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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 ...
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 ...
When Work and Family Merge: Understanding Intragroup Conflict Experiences in Family Farm Businesses
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Family farms experience conflict in the everyday operation of the farm (Weigel &
Weigel, 1990). However, family farm members rarely bring up conflicts to the other party;
rather, they keep their frustration to themselves ...
I’m Not Who I Am: Self-Presentation In Online Communities
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
This dissertation was performed with the aim of understanding more about how people interact with and deceive one another in an online context. To build that understanding, the study was motivated by five research questions: ...
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 ...
“What Do I Do?”: Exploring Elements of Solicited Advice and Relationship Satisfaction Between Emerging Adults and Their Parents
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The purpose of this dissertation was to gain a better understanding of how emerging adult children respond to their parents’ advice, and uncover connections between advice and parent-child relationship satisfaction. Because ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...