality, discusses how participants make sense o f and
engage with past traumatic memories and present realities. Results also suggest that
participants experienced enhanced self-awareness o f the role o f resilience in their lives by
participating in a Photovoice research project.
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z