Browsing Communications by Subject "Communication"
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Activism Success: A Concept Explication
Activism is all around us, but its mechanics are little understood and explanations are often idiosyncratic, focusing on particular activism efforts rather than empirically exploring broad patterns. In an effort to create ... -
Alpha, Beta, Gamma Males: Asian/American Men and Audience Research
Through an audience reception analysis, this paper exposes and explores issues surrounding the expression of Asian/American masculinity and argues the importance of transnationality in intercultural communication and ... -
Anxieties, expectations, and truths of contemporary journalism: A case study of the Mike Daisey scandal
(2013-07-25)In the tradition of studies that examine journalistic breaches, this thesis analyzes a journalistic scandal: This American Life's (TAL) radio broadcast and subsequent retraction of the story "Mr. Daisey and the Apple ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Generating Latinas: Online Images and the Mechanisms of the Google Search Engine
(2014-02-24)Latinos have recently become the largest minority group in the United States, and their growing presence is perceived as both a threat and an opportunity. The Latina body acts as a site where discourses about Latinos as a ... -
Identifying Overlapping Speech Communities through Holographic Methodology: The Case of Signing Communities in Panama
(2014-02-24)In this paper, I offer Holographic Methodology as a new approach for identifying the largely unexplored phenomenon of overlapping speech communities. Based conceptually on recent technological advances in holography, ... -
A Little Healthy Competition: The Effects of Press-Government Competition on Institutional Trust
(2014-04-30)This dissertation examined the relationship between the press and the government, and what effect competition between the two institutions has on trust in government and the news media. To do so, it combined a content ...