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What historical factors explain an American society that wants both SUVs and clean air, that seeks low fuel prices and high environmental quality? Answering this question means examining the national environmental politics of transportation that emerged and evolved in the United…

Biometrics is constantly evolving technology which has been widely used in many official and commercial identification applications. In fact in recent years biometric-based authentication techniques received more attention due to increased concerns in security. Most biometric sy…

This thesis explores the use of avatars with facial expressions in social media and e-journalism communication interfaces. This thesis involved three experimental conditions. In the first experimental condition a survey (n=34) and an experiment (n=25) were carried out in order t…

In the past few years, e-government has been a topic of much interest among those excited about the advent of Web technologies. Due to the growing demand for effective communication to facilitate real-time interaction between users and e-government applications, many governments…

Graphic novels have long been associated with the crime fighting superheroes who are closely followed by their fans in the solace of their homes or comic bookstores; however, these texts have much potential to grab the attention of students within classroom settings. A graphic n…

This poststructural feminist study troubled historical feminist erasure and non-linear history in language and human perceptions to frame the analysis of fourth wave feminism through the lens of Generation Z self-identified feminists. Generation Z, our most diverse generation ye…

Rhetoric developed in the West by centralizing verbal/visual modalities. Other sensory modalities, like smell, were de-emphasized. This dissertation, in a series of essays, theorizes the rhetorical potential and detriment of smell as a non-verbal factor in persuasion by explorin…