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AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS: THE ROLE OF NETWORK STRUCTURES AND BOUNDARY SPANNER BEHAVIORS AS RELATED TO COLLABORATION IN INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS
(2011)
Using data collected as part of a grant project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF# 0538924), an exploratory analysis of the latent organizational structures and boundary spanner behaviors that impact perceived ...
HOW MEMORABLE SOCIALIZATION MESSAGES FROM WITHIN CULTURAL COMMUNITIES SHAPE ADULT MEANING ATTRIBUTIONS ABOUT WORK: THE CASE OF LEBANESE-AMERICANS
(2013)
This dissertation describes the process by which community messaging obligates members to perform work behaviors in order to achieve full membership status--labeled here the Obligation-based Culturing of Work (OCW). The ...
An Ethnography of Twitch Streamers: Negotiating Professionalism in New Media Content Creation
(2017-05-12)
Twitch is an online video distribution platform that allows individuals to broadcast live video of themselves playing video games, and includes features that allow viewers to financially support their favorite Twitch ...
To Think Different: The Unexpected Consequences of Personal Computer and Internet Use
(2010)
This study examines the contemporary user patterns that emerged when a new medium--the personal computer and the Internet--was introduced into the user's media ecology. The study focuses on the introductory period and ...
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, ...
AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF STUDENT-TO-STUDENT BENCHMARKING COMMUNICATION
(2011)
Almost certainly, students communicate with each other about course-related material, particularly about exam performance. However, what is less well understood is how often student-to-student communication occurs, when ...
Terror Management Theory, Religious Orientation, and Dissociation: Addressing Allport's Paradox of Religion and Racism
(2014-04-30)
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This dissertation addresses the paradoxical relationship between religion and racism. Specifically, this study combines elements of terror management theory (TMT) and the dissociation model to examine the potential ...
Intercultural communication of identity: A study of Japanese international students in the United States.
(2010)
This study aims to explore and understand how Japanese international students in the United States experience intercultural communication of identity. Eighteen semi-structured interviews were conducted. The Japanese ...
Strength of weak ties and the modern job search
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation examines the social networks of job seekers and information sources using two samples of Americans who have sought jobs in the past two-years. After a brief introductory chapter and a chapter reviewing ...
Framing Leader Messages for Highly Reliable Organizing
(2016-12-16)
This dissertation tests high-reliability organization (HRO) theory's claim that strategic leadership messages can direct followers’ sensemaking in adaptive ways (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2015). Specifically, two experiments ...