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Fragmented whole : a theory of narrative and identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The act of storytelling is one way to understand the complex nature of identity. Through the act of storytelling, human communication is enacted in the world, and the performance of the story is an act of identification ...
A neo-Gramscian communication analysis of structure and agency in the hegemonic struggle for meaning: organic retailer and organic activist group
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation extends environmental communication theorizing by drawing upon socio-political cultural and critical theory. The exigency of this ...
Negative political advertising and the charge of inconsistency : the rhetoric of "flip-flop" arguments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This dissertation performs a rhetorical analysis of televised presidential campaign advertisements that accuse rival candidates of being inconsistent or otherwise "flip-flopping." The verbal, visual, and audible dimensions ...
The filth and the fury : a rhetoric of punk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] On December 1st, 1976, punk exploded onto the British cultural scene when the Sex Pistols appeared on Thames Television's Today show. Sporting a ...
"It's gonna be some drama!" : a content analytical study of the portrayals of African Americans and historically black colleges and universities on BET's College Hill
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
One way the mainstream public comes to learn about Historically Black Colleges or Universities is through the media. Reality television show College Hill, aired by Black Entertainment Television, appeared to have the goal ...
Ambiguity, uncertainty, and othering : a queer phenomenology of the organizational socialization of sexuality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Despite the many frames, metaphors, and lenses in the organizational communication discipline, we have yet to examine the lived experience of sexuality ...
Media and social support : exploring how communication media, personality traits and parasocial interaction affect social support receipt, stress and emotion
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A primary goal of this dissertation was to examine the ways the media may be used to provide social support for individuals with various personality ...
The lived experiences of individuals who have been technologically stalked by a past intimate : a hermeneutic phenomenological study through a Communication Privacy Management Theory lens
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
According to the 2006 Supplemental Victimization Survey, over half of the estimated 1.7 million technological stalking victims in the United States have had a previous intimate relationship with the aggressor (Baum et al., ...
Mother, father, husband, wife, soldier : identity-negotiation of veterans during re-entry into family life post-deployment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purposes of this study were to (a) understand how recent military veterans negotiate their identities post-deployment, and more specifically, (b) ...
Gender and racestyle coverage in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this study is to investigate media coverage of the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack ...
The cultural commodification of identity : hip-hop authenticity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Using the framework of symbolic interactionism, the concept of meaning, when discussing the relationship between hip-hop cultural members and how hip-hop culture is represented in advertisements, can be shaped by certain ...
Throw the bums out : anti-government rhetoric in the 2010 Congressional elections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study's unique contribution is its development of a broad-based definition of anti-government rhetoric grounded in a systematic analysis of ...
"Behind closed doors" : a feminist analysis of senior citizen sexual communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Abundant research has been conducted on senior citizen sexuality but research on sexual communication has been limited. The current study was designed ...
The mediated myth of rock and roll
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study deconstructs the cultural myth (Barthes, 1957) of rock and roll as constructed by television and film (forms) and negotiated through musicians' experiences and personal understandings (concepts). It does so ...
The political storytelling system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This study theorized that a central element of Sandra Ball-Rokeach and colleagues' communication infrastructure theory-the concept of "storytelling community" and the "macro," "meso," and "micro" levels which engender a ...
The effects of political message frames on aggression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The main purpose of this project is to explore if and how two different types of political message frames, negative policy critiques and threat copula frames, which are common features within political rhetoric, cause ...
Divine appointments : living life with maximum impact
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Despite the wide range of theorizing and philosophizing regarding genuine dialogue, few efforts have been made to analyze the phenomenon from an empirical ...
Testing an integrated body image media model : focusing on a cross-cultural comparison between US and Korean college women
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The goal of the present study was to test the integrated model that explains the relationships between media use, cognitive and emotional outcomes, ...
The role of family communication in individual attitudes and behaviors concerning nutrition and physical activity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Despite the increasing popularity of family health communication studies, little attention has been paid to nutrition- and physical activity-related health communication in the family context. This mixed-method study ...
Go USA ... go world : nationalist and internationalist priming effects through Olympic telecasts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Within the Modern Olympics, a tension exists between celebrating national pride and promoting international peace and unity. Research has documented that U.S. network coverage of the Games is dominated by a pro-U.S. frame. ...