COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE

Thornton, Tyler J.

COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE

dc.contributor.advisor	Kramer, Eric Mark
dc.contributor.author	Thornton, Tyler J.
dc.contributor.committeeMember	O'Neill, Sean
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Rodriguez, Clemencia
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Hsieh, Elaine
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Reedy, Justin
dc.date.accessioned	2015-04-21T19:51:07Z
dc.date.available	2015-04-21T19:51:07Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.date.manuscript	2015
dc.description.abstract	Powerful semiotic signs like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall served significant communicative functions. The modern culture of nation state wall building continues despite the fact that the security fences are obsolete. Wall advocates argue that security fences deter undocumented immigrants from trying to cross the border illegally. The walls also function to stop terrorism or other criminal threats. This paper applies semiotic and hermeneutic methods to examine and compare the communication functions of South African apartheid with the U.S. Mexico border wall. Structuration Theory (ST),and Dissociation and Dimensional Accrual (DAD) are applied to discuss the consequences to communication from such barriers.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/14439
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Structuration Theory	en_US
dc.subject	Dissociation and Dimensional Accrual (DAD)	en_US
dc.subject	Borderlands	en_US
dc.subject	Walls and Fences	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Ph.D.	en_US
dc.title	COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Communication	en_US