Dr. Oshane Thorpe is a full-time Assistant Professor at the College of Media and Mass Communication at the American University in the Emirates.  Dr. Thorpe holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the Communication University of China and an MA in International Communication from the same institution. Dr. Thorpe’s main area of research is in Framing and Agenda Setting. Before working at AUE, Dr. Thorpe taught at the Tianjin Foreign Studies University and the Beijing University of Technology, both in China.