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Six CIS Students Have Earned Their PhD and Just Graduated!
Four new CIS PhDs participated in the 113th Annual Commencement on May 11th, 2024! Left to right with leis are new graduates Dr. Yinan Sun, Dr. Moshe Karabelnik, Dr. Stanislava Gardasevic Cvetic, and Dr. Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff, seen here with CIS Chair Prof. Dan Suthers, Prof. Jenifer Sunrise Winter, and Prof. Rich Gazan. (Photo by Prof. […]
Yinan Sun Defends Her Dissertation “Exploring Cultural Affordances on WeChat ”
Congratulations to Yinan Sun for passing her dissertation defense on Thursday, May 9, 2024! Title of Dissertation: Exploring Cultural Affordances on WeChat Abstract: How social media, culture, and ordinary people as users influence each other is probably one of the most intriguing questions for scholars in the field of social media studies. To respond to […]
S. Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff Defends Her Dissertation “Aloha ʻĀina in the Library and Information Science Program: Understanding and Being a Hawaiian Place of Learning”
Congratulations to S. Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff for passing her dissertation defense on Wednesday, April 24, 2024! Title of Dissertation: Aloha ʻĀina in the Library and Information Science Program: Understanding and Being a Hawaiian Place of Learning Abstract: Mānoa 2025 is our current strategic plan for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The plan has made it […]
Moshe Karabelnik Defends His Dissertation “THE VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM PRACTICE OF OPPONENTS TO COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATES”
Congratulations to Moshe Karabelnik for passing his dissertation defense on Monday, April 15th, 2024! Title of Dissertation: THE VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM PRACTICE OF OPPONENTS TO COVID-19 VACCINE MANDATES Abstract: In recent years, digital images from smartphones and other networked cameras shared on social media have largely replaced video recording devices which social activists commonly […]
