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Title: A Cold Pot Does Not Boil: A Case Study Of The Virginia Beach City Municipal Center Shooting To Understand Disgruntled Employee Violence
Author: Bynum, Karly
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational sociology
Description: The phenomenon of the violent disgruntled employee is a symptom of increasing mass violence in the U.S. Previous literature on mass violence in the workplace is mostly based on the individual psychologization of attackers. This case study is a rea...

Title: A Cold Pot Does Not Boil: A Case Study Of The Virginia Beach City Municipal Center Shooting To Understand Disgruntled Employee Violence
Author: Bynum, Karly
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational sociology
Description: The phenomenon of the violent disgruntled employee is a symptom of increasing mass violence in the U.S. Previous literature on mass violence in the workplace is mostly based on the individual psychologization of attackers. This case study is a rea...

Title: Attribution Theory and Apology Discourse in the Context of Medical Errors
Author: Hartsell, Haley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology, Health education
Description: Communication scholars have investigated medical error and apology discourse over the last 20 years. However, despite the previous research on this topic, little is known about what factors (i.e., controllability, emotional response, and error sev...

Title: Black Lives Matter and Black Power
Author: Fraser, Daviana
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...

Title: Black Lives Matter and Black Power
Author: Fraser, Daviana
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Rhetoric, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: Today, Black Americans face the same foes as in previous efforts to secure civil rights. Over the last decade, names like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Keith Lamont Scott, Philando Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor join those ...

Title: Building the Leaders of the Future: A Communication Perspective on College Student Leadership Programs
Author: De Jesus Cesar Bezerra Alonso, Vanessa
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: While leadership communication has been the focus of interest for communication scholars in the last 20 years, no work has been done to understand the conceptualizations of leadership and its implications for the communication discipline in the hi...

Title: Canvas of a Community: The Visual Rhetoric of Black Liberation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Manning Jr., Mark
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: Public art, such as graffiti, street art and murals are powerful vessels of ontological expression that allow nuanced and contextual ideas to be communicated to and about the communities that they exist within. Charlotte (NC) has emerged as a wort...

Title: Canvas of a Community: The Visual Rhetoric of Black Liberation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Manning Jr., Mark
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: Public art, such as graffiti, street art and murals are powerful vessels of ontological expression that allow nuanced and contextual ideas to be communicated to and about the communities that they exist within. Charlotte (NC) has emerged as a wort...

Title: INTERNAL ACTIVISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY: A CASE STUDY OF THE NBA’S REACTION TO THE NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTESTS IN SPORTS
Author: Kelly, Corey
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Public relations scholarship, especially in recent years, has witnessed a growing call for studies that investigate how activists engage in public relations. There are still few studies on internal activism, despite its promise for new insights an...

Title: Into The Unknown: A Queer Analysis of the Metaphors in Disney's Frozen Franchise
Author: Farris, Molly
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: This thesis examines Frozen and Frozen II for its queer themes communicated through metaphors. After examining the queer metaphors in both films, the project examines online public discussions about the Disney franchise to determine if these opini...

Title: MLB's Neocolonial Practices in the Dominican Republic Academy System
Author: Gentile, Patrick
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Major League Baseball (MLB) has operated in the Dominican Republic for many years in order to find cheap labor that is refined and shipped to the United States, with goals that a few players will develop into great players. Once a player is signed...

Title: Me, Myself, and Depression: Identity Construction and Depression
Author: Thomas, Rachael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Mental health
Description: In this narrative autoethnography, I write about and analyze my experiences with depression in order to understand how my identity is socially constructed within that context. Through thematic analysis, I use Goffman's (1963) identity theory as a ...

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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: The Rhetorical Importance of Monstrosity: Genre Criticism and "Wuthering Heights"
Author: Fussell, Taylor
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric
Description: In Emily Bronte’s foundational narrative Wuthering Heights (1847), monstrosity is representative of repressed societal fears in response to growing industrialization, shifting socioeconomic status, and changing gender norms of the Victorian era. T...