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The Prospector, February 23, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Candidates Fighting For Congressional Seat

Prospectus, February 22, 2012, Alisha Kirkley, Briana Kay Stodden, Dean Swift, Buster Bytes, Spencer Brown, Mark Roughton, Parkland Marketing And Public Relations

Prospectus 2012

THE SIDE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA, Black History Month Poetry Slam 2012, U.S. Colleges: Gifts Rise 8.2 Percent to $30.3 Billion, Prop 8 Voted Unconstitutional, How to Ace Your Midterms the Easy Way, Preventing Identity Theft, China's Human Rights Record Can't Be Ignored, Simple, Realistic Solution to Fixing the U.S. Economy, Celebrate George Washington, Cobras Basketball Defend Home Court, No "Off Season" for Cobras Baseball, WPCD to Co-Sponsor Pygmalion Spring Series, The Greatest Oscar Acceptance Speech That's NEVER Given

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

The Guardian, February 22, 2012, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twelve page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

The Prospector, February 14, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Wrap It Before You Tap It

Prospectus, February 8, 2012, Briana Kay Stodden, Jacob Kuppler, Buster Bytes, Mark Roughton, Parkland Marketing And Public Relations

Prospectus 2012

OBAMA ADDRESSES IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES, New Student Services Center Expected by Summer 2013, Woodworking Training Gets Boost From Donation, Enrollment Numbers Down at Parkland, Religious Rock Art Topic of Next World of Science Lecture, Komen REverses Decision to Cut Planned Parenthood Funding, Psychologists Debate Social Media Role in Suicide Interventions, Getting to Know My Parkland College, Do You Know How Your iPad is Made?, College Costs too Much, What Sort of Technology Would You Like to See in the Future?, Former Cobra's Success Stems From Parkland, Music Industry Says Goodbye to an Icon

The Prospector, February 7, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Game of Chance

The Guardian, February 1, 2012, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twelve page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, January 24, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Drug-Related Offenses Jump 275%

The Prospector, January 17, 2012, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Students Struggle with Financial Burden

Neocolonialism And The Global Prison In National Geographic's Locked Up Abroad, Casey R. Kelly

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

This essay examines the reformulation of colonial ideologies in National Geographic Channel's Locked Up Abroad, a documentary program that chronicles the narratives of Westerner travelers incarcerated in foreign nations. An analysis of Locked Up Abroad evinces neocolonialism in contemporary media culture, including: the historic association between dark-skin and savagery, the backwardness of the non-Western world, and the Western imperative to civilize it. The program's documentary techniques and framing devises sustain an Otherizing gaze toward non-Western societies, and its portrayals elide a critical analysis of colonialism in its present forms. I advocate for neocolonial criticism to trace how NatGeo remains haunted …

Methodological Orientations Of Articles Appearing In Allied Health's Top Journals: Who Publishes What And Where, Pamela Lea Mccloud Alderman

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This study examined articles published in the major peer-reviewed journals, either hard copy, web, or both formats, in five allied health professions from January 2006 to December 2010. Research journals used in this study includes Journal of Dental Hygiene, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Physical Therapy Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association, and Radiologic Technology. These journals were chosen after reviewing the professional organizations’ of each discipline, as well as the professional honor societies, and the recommendations by the discipline-specific national accreditation agencies found on the organizations’ websites. All research articles published in these …

Metaphor And Stories In Discourse About Personal And Social Change, L. David Ritchie

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

Barack Obama campaigned on the theme of ‘change,’ and as the first African-American to win the U. S. Presidency, he embodies changes of historical and cultural importance. Central among the changes Obama advocates is his attempt, throughout his campaign, to depart from the ‘old politics’ and keep racial issues in the background. However, at a crucial point in the campaign he was forced to confront these issues when a potentially damaging controversy erupted over a series of comments, widely regarded as unpatriotic, made by his personal friend and spiritual adviser, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. How Obama dealt with this crisis …

Complete Issue, Volume 31, Issue 2

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This is the complete issue for Volume 31, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Association for Communication Administration.

The Effect Of Recruitment Messages On Undergraduate Beliefs About The Communication Major: A Quasi-Experiment, Eric B. Meiners, Karen L. Rudick

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

Despite the importance of attracting talented and qualified undergraduates into the major, the subject of recruitment for communication has received little attention. This study examines the effectiveness of a one-shot informative recruitment message on students’ beliefs and attitudes toward the communication major. As part of a quasi-experiment using a Solomon four-group design, two upper-division majors presented recruitment presentations addressing the benefits of, and misconceptions toward, the major to 130 students enrolled in introductory public speaking classes. Post-tests revealed that students exposed to the message reported significantly more favorable attitudes toward communication than those who had not seen a presentation (n …

Intervention: Reality Tv, Whiteness, And Narratives Of Addiction, Jessie Daniels

Publications and Research

Purpose – Reality TV shows that feature embodied “transformations” are popular, including Intervention, a program that depicts therapeutic recovery from addiction to “health.” The purpose of this chapter is to address the ways whiteness constitutes narratives of addiction on Intervention.

Methodology – This analysis uses a mixed methodology. I conducted a systematic analysis of nine (9) seasons of one hundred and forty-seven (147) episodes featuring one hundred and fifty-seven individual “addicts” (157) and logged details, including race and gender. For the qualitative analysis, I watched each episode more than once (some, I watched several times) and took extensive notes on …

Talking Circles For Adolescent Girls In An Urban High School: A Restorative Practices Program For Building Friendships And Developing Emotional Literacy Skills, Martha Ann Schumacher

Wayne State University Dissertations

ABSTRACT

TALKING CIRCLES FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS

IN AN URBAN HIGH SCHOOL: A RESTORATIVE PRACTCES' PROGRAM FOR BUILDING FRIENDHIPS AND DEVELOPING

EMOTIONAL LITERACY SKILLS

by

MARTHA ANN SCHUMACHER

DECEMBER 2012

ADVISOR: Dr. Loraleigh Keashly

MAJOR: Communication

DEGREE: Doctor of Philosophy

Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice programs in schools are a new and emerging field. Meeting in Circles to build community, resolve conflict, and learn interactively are core components of these programs. This ethnographic study, which took place February 2010 to December 2011, evaluates 12 small, out-of-classroom Talking Circles for 60 adolescent girls as part of a Restorative Practices program in an …

Digital Games In Journalism Education, Evaluating A Police And Journalism Joint Training Initiative, Kayt Davies

Research outputs 2012

In early 2010, the Edith Cowan University (ECU) journalism programme and the Western Australia Police Academy Detective Training School launched a novel collaboration that involved running joint training days, in which a ‘media pack’ of journalism students interview trainee detectives about mock crimes they have been tasked with investigating. The training improved the trainee journalists’ and detectives’ understanding about the constraints the other parties face. It also made them more confident about their ability to elicit and convey accurate information, and more willing to attempt to do so than before the training.  This article presents a description of the training …

Murrow And Friendly’S Small World: Television Conversation At The Crossroads, Kathleen Collins

Publications and Research

Small World

(1958–60), an Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly television production, brought together political and entertainment figures from around the world, boasting technological innovation and a high level of public affairs discourse. The author discusses critical reception, producers’ ideals, cultural and historical context, and relation-ships to evolving notions of public service broadcasting.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of Workplace Racial Microaggressions And Their Effect On Employee Performance, Ronee L. Hunter

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

Although laws regulate blatant discrimination in the workplace, researchers have shown that invisible racism occurs through everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental communications. Invisible racism, in the form of microaggressions, includes subtle comments that negate or invalidate the thoughts, feelings, or experiences of a person of color. Microaggressions are words or actions that occur in communication that communicators may be unaware are a form of racism. Racial microaggressions were examined in this study through the lens of symbolic interactionism. This theory studies race as a structural category reproducing inequality, and it illuminates the influence of culture and communication "to reproduce racism …

The Prospector, December 1, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Good Luck Graduating Miners

Trafficking Of Women In Nepal: An Intersectional Analysis Of Organizational Narratives, Bhavana Mahat

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In Nepal, sex trafficking is usually associated with poverty, illiteracy and gender discrimination. To better understand the discursive dimensions of sex trafficking, this research examines the organizational narratives of the Nepalese anti-trafficking workers using the analytical framework of intersectionality. This study finds that the anti-trafficking workers' organizational narratives are influenced by both personal and institutional narratives. In their personal narratives, anti-trafficking workers recognize the multiple forms of discrimination shaping the victims' experiences, but the intersectional discriminations are rarely addressed in the anti-trafficking programs or services implemented by the non-profit organizations. After having identified sex-trafficking victims as experiencing discrimination based on …

The Prospector, November 10, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Beware of Humans

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Wright State University Men's Basketball Media Guide 2011-2012, Wright State University Athletics

Athletics Publications

A media guide for Wright State University's 2011-2012 Men's Basketball team. This guide includes photographs, player stats, game results, and records.

The Prospector, October 25, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: The Darker Side of Concordia

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Harrison, Taylor. Downing University Center Name Could Soon Be Changed
• Alleyne, Zirconia. WKU Graduate Finishes Top Five on Project Runway – Laura Planck
• Prochazka, Tyler. Occupy WKU Group Meets
• Williams, Joanna. Office Helps Students Win Competitive Scholarships – Scholar Development
• O’Bryan, Abby. A Thousand Words – Adam Ferguson
• Stacy, Stephani. Henry Cherry’s Granddaughter Has Thirst for Knowledge – Maggie McGowan
• Wade, Katherine. Patti Minter Overwhelmingly Re-elected as Faculty Regent
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Twitter
• Twitter’s Not a Monster – Football
• Bratcher, Nick. Rethinking What College Is About
• Brownstead, …

Chimes: October 14, 2011, Calvin College

Chimes

Youth Lagoon plays a synth set by Michelle Ratering

Occupy Together descends upon Grand Rapids by Libby Stille

Steve Jobs had eye for greatness by Jon Hielkema

Three women awarded Nobel Peace Prize by Josh Delacy

Bjork's latest album innovative, interactive by Samatha Wade

Women's golf qualifies for tourney by Mark Zylstra