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GCMA Capstone Projects

As a part of the program, students deliver capstone projects at the end of their term in Vancouver. Global Communication hosts a capstone project presentation event every year to celebrate the success of our students.

6th Cohort (2018- 2020)

Titles	Author
Insulting Islam: Understanding anti-religious discourse online in Post-Revolutionary Egypt	Fakida, Abdelrahman
Arresting a Chinese Tech Princess: discourses in the Canadian national news media	Silva, Daniella
Talking to machines: The political ascendance of the English language in computer programming	Mimiko, Ejilayomi Ayomipo
No safe harbor: Radical feminism, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, and the digression of sex work in the United States	Pearson, Jennie
Subcultures of coping: The idiosyncratic trends of Koi and Sang exhibited by Chinese Millennials	Xiao, Qing
Leftover women in China: Empowering through “femvertising”?	Wang, Shengnan
Yellow Dollars, White Masks: Hollywood and the performance of progressive texts	Yeo, Maxine
Para-social interactions in Chinese audio melodramas	Lou, Qun
Media bias in the U.S.’ Big Three TV networks	Shi, Xuan
Consumption downgrading in Chinese media: A fraud or a hideous truth	Yang, Muyi
Chinese Rural Feminism: How Social Media Reshape Feminism in China	Yang, Yi
How did Chinese news media frame the US-China trade talks? A case study of People’s Daily and China Daily	Qi, Yuanjiao
Intellectual property controversies in China’s emerging influencer economy	Liu, Zijun
Diasporic Asian cinema and cultural expression: A case of the Vancouver Asian Film Festival	Xie, Ziran

5th Cohort (2017- 2019)

Titles	Author
Reporting the Cross-strait Relationship: Comparative Analysis of News Coverage of the CCP's 19th Congress by Two TaiwanTV Stations	Chang, Lin-Chuan
Representations of persons with disabilities in the media: A case study of Ghana’s local movie Industry (Kumawood)	Chireboah-Ansah, Robert
Hashtag IAmGay campaign on Sina Weibo: a case study of the online activism and discourse of LGBT community in China	Liu, Haiyang
Modern Chinese national identity and transportation	Liu, Haiyu
Communication as Intervention: Contextualizing the alt-right discourse of ‘women as wombs’	Neufeld, Bethany
Nigerians perception of products made-in-China: a catalyst effect of the standard of living	Oluwatayo, Rufus
"I am here! But, I actually shouldn't be!!" An auto-ethnography on the remittance experience of an African international student in Canada	Opoku Twenebowaah, Ingrid
The role of media in alleviating sectarian conflict: an exploration of peace journalism in Egypt	Nadia Sharaby, Aya
How the introduction of CGTN is popularizing the growing African continent through positive reporting: A Case study of China Global Television Network in Nairobi, Kenya	Sule, Benedicta Habiba
Representation of muslims in Canadian newspapers: Comparing the coverage of the 2014 Parliament Hill shooting and the 2017 Quebec City mosque shooting	Tsai, Yichi
Historical analysis of the changing nature of masculinity in China	Luo, Xiao
Traumatizing and healing: How media memorialize the comfort	XU, Cheng Cheng

4th Cohort (2016- 2018)

Titles	Author
Venezuela’s media war: Coexistence and confrontation in the struggles of the Bolivarian Revolution	Amundaray, Douglas
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak: Subaltern Auteur of Bengali Cinema	Caesar, Gopa
Nation Branding and Public Diplomacy in Argentina. Capitalist Insertion or Survival Strategies?	Castillo, Marina
Race and real estate: How data informed public debate on BC's Foreign Buyer Tax	Han, Sophia
Cultural Identity and Cultural Capital: An Exploration of Chinese-Canadian Immigrant Families’ Reading Practices and Chinese Literature	Liu, Sijia
Editorial caricature representations of female political leaders in Jamaica: The case of Portia Simpson Miller	McLarty Thomas, Shawna-Kay
Painting Identity and Resistance: Muralism in Puerto Rico	Merced, Jarieth Natalia
Undertale: Violence in Context?	Müller, Alexandra
Who is telling the “truth”? Wikipedia articles on Hong Kong Umbrella Movement as a Case Study of Alternative Knowledge Production	Shi, Xinnan
Gendered Images in Oral History Documentary: A Case Study of Wode Kangzhan	Wang, Xueqi (Michelle)
Are community radios democratically organized? An analysis of Vancouver Co-operative Radio	Zheng, Tianyi
Theoretical Paradigms of ICT4D: A Comparative Discourse Analysis	Xue, Ming

3rd Cohort (2015 – 2017)

Titles	Author
Cultivating Global Citizens: Understanding Global Citizenship Education in a Moment of Neoliberal Globalization	Arnold, Elizabeth
Infectious salmon anaemia - The political power of a small infectious agent	Bega, Artemisa
Community Gardens in Vancouver: An exploration of communication, food sovereignty, and activism	Baratova, Malika
The Promotion of Excess Buying and Food Waste: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Supermarket Flyers	Chow, Nicole
The Role of Social Media during the Brazilian Protests of 2013	Ferreira, Camila
Constructed Hegemonic Femininity in E-commerce of China: A Case Study of Singles’ Day Sale	Li, Zhuo Ya
The role of public art in the communicative practice of university art gallery in North America -- A case study of SFU Art Gallery and the art controversies	Li, Han
A political economy analysis of the Chinese delivery worker's daily communication practice	Liu, Yiqian
Copyright Reform--Taking Pirate Party and Green Party as examples	Wang, LinLin
The Image of China in a BBC Documentary and Chinese Audiences’ Reception and Interpretation of it：A Case of the Chinese Are Coming	Sun, WanWan
The Formation of Global Sports Fandom in China: Capitalism, Masculinities and World Order	Xu, Ye
A Canadian Press Perspective on China's Rise: An analysis of Globe and Mail editorials, 2001-2015.	Yu, Qinwen

2nd Cohort (2014 – 2016)

Titles	Author
The Terrorists are coming! The Terrorists are Coming! (or are they?): A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Anti-Terrorism Act, Bill C-51 in Canadian Newspapers	Berry, Kirsten Aleta
Music-Based TV Talent Shows in China: Celebrity and Meritocracy in the Post-Reform Society	Huang, Wei
Promoting Women's Awareness towards Change in Nigeria: The Role of Literature.	Inyang, Lucia Emem-Obong
"O Canada": Recognizing Gay Pornography as a Part of Canadian Culture	Jones, Shawn Christopher
From Militant to Military: The Ambivalent Politics of Liberal Feminism in the American War on Terror	Liao, Amanda
Journalism as text: intertextuality and subjectivity in the news	Liu, Hatty
Chinese Square Dance, Media, and Ideological Dynamics in Contemporary China	Song, Yu

1st Cohort (2013 – 2015)

Titles	Author
Building the Liveable Creative City: Urban Cultural Policy and the Politics of Space in Vancouver	Chao, Maggie
Film gatekeepers corp. presents… So this is China? Chinese cinema(s) distribution and circulation: between global markets, capitalist art-houses, and informal venues of resistance	Galindo, Rebeca Lucia
LFG: Looking for Global (and Local) in Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games	Johnston, Michael
Diasporic Media and Transcultural Journalism: a case study of OMNI TV Chinese News in Greater Vancouver	Kong, Vanessa Wing Yu
The Politics of Reality Television: Struggling Over the Chinese Nation	Lin, Lyne Sitong
The Latest Korean TV Format Wave on Chinese Television: A Political Economy Analysis	Liu, Yang
Ambivalence in China’s Quest for “Soft Power”: A Case Study of CCTV-America’s Multiple News Standpoints	Liu, Qian
China’s Contested Past & The World Heritage Centre: Developing Pasts & Promises	Nicolai, Joseph Marc George
Transnational communication of Chinese artifacts: the top-down and bottom-up model	Wang, Biwei
Fandom, Youth and Western Pop Music in China	Zhang, Yuanhao