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Sex and the political process: An analysis of sex stereotypes in 1998 senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns.
(2000)
By triangulating quantitative content analysis of political ads and newspaper coverage with qualitative interviews of political candidates significant and interesting results are revealed concerning candidates, stereotypes, ...
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 ...
Colonizing consumer culture: A semiotic analysis of the Korean advertising.
(1997)
Jeans ads provide an excellent example of how Western consumer culture has influenced Korean advertising and raise the issue of cultural colonization. Essentially, jeans retain traces of their Americanness wherever they ...
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 ...
Karo kari (honor killing) in Pakistan: A hermeneutic study of various discourses.
(2003)
Honor killing is one form of extreme violence perpetrated on women by men. In Pakistan it is called karo kari (literarally: blackened man, blackened woman). It most commonly is a premeditated killing of a girl or woman, ...
Personalizing the risk of AIDS: Investigating the attitudes, communication and behavior of people living with HIV.
(1999)
Results of this study indicate that prior to infection, HIV positive heterosexuals reported having similar safer sexual beliefs, attitudes, communication, and behaviors to those not infected with virus. Specifically, ...
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 ...
Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)
This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ...
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 ...
Being an Indian among Indians /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)
In order to address the phenomenon of Indianness a qualitative-ethnographic methodology was employed which involved participant observation. This entails a heavy dependence on inductive procedures which contrast with an a ...