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SPRING 2026 COM 415 paper topics
and writer's workshop pairings
| scholar | paper topics |
| Cheyenne | Uses & Gratifications and social media |
| Craig | Uses & Gratifications and NBA coverage |
| Milo | Inspirational porn and Fantasy Theme Crit |
| Logan | Comics, the Civil Rights Movement, and Narrative Crit |
| Edem | Agenda-setting, Gatekeeping, Framing and American identity |
| Lily | Agenda-setting, Gatekeeping, Framing and Wilderness Therapy |
| Mary Jane | Social Identity Theory, Spiral of Silence, and social media |
| Ella | Social Cognitive Theory and social media use during COVID |
| Amelia | Agenda-setting, Gatekeeping, Framing and foster care |
| Grant | Agenda-setting, Gatekeeping, Framing and NCAA (NIL) |
| Will | Semiotics and Winter Olympic marketing and visual messaging |
| Carolina | Collective Memory, Media Ecology and recycled trends, memes |
| Sofie | True crime podcasts: A Fem Crit analysis (and _______) |
| Gail | Lara Croft: A Fem Crit analysis and Uses & Grats study |
| Keaton | Insta, adolescents and Cognitive Dissonance Theory |
| Katie-Claire | Communication Accommodation Theory, disability (interpersonal COM) |
| Stephen | Behavioral Learning Theory and the classroom environment |
| Kate | Agenda-setting, Gatekeeping, Framing and megachurches' use of social |