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Resistance to change in the community college: The influence of participation, open communication, perceived organizational support, and organizational commitment.
(2006)
The ability to successfully implement organizational change in a constantly evolving world is an increasingly critical element for the success of community colleges. This study was conducted to examine the interrelationships ...
Videostyle and webstyle in 2000: Comparing the gender differences of candidate presentations in political advertising and on the Internet.
(2002)
Based on the results of the study, differences did emerge in the videostyles and webstyles of female and male candidates in 2000. For example, female candidate videostyle differed from male candidate videostyle in a more ...
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 ...