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Harwood Dissertation Award<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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2025 – Robin Sundaramoorthy, PhD., University of Maryland and American University,\u00a0The FCC\u2019s Failed Attempt to Increase Black Radio Ownership<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 – Ahmad Alshehab, PhD, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kuwait University College of Arts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023 – Bryan Jenkins, Howard University; Doing Black Podcast Studies: Exploring the Black Oral Tradition and Critical Media Literacy in Alternative Media<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2022 \u2013 Danielle Deavours, University of Montevallo; Not Just What You Say, But How You Say It: Neutrality of Nonverbal Behavior of Journalists During Crisis Coverage<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021 \u2013 Yonatan Tewelde, Ohio University; Chatroom Nation: An Eritrean Case Study of a Diaspora PalTalk Public<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2020 \u2013 Cristi Eschler-Freudenrich, Oral Roberts University; What Was Left on the Cutting Room Floor: Rhetorical Themes of Race in Oral Roberts\u2019 1956 Crusade Sermons<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2019 \u2013 Flora Khoo, Regent University; Innocence Killed: Recruitment, Radicalization and Desensitization of the Children of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2018 \u2013 Julia Largent, McPherson College; Documentary Dialogues: Establishing a Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Documentary Fandom-Filmmaker Social Media Interaction<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2017 \u2013 Ginger Blackstone, Harding University; \u201cThe Worst of Times\u201d: The Prevalence and Power of Fear in Television News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2016 \u2013 Melinda Michele Krakow, University of Utah; Telling Stories for Cervical Cancer Prevention: The Impact of Narrative Features and Processes on Young Women\u2019s HPV Vaccination Intentions<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2015 \u2013 David Crider, Temple University; Constructing and Performing an On-Air Radio Identity in a Changing Media Landscape<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2014 \u2013 Lauren Bratslavsky, University of Oregon; From ephemeral to legitimate: An inquiry into television\u2019s material traces in archival spaces, 1950s-1970s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2013 \u2013 Shane Tilton, Ohio University; First year students in a foreign fabric: A triangulation study on Facebook as a method of coping\/adjustment<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

2012 \u2013 Beth C. Fratkin, University of Utah; The Impact of Federal Communications Commission Practices on Communication Policy Making 2001-2004: An Investigation of the Policy Shift From Public Service Idealism to Market Forces Pragmatism<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2011 \u2013 Joy Chavez Mapaye, University of Alaska, Anchorage; Viral Viewers: Examining Parasocial Interaction on Local TV News Web Sites<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2010 \u2013 Pamela Hill Nettleton, Marquette University; Rescuing Men: The New Television Masculinity in \u2018Rescue Me,\u2019 \u2018Nip\/Tuck,\u2019 \u2018The Shield,\u2019 \u2018Boston Legal\u2019 and \u2018Dexter\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2009 \u2013 Shawn VanCour, University of Wisconsin; The Sounds of \u2018Radio\u2019: A Cultural History of Radio\u2019s Aesthetic Definition as a Broadcast Medium for Aural Communications in 1920s America<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2008 \u2013 Ronald J. \u201cNoah\u201d Arceneaux, University of Georgia; Department Stores and the Origins of American Broadcasting, 1910\u20131931<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2007 \u2013 Mary McIlrath, University of California, Santa Barbara; Children\u2019s cognitive processing of internet advertising<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2006 \u2013 Kevin D. Williams, University of Georgia; How Violence and Frustration in Video Games Affect Aggression<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2004 \u2013 Tanja Estella Bosch, Ohio University; Radio, community and identity in South Africa: A rhizomatic study of Bush Radio in Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2003 \u2013 John Armstrong, University of Utah; Localism, Community, and Commercial Television, 1948-1960: A Value Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2002 \u2013 Jacob J. Podber, Ohio University; Radio\u2019s Development in Rural America<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2001 \u2013 Paul Haridakis, Kent State University; The Role of Motivation in Policy Considerations Addressing Television Violence<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2000 \u2013 Vic Costello, University of Tennessee; Interactivity and the \u2018Cyber-Fan\u2019: An Exploration of Audience Involvement Within the Electronic Fan Culture of the Internet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1999 \u2013 Matt Jackson, Indiana University; Controlling Technology: Internet Service Providers and Copyright Liability<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1997 \u2013 Patricia F. Phalen, Northwestern University; Information and Markets and the Market for Information: An Analysis of the Market for Television Audiences<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1996 \u2013 Steven D. Classen, University of Wisconsin; Broadcast Law and Segregation: A Social History of the WLBT-TV Case<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1994 -Michael Edward Lenert, The University of Texas; The paradox of public: The public and the public interest in communication technology regulation in the United States, 1934 \u2013 1988<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harwood Dissertation Award<\/h5>\n\n\n