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Fanship scale development
(2023-05-12)
Fanship is known as the connection an individual has with a fan object (e.g., celebrity, film, sports team, etc). Through this connection, individuals are able to build relationships, create social change, enact ...
An American Knightmare: Joker, Fandom, and Malicious Movie Meaning-Making
(2023-05-12)
This monograph concerns the long-standing communication problem of how individuals can identify and resist the influence of unethical public speakers. Scholarship on the issue of what Socrates & Plato called the “Evil ...
The effects of interactional identity traits (gender, partisanship, and veteran status) on candidate evaluations and electorate voting behaviors in U.S. Congressional elections
(2023-05-12)
Every year, the political candidates who run in the U.S. congressional elections become more and more diverse; there are more women, more veterans, more members of ethnic group minorities in Congress. Political candidates ...
Picking Our Pundits: Identifying Factors of Source Credibility in Politics
(2014-12)
This paper assesses the role parasocial interaction has on perceptions of credibility, especially in terms of political commentators. Parasocial interaction and the concept of entertainment education create a framework to ...
CONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY TRANSACTIONALLY: THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTITUTION OF ISIL
(2016-05-13)
This dissertation explores how organizations attempt to construct their ontology and legitimacy through external messages, known as institutional positioning. Constructing an image of legitimacy is particularly important, ...
THE ADDITION OF VALENCE AND NARRATIVE ENDINGS’ INFLUENCE ON THE RISK CONVERGENCE MODEL
(2017-08-01)
The risk convergence model (RCM) was developed as a theoretical framework to organize research on media effects and narrative persuasion (So & Nabi, 2013). The model identifies social distance to a fictional character as ...
Negotiating the Tensions of Collective Change Implementation
(2016-05)
Given the increasing number of interorganizational collaborations across governmental and private sectors, this study furthers theoretical understanding of these important relationships by focusing on dialectical tensions ...