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Sharing (Mis)information: A Social Network Analysis of Vaccine-related URLs on Twitter during COVID-19
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2022)
Collecting 4,435 tweets with the hashtag vaccine from December 11 to December 14, 2020, this study investigates the main web domains people share on Twitter when talking about the COVID19 vaccine. Drawing a bipartite network ...
QAnon and the Rebirth of the Satanic Panic in the Digital Age
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2022)
The dramatic rise of the novel conspiracy theory known as QAnon had many observers wondering how a belief system so divorced from reality could gain traction in the modern networked era. This paper seeks to answer that ...
Fake People Kissing: Queerbaiting and Fan Agency
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2022)
In the early 2010s, the term “queerbaiting” emerged in fan communities to describe the phenomenon of films and TV shows including intentionally homoerotic moments in order to ensnare a queer audience, but without the ...
A Content Analysis of CSR Themes on Major Corporations' Websites
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2022)
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a crucial business practice worldwide. This paper analyzes CSR themes collected from the official websites of the Asian and European corporations on the Fortune 500 list. ...
Screaming at the Television: How Pose Fans Interrogate Cross-Gender Relationships Between Transgender-Cisgender Couples Through Networked Counterpublics
(Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program, 2022)
This paper analyzes the romantic story arc between a cisgender heterosexual man (Stan) and a transgender woman (Angel) in the first season of Ryan Murphy’s groundbreaking television series, Pose (2018-2020). It also explores ...