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Social CEOs: Twitter as a Constitutive Form of Communication
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Tweeting CEOs present an enigmatic space of personal and professional media use, which can be understood simultaneously as an extension and a blurring of the traditional organization. While there does exist ample literature ...
How Long is Too Long?: How the Length of Presidential Campaigns in the United States Negatively Affects Voter Engagement
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Presidential campaigns in the United States have become exponentially longer in the past several decades. We have also seen a great decrease in political engagement, which in turn is weakening our democratic system. I argue ...
Fractured Consent: Public Participation in Environmental Complexity
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The 21st century marks an era of both progress and uncertainty. As our energy needs become greater, many people are concerned that development affects the environment in significantly negative ways. With an increasing ...
Hindering Speech and Halting Progress: Sacrificing Freedoms for National Control in China and Turkey
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Speech exists as a weapon in our increasingly networked world today. Every day there is a new case where a dissident spoke out against a repressive regime and disappeared; an Olympic athlete `Tweeted' a racial slur and ...
Rethinking Permissions in Android Apps
(Georgetown University, 2013)
As mobile devices have become a part of everyday life issues of privacy have become increasingly important to consumers, governments, and companies. Each company that provides mobile devices and platforms (e.g. Apple, ...
Friend and Coworker: The Role of Interdependent Instrumental and Expressive Relationships among K-12 Educators in Cultivating an Innovative Environment
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The state of the education system in 2013 is one of transition. Multiple influences call for change and innovation due to a belief that the system at large is not meeting student needs. The end result is that teachers ...
The YouTube-Born Terrorist: Far-right and Far-left Radicals' Experience of the Filter Bubble
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Personalization permeates the World Wide Web today and search engine-, social networking-, and social media websites--like Google, Facebook, and YouTube--use algorithms to tailor search results and content to web users' ...
Gender and Generational Barriers and Technological Inducements to Communication of Public Sexual Harassment (PSH) Experiences
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This study seeks to better understand how recipients of public sexual harassment (PSH) communicate about their experiences. By combining research on public sexual harassment (PSH), microaggression theory, sexual objectification, ...
Analyzing Student Engagement and Retention in Georgetown's First MOOC: Globalization's Winners and Losers: Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have opened new doors for students around the world to access higher education courses. However, the opportunities that come MOOCs also come with its own set of challenges: student ...
Isolation, Ideology, & Fungibility: Tracing Convergence in the 2012 Republican Primary
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Elections are nonlinear and consist of a series of people, companies, organizations, and money that constantly interact with and adapt to one another as circumstances change and coevolve. The political network in the 2012 ...