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Understanding public school teachers' accounts of conflicts: An ethnographically based, ethnomethodological investigation.
(2001)
The data for this project are narrative descriptions or accounts of conflict episodes written by public school teachers. Two categories of research within the Language and Social Interaction tradition---the ethnography of ...
ADOPTING AND RESISTING EVIDENCE-BASED CALLS FOR CHANGE: DISCURSIVE RESOURCES IN ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO INSTITUTIONAL PRESSURES
(2019-05-10)
Institutional forces often pressure organizations to conform and behave in similar manners even when those actions go against an organization’s best interests. One particular U.S. football organization, known as the team ...
Expressing the kami (deities): A study of Washinomiya Saibara Kagura
(2010)
This dissertation explores WASHINOMIYA SAIBARA KAGURA as a communication site where religious beliefs, values, and ways of life are interwoven with human expression. The kagura is one of the oldest forms of Shinto folk ...
Shortwave broadcasting in a new world order: An historical examination of the influences of satellite radio and Internet radio on shortwave broadcasting since the end of the Cold War.
(2004)
From the application of shortwave frequencies to broadcasting in the 1920s until the last decade of the 20th century, international broadcasting was synonymous with shortwave broadcasting by state-run radio stations. For ...
Native American and Anglo use of compliance-gaining strategies /
(1984)
The findings uncover some important information which hopefully will stimulate researchers to investigate populations in other locales in the continental United States.
The Brain Trust Model: A proposed change to modern change management.
(2006)
The study of change management and innovation is a perplexing and challenging undertaking. A review of the literature revealed that change management practices and methodological frameworks are currently insufficient to ...
Communication skills training and development: What is the state of the art?
(2001)
This exploratory/descriptive study investigates communication skills training provided by companies between 1998 and 2000 and perceptions of human resource practitioners (managers and trainers) as to the importance of ...
Late night political comedy, candidate image, and inoculation: A unique test of inoculation theory.
(2004)
Additionally, this study assessed the viability of using inoculation treatments to protect against late night political ridicule (monologues and parodies). Previous research beginning in the late 1980s has revealed inoculation ...
An examination of computer-mediated communication's scholarly communication.
(1999)
This dissertation asks "what is meant by computer-mediated communication?" CMC was defined as it exists in the scholarly communication concerning business, education, psychology, sociology, and social sciences. This ...
Late-night television talk shows and political comedy programs: A study of young voters' political experiences.
(2006)
The information processing strategy active reflection was also examined to determine the mediation relationship between exposure and attention to late night television talk shows and political comedy programs and the outcome ...