Natasha Best

How international terrorism is represented in American television news: A comparative study on the Palestine Liberation Organization, Argentina's state-sponsored terrorism, and the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Adviser: Dan Hallin.

Erica Chang

Erica is measuring the effects of the National Innocence Projects on public opinion discourse regarding capital punishment, and subsequently attempting to ascribe meaning to any correlational changes found.

Adviser: Robert Horwitz

Sensi Graves

Sensi is stuying the effect of gender on the cogntive benefits of play with construction toys.

Adviser: Olga Vásquez

Hilario Haro

Hilario is interested in workplace interaction as it relates to spatial coordination and artifacts

Adviser: Morana Alač

Mike Imoto

Mike is studying orderliness of our everyday conduct by entering the very hearth, soul, and life force of the internet

Adviser: Morana Alač

Kelly Kim

Creating a Cyber-Identity: How College Students Express Themselves through Facebook

Adviser: Dan Hallin

Lucy Li

Lucy is studying how contemporary magazines (Re)produce gender in a project titled: “Sculpturing gender: Contemporary magazines and the (Re)Production of Identity.”

Adviser: Val Hartouni

Tania Pantoja

Tania is studying the effect on public opinions form the representation for Chicanos in film.

Adviser: Zeinabu Davis

Allison Primack

Allison is studying the effects of social influence on social networking websites by looking at sororities at UCSD.

Adviser: Barry Brown

Rosalia Romero

Taking Back the Border: Sub-Cultural Producers in the border region of the Imperial Valley, CA and Mexicali, BC.

This thesis explores the relationship between the national border in the cities of Mexicali and Imperial Valley and the creative communities residing in the region. Analyzing how the border affects the production of culture, and what and how it therefore produces, this thesis considers the particular ways in which global and local cultural processes intersect to shape a trans border culture that is both unified and variegated.

Adviser: Brian Goldfarb

Nicole Saari

Nicole is analyzing representations of female athletes in the media and countermedia

Adviser: John McMurria

Kipp Trieu

Kipp conducts an idographic case study of context in adolescent education, interpersonal communication and conflict resolution

Adviser: Mike Cole

Nicki Tsang

Deaf Identity in the Age of Cochlear Implants: Nicki Tsang is studying how technology impacts Deaf identity formation of varying demographics within the hearing and deaf communities.

Adviser: Carol Padden

Lauren Weidemann

Lauren is studying children's ability to understand the persuasive intent of TV commercials. She is conducting a comparative study of two afterschools sites in relation to digital literacy.

Adviser: Olga Vásquez