http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75721 Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:22:55 GMT 2026-07-09T20:22:55Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75778 Title: Police Power: Antebellum Antecedents in the Modern Immigration Conflict Authors: Miller, Zachary Abstract: This article examines the modern U.S. immigration conflict through the lens of nineteenth-century state-level immigration policy to show how Texas Governor Greg Abbott is reviving Antebellum concepts of state sovereignty to upend federal supremacy on immigration. Incorporating historical texts, case law, and newspaper articles, this article argues that Texas’s new policies are a legal revival of police power—the ability to regulate the internal affairs of a state for the sake of general welfare—as it existed in the nineteenth century, when immigration could be legislated at the state level. With his busing program, increased criminalization, and citing an invasion, Governor Abbott is attempting to expand state police power to include immigration once again, just as it did in the Antebellum era. While the constitutionality of Texas S.B. 4—the bill which Texas’s power expansion depends on—has yet to be ruled on at the time of writing this article, its passing would represent a complete overturning of the state-federal balance, in place since the end of the Civil War, when it comes to immigration. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75778 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75779 Title: Conducting the Narrative: An AI-Assisted Analysis of Government & Media Framing in the Coverage of the 7/7 London Bombings Authors: Ori, Pietro Abstract: This article examines the relationship between UK government communications and national media framing in the aftermath of the July 7, 2005 (“7/7”) London bombings. It poses two research questions: (1) what were the dominant frames employed by the British government and media in their coverage of 7/7; and (2) to what extent did the frames in media publications reflect changes in the government’s framing? Drawing on both manual and AI-assisted content analysis, the project reviews a sample of four Prime Ministerial addresses and 1,393 news articles from four major UK outlets over a four-week period. The research identifies thirteen recurring frames—ten common to both government and media, and three unique to media coverage—and assesses their salience over time. The findings reveal a strong alignment between government and media narratives, particularly as the framing evolved from initial emotional appeals (e.g., resolve, atrocity, victims) to strategic and policy-driven narratives (e.g., security, homegrown extremism, immigration). Media framing closely tracked the government’s rhetorical shifts, reinforcing rather than contesting the official narrative arc. This convergence underscores the government’s discursive power in shaping public understanding and highlights the media’s role as an amplifier of state messaging during crises. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75779 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75777 Title: Learning Social Conduct: An Application of Behavioral Psychology and Nonverbal Communication to Business Advertising and Geopolitical Diplomacy Authors: Kanlic, Teodora Abstract: This article investigates how we subconsciously learn and mimic social conduct from a young age from the people around us, and how this observational learning can be adapted to adult learning. It explores how people often make the wrong first impressions when faced with new cultures or new experiences by providing an analysis for how we learn social conduct with a focus on behavioral psychology, cultural context, nonverbal communication, and body language. It also examines unspoken communication strategies with application to business advertising and politics, in particular rude luxury brand salespeople and the first televised presidential debate in the United States. This article concludes with recommendations for how people can improve nonverbal communication and body language as adults, shifting from subconscious to active learning in an ever-evolving global environment. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75777 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75775 Title: Beyond Singularity: Rehabilitating the Trauma Narrative Authors: Grace, Emma Abstract: Representing the Hegelian dialectic of the trauma narrative, this article identifies the anti-realist mode of representation as an avenue for the achievement of the real. The works of prominent scholars such as Sigmund Freud and Cathy Caruth establish the essential incomprehensibility of trauma. However, the dominant discourse in Trauma Studies poses problems to historical understanding, namely singularity. In response, John Sanbonmatsu offers his theory of the holocaust sublime, proposing the realist mode of representation as an antidote to singularity and as a means of promoting a productive relationship with the past. Expanding on Sanbonmatsu’s work, this article identifies the unique capacities of the anti-realist mode of representation to relay the truth of trauma, the “truth as it seemed” in the words of Tim O’Brien. Rather than pitting the real against the anti-real, this article argues that in conjunction with realist trauma narratives, the anti-realist mode of representation has the capacity to promote a cognitive and emotional connection with trauma, the narrative success of which can be measured, primarily, through its capacity to humanize. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75775 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z