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Black Lives Matter and Black Power
Title
Black Lives Matter and Black Power
Author
Fraser, Daviana
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...
Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
Title
Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
Author
Culletto, Gordon
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Communication, Political science, Rhetoric
Description
President Barack Obama described December 14, 2012 saying, "it continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency." That morning, a gunman stormed through the doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and began opening fire on childr...
Reality Collapses, "Real or Not Real?": The Theoretical Consequences of Compromised Authenticity in Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay
Title
Reality Collapses, "Real or Not Real?": The Theoretical Consequences of Compromised Authenticity in Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay
Author
Pailthorpe, Brittany
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
Communication, Literature, Rhetoric
Description
This thesis proposes the theorization of the consequences of what I deem compromised authenticity, in this hyper-mediated age. Drawing from the work of scholars concerned with the growing anxiety over the tension between the authentic and the inau...
Visualizing #BostonStrong: Commemorative Implications for a Rhetorical Epithet of Civic Identity
Title
Visualizing #BostonStrong: Commemorative Implications for a Rhetorical Epithet of Civic Identity
Author
Crawford, Emily
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Communication, Rhetoric
Description
Following a tragic event such as a mass shooting, terrorist attack or natural disaster in the United States, it has become a ritual for audiences to establish particular hashtags pertaining to these events. Subsequent to the Boston Marathon bombin...
us - AM to DM and the Reimagining of Morning Television
Title
us - AM to DM and the Reimagining of Morning Television
Author
Melendez, Tanya
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Communication, Rhetoric
Description
In September of 2017, BuzzFeed News launched a morning television show that airs live on Twitter five days a week. AM to DM represents one of the first disruptions of a 60-year-old genre with an emphasis on audience participation, an editorialized...