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(DE)CENTERING HETERONORMATIVITY IN THE U.S. MILITARY: IDENTITY (RE)NEGOTIATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE FOLLOWING THE REPEAL OF “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”
(2016-05-13)
This study assesses: (1) cultural stigmatization processes and their influence on self-concept clarity for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States military, (2) the identity management strategies employed by GLB ...
Giving Your All: Evaluating Changing Social Identities Throughout the Assimilation Process in Full-Life Volunteer Organizations
(2016-05-14)
The present study evaluates the assimilation process for full-life volunteers in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) missionary program. The focus on full-life volunteers provided an opportunity to observe ...
Glocalization of the Korean Popular Culure in East Asia: Theorizing the Korean Wave
(2010)
This dissertation examines implications of the Korean Wave in relation to East Asia's contemporary media and popular culture, and discusses complex conditions and processing transformation of the Korean and East Asian media ...
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Hispanic Youth: A Study of Communication Patterns, Functional Fitness, and Psychological Health
(2010)
This study examines the psychological health and functional fitness of Hispanic youth from a theoretical perspective, specifically with respect to the role of their interpersonal communication patterns in their integration ...
Vested Interest and Disaster Preparedness
(2012)
In recent years the United States has recognized an increasing need for individual-level disaster preparedness, with federal, state and local government agencies finding only limited success in their efforts to institute ...
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 ...
Emerging Adulthood, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and the Environment: Young Hispanics in Oklahoma and New Mexico
(2010)
In this dissertation I examine the cross-cultural adaptation of Hispanic emerging adults in two distinct environments--the metropolitan areas of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. These two research sites ...
VISUAL FRAMING ON ARAB SATELLITE TV: COMPARING THE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF AL JAZEERA, AL JAZEERA ENGLISH, AL ARABIYA, ALHURRA, AND BBC ARABIC NEWSCASTS
(2012)
Initially praised as independent voices in a region known for authoritarian control, the pan-Arab satellite news networks have been criticized for airing content that is overtly violent, and sensational. Guided by framing ...
Hidden tensions: An exploration of multiple company employees' social identities in the U.S. and China
(2017-08-01)
This dissertation examined Chinese and U.S. organizational members’ multiple social identities and how they engaged in identity work to develop, organize, revise, and manage identity tensions that emerge from various ...
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 ...