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Theses/Dissertations from 2025 2025

CYBERSECURITY TRAINING AS RISK COMMUNICATION: A THEORY-INFORMED MODEL OF EMPLOYEE LEARNING AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE, Daniel Chaney

Optimizing health knowledge acquisition: an experimental study of naloxone messaging, memory, and knowledge improvement, Huaiyu Chen

Design a Message & Activate a Network: Integrating Network Cognition, Multiple Goals, and Diabetes Management, Maxwell Groznik

Going Inside a Church Staff Group: A Qualitative Case Analysis of Team Characteristics, Decision-Making, and Identity, Hillary Rose Hamilton

Examining Physicians' Opioid-Related Risk Communication, Eleanor C. Hudd

Player 2 Has Entered the Culture War: Discourse, Ideology, and Narrative in GamerGate 2.0, Ashley C. McCann

Addressing the "Hidden Crisis" in Doctoral Education: Identifying the (De)Motivating Effects of Memorable Messages from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective, Alexis A. Murphy

AI IN NEWSROOMS: ASSESSING PERCEPTION, CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES IN BANGLADESH’S MEDIA LANDSCAPE, Nadia Rahman

BLACK LOVE, MEDIA PORTRAYALS, AND SOCIAL IDENTITY, Nigel M. Taylor

“WE JUST WANNA READ THE SCROLLS!” COLLABORATION AND COMPETITION IN THE VESUVIUS CHALLENGE— A STUDY OF VESUVIUS CHALLENGE DISCORD CHATS, Christy Yarbrough Chapman

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

The Effects of Controlling Language and Source Social Group Membership on Resistance to Persuasion, Zane A. Dayton

AN EXPLORATION OF AFFECTIVE INFLUENCES OF MEDIATION AND INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY STYLES IN THE U.S. ADULT MEDIA LITERACY LEARNING CONTEXT, Joe Huber

EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF RESTORATIVE NARRATIVES ON PROSOCIAL BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS: A SEM ANALYSIS, Mehroz Sajjad

BREAKING THE SILENCE: A MIXED METHODS STUDY ON OPIOID EDUCATION, OVERDOSE RISKS, AND TREATMENT EDUCATION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS, Anita Silwal

"Spreading Inoculation": The Effects of Direct and Indirect Inoculation and Postinoculation Talk (PIT) on Graduate Students' Sense of Belonging and Social Network Development During Socialization, Amanda Ruth Slone

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Identity and Perception Among Aspec Consumers of Mass Media, Jericho Franke

‘IT’S LIKE FLIPPING A SWITCH’: UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGES, EXPECTATIONS, AND IDENTITY OF HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLERS, Aubree Herman

AND THE SURVEY SAYS ... A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF STRUCTURATIONAL DIVERGENCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF NURSE MANAGERS WHO ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR PATIENT EXPERIENCE MEASURES, Lisa Carpenter Huddleston

Cold Calling in the Classroom: Exploring Student Perceptions of Instructor Communication using the Face Negotiation Theory, Cynthia Chinazo Nnagboro

Paper Gowns, Cold Hands, or Something Else? Black Women's Barriers to Gynecologic Screening, Nadia Ayesha Sesay

The Influence of Instructor Immediacy Beyond the Classroom: An Experimental Investigation of Relational Messages During Office Hours, Adam Tristan

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Is This Going to Be the End? Understanding Problematic Integration Among Appalachian Patients in Colorectal Cancer Screening Navigation, Audrey Smith Bachman

Assessing Dialogic Communication Elements in Online Emergency Communication, Lauren Bailey Cain

Authentically Advocating: Public Relations' Role in Social Issues Management, Gabrielle Leigh Dudgeon

TURNING THE TIDES: AN INOCULATION THEORY AND THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR APPROACH TO DEVELOPING MENTAL HEALTH HELP-SEEKING INTERVENTIONS FOR GEN Z, Sarah Ann Geegan