Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Reconsidering ‘Ties’: The Sociotechnical Job Search Network
(SAGE Publications, 2020-10-26)This study explored how job seekers perceived human and technological sources in their sociotechnical ego-networks. United States residents (N = 285) who had sought jobs in the past 2 years responded to questions about ... -
Expectations of technology use during meetings: An experimental test of manager policy, device use, and task-acknowledgment
(SAGE Publications, 2020-06-07)In organizational meetings, mobile media are commonly used to hold multiple simultaneous conversations (i.e., multicommunication). This experiment uses video vignettes to test how manager policy (no policy, pro-technology, ... -
The Structuration of Identification on Organizational Members’ Social Media
(SAGE Publications, 2020-09-10)The structurational model of identification is applied to test structures that may lead to sharing organizational membership on social media and increased organizational identification. We propose and test how antecedents ... -
Critical moments in the German resistance movement: A dramatistic analysis
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The effects of human relations training on WASPS (White's Attitudes and Self-concept Perceptions)
(University of Kansas, 1973-05-31)This study attempts to analyze the effects of human relations training on self-concept and attitudes of whites toward others with whom they interact. Two aspects of human relations training are reviewed in order to provide ... -
Juror perceptions of witness credibility as a function of linguistic and nonverbal power
(University of Kansas, 1992-05-31)While the effects of linguistic power on witness credibility in the courtroom as well as preliminary studies of the effects of nonverbal power on witness credibility have been studied, no research has focussed on manipulations ... -
Fighting for a Cause: How Conflict Can Produce Interdependence
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Interdependence theory (Kelley & Thibaut, 1978) illustrates the impact of partners’ behaviors as relational outcomes are dependent on such behavior. This thesis project aimed to contribute to interdependence theory by ... -
Baseball, Rituals, and the American Dream: An Analysis of the Boston Red Sox’s Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)In April 2013, the Tsarnaev brothers placed two homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. This attack created a need for healing the city’s spirit and the Boston Red Sox played an essential role in the ... -
PROMOTING SEXUAL PURITY IN A CALL-OUT CULTURE ERA: ONE PURITY MOVEMENT LEADER’S STRATEGIES IN NAVIGATING CRITIQUES OF THE #METOO/#CHURCHTOO MOVEMENTS
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)While a sizable body of research has examined the impact of purity movement rhetoric on its target audience (e.g., Bearman & Brückner, 2001; Brückner & Bearman, 2005; DeRogatis, 2015; di Mauro & Joffe, 2009; Diefendorf, ... -
THE RHETORIC OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS: GENDER, RACE, AND WHITE HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Violence, specifically gendered violence, has seemingly become commonplace in professional sports. In recent years, sports and news media have navigated a storm of violence allegations. For example, Larry Nassar, former ... -
Ethnic Minorities’ Social Media Political Use: How Ingroup Identification, Selective Exposure, and Collective Efficacy Shape Social Media Political Expression
(Oxford University Press, 2019-05-08)Latinos represent a large ethnic minority group in the United States, but their political participation, including on social media, is low compared to other groups. Guided by social identity and social cognitive theories, ... -
Argumentative Competence in Friend and Stranger Dyadic Exchanges
(Springer, 2019-08-17)This manuscript investigates the role of argumentative competence in interpersonal dyadic exchanges. Specifically, this study examined the two sub-dimensions of competence, argumentative effectiveness and appropriateness, ... -
The rhetoric of United States Marine Corps enlisted recruitment: a historical study and analysis of the persuasive approach utilized
(University of Kansas, 1974-05-31)This thesis concerns itself with the rhetorical approach utilized by the United States Marine Corps to persuade men to enlist voluntarily. This thesis is a historical tracing of the rhetorical approach used by the Marine ... -
Problem Solving in Teams and Groups
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-08-23)This textbook covers content relevant to COMS342: Problem Solving in Teams and Groups at the University of Kansas. Content in this textbook is adapted from The Open University, OpenStax, The Noba Project, and Wikipedia. ... -
Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy
(University of Kansas Libraries, 2019-08-22)"Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy" is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. ... -
Anime Fandom in Convergence Culture: A Uses and Gratification Approach to Chinese Fan Producers
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)In the current media environment known as media convergence, technology has provided fans multiple tools and platforms through which to create and publish their fan works online as well as to draw on fan works and connect ... -
Cultural variables that affect communication in business encounters between Southern Africans and Americans
(University of Kansas, 1994-05-31)The primary purpose of this study was to determine cultural variables that affect communication encounters between Southern African and American entrepreneurs. Cultural variables, as cited by Dodd (1977), include attitudes, ... -
International Students’ Acculturation and Attitudes Toward Americans as a Function of Communication and Relational Solidarity with their Most Frequent American Contact
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)The current study was guided by the theoretical frameworks of Intergroup Contact Theory (Pettigrew, 1998), Acculturation (Berry, 1997), and the Common Ingroup Identity Model (Gaertner & Dovidio, 2000). Using the PROCESS ... -
Government is the problem: Symbolic trajectories of the contemporary conservative movement
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)The rightward shift of the contemporary conservative movement represents one of the most significant developments in American culture and politics over the last forty years. While numerous studies in rhetoric have tackled ... -
The Development, Implementation, and Maintenance of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Through Telepractice in Peru
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)The descriptive study documents the development and implementation of low technology Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) boards in Peru and conducts maintenance sessions through telepractice. The director of ...