This thesis acts as a companion to my capstone film, 817 (2020), a personal documentary about my final years as an undergraduate student as experienced with my college cohort. My film exploits the filmmaker-subject relationship and the intrusive act of filming as a means of presenting personal circumstances situated within...
They Rage: A Documentation of Release and Resistance is a photo and interview series that documents women(+)’s process of relating to anger in a controlled environment. This piece aims to challenge the societal notion that women(+)’s anger should not be seen in the public sphere. Viewers are forced to acknowledge the...
The current anxieties and insecurities of identity felt by many in the wake of globalization exhibits a need for a shift in the way we see ourselves and the Other. In order to demonstrate one example of this shift, I will analyze a growing hip-hop scene heavily influenced by the...
The purpose of this study was to understand communicative issues of trust between residents of wildland-urban interfaces and land managers, and how residents make sense of fuel treatments. Residents are often surprised by the large scale of fuel treatment activities, which can lead to opposition. This study explores the problem...
Five years after the 2011 Arab Uprisings swept through the Middle East and North Africa, popular protests similarly took hold of the marginalized Rif region of northeastern Morocco. The 2016-17 Hirak movement demanded better treatment and less abuse from the authoritarian state, but they were met with an iron fist...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the nascent collegiate esports industry and the communities that have formed along with it. Specifically, the thesis aims to answer the questions of what the skills one can acquire through esports are, what is the nature of such communities, and how notions...
This study proposed and tested a model of transparent communication effectiveness on luxury brands. The term, luxury brand, can be defined into two categories: enduring and ephemeral. This study analyzes one brand, Hermès, and places the brand into the two categories as well as implementing strategies of transparency. Testing if...
The year of 2017 brought challenges to London in the form of the four terror attacks that occurred throughout the year, negatively affecting London’s image and industries while creating a precarious environment for crisis management. The purpose of this project was to closely examine the effects of terrorism on London’s...
In this paper, the researchers examine the influence of environmental brand activism as green advertising on U.S. millennials’ green purchasing and recycling behavior intentions. The influences of gender, environmental knowledge, advertisement attitude and brand attitude are also analyzed. Researchers conducted an experiment through an online survey and randomly exposed each...
Fake news is an increasingly significant problem in American society today. However, little scholarly research has been done to understand what affects a person’s ability to identify fake news. This study aimed to explore factors of political socialization that are related to young adults’ ability to identify fake news and...