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Once a Member, Always a Member: Identification Inducement Messages in National Sorority Magazines
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
As sorority membership numbers keep rising, national sororities need to be cognizant of the ways in which they may induce their members to remain active and involved within the organization. Identification inducement ...
Leaving a Lasting Impression: The Role of Foundational Family, Privacy, and Gender Messages on Coming Out Disclosures
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
This dissertation investigates the influence of family messages about gender, free expression, conformity, and privacy on coming out disclosures, a difficult experience in today’s society. Using communication privacy ...
Fouling Release Marine Coatings: Effect of Surface Abrasions on Fouling Release Performance of Self-Stratified Siloxane-Polyurethane Coatings and Novel Isocyanate-Free Glycidyl Carbamate Technologies
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
Video summarizing a Ph.D. dissertation for a non-specialist audience.
Too Many American Icons: Conflicting Ideologies of Wild Horse Management in the American West
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Wild free-roaming horses in the American West continue to exist in tension with the land they inhabit, the government that “manages” them, and the people that are impacted by them. The problem, argued here, is the result ...
From Preparation to Practice: An Applied Sports Broadcasting Course
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This project establishes the immense popularity of sports and explores the connection between sports and society, while establishing past weaknesses of broadcast education. It provides evidence of previous philosophical ...
Explaining Adolescent Behavior Intention to Consume Fast Food Using the Theory of Planned Behavior
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study tested the utility of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to explain adolescent fast-food consumption among 349 high school adolescents. Subjective norms were further investigated to identify how parents and ...
Tonight It’s Government Funded: A Rhetorical Analysis of Manufactured Social Controversy and Government Funding of the Arts
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Thomas Goodnight’s definition of controversy offers an initial examination of Reverend Donald Wildmon and Reverend Pat Robertson’s attack of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), initiating the Culture Wars of 1989. ...
Identification Inducement Strategies used by North Dakota State University to Recruit and Retain Multicultural Graduate Students
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The desire to attract an increasing number of minorities is pushing institutions of higher learning to brand themselves and communicate with students in ways that ensure their identification with the institution. Students' ...
Attributions Online: An Examination of Time Stamps, Read Receipts, and Ellipses in Text-Based Communication
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
According to social information processing theory (SIPT), humans are actively encoding and decoding information when communicating through technology (Walther, 1992). This study uses SIPT as a theoretical guideline and ...
Incivility in the Informal Workplace: A Case Study of Emerald Lutheran Church
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study examined how incivility is expressed in an informal church organization and the impact relationships among those in the organization have on incivility. The researcher had staff members of the church complete ...