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Lebanese Subjectivities and Media Use: Post/Global Contexts
(2011)
Media use is neither socially determined nor socially determinative outside of subjectivity, the process by which the self makes meaning of its place in the world. To further our understandings of media and social change, ...
REACTANCE THEORY AND SELF-CONSTRUAL IN THE EAST AND WEST
(2017-05-12)
Using psychological reactance theory (Brehm, 1966) as an explanatory framework, this dissertation experimentally tests the effects of appeal type, restoration type, and self-construal on freedom threat perceptions, reactance ...
Cross-cultural comparisons on pathways between language barriers and health disparities
(2016-12-16)
Despite a large number of studies verifying the correlations among language barriers in healthcare settings and health disparities, the precise ways language barriers contribute to health disparities is less clear. This ...
Negotiating the Tensions of Collective Change Implementation
(2016-05)
Given the increasing number of interorganizational collaborations across governmental and private sectors, this study furthers theoretical understanding of these important relationships by focusing on dialectical tensions ...
INTERSECTING POLITICS AND HEALTH: REPRESENTATIONS OF A MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE
(2017)
Public health initiatives are spurred from three dominant political ideologies—neoliberalism, social justice, and pluralism—that influence the policy goals and methods. Neoliberalism, in particular, is the dominant ...
The Influence of Online Cues and Warranting Value on Impression Formation
(2015-05)
Warranting theory was developed as a means to understand how individuals
judge whether online information is reliable and valid and how those judgments
influence their impressions (DeAndrea, 2014; Walther, 2011). ...
An Ancient Practice in the Modern Age: An Examination of the Camino de Santiago and the Impact of Technology on Modern Pilgrimage
(2017-12-15)
For more than twelve hundred years, sojourners have been walking the pilgrim routes of El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known as The Way of Saint James, in northern Spain. With a long and varied history, the Camino ...
Television's Cultivation of Attitudes about Online Romantic Relationships
(2015-09-16)
Cultivation theory is based upon the idea that television depicts a world that is different from people’s social reality. The result is that people who watch a lot of television have an inaccurate and skewed perception of ...
Political Humor and Third-Person Perception
(2011)
Political humor shows like The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are not only very popular, they are also increasingly becoming a legitimate news source for certain audiences (particularly young people). The purpose of ...
COMBATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE BY ADDRESSING HEALTH-NUTRITION RELATED COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING CLAIMS: INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF REGULATORY FIT ON THE INOCULATION PROCESS
(2010)
Currently, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases are a primary threat to human health and development. International and domestic health ...