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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Communication Social aspects"”.
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The effects of gender, self-esteem, age, and relationship on compliance-gaining strategy selection
… males would be more likely to select anti-social compliance-gaining strategies in a social setting when trying to influence other males and pro-social compliance strategies when trying to influence females. Hypothesis Two predicted women will select more pro-social compliance-gaining …
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Ba in the American context : an exploration of Japanese in U.S. workplaces
… and work-related human~relations in the U.S. social context. Ba in this study refers to the frame of relationships that is shared among the individuals in a certain specific situation.</p> <p>The goals of this heuristic qualitative study are: (I) to investigate whether Japanese working in the …
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"The whole earth as village" : a chronotopic analysis of Marshall McLuhan's "Global Village" and Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner
… McLuhan's "global village", and his theories on communications and technology, in conjunction with Patrick McGoohan's television series The Prisoner (ATV, 1967-1968) are explored in this thesis. The Prisoner, brainchild of McGoohan, is about the abduction and confinement of a British government …
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Changing communication through Facebook : redefining perceptions of public and private communication
… research conducted into the phenomenon of online social networking. However, there has not been enough research conducted to establish its affect on our overall communication patterns. This research study focuses on the way in which Facebook is redefining perceptions of public and private …
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Effects of preschoolers' gender and prosocial behavior on their abilities to decode and encode facial affect
… study investigated the effect of children's prosocial behavior and gender on their abilities to decode and encode facial expressions. Four hypotheses were addressed in this study. The first hypothesis predicted a positive correlation between decoding abilities and pro social behavior of …
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Information flow and innovation diffusion in the East Sepik district, Papua New Guinea
… of information from national centres through communication networks to the rural villages, which are the lowest orders of a hierachy of central places. Almost all studies .conclude that "backwash" effects .will be much stronger than "spread effects" in a developing economy, unless deliberate …
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Information flow and innovation diffusion in the East Sepik district, Papua New Guinea
… of information from national centres through communication networks to the rural villages, which are the lowest orders of a hierachy of central places. Almost all studies .conclude that "backwash" effects .will be much stronger than "spread effects" in a developing economy, unless deliberate …
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An ethnographic study of communication and gender performance in a modern day Latino wedding
… The purpose of this study was to examine communication in a contemporary Mexican-American wedding and communication issues found at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and culture. The research also examined how participants supported or broke traditional gender roles along with …
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Embodied rhetoric in scenes of production : the case of the coffeehouse
… places the insights of these theorists in a socially and materially rich context that emphasizes the role of non-human actors in scenes of production, including writing technologies, places, and times. I enact this theoretical framework through an empirical approach for accessing the everyday …