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Testing The Neutralizing Effects Of Nonverbal Teacher Immediacy Cues On Offensive Teacher Misbehaviors In Higher Education Classrooms, Claudia Esther Martinez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The purpose of this study was to determine if the use of nonverbal teacher immediacy cues can neutralize the negative impact that offensive teacher misbehaviors have on student perceptions of teacher credibility, affective learning, and motivation. The sample included a total of 140 participants enrolled in various undergraduate communication and theater courses from a southwestern university. Three one-way ANOVA tests were conducted to test the three hypotheses which proposed that nonverbal teacher immediacy cues may neutralize the negative impact that offensive teacher misbehaviors have on students’ perception of teacher credibility, affective learning, and motivation. Ultimately, findings revealed that teacher immediacy …

The Post-Nuclear Family And The Depoliticization Of Unplanned Pregnancy In Knocked Up, Juno, And Waitress, Kristen Hoerl, Casey Ryan Kelly

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This essay explores three films from 2007, Knocked Up, Juno, and Waitress, which foreground young women’s unplanned pregnancies. These movies depoliticize women’s reproduction and motherhood through narratives that rearticulate the meaning of choice. Bypassing the subject of abortion, the women’s decisions revolve around their choice of heterosexual partners and investment in romantic relationships. Although they question the viability of the nuclear family for single pregnant women, these films represent new iterations of post-feminism that ultimately restore conservative ideas that valorize pregnancy and motherhood as women’s imperatives. We conclude by addressing how these movies present a distorted and …

Beyond Ethnocentrism In Communication Theory: Towards A Culture-Centric Approach, Eddie C. Y. Kuo, Han Ei Chew

Research Collection Office of Impact

The renewal of attention on ethnocentrism in communication theory in recent years suggests an impending tipping point in the research direction of the field. That Communication Monographs, a mainstream communication journal, has published an Issue Forum on “Cultural Bias in Communication Theory” (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2007, pp. 256–285) (Craig et al. (2007)) is itself a timely testimony to the increasing concern among communication researchers on the inadequacy of the Eurocentric (read Euro-American-centric) paradigm which still dominates the field. The scholars involved in the issue forum were unanimous in their assessment that existing theories are insufficient to explain global communication …

Structure Of Narratives: Applying Propp's Folktale Morphology To Entertainment-Education Films, Divya Sreenivas

Communication ETDs

This study examines narrative strategies through which feature films accomplish the dual role of entertainment-education to shape social reality surrounding health issues. More specifically, exploring films' narrative structures and characterization, this study illuminates how a coherent HIV/AIDS narrative is woven into cinematic artifacts laden with specific cultural values, beliefs and practices. The entertainment-education literature has rarely undertaken a study of films to demonstrate their entertainment-education potential. Moreover, by taking a structuralist perspective and utilizing narrative theories this study uncovers underlying elements that cut across narratives. According to Fisher (1987), the proponent of narrative theory, narratives are moral constructs with values …

Jewish Landscapes Rooted, Embedded, Enshrined, And Transcendent: Metaphor As Communicated In Jewish Museums In New York, Jerusalem, And San Francisco, Judith Stauber

Communication ETDs

As public places, museums negotiate authenticity and re-presentation, fact and ideology, memory and the present confronting a basic question for museums directors, curators, and visitors alike: what is the truth here? In this dissertation, the content and form of four Jewish museums are examined rhetorically: The Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, both in New York City; the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem; and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Four metaphors--rootedness, embeddedness, enshrinement, and transcendence--capture the ways each of these museums conceptualizes and presents Jewish culture.

Madd Message Effects: A Twelve-Year Randomized Trial, Una E. Medina

Communication ETDs

One out of three Americans undergoes drunk-driving crashes; 23% result in death. To deter DWIs (Driving While under Influence), MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) created VIPs (Victim Impact Panels) where victims impact offenders with gory stories, photos, and threats of punishments and loss of freedom, hoping this message will deter DWIs. It is remarkable that although the VIP message is considered a primary DWI intervention, yet no studies have investigated VIP message effects. VIP message effects, their persistence and decay, are chronicled here over the course of 12 years. This study extends an empirical investigation of VIPs, conducted by Woodall, …

Silence, The Utmost In Ambiguity, Mario Perniola

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Silence, the Utmost in Ambiguity" Mario Perniola presents a historical perspective on the meanings and development of the term "ambiguity" from ancient Greek to the modern age. Perniola's perspective is not a review of different approaches and schools of thought; instead, he presents an alternative philosophical and aesthetic discourse he counter-poses to modern and contemporary cultural positions which he considers useful in order to explain the state of today's art and intellectual discourse. Perniola does so by stressing the significance of silence as the aesthetic attitude that combines contemplation and action. Drawing on the work of Pascal …

On Ambidextrousness, Or, What Is An Innovative Action?, Brett Neilson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "On the Ambiguity of Ambidextrousness, or, What is an Innovative Action?" Brett Neilson explores the significance of the fact that the technical equality of the hands is realized above all in the act of manual labor, revisiting an influential essay by Robert Hertz, a student of Emile Durkheim and associate of Marcel Mauss, published in 1909 and entitled "The Pre-Eminence of the Right Hand." In his text, Hertz argued that the basic spatial distinction between the left and right hand acquires the polarity of a social hierarchy owing not to the physiology or psychology of motor asymmetry …

Blanchot And Ambiguity, Paolo Bartoloni

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Blanchot and Ambiguity" Paolo Bartoloni investigates the enigmatic and ambiguous turn of the famous Blanchotian statement "existence without Being." The intention of the article is to locate Blanchot's remark in the context of a discussion on history and its possible end, famously initiated by Alexandre Kojève in a lecture on 4 December 1937 at the College of Sociology in Paris; and provide insights into the difference that distinguishes Kojève's reflection on the end of history, Bataille's subsequent interpretation of it, and Blanchot's original conceptualization of a state of being suspended between nature and culture, history and the …

Ambiguity Now, Martin Harrison

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Ambiguity Now" Martin Harrison focuses on the pivotal place which modernist critical theory ascribed to ambiguity in the definition of meaning and structure in poetry. In particular, Harrison considers the way in which the category of experience is deployed in the discourse of ambiguity but is limited to only certain narratives of so-called experience. Harrison argues for a contemporary practice less focused on ambiguity and more on notation and provisional structure, demonstrating key elements of such practice in the work of modern poets Leslie Scalapino and Frank Bidart and the poet-artist Alex Selenitsch.

Ambiguity, The Literary, And Close Reading, David G. Brooks

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Ambiguity, the Literary, and Close Reading" David G. Brooks approaches the matter of literary ambiguity from two directions: firstly by presenting the question of what we might learn if we look at ambiguity not so much from the angle of the author as that of the reader, a question which may appear obvious and inoffensive on the surface, but which becomes intricate and captivating as Brooks, arguing that literary ambiguity cannot be discussed without attention to the idea of close reading, peels layer upon layer of commonsensical assumptions away from reading practice, to arrive at the point …

Ambiguity, The Artist, The Masses, And The "Double Nature" Of Language, Elizabeth Rechniewski

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ambiguity, the Artist, the Masses, and the 'Double Nature' of Language" Elizabeth Rechniewski discusses the function of the European intellectual elite through a close reading of two very different yet related books, John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses, and Pierre Bourdieu's Les Règles de l'art. Through a contrapuntal reading of the arguments of these two critics, she argues that Symbolist experiments may actually be read as reactionist; in celebrating art's supposed conquest of independence and refinement, they are replete with nostalgia for a time when the artist and the intellectual were able to ignore the pressure …

Ambiguity And Morality In Jelinek's Bambiland, Andrea Bandhauer

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Ambiguity and Morality in Jelinek's Bambiland" Andrea Bandhauer begins by noting that the language of Elfriede Jelinek's play Bambiland (2004) is characterized by experimentation and a propensity for complex and ambiguous word plays. In this play, her critique of the media is directed against the international, or rather, Western press and its role in the Iraq war. The text of Bambiland, conceptualized as a "work-in-progress," in which Jelinek posed as an "embedded writer," started to appear on her website at the beginning of the war and Jelinek continued writing it through 2003. In the text of the …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles:

• Stunson, Mike. University Senate to Make Syllabus Proposal
• Duvall, Tessa. Discretionary Spending Policy Updated – WKU Foundation
• Carter, Caitlin. WKU Lowers Energy Costs Over Break – Sustainability
• Carter, Caitlin. Sorority Recruitment to Change in 2011
• Earley, Delayna. A Thousand Words – Wendi Boyd, Justin Shoemaker
• WKU Should Be More Open About Disciplined Athletes
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon: Mask of a Good Athlete – Athletics
• Stewart, Todd. Statement Regarding the Disciplinary Policies of WKU Athletics
• Stephens, Brad. WKU Ends Season 2-10 – Football
• Patton, Emily. Living at-Large – Volleyball …

Communiqué, November 30, 2010, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

Ua12/2/1 Deck The Hill, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special holiday edition of the College Heights Herald.

• Lanter, Austin. Unique Gift Ideas in Bowling Green
• Whitaker, Ross. Students Have Local Volunteer Opportunities – WKU ALIVE Center
• Alleyne, Zirconia. What Do You Want for Christmas?
• Stacy, Stephani. International Students Celebrate Holidays in America
• Thomas, Julia. A Season of Memories
• Hale, Marianne. I Was Dreaming of a Black (& Blue) Friday
• Williams, Joanna. Seasonal Events in Bowling Green
• Lee, Julie. Professor Shares Recipes for the Holidays – Carrots, Butternut Squash, Cranberries, Corn
• Zukic, Rialda. Kentucky Museum Displays Holiday Ornaments

Spartan Daily November 30, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 135, Issue 47

Columbia Chronicle (11/29/2010), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from November 29, 2010 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 44 pages and is listed as Volume 46, Number 13. Cover story: "Big names making big bucks" Editor-in-Chief: Spencer Roush

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 75, November 29, 2010

Central Florida Future

GRE improvement underway; The Sugar Connection; Prof. finds inmates feign mental illness; Video games help students stay active.

Spartan Daily November 23, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 135, Issue 46

The Prospector, November 23, 2010, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Turkey-less Thanksgiving

Coaching Efficacy With Academic Leaders: A Phenomenological Investigation, Deanna Lee Vansickel-Peterson

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this psychological phenomenological research was to understand the efficacy of life coaching from the perspective of academic leaders. To date, not one investigation or attempt has been made towards the above stated purpose. This study includes a theoretical overview and a review of the coaching literature from Socrates (469-399 BC) to current day Humanistic theory presented in part by Roger (1902-1987). This process included data collection from five academic leaders who have been coached for at least two years. Levels of analysis of 365 statements, quote and/or comments produced finding of efficacy in life coaching with academic …

Spartan Daily November 22, 2010, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 135, Issue 45

Communiqué, November 22, 2010, Lindenwood University

Communiqué

The Communiqué was the faculty/staff newsletter for Lindenwood University/College from 1982 to 2016.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 42 No. 74, November 22, 2010

Central Florida Future

UCF cultural groups host fair; Speaking out for equality; Standup; Rosen hosts high school career fair; Sweet treats from around the world.

Columbia Chronicle (11/22/2010), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from Novmeber 22, 2010 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 36 pages and is listed as Volume 46, Number 12. Cover story: "Columbia takes over publishing headquarters" Editor-in-Chief: Spencer Roush

Book Review: The Great Match And Our Base Ball Club, Scott D. Peterson

Communication Faculty Publications

These two early baseball texts are well met (and well married) in the recently published book that was edited by Trey and Geri Strecker. While Our Base Ball Club focuses more on illustrating how "baseball fever" could overtake a nineteenth century American town, both texts demonstrate the contemporary significance of the game.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles:

• Kriz, Lindsay. Martha Richmond Murder Investigations Continue – Bettina Richmond
• Carter, Caitlin. Officials Discuss Dorm Safety Issues – Housing & Residence Life
• Duvall, Tessa. Low Navitas Enrollment Defended – International Students
• Carter, Caitlin. Students to Help Design Downing University Center Renovations
• Friddell, Cristen. New Bowling Green Pizza Store Opens – Papa Murphy’s
• Wilson, Laurel. Blasting to Start on Construction Site Monday – Music Hall
• Duvall, Tessa. Official Talks Study Abroad Misconceptions – Michael Woolf, CAPA International Education
• Wilson, Laurel. World Organization for Gifted Children Moving to WKU – …

Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - First Test, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring athletics.

• Patton, Emily. WKU Sweeps University of Louisiana Lafayette, Will Face Florida International University Friday – Volleyball
• Greenwell, Zach. Tops to Follow Blowout Wins with First Test in Puerto Rico – Basketball
• 2010 Puerto Rico Tip-off Bracket
• Greenwell, Zach. Bobby Rainey Chasing Individual Goals Along with Wins for WKU – Football
• Robinson, Andrew. Dispatches from the Zoo: An Open Letter from George the Monkey – Football
• Claybourn, Cole. Lady Tops to Endure Tough Stretch Without Amy McNear – Basketball
• Bratcher, Nick. WKU Looks to Extend Streak at Home with Invitational – Swimming

Chimes: November 19, 2010, Calvin College

Chimes

Volleyball wins first regional title since 1992 by Mitch Blankerspoor

Cortez steps in for Suh as student senate VP by Griffin Jackson

Wikki Stix competition draws in artists of all stripes by Aleesa Ribbens

Palin ventures to the small screen by Nate Slauer

Orcas are the predators of the sea by Matthew Koh

Actor unions reach new agreement by Madeline Tracy

Calvin trounces Manchester by Mark Zylstra