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This study aims to help fill the gap about the effect of social media on the Black African diaspora in the U.S. by researching how social media advertising affects consumer behavior within the Black co-cultures. Specifically, this study...
The information-seeking behavior has proven vital in understanding people's search behavior while seeking information about a particular topic or field. However, in some geographical regions, studies that focus on information-seeking...
The research project Information, motivation, and co-creation behaviors of literary tourists and their quest for meaningful experiences explores the behaviors of travelers seeking experiences related to authors, books, or characters....
This study examines why one may select and enjoy movie adaptations compared to original movies, through the lens of entertainment and media effect theories. The researcher hypothesized that two constructs, parasocial relationships and...
This study aimed to describe and quantify the types of spelling errors produced in the writing samples of children with limited English proficiency (LEP) and children who are English monolingual speakers. The spelling errors on...
The achievement gap between African American students and their Caucasian peers is a problem that has persisted within the educational system since the early 1970s. Researchers have been investigating whether differences in oral language...
Established standards and guidelines promote school librarian leadership in technology integration. Despite the imperatives implicit in professional guidelines and standards, school librarians' active engagement as leaders is not...
The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the role of prayer and relationship with God for parents who experienced the death of a child. In-depth interviews were conducted with eighteen parents (N = 18) who fall under the Protestant...
Socialization of doctoral students refers to the learning and adjustment process through which they acquire information and knowledge about their work, department, university, and discipline. This dissertation explores characteristics...
LIS literature suggests that the information norms of immigrants are situated in information poverty, gatekeeping, and the digital divide—all of which inhibit access to information. The canon primarily addresses how insufficient...
This dissertation research aims to provide a better understanding of people's credibility assessment of online information (i.e., Web credibility assessment), which is an important part of their information behavior. In particular, this...
Background: There is limited research on how stuttering identity develops. It is known that developing a positive stuttering identity is impacted by having a lack of role models who stutter, negative emotions related to stuttering, and...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the link between gender identity and engagement in three health behaviors—alcohol consumption, marijuana use, and the non-medical use of prescription stimulants. Historically, health...
Individuals with developmental language disorders experience an array of challenges that persist from childhood into adulthood, highlighting the need for advancements in early detection and intervention for this population. The...
This study examines Spanish gender assignment among mixed bilingual children with 121 English Language Learners and 17 Spanish Language Leaners from North and South Florida through the results of a receptive gender marking task. Two...
With an estimated cost of $175 million for 11 kilometers of rail (DNP, 2014), Transcaribe, a bus rapid transit system (BRT) was designed to facilitate mobility and sustainability throughout the city of Cartagena, Colombia, while...
Political narratives have entertained human beings since times immemorial. The political narratives in the form of drama, novel, ballads, and contemporary televisual and filmic stories revolved around various characters that served as...
Students with developmental language disorder (DLD) have difficulty understanding and using oral language, and these difficulties negatively impact academic achievement. DLD has a prevalence of 7-8% of school-age students, yet research...
Animal shelters as an institution serve a fundamental role in the United States as public safety administrators and as animal welfare advocates; however, animal shelters have only rarely been researched from a communication standpoint....
Bridging Communities and Scholars through CBPR: A Systematic Review of Communication and Participation Practices within Community-Based Participatory Research Teams
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to health research that prioritizes translation and community partner participation. The field of CBPR is multidisciplinary, so traditional definitions of communication within...
The access and sharing of research data have been emphasized by the government, funding agencies, and scholarly communities. The increased access to research data increases the impact, as well as the efficiency and effectiveness, of...
The purpose of this study is to examine the recent reports of impacts on public lands in the United States due to increased use of the social media platform, Instagram, and the app’s geotagging feature. Critical political economy acts as...
Uses and gratification theory has guided many media studies, but few have explored the relationship between uses and gratification theory and live game streaming behaviors. Nowadays, live streaming, especially live game streaming, has...
Health issues, such as sexually transmitted infections, would traditionally be addressed in information campaigns such as print or commercial (radio or video) public service announcements (PSAs). However, these information-based...
Regional cooperation has been a focused thread from the beginning for the development of libraries, the training of staff and the general sharing of resources in the English-speaking Caribbean. Historically, from the eighteenth century...
As one of the most significant and visible examples of collective intelligence, online peer production communities, such as Wikipedia and Stack Overflow, have become critical to the Web’s knowledge infrastructure. The popularity of these...
Tipping the Balance in Privacy Calculus: The Roles of Perceived Trustworthiness, Uncertainty, and Cyber Self-Efficacy in an Online User's Intention to Disclose PII
We should be concerned when our privacy - including our information privacy - is lost. Information privacy impacts us not only as individuals, but collectively as a society. Particularly as regards information privacy online, we stand to...
This dissertation sought to explore public figures’ crises and crisis response messages through the lens of the situational crisis communication theory. The categories of public figures in this study are athletes, celebrities, and...
In health promotion, while health messages may capture the attention of their target population, individuals seem unwilling to change their behaviors, especially when they are highly engaged in their current behaviors (Kunda, 1987;...
In the United States of America, more people have reported boycotting a brand in the last decade than in any previous one and the current increase appears to be exponential. However, boycott frequency and boycott success are...
The neglect of pet freshwater fish is rampant in the United States. Despite this, awareness about pet freshwater fish and the neglect they face is low among consumers. This study focused on using social identity theory in order to...
This dissertation, titled Investigating Music Information Objects, is a study of the nature, description, representations, and ideas related to music information objects (MIOs). This research study investigates how music practitioners...
Expository writing, a modality of language to convey information, is worthy of analysis in school-age children because it is the predominant genre utilized in the classroom beginning in fourth grade and continuing through high school ...
The present intervention study explores the immediate and delayed word learning in 14 children with cochlear implants. Capitalizing on the multimedia options available in electronic storybooks, the intervention incorporates elements such...
In 2013, Gannett Company, Incorporated acquired the Belo Corporation and its twenty broadcast television licenses (Gannett.com, 2013b). However, for seven of these television stations, outright ownership by Gannett would be in direct...
Perceptual-training paradigms offer a promising platform for improving intelligibility of dysarthric speech by offsetting the communicative burden from the speaker onto the listener. Much of the research to date has utilized young adults...
This study used critical political economy of communication methods to examine North Korean nuclear test coverage aired on South Korean broadcasters' prime-time news shows in South Korea. One week's news reports aired from the day of...
The purpose of this study is to examine how name, image, and likeness (NIL) representations of female college athletes in social media endorsements may impact users' attitudes and behavioral intentions with regard to female athlete's...
Compared to Islamic terrorism, right-wing domestic terrorism is relatively understudied, even though right-wing domestic terrorism claims more lives in the United States and the frequency of these incidents is increasing (Jones, 2018;...
Community of practice (CoP) of research data curators is a relationship group of data curators with shared values that comes together to network and share their knowledge and ideas. By joining the CoP of research data curators, members...
The rising trend of end-users to bypass the central IT system at the workplace using technologies often unsanctioned by the organizational network policy has challenged the authority to control IT use. This study examines the risks...
When John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, the United States entered a new era of Cold War diplomacy. During the era ridden with propaganda and imminent nuclear apocalypse, the presidential address served as a powerful tool to...
Capitalizing on Protective Factors: Establishing a Child and Youth Care Worker-Implemented Language Intervention for Use in Child and Youth Care Centers in South Africa
The purpose of the present study was to determine if naturalistic language intervention could be effective in a Child and Youth Care Center (CYCC) in South Africa to prevent and to treat potential impairments in orphan's communication....
This study is a preliminary exploration of adoption of generative adversarial network (GAN)-derived avatar healthcare providers (HCPs). To our knowledge, GAN-derived avatars as de facto HCPs have not been investigated in relation to user...
Writing is essential for communication in literate societies, and its successful acquisition and development is central to academic achievement. As such, there is a critical need to foster children’s emergent writing skills during the...
Public speaking is considered a valuable and necessary skill in professional, academic, and social contexts. However, research shows that public speaking anxiety is the top social fear for most people. Whereas public speaking anxiety...
This dissertation focused on the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library, located in the Harlem neighborhood. It focused on the library under the leadership of Ernestine Rose, who was the head librarian from 1920-1942. During...
Along with the concepts of corporate responsibility and sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received significant attention and has become a global trend that challenges the role of business. The purpose of this...
Research based on the affective approach has established that political partisans' emotional responses to identity-threatening news content, particularly that of anxiety and anger, will affect their subsequent information seeking (e.g., ...
This study examined the role of variety and frequency of dialectal features in relation to dialect awareness of African American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) forms. Participant data was derived from oral and written...
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