This project examines vernacular, soldier-produced and official, military-produced videos posted on YouTube during the War in Iraq. The purpose of this project is three fold: (a) to explore vernacular memorializing and argumentation on YouTube as an alternative to government and…
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Social media in the classroom is no longer a hot topic for many countries because most schools are taking advantage of the technologies. However, most of the Saudi students do not experience the use of social media in education. This study is intended to determine how Saudi fema…
This dissertation explores the role of social media in political activism in authoritarian societies, using as case studies the use of YouTube as an alternative channel of communication and resistance during the political crises in Pakistan, Tunisia, and Egypt. I studied Pakista…
The present study investigated Libyan preparatory school English teachers' attitudes to, willingness to use, and familiarity with YouTube as a potential teaching tool. The methodology followed a survey design of twenty-five Likert-scale questions and four mixed-type questions. F…
At a time when Aljazeera is figuring prominently in media debates because of its extensive coverage of the Arab Spring, along with cable company efforts to prevent it from broadcasting nationally, this is one of the first studies to look at how the American public reacts to news…
Cyberbullying, or online bullying, is a form of harassment that occurs through the use of digital communication devices and social networking platforms, and ultimately leads to physical or mental harm or distress to the intended target. While the widespread use of social media s…
The purpose of the following qualitative phenomenological study was to address how African American males describe their perceptions of police officers in light of viewing recordings displaying interactions between African Americans and the police on YouTube. The theoretical fra…
Mental health can be conceptualized as a complex, emergent phenomenon resulting from the interaction between biological, psychological, social, environmental, and other contextual factors. Traditionally, care providers assess one's mental health when an individual consults a med…
With YouTube, created in 2005, being at the forefront of social networking sites (SNSs) and Internet usage in 2021, the aim of this thesis is to understand and research the reasoning behind the evolution and progression of YouTube. This will focus on the elements that have aided…
Over the past few decades, scholars of fan studies have been engaged with questions of capital and consumerism in fandom— with writers such as Henry Jenkins and his canonical Textual Poachers investigating the ways in which fan-production can challenge or critique existing capit…
This dissertation study is a baseline investigation into Iraqi insurgents' use of YouTube as a strategic communication tool. The study utilized a content analysis of videos from October 28, 2008 to December 1, 2008 for the search term 'Iraqi resistance' on YouTube that met state…