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Emerging Political Identification of Young Adults
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
Research has more than adequately established the importance of the role of parents in the political socialization of young people. However, there is surprisingly little research that examines if and when young people ...
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 ...
"Giving Rope and Pulling It Back" : Types and Patterns of Strategies Used by Parents to Prevent Adolescent Substance (Ab)use
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study contributes to the INC theory by adding the stage of prevention to the parent-child relationships' timeline. Ten parents (six mothers and four fathers) were interviewed, and a memory enhancing timeline calendar ...
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 ...
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. ...
Identification Inducement Strategies used by North Dakota State University to Recruit and Retain Multicultural Graduate Students
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
The desire to attract an increasing number of minorities is pushing institutions of higher learning to brand themselves and communicate with students in ways that ensure their identification with the institution. Students' ...
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 ...
Incivility in the Informal Workplace: A Case Study of Emerald Lutheran Church
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This study examined how incivility is expressed in an informal church organization and the impact relationships among those in the organization have on incivility. The researcher had staff members of the church complete ...
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 ...
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 ...