Communication ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A PROGRAM OF ATTRACTION RATHER THAN PROMOTION: ENCOURAGING NEWCOMERS TO KEEP COMING BACK'', Miwa Kimura
Traversing Invitational Spaces: The Beautiful Iraqi Women Project, Carmen Lowry
Trust as an Ethical Construct in Community Based Participatory Research Partnerships., Julie Ermalinda Lucero
FARMING AND FIGHTING AS PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY: A PROCEDURAL FIELD ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL GAMES, Alexis Pulos
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Seeds of Resistance; Harvesting Justice: An exploration of spaces where native seeds grow, Jaelyn deMaría
Social-environmental Entrepreneurs' Communicative Actions in Communication Networks, Alice Hopkins-Loy
Immigration in rural Newfoundland: Individual and community change, Willow Jackson Anderson
Ending Poverty? Critical Interrogations of Class Subjectivities, Agency, and Ideologies in Discursive and Embodied Texts From a U.S. Nonprofit, Brandi Lawless
Social Support Seeking Processes in Japan and the United States: A Multi-layered Approach, Satoshi Moriizumi
SOUTH ASIAN AND (UNDOCUMENTED) LATINO/A IMMIGRANT BLOGGERS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH IMMIGRATION DISCOURSES, Anjana Mudambi
NEGOTIATING CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN ZIMBABWE: POSTCOLONIAL TRANSITIONS AND ENDURANCE, Cleophas Taurai Muneri
Transcending Traditional Approaches to Sexuality Education: A Case Study in Communicating, Constructing, and Defining Sex-Positive Sexuality Education, Jessica A. Nodulman
The Monstrous Side of Humanity: A Generic, Narrative, and Audience Reception Analysis of True Blood, Stacey M. Overholt
And Now I'm Here: An Ethnography of Communication Inquiry into Asking for Help Practices at a Homeless Shelter', LaRae D. Tronstad
"I Have To Be Everything" Voices of International Working Mothers: Negotiating Work-Life Balance in the United States, Qingjing Xu
Adolescent Sexuality and Gender Discourses in Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, and Teen: A Frame Analysis of Online Teen Magazines, Krystal Ann Zaragoza
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement, Claudia Alejandra Anguiano
Nopalitos Mean Something: Communicating Identity in Mother-Daughter Relationships through Food and Recipe, Darla Antoine
Let the Beauty We Love Be What We Do: A Case Study in Communication-Centered Leadership, Jo Carter
It's like a giant game of telephone: Physicians' perceptions of effective communication in the emergency department context', Marleah Dean
Forms and Fragments: Enactment of Cultural Identification in an Online Community of Chinese Living Overseas, Haibin Dong
Patient-Provider Encounter: The Contemporary Cameroonian Story, Eudaline Patricia Hell
The Elusive End of the Rainbow: A (Queer) Rhetorical Analysis of Rainbow Sash Rhetoric, Kenneth Lythgoe
Borders, Bridges, and Beer: Performances of Cultural Identities in the Washington Birthday Celebration, Diana Carolina Ramos
OBAMA'S PRESIDENTIAL (MIXED) RACE: FRAMING AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BLOGS AND NEWS, Iliana Rucker
The Materiality of the Self: A Multimodal, Communicative Approach to Identity, Sachi Sekimoto
Immigration Discourses in the U.S. and in Japan, Chie Torigoe
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
An examination of communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxes encountered by Native American researchers in the field and in the academy, Lorenda Belone
White Bodies, Black Gaze: Constructions of White Masculinity in White-Male Elite Discourses on Leadership and Diversity, Christopher Brown
Constructing, Consuming, and Complicating the Human-Nature Binary: Communication Practices in Forest Environmental Education, Elizabeth Dickinson
A History and Development of the Intercultural Communication Field in Japan (1950-Present), Holly Siebert Kawakami
Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles, Marianne Leonardi
MADD MESSAGE EFFECTS: A TWELVE-YEAR RANDOMIZED TRIAL, Una E. Medina
Institutional Ethnography: How Tenured Academic Women Talk About Success, Martina H. Myers
Navigating Reentry Shock: The Use of Communication as a Facilitative Tool, Caroline C. Niesen
Labor pains: An exploration of the complex roles of identity, the body, and policy in surrogacy discourses in India, Jennifer Aimee Sandoval
"This Is How Worklife Should Be": Quality Connections, Positive Relationships, and Positive Organizational Climate, Susan Scheller Arsht
Why Can't We Be Friends? Examining the Influence of Social Network Profiles on Initial Interactions, Liesel Sharabi
Structure of Narratives: Applying Propp's folktale morphology to entertainment-education films, Divya Sreenivas
AMMA'S DAUGHTERS: A TRANSMODERN STUDY OF PERSONAL, GENDER, CULTURAL, AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES AMONGST WOMEN IN THE AMMA COMMUNITY IN UNITED STATES, Bhavana Upadhyaya
U.S. Press Representation of the Southern Sudanese Civil War, 1983-2005, Abdissa Zerai
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Hispanics Communication Experiences in the Organizational Setting, Nicole Abeyta
Facing Defacement: Factors influencing indigenous patients in provider-patient communication in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, Laura L. Burton
NEOLIBERALISM AND THE INDIAN VERNACULAR PRESS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NEOLIBERAL DISCOURSES AMONG KANNADA JOURNALISTS, Santhosh Chandrashekar
NEGOTIATING FACE AND CONFLICT IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF UGANDA AND ETHIOPIA, Fletcher Courtney
Online Marriage and "Buhay Ko" (My Life): Views from Filipino Prospective Brides, Wives, and their U.S./British/Australian Husbands, Maria Jessica Crespo
WE'RE FRIENDS, LET'S TALK: RELIGION, SELF-DISCLOSURE AND MANAGING THE OPENNESS AND CLOSEDNESS DIALECTIC IN FRIENDSHIPS, Sonia Lisette Gomez
The Effects of Electronic Word-of-Mouth: An Exploratory Study., Bodi Li
Communication Collaboration, Cohesion, and Decision Making: Perceived Differences Between Top Management Teams and Regular Work Teams, Elijah L. Murphy
What do healthcare providers think of patients who use the Internet?: An exploratory study, Matt Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Planting the Seeds of Surreality, Cultivating the Dynamism of a Nation: Winston Miranda and the Rhetoric of Resilience in Post-Revolutionary Nicaraguan Art, Hiromi Holly Takahashi
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Mutton in the Melting Pot: Food as Symbols of Communication Reflecting, Transmitting, and Creating Ethnic Cultural Identity Among Urban Navajos, Kevin Allen Gore
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The National Association Of Primitive Riflemen: A Rhetorical Investigation Of The Contemporary Mountain Man, William Steven Sayer
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Relationship Between Spatial Design And Communication Patterns In Four Architecturally Different Elderly Housing Complexes, Suzanne L. Borgo
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Physical Attractiveness of Defendants in a Simulated Jury Setting, Dennis Alan Ashley
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Manipulation Of Student Satisfaction: Combined Effects Of Teacher Structural Orientation And Ego-Threatening Verbal Behaviors, Donna L. Donahue
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
An Experimental Application Of The Small World Problem To An Urban Community, Paige Birdsall
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
The Establishment And Evaluation Of A Channel Of Communication Between The Faculty Of The University Of New Mexico And The Governor Of The State Of New Mexico, Richard L. Dillender
A State-Wide Survey of Public Opinions Toward the University of New Mexico, Hilary H. Horan
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Instructional Use of Closed-Circuit Television in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Diana Lee Melendres
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
A Historical-Rhetorical Analysis of Pamphlets on the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862-1864, Joseph Vinovich
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
A Rhetorical Study of the Speeches of Elihu Root Centering on World War 1, Judith Leah Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
A Rhetorical Analysis of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 Campaign Speaking, Robert C. Dick
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
The Life and After-Dinner Speaking of Chauncey M. Depew, Sr., Norbert J. Tlachac
