{"id":626,"date":"2024-07-06T00:53:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T04:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/csksresearch\/?page_id=626"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:40:19","slug":"graduate-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/csksresearch\/?page_id=626","title":{"rendered":"Graduate research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"626\" class=\"elementor elementor-626\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83a2fa4 e-flex e-con-boxed gs-locked-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"83a2fa4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6123b20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6123b20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1af18b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b1af18b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Graduate student research<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-125f3f6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"125f3f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3><b>MA Theses<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\">Badmus, Idowu. <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\">2025.<\/span><b style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\">&nbsp;<\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/2736\/\">Creativity, Fame and Power: A Critical Political Economy of Social Media Comedy Skit in Nigeria<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\">Lin, Dongwei. <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\">2025<\/span><b style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\">.&nbsp;<\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/2712\/\">Political Communication in A Multicultural Metropolis: Chinese Ethnic Media and the 2023 Toronto Mayoral By-Election<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\">Jamal, Asma.&nbsp;<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15.99996px; font-style: normal;\">2024<\/span><b style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\">. &nbsp;<\/b><span style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-size: 15.99996px; text-align: var(--text-align);\"><a style=\"font-size: 15.99996px;\" href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/2715\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyberbullying: Media Construction and Framing Tactics in Pakistan<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Robertson, Calum<\/b>. 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/2666\">TrogloDYKE&#8217;s Delight: A Deep Listening of Pauline Olivero&#8217;s <em>Troglodyte&#8217;s Delight<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Morley, Sherry<\/b>. 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/2368\">Advertainers and their Audience: Power Relations and Promotionalism in HobbyKidsTV<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ouellette, Jacqueline Marie<\/b>. 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/2197\">The Legitimation &amp; Networked Unification of #NoDAPL: Diverse Discourses of Value Validate a Collective Identity<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Wang, Keer (Coco)<\/b>. 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/2117\">BEAUTY BOYS: The Aesthetic Labour of Transformation<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Daley, Rachelle<\/b>. 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/1934\">Canada\u2019s Relationship with Women Migrant Sex Workers; Producing \u2018Vulnerable Migrant Workers\u2019 through \u201cProtecting Workers from Abuse and Exploitation\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Frost, Anthony David<\/b>. 2010. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/1009\">Marketing the Academy: A Theoretical Analysis of Consumption, Identity, and the Branding of Contemporary Universities<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Jacobson, Jenna Leigh<\/b>. 2010. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/1002\">Moustachioed Men and Marathon Moms: The Marketing of Cancer Philanthropy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Master\u2019s Research Papers\/Projects (MRPs)<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Hancock, Sara. <\/b>2024.<b> <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/coms_mrp\/4\/\">Inheriting Power: The Old Boys Network and the Reproduction of Privilege at Upper Canada College<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Aderibigbe, Yakub<\/b>. 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/coms_mrp\/3\">Digital Deception in the Online Dating Space: A Study of Tinder<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Giulekas, Lucas<\/b>. 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/coms_mrp\/2\">Monetized Gameplay: Analyzing Commodification in <i>Rainbow Six Siege<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mistry, Anisha<\/b>. 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/coms_mrp\/1\">Visible Minority Experience in the Canadian Advertising Industry: A Case Study of the Racialized Minority Creative Worker<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Earlier graduate student work speaks to the range of topics that may be studied in our program. Titles include:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The Appification of Work<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">vitaminwater\u00ae Uncapped: Better Lives through Better Self-Regulation<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The Commercialization of Facebook: The Exploitation of Free Labour and the Commodification of Sociability<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">WikiLeaks: A Vehicle for Pursuing Accountability for Public Bodies, Transparency, and Fact?<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Facebook Me! Corporeality, Identity, and Gender on Facebook<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Reveling in Urban Transformation: Toronto\u2019s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Multiculturalism in the Canadian News Media: Analyzing the Shariah Law Debate in Ontario<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Nonverbal Communication in Disney Pixar Films<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Exploring the Threshold: Investigating Space and Place in Toronto\u2019s Doors Open Event<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Policy Communication and Zoning Processes: A Case Study of the City of Kitchener\u2019s Warehouse District<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Being International: Cosmopolitan Identities and International Students at a Canadian University<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Getting Lost En Route to Adulthood: Problematizing and Reinventing the Millennial Generation in Quarterlife Crisis Self-Help Literature<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Discourses of Liminality in Afrofuturist Hip-Hop Albums of MF Doom, Dr. Octagon, and Deltron Zero<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Positions on Anonymous: Tricksterism, Autonomist Marxism, and Online Dissent<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Click, Converse, Consume: How Corporate Fans are Produced at the Click of a Button<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Assessing Unpaid Internships in Canada\u2019s Magazine Industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f05008a elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"f05008a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate student research The MA in Communication Studies at Laurier has produced some excellent research. 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