Browsing by Author "La Pastina, Antonio"
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Ormes, Gregory F. (2015-08-19)With this research project, I endeavored to better understand the relationship that exists between identification, context, and control within communities of practice in which members identify with particular salience. ...
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Baker, Jane Stuart (2010-10-12)Objectives for managing diversity in organizations include reducing lawsuits, responding to changing employee demographics, enhancing image, attracting and retaining a variety of talent, reaching new customer bases, and ...
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Hooks, Alyssa Jade (2022-08-26)Background: The current coming out literature discusses the relationship between society’s rejection of queer identities and how that plays into an individual’s understanding of themselves and when/if they disclose their ...
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Contemporary Representations of Race: Mediating the New(s) Politics of Blackness in the Obama Moment French, Nina Casetra (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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Davis, Mamie C. (2014-08-08)This thesis shares interactive, performative stories regarding the intersection of gang culture and gangsta rap music. For a total of twenty-one days in a nine month span, I conducted ethnographic participant observation ...
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Gonzalez, Ariadne Alejandra (2016-08-03)This dissertation aims to examine domestic work—a low paid service industry that has been neglected in the organizational communication literature. It answers the call to focus on and study actual work practices rather ...
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Jennings, Paige E. (2023-08-02)Despite the increasing number of individuals who identify as both lesbian and non-binary, accepting them into the larger lesbian community remains a topic of debate among some individuals – a discourse that is largely ...
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Sudduth, Amanda Michelle (2012-10-19)This study utilized content analysis of newspaper articles in the month following Hurricane Ike's landfall to evaluate the presence of agenda setting and framing. Three national newspapers were analyzed to determine the ...
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Collins, Brittany L (2016-01-22)Individuals who identify with a social minority group, particularly African American, tend to face problematic social conditions wherein difference becomes a salient factor by which they must make sense of, negotiate, and ...
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Westgate, Christopher Joseph (2012-10-19)This manuscript tells the stories of the Latin/o and general music industries in the United States from 1898 to 2000. It argues that performers transformed the local identities of aural industries based in place and melody ...
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Ramirez, Anthony R (2022-10-25)In the United States, Mexican immigration is constantly a hot topic in the news and within politics, and it is also found in various forms of media and popular culture. Within this research project, I focus on one of those ...
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Hernandez, Leandra H (2014-08-10)This dissertation explores Mexican-American women’s experiences with prenatal testing, more specifically the amniocentesis procedure. Utilizing health communication theories and Chicana feminist theories as my theoretical ...
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Cantu, Elizabeth Angelica (2009-05-15)Globalization trends and treaties, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have increased the access and flow of United States media and popular culture products in Mexico. Limited research has been done ...
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Shoemaker, Martha McArdell (2010-10-12)Globalizing processes often place the social cohesion of organizations at risk when multinational people experience and exhibit tensions from their diverse cultural and language norms. This study uses discourse analysis ...
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Lewis, Jocelyn Renee (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)The present research conducted a rich discourse analysis of an episode of the fictional television crime drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as a content analysis of local and national news transcripts focusing ...
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Lee, Yoon Jung (2012-10-19)Since 1992, the number of short-term mission (STM) travelers has exponentially increased for more than a decade. The purpose of STMs is to spread religious messages to local residents. In order to spread the word of God, ...
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Lomeli, Arlett Sophia (2015-05-07)This dissertation analyzes the gendered racialization of identities of Mexican immigrants in the media and focuses on how newspapers in particular provide a significant platform in which to reinforce, transform and/or ...
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Sukovic, Masa (2014-12-12)This dissertation uses a variety of interpretive methods to complement and enlarge existing research on mothers’ communication about and perceptions of their role in children’s nutrition. I explore the views of 28 mothers ...
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Williams, Caitlin (2023-08-21)This study introduces a feminist ventriloquial discourse tracing method to explore how bodies become present with the development of sport organizational gender policies. Using the 2020 World Rugby Union Transgender Policy ...
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Schweikhard Robison, Andrea R. (2011-02-22)Project Runway premiered on Bravo TV on December 1st, 2004, and is now in its sixth season, which aired on Lifetime. On Project Runway, designer contestants live together in apartments in downtown New York for the duration ...