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Title: PROMOTING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT THROUGH MANAGERS' STRATEGIC USE OF MEETINGS
Author: Allen, Joseph
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology, Industrial, Business
Description: Employee engagement is a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that researchers suggest is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption in work activities. Employee engagement is heavily marketed by HR consultants and recently rec...

Title: Crowd Control: Organizing the Crowd at Yelp
Author: Askay, David
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, World Wide Web--Study and teaching
Description: This dissertation investigates how businesses are able to align the collective actions of a disconnected crowd with the strategic goals of the organization. I examined this questions within the context of the business review website Yelp through a...

Title: ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
Author: Basalik, Debra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...

Title: Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...

Title: “16 Weeks is a Lot of Time to be Away”: A Contemporary Examination of Maternity Leave Perceptions and Experiences
Author: Chandler , Allison
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Sociology, Management
Description: In recent decades, women’s presence in the workplace has increased from only a quarter of total American workers, to nearly half of all American workers (U.S. Department of Labor, 2020). With an increasing number of women in the labor force, organ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...