Candidates for Doctoral Degrees in Communication
Soyun Ahn
Co-Chairs: Mike Ananny and François Bar
Mapping Platform Friction: Platformization from the Ground Up
Maximilian Brichta
Chair: Henry Jenkins
From memes to money: The vernacular economics of cryptocurrencies
Nicole Veronica Bush
Co-Chairs: Sarah Banet-Weiser and Allissa Richardson (Hooded by Hector Amaya)
Sex Work, Affective Labor & Black
Femme Digital Affective Activism — A Praxis of Care
Rohan Grover
Chair: Mike Ananny
Consent Theater: A Sociotechnical
Analysis of Data Privacy Law in Action
Ana Howe Bukowski
Chair: Josh Kun
TV IS OK: Artists’ Cable in Los Angeles County, 1970-1984
Eugene Jang
Co-Chairs: Robin Stevens and Lindsay Young
Online Social Support Discourse
Structure and Social Media
Affordances: A Comparative Analysis of Twitter and Reddit’s Long COVID Communities
Yuanfeixue Nan
Co-Chairs: Lynn Miller and Lindsay Young
Social Support for Better Health: Insights from Structural and Functional Perspectives
Pamela Camille Perrimon
Chair: Christina Dunbar-Hester (Hooded by Jennifer Petersen)
Liminal Species: Extinction Refusal and the Social Lives of the Dead and Disappeared
Thi Ngoc Bich (Becky) Pham
Chair: Henry Jenkins
Pop Transnational Ambivalence: Vietnamese American Youth’s Engagement with the Korean Wave
Essence Lynn Wilson
Chair: Robin Stevens Road to Black Jasmine: Developing and Testing a Participatory Animation-Design Intervention Approach for Black Youth with Depressive Experiences (BYDE)
Lichen Zhen
Chair: Patricia Riley
Networked employee voice: Advocating for change through distributed collaborative systems
Eugene Lee
Chair: Andrea Hollingshead Algorithmic Management in the AIDriven Workforce: Worker Dynamics and Gig Worker Well-being
