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Efficacy of inoculation strategies in promoting resistance to political attack messages: Source credibility perspective.
(2003)
Taken together, the results of this dissertation indicate that inoculation is an effective resistance option for candidates in deflecting the influence of political attack messages delivered in both political advertising ...
Romantic partners' communication about their cross-sex friends: Dialectical tensions and management strategies.
(2000)
A mixed method approach (including diaries, questionnaires, and critical incident scenario discussions) was utilized for data collection. Of the ten married couples who participated in the study, only four couples successfully ...
Communication ecologies and contemporary African American families: A study of Black family death rituals.
(2001)
African American families are shown to include an extended group as family during the death ritual process, with a primary relationship among the family, church and funeral directors.
An analysis of Japanese TV commercials that feature foreign celebrities: A content analytic and interview approach.
(2005)
Overall, though Japan and the US are almost the same economically, the information flow is almost always one-way, from the US to Japan. In Japan, Western celebrities, Hollywood movies, and other American television programs, ...
Advice giving and the management of uncertainty for cancer survivors: An exploratory study.
(2005)
Previous research on advice in supportive interactions has focused exclusively on facework, advice content, and receptivity to advice and has not systematically considered the effects of uncertainty management processes, ...
(Not so) Divine comedy: A content analysis of humorous political ads.
(2000)
The current study is a content analysis of 379 humorous political advertisements from 1952 to 1996 in every election level from civic to presidential. Percentages, Chi Square analyses and one-sample t-tests are employed ...
Cultural identity and personal involvement of community interpreters
(2008)
The current study is based on 30 in-depth interviews with Russian professional interpreters. It addresses three broad questions: cultural identity, invisibility / involvement, and the relationship between the two. In doing ...
Male Internet pornography consumers and their attitudes toward men and women.
(2001)
Grounded in pornography literature from the conservative-moralist, liberal, and feminist perspectives, and utilizing traditional theories of media effects, this study examined habitual male consumers of Internet pornography ...
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 ...
Speaking about ghosts (cerita hantu melayu): Malay narratives-in-interaction.
(2004)
This dissertation is divided into two parts. In Part One I discuss the literature associated with narrative to make a case for how narrative influences social reality. I find the monologic view of storytelling problematic ...