Communication Senior Theses

Every Carthage student is required to submit a senior thesis or capstone project to demonstrate their mastery of their chosen area of study. Here is a look at recent projects Carthage communication students have created for this requirement:

• “Seriously Disturbed: Perpetuating Hegemony via Stereotypes in ‘Legally Blonde’”
• “Oversharing on Social Media: Effects on Mental Health”
• “Take Her Out to the Ballgame: Women Journalists in Major League Baseball”
• “Our Hearts: Awareness Campaigns on Heart Health”
• “Doing Good by Communicating Well: The Role of Non-profits in Corporate Social Responsibility”
• “Carthage College: A Case Study of Crisis Management”
• “Athletes and Social Media”
• “Gender Stereotypes in Sports Media”
• “Social Media for Good: How Nonprofits Engage their Audience”
• “The Magazine Market: Targeted Advertising and the Rise of the Internet”
• “Generation Y: Social Media’s Effect on Interpersonal Communication”
• “‘Slayers, Every One of Us’: Buffy on Challenging Patriarchal Systems”
• “Today’s Country Music: Themes and Effects”
• “Media and the Irish Famine”
• “A Generation for Change: Calibrating Non-Profits for Millennial Communication”
• “Dreaming: Language of the Subconscious Mind”
• “Methods of Language Acquisition through Communication Studies”
• “‘New’ Contemporary Art: Communication Between Artist and Audience”
• “How the Media Affirms Stereotypes Between the French and Americans”
• “Gone Girl: Society’s Rejection of Female Defiance”
• “Battered Self Image: Modern Advertising Modes and the American Adolescent”
• “Effects of Technology on Early Childhood Education”
• “Sensational American Media: The Modern Day Gossip Monger”
• “The Negative Effects of Social Media and Online Dating”
• “Judging a Book by its Cover: How EBook Covers Communicate”
• “Makers: An Analysis of the Maker Subculture’s Community and Media”
• “Visual Persuasion in Political Imagery: Revolutionary America to Today”
• “The Unspoken Rules of French Intercultural Communication”
• “Web Page to Book Page: YouTube Creators Becoming Authors”
• “Likes and Tweets: Music Promotion and Social Media”
• “Brand Personality: A Theory of Advertising”
• “Chicago’s Violence: The Role of Social Media and Music”
• “Chasing Winter: Social Media and the Snowboard Industry”
• “Marketing Health: Alternatives for Fast Food”
• “Fashion as Communication: 1960s Feminism”
• “The Death of Television and Rise of Viral Marketing”
• “Semiotics and Film: Pirates of the Caribbean”
• “How Social Media Has Changed the Way We Do Good”
• “The Effect of French Colonization on Senegalese Culture”
• “Media as a Human Entity”
• “The Witch of the West: A Character’s Mediated Evolution”
• “Communicating with Millennials in the Workplace: How to Turn Negative Generational Stereotypes into Effective Communication Practices”
• “Why are the Savannah Bananas Successful on Social Media?”
• “The Impact and Influence of Content Creation in Communication: Influencers, Consumers, and Brands”
• “See ya Next Time: How Kwik Trip Uses its Internal and External Communication to Strengthen its Brand”
• “Streaming Services and the Music Industry”
• “The Role of Communication in the French Revolution and the Arab Spring”
• “Crisis Communication and Management”
• “The Language of Theatre: Nonverbal Communication in Musical Theatre”
• “Cable Sports Networks Versus Streaming”
• “Digital vs. Traditional Journalism: How Digital Platforms Reshaped COVID-19 Communication”