Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Public Land, Money, and Use: The Rhetorical Calibration of Publics and Place
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)In this thesis, I examine two recent attempts at land transfer, which is the idea that the federal government should pass ownership of its public lands to the states. I contend that recent attempts at land transfer have ... -
On Holocaust Cookbooks: Fourth Generation Jews and the Re-creation of Jewish Food Culture
(University of Kansas, 2018-01-01)Food is essential: to memory, to culture, and to identity. In the introduction to In Memory’s Kitchen, Cara De Silva (1996) argues, “Our personal gastronomic traditions – what we eat, the foods and foodways we associate ... -
Stepfamily Expectations: Expected and Actual Communication between Stepchildren and Stepparents
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This study is grounded in Expectancy Violations Theory and examined the relationships among expectations that stepchildren have for stepparent communicative behaviors, expectation violations, stepparent conflict, and ... -
Older Adults’ Written Accounts of Recent Intergenerational Conflict: Initiating Factors and Management Styles
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)From theoretical perspectives of conflict management and communication accommodation, this study used a content analytic approach to examine older adults’ reports of intergenerational communication in a recent conflict ... -
Barack Obama’s Mass Shooting Eulogies: Tucson, Newtown, and Charleston as moral guideposts for a nation in crisis
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Gun violence constitutes a nation-wide health crisis. Legislative attempts for reform have failed completely at the national level over the past decade. The public response to gun violence, however, has not supported reform. ... -
Foiling Kamesian Belletristic Theory in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scotland
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-03-01)Two disciplinary stories that take place in mid-eighteenth-century Scotland omit an important plotline. One story is that university teaching of rhetoric transformed into belletristic criticism; another is that ideology ... -
A Normative Pragmatic Theory of Exhorting
(Springer Verlag, 2018-12)We submit a normative pragmatic theory of exhorting—an account of conceptually necessary and potentially efficacious components of a coherent strategy for securing a sympathetic hearing for efforts to urge and inspire ... -
The Persuasive Force of Demanding
(Penn State University Press, 2018)Demanding is a fundamental rhetorical strategy for marginalized groups, but recent rhetorical theories of demanding have not explained how speakers can design demands to influence addressees to accede. Psychoanalytic and ... -
Where does the time go? An experimental test of what social media displaces and displaced activities’ associations with affective well-being and quality of day
(SAGE Publications, 2018-10-23)Drawing from media displacement theory, this article explores which activities are displaced when individuals spend time on social media. Community and undergraduate participants (N = 135) were randomly assigned to five ... -
Parents’ mobile relational maintenance in resource-constrained contexts: Barriers and facilitating access conditions
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-17)Mobile phones have become central to family members’ daily communication. This study investigates the material and skills access barriers that parents of adolescents in resource-constrained contexts face for mobile relational ... -
Facilitating Social Media and Offline Political Engagement During Electoral Cycles: Using Social Cognitive Theory to Explain Political Action Among Hispanics and Latinos
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-07-09)Two interacting forces are subtly shifting the nature of American democracy—the public’s increased use of social media for political information and meaningful changes in the demographic characteristics of the country. ... -
Notification pending: Online social support from close and nonclose relational ties via Facebook
(Elsevier, 2014)Previous research in computer-mediated communication’s effect on social networks has generated questions about the role of weak ties in what was assumed to be a unique affordance of strong ties—obtaining effective social ... -
Mitigating bias blind spot via a serious video game
(Elsevier, 2016-09)We employed a serious video game to train participants on bias blind spot (BBS), capturing training effects on BBS mitigation and knowledge at three points in time. Experiment 1 (N = 703) compared the effects of hybrid ... -
Making it Facebook official: The warranting value of online relationship status disclosures on relational characteristics
(Elsevier, 2016-03)This study utilizes Walther and Parks' (2002) warranting theory to explore the relationship between online system- and co-generated relational cues and the strength of offline romantic relational characteristics. Differences ... -
Exploring Dialectical Tensions of Leading Volunteers in Two Community Choirs
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-03-28)Leaders of volunteers face different challenges than leaders of paid employees due to different motivations and reward expectations. After synthesizing previous research applying dialectical theory to group members or ... -
A profile of arguing behaviors on Facebook
(Elsevier, 2017-11)This study explored how people argue on social-networking sites. Specifically, participants (N = 170) responded to open and closed-ended questions about the most recent argument they had engaged in on Facebook. Results of ... -
The Structuration of Community-Based Mental Health Care: A Duality Analysis of a Volunteer Group’s Local Agency
(SAGE Publications, 2018-07-18)Using a lens of structuration theory, this study highlights the ways that specific structures within the current community-based model of mental health care might enable and constrain individuals and families living with ... -
A typology of job search sources: Exploring the changing nature of job search networks
(SAGE Publications, 2018-10-30)This study explored American job seekers’ network of information sources using a random sample. Results revealed a pattern that job seekers segmented information sources by social (i.e. personal and professional acquaintances, ... -
The Role of Status Differentials and Homophily in the Formation of Social Support Networks of a Voluntary Organization
(SAGE Publications, 2016-03-31)Given the important implications of social support on managing volunteers and their organizational commitment, we investigated how members of a Korean immigrant church (N = 178) exchanged two distinctive kinds of social ...