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Responding To The Americans With Disabilities Act: Contributions Of Interpersonal Communication Research And Training, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Denise Labreque

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has resulted in considerable misinformation and resistance, especially when ablebodied individuals and persons with disabilities interact. This essay reviews contributions of interpersonal communication researchers who address the challenges persons with disabilities face when communicating with ablebodied others, suggesting ways to mitigate communication discomfort and to reduce problems in helping situations. The authors suggest foci for future research and training which can contribute to the acceptance and effectiveness of ADA and to facilitate communication between ablebodied persons and persons with disabilities.

Affinity-Seeking In The Classroom: A Study Of Differences In Instructor Gender And Status, Darin L. Garard

Masters Theses

Affinity-seeking is the process by which individuals attempt to get others to like them. The purpose of the present study was to analyze student perceptions of instructor use of affinity-seeking strategies as a function of instructor gender and status by replicating the research of Bell and Daly (1984) and Roach (1992). A pilot study was first conducted to determine if research in this area was indeed warranted; results were significantly positive to that effect. For the present study, research questions were developed to examine the differences between male and female instructor affinity-seeking, Graduate Teaching Assistant and faculty affinity-seeking, and to …

Domestic Space And The Construction Of Identity, Kerry Faulkner

Theses : Honours

This thesis on Domestic Space and the Construction of Identity investigates the construction of feminine identity within the domestic journal. The devalued status of the homes magazine is a direct reflection of the devalued status of women's domestic work and its political insignificance in a patriarchal society which values external paid labour over unpaid domestic work. This work is of course central to society and homes magazines provide an important focus for research since they intersect with the construction of femininity and roles for women. The contradictory nature of the domestic journal is such that while it supports the hegemonic …

Structuring Constraints On Perceptions Of Upward Influence And Supervisory Relationships, Kathleen J. Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This research examined the effects of centralization of authority on employees’ perceptions of the likelihood of attempting upward influence and their perceptions of supervisory trust and leader-member exchange. Three hundred and sixty-two employees from five different organizations responded to a questionnaire that assessed perceptions of centralization, attitudes toward upward influence, leader-member exchange, and supervisory trust. Consistent with earlier formulations, centralization was operationalized as perceptions of participation in decision making and job autonomy (Hage, 1980; Hage & Aiken, 1967). Results revealed that both job autonomy and participation in decision making significantly affect subordinates’ attitudes toward attempting upward influence and the levels …

Viewer's Perception Of Local Television Anchors: A Gender Based Study, Mary Elizabeth Wagner

Masters Theses

A number of studies conducted by Lin (1992), Meeske (1992), Stone and Lee (1990), and Weinthal and O'Keefe (1984) have examined which variables are rated highest and most prominent by respondents toward television anchors. Professionalism, voice and speech, personal appeal, and attractiveness have been among the top rated variables, but they have never been researched within a single study. This study examines the above variables for local male and female television anchors and discovers which was rated the highest by male and female respondents. Significant findings within this study include male respondents perceive professionalism to be the highest rated variable …

Pornography And Premarital Sexual Activity Among Lds Teenagers, Mark A. Harris

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates the relationship between several independent measures and premarital sexual activity among 1,393 LDS teenagers living along the east coast. Results indicate that among these LDS teens, exposure to pornography is strongly and significantly related to the probability of having engaged in premarital sex. This holds true even when controlling for peer influence, family structure, religiosity, gender, and age. Teens who were exposed to pornography (1 to 24 exposures) are 2.6 times more likely to have engaged in sex as compared to those who report no exposure to pornography. Furthermore, those teens exposed to a higher amount of …

The Effects Of Gender Of Juror And Gender Of Plaintiff On Outcomes Of Mock Medical Malpractice Lawsuites, Verity Anne Tubb

Graduate Theses

The current study investigates the effect of the gender of the subject and the gender of the plaintiff on the outcome of a mock medical malpractice lawsuit. Thirty males and twenty-nine females read a transcript from a mock medical malpractice lawsuit, completed a verdict form and answered opinion and recognition questions. The gender of the subjects did not produce any significant results, showing that male subjects did not select significantly different verdicts when compared to female subjects. The gender of the plaintiff did show significant results. The subjects found for female plaintiffs more often than they did the male plaintiff. …

Volume 22, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Post Amerikan Declares War on Pantagraph, Page Two Stuff, Community News, Gallery Exhibits, Omigod! A Letter from Bill Flick, Classy Fried Ads Are Back!, Staley Update, 7 Things You Can Do, Horoscopes, Ms. Hippie, Sandra Bernhard Review, Pastor Leon Says: We Must Overcome, Swastika Watch, Car Found Guilty, Boycott News, A View from Bloomington's West Side, The Politics of Coming Out, Vegetarian Reasons Continued, Animal Magnetism, PETA News, Meat Label Update, Voice for Choice News, Think About It..., Uppers/Downers, Prison Legal News, Life in the Fat Lane, AIDS Stamp, Notes from the Land of Anti Fat, Common Sense 1993, Gay/Lesbian/and …

Volume 22, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Community News, Think About It..., Ken's a Queen, Dear Ms. Hippie, Nervendranke und Rohunge Part II (Neurotics and Savages), Get Involved, Swastika Watch, Uppers/Downers, Gun Control No Threat, Staley Lockout Continues, Bulletin Board Systems, Proud to Be on the Rag Again, Animal Magnetism, Attention Meat Eaters: Part II, News from Voice for Choice, GALA News

Volume 22, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Guilty of Racism, Boycott News, Uppers and Downers, Menstrual Health, Exposed Racism in Our Court Systems: Are There Solutions?, ACLU speaks out about crime and civil liberties, Swastika watch returns, Animal Magnetism: FARM's annual report, PETA stuff, Reagan/Hitler coincidences, 101 Reasons to eat only plants, Dare to be yourself - fat or thin or short or tall or..., Isis goes to the movies

Volume 22, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Shocking "Truth" Revealed - Homosexuals in the Military: President Clinton proposes lifting ban (cover spoof); Setting up recycling programs; Ms. Hippie urges you to "just say no to drugs"; Towanda's thoughts on the Suzuki billboard; Nazis abound in Normal - we dare you to prove us wrong; Holly Foy discusses midwifery; New plans to open abortion clinic; Animals rights: GM stops, L'Oreal continues; NAAFA what does this acronym stand for?

Women's Profiles, Robyn Lynn Cochran

Institute for the Humanities Theses

This creative project chronicles the development of an innovative short-format public radio series called Women's Profiles. I include a range of pertinent materials, including a record of my public radio internship, a grant proposal, and a public radio script. Using a feminist approach, I create a prototype for a radio show in which women subjects/narrators, in a non-hierarchical interview process, share their life experiences in conversation with one ( or more) women interviewers. By incorporating myself as a subject in this document, with work journals and narrative, I give readers an opportunity to appreciate the effort and process involved in …

Ua12/2/74 Triangular Times, Volume 5, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. Articles:

• Audre Lorde Dies, Leaves Message
• Dismukes, G. Woman to Woman
• What's Happening
• Plotnik, Ken. Kentucky Fairness Alliance (KFA): A Statewide Civil Rights Organization Forms
• Brown, Larry. Welcome to New Members
• Audre Lorde Speaks in Life & Death
• Angelou, Maya. On the Pulse of Morning
• Why Black History
• Lambda Forum, 3/27/1993
• Forum Time
• The Because Manifesto
• Comix
• Defending Our Lives

The Contributions And Challenges Of Family Communication To The Field Of Communication, Sandra Petronio, Dawn O. Braithwaite

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

As the Family Communication Commission in the Speech Communication Association is off to a good start, it seems appropriate to bring attention to the contributions and challenges studying family communication has for the discipline of communication. More than a decade ago, Bochner (1976) outlined several fruitful areas of investigation. Clearly, people heeded Bochner’s persuasive arguments and produced research on family communication problems (e.g., Bochner & Eisenberg, 1987; Fitzpatrick, 1988; Noller & Fitzpatrick, 1988; Petronio, 1982; Sillars, Weisberg, Burggraff, & Wilson, 1987). But, the need to examine family communication in more depth is essential to the growth and development of the …

Female Spectators (14.1), E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.

Communications: Faculty Publications

This introduction to Female Spectators gives a concise account of the major feminist debates in film studies and argues for more work to be done in incorporating filmmaking practice, spectatorship and textual analysis. All the contributors to this book share a concern to emphasis women’s presence in, rather than absence from, the “cinematic experience”

Volume 21, Number 5, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

4 More Weeks, RU 486, Jesse Jackson Jr., Insanity

Ua12/2/74 Triangular Times, Issue No. 2, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. Articles:

• Apathy: An Enemy Among Us
• What's Happening
• Education: The Best Defense
• Flener, Craig. You (Love Poem)
• Harless, Michael. Clinton-Gore Victory . . . Or Ours?
• Heterosexism Workshop: A Success
• Young, Lori. Be All You Can Be
• Meadows, Melanie. Defending Your Life
• Brown, Larry. Election time: Is There an Office for You?
• Comics

Ua12/2/74 The Triangular Times, Issue No. 1, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. Articles:

• Women's Conference: Provided Sense of Safety
• Politics, Education & Cohesiveness
• Brown, Larry. Letter from President
• Incognito
• Vote for Bill Clinton
• Comics
• Bag of Toys Book Review
• Coming Out Not All Bad
• Crime Report Misleading

Volume 21, Number 4, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

An Autobiographical Lament, Community News, NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Bloomington/Normal, News from Lambda, ACT UP Behind Bars, News from Voice for Choice, Animal Magnetism, Dear Ms. Hippie, Roadkill Reports on N.C. Chicken Factory Fire, GALA News, Back Page Opinion

Volume 21, Number 3, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Family Values?, Should the Post Amerikan Call It a Day?

Volume 21, Number 2, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

Ms. Hippie on...State Farm and the Presidential Election

Gender Differences In Conversational Style: An Experiment In Interpersonal Communication, Constance M. Cooper

Dissertations and Theses

Communication problems and conflict may occur between partners in intimate dyads when systematic gender differences in language contribute to misinterpretations.

This research investigated effects of gender on interpretations of hypothetical conversations between dyads, and also on judgments of likelihood of conflict.

Following research by Fishman (1983), it was hypothesized that male and female subjects' interpretations of male speakers would be more similar than would male and female subjects' interpretations of female speakers. Based on Tannen's (1990) work, it was hypothesized that male subjects' ratings of likelihood of conflict would relate to their interpretations of speakers as "controlling;" female subjects' ratings …

Volume 21, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

20 Years of Pride, Local Anti-Choice Citizens Demonstrate

Perceived Importance Of Selected Nonverbal Cues In An Initial Encounter, Loretta L. Richter

Masters Theses

This study attempts to identify nonverbal cues which individuals are aware of using in an initial encounter and to identify the importance of those cues. It also a d dresses possible differences between men and women in nonverbal cue importance and possible differences based on the sex of the participant’s partner. Sixty-two male and female undergraduate students enrolled in communication courses interacted with a stranger and completed questionnaires which pertained to their partner's nonverbal behaviors. Results showed that the most important nonverbal cue for all participants was the amount of eye contact; the least important was body shape. Cues found …

Volume 20, Number 6, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

The Zero Hour: The Feminist Primer on the Letter Z

Ua12/2/74 Lambda Letter, Vol. 1, Edition 8, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. This issue discusses The Wizard of AIDS, election of officers, and calendar of events.

Ua12/2/74 Lambda Letter, Vol. 1, Edition 7, Lambda Society

Student Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Lambda Society. This issue has privacy statement, committee appointments and upcoming events.

A Comparison Of Organizational, Structural, And Relationship Effects On Subordinates’ Upward Influence Choices, Kathleen J. Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This research examined the extent to which organizational membership, centralization of authority, and subordinates’ perceptions of supervisory relationship quality affected how frequently they report using different types of tactics in their upward influence attempts. Participants from five different organizations were surveyed. A typology of upward influence tactics was created based on the extent to which: (1) the means employed to attempt influence are open or closed, and (2) the desired outcomes are openly expressed or left undisclosed. The resulting dependent variable consisted of three types of tactics: open upward influence, strategic upward influence, and political upward influence. MANOVA results indicated …

Lesbian And Gay, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

Publications and Research

"The lesbian and gay press has shaped and reflected the rise of gay and lesbian liberation," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian and Gay' section of Katzes' 1992 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 1995) far exceeded any mainstream library collection known to either of the authors who were nevertheless hopeful that libraries would expand …

Managerial Communication Practices In Chinese Factories: A Preliminary Investigation, Kathleen J. Krone, Mary Garrett, Ling Chen

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of a preliminary study of selected managerial communication practices in Chinese factories. Members of a delegation of Chinese managers visiting the United States were interviewed to explore: (a) the extent to which Chinese factories conform to a bureaucratic model of organization, and (b) factory director communication within these organization. Of particular interest were their upward and downward communication practices, and their methods for persuading and motivating workers and managing conflicts with problem employees. The results of our investigation reveal a distinctive form of bureaucracy operating within these factories. Moreover, we describe patterns of managerial communication …