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Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Kames's Legal Career and Writings as Precedents for Elements of Criticism.
(University of California Press, 2005)Scholars have seldom explored relationships among Lord Kames's legal career and writings and Elements of Criticism. After considering why Kames did not write a rhetoric of legal advocacy, I argue that Kames's legal career ... -
George Mackenzie on Scottish Judicial Rhetoric
(University of California Press, 2002)George Mackenzie’s “What Eloquence is fit for the Bar” (1672), perhaps unique in the early modern literature of Scots law, provides access to the state of judicial rhetoric in post-Restoration Scotland. This essay summarizes ... -
Objective Rejection?: The Effects of Agreement and Involvement on Message Quality Evaluation
(Department of Communication at the University of Utah, 2007)To extend argument quality research, this article explores the effects of agreement and issue im- portance on argument quality assessment for eight different topic areas to explore whether there is systematic bias in the ... -
Adolescent smoking networks: The effects of influence and selection on future smoking
(Elsevier, 2007)Peer influence and peer selection have both been linked to the smoking behavior of adolescents. The present investigation uses social network analysis methodology to explore the simultaneous effects of both processes on ... -
Symbolic Gender Role Reversal and Touchstone Criticism: The Feminist Rhetoric of Gloria Steinem
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-18)The purpose of this thesis is to analyze a sampling of Gloria Steinem's feminist rhetoric by way of "If Men Could Menstruate" (1978/1983) and "What If Freud Were Phyllis?" (1994). I use a historical-descriptive methodology, ... -
Intergenerational and Peer Communication in the Workplace: An Analysis of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-04)This research used an on-line survey to examine intergenerational communication in the workplace. Respondents were 165 young, middle-aged, and older working adults randomly assigned to report on workplace communication ... -
Students' Perceptions of Instructor Credibility: Effects of Instructor Sex, Gender Role, and Communication Style
(University of Kansas, 2009-10-14)Instructor credibility, or the degree to which an instructor is perceived by his or her students to be competent, to have character, and to be caring, is one of the most important variables affecting teacher-student ... -
PORTRAYALS OF GRANDPARENTS AND GRANDPARENTING STYLES: A CASE STUDY OF FRIEND OF OLD COMRADES
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-08)This study employed content analysis to examine the portrayals of grandparents' images and their grandparenting roles in Laotongzhi Zhiyou (Friend of Old Comrades). With a current circulation of 480, 000, Friend of Old ... -
TEXTS OF EMPOWERMENT: A FUNCTIONAL RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF MS. MAGAZINE IN THE FIRST FIVE YEARS
(University of Kansas, 2009-07-21)Ms. was the first mass mediated feminist magazine in the United States and has often been identified as an icon of the feminist movement. This study examines three rhetorical sites in the magazine during the first five ... -
Constructing the Message: The Influence of Differing Political Communication Styles of Voter Decision Making
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)Practitioner communication is commonly criticized for substituting emotion for policy, while deliberative communication is critiqued for removing emotion from reason altogether. This study proposes agonism as an attempt ... -
Japanese College Students' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material (SEIM) and Sexual Attitudes
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-04)This study examined Japanese college students' (N=476) use of sexually explicit material in mass media (i.e., print, electronic, and the Internet) and its association with their sexually permissive attitudes and perceptions ... -
Affinity Through Instant Messaging: An Exploration Of Initial Interactions
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-28)This thesis sought to extend work on relationship initiation in an online setting by examining the initial interaction of cross-sex dyads. Sixty male-female dyads interacted for 20 minutes with instructions to find out ... -
Organizational Identification and Volunteer Workers: A Study of Red Cross Disaster Volunteers
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-17)Abstract This study sought to identify factors that attract unpaid volunteers and influence them to continue in service as Red Cross disaster relief workers. An evaluation of current literature focusing on the relationship ... -
From Sexism to Feminism: Arguments of Definition in A Return to Modesty and Girls Gone Mild
(University of Kansas, 2009-014-2)In 1999, A Return to Modesty was published, wherein Wendy Shalit argued for sexism. Shalit's book received a fair amount of support and attention, yet also elicited some reviews which were extremely opposed to Shalit's ... -
SYMBOLS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF VALUES: KENNETH BURKE AND (RE)VALUATION
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-28)I argue that a theory of symbolic value formation is implicit in the writings of Kenneth Burke. I analyze ten of Burke's major writings and use what Burke refers to as the ten key terms of moral and aesthetic valuation as ... -
What makes some campaigns more effective than others?: An analysis of three mass media PSI HIV/AIDS campaigns in Kenya.
(University of Kansas, 2008-12-15)This study included interviews with campaign planners at a major social marketing organization in Kenya and an examination of three comprehensive HIV/AIDS health campaigns produced by the planners. Thematic and qualitative ... -
Conflict Management Styles of Americans and Indonesians: Exploring the Effects of Gender and Collectivism/Individualism
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-29)The study explored the effects of gender and collectivism/individualism on conflict management styles among Indonesians (n= 271) and Americans (n= 243). Findings indicated that Indonesians preferred the compromising and ... -
Communication as Ontology for a Structurationist Approach to Role Enactment
(University of Kansas, 2009-01-01)In recent years structuration theory has increased in popularity and acceptance among communication scholars. Despite significant critiques from other disciplines (e.g., business, education, sociology), only marginal ... -
Towards A Rhetoric of Architecture: A Framework for Understanding Cities
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)In order to articulate meaning in cities and architecture, I propose a framework of enacted architecture that considers the built environment in everyday spatial practices. Building on Henri Lefebvre's work, we know ...