Browsing by Department "Communication, Jack J. Valenti School of"
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A CONTEMPORARY EXAMINATION OF DEMAGOGIC TECHNIQUES: SELECTED SPEECHES FROM THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
(2010-12)A new media landscape exemplified by online political news media and the 24-hour news cycle has created a new context for political discourse, and the resurgence in demagoguery scholarship reflects a shared desire to ... -
A Critical Analysis of the Communication Style of Nelson Mandela
(2014-12)Nelson Mandela was an internationally known leader, who transitioned from a tribal childhood, a freedom fighter, an attorney, and prisoner for more than twenty-seven years to the presidency of South Africa. His interpersonal ... -
A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON AND EXAMINATION OF WORKPLACE BULLYING IN SINGAPORE AND THE UNITED STATES
(2011-12)This study explored the levels of exposure to workplace bullying in Singapore and the United States and investigated how victims in the two countries coped with the bullying. Furthermore, this study assessed the extent to ... -
A Qualitative Investigation of Communication Privacy Management (CPM) within Families with Hereditary Non-polyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC)
(2014-05)This study examined communication privacy management (CPM) among persons with Lynch syndrome (LS), specifically seeking to understand (a) the prompts that motivate participants to share LS health information, (b) the ... -
A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of the Lack of Physically Disabled Public Relations Practitioners
(December 2)This paper explores the perceptions of physically disabled practitioners in the public relations field. The purpose of the study was to get disabled practitioner’s perspectives on the industry to explore how the public ... -
A survey : The employment of women in certain phases of television production
(1955)In the field communcation, television has become the most prominent source of entertainment, education and information. The growth of the television industry has been extremely rapid. As a result of this remarkable growth ... -
ADVERTISING OR PR, TELLING OR SELLING? A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON HOW PRACTITIONERS CONSIDER STEALTH MARKETING AND USER-GENERATED CONTENT IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
(2012-12)As technology advances and makes online communication available to mass audiences, consumers are increasingly making their opinions on brands, products and services available by generating reviews, posts and conversations ... -
AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE STUDENTS: USING A CRITICAL RACE APPROACH TO EXPLORE DIVERSITY PEDAGOGY IN PUBLIC RELATIONS
(2012-12)The purpose of this study was to explore African American female students’ perceptions and experiences with diversity in their public relations education. Additionally, the purpose of this study was to gain insight from ... -
“All Moms Need to Know about This”: A Qualitative Analysis of New Mothers’ Perceptions around Pelvic Floor Disorders for a Preventative Practice Campaign
(2019-05)This study’s purpose was to decrease women’s chances of developing a pelvic floor disorder (PFD) by creating a theory-based, preventative campaign for new mothers utilizing the extended parallel process model (EPPM) as a ... -
An Afrofuturism Genre Study Using Computational and Literary Methods
(2019)Afrofuturism is a literary genre first defined by Mark Dery in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future” as speculative fiction that addresses African-American themes and concerns. My usage of the term builds on later scholars’ ... -
An Analysis of Internal and External Factors Influencing the Defintion of Sexual Assault
(December 2)There has been lots of discussion regarding several prominent members of Hollywood accused of sexual assault in which sparked several different movements. These movements have caused the issue of Sexual Consent to be brought ... -
An evaluation of educational television in the Houston area
(1952)Because of the newness of television, educators who desire to work with it have found that they are dealing with a great many intangibles. So far, there has been no direct application of television to education. The ... -
An Examination of the Portrayal and Stereotypes of Latinos on Television: The George Lopez Show and American Family
(2015-05)Grounded in Cultivation Theory and Critical Race Theory, this study investigates The George Lopez Show and American Family with specific focus on Latinos and their portrayal in American television. This study represents a ... -
AN EXPLORATION OF MULTICULTURALISM IN CHINA‟S PUBLIC RELATIONS EDUCATION: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TEXTBOOKS
(2011-12)This study expands on global public relations literature by examining how China’s public relations education has adopted the concept of multiculturalism in its textbooks. Overall, this study was guided by relevant literature ... -
Animus, Anima, and Shadow: Gender Role Representation in Fantasy Films of the Third Wave Feminist Era
(2010-12)Research on representation of gender in 20th century media suggests that traditional attitudes towards gender, which call for aggressive, dominant male behavior and passive, submissive female behavior, have been propagated ... -
Beyond the Great Firewall: A Case Study of Inter-media Agenda Setting Effects between Chinese and Western Reporting on Corruption in China
(2017-05)This study examines inter-media agenda setting effects between Chinese and Western reporting on the single case of Zhou Yongkang’s imprisonment. Through a comprehensive content analysis of 323 Chinese-language news articles ... -
Black Women’s Perceptions of Health: Considering Cultural Identity as an Antecedent for the Situational Theory of Publics
(2016-05)The purpose of this study was to understand Black women’s perceptions of health, specifically in regards to HIV/AIDS, and the ways in which their cultural identities influence health decisions according to the situational ... -
Breast is best but bottle is next: Mothers’ perception of the portrayals of breastfeeding in the media
(2010-12)The ideology that breastfeeding is a recommended form of nutrition for babies has become widely popular in the United States. However, some social norms like the baring of the breasts make it difficult for the mother to ... -
Can You Really Go Home? a Qualitative Analysis of Attitude Change in College Students
(2015-12)Individuals are born into membership groups and are socialized through affiliations, ideals, and systems of belief that are not of their own choosing. These memberships can include, but are certainly not limited to, family ... -
Cartoon Network's Naughty Sister Station: Innovations of the Adult Swim Network in American Late Night Television Programming
(2010-12)This research is intended to focus on the relevance and efficacy of the Adult Swim network in late night adult-oriented television programming. Through an active historical case study, it will set out to identify the Adult ...