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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"communication practices"”.
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Apparatgeist and Mobile Communication: Considering Interpersonal Communication Practices
<p>Mobile communication is embedded into our daily life increasing our connection to social networks. The development of mobile communication occurred during the second half of the twentieth century and has become domesticated into everyday life. One consequence of the widespread adoption of mobile …
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Exploring Organizational Culture and Intercultural Communication Practices in a Teaching Hospital
… improving health care providers' intercultural communication is one way to help reduce these health disparities. This study investigated the intercultural communication practices of employees at a large teaching hospital in the Southwest that is actively working to reduce health disparities in …
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Political Communication Practices of the Transylvanian Saxon Towns, c. 1467–1526
This thesis focuses on the diplomatic strategies employed by the three main Transylvanian Saxon towns of Sibiu, Brașov, and Bistrița during the second half of the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (r. 1458–90) and the era of the Jagiellonian kings Vladislaus II (r. 1490–1516) and Louis II …
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The Safer Sexual Communication Practices of Transgender Adults: Implications for HIV Prevention
HIV prevention efforts stress interpersonal communication skills and their protective benefits; however, research on sexual communication has lagged behind interventions and campaigns that emphasize communication. Communication-centered HIV prevention interventions are limited by our nascent …
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Fostering Voice, Inviting Dialogic Transformation: Exploring Emergent Communication Practices in Community Collaboration Efforts
… importance of understanding how participants’ practices of authentically sharing their different experiences and interests, or their voices, is connected to their prior experiences of voice within community spaces. This inquiry also observes how being invited into communication environments …
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COVID-19's Impact on Communication Practices in the Animal Welfare Nonprofit Sector
<p>Historically, writing and communication practices have been vital components in the nonprofit sector. With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic, the writing and communication practices within the nonprofit sector have been forced to adapt and change for organizations to continue disseminating their …
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Constructing, Consuming, and Complicating the Human-Nature Binary: Communication Practices in Forest Environmental Education
… conversations within the field of communication to examine environmental meaning systems and communication practices in the context of forest environmental education. Due to concerns over children's environmental alienation, there has been a continued push toward place-based …
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The Impact Of Principals’ Communication Practices On School Success Environment: An Intrinsic Case Study
<p>Communication is the foundation for conveying the overall expectations of staff by a principal and is required for educational leadership. Leaders must communicate precisely what is expected for staff members, students, and parents to do in the educational environment may be an essential element …
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Unraveling Identity Signifier Literacy: A Case Study of First-Year Composition Students' Communication Practices
… or via visual, verbal, written, or digital communication – the signifiers others display in direct and indirect ways and interpret these signifiers to gain understanding of others’ identities. In this study, 22 first-year composition students were surveyed about their communication practices …
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Reaching out @ your library™: communication practices of New Jersey high school library media specialists
<p>This paper presents the methodology and results from surveys of New Jersey school library media specialists at 88 public secondary schools. The study examined how LMS reached out administratively to their learning community. Specifically, it addressed the following research questions: 1. …
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Parents' Perceptions of Communication Practices with School Professionals during Initial Years of Special Education Placement.
… special education placement and the ongoing communication between parents and school professionals. Data were collected through interviews with 20 parents of children with disabilities in their initial years of service from a rural county in East Tennessee. Interviews were conducted mainly in …
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Scenario pedagogy as a negotiated, multimodal approach to developing professional communication practices in higher education
… The course in question is professional communication and the target group comprises senior and post-graduate accounting and other finance and information systems students registered in the commerce faculty. They are not communication students per se but register for a one-semester …
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Technology as a Tool for Support: Classroom Teachers and Resource Specialists in Collaboration and Communication Practices
… as addressing key components of support such as communication and teacher relationships, this study builds on prior research by considering how systems of support such as technology and administrators can be efficient for teacher collaboration when routines are organized. This research utilized a …
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Communication as a resource for Latin American immigrant settlement in the United States: An ethnography of communication
… Hymes's (1962, 1972/1986, 1974) ethnography of communication to investigate the uses and meanings of the metacommunicative practices of the ISC speech community, which I treat as demonstrating communication practices available for speakers at ISC. In addition to investigating their …
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Hispanics Communication Experiences in the Organizational Setting
… of this study is to explore the organizational communication experiences of some Hispanic employees. In this thesis, I employ a narrative analysis method, and share the interviews and standpoint of twelve Hispanic employees to help advance the understanding of how Hispanic employees feel about …
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The practice of everyday (virtual) life: a participatory and performative artistic enquiry
In contemporary culture, human-to-human communication is becoming mediated through digital screens and virtual communication1. Our everyday lives are now lived in and between physical and virtual spaces, in a 'hybrid space', augmented with technologies, in which individuals increasingly perform …
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A Phenomenological Study of Crisis Communication During Covid-19: A Corporate Executive Perspective
… study is corporate executives’ employee-oriented communication involvement, communication practices, and communication plan outcomes during the lived experiences of the COVID-19 crisis. The study’s research setting is a global Fortune 500 organization domiciled in the United States. Literature …
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Modelling optimal communication for the school as an organisation
… I will apply the principles of organisational communication to school management to develop a communication model that principals can use as part of managing schools as organizations. In the first phase I will do a literature review of organizational communication to help me design a …
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E-migrant women entrepreneurs: mobile money apps, transnational communication and the maintenance of social practices
… of interpersonal relationships and transnational communication practices among migrant women entrepreneurs. Mobile money apps such as MamaMoney, MoneyTrans and Mukuru are a form of communication that are relevant and beneficial to the unbanked migrant women entrepreneurs in South Africa. The main …
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