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The focus of this thesis is to provide a critical examination of the movement of culture jamming through a primary reading of activist group The Yes Men. The Yes Men as the primary focus, and the movement of culture jamming as the...
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 inquiry evaluates claims made by stakeholders attempting to circumscribe the concepts of the public interest in the Voice over Internet Protocol policy debate using technology, competition, and the universal service as their foil....
The primacy goal of this thesis was to develop a better understanding of the phenomenon of the human flesh search engine in China. The purpose of the study was to identify and analyze the characteristics of the human flesh search engine...
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...
The purpose of this research project is to examine the communication phenomena within a modern Evangelical church in the context of the emergence of a contemporary worship style and the increasing use of media during church services. The...
This research applied the concepts of disposition theory to the formation of affective dispositions toward characters and toward the actors that portray them. The research was designed to identify a similar relationship between affective...
In 1998, a group of radical media makers and social justice activists opened the Independent Media Center in an abandoned storefront in downtown Seattle to provide street level news coverage of a large-scale mobilization protest against...
The present study investigated the effects of an auditory distraction on the lexical semantic retrieval skills of ten monolingual English speaking children and ten Spanish-English speaking children between 3 and 5 years of age. The...
This study identifies communication, demographic, social and behavioral factors that predict smokeless tobacco use among Florida adolescents. The study merged multiple Florida Anti-Tobacco Media Evaluation (FAME) data sets from May 2000, ...
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...
This study investigates the measurement and psychometric features of survey questions common to anti-tobacco campaign evaluations. The constructs explored in the study were those designed to measure cigarette usage, adolescent and youth...
This study investigated the 'immediate aesthetic impression' method of quantifying the perception of attractiveness of several website designs. This study replicates and expands an existing line of research that investigates a method of...
This study examines women's online dating profiles at different age ranges and answers the primary question: is there a correlation between women's self-descriptions in the popular online dating website, Jiayuan.com, and their age? In...
While the maternal and infant health benefits of breastfeeding are greatly supported by research, breastfeeding rates in the United States remain sub-optimal. Increasing the prevalence of infant breastfeeding is an important public...
The purposes of this study are three-fold. The primary goal is to examine the narratives that two mainstream newspapers in Taiwan and America, Li-Tai Sports Newspaper (LT) and The New York Times (NYT), used when covering the performance...
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...
This project examined whether the theory of reactance can be used to explain the hostile media effect (HME). Two studies representing traditional and relative HME contexts examined whether variables associated with reactance such as...
Historically the preventable risks affecting morbidity and mortality among adolescents and young adults have largely been thought of as independent behaviors. However, a growing body of evidence has shown that many of these adolescent...
In spite of strong maternal and child health initiatives in India, the maternal and infant mortality rates remain unacceptably high. There is no single solution to address this issue; however, health information provided to the mothers...
Despite attempts to improve speech recognition in noise via hearing aid algorithms, communication where there is background noise continues to present serious challenges to hearing aid users. The viability of using speech reading to...
A vocabulary intervention during shared storybook reading was implemented with 22 Spanish-English bilingual children. One intervention consisted of English expansions of vocabulary words and the other of English-supplemented-with-Spanish...
National Research Council statistics indicate that 40% to 75% of preschoolers with early language impairment develop later reading difficulties (RD). Children exhibiting decreased language abilities need ample opportunities to acquire...
It is a well-documented fact that the rate of falls increases with advanced age. In an attempt to discern factors that contribute to the high fall rate in aging populations; investigators have looked to a task that is often executed...
The purpose of this study is to further explore the relationship of media exposure to body dissatisfaction and eating disturbance by examining the mediating effects of pressures and internalization as well as the moderating effects of...
Recently, so called "antihero" TV shows such as Dexter, Revenge, or The Walking Dead seem to find great reception among audiences. Traditional crime dramas are enjoyed based on the moral approval of the protagonist and the empathetic...
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...
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....
How human beings derive enjoyment from media is an ever-growing area of scholarship in the media effects tradition of research. The importance of such research can be seen in the potential effects the media people enjoy have on their...
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...
This dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of a customized educational health intervention on sexual health and female cancer prevention among young women in Pakistan and evaluates the applicability of the integrated model of behavior...
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...
"Hollywood Counterterrorism: Violence, Protest and the Middle East in U.S. Action Feature Films" demonstrates how Western discourses of counterterrorism and the Middle East have shaped Hollywood cinematic productions through sourcing and...
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...
This dissertation uses a political economic analysis (Bettig & Hall, 2003; Bagdikian, 2004; McChesney, 2000; 2004; 2008; Mosco, 2009; Wasko, 2005) combined with a cultural studies lens to study the website associated with the government...
Purpose: This study was conducted to: 1)determine the factor structure of different morphological awareness tasks of college students with no known language, hearing, vision or academic difficulties, and 2)create and examine the direct...
Few interventions are specifically designed for adolescents who stutter. We report the effects of integrating Client-Directed Outcome Therapy (CDOT; Duncan, Miller, & Sparks, 2004) into traditional fluency intervention with a 19 year old...
This study examines the current Internet café phenomenon in a modernizing country – the People's Republic of China. Internet cafes emerged worldwide in the 1990s, and use of the Internet in cafes varies from country to country. This...
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...
Over the past several decades, overweight and obesity levels have increased throughout the United States. From 1991 to 1999, the BRFSS (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) indicates that the greatest increases among obese people...
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...
Nasalance measures were reported for two groups, 36 trained female singers and 36 female non-singers. Each group sang and sustained the point vowels (/i/, /ae/, /u/, /a/) for six seconds duration across three frequency levels. Three...
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 genre of superhero films has taken the movie industry by force, resulting in over a dozen comic book adaptations within the past decade alone. These films are based on intellectual properties originally appearing in comic books, and...
This study aimed to 1) uncover the participants' attitudes when a purchasing decision touches any element of their culture, 2) assess consumers' view on marketers in terms of consideration of their needs and cultural backgrounds, 3)...
Whose Rights Are Being Protected?: A Legal Analysis of the Conflicts Between Secondary Liability and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the Megaupload's Shutdown
This thesis examines the legal arguments of the U.S. government and Kim Dotcom in the shutdown of MegaUpload, which was the biggest file-hosting site. In January 2012, the U.S. government shut down MegaUpload and alleged its owner, Kim...
The effects of entertainment-education narratives on pro-social, story-consistent beliefs and behaviors have been discussed by many. Less research has looked into the underlying mechanisms that facilitate these effects. Past research...
Encouraging help-seeking behavior for Combat Operational Stress Reaction (COSR) among military service members is an important factor in maintaining military readiness and military family quality of life. This research explores the role...
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