Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication (302)
- Social Influence and Political Communication (280)
- Journalism Studies (266)
- Publishing (258)
- Arts and Humanities (75)
-
- Speech and Rhetorical Studies (75)
- Interpersonal and Small Group Communication (56)
- Education (53)
- Public Relations and Advertising (51)
- Social Media (43)
- Mass Communication (34)
- Sociology (33)
- Organizational Communication (32)
- Psychology (30)
- Educational Administration and Supervision (20)
- Music (20)
- Broadcast and Video Studies (19)
- International and Intercultural Communication (17)
- Communication Technology and New Media (16)
- Gender and Sexuality (16)
- Higher Education (16)
- Critical and Cultural Studies (15)
- Business (12)
- Health Communication (11)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (11)
- Political Science (11)
- Television (11)
- American Politics (9)
- Keyword
-
- Post Amerikan (253)
- Fandom (4)
- Gender (4)
- Intersectional reflexivity (4)
- Jamaica (4)
-
- Rastafarian movement (4)
- Rhetoric (4)
- Social Media (4)
- Crisis communication (3)
- Higher education (3)
- Public relations (3)
- Reconciliation (3)
- Abu Ghraib scandal (2)
- Africa (2)
- Alliance building (2)
- Authority (2)
- Autoethnography (2)
- Book review (2)
- Branding (2)
- Community (2)
- Conflict (2)
- Corporate Apologia (2)
- Crisis Communication (2)
- Critical rhetoric (2)
- Cross border research (2)
- Destination marketing (2)
- Documentary (2)
- Feminist theory (2)
- Globalization (2)
- Hospitality marketing (2)
- Publication Year
- Publication
-
- Masters Theses (299)
- The Post Amerikan (1972-2004) (256)
- Syllabi (30)
- Faculty Research and Creative Activity (29)
- Faculty Research & Creative Activity (19)
-
- Undergraduate Honors Theses (8)
- Curriculum Programs (6)
- Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy (2)
- The Eastern Illinois University Political Science Review (2)
- 2010 Awards for Excellence in Student Research & Creative Activity - Documents (1)
- 2021 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents (1)
- 2026 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents & Media (1)
- Student Honors Theses (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 211 - 240 of 655
Full-Text Articles in Communication
Communication And Authenticity: Transformations Of The Self In The Digital Age, John Dowd
Communication And Authenticity: Transformations Of The Self In The Digital Age, John Dowd
Masters Theses
Through an examination of disembodied forms of communication and technological discourse, this project explores the concepts of authenticity and its implications for communication research. Situated within phenomenological notions of embodiment, authenticity can serve as an important tool for doing rhetorical criticism. It provides an ethical component to criticism that is sorely lacking within many social scientific approaches to the study of human communication, which operate under the guise of objectivity. As authenticity, subjectivity, and embodiment are inescapably connected and as all three provide the foundation for this project, chapter one provides a working definition of each. It is argued that …
Memory, Mythmaking, And Museums: Constructive Authenticity And The Primitive Blues Subject, Stephen A. King
Memory, Mythmaking, And Museums: Constructive Authenticity And The Primitive Blues Subject, Stephen A. King
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
This essay explores how museums, public memory, and authenticity intersect to privilege an understanding of the past. Reflecting White control over the promotion of blues music, the curators at the Delta Blues Museum, located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, employ two rhetorical strategies to satisfy the expectations of (White) tourists who share culturally specific memories of the blues. First, the museum's rhetorical depiction of blues artists reflects White fascination with the mythic image of the primitive blues subject. Second, the exhibit recreates an early 20th century Delta society to complement tourism goals to market the Mississippi Delta as America's last remaining “pure” …
Memory, Mythmaking, And Museums: Constructive Authenticity And The Primitive Blues Subject, Stephen King
Memory, Mythmaking, And Museums: Constructive Authenticity And The Primitive Blues Subject, Stephen King
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
This essay explores how museums, public memory, and authenticity intersect to privilege an understanding of the past. Reflecting White control over the promotion of blues music, the curators at the Delta Blues Museum, located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, employ two rhetorical strategies to satisfy the expectations of (White) tourists who share culturally specific memories of the blues. First, the museum's rhetorical depiction of blues artists reflects White fascination with the mythic image of the primitive blues subject. Second, the exhibit recreates an early 20th century Delta society to complement tourism goals to market the Mississippi Delta as America's last remaining “pure” …
Cinematic Scripture: The Structure And Usage Of The Lord Of The Rings As Equipment For Living, Brent Yergensen
Cinematic Scripture: The Structure And Usage Of The Lord Of The Rings As Equipment For Living, Brent Yergensen
Masters Theses
This project argues that film has the capacity to function as cinematic scripture for Christian audiences. Cinematic scripture means that films are authoritative for audiences the same way that written scripture is. In The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, this new form of scripture works as equipment for living by encouraging Christian audiences to go to war against evil through the structure of the film's biblical themes of bifurcation, redemption, and millennialism. This culmination of the rhetorical vision of war comes from three fantasy themes that emerge when Christian Internet writers describe how they use the films: repentance, strength, …
Race And Blues Tourism: A Comparison Of Two Lodging Alternatives In Clarksdale, Mississippi, Stephen A. King
Race And Blues Tourism: A Comparison Of Two Lodging Alternatives In Clarksdale, Mississippi, Stephen A. King
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
This article compares several lodging alternatives in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Blues tourism in the Delta has been characterized by decentralized efforts as well as fragmentation with each Delta community competing for tourists, money, and prestige. Yet there is evidence that the development and promotion of blues tourism are fast becoming a more organized and centralized phenomenon. Located on the outskirts of Clarksdale, Mississippi, the Shack Up Inn offer tourists the opportunity to sleep in one of six renovated sharecroppers' shacks.
Race And Blues Tourism: A Comparison Of Two Lodging Alternatives In Clarksdale, Mississippi, Stephen King
Race And Blues Tourism: A Comparison Of Two Lodging Alternatives In Clarksdale, Mississippi, Stephen King
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
This article compares several lodging alternatives in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Blues tourism in the Delta has been characterized by decentralized efforts as well as fragmentation with each Delta community competing for tourists, money, and prestige. Yet there is evidence that the development and promotion of blues tourism are fast becoming a more organized and centralized phenomenon. Located on the outskirts of Clarksdale, Mississippi, the Shack Up Inn offer tourists the opportunity to sleep in one of six renovated sharecroppers' shacks.
Teens Talk With Parents About Sex, Alcohol, Drugs, And Suicide... Or Do They?, Vanessa Sneed
Teens Talk With Parents About Sex, Alcohol, Drugs, And Suicide... Or Do They?, Vanessa Sneed
Masters Theses
This study is a comparison of students from two high schools in Illinois. It examines adolescents' perceptions of communication with their parents related to the topics of alcohol, drugs, sex, and suicide. Historically, School 1 is located in a county that has above average teen pregnancy rates. Traditionally, School 2 is located in a county with lower pregnancy rates than School 1. In addition to providing the groundwork for more detailed analysis of alcohol, drugs, sex, and suicide related to specific family communication styles and strategies, this study provides support for intervention programs that promote family communication. The decisions adolescents …
Searching For What Was Lost: An Autoethnography On Disclosure, Identity, And Social Construction From A Rape Victim And Survivor's Perspective, Sarah R. Moll
Masters Theses
Research has indicated that rape victims perceive their environment differently, or with a "new reality" after their rape, and their recovery process can be lengthy and traumatic. This auto-ethnography focuses on the recovery process that the author journals, and her transformation from victim to survivor. How are the labels of "victim" and "survivor" important to the rape recovery process? How is the decision to disclose the rape a trust issue? What drives the phases of disclosure development at different communication levels (intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and public communication)? Once a person has accepted that they were raped and a healing process …
Chinese And English Discourse In Business Communication: A Case Study Of A U.S. Executive Of A Multinational Corporation In China, Jinghui Liu
Masters Theses
This case study is an examination of business communication forms both in Chinese and English discourse from the perspective of a U.S. executive of multinational corporation in one business working day in China. Forms of oral communication and written communication provide a basis for understanding the executive's business activities in real business practice, as opposed to only written communication. The theoretical framework for this study is provided by Louhiala-Salminen (2002), focusing on the investigation of discourse activities in business communication. The data were collected through use of a business daily activity protocol questionnaire and a longdistance interview. The participant is …
Sibling Interaction: Sisters' Use Of Advice Episodes In The Construction Of Relational Identities, Melissa R. Gornick
Sibling Interaction: Sisters' Use Of Advice Episodes In The Construction Of Relational Identities, Melissa R. Gornick
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study was to examine how sisters collaboratively construct advice episodes in naturally-occurring conversation and how they used these advice episodes in their negotiation of relational identities. Thus, two research questions were addressed: 1) How do sisters collaboratively construct advice episodes in naturally occurring conversation, and 2) How do sisters use advice episodes in their negotiation of relational identities. The database for the study consisted of four sister sets who audio taped naturally occurring conversation. Jefferson's (1984b) transcript notation system was used to transcribe sibling conversations which contained advice episodes and the transcripts were analyzed using the …
The Impact Of Information Processing On The Rating Of Speeches, Ryan Wyckoff
The Impact Of Information Processing On The Rating Of Speeches, Ryan Wyckoff
Masters Theses
This paper takes a look at how information competency, information processing, and receiver apprehension, affect rating behavior when rating speeches. The paper is broken down into two studies. The first study looks at information competency, which is measured by the Information Competency Assessment Instrument, and how it affects rating behavior. The second study looks at information processing, which is broken down into three scales based on the Inventory of Learning Processes then each is analyzed based on rating behavior, and receiver apprehension which is measured using the Receiver Apprehension Test and how these two concepts affect rating behavior. Students were …
The Changing Identity Of Feminism In The Third Wave: A Critical Analysis, Jillian Marie Klean
The Changing Identity Of Feminism In The Third Wave: A Critical Analysis, Jillian Marie Klean
Masters Theses
This thesis examines three texts: Three Black Skirts, The Vagina Monologues, and The Art and Power of Being a Lady to discover the changing identities of women in the third wave movement of feminism. A rhetorical criticism is conducted of the images of feminism put forth by the texts to discover the identities that the authors are advocating and advancing for third wave feminists. This thesis argues that the multiple identities found in these texts are essential to the feminist movement. This thesis also explores the tension between individualism and community in the third wave.
Volume 32, Number 3, Post Amerikan
Volume 32, Number 3, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Volume 32, Number 2, Post Amerikan
Volume 32, Number 2, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Volume 32, Number 1, Post Amerikan
Volume 32, Number 1, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
The Use Of Silence As A Political Rhetorical Strategy, Timothy J. Anderson
The Use Of Silence As A Political Rhetorical Strategy, Timothy J. Anderson
Masters Theses
Existing research on the rhetorical strategies of politicians has mainly focused on the speeches, appearances, and debates of political figures. Yet the absence of a clear response when expected, or silence, is a significant and frequently utilized rhetorical strategy. More directly, Erickson and Schmidt (1982) posit that, even though it is important to study, the topic of political silence has only received meager attention. Various politicians including President Clinton and California Congressman Gary Condit have both used political silence as responses to situations, and each instance had a different outcome. The focus of this study is on how the strategy …
Turning Toward Or Away From God: Religious Coping Strategies Activated In Times Of Crises, William Andrew Robinson
Turning Toward Or Away From God: Religious Coping Strategies Activated In Times Of Crises, William Andrew Robinson
Masters Theses
This study, which consists of two phases, explores the relationships between religion and coping with stress within the framework of interpersonal and intrapersonal communication. Both pastors and congregational members (n = 855) were surveyed about their perceptions of the role of religion in managing and coping with stress. A focus group involving five members of the clergy was implemented to conduct phase II of the research. This thesis examines how church relationships (i.e. with God, the pastor, and among congregational members) affect our abilities to function through stressful times. For phase I, a modified RCOPE survey (Pargament, Smith, Koenig, & …
Volume 31, Number 6, Post Amerikan
Volume 31, Number 6, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Volume 31, Number 5, Post Amerikan
Volume 31, Number 5, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Volume 31, Number 4, Post Amerikan
Volume 31, Number 4, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Volume 31, Number 3, Post Amerikan
Volume 31, Number 3, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Review Of Michael Rosen's Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapters In Organizational Ethnography. Michael Rosen. Singapore: Harwood, 2000, Terri A. Fredrick
Review Of Michael Rosen's Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapters In Organizational Ethnography. Michael Rosen. Singapore: Harwood, 2000, Terri A. Fredrick
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Volume 31, Number 2, Post Amerikan
Volume 31, Number 2, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Review Of Michael Rosen's Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapters In Organizational Ethnography. Michael Rosen. Singapore: Harwood, 2000, Terri Fredrick
Review Of Michael Rosen's Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapters In Organizational Ethnography. Michael Rosen. Singapore: Harwood, 2000, Terri Fredrick
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Volume 31, Number 1, Post Amerikan
Volume 31, Number 1, Post Amerikan
The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)
No abstract provided.
Anger: In Black & White: A Meta Analysis, James Hazlewood
Anger: In Black & White: A Meta Analysis, James Hazlewood
Masters Theses
The following research investigates whether black and white populations have divergent perceptions of anger and anger expressions in black and white males. A great deal of the research to follow concerns itself with exploring what anger is and how it is delineated. What becomes readily apparent is that anger is a complex component of human experience. There is general agreement that culture and environment are important components in anger expression. The purpose of this research is three fold: 1. Investigate the definition of anger. 2. Investigate whether black and white populations view anger differently and if so how, and 3. …
The Internet And Traditional Media Displacement, Jessica Cartledge
The Internet And Traditional Media Displacement, Jessica Cartledge
Masters Theses
This study consists of a survey that measures how much of the Internet college students are using and why they are using it. Using the uses and gratifications perspective and an adapted version of Rubin's 1984 Television Motives Scale this study analyzes what gratifications media consumers are actively seeking to satisfy their communication needs. 217 students were surveyed and results showed that high Internet users were using traditional media less. The study also concluded that high and low Internet users have similar reasons for using the Internet.
Pheidippides Revisited, James C. Stockwell
Connecting People: An Exploration Of Building An Intranet Through Autoethnography, Christopher J. Martinez
Connecting People: An Exploration Of Building An Intranet Through Autoethnography, Christopher J. Martinez
Masters Theses
This study examines the development and failure of an Intranet at a small company in Southern Illinois. Using autoethnographic methods, I analyzed the events surrounding the development and rejection of the Intranet by the organization's president. Using Burke's concepts of identification and mystery, I analyzed the relationship between the failure of the Intranet and the president's reasoning for not supporting its development. Throughout this study I evaluate the lntranet's development, the impact of other's involvement, as well as the impact that the design of the layout could have on communication at the Company. I find that the failure to develop …
Calvin Klein: Semiotic Phenomenology, Stephanie L. Crase-Moritz
Calvin Klein: Semiotic Phenomenology, Stephanie L. Crase-Moritz
Masters Theses
This study examined print advertising as a visual communication method by focusing on five of Calvin Klein's jeans advertisements and the themes that are expressed to determine what realities or social meanings Calvin Klein's jeans advertisements constructed and/or reflected. To uncover the themes within Klein's advertisements, the following three-methods were applied: Content Analysis, Informal Focus Group and Semiotic Phenomenology. Together the three-methods, based upon data collected from fourteen males and females aged 13-18, 19-21, 22-24 and 28 years old or above, identified fifteen underlying themes containing stereotypes, potentially dangerous realities and evidence showing our desensitization to controversy and shocking images …