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Successful socialization of an organizational culture: A critical analysis of the messages of student members of Southern Nazarene University.
(2002)
The purpose of this study is to examine students' messages, gathered through post-exit interviews, in order to compare how they talk about membership in the organizational culture of Southern Nazarene University with the ...
Communication apprehension in life narratives.
(2002)
A phenomenological study was conducted with eight college students who scored 100 or over on the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension. Each student discussed his/her life narrative in 90 to 120 minutes interviews. ...
An adjustment process and communication dilemma of people with disabilities in Japan.
(2002)
Throughout their lives, people make various kinds of adjustments. Most people are capable of making adjustments in order to survive challenging experiences. This fact is especially true for newly disabled individuals whose ...
Communicating identity: Communication processes in the development of group identity through congregational worship rituals.
(2002)
How does communication work in the process of group identity creation and maintenance? This dissertation uses a social construction of reality orientation to seek the verbal, nonverbal, and ritual communication elements ...
Institutional review boards: Politics, power, purpose and process in a regulatory organization.
(2002)
Alternatives are offered for consideration: (1) use of more precise terms, for example, distinctions between participant/patient, doctor/researcher, and therapy/research); (2) developing different rules for social research, ...
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 ...
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 ...