How discourses cast airport security characters: a discourse tracing and qualitative analysis of identity and emotional performances

Shawna Malvini Redden

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and subsequent creation of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), airport security has become an increasingly invasive, cumbersome, and expensive process. Fraught with tension…

Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and subsequent creation of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), airport security has become an increasingly invasive, cumbersome, and expensive process. Fraught with tension and discomfort, "airport security" is a dirty phrase in the popular imagination, synonymous with long lines, unimpressive employees, and indignity. In fact, the TSA and its employees have featured as topic and punch line of news and popular culture stories.

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Redden, Shawna Malvini (Author)
Tracy, Sarah J. (Thesis advisor)
Corley, Kevin (Committee member)
Alberts, Janet (Committee member)
Trethewey, Angela (Committee member)
Arizona State University (Publisher)

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2013

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Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2013

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Field of study: Communication studies

How discourses cast airport security characters: a discourse tracing and qualitative analysis of identity and emotional performances

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