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Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Writing for the Ear: Strengthening Oral Style in Manuscript Speeches
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How Context Matters: Predicting Men's Homophobic Slang Use
(SAGE Choice, 2012)This manuscript reports two experiments exploring heterosexual men’s use of homophobic slang in social contexts, varied by sex-ratio. Study 1 (N = 127) experimentally demonstrated that compared to a mixed-sex audience, ... -
Affinity Through Instant Messaging
(Northwest Communication Association, 2012)The present manuscript explores affinity seeking, testing, and signaling in initial interactions of opposite-sex strangers using instant messaging. Sixty dyads (N = 120) interacted for 20 minutes and participants identified ... -
Couples Who Laugh Together A Coorientation Approach to Positive Humor Use in Relationships
(2005-11)This investigation of public and private positive humor use in long-term relationships suggests that the value of humor depends upon where it is used and who uses it. For men, relational satisfaction is positively associated ... -
‘We were just a group of guys who liked to have a good time together’: Former fraternity members looking back on fraternity life
(2006-11)The impact on fraternity membership on young men’s friendships is explored through in-depth interviews of 23 former fraternity members. Men’s friendships are explored in relation to the dyadic and structural components of ... -
Beauty and the Flirt: Male Physical Attractiveness and Approaches to Relationship Initiation
(2008-05)This multi-study investigation explored how women evaluate men’s approach strategies. In Study 1, 330 participants generated 546 verbal strategies used in courtship initiation. Strategies were rated on three dimensions ... -
The Meanings of Kansas: Rhetoric, Regions, and Counter Regions
(Taylor and Francis, 2012-06)This essay uses the Kansas reception of Truman Capote's 1966 In Cold Blood to reflect on processes of regionalism and resistance. Noting that Capote and In Cold Blood were articulated quite differently in different portions ... -
Sexual communication in romantic relationships: An investigation into the disclosure of sexual fantasies
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This study explored the communication of sexual fantasies in romantic relationships. While self-disclosure of sexual likes and dislikes has been positively associated with sexual satisfaction (Cupach & Metts, 1991), no ... -
Making Ourselves Understood: The Role of Previous Experience, Stereotypes, Communication Accommodation, and Anxiety in Americans' Perceptions of Communication with Chinese Students
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This study examined American students' perceptions of communication with Chinese international students in two parts. First, studies were conducted to explore the stereotypes American students have about Chinese students. ... -
Constructing the Self through the Other: How beliefs about the Other inform international NGO approaches to development
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)The perspectives of development organizations and workers regarding recipients of international development inform their practice and approach to development work. The recent surge of international nongovernmental organizations ... -
DEGREES OF FANDOM: AUTHENTICITY & HIERARCHY IN THE AGE OF MEDIA CONVERGENCE
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Although interest in fandom studies have grown in recent decades, there remain core issues that are under-addressed, including attempts to theorize about fandom in a general way (as opposed to focusing on individual ... -
"The Most Hazardous and Dangerous and Greatest Adventure on Which Man Has Ever Embarked": The Frontier in Presidential Pro-Space Discourse, 1957-1963
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Since the inception of the US Space Program, space exploration has been linked in public discourse to the cluster of ideas and images constituting "the frontier." In the seven years between 1957 and 1963, Presidents ... -
A God of Wealth: Religion, Modernity, and the Rhetoric of the Christian Prosperity Gospel
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)The Christian Prosperity Gospel (CPG) is a type of Christian preaching which asserts that the right type of faith and practice will deliver wealth and well-being to believers. In an era of stagnating religious belief and ... -
Jimmy Swaggart's Secular Confession
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009)Following the exposure of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart’s illicit rendezvous with a New Orleans prostitute, the Assemblies of God simultaneously orchestrated a massive attempt to silence those who would discuss the tryst ... -
The ‘Shocking Story’ of Emmett Till and the Politics of Public Confession
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008-05)In 1955, journalist William Bradford Huie interviewed Emmett Till’s killers and published their confession in Look magazine. Entitled "The Shocking Story of Approved Murder in Mississippi," Huie’s tale dominated the ... -
Augustine and the "Chair of Lies": Rhetoric in The Confessions
(University of California Press, 2010)Augustine's highly dramatized resignation as a professor of rhetoric in Book Nine of The Confessions has caused a number of hermeneutic problems for scholars seeking to claim Augustine as an important part of rhetorical ... -
Stanton's 'Solitude of Self' as Public Confession
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010-06)Elizabeth Cady Stanton opened her now famous “Solitude of Self” by asserting her desire to make manifest the “individuality of each human soul.” Using Stanton’s attempt to display the human soul as a case study, I consider ... -
Internet Research as is Isn’t, Is, Could Be, and Should Be
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The Swedish Model: Balancing Markets and Gifts in the Music Industry
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2011)The internet has destabilized media industries. This article uses the case of Swedish independent music labels, musicians, and fans to articulate one model for understanding the new roles each can take in this new context. ... -
Tunes that Bind?: Predicting Friendship Strength in a Music-Based Social Network
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009)Despite the popularity of social network sites based on common interests, the association between these shared interests and relational development is not well understood. This manuscript reports results of an empirical ...