Browsing Communication Masters Theses by Title
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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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
The Role of Cyber and Face-to-Face Verbal Bullying on Adolescent Victims
(North Dakota State University, 2010)The purpose of this study was to examine adolescent verbal bullying across communication media (e.g., face-to-face [F2F], cyber, both). Media Richness Theory (MRT; Daft & Lengel, 1984; 1986) and hyperpersonal communication ... -
Romantic Relationships and Social Media Use: The Emergence and Management of Relational Dialectics
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This study implements Baxter’s (1988) relational dialectic theory to determine how relational dialectics emerge and are managed when people in romantic relationships use social media. Eighteen participants who were in ... -
Service Learning Assignments: The Interesect Between Assignment Framing, Student Motivation, and Perceived Relevance
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Although learning has traditionally happened within the four walls of a classroom, as service learning courses become more prevalent, instructors are challenging their students to take learning outside of the classroom and ... -
The Sojourn and Communication Self-Efficacy Enhancement: A Study of Travelers' Perspectives
(North Dakota State University, 2009)The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the sojourn, or overseas travel, and the development of traveler intercultural communication self-efficacy. Self-efficacy, an individual's perception of ... -
Stories of Hope and Ethnic Identification: A Look at Organ Donation Communication
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of ethnic identification and ethnic portrayals in organ donation stories on the attitudes towards organ donation, the intent to register to become an organ donor, and ... -
Strategic Communication in Public Schools: A Communication Audit of a Midwestern School District
(North Dakota State University, 2017)School districts are complex organizations which require the use of strategic communication. Measuring the communication from school leaders to their various audiences for message content and alignment has the potential ... -
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. ... -
Traits and Behaviors: Connecting in the Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Immediacy is a topic that has been frequently explored in communication and education research; however, it is not understood if perceptions of immediacy are related to certain behaviors or trait-based similarities between ... -
Use of Impression Management Strategies in Response to a Feedback Intervention
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Providing performance feedback in a way that leads to improved performance is an integral aspect to the success of an organization. Past research shows the feedback does not always improve employee performance. Characteristics ... -
Work Group Identification and Communication Competence in the Use of E-mail
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Among the various communication technologies that are used in organizations, e-mail has been a dominant communication medium in the modern workplace. The purpose of the current study is to examine how individuals' work ...