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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Dialectical Tensions"”.
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Account Service and Creative Personnel: Interpersonal Conflict and Dialectical Tensions in Advertising Agencies
… dialectics theory as a lens for analyzing the dialectical (i.e., oppositional) tensions experienced by account service and creative personnel as well as the praxis patterns (i.e., techniques) used to manage those tensions. After conducting in-depth interviews with five account service and five …
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Mentoring Dialogues: An Investigation of the Dialectical Tensions and Management Strategies in Mentoring Relationships
… (Owen, 1984). Significant findings include eight dialectical tensions constituted in mentoring relationships: openness-with and closedness-with, openness-to and closedness-to, integration and separation, stability and change, equality and hierarchy, individual goals and organizational goals, …
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When "I Do" Becomes "I Don't": Exploring Communication Behaviors and Dialectical Tensions in Broken Engagements
… and the presence of relational dialectics (both tensions and coping strategies). Data revealed that broken engagements more closely mirror divorce than dating breakups, engagements are more likely to be broken by women than men, and disengagement more often occurs prior to 30 years of age. …
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NEGOTIATING INTERSECTING CULTURAL IDENTITIES, DIALECTICAL TENSIONS, AND STATUS RELATIONSHIPS: INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS IN TWO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST
This project addresses an important, but often overlooked, phenomenon of communication in intercultural relationships in the context of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) with attention to the role of intersecting cultural identity positions and status relationships. Specifically, I examined discourses …
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An examination of communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxes encountered by Native American researchers in the field and in the academy
This study investigated the communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxical situations faced by Native researchers in the academy and in research with their own communities or with other Native communities. Thematic analysis was conducted on narratives from 12 semi-structured interviews from …
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Flag waving doesn’t help when the bullets are coming down the line: Dialectical tensions of religious communication in the National Guard chaplaincy
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
… of the hagiographic discourse reveals the dialectical tensions characteristic of early modern colonial writing. It also suggests that the author's particular religious ideology influences their interpretation of self and Other. By examining captivity narratives seldom included in North …
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Dialectics in Intercultural Communication: a Study of Interactions Between Latinos and Anglos in Southwest Missouri
… States and specifically in Southwest Missouri. Dialectical theory was applied to produce a deeper understanding of the complex nature of culture and communication. The qualitative method of public dialogue was used; three dialogues were conducted involving a total of 16 Latino participants. A …
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Youth Living in Residential Care: Implications for Leisure and Identity
… that living in residential care is rife with dialectical tensions that impact leisure and identity. The youth shared poignant narratives of how living in residential care was a stigmatizing experience that left them feeling restricted and isolated. They also shared their struggles with finding …
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A grounded theory approach : inter-organizational relationships in community college fundraising
… of these relationships are entrenched with dialectical tensions of empowerment- disempowerment, expressionsuppression, and integration-separation. Implications provide researchers and practitioners alike with the communicative processes embedded in fundraising relationship management by …
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Why is MySpace the place for friends? : An ethnographic study on the effects of social-networking site use on socialization
… activities associated with alleviating dialectical tensions, such as autonomy and togetherness. Secondly, the study revealed that MySpace members constantly negotiate their ideal and actual selves through computer-mediated communication, based on reflective appraisals from significant …
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The language of community psychology : South African Terminology
… language on human social behaviour is valid, the dialectical tensions of co-influence may therefore be a high leverage potential that could be tapped by community psychologists to unleash desired community change, conciliation and reconstruction, which is desperately needed in the country. This …
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Relational Transgressions in Romantic Relationships: How Individuals Negotiate the Revelation and Concealment of Transgression Information within the Social Network
… 1994, Baxter & Braithwaite, 2007). Drawing on dialectical tensions (Baxter, 1990), relational transgressions (Roloff & Cloven, 1994), and support networks (Cutrona and Suhr, 1992; Klein & Milardo, 2000), this project posed a number of research questions. Interviews were conducted with 22 …
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Relational Transgressions in Romantic Relationships: How Individuals Negotiate the Revelation and Concealment of Transgression Information within the Social Network
… 1994, Baxter & Braithwaite, 2007). Drawing on dialectical tensions (Baxter, 1990), relational transgressions (Roloff & Cloven, 1994), and support networks (Cutrona and Suhr, 1992; Klein & Milardo, 2000), this project posed a number of research questions. Interviews were conducted with 22 …
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The Dialectics of Cyberspace: Communication Ethics as First Response to Cyber Attacks
… cyberspace according to its characteristic dialectical tensions in order to offer lasting, adequate responses to cyber attacks. Scholars across multiple disciplines recognize the ineffectiveness of perimeter defense strategies, or the raising of defensive walls to protect sensitive …
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Understanding the Confluence of Online Islamism and Counterpublicity: An Ideological Study of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Rhetoric in Ikhwanweb
… Cyber Islamic worldview characterized by endemic dialectical tensions. These dialectics point to four core elements: (a) distrust towards the Hosni Mubarak regime, and Western agents who aid authoritarian governments; (b) the need to be valued--respected, considered equals, understood without …
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The Athletic Turn in Contemporary Art
… art are marked by irresolution and filled with dialectical tensions. In the fourth and final chapter I turn to works by photographers Catherine Opie and Collier Schorr featuring high-school athletes, and frame these series using the gender theories of Judith Butler and J. Halberstam. By playing …
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Identities In Motion: Cyberspace And Diasporic Queer Male Bodies In The Context Of Globalization
… these forces, I also attempted to illustrate dialectical tensions that shape the cultural identity formation process. Even though I celebrate the fluidity of cultural identity, in this document, I also recognize that segments of our identities are socially constructed and thus `fixed' in this …
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