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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Philosophy of Communication"”.
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Pierre Hadot's Holistic Philosophy of Communication
<p>Pierre Hadot’s holistic philosophy of communication attends to the health of the self and community through practice of spiritual exercises for the transformation of one’s entire being, working at the nexus of mind, body, soul, and cosmos. The task is ever-incomplete, works in an understanding …
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The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics
<p><em>The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics </em>begins with the assumption that the current historical moment is defined by Gilles Lipovetsky’s philosophical project known as hypermodernity. The dominant paradigm of hypermodernity, as consumption and commodity …
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
<p>Philosophy of communication replaces modernity's metanarrative of progress with postmodernity's many works in progress. The metanarrative of postmodernity is fragmentation, the lack of a metanarrative. In postmodernity, progress sputters and stalls, then starts on new paths. Philosophy of …
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Friendship in the Digital Age: Implications from a Philosophy of Communication Approach
… central relationship-style that grounds us. Much of the literature on the effects of technology on our relationships, especially friendship, has taken a skeptical approach. The notion of friendship is historically-situated, thus, it requires attention in each era and has prompted questions …
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Privatio Dialogus: Toward a Phenomenology of Aloneness for the Philosophy of Communication
<p>The intent of this dissertation is to utilize the phenomenological method to elucidate the experience of aloneness and its relationship with human communication. Aloneness, for the purposes of this research, is understood as the broad experience of feeling alone. This dissertation first seeks to …
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The Return of Participatory Scriptural Hermeneutics in Evangelicalism: An Augustinian Philosophy of Communication
<p>Using a philosophy of communication approach adapted from St. Augustine’s rhetorical theory, I propose the recovery of Augustinian scriptural hermeneutics to meet the hermeneutical crisis in current Evangelicalism. Evangelical identity is centered on scripturally mediated belief and mission that …
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The Banality of the Social: A Philosophy of Communication of Social Media Influencer Marketing
<p>This project engages in a philosophy of communication approach in order to understand the role of social media influencer marketing within a historical moment defined via Hannah Arendt’s understanding of the social. Social media influencer marketing emerges as a new form of celebrity endorsement …
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Roots: Agrarian Movements and the Importance of Ground within the Philosophy of Communication (A Synecdoche)
This work looks at the way in which an agrarian philosophy communicates the meaningful connection between cultivating land and being attentive to the philosophical notion of ground. It tells the story of agrarian movements from the last century with special attention to what about the philosophy …
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Corporate Social Responsibility To-Come: A Derridean Interruption of Transparency
… investigated the relation between rhetorics of transparency and organizational action. Digging into CSR literature from a philosophy of communication perspective, this project seeks to determine if corporate social responsibility delivers on the promises it makes of a better world.</p> …
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Communication in the Ruins: Walker Percy and the Art of Symbolic Mediation
… proposes to explore the mediating function of the symbol through the work of Walker Percy. In the first chapter, I provide the necessary background for undertaking this project. First, I situate Percy in his historical moment and review key events in his life that helped to shape his …
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Integrated Marketing Communication as Epideictic Rhetoric and Its Implications for Ethical Branding
… to ancient scholarship, rhetoric, and the philosophy of communication and through interpretive perspectives, rhetoric, narrative and ethics have been established grounding of communication and social structures. IMC has emerged as a contemporary genre of epideictic rhetoric with ethical …
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
This study develops a philosophy of communication by investigating the crisis of directionality that follows from the dissolution of foundationalist metaphysics. Drawing from fundamental ontology and philosophical hermeneutics, this project suggests we shift our understanding of communication as a …
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The Rhetorical Turn in United States Diplomacy Praxis: Public Diplomacy 2.0
… discourse and rhetoric has always been a part of traditional diplomacy, rhetoric and communication theory has not enjoyed an active voice in the scholarship of foreign relations, and more specifically, public diplomacy. This project argues that a postmodern turn in public diplomacy was …
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The Nation as a Communicative Construct: Toward a Theory of Dialogic Nationalism
This project seeks to explore the subject of nation and nationalism in the context of rhetoric and the philosophy of communication. By exploring ancient tropes of nation through rhetorical figures such as Isocrates in Ancient Greece and Cicero in the Roman Republic; through Kant, the Enlightenment …
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"Can You Hail Me Now?": Brand, Identity, and Althusserian Ideological Interpellation
<p>A surge in the role of branding within marketing practices has influenced an</p> <p>industry transformation. A review of recent literature suggests that brand and the branding process have become integral in sustaining and amplifying organizations. This has been particularly influenced by …
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IMC: Its Rhetorical and Philosophical Foundation and Impact
A review of current integrated marketing communication (IMC) literature indicates that IMC has swept the globe. IMC has become the normative marketing practice for organizations to promote their goods and services, as well as an increasingly popular area of academic study. At the same time, …
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The Scholarship and Praxis of Communication Ethics: Rhetorical Interruptions in Historical Narratives
Creating a praxis model for performing communication ethics scholarship is important in Postmodernity, as a multiplicity of narratives requires knowledgeable life-long learners who are willing to understand historicity and one's place within traditions. This study relies on Alasdair MacIntyre's …
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On New Rhetoric, John Henry Newman and the Language of Metaphors: Implications for Branding Higher Education
… how John Henry Newman's (1801-1890) system of thought informs the philosophical and theoretical grounds for rhetorical praxis in the marketplace. His seminal lessons in "An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent"(1870) and "The Idea of a University" (1873 ed.) demonstrate the metaphoric power …
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A Narrative of Charitable Acknowledgment: Reframing Interpersonal Communication in Intimate Relationships
The field of interpersonal communication conducts many descriptive studies. However, guidance for healthy communication within intimate relationships is more difficult to come by--a condition stemming in part from an emotivist ethical paradigm. MacIntyre (1984) describes "emotivism" as the current …
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A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Interprofessional Healthcare Education: Communication Ethics in Action
<p>Healthcare professionals belong to a moral community. Caring for patients is a community act carried out by healthcare professionals working in teams within complex political and organizational systems. This teamwork is crucial to quality patient outcomes; however, incivility threatens to derail …
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