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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 ...
Confronting and Defending Unethical Behavior: Communication and Ethical Sensegiving
(2011)
The purpose of this two-study dissertation was to investigate the role of communication in confronting and defending unethical organizational behavior. Utilizing two language production experimental designs, results reveal ...
FINDING PEACE IN LIFE'S UNEXPECTED JOURNEY: THE PROCESS OF GRIEVING AND IDENTITY TRANSFORMATION FOR MOTHERS OF CHILDEN WITH DOWN SYNDROME
(2016-05-13)
This qualitative study concerns the process of grieving and identity transformation for mothers of children with Down syndrome. The study aimed to understand the identity loss of mothers of child with disability through ...
Medium-Same versus Medium-Different Inoculation against Candidate and Political Stealth Group Sponsored Political Attack Advertising
(2010)
The 2008 presidential campaign contextualized this study of soft-money sponsored political spot negative advertising, its content, its influence, inoculation's blanket of protection against that influence and print versus ...
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Hispanic Youth: A Study of Communication Patterns, Functional Fitness, and Psychological Health
(2010)
This study examines the psychological health and functional fitness of Hispanic youth from a theoretical perspective, specifically with respect to the role of their interpersonal communication patterns in their integration ...
FROM PINK TO DETOURNEMENT: THE SEMIOTICS OF RADICAL QUEER DESIRES ON INTERNET SPACES
(2012)
This research explores the way queer political groups use symbolic capital in their web presences. It seeks to read semiotically how images deployed in queer Internet spaces can create and reinforce queer identities. This ...
Globalization, New Technologies, and Intercultural Flexibility: Communication and Culture of Korean Adolescents in the United States
(2012)
This study aims to comprehend the contextual backgrounds, communicative behaviors, and cultural consequences of South Korean adolescents who are sent to the United States for the purpose of education. Globalization, the ...
CONCERTIVE RESISTANCE: HOW ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS RESIST COLLECTIVELY IN THE ABSENCE OF RESISTANCE LEADERSHIP
(2015-05)
This dissertation describes an organizational phenomenon whereby organizational members are able to resist managerial influence collectively in the absence of overt talk or leadership communication—labeled here concertive ...
CAN YOU SPARE SOME (SOCIAL) CHANGE? PARTICIPATORY MEDIA AS CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE IN POOR AND HOMELESS COMMUNITIES
(2014)
Increase in empowerment and accurate representation for lower socioeconomic status groups is a dire and growing need in America. This dissertation examines how participatory media processes can serve as catalysts for change ...
COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE
(2015)
Powerful semiotic signs like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall served significant communicative functions. The modern culture of nation state wall building continues despite the fact that the security fences are ...