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The Narrative of the Professional: The Value of Collegiate Forensics Participation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Forensics, or competitive speech and debate, has a history stretching back to the ancient Greeks. Although practitioners, students, and coaches have long sung its praises, limited research has been done to demonstrate the ... -
Navigating the Turbulent Dual Roles of Parent/Coach
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This study explores the nature of the communication between parent and child as the context changes to place them into the roles of coach and member of the team. Previous studies of parents coaching their own children are ... -
Newspapers as a Form of Settler Colonialism: An Examination of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest and American Indian Representation in Indigenous, State, and National News
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Settler colonial history underlies much of contemporary industry, including the extraction and transportation of crude oil. It presents itself in a variety of contexts; however, this disquisition applies a traditional ... -
On the Network to Damascus: Emerging Adulthood, Social Networks, and Conversion in American Religion
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Competing social networks are central to the process of conversion from one religious or spiritual orientation to another. Although numerous sociological, psychological, quasi-economic, and theological forces have been ... -
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 ... -
Online Interaction and Identity Development: The Relationship between Adolescent Ego Identity and Preferred Communication Activities
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the types of communication activities adolescents reported as important and used most frequently, and how these communication preferences were reflected in adolescents' identity ... -
Online or Face-to-Face?: Relationship Satisfaction and Attraction in Romantic Relationships Across Two Media
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The purpose of this study was to examine romantic relationships that began through face-to-face (FtF) interaction or computer-mediated communication (CMC). Two hundred seventy-six participants who were currently in romantic ... -
Pentadic Analysis of a Wyoming TV Show: The Rhetoric of Scene and Agency and Its Impact on Native American Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Kenneth Burke’s Pentadic ratios are used to analyze the rhetorical choices of characters from the Cheyenne Reservation and the Sheriff’s department in the television show Longmire. The ratios reveal scene as the focus of ... -
The Perception of Risk Messages through Facebook during Severe Weather Events
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This study used computer-mediated focus groups to investigate how college students perceive risk messages about severe weather that are communicated through Facebook. The results of this study found that perceptions of ... -
Phatic Communication Use in Employment Interviews: Predicted Outcome Value, Liking, Relational Closeness, and Communication Satisfaction
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The purpose of this study was to examine phatic communication use in employment interviews and whether or not phatic communication use affects applicant perceptions of the interviewer. A lab experiment was conducted with ... -
Powerful and Powerless Language in Health Media: An Examination of the Effects of Biological Sex and Topic Focus on Language Styles
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Powerless language has been shown to influence audience perceptions, and the media has been shown to influence health behaviors. However, little research has looked at powerless language in health media. This study expands ... -
Predicting Disclosure of Student Mental Health Problems to Instructors: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The transitional period of attending college marks a shift towards personal independence for students. The management of conversational topics requires students to determine how they share information. Management of mental ... -
Presidential Rhetoric for Second Modernity: Three Cases from the Discourse of Barack Obama
(North Dakota State University, 2011)In this paper, I present studies of three of Barack Obama's speeches. In section two, I analyze Obama's "New Beginning" speech in which he attempts to improve relations between the United States and the Muslim world and ... -
The Press and the Historical Development of Three Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Programs in the Upper Midwest, 1950-1980
(North Dakota State University, 2011)From 1950-1980, women's intercollegiate athletic programs experienced exponential growth, with newspapers rarely detailing the journey until Title IX passed in 1972. This project examined how women's athletics developed ... -
Purchasing for a Cause : Millennials' Perceptions of the Cause-Related Marketing Campaigns of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Millennials make up the largest generation to date and are highly involved in the support of social causes. Due to their philanthropic interests, Millennials have recently become the target of cause-marketing campaigns. ... -
Relational Maintenance Strategies, Positivity, and Constructive Financial Conversations in Romantic, Committed Partnerships
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Although a large body of research on financial management in marriages and conflict/divorce as outcomes of financial problems exists, the topic of how individuals describe the communicative processes leading to positive ... -
Responses to Privacy Turbulence: The Impact of Personality Traits on Recalibration and Privacy Boundaries on Facebook
(North Dakota State University, 2016)As individuals use social media to create and maintain relationships and connections, they must also decide how to manage the private information that they disclose to their connections. If private information is handled ... -
Rhetorical Agency in the Bhagavad Gita
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This M.A. thesis presents a rhetorical analysis of the Indian philosophical and religious text, The Bhagavad Gita. Utilizing Kenneth Burke's Pentad of act, scene, agent, agency and purpose as a primary interpretive lens ... -
A Rhetorical Consideration of Christian Nationalism, Secular Society, and the Need for a Civic Religious Pluralism
(North Dakota State University, 2020)This dissertation considers the place of religious argument in the public sphere. While deliberation about religion’s place in the formal public sphere within the United States has often been seen as taking place in a ... -
A Rhetorical/Interpretive Analysis of Edward R. Murrow's Criticism of Broadcast Journalism: Implications for Broadcast Journalism Educators
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Corporate influence has been an ongoing concern for working journalists. Even in the early days of television, Edward R. Murrow saw a bleak future for society if broadcasters succumbed to corporate greed and failed in their ...