Browsing Communication Masters Theses by Title
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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 ... -
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 ...