Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, and photo sharing and social networking sites, have made possible a more participatory Internet experience. Much of this technology is available for mobile phones, where it can be integrated with such device-specific features as sensors and…
"Media practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of neoliberal globa…
This thesis studies the proliferation of conspiracy theories, specifically QAnon, to determine how the media environment, including various media channels, audiences, and messages, played a factor in the group’s growth. QAnon grew from a relatively obscure branch of the alt-righ…
Amidst urbanization, immigration, industrialization, and rising crime in the United States in the 1830s–1840s, the modern conceptions of both the press and police were born. From early historical antecedents in the American colonies through the present, the news media and law en…