Browsing by Department "Communication"
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(2015-08-07)This study introduces an innovative approach to the study of digital diplomacy by extending Castells’ theory of communication power into a framework that can be applied to assess digital diplomacy efforts for state actors. ...
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(2021-07-11)Communication lies at the center of scholar-activism, community initiatives, and social movements. With the re-emergence of authoritarianism, threats to academic freedom, and widening socio-economic inequalities in a global ...
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )How effective communication, care, compassion, and a system in place had transformed one small Indian state's fight against COVID-19.
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(2016-02-15)The domestic construction industry consists of project based, dispersed organizations that face unique challenges when compared to other sectors. These challenges have largely slowed the innovative capacity of the industry. ...
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The Communicative Ecology of Caregiver Burden and the Moderating Effects of Emotional Intelligence (2018-05-07)This mixed-method exploratory study examines the communicative ecology of caregiving, which includes interpersonal, clinical, and family communication realms. It also examines whether the trait of emotional intelligence ...
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(2011-02-22)This dissertation is a narrative inquiry of the ways in which cultural values, norms, and expectations shape the aging experience of elderly adults living independently in Kasson, a small rural town in southeastern Minnesota, ...
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(2020-06-06)Connecting through Physical Distance are personal reflections of how the lockdown proved to be an enforced time-out to grapple with some troubling emotions and leading me on a path of reconnection with the self and others.
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(2012-10-19)National and international crises in the early 21st Century, whether natural, technological or man-made, emphasize the need for highly reliable organizations (HROs) to conduct emergency response in a relatively error-free ...
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(2021-06-03)Reproductive health(care) is a contentious issue, one that has been historically barred, limited, and regulated across the United States. Broadly defined, reproductive health is a state of well-being related to the ...
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Contemporary Representations of Race: Mediating the New(s) Politics of Blackness in the Obama Moment (2017-05-09)This dissertation examines ways in which the myth of meritocracy, notions of America as post-racial, and instances of colorisms are articulated through CNN (Cable News Network) during the rise of then-Senator Barack Obama’s ...
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(Howard Journal of Communication, 2005)A content analysis of randomly selected films (N = 24) about India produced from 1930–2000 in the US or UK was undertaken to examine the social construction of “Indian-ness.” There were significant inter-group differences ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This study developed and tested a contingency model of group communication in Korean workgroups that posited that the communication effectiveness and group performance of workgroups is determined by the âÂÂfitâ ...
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(2020-06-27)Quarantined Across Borders is our first entirely virtual multimedia online initiative. 80+ authors participated in this initiative from 30+ countries. Our goal with QAB was to create a wide platform for a broad range of ...
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(2020-06-05)I compare my situation during lockdown with that of a young Afghan named Morteza, who has been living in a refugee camp in northern Greece since 2016.
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(2020-06-08)Our collective ignorance of the underlying structure of liberal democracy endangers democracy itself; the actions of many democratic governments around the world in the age of the Coronavirus exacerbate this threat.
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(2020-06-08)The author documents his life from December through May through a series of diary entries from China, India, and the United States.
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COVID-19 Lockdown, Border Quarantine and Traditional Burial Rites in Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria (2020-05-30)This essay demonstrates how cultural practices in some areas run in conflict with government policies on the control of the spread of COVID-19.
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )How faith in God can help you make the best of a difficult situation
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The SEIU and the AFL-CIO utilized similar rhetorical strategies in creating identification to further change within their organizations. Despite similar rhetorical strategies, the change efforts differ substantially in ...
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(Journal of Communication, 2020-06)In this essay, we advance the Critical Media Effects (CME) framework as a way of bridging two major subfields of communication that seldom speak to one another: media effects scholarship and critical cultural communication. ...