Browsing by Department "Communication"
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A Call for Revival: From Discourse of Renewal to Crisis Revival, a Crisis Management Approach for Brand Communities
(2018-08-03)This dissertation project sought to explore and better explicate the ways in which discourse of renewal functions as a crisis communication strategy. While previous research conducted on discourse of renewal has focused ... -
Active Wavelength Selection for Chemical Identification Using Tunable Spectroscopy
(2016-04-08)Spectrometers are the cornerstone of analytical chemistry. Recent advances in microoptics manufacturing provide lightweight and portable alternatives to traditional spectrometers. In this dissertation, we developed a ... -
Anything but Trivial: Trans-Contextual Identification and Control Among Participants in the World's Largest Trivia Contest
(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. ... -
Apps Seeking Theories: Results of a Study on the Use of Health Behavior Change Theories in Cancer Survivorship Mobile Apps
(JMIR Publications, 2015-03-27)Background Thousands of mobile health apps are now available for use on mobile phones for a variety of uses and conditions, including cancer survivorship. Many of these apps appear to deliver health behavior interventions ... -
AUTISM AND THE PERPETUAL PUZZLE: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THREE EXPLANATIONS FOR AUTISM
(2010-01-16)Autism awareness has increased in recent years in part because it is marked by confusion and controversy. The confusion and controversy stem from the fact that there are many beliefs about autism but little agreement. In ... -
Avoiding Booby Traps and Whipping Up Pumpkin-spinach Purées: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Pediatric Nutrition Birth through the First 12-Months
(2013-11-05)With attention to parenting, mothering, and fathering in the academy and attention to pediatric nutrition in the sciences, this study meets at their intersection. Using a critical approach to study narrative, this inquiry ... -
Becoming "Community Engaged": Engaged Scholarship, the Carnegie Foundation, and Tenure and Promotion at R1 Universities
(2017-05-26)In 2006 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching created a new elective classification for institutions of higher education: that of “Community Engagement”. It was the first voluntary classification, and ... -
Becoming a Professional: Examining Professional Development Practices of Communication Doctoral Students
(2012-10-19)Higher education is currently facing a number of challenges that are leading doctoral students to seek employment outside of the traditional research-focused institution. With students looking for different jobs, professional ... -
Behind the scenes, or at least behind your back: hidden conflict during organizational change
(2009-05-15)Throughout extant literature, there is a great deal of research on organizational change and organizational conflict; however, the two have rarely been studied together. Even less frequently studied is the existence and ... -
‘But it’s Just a Joke!’: Latino Audiences’ Primed Reactions to Latino Comedians and their Use of Race-Based Humor
(2012-02-14)Racism persists individually and institutionally in the U.S. and race-based comedy prevails in media, accepted by diverse audiences as jokes. Media priming and Social Identity Theory theoretically ground this two-part ... -
Buying into the Business Case: A Bona Fide Group Study of Dialectical Tensions in Employee Network Groups
(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 ... -
Can High School Educators Bridge the Gap?: The Role of Teachers and Counselors in Improving Minority Students' Perceptions about Higher Education via Effective Message Construction
(2016-08-01)The central aim of this thesis is to explore the types of messages that high school educators construct and whether or not they are appropriate for minority student groups. Appropriate in this instance is assessed by whether ... -
Can You Laugh at Terrorism: Humor as Social Critique
(2010-07-14)Many scholars have claimed that humor is not powerful enough to bring about social change. However, this study argues that humor is a pervasive form of critique used in America, and is worthy of being examined. With the ... -
Career Construction and Narratives in the Nursing Profession: Nurse Managers and Registered Nurses on Alternative Work Arrangements
(2018-10-25)Alternative work arrangements present novel ways of organizing that continuously change the nature of work and careers. This dissertation adds to the growing literature on the changing nature of careers and workplace ... -
Characterization, Coordination, and Legitimization of Risk in Cross-Disciplinary Situations
(2011-10-21)In contemporary times, policy makers and risk managers find themselves required to make decisions about how to prevent or mitigate complex risks that face society. Risks, such as global warming and energy production, are ... -
Comics for Girls? A Study of Shojo and American Girlhood Culture
(2010-07-14)American entertainment often presents heroines who still conform to the confining stereotypes of passivity, docility, sexual objectification, and ultimate dependence on the hero, offering patriarchal narratives in popular ... -
Communicating 21st century statecraft: Evaluating the paradigm shift argument
(2011-10-21)This project examines how social media is being used by individuals within the State Department engaged in public diplomacy and how the use of these technologies may or may not represent a paradigm shift in diplomatic ... -
Communication Power In Israeli Digital Diplomacy: Towards A Networked Theory Of Geopolitics
(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. ... -
Community Connectedness and Long-Term Care in Late Life: A Narrative Analysis of Successful Aging in a Small Town
(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, ...