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Higher Education And The Dei Climate: Exploring And Understanding The Role Of Social Media, Self Esteem, And Intercultural Communication In Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Initiatives On The College Campus, Christian T. Cardona

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This study seeks to understand the effects and levels of impact that a university student’s intercultural communication competence, social media usage, and self-esteem have on the students’ attitudes towards diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts implemented by institutions of higher education. By studying these three independent variables, this research seeks to improve the understanding of the university students’ attitudes on DEI efforts for leaders and change agents in higher education, providing an inspiration for leaders, administrators, and change agents of higher education to continue collaborating to innovate methods and avenues towards creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus climate, as …

การใช้สตรีทอาร์ตเพื่อเป็นกลยุทธ์ส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยว, ปิยะธิดา ขันสิงหา

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การศึกษาครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ที่จะสำรวจการสื่อสารความคิดเห็นบนสื่อออนไลน์ของนักท่องเที่ยวที่มีต่อภาพสตรีทอาร์ตในเมืองท่องเที่ยวในประเทศไทยเพื่อเข้าใจแนวทางการสร้างสรรค์ภาพสตรีทอาร์ตสำหรับเป็นกลยุทธ์การสื่อสารเพื่อส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยว โดยเลือกสำรวจความคิดเห็นที่เกี่ยวกับสตรีทอาร์ตในพื้นที่เมืองรอง อำเภอบ้านโป่ง จังหวัดราชบุรีมาวิเคราะห์รูปแบบการตอบรับและการสื่อสารการรับรู้ภาพสตรีทอาร์ตของนักท่องเที่ยวจากการรีวิวแหล่งท่องเที่ยวผ่าน Google Maps Review ระหว่างวันที่ 1 มกราคม 2560 ถึง 15 มิถุนายน 2565 การวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพครั้งนี้ ผู้วิจัยใช้การวิเคราะห์เนื้อหา (Content Analysis) โดยอาศัยโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์ Leximancer วิเคราะห์ข้อความและเนื้อหาหลักที่ปรากฏในกลุ่มตัวอย่าง ประกอบการการวิเคราะห์ด้วยการลงรหัสเพื่อศึกษาเนื้อหาภาพภาพที่นำมาใช้ในรีวิว รวมจำนวนกลุ่มตัวอย่างทั้งสิ้น 512 ชิ้น ผลการศึกษาพบว่านักท่องเที่ยวนิยมแสดงออกผ่านรูปภาพมากกว่าแสดงความคิดเห็นด้วยข้อความ และมีจำนวนน้อยที่แสดงความเห็นผ่านทั้งรูปภาพและข้อความ ในส่วนของการวิเคราะห์ข้อความแสดงความคิดเห็น 103 ข้อความด้วยโปรแกรม Leximancer จำแนกประเด็นสำคัญ (Theme) ได้ 5 ประเด็น ได้แก่ 1. Beautiful (ความสวยงาม) 2. Food (อาหาร) 3. Painting (ภาพวาด) 4. Town (เมือง) 5. Care (การดูแล) ภาพวาดสตรีทอาร์ตมีความสวยงาม องค์ประกอบของภาพสตรีทอาร์ตเรื่องราวท้องถิ่น และวิถีชีวิตของเมืองและสะท้อนจิตวิญญาณแห่งพื้นที่ ภาพสตรีทอาร์ตจึงเป็นสื่อกลางในการสื่อสารเชื่อมโยงความเป็นเมืองเข้ากับประสบการณ์นักท่องเที่ยวได้ ในส่วนการวิเคราะห์รูปภาพ ผู้วิจัยพบว่าเนื้อหาของภาพสตรีทอาร์ต 409 ภาพที่นักท่องเที่ยวให้ความนิยมและชื่นชอบในการเลือกถ่ายภาพมาเพื่อประกอบการรีวิวในสื่อสังคมออนไลน์นั้น จำแนกเป็น 6 หมวดหมู่ ได้แก่ 1. คาแรคเตอร์ 2. สัญลักษณ์ทางภาษา 3. อัตลักษณ์ท้องถิ่น 4. คนกับวิถีชีวิต 5. ประวัติศาสตร์ และ 6. การสะท้อนปัญหาสังคม อย่างไรก็ดี แม้ว่าจะมีเนื้อหาที่สะท้อนความเป็นชุมชนอยู่มากมาย แต่จะพบว่านักท่องเที่ยวนิยมถ่ายเฉพาะภาพถ่ายสตรีทอาร์ตโดด ๆ มากกว่ามีทีท่าปฏิสัมพันธ์กับเนื้อหาในภาพสตรีทอาร์ต ผู้วิจัยเห็นว่าการใช้สตรีทอาร์ตเป็นกลยุทธ์ส่งเสริมการท่องเที่ยวนั้นเป็นไปได้ หากใช้ความสวยงามของภาพสตรีทอาร์ตเป็นจุดดึงดูดความสนใจ ควบคู่ไปกับเนื้อหาที่สะท้อนความเป็นชุมชน ความคิดสร้างสรรค์ผ่านคาแรคเตอร์และการเล่าเรื่อง แต่การใช้สตรีทอาร์ตต้องเชื่อมโยงกับปัจจัยด้านการท่องเที่ยวอื่น ๆ ประกอบด้วยหากต้องการสร้างประสบการณ์ที่น่าจดจำแก่นักท่องเที่ยวกับเมืองที่ไปเยี่ยมชม

The Relationship Between Chinese Consumers' Exposure To Taobao Live Streaming Of Thai Brands And Their Purchase Behavior, Chen Lin

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The objectives of this research were to examine Chinese consumers' exposure to Taobao live streaming of Thai brands, Chinese consumers' purchase behavior of Thai brands via Taobao and test the relationship between these two variables. This research utilizes quantitative methods by collecting the data through online questionnaires. With the collected questionnaires of 203 respondents, aged between 18-40 years old who have watched Taobao live streaming of Thai brands recently. The findings indicated most of respondents sometimes watch Taobao live streaming of Thai brands (M = 2.83), and their watching time was less than two hours (M = 2.49). The results …

The Influence Of Brand Ambassador On Brand Image And Purchasing Decision Of C-Vitt Among Expatriates And Locals, Agung Baskara

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This research aims to examine the influence of brand ambassador on brand image and purchasing decision of product vitamin C drinks, C-Vitt, among 2 different groups which were expatriates and Thai. The study also examined the relationship of each variable whether it’s positively related or negatively related. Study of this paper was conducted with a quantitative approach. Online questionnaire was distributed across several online expats and Thai communities. 213 valid respondents had been collected in 4 weeks period of data collection. The outcome of this research showed each of the variables were positively related. Moreover, it also illustrated that there …

การเปิดรับข่าวสารและปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัล ของกลุ่มผู้บริโภคเจเนอเรชันวาย, กฤตธี เปี่ยมสง่า

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์สำรวจ การเปิดรับข่าวสารและอธิบายปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลของกลุ่มผู้บริโภคเจเนอเรชันวาย ใช้รูปแบบงานวิจัยเชิงปริมาณด้วยวิธีการวิจัยเชิงสำรวจ และเก็บข้อมูลโดยการใช้แบบสอบถามออนไลน์ ผ่านช่องทางสื่อสังคมออนไลน์จากกลุ่มตัวอย่างที่เป็นผู้บริโภคเจเนอเรชันวาย จำนวน 400 คน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า กลุ่มตัวอย่างมีความถี่ในการเปิดรับข่าวสารสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลผ่านสื่อไม่มีปฏิสัมพันธ์และสื่อมีปฏิสัมพันธ์ในระดับปานกลาง ความคาดหวังในประสิทธิภาพ ความคาดหวังในความพยายาม คุณค่าราคา การรับรู้ความเสี่ยง และการรับรู้ว่าน่าไว้วางใจ จัดอยู่ในระดับมาก มีเพียง อิทธิพลทางสังคม ที่จัดอยู่ในระดับปานกลาง ส่วนความตั้งใจใช้สินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลของกลุ่มตัวอย่าง ในภาพรวมพบว่าจัดอยู่ในระดับมาก ผลการทดสอบสมมติฐานพบว่า ปัจจัยที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัลของกลุ่มตัวอย่าง อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 ซึ่งตัวแปรที่มีอิทธิพลต่อความตั้งใจใช้งานสินทรัพย์ดิจิทัล ได้แก่ ความคาดหวังในประสิทธิภาพ (ß = 0.334) การรับรู้ว่าน่าไว้วางใจ (ß = 0.261) และอิทธิพลทางสังคม (ß = 0.156) โดยสมการความสัมพันธ์สามารถอธิบายได้ร้อยละ 50.8 (R2 = 0.508)

Piercing The Veil: Examining Demographic And Political Variables In State Foi Law Administration, A.Jay Wagner

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

State and local governments play an important, and growing, role in everyday lives. The exploratory study positions FOI laws as a central mechanism in providing transparency to these more proximate governments. It is premised on a FOI audit, or field experiment, of 1002 requests across 9 U.S. state laws and 334 jurisdictions. The sample represents a broad cross-section of geographic, demographic and political variables, and the study analyzes these variables predictive and correlative value in determining outcomes, timeliness and communication in FOI requests. The results suggest significance in race and political variables in FOI outcomes and processes. The study's strongest …

Icts And Transnational Householding: The Double Burden Of Polymedia Connectivity For International ‘Study Mothers’, Yang Wang, Sun Sun Lim

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

In contemporary society, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely cherished for helping transnational households preserve a coherent sense of familyhood despite geographical separation. By virtue of the constant connectivity bestowed by ICTs, international migrants and their left-behind family members can remain involved in the mundane experiences of each other’s everyday lives and perform familial responsibilities from afar on a daily basis. However, the same polymedia environment that serves as the ‘social glue of transnationalism’ can also bring about deficiencies and potential negative implications for family functioning and well-being of family members. Drawing on both literature review and empirical evidence, …

Appropriation Vs. Authenticity: The Use Of Black Vernacular English By White Speakers, Tamara Petrov

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

This research investigates the authenticity of white speakers of Black Vernacular English (BVE). The scope of the paper is limited to white speakers of BVE in America, including European immigrants. The paper explores how authenticity is determined, revealing a complex vetting process performed by Black, in-group speakers. Research indicates that many of the white BV users exhibit appropriate use, wherein the speaker employs a speech pattern from a community to which they do not belong. The paper supports that the root of white appropriation of BVE is the desire to project characteristics of “toughness” associated with stereotypes of Black masculinity. …

Airbnbs In The Rural Midwest: Optimizing Listing Content For User’S Decision-Making Processes, Mary Catherine Kosacki

Masters Theses

This research examines the effectiveness of rural Airbnb listing content in influencing user decision-making. The peer-to-peer economy has been rapidly growing over the past decade, providing new opportunities for individuals to offer goods and services to other individuals through corporate platforms. Specifically, the Airbnb platform has rapidly grown, becoming the largest online platform for peer-to-peer property rentals, and one of the largest companies in the peer-to-peer sector of the economy. Previous research on the Airbnb platform has focused primarily on urban areas; however, Airbnbs have a proportionally large impact on local economies in rural areas.

Several methods were employed to …

Pride, Shame And Tv Dinners, Edward Brennan

Conference papers

This paper critiques a dominant narrative in the history of Irish television, which typically equate television’s arrival with the launch of RTÉ in 1961 and interpret its development through a state-centred, modernisation framework. Drawing on life-story interviews with people who experienced television in Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s, the research challenges methodological nationalism by foregrounding memory as a source. It reveals how television was an uncertain status object that carried meanings of pride, shame, discipline, and cultural value. Theoretically informed by Bourdieu, Halbwachs, and Inglis, the paper analyses recollection as practical social action. Early television consumption was mediated by …

Let's Talk About Ditching Plastics At Festivals, Ellen Foley

Case Studies

Student blog series from MSc in Event Management students at TU Dublin. In this blog post Ellen Foley asks is it time to stop using plastic at festivals. She discusses how how Education and collaboration are the two vital ingredients that festival planners must embrace in order to tackle this ever-pressing problem. It’s time to get creative and work together to ditch the plastic.

Relationship Between Participation And Social Inclusion, Louis Nwachi

Articles

Studies show that within most countries, there are generally many different socio-cultural, ethnic and religious groups and this diversity inevitably creates a level of inter-group tension, with income disparities, cultural differences, and intergroup segregation leading in turn to social exclusion. This paper sets out to develop a conceptual framework to examine the relationship between that participation and the social inclusion outcomes in the plan-making process. It addresses how social inclusion can relate to the plan-making process culturally, politically and institutionally, economically and socially with high level participation. In doing this, it adopts a case study approach using the Metropolitan Area …

The Power Of The Individual Voice: Interrogating Continuity At A Time When The Open Communication Of Research Is Disrupted By Unruly Speakers And Publics, Lelia Green, Viet Tho Le

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Hyperconnected societies offer new opportunities for the role of the individual voice. A deregulated world of information poses a paradox, however, in which fake news might conceivably underpin the political agenda more than informed research. The sheer amount of information available forces publics and audience members to seek shortcuts to knowledge through access to preferred academic, public intellectual or ‘thought leader’ perspectives. Drawing upon theories of deliberative democracy and open communication, this paper critiques the roles of academic, public intellectual and thought leader to move beyond discussion of the value of individual voices in the sharing of knowledge. It suggests …

Entertainment-Education Behind The Scenes: Case Studies For Theory And Practice, Lauren B. Frank, Paul Falzone

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

This Open Access book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication that incorporates social change messaging into entertaining media. Sometimes called edutainment, social impact television, narrative persuasion, or cultural strategy, this approach to social and behavior change communication offers new opportunities including transmedia and digital formats. However, making media can be a chaotic process. The realities of working in the field and the rigid structures of scholarly evaluation often act as barriers to honest accounts of entertainment-education practice. In this collection of essays, experienced practitioners offer unique insight into how entertainment-education …

Re-Spatializing Gangs: An Exponential Random Graph Model Of Twitter Data To Analyze The Geospatial Distribution Of Gang Member Connections, Ryan J. Roberts

Political Science & Geography Faculty Publications

Gang studies often use location-based approaches to explain gang members’ interconnectedness. Although this perspective remains consistent with the proximity principle that the smaller the geographic space, the greater the likelihood of observing connections between individuals, location-based studies limit our understanding of gang member connections to narrowly defined geographic spaces at specific points in time. The advent of social media has re-spatialized gang member interconnectedness to unbounded geographic spaces, where the preservation of online activity can extend indefinitely. Despite having an online presence, most research examining the digital footprint of gangs tends to be descriptive. This study collects Twitter data to …

Combating Covid-19 Infodemic In Nigerian Rural Communities: The Imperatives Of Traditional Communication Systems, Joseph M. Lucas, Tordue Simon Targema, Abubakar Jibril, Elkanah Obadiah Sambo, Bako Ali Istifanus

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, substantial attention has been devoted to combating the infodemic that has come to characterize it with the potential to prevent its effective containment. This is undoubtedly a very difficult task, especially in Nigerian rural communities that are characterized by severe lack of the requisite facilities to access information on modern media platforms, compounded by high illiteracy and poverty rates. This study presents a case for the utilization of people-oriented, traditional communication systems in combatting the infodemic at the grassroots level. It contends that, given the peculiarities of the country’s rural settlements, traditional …

Using Instagram Museum Nasional As A Historical Education Media Through E-Publication To Engage Audiences, Fitria Ayuningtyas, Uljanatunnisa Uljanatunnisa, Vinta Sevilla

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The museum as an institution devoted to cultural preservation began to utilize social media as a medium of communication to the public. Some museums around the world since the early 2000s have used social media to create a new face or rebrand in giving an update to the public. Generally, the term for museums that utilize technology in practice, is called Museum 2.0. In this research, researchers aimed to explore Instagram content as a medium of historical education through qualitative content analysis. The formulation of the problem in this research is to know how the contents of the National Museum …

Exploring The Effect Of Cultural Sensitivity In Public Relations Campaigns, Amanda N. Christian

Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current

This study examines the importance of perceived cultural sensitivity on consumer attitudes and intent to support. Participants were randomly assigned to campaign messaging with a perceived high level of cultural sensitivity or a perceived low level of cultural sensitivity. Findings reveal that higher perceived levels of culturally sensitive messages generate more positive attitudes and increase the willingness of consumers to demonstrate supportive communication and intent to purchase. Other hypotheses comparing the response between two groups—self-identifying Hispanic and non-Hispanic respondents— aimed to distinguish the role origin plays in determining how important cultural sensitivity is to the perception of the organization. These …

Pirate Radio Proves Invaluable To Immigrant Communities During The Pandemic — But The Fcc Isn’T Having It, May Olvera

Capstones

In January 2020, congress passed the PIRATE Act into law, expanding the legal consequences for operating pirate radio tenfold. Although the FCC claims that the reason they are cracking down on pirate stations — that is, stations broadcasting on regulated airwaves without an FCC license — is that they could interfere with emergency messaging, the pandemic has proven otherwise; there is no evidence of pirates interfering with official safety warnings. In fact, most pirate stations are run by immigrants speaking in their native tongue and they have been able to provide vulnerable and underserved communities with the information they need …

The Guardian, Week Of December 7, 2020, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of December 7, 2020. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Gentrification And Local Restaurants: Chinatown District Of Los Angeles In A Digital Age, Sky Xavier, Christopher J. Finlay

Honors Thesis

This paper analyzes the effects of gentrification and the digital age on local restaurants, specifically those in the Chinatown District of Los Angeles, California. To examine the effects of gentrification on Chinatown’s local businesses, I interviewed Daniel Yin of Yang Chow restaurant over Zoom. Yang Chow has three locations, this research centers around their original location in Chinatown. Yin now manages all online communications and was previously an in-person manager. His experience in the Chinatown restaurant business provides insight into this cultural district’s changing business landscape, as his family has owned this restaurant since 1977.

Shutdown University: Comparing Video Content Performance Against Non-Video In Digital Crisis Communications At Institutions Of Higher Learning During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Brian Patrick Vorce

Theses

This thesis project examines best practices in crisis communications at institutions of higher learning during the beginning stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a large amount of literature stating the importance of video content in the digital realm, video communications were closely examined and compared with non-video communications in terms of efficacy and successful engagement on social media platforms. The final deliverable for the project is a website where communications professionals can access resources, data, and research on these crisis communications, all delivered through accessible blogs and videos.

“We Didn’T Have A Lot Of Money, We Worked Hard, And We Ate Beans”: Examining The Narrative Inheritance From An Appalachian Father To His Son, Thomas Townsend

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The author contends that narratives, shaped not only by events but also by socioeconomic and geographic factors, are narratives that require exploration and analysis because these narratives build the lives in which individuals exist. By understanding narratives passed down with which they have built their lives, individuals can come to greater understanding of the narratives in which they live. To understand the narratives, he created and continues to craft about his life, the author needed to understand his narrative inheritance. When a proposed thesis study imploded, the focus of the study shifted to exploring the circumstances of a single interview …

The Guardian, Week Of November 30, 2020, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of November 30, 2020. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Deaf Interpreters’ Perception Of Themselves As Professionals In Ireland: A Phenomenological Study, Noel P. O'Connell, Teresa Lynch

Journal of Interpretation

In the extensive literature on sign language interpreting, very little attention has been given to deaf interpreters’ understanding of themselves as professionals. This gap may be due to the fact that professional sign language interpreting is often seen to be synonymous with hearing people. The research therefore set out to gain an insight into how deaf interpreters’ view themselves as professionals, what their understanding of ‘being a professional’ is, and what issues are of concern to them. The authors present and discuss findings from an analysis, informed by professionalism theory, of data derived from interviews with 5 deaf interpreters in …

Mapping Flat, Deep, And Slow: On The 'Spirit Of Place' In New Cinema History, Jeffrey Klenotic

Faculty Publications

This essay engages in a creative, heuristic, and reflexive consideration of the ‘localities’ of cinema audiences by exploring New Cinema History as a place. New Cinema History is conceptualised as a place continually produced in and through its interactions with the heterogeneous multiplicities of situated audiences and experiences of cinema that form the topoi of its landscape of inquiry. In reflecting on how this placialised landscape has been and might be represented, I argue that New Cinema History’s ‘spirit of place’ is most productive when rendered within a ‘splatial’ framework that draws upon practices of flat, deep, and slow mapping …

Feasting On Words: What University Students Learn When They Study Food Writing And Food Media, Janet K. Keeler

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The use of food in college curriculum is unique in its ability to create lasting impact because of the keen interest millennial and Generation Z students have in what they eat and drink. Studying media with food at its core is an underutilized mechanism to show how food intersects with the lives of all people thus encouraging students to look beyond their own experiences to consider the wider society. A program evaluation of 10 semesters of food writing and food media courses at a Florida public university reveals the ways in which students make deeper connections to culture and current …

The Prospector, November 3, 2020, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Public Health Crisis Trickles to UTEP

Begin To Play: The Case For Play In Community Engagement In Higher Education, Naomi B. Roswell

Spect-actor: A Journal of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Although little is written about the role of play in community engagement in higher education, professors and administrators intuitively grasp its value in building trust and democratizing spaces, but use games thinly. This paper acknowledges the challenges of developing effective community engagement partnerships and demonstrates how and why games based in Theater of the Oppressed deepen and enhance initiatives to dissolve town / gown divisions and enable collaborative knowledge generation. Through an analysis of literature reviews and interviews, this paper makes a case for deliberately incorporating games from Theater of the Oppressed (TO) - to advance community engagement initiatives by …

The Prospector, November 25, 2020, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Another Graduation Lost to COVID-19

Graduation issue. Contains a list of the 2020 graduates.