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Student Life, August 28, 2006

Student Life Newspapers

August 28, 2006 issue of Student Life, the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878. 2006-2007 academic year. Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7FB521W

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 04, August 28, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Wright State University Volleyball Media Guide 2006, Wright State University Athletics

Athletics Publications

A media guide for Wright State University's 2006 Volleyball team. This guide includes photographs, player stats, game results, and records.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 03, August 25, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, August 24, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 2

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 02, August 23, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, August 23, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 127, Issue 1

The Epistemic Consumption Object And Postsocial Consumption: Expanding Consumer‐Object Theory In Consumer Research, Detlev Zwick, Nikhilesh Dholakia

College of Business Faculty Publications

We introduce the concept of the epistemic consumption object. Such consumption objects are characterized by two interrelated features. First, epistemic consumption objects reveal themselves progressively through interaction, observation, use, examination, and evaluation. Such layered revelation is accompanied by an increasing rather than a decline of the object’s complexity. Second, such objects demonstrate a propensity to change their “face‐in‐action” vis‐à‐vis consumers through the continuous addition or subtraction of properties. The epistemic consumption object is materially elusive and this lack of ontological stability turns the object into a continuous knowledge project for consumers. Via this ongoing cycle of revelation and discovery, consumers …

Album Review: Undermind By Phish, Jnan Blau

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 01, August 21, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Prospectus, August 18, 2006, Robert J. Exley, Aaron Geiger, John Eby

Prospectus 2006

No abstract provided.

Ua3/9/5 Faculty-Staff Convocation, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at fall convocation. He discusses achievements, donations, athletics, WKU centennial, budget cuts, enrollment, tuition, commercialization of intellectual property, physical plant and construction.

Product Placement During The Family-Viewing Hour., Harry C. Arnold

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The so-called family-viewing hour, the eight to nine o’clock hour of prime time, is one of the most watched hours of television by both adults and children. Advertisers, of course, favor shows that draw large audiences so their product presentations or commercials are witnessed by masses of people. Now, because of videocassette recorders and other similar control devices, viewers are eliminating commercials from their viewing experience¹ and advertisers are clamoring for new ways to get their products into the mind of the consumer.² To counteract this commercial avoidance by consumers, advertisers are embedding products within television programming thereby …

Reconceptualization Of Advertising Clutter In The Online Environment [Slides], Louisa Ha, Kim Mccann

School of Media and Communication Faculty Publications

Slides from a presentation given at the Advertising Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference, San Francisco, August 2-5, 2006 by Louisa Ha and Kim McCann.

Patient Care News: August 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

SBAR Information: Hand Off Communications

Magnet Force 1: Quality of Nursing Leadership St. Cloud Hospital: One of the best in two specialties

Licensure and Continuing Education

Effects of Preoperative Teaching of the Use of a Pain Scale with Patients in the PACU

Literature Review: Advances in How Clinical Nurses Can Evaluate and Improve Quality of Life for Individuals with Cancer

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy “As I Go On” Booklet Solicitation Guidelines

Insulin Pens Stroke Center Recognized by American Stroke Association High School Internships

St. Scholastica Bachelor of Arts Degree in Nursing

Clinical Ladder Educational and Professional Developmental Programs

Necessary Knowledge For Communications Policy: Information Inequalities And Commercial Data Access And Usage In The Policymaking Process, Philip M. Napoli, Michelle Seaton

McGannon Center Working Paper Series

Communications policymaking increasingly relies upon large-scale databases manufactured and marketed by commercial organizations. Data providers such as BIA Research, Nielsen Media Research, and Arbitron play a vitally important role in aggregating the data that policymakers, policy analysts, and policy advocates rely upon in policy deliberations. In many ways, these data providers supplement the limited data gathering capacity of government bodies such as the FCC and NTIA and thereby help to bring a greater quantity of relevant data to bear on policy issues than would otherwise be possible. Indeed, these data are utilized extensively by stakeholders with an interest in policy …

Understanding Employees' Willingness To Contributeto Shared Electronic Databases: A Three-Dimensional Framework, Guowei Jian, Leo Wayne Jeffres

Communication Faculty Publications

Work organizations increasingly adopt shared electronic databases. However, employees' unwillingness to contribute to shared resources undermines the utility of such technologies. Current research is limited to either a utilitarian or normative perspective. To advance understanding in this area, this study proposes a three-dimensional framework. It includes the utilitarian and normative perspectives as two complementary dimensions in addition to a third collaborative dimension. Based on this framework, the study identifies three key organizational processes and advances an additive model to predict employees' willingness to contribute to shared electronic databases. An empirical test was conducted to assess the model in a large …

Forum: In Memory Of Fred Jablin: What Might Have Been And Still Might Be, Kathleen J. Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

I begin my term as forum editor by honoring the memory of Fred Jablin, an early leader in the field of organizational communication. I am quite certain that Fred would like to be remembered less for the tragic circumstances of his death than for the considerable contribution of his early work and the promising new directions in which his work was headed. Fred was, perhaps, best known for his early work in the area of superior-subordinate communication and then his later work in organizational socialization and communication. For at least a decade, his agenda-setting pieces on communicative issues in organizational …

How Pratt Realigned For Excellence, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.

Smu To Develop New Law School, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases and News

No abstract provided.

Wsu Research News, Fall 2006, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A twenty page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Nemo News, Volume 3, Issue 1, Uno Library Science Education

NEMO Newsletter

This issue of NEMO News features UNO Library Science Education Program receives Regent Award!, Advice from the Frontlines from Cindy Mielke, Student Spotlight on Ashley Phillips, Alumni Spotlight on Lisa Anderson, Announcements, 2006 Library Conferences, Welcome to Fall Semester 2006 - Message from Dr. Pasco.

Democracy, Hegemony, And Consent: A Critical Ideological Analysis Of Mass Mediated Language, Michael Alan Glassco

Masters Theses

Accepting and incorporating mediated political discourse into our everyday lives without conscious attention to the language used perpetuates the underlying ideological assumptions of power guiding such discourse. The consequences of such overreaching power are manifest in the public sphere as a hegemonic system in which free market capitalism is portrayed as democratic and necessary to serve the needs of the public. This thesis focuses specifically on two versions of the Society of Professional Journalist Codes of Ethics 1987 and 1996, thought to influence the output of news organizations. This analysis exposes the problems inherent in the news media's focus of …

Internet Pr And New Gratifications In Sports: A New Way Of Communication Between Sports Organizations And Fans, Chang Wan Woo

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis uses content analysis, specifically thematic analysis, to investigate the message boards on Major League Baseball (MLB) teams' Web sites in order to 1) recognize in what ways sports teams' Internet message boards meet the unique gratifications of sports fans; and, 2) identify ways that sports PR practitioners can use Internet message boards for better (more gratifying) communication with sports fans. Thematic analysis of eight MLB teams' Web sites (the four with the highest winning percentages and the four with the lowest winning percentages) was conducted using Katz, Gurevitch, and Hass (1973) five gratifications categories and one additional "other" …

History, Identity, And Security: Producing And Consuming Nationalism In China, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Chinese nationalism has ignited much debate among academics and the general public in both China and the West. Rather than search for the true core of Chinese nationalism, this essay will examine the curious custom of National Humiliation Day as an oblique entry into the politics of identity. The nation is not simply a question of people or territory, the author contends, but of time: the national time scripted by events such as National Humiliation Day. By comparing the differing practices of the holiday as it was celebrated in the early twentieth century and is observed in the early twenty-first …

Formal Mentoring Program Great For Developing Staff, Carla Kimbrough

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications

Rita Boags, an organizational consultant and educator, has been spreading the word about the benefits of mentoring for 20 years. Her program, offered through her Castro Valley, Calif-based company, Leadership Technologies, promotes having structure that improves learning and quickens growing. Boags developed her formal program from years of study and work in community, academic and corporate settings.

You'll recognize many of the corporations and agencies for which she has designed programs: Fannie Mae, Hughes Aircraft Co., The World Bank, John Hancock Financial Services, Dow Corning Corp., Coca Cola Company, Ernst & Young, General Motors Corporation Finance Group, U.S. Department of …

WhoʼS Watching Us At Work? Toward A Structural-Perceptual Model Of Electronic Monitoring And Surveillance In Organizations, Scott C. D'Urso

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Nearly 80% of organizations now employ some form of employee surveillance. This significant level of use infers a salient need for additional theory and research into the effects of monitoring and surveillance. Accordingly, this essay examines the panoptic effects of electronic monitoring and surveillance (EM/S) of social communication in the workplace and the underlying structural and perceptual elements that lead to these effects. It also provides future scholarly perspectives for studying EM/S and privacy in the organization from the vantage point of contemporary communication technologies, such as the telephone, voice mail, e-mail, and instant messaging, utilized for organizational communication. Finally, …

The Size And Development Of The Shadow Economy: An Empirical Investigation From States Of India, Kausik Chaudhuri, Friedrich Schneider, Sumana Chattopadhyay

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Using the state level data from India, this paper investigates the size of the hidden economy in Indian states over the period 1974/75 to 1995/96. Our analysis has shown that after liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991/92, the growth in the size of the hidden economy has decreased on an average. Our results show that the growth in the size of the hidden economy is approximately 4% less in scheduled election years than in all other years. We also demonstrate that the growth is significantly lower in those states where the coalition government is in power. An increased growth …

After The Flood: Anger, Attribution And The Seeking Of Information (Presentation), Robert J. Griffin, Janet Yang, Ellen Ter Huurne, Francesca Boerner, Sherry L. Ortiz, Sharon Dunwoody

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

In an effort to understand what motivates people to attend to information about flood risks, this study applies the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model to explore how local residents responded to damaging river flooding in the Milwaukee area. Anger at managing agencies was associated with the desire for information and active information seeking and processing, as well as with risk judgment, personal efficacy, lower institutional trust, and attributions for the causes of flood losses.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 76, July 31, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.