Browsing by Author "Hsieh, Elaine"
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An Ancient Practice in the Modern Age: An Examination of the Camino de Santiago and the Impact of Technology on Modern Pilgrimage
Jackson-Kerr, Roni (2017-12-15)For more than twelve hundred years, sojourners have been walking the pilgrim routes of El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known as The Way of Saint James, in northern Spain. With a long and varied history, the Camino ... -
COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE
Thornton, Tyler J. (2015)Powerful semiotic signs like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall served significant communicative functions. The modern culture of nation state wall building continues despite the fact that the security fences are ... -
CONCERTIVE RESISTANCE: HOW ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS RESIST COLLECTIVELY IN THE ABSENCE OF RESISTANCE LEADERSHIP
Zanin, Alaina (2015-05)This dissertation describes an organizational phenomenon whereby organizational members are able to resist managerial influence collectively in the absence of overt talk or leadership communication—labeled here concertive ... -
(DE)CENTERING HETERONORMATIVITY IN THE U.S. MILITARY: IDENTITY (RE)NEGOTIATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE FOLLOWING THE REPEAL OF “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”
Van Gilder, Bobbi (2016-05-13)This study assesses: (1) cultural stigmatization processes and their influence on self-concept clarity for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States military, (2) the identity management strategies employed by GLB ... -
Decision aids in patient-physician communication for supporting shared decision making and patient satisfaction: an experimental study
Salous, Bushra (2022-08-04)The aim of this study was to explore the effect of the use and style of decision aids on shared decision making and patient satisfaction in patient-physician communication in the context of Generalized Anxiety Disorder ... -
FINDING PEACE IN LIFE'S UNEXPECTED JOURNEY: THE PROCESS OF GRIEVING AND IDENTITY TRANSFORMATION FOR MOTHERS OF CHILDEN WITH DOWN SYNDROME
Kong, Haiying (2016-05-13)This qualitative study concerns the process of grieving and identity transformation for mothers of children with Down syndrome. The study aimed to understand the identity loss of mothers of child with disability through ... -
Healthcare providers’ motivations and challenges when communicating about sexual health with individuals with intellectual disabilities
Beeler-Blackburn, Kaitlynn (2023-05-12)Patients with intellectual disabilities face additional challenges due to fears of health literacy (i.e., the ability to seek, understand, and utilize health information) and communicative competence. The taboo nature of ... -
Imitating and Innovating a Critical Television Studies Model for Communication
Castleberry, Garret (2015-05-08)This project imitates a television studies model of criticism by innovating a critical mixed-methods approach for communication scholars. Jonathan Gray and Amanda Lotz posit a television studies model that comprises ... -
THE INVISIBLE OTHER IN CROSS-CULTURAL CARE: INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES/ NONNATIVE PHYSICIANS IN PROVIDER-PATIENT INTERACTIONS
Liao, Danni (2017-05-12)The field of cross-cultural care has been primarily focused on examining doctor-patient communication when patients are minorities, immigrants, and refugees, conceptualizing nonnative physicians/ International Medical ... -
Mythologies of the migrant caravans: religion, ideology and migration
Cortes Quantip, Reinaldo Jose (2022-12-15)This research study is a semiotic and hermeneutic analysis of the tweets published on Twitter about the migratory caravan that occurred in 2018 under the hashtags #viacrucismigrante, #caravanamigrante #caravanscoming, and ... -
New mothers' management of complaints in computer-mediated communication channels
Wang, Guoyu (2022-12)This study examines new mothers’ complaining behaviors in computer-mediated communication (CMC) channels and investigates mothers’ privacy management when self-disclose family issues online. This study includes data collected ... -
THE (PASSIVE) VIOLENCE OF HARMONY AND BALANCE: LIVED EXPERIENCED OF JAVANESE WOMEN WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
Pitaloka, Dyah (2014-05-09)This study is an examination of Javanese women’s lived experience with Type 2 diabetes, an exploration of the ways these women maintain interactions with family members and society and how they adapt diabetes management ... -
Performing Forgiveness-Seeking: Do Magic Words Comfort?
Long, Brian (2023-12-15)Forgiveness is a process culminating in relationship renegotiation and transformation following the offering and acceptance of amends. The culmination of the forgiveness process is facilitated by the acknowledgement of a ... -
RECURSIVE ADAPTATION AND INTERDEPENDENT COMMUNICATION: A GROUNDED APPROACH TO THE INTEGRATION OF NEW/MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AND THE K-2 TEACHER
Zeoli, David (2019-05-10)The ascendency of technology in contemporary culture has catalyzed vertiginous alterations in the communication practices of individuals, groups, and organizations. The integration of new/mobile technology in educational ... -
Semiotic Analysis of Idolic Communication at the Core of the Oklahoma City Memorial Museum
Guardado, Antonio (2022-12-16)Traumatic events leave generational scars in communities around the world. In Oklahoma City, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995 left deep scars. The community then banded together to ... -
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE CHINESE?: AMERICAN SOJOURNERS‘ EXPERIENCES OF BEING THE OTHER IN CHINA
Liu, Yang (2017-05-12)This study is an examination of American sojourners’ intercultural experiences in China, and an exploration of their identity of being the Other, emerging from intercultural encounters. Through participants’ self-descriptions, ...