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Improvising Close Relationships: A Relational Perspective On Vulnerability, Nicholas Riggs
Improvising Close Relationships: A Relational Perspective On Vulnerability, Nicholas Riggs
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, I study the way couples improvise relationships together. I define improvisation as a kind of performance that leads to an interpretive practice where people develop the meanings of their relationships as they perform. Participating in a performance ethnography, my romantic partner, myself, and three other couples reflect on the way we perform together on stage. Adapting the popular improv performance format “Armando” and utilizing post-performance focus groups, I observe how the couples strive to make meaning together and negotiate a joint-perspective about how they played. Ultimately, I argue that attending to the way a couple improvises their …
Account Service And Creative Personnel: Interpersonal Conflict And Dialectical Tensions In Advertising Agencies, Ashley Phillips
Account Service And Creative Personnel: Interpersonal Conflict And Dialectical Tensions In Advertising Agencies, Ashley Phillips
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Account service and creative personnel have oppositional perspectives and motivations that often lead to interpersonal conflicts while working together on client projects. The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of interpersonal conflicts in advertising agencies. The researcher used relational dialectics theory as a lens for analyzing the dialectical (i.e., oppositional) tensions experienced by account service and creative personnel as well as the praxis patterns (i.e., techniques) used to manage those tensions. After conducting in-depth interviews with five account service and five creative personnel (N = 10) from full service advertising agencies in the Midwest, an analysis revealed …
Questing With Grandma: Building Closer Families Through Intergenerational Video Gaming, Sanela Osmanovic Vukelic
Questing With Grandma: Building Closer Families Through Intergenerational Video Gaming, Sanela Osmanovic Vukelic
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
While small and large technological miracles have undoubtedly made our lives easier, they have potentially also made a significant part of our daily social routine obsolete. People live in the same space but rarely spend quality time together, interacting and bonding. One of the solutions to diminishing family relationships may lie in the technology itself—video games. Previous research having shown the sociability of video games, and in this study, we examined their potential in creating closer family relationships, especially among different generations. Participants (n = 183), mainly grandparents and grandchildren, were asked to play video games together over a period …