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Adapt or Perish: How Long-Term Unemployment Impacts Vocational Socialization and Professional Identification
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The present study examined 84 online narratives authored by 11 Suits--college-educated, middle-aged, white men--to examine how involuntary exit and long-term unemployment impacted their vocational socialization and ... -
Adult Silbing Communication: Attachment Style and Strategy
(North Dakota State University, 2013)In an effort to further understand communication within sibling relationships, this study examined adult sibling relationships and the connection between attachment styles and the strategies or relational maintenance ... -
Adults’ Perceptions of their Childhood Media Role Models
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The media’s effects on children have been frequently discussed, but the effects that childhood media has when individuals reach adulthood is not fully understood. Current research in this area has mostly focused on present ... -
All is Fair in Love and War, but Work is a Different Story: Communicative Responses to Perceptions of Organizational Injustice
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Organizational injustice has been a long feared and long dissected topic by many in the business world. However, there is no clear idea of what employees expect from their superior, nor how communication is impacted ... -
An Analysis of the Arguments Used in the Home School Issue
(North Dakota State University, 1988)"An Analysis of the Arguments Used in the Home School Issue," by Jaime P. Meyer is a study employing a twelve point method of analysis taken from the work of Ch. Perselman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca. This study sought to ... -
Are Public American High Schools Void of Values? The Teacher Perspective of Moral Education in Public School
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The American public school system's immense influence on culture and politics makes its critical inquiry vital for social awareness and prosperity. There is a wide body of literature that speculates on the presence of moral ... -
Are You Buying What They're Selling?: Ethnographically Exploring Organizational Identification through Employees' Everyday Talk
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The purpose of this study was to explore how employees' reflect organizational identification strategies in their everyday talk at a big-box retailer. Previous studies on organizational identification have mostly been ... -
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 ... -
Branding, Communication, and Millennials: A Look at the Communication Habits of the Largest Generation in History
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Millennials are the largest generation in history and are frequently the targets of major marketing campaigns. However, no current research exists that focuses on Millennials' brand related communication habits. Focus ... -
Breaking Bad: Breaking Television's Limited Representations of Addiction
(North Dakota State University, 2014)As a communication device, television helps cultivate a culture’s social reality. Yet, television sometimes advances flawed concepts in a social reality, particularly concerning addiction. Television appears to have ... -
"Cause You Don't Really Need a Teacher to Learn Stuff": Theorizing a ‘Lanes of Learning' Model of Informal, Self-Directed Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2021)The goal of this dissertation was to explore how self-directed learners assess their learning in informal contexts. Self-directed learners experience high intrinsic motivation and learner control, so studying these learners’ ... -
Cloudy with a Chance of Endorsements: Analyzing Vaping Communities through Taylor’s Strategy Wheel and Parasocial Interactions
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The purpose of this dissertation is to launch a greater understanding of Taylor's Six-Segment Strategy Wheel (SSSW) and how it might pair with purchasing intentions with the use of parasocial interactions and celebrity ... -
Communicating CSR: A Longitudinal Examination of the Petroleum Industry's Social Issue Adoption
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Video summarizing Ph.D. dissertation for a non-specialist audience. -
Communicating CSR: A Longitudinal Examination of the Petroleum Industry's Social Issue Adoption
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The purpose of this study was to examine the institutionalization of corporate social responsibility (CSR), CSR communication, and social issue adoption of the world’s largest petroleum companies over time. Previous research ... -
Communication Accommodation in Context: An Analysis of Convergence and Divergence in Action
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This collection of essays examines nature and relationship of discourse and social distance by focusing largely on the concepts of divergence and convergence throughout the communication process. The first essay examines ... -
Comparative Advertising: A Factual Claim or an Evaluative Claim
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Comparative advertising is widely used in the U.S and much remains to be learnt about when comparative advertising is used with the two forms of verbal claim; factual and evaluative claim. An experimental design with the ... -
Connecting with Instructors on Facebook: Why and Why Not
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The following thesis examined the student-instructor connection on social network sites (SNS). Facebook is the most popular SNS and it covers a range of users include both students and instructors. On Facebook, some students ... -
Corporate Communication on Controversial Social Issues and Its Effects on Attitude Change and Attitude Certainty
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Corporations are increasingly communicating about controversial social issues, including gun control, LGBT rights, confederate flag use, and immigration policies. The purpose of this dissertation was to understand how this ... -
Crisis at the Finish Line: A Thematic Analysis of Instructing Information via Twitter
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This study expands current crisis communication research by exploring the communication of instructing information via Twitter. Drawing from the internalization, explanation, and action components of Sellnow & Sellnow's ... -
The Dangers of International Awards: A Lesson from Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Having spent over 20 years under house arrest fighting for democracy in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi has been a bastion for peace for decades. She has received many international awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize in ...