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Caring for Caregivers: Assessing the Influence of Expressive Writing on Cancer Caregivers’ Emotional Well-being, Relational Satisfaction, and Comforting Sensitivity
The reception of social support is a known predictor of psychological and physical well-being, with research suggesting that increases in recipient well-being are more likely to ensue when a support provider offers high ... -
Celebrity as Cultural Authority: Media, Representation and the Politics of Fame
(2013-02-25)Fame is a powerful source of cultural authority in early 21st-century media culture. Celebrities, and celebritizing discourses, are a staple of sanctioned knowledge and an important point of intervention in the study of ... -
Channel Choice as a Relational Message
The process of communicating relational meaning is complex and involves the interplay of relational goals, messages, and frames. Relational meaning is often sent through nonverbal cues, which are important sources of social ... -
Civic (Re)Socializing: The Transformative Potential of Deliberative Public Sphere Structures
(2013-04-17)This dissertation presents a model for public sphere discourse that situates alienating and deliberative communication norms and practices at opposite ends of a spectrum. Alienating communication routines act as a counter-force ... -
A communication methodology focused on ecological unitizing designed to enable upper elementary school students to generate their own appropriate learning goals
(1997)This dissertation creates and tests a communication methodology, focused on ecological unitizing, designed to enable upper elementary school students to generate their own appropriate learning goals. A communication ... -
Competing "Host" Discourses: Appropriation of Australian Aboriginal Culture in the Tourism Borderzones
As one of the largest global industries (WTTC, 2012), tourism is a powerful force in shaping intercultural knowledge (Bunten, 2010; Causey, 2003; Diamond, 2011). Through marketing and globally projected websites, government ... -
Contemporary Popular Culture and the Politics of Asian American Representation, Resistance, and Cultural Production
(2012-08-10)Despite their increasing visibility in mainstream popular culture, problems in Asian American representation continue to manifest. For example, there is renewed interest in infantilizing, colonial images of Asian women, ... -
Converging Media and Divergent Bodies: Articulations of Powerful Women in the Ultimate Fighting Championship
Most television channels, websites, mobile applications, and video games dedicated to sports reveal a stark underrepresentation of female athletes even though girls and women avidly participate in athletics. Feminist ... -
A Corpus-Linguistic Analysis of News Coverage in Kenya's Daily Nation and Great Britain's Times
This study uses institutional theory and corpus linguistics to understand the differences between press systems. Institutional theory suggests that institutions, including the press, develop some shared characteristics ... -
Created Differences: Rhetorics of Race and Resistance in Intellectual Property Law
(2013-07-25)Intellectual property law, specifically that governing trademarks, copyrights, and patents, is increasingly dominated by a narrative of "theft" in which racialized thieves steal knowledge produced by white creators, ... -
Density dependence without resource partitioning on an online petitioning platform
Online petitions are a collective action tactic that leverages digital affordances in pursuit of discursive opportunities. Prior efforts to explain why some petitions are more successful than others emphasize signer ... -
Digital Media and Campaign Practices in Nigeria: Ekiti State Governorship Election
This is a study of the digital campaign practices of a winning opposition candidate in a governorship election in Ekiti state, Nigeria. The study was conducted through i) qualitative content analysis of news reports and ... -
Digitally Mediated Political Participation: Understanding the Democratic Impact of Internet Diffusion in the Asian Media Systems
This dissertation is devoted to an examination of the democratic impact that internet diffusion has on political participation in East and Southeast Asia. To begin with, I conceptualize digitally mediated political ... -
Do you speak English? Speech Codes relating to "English only" Language Policy within Multi-lingual Office Space in China
(2013-07-25)This three-year study focuses upon different narratives organizational members construct to make sense to the "English only" language policy within multinational organizations in China. Philipsen's speech codes theory has ... -
Expressive Writing to Cope with Hate Speech: Assessing Psychobiological Stress Recovery and Forgiveness Promotion for LGBQ Victims of Hate Speech
(2012-09-13)Research has linked hate speech and discrimination to numerous negative physiological and psychological health outcomes (e.g., Williams, Neighbors, & Jackson, 2003; Williams & Mohammed, 2009). Scholars have identified hate ... -
Feast or Famine in the Public Sphere: A Content Analysis of Links Shared in Civic Conversations on Reddit
It is axiomatic that a functional public sphere depends on quality information, and the traditional source of that information has been legacy news media, most particularly major metro newspapers. The ongoing contraction ... -
A Few Words from the Bench: Judges' Communication to and about the Jury
(2014-02-24)A judge holds an important position during a jury trial. In a context that is typically unfamiliar and unknown to jurors, the judge regularly holds the highest amount of respect and is thought to be the most just, fair, ... -
The Frictions and Flows of Data-Intensive Transformations: A Comparative Study of Discourses, Practices, and Structures of Digital Health in the U.S. and India
This dissertation examined the social and organizational implications of data-intensive transformations in healthcare through studying digital health and processes of informationalization in the U.S. and India. These ... -
From the Village to the Global Village: An Alternative Model of Collective Action in Digital Media Networks
This dissertation tests whether the difference in numbers of civic digital campaigns across countries, normalized by population and number of internet users, is explained by a multi-theoretical perspective that integrates ... -
The future church: identity and persuasion on congregational Websites
(2007)Because of demographic shifts in church attendance over recent decades, rising secularism, and the influence of other world religions, religious leaders are engaging more frequently in discussions about future directions ...