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Finding the Big Picture: A Bona Fide Group Approach to Work Team Assimilation
(2015-12)
The purpose of the present study was to use the bona fide group perspective to study organizational assimilation through the work team context. Applying this perspective served to address two limitations in the organizational ...
Transversing Our borders: Decolonizing Communication Theory
(2015-08-14)
This dissertation explores the limitations of western communication models through analyzing the western colonial philosophical assumptions which underlie theories of communication. The themes of knowledge, reality, identity, ...
Imitating and Innovating a Critical Television Studies Model for Communication
(2015-05-08)
This project imitates a television studies model of criticism by innovating a critical mixed-methods approach for communication scholars. Jonathan Gray and Amanda Lotz posit a television studies model that comprises ...
TRAINING ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINERS TO FRAME FEEDBACK: MITIGATING FACE CONCERNS AND SUPPRESSING EGO DEFENSIVENESS
(2015-05-09)
This dissertation applies Implicit Person Theory (IPT) to the contexts of organizational training and feedback. IPT scholars argue that individuals ascribe to one of two groups regarding perceptions of ability: entity or ...
The Influence of Online Cues and Warranting Value on Impression Formation
(2015-05)
Warranting theory was developed as a means to understand how individuals
judge whether online information is reliable and valid and how those judgments
influence their impressions (DeAndrea, 2014; Walther, 2011). ...
Television's Cultivation of Attitudes about Online Romantic Relationships
(2015-09-16)
Cultivation theory is based upon the idea that television depicts a world that is different from people’s social reality. The result is that people who watch a lot of television have an inaccurate and skewed perception of ...
CONCERTIVE RESISTANCE: HOW ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS RESIST COLLECTIVELY IN THE ABSENCE OF RESISTANCE LEADERSHIP
(2015-05)
This dissertation describes an organizational phenomenon whereby organizational members are able to resist managerial influence collectively in the absence of overt talk or leadership communication—labeled here concertive ...
COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE
(2015)
Powerful semiotic signs like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall served significant communicative functions. The modern culture of nation state wall building continues despite the fact that the security fences are ...