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Florida’S Public Records Law: Its Role In A Tragedy During Hurricane Irma, Patrick Sheehan

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

The Facts:On September 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida, and wreaked havoc across the state causing structural damage, flooding, and power outages. Among those effected by the power outage was the Hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida. In preparation of the impending storm, the governor of Florida, Rick Scott, held “teleconference calls (Spencer, Kennedy, Licon, & Associated Press, 2018),”with nursing home and hospital officials, as well as emergency managers. During these conference calls, Scott gave top nursing home executives his personal cell phone number and told these executives should they experience any issues, they …

Playing A Bad Character But Endorsing A Good Cause: Actor-Character Fundamental Attribution Error And Persuasion, Riva Tukachinsky

Communication Faculty Articles and Research

The study examines the implications of fundamental attribution error, wherein viewers misattribute qualities of the fictional characters onto the actors who portray them. In an experiment, individuals watched an actor playing a role of either a hero or a villain. Then, participants watched the same actor in a public service announcement. In line with the attribution theory, viewers rated the actor’s personality less positively, reported a weaker parasocial relationship with the actor, and listed more negative thoughts about the advertisement after exposure to the actor playing a villain.

Implications Of Digital Health Information On Therapeutic Communication: A Case Study In Bandung, Indonesia, Siti Karlinah, Atwar Bajari, Wawan Setiawan, Ika Merdekawati Kusmayadi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The current phenomenon, patients visiting doctors generally have health information from the internet. So the study aimed to reveal the implications of the patient's health knowledge on the therapeutic communication of the doctor with the patient. This research used an interpretive approach with a case study method. Data collection techniques used interviews with 13 specialist doctors, 66 patients, and three Health Media Online Managers. The study was conducted in the city of Bandung for six months. The results showed that most patients obtained inaccurate health information from the Internet, so the doctor's attitude provides education. The doctor appreciated and supported …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 95, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Lamb, Cassidy & Lily Burris. College Towns Go Blue, Aiding Andy Beshear – Elections
• Dobbs, Jack. Double-Check – Matt Bevin
• Rexing, Brody. WKU Retention, Out-of-State Enrollment Improves
• Nutter, Abbey & Cassady Lamb. New Cash Registers Reduce Waits at On-campus Restaurants
• Stack, Madalyn. Editorial Cartoon re: Matt Bevin Losing
• Just Give It Up – Matt Bevin
• Heath, Esther. Stressful Relief – Kart Racing
• Tolbert, Eleanor. GypsyMoon Marketplace Increases Draw, Builds Tradition
• Button, Gabby. Style for All – Paige McKinney, Trash Queen
• Latture, Katelyn. Pop-up Doughnut Shop …

Lindenwood Digest, November 12, 2019, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

The Prospector, November 12, 2019, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: International Issue: Border Tuner

Columbia Chronicle (11/11/2019), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle (student newspaper)

Student newspaper from October 11, 2019 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 16 pages and is listed as Volume 55, Issue 11. Cover story: "Protest Erupts Over Jeff Sessions: A Political Clash Among Northwestern Students" . Co-Editors-in-Chief: Blaise Mesa & Alexandria Yetter.

The Guardian, Week Of November 11, 2019, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of November 11, 2019. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Introduction To The Special Issue Of Human Technology: Games And Play At The Margins: Between Visibilities And Invisibilities, Florence Chee

School of Communication: Faculty Publications and Other Works

How does one code for silence? In which ways, subtle and otherwise, are voices present and accounted for, yet not in certain spaces? Sometimes, the important work is indeed being done, but the means of communicating that contribution faces substantial barriers to its conveyance. This is the everyday reality of scholarship, and one goal of this special issue of Human Technology has been to focus on the publication of research that provides insight into the niches and nuances of online game communities. Academic researchers and media scholars stand to be bridges, rather than barriers, in this process. Among members of …

Information And Communication Technology, Uncertainty Reduction, And Dual Identification In Chinese Organizations, Ran Ju, Moyi Jia

Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research (2014-2019)

By employing Chinese sample, this study examined the relationship between organizational members’ use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and their identification with the immediate workgroup and the overall organization. Employees’ uncertainty level was proposed as a mediating factor in these relationships. Participants N=336 completed an online survey. Results indicated that workgroup identification (WID) was positively predicted by members’ use of organizational social media to seek work-related information, and organizational identification (OID) was positively predicted by organizational social media and intranet for the same purpose. These relationships were either partially or fully mediated by employee’s uncertainty level. Results contributed to …

(Re)Making Worlds Together: Rooster Teeth, Community, And Sites Of Engagement, Andrea M. M. Fortin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

My research examines the communicative practices by which fans of the entertainment brand Rooster Teeth (RT)—with millions of members around the world engaged with one another through in-person meetups, as well as a variety of digital spaces — constitute community. I study these moments in communication in terms of sites of engagement, or real-time windows where actions occur through the intersection of people, mediational means, and social practices. My research is important for a contemporary understanding of communities, as well as being critical in considering how our online and offline practices are inextricably tied in ways we have only begun …

Reactions Of Faith Groups To Hate Speech On Campus And Subsequent University Responses, Rachel Feldman

Honors Projects

Nationally, hate crimes committed against an individual because of their faith have been on the rise since 2014. In Northwest Ohio alone, the incidence of reported hate crimes as doubled. This study focused on students of many different faiths who have experienced hate speech on Bowling Green State University's campus. It also addressed past university responses to these incidents and whether students felt supported by these efforts. Two research questions were addressed in this study: Have students experienced hate speech on campus that was directly linked to their religious preference? Does Bowling Green State University need to change its reaction …

Lindenwood Digest, November 8, 2019, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Chimes: November 8, 2019, Calvin University

Chimes

Goose Control rids Calvin's campus of pesky geese by McKinley Anderson

Student athletes of color experience both alienation & community on teams by Ellington Smith

What are student senate's plans for the year? by Harm Venhuizen

Animals offer physical, emotional support on campus to students by Connor Veenstra

Heritage Hall goes digital by Naomi Vroegop

Tiki bar offers escape from Michigan snow by Ethan Stafford

Calvin community praises new Bible app 'Dwell' by Sophia Morgan

Are you doing good by shopping at Goodwill? by Addie Winkleman

New SAO director hired by Garrett Strpko

The Stories We Tell, Daniella Cornejo, Daniel Penuela, Stacey Leon, Audrey Ashami Hammond, Guillermo Gonzalez, Laura Mejia, Jordyn Patterson, Luisa Valle, Mirian Melendez, Nicole Hernandez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

These voices you will hear in this edition of First Gen Voices were crafted and cultivated in a summer trip to the Dominican Republic, where our writers had the opportunity to workshop and reflect on their experiences being first-generation. The purpose? To share their work, mind, and feelings about the struggles and incredible experiences they have made. It is their strength, resilience, and love. Enjoy.

Spartan Daily, November 7, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 33

Ua3/10/2 Shaping Student Success, Wku President's Office - Caboni

WKU Administration Documents

Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff.

Prospectus, November 7, 2019, Erin Morrison, Mason Gentry, William Penne, Andrew Waner, Amber Landis, Michelle Barnhart, Sidney Mounts, Lindsay Cox, Kerry Lippold Jr.

Prospectus 2019

QUEENS AND ISA FASHION SHOW TO BE HELD THIS MONTH; Parkland offers computer software training; Perimeter Road to release single from Parkland employee; fall colors: a photo essay by andrew waner; Writing Lab provides various services to students; Starting early for final exam preparations; College-bound students explore Parkland

The Cowl - V. 84 - N. 9 - Nov 7, 2019

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 84 - Number 9 - November 7, 2019 28 pages.

Evaluating The Outcomes Of Social Media Marketing Alongside Traditional Promotional Techniques In Library Outreach, Liana Bayne, Caroline Hamby

Showcase of Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Activities

James Madison University MALA (Madison Academic Library Associates) graduate assistants worked together with Special Collections and the library’s Outreach department to help market and support JMU’s First Annual Pulp Studies Symposium in Fall 2016. Social, digital, and physical ultimately came together to highlight and surface Special Collections’ extensive holdings of pulp magazines. Hashtags, archival ephemera, and everything in between melded in this multi-part exhibit. Since one of the least known and studied genre of pulps are the romance pulps, Love Story Magazine was the focus of our social media outreach project. Its florid narratives led organically to the idea of …

Conversation Over Controversy

St. Norbert Times

• News
  • Conversation Over Controversy
  • The 30^th Tail of the Fox Regatta
  • Run for Lungs
  • Week of Homecoming Recap
  • Tom Kunkel on the Man on Fire
• Opinion
  • Celebrities Are Just Like Us, Right?
  • It’s Okay Not to be Okay
  • Finding Beauty in New Ways
  • The Everlasting Struggle of the Kurdish People
  • Finding Myself
  • War, Revolution and Love
• Features
  • Growing to Our Highest Potential
  • Why Luna=Local
  • Finding Religion Through Art
• Entertainment
  • Student Spotlight
  • Word Search
  • Did You Know??
  • Book Review: “Recursion” by Black Crouch
  • What to Watch This Fall
  • “Destiny 2: Shadowkeep” Review
  • “Civil War”: The Best… in Audio
  • Junk Drawer: …

Spartan Daily, November 6, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 32

Who’S Got My Back? Comparing Consumers’ Reactions Topeer‐Provided And Firm‐Provided Customer Support, Lan Jiang, Matthew O'Hern, Sara Hanson

Marketing Faculty Publications

This study demonstrates that when an individual encounters a product‐related problem, fellow consumers (i.e., one’s peers) have a unique advantage in providing social support to the affected consumer. Specifically, we find that social support can be a dominant driver of consumer satisfaction when the risk of customer defection is at its highest (i.e., following an unsuccessful attempt to solve the consumer’s problem). Using real‐world data from an online support community, a pilot study finds that if the problem that a consumer faces goes unsolved, satisfaction is greater when consumers receive peer‐provided versus firm‐provided support. Study 1 replicates this finding in …

Andrew T. Hatcher: Press, Public Information & Perception For A Nation In Transition Historical Content Analysis On The First African American To Serve As A White House Associate Press Secretary, Nayita Wilson

LSU Master's Theses

Andrew T. Hatcher rose to one of the highest positions in U.S. government when he became the first African American to serve as associate White House press secretary in 1960 under the administration of President John F. Kennedy and during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. This is a historical content analysis that analyzes Hatcher’s role through primary sources, presidential archives, and select national, local, and minority newspapers.

The overarching purpose of this study was to ascertain Hatcher’s role as associate White House press secretary during civil rights. This study provides further insight into: 1) to what extent did …

The Impact Of Discrimination Against The Lgbtq Community., Hazir Coleman

Ramifications

This paper argues that persistent discrimination against LGBTQ persons causes disruption of individuals’ well-being, leading them to face unfortunate adversity and having a negative effect on society as a whole. Research-based evidence is presented that illustrates the negative effects of LGBTQ discrimination, including a greater tendency for people who are LGBTQ to attempt suicide and to have poor physical health due to excessive stress. The complicating roles of bullying, religion, and race are examined, as is the enforced silence that often surrounds Like LGBTQ people, encouraging them to hide their sexual orientation and accept oppression. This can lead to internalized …

Spartan Daily, November 5, 2019, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2019

Volume 153, Issue 31

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 95, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Nutter, Abbey. Heat Issues Affect 15 Buildings on Campus
• Decision Day – Election Day
• Dobbs, Jack. Potter College Has Merger Plan in Midst of CAPE – Comprehensive Academic Program Evaluation
• Burris, Lily. Paid Parental Leave Policy Could Benefit Multiple Parties
• Stack, Madalyn. Editorial Cartoon re: Finals
• Laves, Karl. Letter to the Editor: Get Ahead of the Curve on Finals
• Warner, Casey. Kentucky’s Heavy Metal Artists Deserve More Support
• Mallon, Sam. Cynthiana Found Us – Mountain Workshops
• Martel, Andrew. Philosophy Course Examines Our Darker Sides – …

Preparing For Life In A Digital World: The Iea International Computer And Information Literacy Study 2018 International Report, Julian Fraillon, John Ainley, Wolfram Schulz, Tim Friedman, Daniel Duckworth

ICT - Digital Literacy

The second cycle of ICILS in 2018 (ICILS 2018) continued to investigate students’ computer and information literacy (CIL) and also investigated students’ computational thinking (CT). This dimension involves conceptualising problems (through algorithmic or systems thinking) and operationalising solutions (creating, implementing, and evaluating computer-based responses to problems). The inclusion of CT as an option in ICILS 2018 reflects recent interest by educators, researchers, and policymakers in the value of CT in schooling. ICILS 2018 studied how these components of digital competence related to each other and to the school and out-of-school contexts that support learning with and about computer technology. This …

Lindenwood Digest, November 5, 2019, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been a digital employee newsletter since 2009.

Speak The Truth Conference At Andrews University, Office For Diversity &. Inclusion

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

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