Browsing by Author "Mix, Tamara"
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Born and raised in the boondocks': Bisexual men's experiences reared in rural areas
Brown, Colton (2018-07)This qualitative study addresses two gaps in knowledge of sexual minority identity development: (a) identity development of bisexual men and (b) the unique needs of bisexual men raised in rural environments. The researchers ... -
"Clean coal" is like saying "dry water"!: Corporate communication strategies, risk definition, and power in the controversy over Oklahoma's proposed Red Rock coal-fired plant
Waldo, Kristin Greta (2013-07)Societies in late modernity are highly dependent upon electricity produced by technologies that use primary fuels implicated in ecological expropriations and degradations. Technological dependency and risk make electric ... -
Community college persistence: Achievement, retention, and attainment in a diverse student population
Peevsasser, Shaun (2020-05)Community colleges occupy a distinct position within the field of higher education, especially when prospective students have adopted a College-for-All mentality. Due to widespread open admissions policies, these institutions ... -
Considering Bitcoin as a social movement: Involvement, knowledge, and investment as motivations
Lane, Jesse (2019-12)There is a general perception among members of the Bitcoin community that they are a part of a solution to some of the world's macro economic problems. This thesis seeks to better understand the social movement aspects of ... -
"Dream Deferred" : Undocumented Students and Higher Education
Nguyen, Jenny (Oklahoma State University, 2013-07-01)The purpose of this study is to explore and understand how undocumented students construct their sense of reality as college students by retaining positive feelings toward higher education. Given their college experience ... -
Effects of transportation into a video game world on aggressive cognitions and behaviors
Stermer, Steven Paul (2013-05)Transportation is the state of being highly immersed within a media world. Two studies examined how transportation into a video game world (via character choice) increases aggressive cognitions and behaviors. Study 1 ... -
Embodiment of Age and Gender: Body Image among Older Adults
Reddick, Kathleen Julia (2017-05-01)By reducing older Americans to grandparents or senior citizens, their impact on society is viewed as less substantial than that of younger or working-age adults. Older adult body image is highly understudied, even in a ... -
Environmental discourse in Oklahoma: Examining rhetorical strategies in three case studies
Lane, Christina Joy Graves (2021-05)Despite the acceleration of climate change, figuring out ways to productively talk about it remains difficult in some places. So where do we begin? As rhetoricians, we believe that studying discourse provides insight. ... -
Food insecurity and volunteerism in a college town: Social capital in a Stillwater food and resource center
Corbin, Becky (2018-05-04)This report was done to help Our Daily Bread (ODB), a Food and Resource Center (FRC) in Stillwater, OK, understand their volunteer demographics. This Food and Resource Center was started to help serve Payne County and ... -
Health and Safety Incidents Among Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace Corps' Response
Dicks, Kristina Leigh (Oklahoma State University, 2013-07-01)Every year thousands of Americans leave the country to begin service with the Peace Corps. Hundreds of Peace Corps Volunteers will return every year because of health conditions that could not be treated in the host country. ... -
Hydraulic Fracturing as Technological Hazard: Applying the Community Capitals Framework to Stakeholder Narratives in an Oil and Gas Community
Beaven, James Mark (2016-04-01)The current literature on hydraulic fracturing is largely survey based, addressing public assessments of the technology in broad strokes. This study draws on pertinent studies in disaster literature and the community ... -
"I would hire you, but...": Navigating the job market after a wrongful conviction
Estes, Michelle L. (2021-05)Wrongful convictions continue to receive increased attention among scholars and wider society. The majority of attention focuses on the causes of wrongful convictions and trying to estimate their occurrences. Far less is ... -
Idle No More and the Treadmill of Production: Corporate Power, Environmental Degradation, and Activism
West, Samantha Lynn (2015-07-01)Idle No More (INM) is a First Nations rights social-environmental movement that began as a response to the proposal of Bill C-45 in Canada. Bill C-45, also known as the Jobs and Growth Act of 2012, deregulated �barriers ... -
Mapping Power Plant Inequalities
Kosmicki, Sarah (Oklahoma State University, 2013-05-01)This study seeks to unveil how the siting of nuclear power plants differs from the siting of coal-fired power plants in the United States. More specifically, it addresses how the demographics of surrounding communities ... -
National-Local Interface of Social Control: The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Winston-Salem Branch of the Black Panther Party
Brame, Wendy Jean (Oklahoma State University, 2006-07-01)This study examines the relationship between national social control goals and goal implementation at the local level. National FBI goals shaped local control efforts through predefined categories of intelligence gathering. ... -
Positive psychological approach to suicide risk in a clinical sample
Davidson, Collin L. (2012-07)Scope and Method of Study: To examine risk and protective factors for suicide in a clinical sample, 62 individuals seeking outpatient therapy at the Psychological Services Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma were sampled. ... -
Print media coverage of Hurricane Harvey: A content analysis of the Houston Chronicle, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal from 2017 to 2018
Ali, S. M. Asger (2019-05)During a crisis moment like a natural disaster, people tend to rely on the mass media to get up-to-date information and stay informed. However, when media are covering crisis news, they lose some objectivity and rather ... -
Racial Residential Segregation and Access to Health Care Coverage: a Multilevel Analysis
Anderson, Kathryn Freeman (Oklahoma State University, 2011-05-01)A developing body of research has demonstrated the impact of racial residential segregation on a variety of negative health outcomes. Researchers theorize that segregation, as a form of structural racism, can have negative ... -
Respect for elders, rest opportunity, or pattern of structured inequality?: A qualitative study of urban women's experiences with menstrual practices in Kathmandu, Nepal
Karki, Srijana (2021-07)Women in Nepal, follow numerous menstrual practices. Past studies have focused on menstrual practices followed in rural areas, particularly emphasizing health and sanitation. Using 71 semi-structured interviews with women ... -
Rural Oklahoma and the nexus of disaster vulnerability, risk, and resilience
Straub, Adam Michael (2022-03)The concepts of vulnerability, risk, and resilience have experienced a meteoric rise in academic attention among disaster scholars over the past three decades. Vulnerability operates as the set of social conditions which ...