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Malinda DietrichÌý

Dissertation: From Data to Desire: Negotiating Identity Through Algorithmically Curated Content

Advisor: Ted Striphas, PhD

Bernardita María Yunis

Dissertation:Palestinian Survivance in Chile: Represencing Reflections by a Diasporic Transnational Palestinian Feminist Daughter

Advisor: Peter Simonson, PhD

Roberto Azaretto

Dissertation: Technology, Mediation, Embodiment: A Posthumanist Approach to the Study of Landscape

Advisor: Teri Rueb, PhD

Kimberley Bianca Hettinger

Dissertation: Ecomedia Art: Emerging Platforms, Practices and Performances for DIY Citizenship

Advisor: Tara Knight, PhD

Toma Serban Peiu

Dissertation: Blissful Displacement: Migrant Imaginaries and Livelihoods from 21st Century Central Eurasia

Advisor: Reece Auguiste, PhD

Emma Catherine Piper-Burket

Dissertation: Another Country Heard From: Ecological (Film) Practices for Ages of Apocalypse, Distraction and Accumulation

Advisor: Erin Espelie, PhD

Paulus Emil Horvath van Horne

Dissertation: Unnatural: Gender and Non-Representational Computer Voice Design

Advisor: Betsey Biggs, PhD

Noah Quinn Cowit

Dissertation:Empirical Constructivist Investigations Into the Social-Cognitive Impacts of Modality, Teacher Behavior and Prior Knowledge on the Tertiary Computer Science Learning Environment

Advisor: Lecia Barker, PhD

Samantha Thuy Linh Dalal

Dissertation:GoingBeyond the Gig: An Ecological Approach to Studying and Intervening in the Gig Economy

Advisor: Brian Keegan, PhD

Dipto Das

Dissertation: Identity Decolonization Amid the Coloniality of Computing

Advisor: Bryan Semaan, PhD

Dylan Doyle-Burke

Dissertation: But Where Do We Begin? Guiding Improved Design for End-of-Life Data Planning Approaches

Advisor: Jed Brubaker, PhD

Ellen Simpson

Dissertation: Investigating Creative Labor: Sociotechnical Examinations of Creativity and Creative Labor in a Multi-Mediated, Platformed World

Advisor: Bryan Seeman, PhD

Jessie Josephine Smith

Dissertation: Measuring the Immeasurable: Perspectives on Best Practices When Operationalizing Machine Learning Fairness for Recommender Systems

Advisor: Casey Fiesler, PhD

Pritha Agarwal

Dissertation: Tailoring Ads to Personalities: Examining the Effectiveness of Personality-Based Personalization

Advisor: Harsha Gangadharbatla, PhD

Ashley Whitney Carter

Dissertation:Off the Sidelines, Into the News: Queer Identity and the Emotional Labor of LGBTQ+ Advocacy in Sports Journalism

Advisor: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD

Jane Lauren Caulfield

Dissertation: Talking About Death Won’t Kill You: The Biocommunicability of Death and Dying in Canada

Advisor: Erin Willis, PhD

Cassandra D. Dana

Dissertation: Radical True Crime and the Formation of Entertainment as Resistance

Advisor: Michela Ardizzoni, PhD

Rania Al NamaraÌý Ìý

Dissertation: (Dis-) ConnectingBoundaries: Journalists’ and NGOs’ Humanitarian Newsmaking in the Digital Age

Advisor: Hun Shik Kim, PhD

Katherine Elizabeth Friedel

Dissertation: Love in the Time of Algorithms: A Social Cognitive Approach to Dating Apps, Brand Trust, and User Well-BeingÌý

Advisor: Erin Willis, PhD

Mark Heisten

Dissertation: The Moral Qualities of Decision-Making in Brand Activism Campaigns and Sociopolitical Messages by Advertisingand
Marketing Executives

Advisor: Erin Schauster, PhD

Emily Anne King Kinsey

Dissertation: Mediated Public Diplomacy for Renewable Energy: Dynamics of Message Sharing and Agenda Building in Competitive Diplomatic Relationships

Advisor: Jolene Fisher, PhD

Débora Corrêa Martini-Stolzle

Dissertation: Displacing Pornography: Porn Studies, Addiction and Digital Habits in Brazil

Advisor: Colette Perold, PhD

Kayli A. Plotner

Dissertation: The Non-Newsroom: An Ethnographic Case Study of Organizational Culture Inside a Digitally Native Nonprofit News Outlet

Advisor: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD

Nicola Jana Redl

Dissertation: The Fourth Wall: Strategic Transparency to Communicate the Value of Investigative Journalism

Advisor: Michael McDevitt, PhD

Luz Aida Ruiz Martinez

Dissertation: The Decolonial Soundings of Ñuu Savi, Maya, and Lenca Women’s Community Radio: Indigenous Feminist Interventions and Media Autonomy in Mesoamerica

Advisor: Nabil Echchaibi, PhD

Andrew Peter Sturt

Dissertation: The Boundaries of Sports Journalism

Advisor: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD

Anna Colleen Turner

Dissertation: Politically Polarizing Media in the United States

Advisor: Stewart M. Hoover, PhD