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Title: PUNISHMENTS, PRISONERS, & PRAGS: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF MALE PRISONER RAPE ON HBO’S OZ
Author: Burns, Myasia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: This analysis examines the symbolic rape narratives of Oz and the cultural contexts in which they exist. It confronts visual images of male rape within the show to uncover considerations of masculinity, sexuality, and gender identification in a pr...

Title: Presidential Eulogies in the Wake of Mass School Shootings: A Call to Action
Author: Culletto, Gordon
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Rhetoric
Description: President Barack Obama described December 14, 2012 saying, "it continues to haunt me, it was one of the worst days of my presidency." That morning, a gunman stormed through the doors of Sandy Hook Elementary School and began opening fire on childr...

Title: Professionalization through socialization: Student conceptualizations of internships
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2007
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: Research suggests that internships lead beneficial outcomes for students, universities, and organizations (e.g., Eyler, 1992; Knouse & Fontenot, 2008), yet a large body of internship research is devoid of a theoretical basis. Previous research tha...

Title: RESURRECTING THE DEPARTED – AN EXPLORATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCES OF REHIRED EMPLOYEES
Author: Oleson, Joan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: This qualitative study conducted within a Fortune 100 corporation examines experiences of employees who leave an organization and then later choose to return for a second round of employment. It examines the communicative processes of employees wh...

Title: Ready, Set, Think, Go: The Effect Of Change Communication On Organizational Readiness For Change
Author: Haidar, Joumana
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Organizational behavior, Communication
Description: The concept of organizational readiness has attracted much attention in recent years in the healthcare sector. Interventions that improve readiness are becoming centers for healthcare change scholars and practitioners. As healthcare organizations ...

Title: Reality Collapses, "Real or Not Real?": The Theoretical Consequences of Compromised Authenticity in Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay
Author: Pailthorpe, Brittany
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Literature, Rhetoric
Description: This thesis proposes the theorization of the consequences of what I deem compromised authenticity, in this hyper-mediated age. Drawing from the work of scholars concerned with the growing anxiety over the tension between the authentic and the inau...

Title: SCALABLE HIGH-CAPACITY HIGH-FAN-OUT OPTICAL NETWORKS FOR CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Syed, Ali
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Communication
Description: The investigations carried out as part of the dissertation address the architecture and application of optical access networks pertaining to high-capacity and high fan-out applications such as in-flight entertainment (IFE) and video-gaming environ...

Title: Satirists and Communication of Resistance: The Craft of Political Humor and Satire in Pakistan
Author: Maqsood, Mahrukh
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Political Satire and humor have emerged as significant components of Pakistan’s infotainment industry. This study explores the satire and Political humor industry in Pakistan, focusing on how satirists use their craft for dissenting and speaking t...

Title: Self-distancing: A Key to Leadership Success?
Author: Williams, Eleanor
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: This study adds to the limited body of research on self-leadership—at the heart of which is self-talk—and it’s impact on leaders’ performance. The research that has been done on leaders’ self-talk has not yet looked at the promising effects of sel...

Title: Slogans we can believe in: An examination of what makes for an effective presidential campaign slogan
Author: Brooks, Erik
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science
Description: Presidential campaign slogans have been a constant aspect of American presidential campaigning since 1800. However, despite slogans’ continual use, very few scholarly inquiries have been made regarding what actually makes for an effective presiden...

Title: Social Media Framing of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Author: Tierney, Carla
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Sociology
Description: Objectives The purpose of this research is to identify and understand the social media framing of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The DAPL is in North Dakota, crossing .55 miles north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Primary criticisms r...

Title: Social and Location Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Author: Zhu, Ying
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Computer engineering
Description: Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) are a special type of wireless mobile networks, which may lack continuous network connectivity. Routing in DTNs is very challenging, as it must handle network partitions, long delays, and dynamic topology in such net...

Title: Social support in online forums for service members and their romantic partners managing mental health challenges
Author: Klatt, Faith
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Both service members and their romantic partners deal with mental health struggles as a result of military life. Despite the vast research done on mental health within the military, little is known about how both service members and their partners...

Title: Structured Interdisciplinary Rounds and Communication on a Geographic Medical Unit: A Pilot Study
Author: Wahab, Holly
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Communication, Medicine
Description: ABSTRACTIntroductionEffective, concise, and consistent communication is essential for safe, quality patient care. However, traditional models of physician rounding can result in gaps and delays in communication between team members involved in the...

Title: The "Incompetent" Cervix and the "Good" Mother
Author: Michalik, Madeleine
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: While many communication studies and feminist scholars study gendered discourse and the medicalization of the female body, no work has been done to understand the term "Incompetent Cervix" and its implications for those with this diagnosis. Using ...

Title: They said what? How to communicate effectively with advocates
Author: Strompolis, Melissa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Political science, Psychology
Description: With effective communication, nonprofit organizations engaged in policy and advocacy work can have a positive impact on the constituents served by the organization, on the advocates working with the organization, and on social issues in general. E...

Title: Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Uncertainty and Emotional Content on Users' Decision-making About Misinformation
Author: Karduni, Alireza
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Communication, Cognitive psychology
Description: Misinformation on social media is a phenomenon with considerable impacts on our societies. To effectively mitigate its effects, we need to employ a cross-disciplinary effort to holistically address the critical elements involved in the process, in...

Title: Unnecessary Roughness: Viral Video, Circulation, and Proof in the Ray Rice Case
Author: Booker, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Mass media
Description: The National Football League (NFL) is no stranger to criticism regarding their players and violence against women. One of the more publicized cases transpired following surveillance videos that surfaced 7 months apart from each other; the first de...

Title: Visualizing #BostonStrong: Commemorative Implications for a Rhetorical Epithet of Civic Identity
Author: Crawford, Emily
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric
Description: Following a tragic event such as a mass shooting, terrorist attack or natural disaster in the United States, it has become a ritual for audiences to establish particular hashtags pertaining to these events. Subsequent to the Boston Marathon bombin...

Title: Woke AF: Black Feminism and The Read
Author: Cameron, Shanice
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: The purpose of this study is to analyze how Crissle West and Kid Fury use humor and African American discourse to discuss Black feminism on the weekly comedy podcast, The Read. I argue that West and Fury discuss Black feminism with respect to the ...