Graduate student research

The MA in Communication Studies at Laurier has produced some excellent research. Below you can find a small sample of recent MA Theses and Major Research Papers/Projects (MRPs) completed by our graduates.

MA Theses

Master’s Research Papers/Projects (MRPs)

Earlier graduate student work speaks to the range of topics that may be studied in our program. Titles include:

  • The Appification of Work
  • vitaminwater® Uncapped: Better Lives through Better Self-Regulation
  • The Commercialization of Facebook: The Exploitation of Free Labour and the Commodification of Sociability
  • WikiLeaks: A Vehicle for Pursuing Accountability for Public Bodies, Transparency, and Fact?
  • Facebook Me! Corporeality, Identity, and Gender on Facebook
  • Reveling in Urban Transformation: Toronto’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche
  • Multiculturalism in the Canadian News Media: Analyzing the Shariah Law Debate in Ontario
  • Nonverbal Communication in Disney Pixar Films
  • Exploring the Threshold: Investigating Space and Place in Toronto’s Doors Open Event
  • Policy Communication and Zoning Processes: A Case Study of the City of Kitchener’s Warehouse District
  • Being International: Cosmopolitan Identities and International Students at a Canadian University
  • Getting Lost En Route to Adulthood: Problematizing and Reinventing the Millennial Generation in Quarterlife Crisis Self-Help Literature
  • Discourses of Liminality in Afrofuturist Hip-Hop Albums of MF Doom, Dr. Octagon, and Deltron Zero
  • Positions on Anonymous: Tricksterism, Autonomist Marxism, and Online Dissent
  • Click, Converse, Consume: How Corporate Fans are Produced at the Click of a Button
  • Assessing Unpaid Internships in Canada’s Magazine Industry