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The Effects Of Presentational Mode And Gender On Rating Errors In Classroom Speech Evaluation, Nicole L. Turley

Masters Theses

There is extensive research on speech evaluation in the area of speech communication. This study explores the effects of presentational mode and gender on rating errors in speech evaluation. Subjects were students enrolled in an introductory speech course at Eastern Illinois University. After compiling 1072 speech evaluation sheets, a 2x2x3 factorial analysis of variance was conducted. Results concluded that raters in a pre-presentational mode will be more positively lenient than raters in a post-presentational mode and raters in a control group; female raters were more positively lenient than male raters in the traits of language, material, delivery, analysis, and voice; …

Gender Roles In Japanese Comics, Daradirek Ekachai, Cheryl Drout

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Reading Dolly : The Reading Practices Of Adolescent Girls, Suzanne Fleming

Theses : Honours

In recent years the representation and participation of women in the media has received a great deal of attention. So too, has the area of language and gender. Research and discussions around these two fields intersect to provide a context for this research project. Unlike any study located to date, this study provides a theoretical exploration of practices girls employ when reading Dolly, an Australian teen magazine aimed at adolescent females. The project involves 11 year-eight girls from two metropolitan schools and aims to answer questions regarding the reading practices they employ when reading Dolly, the meanings they make with …

An Investigation Of Agency In Children's Own Narrative Writing Before And After Exposure To Counter-Sexist Texts, Jane Nolan

Theses : Honours

This research focuses on the issue of gender in education. It looks at the role counter-sexist texts play in the formation, consolidation and interruption of children's gender ideology. It initially investigates whether or not counter-sexist texts can change agency in children's writing by analysing children's own narrative writing. Then it seeks to shed light on the ways that children respond to these types of texts by using transcripts from discussion sessions.

The sample consisted of 20 students from a Western Australian state primary school. These students were randomly distributed into a control and experimental group. Each week, for a period …

Mentoring Relationships Amongst Women In Public Relations, Kristen Kahles

Masters Theses

Mentoring is an old tool used to advance the education and/or careers of individuals that dates back to ancient Greece; it has recently reemerged in organizational and business settings. I examine mentoring relationships among women in the public relations profession. In this study my purpose is to determine how women are affected in a same sex mentoring relationship in the public relations field. One hundred surveys were distributed to female practitioners in the New York and Chicago areas. Thirty-five were returned, yielding a 35% response rate. In addition, six in depth interviews were conducted with six female public relations professionals …

Self-Disclosure Among Women In Similar Crisis Situations: Case Studies, Stephanie J. Butler

Masters Theses

Using volunteers who were single mothers of young children who were products of unplanned pregnancies in a non-marital situation, six interviews were conducted and disclosure and narrative communication patterns were observed. Each interview was videotaped and observations and comparisons were made about the subjects interviewed. Common themes identified included an overall willingness to discuss the father of the child, a correlation between the relationship with the father and the feelings felt toward the father, worries about money, the importance of talking to other people, a feeling that mother and child were a "package deal" in that if a man they …

穩定與不定 : 李碧華三部小說中的文化認同與性別意識 Certainty And Uncertainty: Cultural Identification And Gender Consciousness In Three Novels By Li Bihua, Siu Leung Li

Volume 4

No abstract provided.

Volume 24, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

Update On The Role And Status Of Women Correspondents In The Television Network News: A Content Analysis, Lonnie Travis Flora

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Communication by Lonnie TraVis Flora on October 5, 1995.

A Study Of Women's Compliance-Gaining Behaviors In Violent And Non-Violent Relationships, Jill E. Rudd, Patricia A. Burant

Communication Faculty Publications

Recent research by communication scholars has investigated the dynamics of abusive spousal relationships (Chandler, 1986; Infante, Chandler, & Rudd, 1989; Infante, Chandler-Sabourin, Rudd, & Shannon, 1990; Rancer & Niemasz, 1988; Rudd, Burant, & Beatty, 1994; Sabourin, Infante, & Rudd, 1993). Infante and his colleagues have suggested that those involved in violent relationships communicate differently with their partners than those involved in nonviolent relationships. Based on this prior research, it seems important for communication scholars to further investigate the communication behaviors of individuals involved in violent relationships. This current study seeks to advance the family violence research by comparing the types …

Volume 24, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

The Nebraska Department Of Communication Studies Story: There Are Happy Endings That Go Beyond Football And A Good Crop Year, William J. Seiler

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The following essay discusses the proposed targeting of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Communication Studies for total elimination. The essay describes the department’s demographics, the university’s budget crisis, and the department’s status at its time of peril. The essay reveals how the department learned of the proposal to eliminate it, how the department reacted to the proposed cut, how the administration established an appeals process to the proposed cuts, what explanation and criteria were used to target the department, how the department responded to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affair’s (VCAA) criteria for targeting the department, how the VCAA …

Volume 24, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

Volume 24, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

“I Do” Again: The Relational Dialectics Of Renewing Marriage Vows, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Leslie A. Baxter

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This study provides descriptive insight into the dialectical themes of one public relationship ritual in modern US society, the renewal of marital vows between spouses. Interpretive analyses of in-depth interview data revealed that this ritual allows spouses to manage three underlying dialectical contradictions: private-public, stability-change, and conventionality-uniqueness.

Volume 24, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

Volume 24, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

News As A Political Resource: Media Strategies And Political Identity In The U.S. Women's Movement, 1966-1975, Bernadette Barker-Plummer

Media Studies

This paper discusses news as a political resource for social movements. Specifically, the paper elaborates a conceptualization of news as a discursive resource, and suggests a dialogical model for media‐movement relationships. The paper then uses this framework to investigate the interactions with news media of U.S. women's movement groups. It describes how the two “branches” of the women's movement understood news differently and developed quite different and specific strategies which are called media pragmatism and media subversion. The study raises questions not only about what kind of resource news might be, and to whom it might be available, but also …

Communication: The Vital Link Between The Sexes, Ruth A. Weber

Theses

Our ability to get along with the opposite sex is often directly affected by our inability to communicate. We believe we are communicating, only to realize that what we said is not what was understood. This is not the fault of any one person or sex but is a misunderstanding of the different ways women and men communicate. These differences begin in infancy and continue to thrive throughout our lives. Our culture, religion, history, language, stereotypes, sex, and other influences discussed in this study affect how and what we perceive others to be. We observe each other from our own …

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

Publications and Research

The proliferation of publications in the lesbian, Gay, bisexual, and transgender press has allowed the weaving of a well-informed network of previously isolated individuals and communities, empowering and unifying lesbian, gay, and other sexual minorities," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender' section of Katzes' 1995 edition of Magazines for Libraries. This title review of the queer periodicals of the day was intended to serve as a guide and justification for 'mainstream' libraries' collection building. The number and range of titles in Thistlethwaite and Tsang's collaborative entries (1989, 1992, and …

The Meaning And Perception Of Environment By Rural Women In The Sudan And Their Importance In The Design Of Public Awareness Campaigns For Environmental Protection, Hind Abbas Hilmi Ibrahim

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Volume 23, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Community News; New Show at CVA; HIV/AIDS Support Group Offered; Hate Crimes Against Native Americans; Ms. Hippie; Jesse Smart's Telephone Etiquette; Pantagraph Sends Scabs to S.F.; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Issues; Russian Homebirth Project; Animal Magnetism; Yummy Recipes; Thoughts on the Recent Mike Cockrill Exhibit; Voice for Choice News; Interview with a New Theatre Group in Bloomington/Normal; New Age Center to Open in Bloomington; Holidays and Consumption

Volume 23, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Community News, Ms. Hippie, Rutherford's Double Standards, Winter Wren's Star Guide, Ethics in Psychism, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues, 200th Issue Special Section, Voice for Choice/Election Summary, Towanda Reviews Books, Why You Should Watch TV Nation, ISU Music Schedule, Good News for Vegans - Restaurant Review, Animal Magnetism: Stop Gillette, Famous Veggies

Gloria Patri, Gender, And The Gulf War: A Conversation With Mary Kelly, James Castonguay, Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Christopher Lane, Kathleen Woodward

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Mary Kelly's gallery size installation, entitled Gloria Patri, was first shown at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University in 1992. Gloria Patri focuses on the issues of heroism, mastery, and war within the context of a pathologized masculinity; that is, on the identification by both men and women with masculine ideals of mastery, domination, and control, and their simultaneous physical and psychological collapse. This crisis of masculine mastery is set against the backdrop of the Persian Gulf War.

Analysis Of Levels Of Self-Esteem Among Male And Female High Achievers, Ladonna Weaver

Graduate Theses

This study investigated the hypothesis that female high-achievers possess lower self-esteem than their male counterparts at the high school level. This hypothesis was derived from an analysis of the self-esteem theory in relation to sex related roles and cultural norms. The hypothesis was tested using high school juniors and seniors, 37 male and 48 female students who were enrolled in Advanced Placement Honor classes at Odessa High School. Results showed that the females’ mean scores were considerably lower in each category of the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. The results supported the hypothesis that in high school, high-achieving females have lower self-esteem …

Volume 23, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

O.J. Simpson's Hidden Shame, What lies in your future? /Winter knows, Ms. Hippie returns/Broom closet, Animal Magnetism, Deer killed by police in Hancock Stadium, Doonesbury censored by guess who, Womeri For Guatemala, Pell grants for prisoners cut, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual issues

Battered Women's Compliance-Gaining Strategies As A Function Of Argumentativeness And Verbal Aggression, Jill E. Rudd, Patricia A. Burant, Michael J. Beatty

Communication Faculty Publications

This study investigated (1) the type of compliance-gaining strategies that battered women reported using in domestic conflicts and (2) whether these strategies related to the battered women's verbal aggression and argumentativeness. Participants in this study were 115 abused women who were seeking refuge from abusive spouses in temporary shelters for battered women. The results suggest that battered women most frequently reported using indirect strategies. Aversive Stimulation (i.e., pouting sulking, crying) and ingratiation (i.e., manipulation in the form of affection or favor-doing) were the top two strategies reported. Furthermore, a canonical correlation analysis resulted in an overall significant relationship between compliance-gaining …

Volume 23, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Incredible Shrinking Post Amerikan, Larger Than Life Figures II, Male Genital Mutilation, Voice For Choice News, Oh, Well, Whatever...Nevermind, Winter Wren's Star Guide, Support for Safety Strikers, Roadkill on Taxes, Naropa

Volume 23, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Letters; Raffle Winners; Classy Frieds; Blue Moon Coffeehouse Schedule; Community News; Ms. Hippie; Winter Wren's Star Guide; Animal Magnetism: Premarin; Milk--It Does a Body Bad; 101 Reasons to Be a Veggie, Finale; Notes from the Land of Anti-Fat; Episiotomy--Genital Mutilation Amerikan Style; A Matter of Identity; News from Voice for Choice; Generation X: Marketing, Stats, Reflections; Take 2 Tablets; Modernization Revisited--The Zapatista Rebellion; Dave a Life, Save the World; News from NGLTF: Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Issues; Condom Facts; Ollie's Fun Page; Love Post Amerikan Style

Volume 23, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Community News; Uppers/Downers; 1994 Predictions; Think About It; FDA Targets Food Supplements; Bioregionalist Perspectives: A Quest for Human Identity and Survival; Anarchy, Revolution, and Christ; Anarchy, Revolution, and Crestwicke; Ms. Hippie; Notes from a Local "Lefty" and Small Business Owner; Rittenhouse Letters: Responsibility and the Rape Culture; Attention Meat-Eaters; Diet Styles of the Rich and Fatuous; Famous Larger-Than-Life Crossword Puzzle; Voice for Choice; Homebirth: Fighting for Another Reproductive Right; Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Public Aid; Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Issues