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(Re)engaging the other half of America in electoral politics :
(2001)
This dissertation outlines both qualitative and quantitative methods to address the underlying phenomenon. Specifically, 22 focus groups and 54 in-depth personal interviews were conducted to address the causes and solutions ...
The effects of visual spatial and visual numerical supplements on telephonic communication efficiency.
(1982)
This study examined the effects of two types of visual supplements on telephonic communication efficiency to determine if type of information (i.e., spatial relations and/or numerical chronology type of information) and ...
Creativity-enhancement in media organizations: A study of the perception of journalists and media managers in Saudi Arabia.
(2003)
This dissertation examines creativity enhancement in the context of media organizations in Saudi Arabia. In the empirical component of this study, managers and employees in seven Saudi media organizations were surveyed for ...
Conflict as a relational turning point.
(2005)
Turning points, which represent changes that transform a relationship, are consistent with a dialectical view of relationships (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996). Previous research has presumed that turning points produce either ...
Questions to the First Minister of Scotland.
(2003)
Political communication research traditionally has focussed on media coverage of politics. At the same time, a rhetorical perspective has informed most scholarship on the subject of direct politician discourse. The present ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...