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E-Health And The Internet: Factors That Influence Doctors' Mediation Behaviors With Patients, Erin Robinson
E-Health And The Internet: Factors That Influence Doctors' Mediation Behaviors With Patients, Erin Robinson
Communication Theses
The Internet’s popularity as a health resource (also referred to as e-health) for patients is impacting the doctor-patient relationship and health care overall. Many patients now tend to look on the Internet for the information they seek in order to avoid the hassle of going to the doctor. It is important to investigate how the doctors themselves feel about this impact and see what factors influence their behaviors toward patients with regards to e-health. This study used mediation behavior theory and the theory of reasoned action to assess the relationship between doctors’ beliefs/attitudes and their subjective norms about e-health and …
Dialectical Relationships In Pre 9/11 And Post 9/11 White Supremacist Discourse, Abigail Smith Williams
Dialectical Relationships In Pre 9/11 And Post 9/11 White Supremacist Discourse, Abigail Smith Williams
Communication Theses
My thesis argues that a shift has taken place in white supremacist rhetoric post September 11, 2001. I focus on the pre-9/11 rhetoric of Jared Taylor, the post 9/11 rhetoric of Patrick Buchanan, and identify the attacks of September 11th as a catalytic event in the history of white supremacist rhetoric. Through careful rhetorical analysis, I identify the 9/11 shift as a shift in placement vis-à-vis the political mainstream.
Georgia Newspaper Coverage Discovering Conventional Practices Of The 'Cherokee Question': Prelude To The Removal, 1828-1832, James Hollister Hobgood, Jr.
Georgia Newspaper Coverage Discovering Conventional Practices Of The 'Cherokee Question': Prelude To The Removal, 1828-1832, James Hollister Hobgood, Jr.
Communication Theses
This thesis analyzes the specific journalistic conventional practices of newspapers in Georgia as they focused on the “Cherokee Question” in 1828-1832, the critical period during which the state considered the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia. The research compares news and opinion texts in five Georgia newspapers with news and opinion texts in the newspaper launched by the Cherokee nation in 1828,the Cherokee Phoenix. While the conventional practices in the white-owned press tended to legitimize removal, the Phoenix adopted some of the same conventions in order to defend and negotiate Cherokee culture and issues.
Contagion From Abroad: U.S. Press Framing Of Immigrants And Epidemics, 1891 To 1893, Harriet Moore
Contagion From Abroad: U.S. Press Framing Of Immigrants And Epidemics, 1891 To 1893, Harriet Moore
Communication Theses
This thesis examines press framing of immigrant issues and epidemics in newspapers and periodicals, 1891 to 1893. During these years, immigration policies became more restrictive because of the Immigration Act of 1891, the opening of Ellis Island in 1892, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892, the New York City epidemics of 1892, the National Quarantine Act of 1893, and the nativist movement. Framing theory guided the following research questions: 1) How did articles in newspapers and periodicals frame immigrants and immigration issues in the context of epidemics from 1891 and 1893?; and 2) How did the press framing of immigrants …
Mourning And Message: Martin Luther King Jr.'S 1968 Atlanta Funeral As An Image Event, Rebecca Poynor Burns
Mourning And Message: Martin Luther King Jr.'S 1968 Atlanta Funeral As An Image Event, Rebecca Poynor Burns
Communication Theses
The seven-and-a-half-hour series of funeral rites that occurred in Atlanta on April 9, 1968 in honor of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were broadcast live to 120 million U.S. television viewers and reported extensively in local and national newspapers and magazines. While King's April 4 assassination triggered deadly riots in more than 100 cities, Atlanta remained peaceful before and during the funeral. In this research thesis I explore how the funeral was leveraged by three disparate stakeholder group's King's family, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Atlanta's liberal white leadership- to stage image events. I create a …
The Effect Of Gay Visual Exemplars On Issue Perceptions In Newspaper Reports, Anita Atwell
The Effect Of Gay Visual Exemplars On Issue Perceptions In Newspaper Reports, Anita Atwell
Communication Theses
Visual implicit propositioning suggests that exemplars can activate stereotypes regarding social group members, affecting how individuals may perceive issues presented in a news format. This experiment sought to test the main tenet of visual implicit propositioning by examining how gay exemplars affect social estimate perceptions associated with the mortgage crisis and support for programs that would help homeowners refinance their mortgages. One hundred and ninety heterosexual college students read a news story featuring recent the mortgage crisis with a gay male couple, a heterosexual couple or a house and reported their perceptions related to various social groups. Gay exemplars did …
Plaza Fiesta: A Re-Imagined Homeland Contributing To Latino Identity And Community, Sarah Lindley Marske
Plaza Fiesta: A Re-Imagined Homeland Contributing To Latino Identity And Community, Sarah Lindley Marske
Communication Theses
This study analyzes the relationship between Plaza Fiesta, a Latino shopping center located in Atlanta, Georgia, and concepts of Latino identity and community formation among immigrants in a U.S. city. It is focused specifically on the complexities of identification for Latin American immigrants, who relate in various ways to Plaza Fiesta. One chapter explores the relationships between product consumption, marketing, spaces, and memory in the production of hybrid identity formations. Another chapter considers the relationship between pan-ethnic Latino identity construction and notions of belonging and not belonging for these Latin American immigrants. The final chapter adds to knowledge about identity …
A Genealogy Of Absence & Evil: Tracing The Nation's Borders With Captain America, Christian J. Steinmetz
A Genealogy Of Absence & Evil: Tracing The Nation's Borders With Captain America, Christian J. Steinmetz
Communication Theses
Although research has previously connected comic books and national ideology, there has yet to be a study examining the role of villains in this relationship. By analyzing representations of evil and villainy in the long-running series Captain America and understanding them in light of the model of the circuit of culture, the transforming imaginary space of the American nation can be traced.
Ups And Zoo Atlanta: A Case Study On Corporate Social Responsibility, Karen Saghini
Ups And Zoo Atlanta: A Case Study On Corporate Social Responsibility, Karen Saghini
Communication Theses
This thesis is designed to explore consumer attitudes and behaviors toward corporations that engage in socially responsible practices. The goal of this project was to determine if there was a relationship between a company’s perceived reputation for social responsibility and attitudes and behaviors that would favorably impact the company. Specifically, the project uses a case study of UPS and its support of Zoo Atlanta to further test these relationships in a true-to-life scenario. The findings reveal implications for corporate communication efforts in two ways: first, by serving as a framework to evaluate future corporate giving programs and to better understand …
What’S The Story? Framing Of Health Issues By The U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Prevention And Major Newspapers: A Qualitative Analysis, Kathryn O'Neill Karnes
What’S The Story? Framing Of Health Issues By The U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Prevention And Major Newspapers: A Qualitative Analysis, Kathryn O'Neill Karnes
Communication Theses
This qualitative analysis of the framing of health issues by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the world’s premier health organizations, and by major U.S. newspapers analyzes the frames present in a sample of the CDC’s press releases, and the frames present in the contemporaneous (and often resulting) press coverage. This study focuses on communication surrounding public health events that occurred in the six-year period 2002–2007.
For Better Or For Worse? Media Coverage Of Marital Rape In The 1978 Rideout Trial, Melissa Anne Bazhaw
For Better Or For Worse? Media Coverage Of Marital Rape In The 1978 Rideout Trial, Melissa Anne Bazhaw
Communication Theses
The Rideout trial in 1978 was the first case in the United States in which a wife charged her husband with rape while the couple was still living together. This thesis furthers research in the area of marital rape by examining the press coverage through textual analysis. The scope of the research is limited to newspaper coverage (local and national) and the subsequent made-for-television movie based on the trial. As a case study, the Rideout trial illustrates how the press has covered sexual assault in the United States—especially during the height of the 1970s women’s movement. The findings indicate that …
"I Don't Mean To Be Defiant Or Anything...": Instructional Films For Girls, 1945-1960, Jill E. Anderson Phd
"I Don't Mean To Be Defiant Or Anything...": Instructional Films For Girls, 1945-1960, Jill E. Anderson Phd
University Library Faculty Publications
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Branding Chinese Products: Between Nationalism And Transnationalism, Hongmei Li
Branding Chinese Products: Between Nationalism And Transnationalism, Hongmei Li
Communication Faculty Publications
This paper examines how Chinese advertisers include concepts of both nationalism and transnationalism in recent Chinese advertisements. I situate my research in the context of China’s search for modernity, and its historical and contemporary relations with the West. I argue that the marketing of nationalism and transnationalism represents contradictory concepts of China as a nation and a state. It also symbolizes China’s deep anxiety and ambivalence toward its own tradition and global capitalism. On one hand, Chinese advertisers sell nationalism by celebrating Chinese history, contemporary events, and Chinese lineage. On the other hand, Chinese advertisers use Western symbols and values …
A Necessary Signifier: The Adaptation Of Robinson's Body-Image In "The Jackie Robinson Story", Alessandra Raengo
A Necessary Signifier: The Adaptation Of Robinson's Body-Image In "The Jackie Robinson Story", Alessandra Raengo
Communication Faculty Publications
The essay singles out The Jackie Robinson Story, as an iconophiliac adaptation driven by the authorizing and authenticating presence of Robinson's body on screen, which functions as both the ‘source material’ and its ‘adaptation’. It argues that the film needs to be appreciated within a larger nexus of texts indicated as ‘The Jackie Robinson Story,’ revealing a larger process of embodiment of the integration drama grafted onto Robinson’s body-image in the years preceding and following the release of the film. Read in the context of Robinson’s presence in post World War II visual culture as emblem of the successful …