Since the mid-2000's, involvement in social media spaces has seemingly become a requirement in the e-learning area. Initially sparked by exponential growth among teens of high school and college age, regularly visiting websites including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Gestalt is…
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This thesis focuses on the visual communication of aspects of the human intellectual capital of firms through a comparative study between UK and Chinese firms (from both mainland China and Hong Kong). It makes use of a theoretical framework of impression management and Barthesia…
This dissertation is a multi-site, social semiotic study of the relationship between visual discourse and the production of transnational identities. The research context is contemporary Europe and efforts to re-imagine a transnational European identity in the face of European i…
Camera Creatures addresses the new media landscape in which cameras, in most situations, outnumber pens. The dissertation argues that despite the accessibility and power of imagemaking devices, there persists in the humanities and social sciences a hesitation to engage the possi…
The purpose of this study was to examine how Al Jazeera channels; Al Jazeera English channel and Al Jazeera Arabic Channel framed the war on Gaza from December 27, 2008 to January 18, 2009. A total of 220 news stories were analyzed, with 110 stories from each channel. The study …
From Bush's September 20, 2001 “War on Terror” speech to Congress to President-Elect Barack Obama's acceptance speech on November 4, 2008, the U.S. Army produced visual recruitment material that addressed the concerns of falling enlistment numbers—due to the prolonged and diffic…
The Anthropocene is our current epoch in which the Earth’s environment and residents are heavily impacted by human influence. While many people recognize the possible future effects of Anthropogenic change, such as rising temperatures, biodiversity loss, increased levels of atmo…
The work presented in this paper investigates the presumption that objects relating to humans are part of a more significant philosophical discussion. Using the philosophical framework of Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) as the theoretical foundation, the thesis ex…