Recently added articles from Communication Studies:
Suburban American punks and the musical rhetoric of Green Day's "Jesus of Suburbia".(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Punk has changed since the days of the Sex Pistols. With the band Green Day, punk became a commercial success, but what happened to punk in the process? Green Day has been dubbed by some as "innately suburban" (Loftus, 2004, [paragraph] 1), playing to an "audience of teens and tweens ...
Tattling on the teacher: a study of factors influencing peer reporting of teachers who violate standardized testing protocol.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Teacher cheating on standardized tests is a grave problem for public schools. Nichols and Berliner (2005) documented allegations and actual instances of cheating on standardized tests in 30 states implicating administrators, principals, and teachers. Gay (1990) found that 35% of teachers ...
Inventional repertoires and written messages.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Theories of message production (Greene, 1997a) are mainly dominated by the goals-plan-action (GPA) model (Dillard, 2004), although an important exception is the local management of meaning (LMM) theory posited by O'Keefe and Lambert (1995). The GPA model says that, upon coming into contact ...
Convergent validity of the communication based emotional support scale.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Researchers from multiple disciplines have investigated emotional support and its role in human interaction (Cohen & Hoberman, 1983; Manne, Ostroff, Sherman, Heyman, Ross, & Fox, 2004; Riegel & Carlson, 2004; Xu & Burleson, 2004). Although definitions vary, scholars agree that emotional ...
Talking smack: verbal aggression in professional wrestling.(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Reservations about the type of verbal exchange often found in televised professional wrestling are perhaps best illustrated by the discourse of Degeneration X, who popularized the catch phrase "suck it!" No doubt, many parents are concerned when they hear this type of talk on television, ...