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DWI: Drinking While Indian. The Impact of Culture and Context on American Indian Drinking Behavior
(2011)
American Indians have long been characterized as particularly susceptible to alcohol misuse and alcohol-related problems. Soon after initial contact with the indigenous populations of North America, European explorers and ...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE CHINESE?: AMERICAN SOJOURNERS‘ EXPERIENCES OF BEING THE OTHER IN CHINA
(2017-05-12)
This study is an examination of American sojourners’ intercultural experiences in China, and an exploration of their identity of being the Other, emerging from intercultural encounters. Through participants’ self-descriptions, ...
CONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY TRANSACTIONALLY: THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTITUTION OF ISIL
(2016-05-13)
This dissertation explores how organizations attempt to construct their ontology and legitimacy through external messages, known as institutional positioning. Constructing an image of legitimacy is particularly important, ...
THE ADDITION OF VALENCE AND NARRATIVE ENDINGS’ INFLUENCE ON THE RISK CONVERGENCE MODEL
(2017-08-01)
The risk convergence model (RCM) was developed as a theoretical framework to organize research on media effects and narrative persuasion (So & Nabi, 2013). The model identifies social distance to a fictional character as ...
Imitating and Innovating a Critical Television Studies Model for Communication
(2015-05-08)
This project imitates a television studies model of criticism by innovating a critical mixed-methods approach for communication scholars. Jonathan Gray and Amanda Lotz posit a television studies model that comprises ...
TRAINING ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINERS TO FRAME FEEDBACK: MITIGATING FACE CONCERNS AND SUPPRESSING EGO DEFENSIVENESS
(2015-05-09)
This dissertation applies Implicit Person Theory (IPT) to the contexts of organizational training and feedback. IPT scholars argue that individuals ascribe to one of two groups regarding perceptions of ability: entity or ...
FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS A STORY: NARRATIVES OF OKLAHOMA TEACHERS ABOUT THE 2018 WALKOUT AND TEACHING IN OKLAHOMA
(2018-05-10)
Members of social movements create and maintain the meanings of that movement (Snow & Benford, 1992). Interviews with 49 teachers between September and November 2018 provide the data for this qualitative study. This ...
THE MODERATING ROLE OF MORTALITY SALIENCE: AN EXAMINATION OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, VOTER-OUTCOME VARIABLES, AND POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS
(2012)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine terror management theory in conjunction with immigration and economy issue advertisements. Specifically, this study examines how voters' intent to vote for a conservative 2012 ...
Building Resistance to Front Group Stealth: A Theoretical Merger Between Inoculation Theory and the Heuristic Systematic Processing Model
(2013)
This experimental research tested two motivational factors drawn from the heuristic processing model (Chaiken, 1980) to understand the role of message processing in the success of deceptive front groups. This research ...
Social Capital Networks of Media NGOs in Peru: A Public Relations Approach to Explicating Relationships in Civil Society
(2011)
Civil society is created and sustained through the relationships of interconnected organizations such as NGOs and donors. Social capital is created via these relationships, providing civil society actors with the tangible ...