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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: 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: Dietary Disclosure: Constitutive Rhetoric of Identities in Altruistic and Egoistic Veg*anism
Author: Caddell, Mackenzie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Despite the rise in popularity of vegan and vegetarian (veg*an) diets and the emergence of social media activism, ethical philosophies related to meat abstention and veg*an identities remain stigmatized in Western societies. The recent popularity ...

Title: FUZZIER CONSTRUCTS IN CONTENT ANALYSIS: RATINGS FROM THE CROWD VS. TRADITIONAL EXPERTS
Author: Moffit, Miles
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The task of rating (or "coding") text data as a component of qualitative content analysis remains a time-consuming process. Advances in crowdsourcing platforms have presented novel opportunities to outsource this work away from the desks of academ...

Title: INGREDIENTS OF MAKING ONLINE ACTIVITY BETWEEN REMOTE GRANDPARENT AND GRANDCHILDREN SUCCESSFUL
Author: Sarwar, Saquib
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Information technology
Description: Grandparents and grandchildren share a special bond. Their relationship grows through communication, activities, and taking care of each other. But when they are separated, they fail to nurture the relationship for lack of connectedness and commun...

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: 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: NOVEL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PLANAR ANTENNAS WITH GOVERNABLE CIRCULAR POLARIZATION
Author: Thakar, Dip
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Communication
Description: This document is an explicit and an exclusive account on two antennas. This literatureis an attempt to solve some of the challenges for planar antennas in the frequencyindependent class and exploit the radiative nature of narrow band patch antenna...

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: 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: 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 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...