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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 ...
Adaptation versus fusion theory in the experience of returned LDS missionaries.
(2002)
This dissertation investigates the outcomes of theory-making, as well as many underlying assumptions surrounding intercultural contact. It does this by examining two competing intercultural theories, Kim's Adaptation Theory ...
The built environment as communication: Totality, alterity, and dissociation in urban and suburban spaces.
(2003)
This study of the contemporary American built environment works applies several concepts in a semiotic study aimed at understanding the values presented in the built environment. In particular Kramer's theory of dissociation, ...