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Transparency In The Government Communication Process: The Perspective Of Government Communicators, Jenille Fairbanks Dec 2005

Transparency In The Government Communication Process: The Perspective Of Government Communicators, Jenille Fairbanks

Theses and Dissertations

This study presents an understanding of the role of transparency in the communication processes of agencies of the United States Federal Government, as guided by principles of stakeholder management, models of public relations, and a model for government agency communication. These theories and models all suggest that increased openness in organizations will result in improved organizational functioning and in some instances, increases in organizational trust. The perspectives presented in this paper were collected through eighteen semi-structured in-depth interviews of professional communicators for various agencies in the United States Federal Government. The data shows that government communicators recognize the need for …


Participation, Identity, And Social Support In A Spiritual Community, Ladorna Mcgee Dec 2005

Participation, Identity, And Social Support In A Spiritual Community, Ladorna Mcgee

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

Paganism is a loosely organized community whose religious ideology incorporates the immanence of Deity. As a religious association with an ideology different from traditional Judeo-Christian faiths, members are often labeled as deviant and subjected to various negative sanctions. By relying on survey data collected on April 9-12, 1996 and in depth personal interviews collected on October 10-13, 1996, this study presents a model that best describes and explains acceptance and participation in pagan spiritualism. This study identifies three characteristics associated with positive ratings of childhood religious affiliation (church disaffection, family closeness, and role), three characteristics associated with feelings of belonging …


Weather And The Salem Witch Trials, Franklin G. Mixon Dec 2005

Weather And The Salem Witch Trials, Franklin G. Mixon

Faculty Publications

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Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway Dec 2005

Questions & Answers -- Copyright Column, Laura N. Gasaway

Against the Grain

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Issues In Vendor/Library Relations -- Janus, Editor Dec 2005

Issues In Vendor/Library Relations -- Janus, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Adventures In Librarianship -- Self Improvement, Ned Kraft Dec 2005

Adventures In Librarianship -- Self Improvement, Ned Kraft

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Something To Think About? -- Winter Musings, Editor Dec 2005

Something To Think About? -- Winter Musings, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


People Profile: Barbara Blummer, Editor Dec 2005

People Profile: Barbara Blummer, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


People Into Ghosts: Chachi Death Rituals As Shape-Shifting, Istvan Praet Dec 2005

People Into Ghosts: Chachi Death Rituals As Shape-Shifting, Istvan Praet

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

This article deals with the corporeality of the dead in native South American societies. Focusing on the Chachi of Northwest Ecuador, I question whether the separation of the dead from the living is best analyzed in terms of the lack of a body. While relevant in most ordinary circumstances, the division between having or not having a body hampers ourcapacitytounderstandcrisissituations,especiallywhensomebodydies. I then turn to the particular role played by “ghosts” during funerary rituals,and the ways in which mourners “shift shape” into visible and physically present ghosts, thus assuming the forms of the dead. I suggest that similar kinds of metamorphoses …


Mutually Exclusive Relationships: Corporeality And Differentiation Of Persons In Yine (Piro) Social Cosmos, Minna Opas Dec 2005

Mutually Exclusive Relationships: Corporeality And Differentiation Of Persons In Yine (Piro) Social Cosmos, Minna Opas

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

In Amazonia, body is a central organizing element of social life. Recent discussions in Amazonian anthropology show,on the one hand, the multiple ways in which the body acts in the formation of social relations, and, on the other, how social relations work in the formation of bodies. Bodies are relationally constituted in the diverse embodied processes through which Amazonian peoples form, maintain and regulate relations to each other. It is in this same manner that people also relate to, and are transformed into, different nonhuman persons. This article examines these dynamics of the body among the Yine (Piro) of Eastern …


And They Were There -- Report Of Meetings -- Special Library Association 2005 Annual Conference And 14th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference, Editor Dec 2005

And They Were There -- Report Of Meetings -- Special Library Association 2005 Annual Conference And 14th Annual North Carolina Serials Conference, Editor

Against the Grain

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Imre Kertész's Nobel Prize, Public Discourse, And The Media, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Dec 2005

Imre Kertész's Nobel Prize, Public Discourse, And The Media, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, in his paper, "Imre Kertész's Nobel Prize, Public Discourse, and the Media," discusses aspects of media coverage in German-, Hungarian-, and English-language newspapers and magazines of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to Imre Kertész. The perspective of Tötösy's analysis is to gauge the importance and impact of media coverage comparatively in the three cultural and media landscapes. Based on selected examples from newspapers and magazines with an international scope, Tötösy argues that the reception of Kertész's Nobel Prize suggests the convergence of the media (as the message) and the contents of the message within …


Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Team Of News Sleuths, Bruce Strauch Dec 2005

Bet You Missed It -- Press Clippings -- In The News -- Carefully Selected By Your Crack Team Of News Sleuths, Bruce Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Op Ed -- Little Red Herrings: Giving Thanks, Mark Y. Herring Dec 2005

Op Ed -- Little Red Herrings: Giving Thanks, Mark Y. Herring

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


When Can Subscriptions Become Electronic-Only? Developing Guidelines For Decision Making, Kristen Devoe Dec 2005

When Can Subscriptions Become Electronic-Only? Developing Guidelines For Decision Making, Kristen Devoe

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


From The Reference Desk, Thomas Gilson Dec 2005

From The Reference Desk, Thomas Gilson

Against the Grain

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Imhbco (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) -- Three Kinds Of "Research" And Two Kinds Of Researcher, Rick Anderson Dec 2005

Imhbco (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) -- Three Kinds Of "Research" And Two Kinds Of Researcher, Rick Anderson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch Dec 2005

Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


From Your (Cooking) Editor, Katina Strauch Dec 2005

From Your (Cooking) Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Electronic Journal Subscriptions: The Agent's Perspective, Tina Feick Dec 2005

Electronic Journal Subscriptions: The Agent's Perspective, Tina Feick

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


International Dateline -- Ebook: The New Serial?, Dr. Peter T. Shepherd Dec 2005

International Dateline -- Ebook: The New Serial?, Dr. Peter T. Shepherd

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


2006 Charleston Conference -- 26th Annual Issues In Book And Serial Acquisition, Editor Dec 2005

2006 Charleston Conference -- 26th Annual Issues In Book And Serial Acquisition, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Tell Me One More Time: Why Is It We're Going Electronic?, Rick Anderson Dec 2005

Tell Me One More Time: Why Is It We're Going Electronic?, Rick Anderson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Innovations Affecting Us -- Social Bookmarking And User-Driven Classification, Kristen Devoe Dec 2005

Innovations Affecting Us -- Social Bookmarking And User-Driven Classification, Kristen Devoe

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Going Online-Only With Journal Content: American University Library Takes The Plunge, Claire T. Dygert Dec 2005

Going Online-Only With Journal Content: American University Library Takes The Plunge, Claire T. Dygert

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Atg Deadlines, Editor Dec 2005

Atg Deadlines, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch Dec 2005

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


People Profile: Carolyn Kopper, Editor Dec 2005

People Profile: Carolyn Kopper, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


I Hear The Train A Comin' -- Scholarly Monograph, Editor Dec 2005

I Hear The Train A Comin' -- Scholarly Monograph, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Webworthy, Editor Dec 2005

Webworthy, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.