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An examination of parental knowledge of adolescent media consumption and parental mediation.
(2001)
Overall, the results revealed that parents are generally knowledgeable about the types and quantity of media their adolescents' use. Furthermore, parents may try to employ parental mediation strategies, but may not be ...
(Re)engaging the other half of America in electoral politics :
(2001)
This dissertation outlines both qualitative and quantitative methods to address the underlying phenomenon. Specifically, 22 focus groups and 54 in-depth personal interviews were conducted to address the causes and solutions ...
Creativity-enhancement in media organizations: A study of the perception of journalists and media managers in Saudi Arabia.
(2003)
This dissertation examines creativity enhancement in the context of media organizations in Saudi Arabia. In the empirical component of this study, managers and employees in seven Saudi media organizations were surveyed for ...
Conflict as a relational turning point.
(2005)
Turning points, which represent changes that transform a relationship, are consistent with a dialectical view of relationships (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996). Previous research has presumed that turning points produce either ...
Questions to the First Minister of Scotland.
(2003)
Political communication research traditionally has focussed on media coverage of politics. At the same time, a rhetorical perspective has informed most scholarship on the subject of direct politician discourse. The present ...
Karo kari (honor killing) in Pakistan: A hermeneutic study of various discourses.
(2003)
Honor killing is one form of extreme violence perpetrated on women by men. In Pakistan it is called karo kari (literarally: blackened man, blackened woman). It most commonly is a premeditated killing of a girl or woman, ...
Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)
This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ...
Embodiment, technology and communication: A phenomenological exploration of communication in the technological milieu.
(2002)
Our potential for communication depends on a mutational characteristic of the consciousness structure as embodied, and not on the conscious subject as claimed by the objectivistic- or subjectivistic-biased theories that ...
Italian American identity: A hermeneutic examination of Tampa's Italian community.
(2007)
This study focuses on how diverse interpretations of ethnicity within the United States produce meaning for Italian Americans. Research regarding Italian Americans and the effects of negative stereotypes, cultural products, ...
Predicting communication satisfaction and relationship satisfaction in online romantic relationships.
(2000)
Grounded in the literature on computer mediated communication and in traditional theories of interpersonal relationships and communication (e.g., Uncertainty Reduction Theory) this study examined the predictors of communication ...