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The Group Decision-Making Communication Effectiveness (GDMCE) Scale: Development of a New Integrated Measure for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Effectiveness
The ability of groups to make the most effective decisions possible has long been a primary focus of the decision-making communicative process within any group. As such, the effectiveness of groups in making decisions has been an...
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...
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...
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 dissertation examines the religious rhetoric of Ronald Reagan as part of a strategy to rebuild his political base following a disappointing level of support after his first two years in office. In particular, this examination will...
This study examined the influence of User Generated Branding (UGB) on consumers’ attitudes and purchase intentions by comparing it to brand generated advertising on the world’s largest social media website: Facebook (eMarketer, 2016)....
This thesis is a qualitative analysis of the framing used in President Donald Trump's 2020 election-related tweets from April 2020 through January 6, 2021, the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, from the perspective of political...
Counterfactual thinking is a psychological concept used to explain the phenomenon that individuals reflectively imagine different outcomes for events that have already happened. This dissertation examined the application of...
This dissertation traces the discursive and political history of abortion and concludes "abortion" is an ideograph, a term coined by Michael Calvin McGee to describe an ultimate term or slogan representing an ideology and acts as a...
The system of intellectual property is based on the fundamental proposition that creativity beneficial to the whole of society is best achieved through a limited monopoly grant for the creator. The modern U.S. copyright regime, however, ...
In this thesis I posit that sound – including music, the voice, and ambient and environmental noises – is necessary for creating immersive environments in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs). It is the first ethnomusicological study to...
The goal of this dissertation is to explore Online News Association’s history, how it is situated within the nonprofit journalism association world in the United States, and explore major ONA initiatives including the role it has played...
The growing multicultural population in the United States has resulted in more and more individuals negotiating multiple ethnic identities in their daily lives. Despite the increasingly multicultural nature of the U.S. populations, ...
The issue of language policies in Ukraine gained prominence in 2014 when Russia launched an armed aggression against this Eastern European country at the pretext that language rights of its Russian-speaking citizens were violated. Three...
With the use of sponsorship, the company was especially successful in establishing itself as a sports media brand, primarily within action sports industries. However, in addition to sponsoring entertainment media, Red Bull also...
This dissertation examines the historical and cultural context of lynching and lynching trends in scholarship and places Claude Neal's lynching within that context. The dissertation provides a detailed account of the Neal lynching by...
The Indian newspaper industry has been celebrated globally in communication research, as it continues to grow, both in circulation and readership. However, little is known about the journalists who work in this celebrated industry. Labor...
What does the future look like for consumers and brands? The 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic added new uncertainties and brought new insights and geared consumers and brands to the real essentials of the 'human touch' in marketing...
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