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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Communication research"”.
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Differences Between Volunteers and Nonvolunteers for Communication Research
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CollAboRation - Opportunities of augmented reality for novel interaction paradigms and communication research
… ways, and c) support accessible and reproducible research. First, perceptual processes that shape the foundation of AR-enabled communication research are introduced, followed by a variety of AR prototypes, their concepts, and technological requirements.<br /><br /> The central part of this thesis …
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Queer Intersectionality: Queering the Limits of Identity Studies in Critical Intercultural Communication Research
… my intent to queer the limits of identity research in critical intercultural communication research while contributing to, and drawing on, what others have referred to as queer intersectionality (Bilge, 2012; Rosenblum, 1994). I envision queer intersectionality as an ontological modality …
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The roles and prevalence of communication research in selected southern New Jersey school bond referenda
… was to determine the roles and prevalence of communication research in two successful Southern New Jersey school bond referenda. Both school districts utilized communication research to help them win the support of their communities. The study sought to offer insight into the importance, or …
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Developing HCI technology to aid in communication research for individuals with impairments: a language and linguistic perspective
… broad, we refine our focus to individuals with communication impairments (children with autism and adults with aphasia). Specifically, this work will examine how HCI and CS techniques can impact language development , empathy and the role communication impairment has on linguistic patterns and …
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A CONTENT ANALYSIS SPANNING 30 YEARS OF MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNICATION SCHOLARSHIP
Currently, the communication research concerning mental health is sporadic, unorganized, and disintegrated. Previous research has not looked at organizing the literature through content analysis. To address this gap in the literature, the purpose of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive …
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An Analysis of Environmental Advertising Frames from 1990 to 2010
Recent calls in environmental communication literature suggest researchers should understand the relationships between media message content, message construction, and audience effects. This thesis analyzed environmental advertising frames over time to inform strategic environmental communication …
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Who Said That? Towards a Machine-Prediction-Based Approach to Tursiops Truncatus Whistle Localization and Attribution in a Reverberant Dolphinarium
<p>Dolphin communication research is an active period of growth. Many researchers expect to find significant communicative capacity in dolphins given their known sociality and large and complex brains. Moreover, given dolphins' known acoustic sensitivity, serving their well-studied echolocation …
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Sex-talk: Uncovering the rhetorical strategies of abstinence and comprehensive sex education campaigns in the United States
… as well as critical implications. Health communication research consisting of behavioral change strategies are also applied to this analysis. Ultimately, societal implications suggest a dual approach (combining abstinence and comprehensive) to teaching sex education in the U.S.
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Driving While Black: Stories Through the Driver's Car Window—a Communicative Analysis
… dynamic, and a foundation for additional communication research between police officers and the African-American community.</p>
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Developing Dynamic Communication Strategies for Energy Policy
This thesis explores the area of energy communication research while focusing specifically on the Canadian political realm. Currently within Canada, energy policy is discussed in a manner that cross-markets two seemingly incongruent goals -- to grow the economy in green technology and increase …
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"Doing and Viewing Gender" : a lens-model approach to the communicative construction of gender in task-oriented groups
Within the framework of the current gender research this dissertation focuses on applying a joint model and a corresponding method suited for integrating the many dispersed empirical studies on doing and viewing aspects of gender. An application of Brunswik’s lens-model (Brunswik, 1956) to …
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The Relationship Between Nonverbal Immediacy and Therapeutic Alliance in Higher Education Client-Counselor Interactions
<p>Communication is essential to a successful patient-provider interaction. Within health communication literature, a substantial body of research has focused on verbal communication; however, few studies have fully dedicated to nonverbal communication research. The study examined the relationship …
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FPGA-based digital phase-locked loop analysis and implementation
… lab module and serve as a platform for future communication research projects. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology is used for all digital signal processing tasks. A Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS) is used to synthesize analog output, the frequency of which is controlled digitally …
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Health Care Institutions, Medical Organizing, and Physicians: A Multilevel Analysis
… satisfaction with practicing medicine, but research has revealed that it is not dissatisfying for physicians in all organizational settings. The institutional theory of organizational communication (ITOC) offers a multileveled explanation of physicians' reactions to managed care based on …
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Architectural Advocacy: Public Buildings as Normative Communication
Public architecture is intrinsically an issue of communication, and both are of keen importance to contemporary public life. Few communications scholars consider public buildings as communicative media, but doing so would begin dialogues on how to broaden the influence of both communication …
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Extending and Refining an Expectancy-Value Theory of Media Gratifications: Two Studies in the Domain of Soap Opera Watching
… with stimulus-response or "effects research," intensive study of audience members has emerged as a significant trend in the past twenty-five years of mass communication research. The study of audience uses and gratifications has been the most visible exemplar of this new orientation. …
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Military media machine: how the British military communicated Afghanistan at home
… structure, and the increasingly dynamic communication processes, developed and implemented by the UK military. It explores – rather than explains – the proliferation in military media facilitation within defence, at a time when the British armed forces are concluding their nearly 13-year …
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"Welcome, fellow toastmasters": The history and membership of a public speaking phenomenon
… most recognized organization for voluntary oral communication practice in the world. Due to the dearth of scholarly communication research regarding TI, this thesis details the history, educational structure, and program dynamics of the organization. Literature review included the nature and …
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