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Recognizing Racial Publics--An Exploration of Racial Identity and Community Among Black Women in Understanding Obesity and Weight Loss Messages
(2013)
This dissertation takes a public relations approach and qualitatively explores how Black women understand obesity and weight loss messages based on their racial identity and community. Racial identity is the degree to which ...
A SOCIETAL APPROACH TO SOCIAL SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM: ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY, CORPORATE RESPONSES
(2013)
This study examined the voluntary compliance of corporations to societal pressures exerted by one type of stakeholder--shareholders. Specifically, from an organizational legitimacy perspective, the study investigated ...
Considering a Framework for How the Supreme Court Should Conceptualize the Press Clause of the First Amendment in the Network-Society Era
(2013-12)
The Internet has made it possible for anyone to become a publisher, thus challenging traditional conceptualizations of the press and the press clause of the First Amendment, which has historically been understood in terms ...
Recognizing Racial Publics--An Exploration of Racial Identity and Community Among Black Women in Understanding Obesity and Weight Loss Messages
(2013)
This dissertation takes a public relations approach and qualitatively explores how Black women understand obesity and weight loss messages based on their racial identity and community. Racial identity is the degree to which ...
Talk is Cheap: Organizational Apologies from the Stakeholder's Perspective
(2013)
Apologies are a unique type of communication that organizations can use to rebuild their public image and their relationships with stakeholders after a crisis. Scholars in many disciplines have studied apologies, and ...
THREAT, MODELING AND MISCONCEPTIONS: A COORIENTATIONAL STUDY OF CITIZEN PHOTOJOURNALISTS' AND PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISTS' VALUES
(2013)
With the onset of digital technologies and the active audience it allots, professional photojournalists find themselves in competition with citizen photojournalists. The ability of citizens to create and publish their own ...